Race To The White House: Rachel Maddow Calls Out Pat Buchanan
By Nicole Belle Wednesday Jul 30, 2008 9:00pm
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Dana Milbank's recent op-ed in The Washington Post changing its description of Barack Obama from the "presumptive" nominee to the "presumptuous" nominee has stirred not a little debate. First there's the utterly one-sided nature of the attack. Milbank criticizes Obama for acting as presidential candidates act, as if he shouldn't visit with foreign heads of state that he would likely meet if elected president and other Washington figures and for having a big security detail. Nothing Obama's done is different from what McCain has done, it's just been received better received. But Obama is presumptuous and McCain is not, even though McCain had an ad calling himself "President McCain."
Which leads into a more malevolent subtext for the choice of the word "presumptuous," which is just a few words over in the thesaurus for the more loaded "uppity."
Poor Rachel Maddow has to fight through made up quotes--because the media doesn't want to question why McCain is trying to portray Obama as messianic-- to challenge the media for selectively crying hubris. Watch her put Pat Buchanan in his place.
MADDOW: Whether or not (McCain's attack ads) are working, I think we have a responsibility to talk about whether or not they are deserved, Pat. I think when John McCain doesn‘t speak to Pat Buchanan as being presumptuous, when he calls himself President McCain, but Barack Obama speaks to you as presumptuous for doing something much less damning, that says more about you than it does about the candidate.
God, I love this woman.
Transcripts below the fold
BUCHANAN: Look, Rachel said there was humility, real humility here. Let me read you his direct quote, according to Dana Milbank. He‘s telling the Congressional guys, "this is the moment the world is waiting for. I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions." Upon what meat has this our Caesar fed. He‘s sounding like America‘s hot dog really.
MADDOW: Pat, the issue here is that that quote has been disproved today. That quote has been contradicted by multiple other sources, talking to "Time Magazine," talking to other reporters, explaining that he did not say that at all.
GREGORY: Let me break in. Smerc, you‘re coming. The actual quote, as Politico reported on this-this is what Obama reportedly said, according to Politico: "it‘s becoming increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign, that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, it‘s not about me at all. It‘s about America. I have just become a symbol." Smerc.
SMERCONISH: All right, nobody was in the room from a journalistic standpoint when that statement was offered. But, the "New York Times," I‘m amazed nobody has brought this up so far, June 4th, 2008, a direct quote from Senator Obama: "I love when I‘m shaking hands on a rope line and I see a little old white lady and a big burly black guy and Latino girls and all their hands are entwined. They are feeding on each other, as much as on me. It‘s like I‘m just the excuse."
In other words, he‘s said it before in the proper context. It‘s a feel good statement about the country and what he represents. We don‘t have to debate what he said behind closed doors, because we have him on the record. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, he said the same thing yesterday that he told the Times on this day.
MADDOW: Which I would argue is a symbol of humility and not hubris, but people want to run win the hubris line, I think for prejudiced reasons.
BUCHANAN: Is Dana Milbank doing this for prejudice reasons? Come on.
MADDOW: I‘m not accusing him of being racist.
(CROSS TALK)
MADDOW: Pat, how could you look at-
BUCHANAN: Everybody that‘s critical of Obama, when he‘s in a rough patch, to which he‘s responding with angry ads which show these attacks are working.
MADDOW: Whether or not they are working, I think we have a responsibility to talk about whether or not they are deserved, Pat. I think when John McCain doesn‘t speak to Pat Buchanan as being presumptuous, when he calls himself President McCain, but Barack Obama speaks to you as presumptuous for doing something much less damning, that says more about you than it does about the candidate.
GREGORY: Got to take a break here. Coming back, your play date with the panel.
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I cheered when I heard her say that! Go Maddow!
Take that Pat!
Beat down by a Liberal Lesbian!
I love her, too! Three conservatives and a Republican shill with one blow!
Beat down by an intelligent woman!
Beat down so stay down.
i wonder if pat buchanan is hiding any lesbian porn from his wife..?
Why is that jerk allowed to yell at everyone who disagrees with him? What an ass!
Why doesn't she have her own show yet? She is amazing at putting people in their place, and I think she would do even better if she didn't have to worry about playing nice so she'll be asked back.
Rachel, you rock.
Milbanks was an obama hack every day in the primary on ko's show so I guess Keith is the next to be tossed under the bus.
There will be nobody left.
Oh, and when did Dana Milbank start thinking of himself as a comedy writer? Quit your day job, Dana, and do your stand-up routine in a bar.
She ripped the bark off that asshole. Good for her.
When is MSNBC going to give her a regular show of her own?
