Rachel Maddow Calls Guest "Parasite Who Gets Fat on Americans' Fears"

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Rachel Maddow on Thursday told one of her guests, "I personally think that you and the folks that do what you do are a parasite who gets fat on Americans` fears."

Maybe this is what led former President George H.W. Bush to call Maddow a sick puppy on Friday.

Abdicating all journalistic standards and ethics -- what a shock for an MSNBC employee!!! -- Maddow made it clear why she was attacking Tim Phillips, President of Americans for Prosperity: "[B]ecause we`re making this about you and me."

Maddow further elaborated that some of her anger regarding Phillips's efforts to block ObamaCare is because he's "being paid to do it." 

Phillips marvelously responded, "And what are you being paid to do? To attack guys like me?" (video embedded below the fold with partial transcript, relevant section at 4:30, h/t Story Balloon, file photo):

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RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: I just want to know who you are and I want America to know.

TIM PHILLIPS, AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY: Sure.

MADDOW: And I have to tell you -- because we`re making this about you and me -- is that I personally think that you and the folks that do what you do are a parasite who gets fat on Americans` fears. And I hope that.

PHILLIPS: That`s very hurtful and disappointing.

MADDOW: I know.

PHILLIPS: You certainly have the right to say that and it`s wrong.

MADDOW: I know this sounds hurtful, that`s why I apologized before I said it, but I wanted to make sure that I want to say it.

PHILLIPS: And you`re wrong and you`re disparaging a lot of Americans who are out there fighting a good fight, Rachel.

MADDOW: But I want -- no, it`s different.

PHILLIPS: Sure you are.

MADDOW: It`s different because you`re being paid to do it. And what you`re doing.

PHILLIPS: And what are you being paid to do? To attack guys like me?

MADDOW: No.

PHILLIPS: . and David Koch and?

(CROSSTALK)

MADDOW: When you signed on -- you took money to say some really disgusting things in the past, like you did about those Chinese workers in the Marianas Island, and we know who paid you to do it then -- those guys like Ralph Reed who should have gone to prison and guys like Jack Abramoff who did go to prison. Now, you`re pushing stuff that is as disgusting and the only difference is that we don`t know this time.

PHILLIPS: Standing for the health care feelings of Americans is disgusting? Wow. That`s a fascinating way to describe.

MADDOW: No, but having speakers at your event saying that ObamaCare is like Pol Pot and the Holocaust.

PHILLIPS: I haven`t said that.

MADDOW: Right. But your speakers have and you`re organizing the event.

PHILLIPS: A speaker who has at that event that was co-sponsored by us.

MADDOW: Right.

PHILLIPS: I did not control the podium. Again, if you want to pick one out of 600 rallies, I`ve asked you to come before, come with us on the road and see these people at these events.

MADDOW: I don`t want to help promote you, Tim. I don`t. I think what you`re doing is you`re getting fat, literally financially fat on Americans` fears. And what I hope is that.

PHILLIPS: And what are you getting fat financially to do, Rachel? You`re doing it to attack us on your show.

MADDOW: To do a news show and I`m trying to tell people who you are.

PHILLIPS: A news show? Come on. Attacking us? Please.

MADDOW: And what I hope is that people stop falling for your shtick and stop being so afraid and that your industry that takes money to do this stuff and scare people and make money off it as, I think, Republican and corporate-funded thing, I hope that your industry, proverbially, starves because we stop being so afraid.

So, I feel like I got to say that to your face because it`s what`s burning under the surface while I`m asking you these questions.

PHILLIPS: I can tell that you`re pretty upset tonight.

MADDOW: I`m mad about what you do. I think you`re really bad for the country.

This is journalism today?

Heaven help us.

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.


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MADDOW: No, but having

MADDOW: No, but having speakers at your event saying that ObamaCare is like Pol Pot and the Holocaust.

Did she rip apart Grayson for saying that not going along with ObamaCare was like perpetuating another holocaust? I must have missed it.

“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)

Look, when it's a

Look, when it's a conservative gathering, the sponsors of the gathering are responsible for every speaker.  When it's a liberal gathering, the sponsors are simply following the right to freedom of speech of each of the speakers, and have no responsibility for what they say.

Liberals are really good at trying to force conservatives to "distance themselves" from every objectionable comment from another person.  All the while defending any other liberal's right to free speech without repercussion.

 

 

Now that is One Sick Puppy

Poor poor Rachel. She is blind to her own hypocrisy. It must be hard when you are blinded by the false illumination of your own percieved celebrity. The argumant was without any logic at all.

Now that is "One Sick Puppy"

Rachel is off her meds

Rachel is off her meds again.

