2016 Postmortem
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What pushed us completely over the edge was her absolutely deliberate misrepresentation of Bernie Sanders response to Trumps obscene punishment for women abortion comments. She went running back to Hillary Clinton for a comment faster than Ann B. Davis sharing the latest gossip with Sam The Butcher.
Yet even Maddows didactic yammering is preferable to the cackling adulation with which she showers Brian Pseudo-Pith Williams. Williams, who is unqualified for any television work beyond extolling the virtues of Rodent Sheriff, truly loves him some him. He is to journalism what Edward R. Murrow was to the spit take. Watching Maddow match her facial expressions to whatever banal dreck cascades from Williams gob is like watching the Huntley-Brinkley Report as done by Wayland Flowers and Madame.
Then theres Chris Matthews, who has never employed a thought for any other purpose than to get to the end of a sentence. Though the tip jar on his desk for contributions to the wifes campaign is certainly a novel touch. Theres Mrs. Greenspan, stenographer to the liquid. Theres the once great Chris Hayes, who, like something out of Kafka, awoke one day to discover hes Morton Kondracke.
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more LOLs: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-sturdy-beggars/in-the-strip-clubs-of-joy_b_9748664.html
merrily
(45,251 posts)damned time someone started exposing them.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)"Watching Maddow match her facial expressions to whatever banal dreck cascades from Williams gob is like watching the Huntley-Brinkley Report as done by Wayland Flowers and Madame. "
"Good night, Chet."
"Good night, David."
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)I did not get that reference until you explained it.
I know, right?!
dchill
(38,505 posts)Anyone who doesn't think this is Truth to the Funniest is intellectually defunct.
- I. M. serious.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Haven't felt a bit less informed and my quality of life is much better.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Sky Masterson
(5,240 posts)Like Hillary does with her voters.
Maddow really breaks my heart. I once believe she had integrity and stood for my values.
But that was stupid.
She is just as bad as Chris Matthews who almost needed a fainting couch with his fawning of George Bush landing on the Carrier
with the Mission Accomplished sign.
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)and it's obvious. There was a time she remained an objective truth seeker, critical of Obama on many levels. But she must have gotten the same hate mail anyone who has the audacity to question Obama here receives. Message received, loud and clear. Those pieces are gone and to be forever forgotten. She got Fox'd. Though I continued to watch her, I lost respect for Rachel years ago.
Up with Chris Hayes was fantastic. As soon as I learned they were moving Ed to put Chris and Rachel back to back, I got an uneasy feeling. He started right here in Chicago and moved onto The Nation before landing a gig at MSNBC. "Gee, what will become of Chris now now that he's buttressed against Rachel?" He started living down to my expectations, so I stopped watching him months ago. Rachel? Meh, whatever. I can still watch her when she's not promoting Hillary and slighting Bernie because my expectations have been low for years. Chris, however, is really bumming me out and I simply can't watch him. If he's actually supportive of Bernie and asking tough questions of Hillary, I wouldn't know. Now that Ed's gone, everyone is a disappointment (Lawrence comes on too late so I haven't watched him during the primary).
floriduck
(2,262 posts)as a sell out long ago. She has a less than honest track record for going where the power goes, while sacrificing anyone and any sense of integrity.
CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)Not even close!
Bernie Town Hall Monday 9pm... Certainly will be a hack job to fuck him over BIGTIME... FOR HILLARY! Ain't no journalism there!
Sky Masterson
(5,240 posts)" And theres the endless cavalcade of shills from Ed Rendell to Jonathan Capehart all eager to explain how Bernie has no path to the nomination while mute on Bill and Hillarys path to integrity."
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Maybe an online petition and boycott of msnbc sponsors will help to show that Bernie fans are really really serious and they mean business! What nerve she has, eh? I mean, seriously now, who in the hell does she think she is?!
HillareeeHillaraah
(685 posts)And on television no less!
Get back to housekeeping and tending to others ...
Sheesh!
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Of course it's impossible for me to determine with 100% certainty what their true motivations are, but in my opinion, it appears to be a repetitive pattern.
HillareeeHillaraah
(685 posts)About Rachel's haircut...
But sometimes sexism can be so ingrained in a person that you don't even realize when you're being sexist.
But that's just my take ~
frylock
(34,825 posts)Teh sexisms!!1!2!
Human101948
(3,457 posts)Oh, crap! It's already dead.
frylock
(34,825 posts)It's pretty much imbedded in the pavement now.
bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)sad.
frylock
(34,825 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)I've only watched Maddow and I've enjoyed listening to her.
mythology
(9,527 posts)They are even more irrelevant than I thought. Congrats the authors can sling unfunny insults and childish name calling. The grown ups will leave this sort of temper tantrum throwing nonsense behind us.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Let's define a Rhodes Scholar, progressive, and great promoter as a TV housekeeper from the seventies. Maddow just needs to get to the cooking and laundry.