She is the smartest person on any of the networks. By a long shot..... Brokaw is looking like an in the beltway ass. Charlie Gibson is acting like a good ol boy who won't rock any boats. Katie Couric - well she's the sort of girl determined to fit in with the boys (that was Hilary's big problem) Olbermann is on my side, but does have an ego that is pretty overwhelming. David Gregory just looks like an overgrown puppy -'pleeeese give me my own show - pleeese. She is simply smart and can speak with that mighty intellect. I always have the feeling she's holding back the good stuff because those guys would be on the floor holding themselves and moaning if she ever let loose with what she really thinks. It is a sight that exists only in my dreams.
Doesn't it seem like,
McCain is morphing into Mike Gravel, more and more with each and every passing day.
Will McCain make and ad where he picks up a rock and throws it in the water to make ripples?
Something from the silent screen era?
Probably a better question is, why is Buchanan allowed to quote from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in a debate without being called an elitist? I guess we've just come so far in the Republican newspeak image over reality world that it's impossible for a conservative to be an elitist, no matter what they do.
The follow up question is obviously, is Buchanan suggesting Obama should be assasinated before he turns our serene republic into an empire? (Frankly, I think it's too late to avoid the empire thing, it's just a question of whether we're going to elect Marcus Aurelius or Tiberius I.)
rekroc @ 6:
He doesn't yell ... He just whines really loud.
hunee, do these people actually enjoy what they do? p.u. 90-how-many-more-days of this crap?
Rachel Maddow is the Monarch of the sea baby!
Every woman's ex-husband looks and sounds like Pat Buchanan.
Maddow always rocks.
Get this patriot her own show.
the problem with Rachel Maddow is that she makes nearly everybody else look pathetic and incompetent in comparison.
A month ago Buchanon was calling Obama "EXOTIC" one morning on Morning Jo(k)e, and one of the other guests nailed him at the time by asking, "What, exactly, do you mean by using that word to describe Obama, Pat? In what context is Obama EXOTIC?" He was so embarrassed by the question that he never even tried to answer it. He changed the subject.
He's a dynosaur. He should be extinct.
This is the SAME OLD ROVIAN TRICK of accusing the opponent of what They, themselves are doing.
By now Obama should be familiar with this tactic, and know how to counter it. If he can't or won't, then we're screwed.
cg @ 20:
and she's pretty
I couldn't agree more, I love Rachel too. Whether she's popping Buchanon's hot air balloon with her intelligence or stumping Scarborough with things called facts til he tantrums and leaves the set in a huff, she's truly the best thing on MSNBC besides Olbermann.
Sometimes Maddow's great, sometimes not (see Somerby). After the NYT hagiography of her, I started to wonder if she's a plant.
And... yea... Rachel ROCKS.
poerba @ 25:
Surely you snark ...... right?
For crying out loud.... Get her show on the air MSNBC.
Thanks for picking the kernels of worthwhileness from the nightly news and sharing them with us. It's appreciated.
tee-hee. I want to squeeeeze her and pinch her pink-scrubbed cheeks. So beautiful, so truthful, so brave, so ornery. Ol' Pat, best not ever tell Rachel to shaddup.
*Howard Cosell*
Maddow bobs......she weaves...........WHaP! A left!
bAM! A right!
SWoooooOOOOOSH POW! An upper cut right on the chin.
Buchanan's staggering! He's gonna go!
Rachel:...that says more about you than it does about the candidate.
When I first watched this video, I was thinking the same thing. I damn near cheered when she said it. I agree Nicole, I love her too. Considering she is fighting single handedly against the talking points being plodded around by these racist, sexist has-beens, I give her a lot of credit for day after day putting up with and countering their b.s. rhetoric.
TR @ 11:
I'm beginning to suspect that, while NBC/MSNBC may be the least fascist of the networks, there is a secret memo someplace that says that no more than one articulate, liberal lesbian can have a show at any given time because it would give too much ammunition to the right wing attack machine. That means she's just S.O.L. until Ellen DeGeneres retires.
Every time I see Pat Buchanan my blood turns cold wandering why this cooks get so much access.
Buchanan was a senior adviser to American presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's Crossfire. He sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. He ran on the Reform Party ticket in the 2000 presidential election.
This is not really a great repertoire.
Ruthless People @ 18:
And Rachel Maddow looks and sounds like the woman she left him for.
♫..Bangkok Bob..♫ @ 27:
I can see the NY Post headline now once she gets a show: "The Manchurian Lesbian."
Rachel Rocked it AGAIN...Pat looked snivelly and stupid - again....WHEN is she going to get her own show- and how do we make that happen ??? ( David Gregory should take a hike too....there should be a shelf to put the Irrevelant ones- Tucker Carlson, Pat and Gregory..etc etc)...
Rachel is the best. I love when she fills in for KO. How about a Maddow tag Nicole? And more Maddow posts.
Why is MSNBC continuing to let the racist Pat Buchannan spew his venom in that network?
