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But look at the guy who wrote this.
MRC's Graham Sneers At Rachel Maddow's Looks
Topic: Media Research Center
In the wake of the shootings in Virginia, there's been a lot of talk about civility in the political sphere. Media Research Center director of media analysis Tim Graham's response: hold my beer.
Graham takes an unnecessary, gratuitious and mean-spirited shot at Rachel Maddow's looks in a June 14 post attacking her interview with Rolling Stone:
For her part, Maddow proclaims she is a cheerleader for the American media,"an interesting choice of words since she tries very hard not to appear feminine.
What is the purpose of saying such a thing, Tim? What does that add to the conversation? Why do you think you should be taken seriously as a media critic when you're so eager to denigrate someone simply for refusing to conform to your idea of femininity? And as a chubby white guy, Graham hardly has any room to complain about the looks of other people.
Indeed, there's no reason to read the rest of Graham's critique, especially after his first attack on her was the above line, which appeared in the second paragraph. (Not that was anything different than Graham's usual anti-media blather, of course.)
Graham exemplifies the arrogance of the right-wing media -- he doesn't believe he should hold himself to the same standards he insists on imposing on the "liberal media." He has no principles, only a partisan agenda that he tries to enforce through intimidation and not reason.
Hate and thuggishness does not make for a principled organization. Graham hasn't figured that out yet.
http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/blog/index.blog?entry_id=2364331
irisblue
(32,975 posts)My eyes roll harder, they will get stuck in the back of my head.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)irisblue
(32,975 posts)Have I mentioned how cool you are?
Wawannabe
(5,660 posts)dalton99a
(81,488 posts)onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)monmouth4
(9,705 posts)Turbineguy
(37,331 posts)"Stinking bag of guts" comes to mind for him.
LesterKasai
(132 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)This is how LOSERS behave!
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)She probably kissed more girls in high school..
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,693 posts)who thinks he has the right to judge any woman's looks? Like Jabba the Trump giving Miss Universe a hard time for being "fat."
LesterKasai
(132 posts)She looks fine to me.
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)She is attractive to me both physically, and intellectually.
She is just awesome in every sense!
I should be so lucky to even know her!
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)I love a woman with short, stylish hair, that "sassy" look, who's well spoken and intelligent as all get out. NOT to objectify Ms. Maddow, but you all know what I mean. She's a hottie!
And all apologies to every Chinese person on the planet, but her "attacker", who will never have a date with a woman 1/100th as attractive and intelligent as Rachel, has more "chins" than a Beijing phone book. People in glass houses.........and all that.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Chen
I'm fussy about stuff like that...Chinese ex-wife. My little ocd. 😄
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)how ignorant I am about such things. I was told that "joke" years ago, and I never knew the difference. Thanks for pointing that out for me.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Chen is one of the most common names in Mainland China.., although not as common as Kim in South Korea.
I think there are more Kims per square mile there than any other name in the world.
And then there are these three internationally famous classical Korean musicians --
Chung Myung-Whun
Chung Kyung-Wha
Chung Myung-Wha
Say them 3 times really fast...
Siblings !!
I've met two of them..
I'll let you google if you are so inclined...
Cheers,
paleotn
(17,913 posts)I'd like to just sit and chat with her for hours on end. Imagine the conversations you could have. Oh...and she looks pretty good too.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Seriously...I find her very attractive. Her brain makes her hot. I've been fantasizing about her for a long time.
Hekate
(90,686 posts)I love my hubby.
iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)MineralMan
(146,308 posts)with a face like a butt doesn't think she's attractive...
pangaia
(24,324 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)I remember when they used to talk about Keith Olbermann and "that young man" who followed him in the hour after.
Since Rachel is now beating their asses in ratings, I bet they 'remember' her name now!
JanetLovesObama
(548 posts)a straight beautiful woman and I believe Rachel Maddow is one of the most beautiful women in the world. She is gorgeous. Her skin, her eyes, her hair. I love everything about her. And her brilliance to boot !!!!! I'd kill to be her !
3catwoman3
(23,987 posts)...look like Rachel.
I'd thrill to have her intellect, too.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)I'm an older, straight woman, and I think she looks fantastic. I like her natural, day-look even more than the tv made-up, coiffed look.
I wouldnt kiss that pos pictured in the OP for nything. Not because of his ugliness, but because of his ugliness INSIDE.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Manhatten, 10%.
lindysalsagal
(20,686 posts)She's gorgeous, in a classic way, and I'm a totally straight woman.
Takket
(21,568 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Chemisse
(30,811 posts)Clearly he is an asshole.
yardwork
(61,608 posts)It's this snowflake's way of pointing out that Rachel is a lesbian, as if it's something she's supposed to be trying to hide. He's stuck in the 1980s.
Typical sniggering stupid bigoted behavior.
Maeve
(42,282 posts)But I suspect he was trying to say something more about her than just her looks...as if it were some secret....(she's openly gay, you can say it, but she's also nicer than you)
He's jealous...haters will hate
HoosierDebbie
(291 posts)George W. Bush was a cheerleader at Yale. Did he try hard to look feminine?
Hekate
(90,686 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)stuffed in a 5 lb bag
forgotmylogin
(7,528 posts)"Cheerleaders" are not exclusively female nor feminine. I venture anyone of them can conjure up more testosterone in their pinky than he's had in his puffy body at any given time.
Not that that has anything to do with what Rachel meant since he totally took one word of what she said and created a double ad-hominem attack, but who's he to decide who looks masculine or feminine? Seriously.
