For increased color, MSNBC turns to … Armstrong Williams???
The new face of MSNBC?
Maybe MSNBC has been shaken more by the Dallas Tea Party people than they’d like to admit. You’ll recall that the Texas teas put out a viral Youtube video in which they highlighted the three non-white members of their movement they were able to scare up (one of whom appears in the video more than once) to show that nah, they’re not an all-white deal … but MSNBC is. Keith Olbermann has felt compelled to respond to them twice … Olbermann-hating Palin/Beck flak site Mediaite has pimped the Tea Party’s race claim relentlessly (the revenge of Dan Abrams?) and for the most part, Black people have yawned, since we already know that the cable networks are a pretty blanchy situation. But now, MSNBC has gone and added to the myriad African-American analysts Keith has trumpeted over the last couple of days. And the winner is … Armstrong Williams??? WTF???
Isn’t this the same Armstrong Williams who took $240,000 from the Bush administration to sell “No Child Left Behind” in his syndicated column (a column he lost as a result) AND as a cable TV pundit? Disgraced black conservative parody and PR flak who insinuated other columnists were getting paid but didn’t have the guts to name names, Armstrong Williams?? That Armstrong Williams? Really, MSNBC???
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