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/pat-buchanans-racist-rant
Now that America is done patting itself on the back for allowing a black man to reach the doorstep of the presidency, it will now do everything it can to destroy him before he makes it.
A few months ago, I held out hope that America was...after eight incredibly miserable years under Chimpy...ready to turn the page and start fresh. I thought someone like Obama could bridge the blue-red divide.
I now believe that no one could pull off that miracle.
The US is in sad shape and beyond repair. I truly believe that.
It has taken me 53 years to know what I want to be when I grow up.
I want to be Rachel Maddow. She is my hero.
Rachel for Speaker of the House!
Paul W. @ 24:
I always picture Buchannan and Scarborough after a Maddow smack-down as little children, holding their breath, pouting, yelling "Now you STOP that!"
I know I can't be the only guy with a HUGE unrequited crush on Rachel. She's cute as a button, incredibly smart, funny as hell, and a HUGE geek. What's not to love? Meaningless, I know, but I can't help the way I feel.
The best part was when she went on a "rant" (her words) on her Air America show just after the RftWH show (I get the podcast). Holy cow, did she lay into Pat Buchanon and his type - it was brutal.
hotmouth @ 39:
I need to ask- when she set Joe Scarborough straight monthes ago he stomped off the show- does anyone else remember that ? ( I don't think he has been on again -with her....whimp that he is) She has a phd in PoliSci and is a Rhodes Scholar....FINALLY a Smart Woman has been given a Voice...Finally....
bullfrog @ 5:
Or is she hiding her lesbian porn from him?
Rachel is smart, erudite, funny and extremely attractive. And watching the men (and insecure women) who are threatened by that squirm is just icing on the cake.
The Truth Hurts @ 40:
That shinning beacon on the hill(America the idea) died inauguration day 2001.
R. I. P. America 1776 - 2001
Pat Puke-cannon = Republikan Korporate Tool!
Go back to Faux noise. The Korporate media hacks love you there!
i knew obama was misquoted...not that it matters
come on...they are trying to blame the guy for a rap song by ludacris (sp)
the repugs arent playing the race card? they arent trying to scare the shit out of america that an uppity black man is going to become prez and turn the anthem into a rap song?
and pat is a fucking racist to his core
enigma4ever @ 46:
Oh, I remember that very well. Rachel's face when they came back on camera was priceless.
It was the first time I can remember someone losing it like that on television. It shows how insecure he is. If I were his boss at MSNBC I would have replaced him the very next day. Hothouse flower, indeed.
hotmouth @ 39:
I'm with you. I never figured out how he got away with that incredibly blatant racist editorial and nobody said squat about it, and every time I turn around, he's yelling more crap on the tube.
Who does he blow that he still is getting a mic?
obama presumptuous? Imagine how the leaders he met with must feel. After eight years of an ignorant empty suit here comes another one they'll have to put up with.
if the networks are going to not hire on the basis of sexual orientation (as someone suggested above), i think the field of discrimination should be expanded to exclude men who frequent prostitutes.
i think we would see a bunch of empty chairs on teevee.
Don't procrastinate too long MSNBC. If you don't give Rachel a show, some other network will. Don't assume her MSNBC 'news analyst' contract will stop them.
jimbo @ 54:
My guess is .......... Relieved
i have an appreciation for ms.maddow...i watch/listen to her often. pat buchanan doesn't give a rats' ass if it's deserved or not........just that it works. many of the peeps out their don't dissect it like we do. i will say this for the most part i like how obama is dealing with mcBush......but it's time to hammer him on taxes and the economy....after the olympics
jimbo @ 54:
wanna explain to me how an "empty suit" became the first black prez of the harvard law review?
bush was a failure at everything he did
obama a success
you need to stand up and say....I THINK ALL BLACK PEOPLE ARE STUPID
valletta @ 52:
That's a really good question, why does he still have a job on TV?
Scarborough mysteriously quits Congress after one term and an easy re-election, to "spend more time with his family". A woman is found mysteriously dead in his Congressional office. He spends one morning telling anyone who will listen that she had had health problems, before he shuts up entirely and never mentions her again. Her death is covered up so quickly that it never makes state or national news. Her college photos are removed from her university's website and her job as a Congressman's aide isn't even mentioned in her obit.
How did Joe go from there to a permanent job on TV? He's had an ironclad lock on a TV job ever since.
It just doesn't pass the smell test, does it?
Hey Morning Jealousy
Can you report this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O5fFcM59eY
Or can you report this
LowRoadExpress.com
Or just maybe you can talk about this
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121745962594698731.html?mod=todays_colum...
WONDER LAND / is John McCain Stupid?
By DANIEL HENNINGER
Or how about asking a democrat a question and allowing them to answer it?
