Maddow: Fox Isn't a News Channel - It's a 'McCarthyite Chamber of Horrors'
The presumptive face of the most biased and propagandist television news outlet in America had some harsh words for the media organization that bests hers in ratings virtually every hour of every day.
In a piece published by the Daily Beast Sunday, Rachel Maddow hypocritically told Howard Kurtz that Fox News has "become a McCarthyite chamber of horrors… You can't really call yourself a news channel if that's what you broadcast":
In the Olbermann tradition, Maddow is increasingly denouncing Fox, saying that Glenn Beck, in monologues about Muslims, has been "running baroque conspiracies that are designed to freak people out about bogeymen coming to get them, conspiracies that are unsupported by the facts." Fox, she charges, has "become a McCarthyite chamber of horrors… You can't really call yourself a news channel if that's what you broadcast." Maddow's repeated attacks have not provoked a response from Fox.
This coming from a woman that has recently been skewered by NewsBusters, Politifact, and the Baltimore Sun's David Zurawik for her highly-partisan, often false statements on air.
In the past ten days alone, Maddow has come under fire for a number of clearly erroneous comments she's made about the union battle in Wisconsin. Kurtz even addressed this on CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday, but failed to point it out in his rather glowing column:
While the host devours information online, stuffing printouts in thick folders, there are missteps. She touted an item on the website ChristWire urging Sarah Palin to speak out on Egypt—unaware that it was a satirical blog with such headlines as ARE FACEBOOK SEX GANGS USING "WIKILEAKS" TO TARGET YOUR TEENS? (Maddow good-naturedly confessed her error on Twitter.)
Indeed, but that was weeks ago and clearly a trifle compared to what she stepped in last Thursday when she claimed Wisconsin had a budget surplus.
As Kurtz was going to be interviewing Politifact's editor about this episode on the same day his profile of Maddow was to be published, it is quite curious why he didn't mention it in his piece.
Consider, too, that Politifact has to date reviewed eleven statements by Maddow finding four false, one barely true, three half-true, two mostly true, and only one completely true.
That means she was scored 100 percent right in only nine percent of their analyses.
And this woman has the nerve to say Fox isn't a news channel.
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It is not nerve.
Submitted by Ashrak on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 11:42am.
It is gall.
It's not gall,
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 1:15pm.
Its agenda, she is paid to obscure truth. A propagandist, in true form.
It's not gall.
Submitted by johnsonl on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 2:38pm.
She's applying everything she learned and taught as a Rhodes scholar. Just get the operation, Richard. Your days are numbered. Comcast is buying the rights to "Mr. Ed" reruns to replace your socialistic stupidity.
Senator McCarthy accused
Submitted by jdhawk on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 11:45am.
Senator McCarthy accused those in the adminstration of being communists. He was rigth. The Venona tapes later proved him right.
The "scary" threat of being a McCarthyite just isn't scary at all. Try another meme. This one isn't working.
By the way, the powder puff questioning of dimocrats and labor leaders across the country over the weekend was appalling. The often misstatement of the Republican position on the labor disputes around the country was also appalling.
Fox News can hardly be counted as conservative let alone accurately reporting the facts.
A question.....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 11:48am.
...for Mr. Maddow: How do you account for FoxNews's phenomenal ratings and PMSLSD's dismal ones? Could it be that America is, in fact, a bunch of Commie hating patriots?
Yawn...
Submitted by AgentAmerican on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:01pm.
Maddow needs a woman. That his problem.
Yikes.
Submitted by johnsonl on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 2:40pm.
That one sent a cold chill down my leg (apologies to Christine "Tingles" Matthews).
Pathetic !
Submitted by iveseenitall on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:08pm.
What can you say to this jaw-dropping nonsense. Maddow is the female version of Matthews and the rest at MSNBC. However, she does serve as a great study of the modern "liberal"--- an uniformed, ignorant, immature, hypocritical, self-loathing, intolerant,closed-minded, illogical liar. Like Obama, she's an incompentent , pouting, snarky adolescent--indoctrinated from birth with "progressive" ideas and taught to judge and hate anyone with whom she disagrees. "Liberal"? -- what a misnomer!
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal" (progressive)
That's really mean!
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 2:40pm.
Calling him the "female version" of Tingles!
As stated above ....
Submitted by Marat on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:14pm.
McCarthy was proven right. So what is the problem?
Read any left wing website or
Submitted by dennyf51 on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:16pm.
Read any left wing website or blog. The denial amongst proressives about any of their failures, including the failure to recognize they've been caught in an outright lie and won't admit, is inherent in all the posts on their sites. They continuously use media matters, the huff post and other left wing websites to "legitamize" their references and can't see the hypocracy in believing MSNBC is a balanced news organization and Fox is this right wing arm of the republican party. I am always shocked when I see one right leaning attendee on any of their shows, and usually they only get talked over or relegated to the back of the bus during conversations with the likes of chris and larry. MSNBC loses more credibility every day, and Joe Scarborough on his show today showed he doesn't have the balls to stand up for what he used to believe. Rachel and Lawrence are "on tilt" and heading in the wrong direction, the handwirting must be blatatnly on the wall at corporat HQ these days with the new management, and they're only trying to rally some numbers to prove they shouldn't lose their jobs. Good Luck, and Good Bye.