Vinca
(50,271 posts)onecent
(6,096 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)LesterKasai
(132 posts)Rorey
(8,445 posts):an enthusiastic and vocal supporter
:someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event
I would guess that for him it's a spectator sports cheerleader, female, of course, in a letter sweater and a tiny skirt. He's narrow minded and ignorant.
Rachel Maddow is beautiful. She isn't what some might call "girly", and there isn't a damned thing wrong with that no matter if she's gay, straight or anything else. And she is a cheerleader. The first definition.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Second, she is smart. Actually that should have been first, but still.
Finally, he is neither. He is a sausage in a suit, with vanilla pudding where his brain should be.
mnhtnbb
(31,388 posts)What makes this guy think that all cheerleaders must be "feminine" according to his standards?
Does he not remember that George W. Bush was a cheerleader when he was attending Phillips Academy?
Initech
(100,076 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)rpannier
(24,329 posts)luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)about her style. He's a dipshit with a big mouth
Wawannabe
(5,660 posts)I was pretty sure the jackass was tRump and he was in another tweet rage -which are often directed at women.
Sigh
This guy could be one of the orange elephants ass cheeks - no room to talk dude!
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)oasis
(49,387 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)bet money that Rachel's being gay is not what bothers him so much. I bet he is that kind of turd to all the women he wants but can't have, straight or gay.
Cha
(297,240 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,201 posts)trueblue2007
(17,218 posts)Last edited Sat Jun 17, 2017, 11:48 PM - Edit history (1)
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Did you mean to say a "fat" hog? I see the g and the t are not far apart on the keyboard, but geez, fix this.
Not sure we should be fat-shaming either, but the word you have here is unacceptable.
trueblue2007
(17,218 posts)I KNOW IT IS UNACCEPTABLE. I'VE NEVER USED THAT WORD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
George II
(67,782 posts)Shoonra
(521 posts)Rachel Maddow has disparaged her own looks numerous times on her program, describing herself as "mannish" and "unfeminine", and explaining that her nightly appearance in black and charcoal ("German rainbow" jackets with similar plain shirtfront is part of her own strategy to keep the viewer's focus on the news itself. So I imagine that she isn't much hurt by Graham's remark .... perhaps it even cheers her that strategy is succeeding.
That notwithstanding, I think Rachel Maddow is very good looking, in a way that even deliberate de-feminizing cannot conceal. I harbor a daydream in which she shifts her lifelong gears and somehow takes a reciprocal interest in me.
YCHDT
(962 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,190 posts)was "tall lesbian in cheap jacket".
Maynar
(769 posts)Good luck.
chwaliszewski
(1,514 posts)This gelatinous shit stain dares to insult Rachel Maddow because of her perceived 'lack of femininity', in his eyes? What a fucking douche-ka-bob. For someone who probably peels his potato in his mom's basement while watching reruns of Hee-Haw, I'd say he has no room to criticize anybody. Also, he can fuck off.
ornotna
(10,801 posts)He still has the hots for Madge. Just like dear old Dad.
He's an idiot, Rachel is a beautiful woman.
elmac
(4,642 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)snip
In 2001 and 2002, Graham served as White House Correspondent for World, a national weekly Christian news magazine. He wrote cover stories on taxes, abortion, cloning, and other issues, asked questions at briefings with Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer, and interviewed members of Congress and administration officials like then-Treasury Secretary Paul ONeill.
Graham is the author of the book Pattern of Deception: The Media's Role in the Clinton Presidency (Media Research Center, 1996), which critiques the media's coverage of Bill Clinton from 1991 through 1995. From 1989 to 1999, he was associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly and then bi-weekly newsletter of the MRC News Division, where he was responsible for the Study and Janet Cooke Award articles.
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Graham is a regular talk-radio spokesman for the MRC and has made television appearances on MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, The 700 Club, and PBS's This is America with Dennis Wholey.
snip
...Graham is a 1986 cum laude Honors Program graduate of Bemidji State University in Bemidji, Minnesota, where he majored in political science and minored in mass communications, and founded and edited the Bemidji Student Review, a conservative student newspaper.
http://archive.mrc.org/bios/graham/welcome.asp
Archae
(46,327 posts)(For good reason...)
For years Graham was Brent Bozell's ghost writer, all the while Bozell and Graham denied it, until it was exposed.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)paleotn
(17,913 posts)standard issue for wing nut media. Probably still pissed he couldn't get a prom date.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts),,,Trying Hard Not To Be Gay. Sad.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,120 posts)Numbskull. So anxious to insult a woman, he forgot his favorite POTUS was a cheerleader.
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)Jerry Lewis was a high school cheerleader. He never seemed feminine to me.
VOX
(22,976 posts)A real matinee idol, this fellow. And a fantastic right-wing shill to boot, if you're given the chance.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Poor fellow. Small, beady eyes. Cosmetic surgery can't help much.
He's also generally uninformed, since cheerleaders aren't just feminine. There have been male cheerleaders for decades.
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)I wish him well.
blogslut
(38,000 posts)NCAYB
southerncrone
(5,506 posts)elleng
(130,908 posts)MFM008
(19,808 posts)Ugly fat stupid white ugly republican ...
As if there was any other kind.
JHan
(10,173 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,177 posts)She makes many sounds I do not understand and she not show leg. This frightens and confuses me!
JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)I'm so sick of these point blank homely men attacking liberal women for their appearance.
He should shut his mouth. No seriously. If he shut it more and only opened it to eat a salad maybe he would get rid of that triple chin. More sit ups and pushups and chin ups and until then - Shut Up.
mnmoderatedem
(3,728 posts)and she'd turn me down of course. She's just like most people after all.