Or are you going to continue your race baiting because you lack any type of substance to keep the viewers’ interest.
It is quite amazing that the ratings go up when your not around don’t you think? You would think MSNBC would notice this and do something about it. But maybe CNN will help you guys out in this department.
Now CNN, American Morning this is your opportunity. Morning Jealousy will be going on a two weeks vacation for the Olympics. This is your time to change the boring format of your show. There are plenty of people who are extremely unhappy with the unfair coverage that MSNBC brings in the Morning...
I have provided you with a blog from their own website and you will read many many complaints against the race baiting Joe Jealous Scarborough.
Latest post from: Wallace vs. Gibbs (http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/31/1237320.aspx)
Now are you just going to sit there or are you going to take advantage of this opportunity to shut this show down completely.
Once this is done you will see viewers flock to your show in droves, but it’s all up to you.
not stupid @ 34:
Hey, Ollie North took the blame for Reagan in the Iran-Contra affair, and now he works for FOX News. Working with overtly criminal administrations and commiting high treason can be very lucrative. Let us pray this changes come January.
Rethuglicans along with Morning Jealousy, Fake News and breed racist like Jim D. Adkisson every day of every week.
Rethuglicans along with Morning Jealousy and Fake News, degrade Muslims while they pump their gas into their cars every day.
What would happen if the Muslim Countries decided to cut America off of their oil, would the Rethuglicans along with Morning Jealousy and Fake News and continue their R A C E Baiting?
Have you ever thought about that, what would you do then, oh drill offshore even though you wouldn’t see any production in 10 years.
Breschau @ 44:
Nope, you're not the only one. I've got a major crush on Rachel too. And I'm a gay guy.
Pericles @ 14:
With what legions?
Gottdammit. David Gregory cut Pat Buchanan off just as he was about to respond to Maddow's accusation that he is prejudiced.
It must be tough being the ever-oppressed white man
living in fear of a level playing field.
Pat may not be saying it directly,
but he is in a panic about this uppity black man.
Maddow - Game, Set, Match!
It was so good that GEM$NBC edited the five minutes comprising this segment out of repeat broadcasts, and management said some the reason was that the public needed to be protected from some truths...
I'm thankful for Rachel, too, but who watched this exchange? IT was on MSNBC --a cable channel -- not NBC, CBS or ABC. She's preaching to us -- the choir. We need someone on the national networks to stand up to these creeps.
This should be her show, not Gregory's. He's an asshole.
Well now boys & girls, can we say "bitch slapped'?
yeah Pat. Take that. SMACKDOWN. Game, Set, Match. umm.... how do you say......"you've been served"
pwnd!
Pat Buchanan symbolizes all those angry white guys that helped get Nixon and Reagan elected by appealing to the "This used to a great White Guy country at one time," narration. Buchanan's antics are his bread and butter. MSNBC uses this blowhard to bring in the angry white guy demographic.
The pleasant irony is that good ol' boy Pat is continually out debated by a well-educated gay woman. Rachael Maddow must piss off the occasionally angry white boy FOX
newsviewer to no end.I'm loving it.
Problem is, if Rachel had her own show, nobody'd come on. The truth is too inconvenient/unhelpful to these trogs and it can only be dosed to them in small Maddow-appearance-sized doses.
Rachel Maddow for Veep.
Pat should go get his sister to take on Maddow. Bay Buchanan was US Treasurer under Ronald Reagan. Bay would wipe the floor with Rachel Maddow.
Pericles @ 14:
that's funny, Marcus Aurelius or Tiberius I coming after Caligula.
Orcas of 77 ? surely you just...omg...Rachel would have no trouble putting Bay Buchanon in her place, she is brighter, well read and educated...Bay whines and snivels...actually she used to be on CNN and Crossfire all the time...but now - hmm , not so much...
orcas @ 77:
You've got to be kidding. You can't be serious. LOL
Rachel Maddow is a treasure and thinks for herself. Bay Buchanan is a crone and repeats whatever the Heritage Foundation throws at her or whatever her brother writes for her.
Rachel is wonderful. Give her her own show!
The thing about Rachel is that she's brilliant, photogenic, and she also carries herself with an enormous amount of class and dignity (2 characteristics sorely lacking not only in the MSM, but in American public life in general). She never resorts to name calling and doesn't play the "buddy" game, like a lot of "liberal" hosts like Paul Begala do (aka being too nice when Republicans blatantly lie in front of them, and laughing it off over martinis later).
orcas @ 77:
No kids... Never been married... Never had a boyfriend... Preaches to others about good ol fashioned christian family values.
Buried deep inside of Bay Buchanan's closet is a lesbian, afraid of being outed.
enigma4ever @ 46:
I am also in love with Rachel. ANd she NAILED his ass with simple facts. I love her!! I love that she also does not back down and let loud mouthed pompous asshats like Buchanan walk all over her!!