Rachel Maddow

Since very few people actually watch her program, I doubt if it will do any harm to Mr. Phillips.  Maddow is a pathetic excuse for a member of the journalism community, but what the heck, she works for NBC.  What else would you expect from a bunch of clowns, derelicts, and stooges.

I'll bet Maddow has a larger

I'll bet Maddow has a larger audience through this website than she does through MSLSD.

wow...

I scrolled down here to post just that.

 Maddow......Well I am

 Maddow......Well I am sorry I am about to do this, then gives him a swift kick in the uh you know.

I don't want to come to a rally and support you or your cause.

 but you do one better and have Mr Phillips apear on your tv show.  Maddow was holding the door when brains were handed out.

→ Thank you Rachel

I can only say "thank you" to Rachel Maddow and Partner for saving two men from a fate worse than death. 

Wow...Maddow looks like

Wow...Maddow looks like someone's beardless dad in those pics (yech).

Beard the faceless one

lol.. funny. 

An observation.. Maddow is a sellout. Why does she at least attempt to look 'feminine' on TV, but manly off camera? Is she ashamed of her 'lifestyle'?

I'm sure msDNC wouldn't mind her 'serving openly' on their network. 

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

ROCK~~

She's not really a girl, she just plays one on TV.

→ Keyser

Please don't tell me there's a Rachel Maddow stuffed animal too. 

Cool~~

This would have to be the closest one. Oddly enough, these are all available here (this is why I didn't want to mention last night where I found these pics...)

I Agree!!

Every time she is on a talk show, she's her "real self".  Big, ugly glasses and flannel shirts with no makeup.  Is she afraid she'll scare off some viewers if they saw her for who she really is?? (Insert Chris Matthew's voice...HA!!)

ROCK, think about this

Here's a question, now that I've seen those pictures and of course, how different she looks on TV, how long is she in the makeup chair to make such a difference in her appearance?

Talk about "Holy crap!" 

It's really true that liberalism is not only a sickness of the mind, but it does terrible things to the body.

-Jon

that was NOT for the squeamish, ca

Holy hemorrhoids, Batman -- no branches left in the 'ugly tree' after that pair fell...

Was that Beau Bridges....?

It sort of looked like him.

 

" if Republicans are able to stop Barack Obama on health care, 'it will be his Waterloo, it will break him....-Sen. Jim DeMint

Poor Ms Maddow

Her diet seems to be rich in misplaced hate.

Hi ho Petard!

Oh, so Rachel's up on her High Horse, er, I mean, Unicorn Petard again, railing on about things she has no means of abiding by. Put a shirt on Rach!

Sounds like more Projection

Sounds like more Projection on Maddow's part.  How about the obese rent seeking parasites like the AARP who stands to reap hundreds of millions of dollars via the sale of Medigap insurance IF ObamaCare is allowed to cancel Medicare Advantage.  This is an MSM coverup for all the Democrat cronies who stand to make money hand over fist on every Democrat initiative.  Al Gore and Obama's buddies who created the Carbon Exchange in Chicago stand make billions on Cap & Trade.  And then there's GE who contributed millions in campaign contributions to Obama and his fellow Democrats who stands to reap millions for so called Green initiatives that otherwise would NEVER be cost competitive under any reality.  We all know who gains from illegal amnesty, the Democrats from a new pool of voters, all of this at the expense of the taxpayer.

The MSM themselves are angling for their own bail out, more billions into the pockets of Obama supporters!!!  This is blatant corruption. Maddow might just as well just put on a fedora while hawking the virtues of the Mafia.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.

Ah, the preemptive apology makes it okay.

"I know this sounds hurtful, that`s why I apologized before I said it." See what you've done, Dubya, with your preemptive war in Iraq?

 I mentioned this before. Rachel Madcow look a lot like Ron Reagan Jr. I don't think I've ever seen them together in the same room or photograph. You don't think they're the same? Hmmm. Nahhhh. Well, maybe. She's never denied it, you know. I'd ask Ed Schultz, but he's still busy defaming Rush. And Sanchez went home to get a drink to calm his nerves after his drive-by collision with truthiness.  

I don't care

I don't care if someone is a lesbian or how fat they are, etc., but in her case, I don't like the authoritative and adamant statement and restatement of absolute nonsense as fact and done deal. She always sort of ends with a "so there" face that seems to say, "OK, we can move on now, everything is settled." 

             Ma

             Maddow is a sick, sick womanman.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Maddow a journalist?

 MADDOW: I know this sounds hurtful, that`s why I apologized before I said it, but I wanted to make sure that I want to say it.

What clap trap. "I wanted to make sure that I wanted to say it". What the hell does that even mean? I'm glad to see that someone with integrity is finally calling out these MSNBC clowns. She can get paid to berate and demonize GUESTS on her show, but you cannot get paid for putting forth your own cause. Everywhere you turn is liberal hypocrisy. I would hope that all conservatives and Republicans take a look at this tape and just stop appearing on MSNBC.  