Fans of "Doonsbury"
Submitted by johnsonl on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 2:43pm.
know that when MS and C (NBC) are all taken to task in the Sunday funnies for their narcissism, hell is in definite danger of freezing over.
Is it me...
Submitted by ontheright on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:17pm.
...or is this person suffering from the SNL "Pat" syndrome?
I like the new Harry Potter
Submitted by Lipton on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:17pm.
look.
I think he's trying to effect the
Submitted by johnsonl on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 2:44pm.
"thick glasses make a man look smarter" look. He is ROCKING those frames!
Since the real criticism has been posted,
Submitted by HockeyKid on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:21pm.
I'll just ask: does the 'smartest person on MSNBC" think those glasses are supposed to lend the appearance of intellect?
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Those glasses are a Drew
Submitted by StillRight on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 2:06pm.
Those glasses are a Drew Carry look, don't you think? Kind of comical, I am expecting a punch line, but it's not coming.
I've said it before...
Submitted by Uncle John on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:25pm.
And I'll say it again.
When did Fred Savage start working for MSNBC?
Anybody: "Richie, I disagree
Submitted by Ed Gregory on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:25pm.
Anybody: "Richie, I disagree with what you say."
Richie: "Stop picking on me because I'm gay."
He/she's the embodiment of the old saying, "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS." Also, I'm pretty sure those glasses she's wearing have no lenses.
Why bother?
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:29pm.
I know you guys at NB had met her at some various events where she's come your table to chat and made it seem like she's not all that bad.
But then she goes off and spouts all this crap day after day after day if not on her show but in other places(letterman, maher, etc), when is someone going to tell it to her face to just STFU??
Does she even know she's making a damn fool of herself? Or does she really have an agenda that it doesn't matter if she's making a damn fool of herself?
God almighty, what's her deal?
-Jon
She's losing it
Submitted by Bob K on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:32pm.
Seems like she is losing it and working her way to her Olberman moment. The sooner the better.
That dude is becoming Olberman-esque.
Submitted by daddysyk on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:35pm.
And the glasses don't help. I would love to see her host a talk show with Helen Thomas and Rosie O'Donnel. The hate and idiocy would flow. And hide your daughters. Helen reminds me of herbert the neighbor from Family Guy.
When my daughter was in
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:41pm.
When my daughter was in middle school she was having trouble in math. She bought a pair of glasses with window glass in them to make her look and feel smarter. I have a feeling that's what Maddow is doing...
I wish I could tell her, it's just not working.
Yeah, how many "women"
Submitted by daddysyk on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 1:50pm.
head to the eye store and say "Give me the Barry Goldwaters."
Good quote.
Submitted by johnsonl on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 2:47pm.
"I've often thougt of joining the priesthood."
Danny the caddy
Chamber of Horrors?
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:44pm.
Have you looked in a mirror?
She happened to walk by
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 1:07pm.
She happened to walk by Schultz's dressing room when the door was open.
Rating matters = Money
Submitted by SnapTie on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 1:00pm.
Could this be like his locker room Penis size envy?
Liberals are hilarious.
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 1:03pm.
Liberals are hilarious.
For real.
Submitted by johnsonl on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 3:08pm.
I find it difficult to believe that these people can function as adults in our society.
Much of them don't
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 3:45pm.
Much of them don't apparently.
MSNBC isn't a real news
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 1:07pm.
MSNBC isn't a real news channel; it's a Stalinite Pravda propaganda machine for liberals, by liberals and with lots of lies. Maddow is a willing paid subject. Let's be factual about it, Rach.
Relax - look who MSNBC's 'face' is now...
Submitted by Slyrr on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 1:41pm.
Best thing we can do now is ignore BS-NBC and let them die the ingominuous death that they so richly deserve. We've all known for ages that this failed network is circling the drain, scrabbling at the porcelain in a vain attempt to stop themselves from being sucked into oblivion.
The proof is in the pudding. Look who they say their 'face' is now. Rachel Maddow - with her crooked teeth, 1970's hair and perpetually paralyzed right side of her lip. THIS is thier face now - the face they expect that will save them and garner them viewers.
It is to laugh. Like liberals in the TV business always do, they've glommed onto someone they feel is 'hip'. And why is she hip? She's gay - and gay is their fad du jour.
But no matter how much lipstick they put on this pig, it's still a pig. BSNBC's problem was, is, and always will be that they're liberals. They're socialits, they're communists, they're perverts, they're violent anti-establishmentarians, they're pro gay, pro abortion, anti-religion, anti virtue, anti capitalist, rebellious snobs. Their problem is that they're shills for Democrats - they're bought and paid for, lock stock and barrel. Obama owns their network through GM/Universal.
THAT is why they're foundering. People hate their lousy network, and they hate the 'personalities' they're using to whore for Obama's agenda. So it doesn't matter WHO they pick to be their 'face'. Be it Maddie-poo's twisted face, or Chrissy-boy's floppy, frothing face. They'll still be the toilet network of TV news, no matter what they do.