Buchanan, Milbank, O'Reilly, Hannity, and many others, are simply racists. It's all they can do to hold their words in check and not say the dreaded N word, or come out with some diatribe of idiotic sewage regarding Sen. Obama. There is precious little that holds them in check, other than a fear that if they really let loose then their jobs will go bye bye. There are some commentators (I think far too few) such as Rachel Maddow who also help to bring some balance to the equation. Good for her. Would that we had more of her type who had the courage to call things as they are.
And where is Keith Olbermann on this?
Keith invites Dana Milbank on his show for eye-roll-worthy commentary at least 3 times a week and they generally discuss exactly this sort of false framing. If Keith overlooks this it will create a gaping hole in his credibility.
Of course Howard Fineman is an even more cringe-worthy beltway hack but I suppose it's important to know the enemy.
Ruthless People @ 18:
Ohmygod.I hope not!
DB @ 85:
If you listen very closely....just sort of read between the lines...in the ever so slightest way, this phrase is beginning to show up in the GOP noise machine:
"Uppity n----r"
Call it "pompous." Call it "elitist." Call it "presumptuous." But there you have. No white guy has ever been termed with those adjectives. Buchanan is stuck in the 50's. He never left Levittown. I've seen him take off on Hispanics, too. He's a real xenophobe.
Maddow: What a breath of fresh air! I just love that gal.
When this story first came out, I commented the following on the online Washington Post:
It may not of been Dana Milbank, my suggestion to take this racist subject to MSNBC fore filled its prophecy with non other then Pat Buchanan, who is a known racist. I don't like it. We have become numb to very questionable offensive social practices. MSNBC has a history of riding that line between the socially acceptable and the historically offensive. We need to let MSNBC know that maybe they should not try to normalize everything.
Joseph
Rachel turned that race carding asshole Buchanan into McCain....A stuttering, muttering dumb old fuck with outdated thoughts that the world has begun to run from. Bigot Pat is incapable of out-debating Ms. Maddow.
She really had to fight to get her point in there, didn't she?
Folks, there is no way in God's Creation that John McCain will win the presidency. But that doesn't mean we might not see that mean old bastard getting sworn in next year. Why do I say that? I just really see the media at large doing everything they can to prop up that old fool, only calling him out when he is so obviously off his beam that that lose was LITTLE credibility they have by not making mention of it, and turn the voters in his favor. That seems like a contradiction, but it is not. See, they are just trying to win him enough legit votes and put out enough negative press about Obama that if McCain is placed on the throne with another stolen election, they can look back and tell us, "Hey! It was always a horse race, people. We can show you the clips, if you like."
Man, I really hope that isn't the case. I think we are better than that. IF McCain wins, then I will be well and truly convinced that the freedoms and democracy we enjoy is truly just an illusion.
Let's not let it happen.
If I were a woman, I'd want to be Rachel Maddow's girlfriend for sure.
Bonkers @ 91:
Your point is well received. It is the first time I have scene an opinion so closely related to my own. Not that mine is so special; I have not scene expressed until now. Have you looked at the latest polls? The people over at RealClear Politics are working somebodies plan out. With the Gallup, Rasmussen, CNN, USAtoday and other Republican polls, they have practically stole the perception of how far ahead Barack Obama truly is. I can almost predict their polling numbers before they are realest. For example, because they are working hard to control the averages, so every time a poll is released showing Obama more then 6 points ahead, you can predict the next Rasmussen poll will be close to a tie. Currently, they are working to put John McCain ahead in the polls. They have already released a poll showing Obama behind McCain by 4 points. If you look at the history of Gallup and Rasmussen polls for the general election, you will notice they are the lowest among many others.
I would like to see your message about stealing the election put out as much as possible . It truly has the correct angle.
Joseph
Wahoooo. Rachel rocks. And sadly, it's true. But we already knew that, didn't we? What has changed is that now we have someone on one corporate media channel who tells the truth when she can get a word in edgewise.
Rachel makes me proud to be a lesbian trapped in a one-legged man's body.
Buchanan is another old nasty ass fart, they use on these networks from sun up to sun down, you will find his old ignorant raciest ass on all the political talk show, just lying and spinning away.
God bless Rachel for blasting his ass good, because none of these fools will ever admit when they are caught lying on Obama.
They promoted the lie McCain made on Obama about his visiting the wounded troops and yet, other then Keith, not one of these nasty lying fools will admit they were wrong to carry McCain's lies.
Oh but they will cover up McCain's daily blunders and the illness in his ugly face. They would shove this old man into the white house come hell or high water, just like they gave us Bush for eight years.
They could give a dame about this country or its people.
