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MSNBC wanted to use one of the recent town halls as a jumping off point to paint Obamacare protesters, as Janeane Garafalo puts it, people who “hate that a black man is president.” Take a look at the first part of the video – you don’t need to watch the roundtable discussion.

Notice anything odd about the shots of this guy carrying an AR-15 – a weapon that’s legal to openly carry in Arizona? There’s close-up shots of the gun, but what’s missing?

That’s right, MSNBC doesn’t show a single wider shot of this guy. Why don’t they get a shot of this guy’s face? Here’s why:

That’s the culprit on the right. Yes, the example MSNBC uses to talk about racists hating on President Obama because of his skin color is … a black man.

Journalism. Wound. Self-inflicted.