Everyone knows it's only because Obama is slipping them our taxpayer money under the table that they haven't gone out of business already.
Maddow and the talking points..
Submitted by Gary Hall on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 1:54pm.
Not to forget that Maddow only allows that there are "some" liberals working at MSNBC.
Noel's link to PolitiFact.com led me to check out how they were covering Glenn Beck. The very first item which caught my attention was, Rachel Maddow says Fox News 'said the New Black Panther Party decided the election for Barack Obama.' Needless to say, and thankfully, PolitiFact found Maddow's claim (not surprisingly a Media Matters' claim, as well) to be "false." The entire segment is one "Chamber of Horrors" after another.
My question is - why is this fact check item predominately placed on the Glenn Beck page rather than on Maddow's list of horrors, as the claim in question came from Maddow - not Beck?
Watching the embedded video (I can't imagine that NB didn't address this "blowhard" event) from Maddow's appearance on the Letterman Show, also reminded me of a dandy. Maddow claims that Fox News rules by issuing their own "talking points" -- something she claims that MSNBC doesn't do. I don't know whether that is true or not, however we do know that the Obama White House issues talking points, and MSNBC plays by them:
MSNBC Host [Miki] Admits To Parroting White House Talking Points
And that's probably MSNBC's best "news" show.
(;~/ gary
Now what?*
Submitted by cajun2 on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 2:09pm.
The MSM has been calling Beck a radical Islamaphobe and fear monger. This radical Imam is the same one that told Christianne Amanpour that the "flag of Islam" will one day fly over the white house. Well, let us see how the lying lefty media are going to cover this story.
They'll do what they always
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 3:47pm.
They'll do what they always do...ignore it hoping no one will notice.
If they spent as much time reporting on actual news...
Submitted by sean_m on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 2:34pm.
...rather than pointing out how 'biased' Fox News is, maybe they'd have some relevance.
Maddow...
Submitted by iveseenitall on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 3:03pm.
I doubt Maddow has ever studied McCarthyism, much less The Verona Papers or any of the history of America's fight against Communism. This "brilliant" Rhodes "Scholar" in politcal science has to make you laugh (or cry). Like Obama, she is propped up by her "liberal" pals and imagined to be something she is not. Like Obama, the girl is a below average lefty with a penchant for saying anything, true or not, as long as it toes the lefty line. It's all part of the sad story of American education and "liberal" social policy which has plagued our nation for the past fifty years. Worst of all, because of political correctness, we have been afraid to call out these snotty little twerps who walk around with smerks on their faces and have too many followers in our schools and in society in general. Ignorance truly is bliss! Eh, Rachel and Barry.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal" (progressive)
Noel...another mistake...Tsk tsk tsk...
Submitted by gopcongress on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 2:56pm.
You stated in the first paragraph...
"The presumptive face of the most biased and propagandist television news outlet in America had some harsh words for the media organization that bests hers in ratings virtually every hour of every day."
Remove the word "virtually" and you would be factually correct. Maddow has NEVER won a ratings contest with Fox in her entire career with MSNBC. Even against FNC reruns.
EDIT: Oh, I'm sorry. My bad. You meant the entire network lineup. Still, show me one instance where ANY "prime time" MSNBC show beat any Fox prime time show during the same day.
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You have it wrong again, Mr. Madcow
Submitted by blazermaniac on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 3:07pm.
The chamber of horrors, is the joke of a network, that Mr. Madcow works for.
Go easy on Mr. Maddow
Submitted by cocodrie on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 4:11pm.
He lost the mustache on his Groucho glass-nose-mustache set.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
"Maddow's repeated attacks
Submitted by QueenMum on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 4:19pm.
"Maddow's repeated attacks have not provoked a response from Fox."
As well they should not. As long as Fox ignores Maddow, she's irrelevant. And that's as it should be.
“If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." - Mark Twain
What it's worth!
Submitted by PJMan on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 7:28pm.
I'd love to see the great maddcow the roads, not traveled to well schooler, go against the dumb, dumb, dummy, [HIS WORDS] Beck, that would be an hour of fun, stop clock, one minute each, 30 sec rebuttal each for 45 min. then a truthful examination at the end of what they stated, and it should be played Nationally fore all to see, oh what fun! PS, spelling was correct!Saving Time
Submitted by Junk Science Skeptic on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 7:44pm.
Noel, Brent & Co.,
Just as we've already adopted shorthand for the so called mainstream media (MSM), or as they've come to be known recently, the make believe media (MBM), we need a few shorthand terms or acronyms to save time when discussing the monsterous level of projection that continuously spews forth from the MBM and the DNC.
I realize that electrons are cheap, but in any given three-month period, you guys will typically report on 3-4 dozen separate instances of leftist projection taking place on a national or global stage. Madcow's latest rant being a case in point.
Think of the time you could save. Do it for the poor overworked electrons. You don't hate electrons, do you?
Do we really need to listen
Submitted by Armymom on Tue, 03/01/2011 - 12:01am.
Do we really need to listen to a liberal lesbian MSM mouth piece?