No word yet of the Katie McCurick scam of trying to cover for McCain. She thinks this is going to go away, she has another thing coming. They are so busy using our national media attacking Obama and making a circus of our election process, they could care less about being caught lying.
They act just like a bunch of dogs (excuse me dogs) This is an all out attack on Obama, as this gang of circus clowns are getting very nervous as the clock runs out on all of their criminal actions.
I really wish these so called analyst, if they are going to be so called speaking out for Obama would continue on with Rachel's lead and get right back in the face of these idiots, as she did. That's what its going to take.
I also thank Bob Schrum for correcting Michelle, who seems to always give into these idiots. If she is going to speak for the liberal process, she needs to come out swinging or shut the hell up. It's so clear she is being coached to speak against Obama, to get the disgusting opportunity to stay on that disgusting show. How sick and sad she can be.
This is a swift boat organization in action and it has nothing to do with knowing who the hell Obama is. White folk all over this country now know who Obama is, even the two or three CNN, had the audacity to interview, and who claimed they still thought he was a Muslim, when you know they were simply lying, because they claim to have heard it in the media. They just don't like the man for their own reason (we can all just guess what that is), yet don't have the guts or the courage to tell it like it is.
The very thought of an Obama Presidency scares the hell out of these cheap crooks. Corporate America and the Media are worried to death that we are going to be like a million attack dogs, getting to the bottom of the activities, many of them are surely guilty of. And they are so right.
By the way Obama does not have the face of the men on the money. What the hell is so wrong with that? Oh yea that's right, they are worried that someday he will. Maybe that's what it might take for them to turn it down.
Just a thought.
testing
Leg Hussein Paine @ 94:
So YOU'RE the proverbial one legged man? Just don't enter any ass-kicking contests, or people will make metaphors about you.
thanks again Rach. Please don't ever go on vacation.
Rachel for VP.
Pericles @ 97:
I am quite busy these days, but I think I am more like a simile than a metaphor;)
BTW, I will be kicking some ass in just over a month on the tennis court in Beijing (and on the softball diamond this Saturday in Chicago with the once and future Wheeled Champion Chicago Cubs!) Word is that The Paralympics may be on TV in U.S., which would be novel. Apparently, a U.S. TV contract is not signed yet. BBC and CBC and other countries will cover it for sure Sept. 6-17.
Listen up people not one to Prech, but I think that all the cable networks just like all the other net works,will see McCain in the White House by hook or crook, too much to cover up on the Bush Crime Family, and too much money to be made off all these WARES. Just look at the petty things that they are helping McCain through at Obama.
that was a brilliant retort ~ she is great.
Yesh. Maddow is a very handsome woman.
blackjack @ 102:
That is why the next time you see the shows on MSNBC and CNN talking in their phony objective format you should know just what they are going to throw your way. It is more likely going to be an indirect attack on Barack Obama legitimized by phony special commentators and phony polls. These bastards never stop being bias. What is so sad about being propagandized in this fashion is the millions who believe every bit of what the MSM produces. I know I can't wait to see some of the old media checks and balances used before this administration. There is talk about them now, so be sure to support it when it comes.
Joseph
I never knew who Rachel Maddow was, but she is one amazing fighter of Liberalism.
Obama IS arrogant and presumptuous.
He got away with crying wolf about racism in the primaries because the media hates Hillary. But he won't get away with it in the GE because the media likes McCain.
But he apparently intends to try playing the race card anyway. I guess he doesn't have much choice, he can't run on his resume.
Ruthless People @ 18:
Additionally, the woman's ex-husband is a wino lush like Tool Bag Pat.
I Like Pie @ 83:
Hate the lovely Bay Buchanan if you must. But please get your facts straight.
Husband: William Jackson
Son: Billy
Son: Tommy
Son: Stuart
Will Maddow single handedly destroy the credibility of a corrupt and complicit corporate media? She needs to be cloned to take on the rich, celebrity, inane egotists in the MSM.
myiq2xu @ 107:
Enjoy the fresh air while you can because after the election you and your Republican cronies can crawl back into the hole from which you slithered.
It seems as though Rachel is the only one in the media who has the testicular fortitude to stand up the the Right and destroy them with facts. She knows her facts and the Right can only throw the same garbage opinions to the American people since they don't to grasp reality.
Gotugye @ 111:
I'm a Democrat and a proud liberal.
Rachel can cut through the right wing political spin faster and more articulately than anyone I have ever seen on either MSNBC or CNN( I don't watch FOX). I realize the difficulty of trying to get your point across. The right wing keeps throwing out all their misinformation and misquotations and talking points and you get tangled up in all the gobblygook. Rachel has a real knack for cutting to the chase and wading through all the crap and in an understandable way. There is absolutely none better.
She does have a knack for making bullying, dishonest, bigoted, partisan hack-propagandists look exactly like what they are.
