MSNBC’s reporter Ron Allen and anchor Carlos Watson are absolutely incredulous that not only has someone shown up near a town hall meeting with a gun strapped to their leg in open view, but at one where the President of the United States was to be flying in to speak in two hours.

There's an MSNBC video segment, now available on YouTube — titled by NBC "Protestor with gun seen outside of Obama town hall" — of Ron Allen reporting from the site of the town hall meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, when NBC cameras actually capture a “man with a gun.” In-studio Carlos Watson interrupts Allen falling back on his concern for the safety of every president, but “certainly this historic president,” and simply cannot believe someone could wear a gun near the president; that it’s legal and even being allowed.

Allen has to explain to over-the-edge Watson that the police are well aware of the gentleman with the gun and that it’s legal because it’s out in the open, not concealed, and the man is on private property. Allen in a slightly denigrating tone quips, “that’s how the law apparently works here in New Hampshire.” He also bet that by the time the president arrived the man would be removed by authorities and no where near the area by speech time. Kudos to the police chief at the scene who didn’t overreact and who upheld the rights of the citizen.

Back in the studio Watson, who displays either a complete ignorance of the Second Amendment, or his own anti-gun and anti-Second Amendment bias actually sputters, “I, I, I cannot imagine that there are not enough lawyers in New Hampshire that can’t file some kind of emergency injunction.” A seventh grader who attended a civics class, or one on government, would probably know better.

Watson’s co-talking heads in the studio were just as vehement or clueless in their anti-Second Amendment bias. Ari Malber, who traveled with then-senator Obama on the campaign trail, says this incident struck him as odd, and he too, thinks somehow the law must be different in New Hampshire from other states. The female studio commentator’s question was “why can’t we get rid of him now?” meaning the man exercising his right to carry.

It shouldn’t really be a surprise that Watson wants lawyers to seek an injunction against the Bill of Rights’ Second Amendment. He is becoming noted for his personal bias all the while he purports to be the one who keeps things on a positive note, always upbeat.

On one of his C-Note segments, Watson engages in some very illogical conclusions and scurrilous character assassination when he links criticism of the president’s health care bill to racism via the use of the term “socialist.” “Socialist is becoming a code word, socialist is becoming the new n-word for, frankly, for some angry upset birthers and others,” he opined. (For the uninitiated, “birthers” are those who question Obama’s U.S. citizenship.) In other words, Watson leads us to believe that anyone who calls the president a socialist, or the new legisation of piece of socialism, is guilty of racism.

Socialism does have a specific definition. From Webster’s we have:

1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2 a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3 : a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

If any one person, organization, or government, or their ideology, programs, and methods, fit the definition, then recognizing this fact does not make the socialist-word user a racist. Nor does it make them un-American, an extremist, a right-winger, a zealot, or a terrorist.

What does it make the media talking heads who deliberately misuse the term?

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