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riversedge

(70,347 posts) Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:36 AM Jun 2018

6 tweets from Rachel Maddow about not being able to speak while on TV

She is only human and I, for one, had a big lump in my throat. Glad to see some emotion from anchors.

Rachel Maddow MSNBC Verified account @maddow

Ugh, I'm sorry.

If nothing else, it is my job to actually be able to speak while I'm on TV.

What I was trying to do -- when I suddenly couldn't say/do anything -- was read this lede:

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Rachel Maddow MSNBC
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"Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas...

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Rachel Maddow MSNBC
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6h6 hours ago

"Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the "tender age" shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis...

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Rachel Maddow MSNBC
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6h6 hours ago

"Decades after the nation’s child welfare system ended the use of orphanages over concerns about the lasting trauma to children, the administration is standing up new institutions to hold Central American toddlers that the government separated from their parents...

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Rachel Maddow MSNBC
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6h6 hours ago

“The thought that they are going to be putting such little kids in an institutional setting? I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my mind around it,” said Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, “Toddlers are being detained.”

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Rachel Maddow MSNBC
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6h6 hours ago

All from this Associated Press story that broke while I was on the air tonight, but which I was unable to read on the air:

https://apnews.com/dc0c9a5134d14862ba7c7ad9a811160e …

Again, I apologize for losing it there for a moment. Not the way I intended that to go, not by a mile.

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6 tweets from Rachel Maddow about not being able to speak while on TV (Original Post) riversedge Jun 2018 OP

Here's a video clip Jarqui Jun 2018 #1

I love her even more. madaboutharry Jun 2018 #3

right there with you ProfessorPlum Jun 2018 #14

That's why we love her so much, duforsure Jun 2018 #2

She does not need to apologize to anyone for this. TNNurse Jun 2018 #4

How can anyone with a heart not be in tears because of this horrific nightmare Siwsan Jun 2018 #5

Many of us are right there with you... KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2018 #12

Fascist Trump HHS has NO plan to re-unite children with parents. Powerful article Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #6

Rachel Maddow is an intelligent compassionate journalist. gademocrat7 Jun 2018 #7

Among a Stellar Crop of Journalists Roy Rolling Jun 2018 #8

Why won't Republicans Read this Verse Civic Justice Jun 2018 #9

no apology needed bdamomma Jun 2018 #10

Trump's 'Merica! UCmeNdc Jun 2018 #11

Trump and his people have damaged hundreds of children. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2018 #13

Jarqui

(10,130 posts)

1. Here's a video clip

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 06:05 AM

Jun 2018

I'm struggling to imagine that news being delivered any better than Rachel did.
No luck.

I feel that there was a time not that long ago when many more Americans would react as Rachel did. FOX News, Trump and the GOP have poisoned their brains.

madaboutharry

(40,234 posts)

3. I love her even more.

Reply to Jarqui (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 06:17 AM

Jun 2018

I have loved her from the first day of Air America. Tonight she has a place in my heart forever. What a special and wonderful person she is.

ProfessorPlum

(11,279 posts)

14. right there with you

Reply to madaboutharry (Reply #3)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 12:41 PM

Jun 2018

She is the most intelligent and humane kind of person who can still survive the world of our corporate airwaves. A treasure.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

2. That's why we love her so much,

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 06:11 AM

Jun 2018

She's real , and has a big heart, which she showed. And we cried with her. This shouldn't be happening here. Caging babies will haunt them forever for doing this.

TNNurse

(6,929 posts)

4. She does not need to apologize to anyone for this.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 06:33 AM

Jun 2018

Siwsan

(26,308 posts)

5. How can anyone with a heart not be in tears because of this horrific nightmare

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 06:43 AM

Jun 2018

I found it difficult to even get out of bed, this morning. I don't even want to leave the house, today, for fear of another wave of sorrow hitting, instigating another flood of tears. My heart is broken and feels like it may never heal. And damn, here I go again.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,496 posts)

12. Many of us are right there with you...

Reply to Siwsan (Reply #5)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 07:37 AM

Jun 2018

I've been almost totally dysfunctional for a week and have friends the same way. Every time I see the photos of those little kids I want to bust out in tears, and I'm a well-seasoned 70 year old man.

This nightmare must end soon, somehow........... ........

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,047 posts)

6. Fascist Trump HHS has NO plan to re-unite children with parents. Powerful article

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 06:45 AM

Jun 2018

https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasacks/doctor-mental-trauma-migrant-children?utm_term=.rfenNYra1#.aoOv81dmR

Although the foster families had taken in traumatized children before, they were floundering because they had absolutely no idea when, if, or how these children would be brought back to their parents.

"They had no information on hearing dates/times for the parents; they had no contact information for the parents; they had no idea if/when visitation or contact would be allowed, and they didn't have access to a case worker who could obtain this information," Neubrand wrote. "These children, those lucky ones who 'made it' into caring foster homes, were floating, unanchored to their past or their future."

gademocrat7

(10,676 posts)

7. Rachel Maddow is an intelligent compassionate journalist.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 06:48 AM

Jun 2018

This travesty has shaken us to our core. I stand with Rachel.

Roy Rolling

(6,941 posts)

8. Among a Stellar Crop of Journalists

Reply to gademocrat7 (Reply #7)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 06:57 AM

Jun 2018

2018's journalists are the best we've seen in a long, long time.

Rachel is at the top of that class.

Civic Justice

(870 posts)

9. Why won't Republicans Read this Verse

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 07:03 AM

Jun 2018

Philippians 2:1-4
If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

But.... as usual, just like during slavery... Right Wing Minded people twist the words... and make vile summary, that is adverse to the actual words and the actual meanings, for their vain and conceited and greed filled aims.