Buchannan is pathetic. What's funny, is the he considers himself to be an intellectual.
Se. Claire McCaskill shot down Joe Scarborough and his parrot Mika this morning on Morning Blow. It was fabulous!
orcas @ 77:
Ya think, asswipe??? Rachel could take bay and pat and wipe the floor up with them with one hand tied behind her back and not even break a sweat!!
Rachel is a news goddess and lesser, aka stupid, mortals should beware the searing arrows of her sharp intellect!
Maddow is just fuckin awesome!
Rosanne @ 117:
Yeah! What you said!
Wouldn't it be great to have Rachel on "The View" for a week or so? We have another pretty woman who could absolutely make Elizabeth look like the idiot she is. She pretty much gets a free pass from most people because "she's so damn cute".
myiq2xu @ 113:
Yeah right!!! And I'm the queen of England. Ain't the internet great?!?!
Bay Buhcanan has a face that only another lesbian woman could love! She's another hag in the Republican Family Stable that espouses "Core Family Values" as a divorced mother of three!
And I love the fact that, when she's not on teevee (which is getting to be almost daily, which I love), her Air America show is still gold.
Someone on here said Bay Buchanan is 'lovely' - man you are playing us all for fools and trying to bait people. There is just no other explanation for that.
myiq: I suppose the point is that a half-black candidate just talking about race in civilized terms means he is playing the race card. Because there is just no other explanation for this analysis which is already getting pretty worn out. I suppose he's just supposed to pretend he's white.
Johnny @ 121:
Good morning your Majesty.
And how are things in the House of Windsor?
Good morning Myiq2xu. Out making friends again I see.
CowBoy Bob in Austin @ 21:
LOL, "Morning Joke." Thanks for making a fellow Austinite spill his coffee. Listening to Pat is bad enough, but watching him is even worse with his constant hand motions. Make the guy sit on his hands or something.
enigma: I remember the Scarborough pop. In fact, I'll never forget it. I watch the interaction between Maddow and these other cheeseheads closely. What she is 'allowed' to say on air (which is basically presenting facts which are normally anathema to these kinds of shows) is what I pay attention to. I consider it a sign of possible progress.
I also remember, prior to that, him making extremely nasty comments about her and her 'Air America' friends just because she told the truth and apparently embarrassed him in his ignorance. And yeah, this last episode, he hasn't been on the 5-headed hydra since then. He's a much bigger bully than Buchanan. And I know that's saying a lot.
DR Maddow, is to me, one who should be the seat that is occupied by the host of that show, and not as the guest of that show. She is 'BETTER THAN ALL THE REST'!
She speaks even to the Simple Simons of this country! It takes them a while, but it will sink in after they can't find a response...Imagine Pat Buchanan speechless and beat down like a penny asking for change, by the only one who has succeeded in doing so time and time again. Gotta love this Woman! Waiting for him to tell her to 'shut up', like he did a Black woman on a show, and was allowed to do so, then come back on the next show. He needs to be erased from TV.
Kate @ 7:
HUGE Rachel Maddow fan here- I don't think she "puts people in their place". Rather, she corrects them by fighting hyperbole with facts and truth. She's a first rate intellect, an incisive thinker. She is a cool breeze in all this hot air!!
Miatch @ 1:
Pat Buchanan will never get used to being challenged by Rachel Maddow on the facts. Buchanan tends to paraphrase what Obama said, distorting the actual text to illustrate whatdever point he seems to be trying to make.
Repeating a statement that is "sort of like" what Obama said in order to paint him as somehow "arrogant" and "presumptuous" is low and unworthy of Buchanan.
As Rachel said, it says more about Buchanan than it does about Obama.
You go, Rachel!!!
If not for her not being into men, and her loving New England sports teams, she is my dream woman.
Johnny @ 121:
You're this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmQVWH9u8Xo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOgv-UuTgac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P4iPvs4EYI
myiq2xu @ 107:
It seems no one can call obama unctuous -- which is exactly what he is -- without being accused of making a racist slur...........he is a cheeky fellow, fact--- it doen't mean he'll fuck up the White House any more than bushy did; he may even be a decent president. The apologists here on C&L seem though -- not to tolerate any real banter on obama's many flaws. His shortcumming are interesting, more so than his congressional record. So lighten up and start talking about why obama is not 20 points ahead -- that is what I cannot wrap my head around. How can any republican at this point be so close in the polls against any democrat .... well obama got us there ---- so after you beat me up for I just posited -- tell me how we got here....
Did anyone see the face off between Senators Kerry and Kyl? I had to make a run to the corner store and missed it but my husband says that Kerry tore up Kyl as well.
Dana Milbank, what do you think warrantless wire taps are for?
not catching terrorists, but doing what J. Edgar did with them, amassing domestic power.
