Frickin MSNBC using "Democrat Lawmakers" in their Headlines.

[Lex]

Democrat lawmakers? Spare me, MSNBC.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17592698/

[AndyA]

1. Tell MSNBC to fix their headline!

Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page. On the very bottom, in the lower right side, there's a feedback link. Click it and tell them they are insulting the Democratic Party by using the term Democrat, and that it's a right wing tool to promote a negative impression of the Democratic Party.

Demand they change the headline immediately!

[Beausoir]

5. Done. I'm sick of this crap.

[Lex]

7. Repeating right-wing think-tank spew.

It's disgusting.

[Supersedeas]

20. Abrams has priorities...Anna Nicole and vilifying Dems

[brg5001]

2. I heard CNN do the same thing recently! "Democrat plans"

It's like using the dumbed-down expression "autocrat rule" to describe Bushco's autocratic rule.

This intentional mispronunciation of the name of our party is a sop to lure Faux News viewers. It's not journalism, of course, but then MSM really never has been about journalism, has it?

[truebrit71]

3. Just e-mailed them....

I asked them if the headline would read 'Republic lawmakers' if the roles were reversed...

Idiots..

[Lex]

4. I'm emailing them the same question now.

Thanks.

[tridim]

6. Unfortunately It's starting to enter the lexicon..

Thanks to the assholes in congress who make a point to use the word dozens of times in every speech. They really need to grow up.

[Lex]

11. I think it all started with that RNC focus group punk Frank Luntz.

His specialty is to come up with crap like this.

[mmonk]

8. Tell them McCarthy was generally negative towards the press.

[liberal N proud]

9. That explains why I am outraged at the people we thought we elected in November

I thought we elected Democratic party member to the House and Senate. Turns out there is a Democrat Part and we were fooled by them.

[npincus]

10. (?) Why wouldn't we want the MSM to asociate our side with long-overdue

OVERSIGHT.

Certainly, the MSM sucks, but I think that driling into the public's heads that DEMOCRATIC lawmakers are pursing fairness and justice, and are against the LAWLESSNESS of the B*sh admin is a GOOD thing, and will help us in 2008.

Isn't it? The Repubs when in power sat on their greedy corrupt asses and permitted, condoned the lawlessness of B*sh & Cronies, FINALLY "Dem lawmakers" are putting the kabosh on that and serving the interests of the people.

What am i not geting here?

[Lex]

12. Maybe this will help:

More Media Adopt Repubspeak

There are two major political parties in the United States -- the Republican and the Democratic -- but you wouldn't know that from many of today's supposedly "objective" journalists. No, like GOP speakers and rightwing talk radio hosts, more and more "reporters" talk about the Democrat Party, considered an epithet (and not a kindly one). CBS's Scott Pelley irked more than a few people in his 60 Minutes interview with President Bush by his regular references to the "Democrat Party," and I've heard similar references on NPR, among others.

Media Matters has been all over this issue, with examples from the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, AP, CNN and CBS among others, and continues to track them. Why does it matter? Words mean something -- and that's not just the editor-within obsessing about style guides. Media Matters cites Hendrik Hertzberg's essay in The New Yorker:

There's no great mystery about the motives behind this deliberate misnaming. "Democrat Party" is a slur, or intended to be--a handy way to express contempt. Aesthetic judgments are subjective, of course, but "Democrat Party" is jarring verging on ugly. It fairly screams "rat." At a slightly higher level of sophistication, it's an attempt to deny the enemy the positive connotations of its chosen appellation.

Hertzberg says that Sen. Joe McCarthy "made it a regular part of his arsenal of insults," but the usage was pushed in the 1990s by Newt Gingrich and Frank Luntz, whom he quotes:

"Those two letters actually do matter," Luntz said the other day. He added that he recently finished writing a book--it's entitled Words That Work--and has been diligently going through the galley proofs taking out the hundreds of "ic"s that his copy editor, one of those partisan Dems, had stuck in.

President George W. Bush, unlike his GOP predecessors GHW Bush and Ronald Reagan, uses the party slur exclusively. And while some MSM journos follow suit, a few such as Washington Post blogger Dan Froomkin, object, pointing out that "Bush's alleged commitment to bipartisanship would probably be easier to swallow if he referred to the opposition party by its proper name."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nellie-b/more-media-adopt-repubspe_b_39105.html

emphasis mine

[brg5001]

13. Thanks for a good explanation of this perjorative term

Using the term "Democrat party" is as acceptable linguistically, for journalists, as using the term "Repuke Party". I say we insist on calling them the Repuc party, with a long "u" so as to prounce it "Repuke Party." If our party leaders and sympathetic pundits used that term constantly, the right would be totally outraged. Next time I hear some navel-gazing call-in program about journalism, I intend to raise this issue.

[npincus]

16. Ooops- misread as "Democratic"

I've got a bit of ADD- for real. Yes, the "Democrat" as adjective is crap.

Right-o Lex! Thanks. :)

[AndyTiedye]

14. They All Started Doing This At The Same Time

Presumably they all received the same orders from the White House.

[truebrit71]

15. I also completed their feedback portion as well...

...this kind of shit is b*shleague and amateurish....and I said as much in my feedback...

Wankers...

[truebrit71]

17. Guess what? It got changed to read 'Democratic'....!!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17592698



Way to go everyone!!

See, they ARE listening....

:thumbup:

[Lex]

18. Wow. Cool.

Nice one. :)

[AndyA]

21. It may seem like a small thing to some, but words matter.

And referring to a legitimate political party in a manner that was created and intended to be offensive is wrong.

I'm glad MSNBC fixed their mistake, and thanks to everyone for sending them feedback.

:thumbsup: to the OP for catching this and reporting it!

[Marnieworld]

19. Jeez! We've been over this.

It's obviously not a typo. So tired of this infantile bullshit.