It is simply sexist to use the tireless work women often do at home as a negative. It's just as demeaning to the target.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)The revolution is here and they are going to make snarky posts about stuff and comment on things!
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....last week could have been provided to the poor?
frylock
(34,825 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)How much money did you give to feed the homeless while they were making it rain on Mrs Goldman Handcuffs?
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)I have long tried to figure out the so-called brilliance so many people attribute to Rachel Maddow, who can spend 10 minutes flapping her arms and cocking her head and grinning while pontificating on something of no importance as if she just discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls. I'm glad to see somebody else noticed her adoring gazes at Brian Williams, which put Nancy Reagan's in the shade. The first time I saw her do it, I wondered if perhaps Brian had converted Rachel to the other team, but when it happened every time I realized it was yet another fake affectation from Maddow.
I look forward to the day MSNBC shuts down and all of them are fired.
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Punkingal
(9,522 posts)I quit watching a couple of months ago. I imagine they are worse nos than then.
amborin
(16,631 posts)Justice
(7,188 posts)They are Bernie Sanders supporters - which is completely fine, except rather than tell us why Bernie is their guy, they employ a scorched earth policy to anyone who doesn't embrace the "Bern" as much as they do.
Really a great example of how a Bernie Sanders' supporter takes away from the good messages of Bernie Sanders.
Everyone on MSNBC was great until they didn't agree with the Long Brothers. Now apparently they are horrible.
Not very persuasive in convincing me to listen to their position.
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)HRC supporter? Well, you don't see it it.
Bernie supporter? I doubt it.
Who are the Long Brothers and why does it matter?
Reasons why we are Bernie supporters are all over DU. Kind of tells undermines your post that you haven't seen them.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)snowy owl
(2,145 posts)Wouldn't you think an anchor on a major cable news program could be informed and fair?
jwirr
(39,215 posts)up with proof. I grew up watching Walter Cronkite.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)Ann B Davis........ Jesus.
Let me guess, this person is miffed about Bernie not getting equal time or something?
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)But do it the Clinton way.
MuseRider
(34,111 posts)and I see no mention of lesbian at all. Was Ann B Davis a lesbian? If so I did not know it but when I read this I certainly saw in Rachael some verbal similarities, some facial expression similarities but lesbian never came into it. I guess I like them both, not what Rachel as turned into but certainly before she threw off the journalism part of her contract.
Somehow I just did not get that from this article, I am sorry if you did.
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)I've been trying to find a phrase since she started on MSNBC. She's the only one I never watch - not even tempted. Hayes, O'Donnell - still tempting but I've been off the dexedrine for a several years. I can't turn her off fast enough. I do painfully watch when Bernie or surrogate is on. And she devolves into absolute juvenile behavior - from gossipy trash immediately afterwards or just her usual sweet slime. That Maddow-fans can't see that is beyond me.
Williams professorial "I don't really know what I'm saying" monologues. He really needs a script. He's unwatchable as are MSNBC's post-debate panels. CNN does a good job there.
Matthews - he has devolved into outright lying. And people hear his lying as truth and bring it onto DU. Matthews- he who had a boy-crush on GWB. That's when I finally saw the light with Matthews.
Joy Reid, Kasey Hunt, and even my-most admired Andrea Mitchell have become unwatchable. But I still get tempted by O'Donnell and Hayes. I'm sorry for Hayes. He's a tool who isn't saying what he really believes. I think there's a good chance he voted Bernie.
Such blatant propaganda and expensive promotion for one candidate should have to be declared as financial support for Clinton. Why isn't it?
MuseRider
(34,111 posts)" And while it might be nice for Miss Reid to at least note the Clintons role in the systemic stripping away of social and economic justice as they grabbed millions of dollar bills with four fists, its far easier to acknowledge that the only difference between MSNBC and Fox News is hemlines."
Perfect, end of story. Sorry HRH supporters, if you are doing the boo hoo about how Bernie supporters have nothing to say good about Bernie and can only resort to this? Well it all went WHOOSH over your heads.
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)And I like Shep and Kurtz. You get a different perspective with Wallace. The rest is pretty much BS over there but I watch occasionally. MSNBC is basic BS too. Your hemline comment is right. It's like they have template for every panel. "Ok, whose legs are we going to display today..." It is distracting.
MuseRider
(34,111 posts)single show on Fox except for one O'Reily to humor my brother. I then blocked the channel.
I basically watch none of the corporate media anymore. An occasional CNN if I have to.
I understand about watching for different perspective but just cannot do it.
bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)shows. Likewise with Erin Burnett. The rest of the bunch...pfft. They're covering the same stories the same way, but I find I'm not as annoyed watching them as I am watching MSNBC.