People (Fred Hiatt etc) can't possibly be that stupid, they are all being blackmailed.
Think I'm a conspiracy theorist? Ask Elliott Spitzer.
Maddow needs her own show! She is amazing and always comes out on top. Keep it up, Rachel!
rekroc @ 6:
Good question to ask MSNBC? The other Republican "strategists" do the same, and the next time those permanent-smile blonds allow someone to complete a sentence, will be the first time.
bpd @ 132:
OH dammitalltohell!!! She's a bloody Patriots/Sox fan? Thaaaaat's it! I can't watch her anymore or listen to her show...kidding of course...but I wouldn't be if she was a Cowboys fan. ;)
liberalMcSuuurgeNmoderation @ 141:
Oh and Ms Maddow....how 'bout them Giants?! haHA!
I love Rachel Maddow too! She fights for us all the time. I am very disappointed in Dana Milbank. I thought he was better than this. I guess the election is going to be about how low can everyone go. I'd say they're headed for the basement of Hell.
Love when Rachel shows the Reslugs up for what they are, bigots and liars.
Give her a show.
I saw Buchanan on Hardball yesterday. He's just like Bush and McCain - the end always justifies the means. In other words, it's ok to lie, cheat and steal to win an election. It's ok to deceive and confuse voters "if it works and you get elected."
Like McCain and Bush, he is shameless. No scruples, no intergrity, no honor - a politician running for office can and should do ANYTHING to get elected.
This is exactly why we have crooks and liars in Washington running the government.
Does anyone else find Pat Buchanan EXTREMELY ANNOYING? His screetchy little high pitched voice gets on my nerves. He constantly interrupts and is totally full of BS. I'm sure he can't stand being challenged by a woman, one who also happens to be way smarter, and makes him look like the dweeb he is.
I really liked it when the super scary smart Rhodes Scholar Rachel Maddow said that Obama wasn't being misogynistic when he was brushing Hillary off his shoulders and shoes like dirt.
She's so smart and intelligent, she didn't even know that the song that Obama was performing his rapper dance moves to was full of sexist and misogynistic lyrics and soul language. Talk about not being able to see the forrest through the trees. She should have her own show, she's so great.
MessNBC already has that crackpot Keith Obamamann, is there room for another?
Nope, nothing misogynistic about this (must not have been the same rap song Obama once knew):
You're now tuned into the muh'fuckin greatest
Turn the music up in the headphones
Tim, you can go and brush your shoulder off nigga
I got you, yeah
[Chorus: Jay-Z]
If you feelin like a pimp nigga, go and brush your shoulders off
Ladies is pimps too, go and brush your shoulders off
Niggaz is crazy baby, don't forget that boy told you
Get, that, dirt off your shoulder
[Verse One]
I probably owe it to y'all, proud to be locked by the force
Tryin to hustle some things, that go with the Porsche
Feelin no remorse, feelin like my hand was forced
Middle finger to the law, nigga grip'n my balls
All the ladies they love me, from the bleachers they screamin
All the ballers is bouncin they like the way I be leanin
All the rappers be hatin, off the track that I'm makin
But all the hustlers they love it just to see one of us make it
Came from the bottom the bottom, to the top of the pots
Nigga London, Japan and I'm straight off the block
Like a running back, get it man, I'm straight off the block
I can run it back nigga cause I'm straight with the Roc
[Chorus]
[Chorus Two]
You gotta get, that, dirt off your shoulder
You gotta get, that, dirt off your shoulder
You gotta get, that, dirt off your shoulder
You gotta get, that, dirt off your shoulder
[Verse Two]
Your homey Hov' in position, in the kitchen with soda
I just whipped up a watch, tryin to get me a Rover
Tryin to stretch out the coca, like a wrestler, yessir
Keep the Heckler close, you know them smokers'll test ya
But like, fifty-two cards when I'm, I'm through dealin
Now fifty-two bars come out, now you feel 'em
Now, fifty-two cars roll out, remove ceiling
In case fifty-two broads come out, now you chillin
with a boss bitch of course S.C. on the sleeve
At the 40/40 club, ESPN on the screen
I paid a grip for the jeans, plus the slippers is clean
No chrome on the wheels, I'm a grown-up for real
I just KNEW you guys would have this--MSNBC scrubbed it from their site.
THANK YOU JOHN AMATO!
Nice bitch slap Rachel!
I remember when Buchanan used to shout down all his opponents on the old "Crossfire" show. I screamed at the TV more than once. And, I prayed the liberals could have someone who could effectively counter Buchanan's bluster. Rachel Maddow is the answer to my prayer.
Thank you Rachel, you are saving my sanity. Thanks to you and your sharp mind and courage, I no longer feel the need to scream at Buchanan.
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