Comrade Maddow Derides Huffington Post for Insufficient Ideological Fervor
Something tells me that future Huffington Post coverage of Rachel Maddow will be a tad less adulatory.
In a remark on her MSNBC show last night that has to be heard to be believed, Maddow mocked the influential liberal website for ... not being liberal. Seriously, Maddow really said this.
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En route to this peculiar observation, Maddow criticized lack of media coverage of hostile constituents confronting Republican congressmen over a proposed GOP budget that would slash spending by $4 trillion in the next decade, cut the top corporate and personal tax rates, and overhaul Medicare.
Of those few media outlets covering the contentious public forums, Maddow said, not all are dutifully leeward --
You would not know that this was happening all across the country if you just read the Beltway press or watched most cable TV right now. It's only thanks actually to liberal websites like Think Progress and Daily Kos and thanks to reporters like Jason Linkins at Huffington Post which used to be liberal but who knows anymore.
Maddow didn't elaborate, so it's anyone's guess what she was referring to. (Arianna Huffington's labor troubles come to mind as a possibility).
With Huffington Post not liberal enough for Maddow, where does that put her on the spectrum?
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So HuffPo is no longer "politically reliable"?
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 9:32pm.
Wonder when Maddow will get around to whining that her employer is not sufficiently left wing for her tastes? Guess the example of Olby is inhibiting her from doing that.
Rest Assured Comrades
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Sun, 04/24/2011 - 10:17am.
HuffPo staff will be purged from The Party and removed to the Gulag immediately. All HuffPo writings will disappear. All HuffPo staff will be airbrushed (we do not use capitalist photoshop) from official photos - they will cease to exist. HuffPo will cease to exist.
Eating your own
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 9:53pm.
Well, we have some here on NB denouncing some conservatives as not "real conservatives" because of a statement they have made, one position they have taken, or not fully supporting some favorite conservative candidate of theirs. It finally gets to a point that no one is conservative or liberal enough for others. I doubt that Jesse Helms, if alive today, would be sufficiently conservative for some,
Chris
Submitted by MightyMouth on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 11:37pm.
I think that most of us would vote for anyone right of Stalin. That is if such a candidate presents himself/herself.
I don't know MM, I read a lot
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 11:53pm.
I don't know MM, I read a lot of comments accusing conservatives like Charles Krauthammer and Karl Rove of being "RINOs", just because they weren't enthralled with the candidacy of Christine O'Donnell. I have seen "RINO" bandied around so much that it has lost it's meaning. Some people here use the term not only against Republicans who over the years have proven to be wobbly or even liberal, but against some usually reliable conservative vote who might support just one thing that wouldn't be considered orthodox in pure conservative terms.
How many times was it written here that John McCain (who I did not support in the primaries) would be "just as bad as Obama"? Oh, would he have been? That's why I scratch my head when I read Chris Christie being hailed as a "conservative" hero because he has fought back against the liberals trying to destroy him, When some of the people who admire him now learn of some of his more liberal social views, they will denounce him as a "RINO". No, this drive for ideological purity exists on both sides.
As Herman Cain and Mark Levin have said
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 04/24/2011 - 12:00am.
7 out of 10 is a home run, if you wait for the perfect candidate/pundit, your gonna be sol.
I totally agree, but in the
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sun, 04/24/2011 - 12:30am.
I totally agree, but in the run up to the last elections (2008 and 2010) there are more than a few on these threads who demand an 11 out of 10. I have argued with many of them, Before 2010, Karl Rove was considered a hero, after his comments regarding Christine O'Donnell and her chances of winning the DE senate seat, you'd have thought he was James Carville from several people here. He is still denigrated frequently.
Chris, the Christie
Submitted by MightyMouth on Sun, 04/24/2011 - 12:07am.
example is noteable as normally I Love the opinions of Ann Coulter who is a Christie superfan. In this case I think Ann is wrong, we CAN win without Christie (and probably should) for two reasons:
1. Christie is much fatter than Obama, a point that will be drilled by the MSM
2. Christie is a fat white guy, whearas Obama is not fat, but sort of a black guy, which will be drilled by the MSM.
Hence, Christie loses, per the MSM. So in short, the MSM will determine the next POTUS. (just like last time)
It didn't' surprise....