 

President Obama is nothing more than a lying empty suit; a Hollywood
style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to
be a total fraud.
 

WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION! 

Tim Phillips

He should have addressed that controversial speech by saying it was a high brow joke and Maddow doesn't have the intellectual depth to recognize irony.

Seems to work for Democrats.

He Should Have

said...Do you realize that you work for a company that provided materials to Iran when it was prohibited for american companies to do business with that dictatorship??

Maddow "News"

So she makes believe that she is "News", not opinion. NBC needs to correct that or it sullies their whole news system. Or if their going to let her falsify they need a disclaimer before and after the show.

 I know: simple argument.

" NBC needs to correct

" NBC needs to correct that or it sullies their whole news system."

You're new here, aren't you? :) 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

→ Ain't that the truth?

NBC won't even report on an American Corporation that provides aid to our enemy, Iran.

Of course that would also be the parent company of NBC. 

new here?

Just nuance-challenged. Hey: that's self-referential!

Well....

 

It could be viewed as improving the quality of news coming out of nbc...

 

Is it wrong to use the word 'news' in the same sentence with 'nbc'?

http://gjresult.com

 

Yet, once again, why do

Yet, once again, why do these conservatives insist on going before these kangaroo courts masqerading as news shows? It doesn't advance our cause one iota (it's not like Maddow's hard core liberal audience will be swayed). It just gives MSNBC some appearance that they have on both sides and provides them with cannon fodder to give their loon audience something to cheer over. 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

Norman, you are correct.

It's a waste of time. 

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Maddow"s pure cowardice

She invited the guy on for one reason: to embarrass and humiliate him. She controls the microphone. If the guy humiliates her, she knows it won't be aired. If she talks over him and browbeats him, it'll be aired, but if he does the same to her, she'll cut off the microphone.

What a brave journalist, on such a brave network!

Why listen to cowards?

I love this website because

I love this website because I would never have watched this interview and known who Tim Phillips is.  Now I know who he is and think the way he handled himself was top notch.  He had a lot of class in his dealing with Maddow and not let her get away with her crap.

I'd also like to know what the left has against inheriting money/business's?  She made the comment about David Coke (sp?) inheriting a chemical/oil company.  Why isn't it a problem that the Kennedy's inherit wealth?  Why should the government get what I've earned after I've died? 

Msndc

Unless you have the balls of a Tim Phillips I can not understand why any conservative would appear on this network. 

 

 

Hmmm...think about it

This gal was supposedly a Rhodes scholar, but a former US president has now called her a sick puppy--catching any sort of clue, Rachel? Or is any publicity great for you?

What's Rachel's label?

Wow, Rachel calling another person a parasite? I can just imagine the label she wares when she gets within five miles of an all-girls school.

"I`m mad about what you do.

"I`m mad about what you do. I think you`re really bad for the country."

The irony of this remark coming from Rachel Maddow is priceless.  Perhaps Maddow would do well to reflect on how many Americans feel about her brand of "journalism".

Why?

Jerry Mack - "Unless you have the balls of a Tim Phillips I can not understand why any conservative would appear on this network. " 

To drive her into a raging fit of jealousy...

 

Sorry, got ahead of myself there.

Talk about the kettle calling the pot black

who is fear mongering more than the Dems, Libs and MSM?  Bush and Obama both got bills past without reading them because of fear mongering.  TARP and The Stimulus cause more harm than good.  this is why our debt tripled in the last year.

Here's a fact that's worth the knowing, So treasure and mark it well.  When the mind is through with growing, the the head begins to swell.             Sir Nosmo King

Yep,

But yet it looks like their not finished.

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

It's always great to hear the lefties complaining about

scare tactics as they claim the world will be consumed by a cataclysm of floods, storms, epidemics, and dying everything if we don't pass their Cap and Trade.

Insincere apology

I know this sounds hurtful, that`s why I apologized before I said it, but I wanted to make sure that I want to say it.

If you know it's hurtful and you want to be certain that you want to say it and then do it, why apologize? It's insincere because you don't really feel sorry at all.

Rachel Maddow? Rabbid Madcow is more like it.

Parasite Winner Number one

would be Al Gore, he has not only made millions as a climate fear monger but just got $500plusmillion dollars from the US Govt to help his green car industry in Europe.

Al Gore didn't need that money why did they give it to him? it is like giving Obama a Nobel prize.  it is not for things that are done but for fantasies of things yet to happen.

 

Here's a fact that's worth the knowing, So treasure and mark it well.  When the mind is through with growing, the the head begins to swell.             Sir Nosmo King

Madcow

Wow, sounds as if Madcow had a fight with her wife last night!