MSNBC's David Shuster and Tamron Hall labeled the circulation of a photo of President Obama allegedly glancing at a teenager's posterior a "right wing smear," and singled out Fox News and Drudge as culprits. They brought on a Media Matters spokesman, who accused these sites of being motivated by a "racist stereotype of an oversexed black man being a predator." They let this accusation go unanswered (audio clip from the promos and the segment available here).
Shuster and Hall promoted the segment on the Obama picture from the start of the 4 pm Eastern hour of MSNBC's live coverage. A graphic on-screen at the top of the hour pondered, "Right Wing Smear?," as Shuster read the first teaser: "Plus, smearing President Obama- some on the Right went crazy over this photo they claimed shows President Obama with a wandering eye. But check the tape- the actual video shows a far different story- why the Right was so wrong with this one."
The MSNBC anchor echoed his "why the Right was so wrong" phrase during the second promo at 19 minutes into the hour: "Up next, what the Right did wrong with that President Obama photo that was splashed all across some conservative websites. Why didn't they bother to check the tape before making false accusations?" Right before the commercial break which preceded the segment, Hall broke back in with the final promo: "And when pictures do not say a thousand words- heck, when pictures right out deceive- why this misleading photograph was very popular on conservative blogs and conservative papers."
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