Submitted by saintknowitall on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 9:44pm.
...... the 6 people that were watching her show.
Liberal enough?
Submitted by Stevenbiot on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 9:59pm.
As long as there are still a dozen or so adult viewers of these liberal media sources, they need not worry about being liberal enough.
It's A Bottom Line Thing
Submitted by rammingspeed on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 10:06pm.
One thing has happened to Huffington Post: Conservative websites - like NB - have been linking their readers to posts on the Huffington Post. Many of those people have joined and been adding conservative commentary. The regular lefty Huff Posters are livid. My guess: Now that AOL runs things, they may demand a broader base of contribution in order to attract more Huffington Post followers. You know, to MAKE MORE MONEY. And stuff like that.
Speaking of making money
Submitted by zenman1661 on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 10:19pm.
Speaking of making money, rammingspeed, you gotta wonder how long Comcast will wait with her low ratings and replace her with a show that will get a larger audience. And that means a show that appeals to larger group then the far left zealots who watch her.
I just don't get it
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 10:42pm.
Just out of curiosity, how did the Huffington Post (forget it's crazy nasty liberal content) become so valuable? There are many web sites devoted to liberal or conservative commentary. How did it rise above the rest? Let's face it - Ariana Huffington, despite being infamous in conservative circles and a guest on the limited view Bill Maher show, is hardly a household name. I never quite understood how she made it into a commercial enterprise that people would fight over.
"...how did the Huffington
Submitted by celator on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 11:19pm.
"...how did the Huffington Post (forget it's crazy nasty liberal content) become so valuable?"
Soros's money and media machine.
Okay...
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 11:25pm.
I guess I'm naive, but it just doesn't seem possible that a politically ideological web site could become financially valuable - especially when all other openly liberal politcal media - Air America, Newsweek, MSNBC, etc. have been financial disasters.
Yea, I agree. Soros is not
Submitted by celator on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 11:34pm.
Yea, I agree. Soros is not seeing Huffy Puffy as a profit center, though (I wouldn't think). It's just another tool to spread the kind of chaos--social, information and economic philosophy--he has spent a lifetime generating.
Yet, how much is she selling
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 11:57pm.
Yet, how much is she selling it for? What do you call it when someone deliberately agrees to pay way over value for something?
Thanks Rachael
Submitted by Boil It Down on Sun, 04/24/2011 - 4:06pm.
Arianna should send Maddow a thank you note for an 'ever so slight' improvement in Huffington Post's credibility due to Maddow's statement. She should also be grateful for Maddow putting a little bit of distance between HuffPo and the likes of The Daily Kos and Think Progress, even if it is only a perceived distance. -bidn-
there was a glimmer of hope on this huffpo sentiment
Submitted by OffTheLows on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 11:04pm.
a story on Sandy Springs with video from Reason.tv made it to the front page:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/22/sandy-springs-georgia-privatize...
though the comments suggest the story was equivalent to shining a bright light in a room full of vampires.
That's why she's called
Submitted by batcat on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 11:38pm.
That's why she's called MadCow.
Christie is out of the
Submitted by sablegsd on Sun, 04/24/2011 - 12:56am.
Christie is out of the picture for me because he appointed a muslim to the bench.
I cannot and will not forgive that.
Wow.
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sun, 04/24/2011 - 12:51pm.
Wow.
The Left
Submitted by JPP on Sun, 04/24/2011 - 1:42am.
When the left start going after each other I rejoice and ask if I can provide assistance.
Maddow's so delusional, that I miss Keith Olbermann.
Submitted by Rush Fan on Sun, 04/24/2011 - 7:42am.
Okay. Okay. I'm joking! I'm joking! :-)