MSNBC boasts Maddow has become the network's first program to beat CNN talker Larry King in more than a dozen years.
Maddow had been hosting her own show for just over four months when she sat down to talk at the Universal Hilton. This wasn't a chat about politics. It's all about her.
Stand by now for the money quote and please put down your coffee cup while reading it or risk a drenched computer screen:
MSNBC, as was the case with Air America, gives Maddow the chance to add a rare liberal voice to the dominant conservative chatter that fills cable talk shows.
Yeah, so very rare that every voice on MSNBC, with the exception of Joe Scarborough, is liberal. Shuster, Olbermann, Matthews, etc..
"Air America Radio was founded because there was nothing on talk radio that was not either sports, religious, or right-wing politics. There was no other form of politics in talk radio forever," Maddow says. "And getting that platform gave me a chance to get really good at talk radio. And I think getting good at talk radio was a great place to prep for being a good guest on TV. And prepping to be a good guest on TV ultimately prepped me to be a good sub-host.
Maddow conveniently forgets that there were hordes of liberal talk radio shows but they flopped bigtime because of lack of ratings. Jim Hightower, Mario Cuomo, Bill Press, and Al Franken among others.
As to the McClatchy headline claim about Maddow's "civility," McClatchy Watch begs to differ:
Uh, wrong. Maddow is vulgar, not civil. During the week of the Tea Parties, Maddow and fellow host Keith Olberman sneered at Republicans, in a way that was crude and uncivil. Below is a video of Maddow saying the Tea Party movement is about "tea bagging," which is an obscure homosexual practice. According to one account, Maddow used the term “tea bagging” in this clip 63 times. She means the term as a vulgar insult to the decent people who took to the streets to protest out-of-control spending (99% of whom, I'm sure, had never heard of the sexual act that Maddow is "joking" about). Watch the video to see for yourself how civil Maddow is.
Perhaps your humble corresondent is also out of the mainstream of weird liberal culture because I too have never before heard of "tea bagging" in reference to some sort of vulgar sexual act I prefer not to think about. However, it seems that Rachel, Keith Olbermann, David Shuster, and Anderson Cooper made the connection instantly.
McClatchy Watch concludes with this observation:
Call her vulgar and snide, and you'd be right on target.
The McClatchy reporter who wrote this article must have known about Maddow's crude insults -- why didn't Maddow's uncivil behavior register with him?
Perhaps it is because anyone familiar to with the obscure (to regular foks) vulgar term "tea bagging" is automatically blind to Maddow's uncivil behavior.
—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.
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This is really disturbing.
April 21, 2009 - 19:40 ET by Dan The Man 2This is really disturbing. It shows that conservatives can't get a break and will not untill we take over the airwaves. I would like to see a conservative network over free airwaves but doesn't look good. I belive it would take off just like radio.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
I might actually listen to a liberal
April 22, 2009 - 08:47 ET by Lord ErondIf they were to quote facts, not Soros manufactured spin. It's a completely legitimate on the left to point out that GWB wasn't Mr. Scrimp and Save when it came to our budget and national debt. But this huge sucking sound is not jobs going to Mexico, it's the lib treatment of Obama.
"Please get your facts right, then you may distort them as you please" -Mark Twain
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MSNBC, as was the case
April 21, 2009 - 19:41 ET by bigtimerDoubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
bigtimer
April 21, 2009 - 19:52 ET by DoktorFrankenThat was the hoot that caught my eye - "Dominant Conservative". I guess counting the media mouths is not a task for the feeble of mind.
Unless they're talking about how Conservatives dominant the ratings.
Howdy Dok... Oh yeah...I
April 21, 2009 - 19:58 ET by bigtimerHowdy Dok...
Oh yeah...I caught that too...I'm just past the point of commenting a lot with bull like this.
I wished there were a few more channels for conservatives, and one that was just for conservatives, all conservatives all the time...heheheee
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
BT
April 21, 2009 - 20:07 ET by DoktorFrankenJust look at all of the hate and attacks the one, and only, 'partially' Conservative cable channel endures. If there were any more Conservative channels the hospitals throughout the land would be filled with Leftists that experienced strokes.
Why, just thinking about it is causing me to have a case of the vapors.
LOL Dok... Heck, you have
April 21, 2009 - 20:16 ET by bigtimerLOL Dok...
Heck, you have your smelling salts with you at all times don't you...just in case....after-all, you're the Dok!
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Getting to be the Twilight Zone 24/7? Nope. We're way way
April 21, 2009 - 20:44 ET by CKA in Red State USA. . .way beyond that.
We're in an uncharted dimension in modern America and the world.
But it resembles a whole bunch the runup to the First American Revolution.
And we know what happened then and why, don't we?
CKA... Sure do...and agree
April 21, 2009 - 20:46 ET by bigtimerCKA...
Sure do...and agree with you.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
This is just one example of
April 21, 2009 - 19:47 ET by d1carterThis is just one example of why McClatchy is going out of business...the only question left unanswered is when.
D1 CARTER...
April 21, 2009 - 21:59 ET by danybhoyYou are exactly right, & I hope it's soon. I live in the TwinCities, & will party like hell when the Minneapolis Star Trib goes down. That is a McClatchy rag, & has been giving Minnesota standard leftist crap reporting for years with ZERO balance. The OpEd section bleeds all over the news section, the paper sucks. The Star Trib can die already.
I'm just curious if the NYSlimes will get bailed out by Obama because they ar "too big to fail". I honestly don't believe that they will be allowed to go defuct. They were smarter then GM & Chrystler in that they got a loan from a private person rather then from the gov't, but at 14%, what will Carlos Slim do with the NYSlimes when it's his? Hopefully he will throw Pinch out on his @$$.
"The Fairness Doctrine = Jim Crow laws for Conservatives". Jim Quinn from "Quinn & Rose"
I had never heard the
April 21, 2009 - 19:53 ET by MidAmericaI had never heard the term before either. But then, it's been a long time since I was in junior high.
Maybe they mean........
April 21, 2009 - 20:03 ET by Kingfish17Maybe they mean dominate in terms of viewership?
Civil ? Apply anything
April 21, 2009 - 20:07 ET by BlazerCivil ? Apply anything Mr. Maddow or his sister's Keith and Anderson and their little buddies, Garofalo and Perez said in the last week and apply it to a conservative and watch them frog-marched off the network's or out of Hollywood.
After reading that bit propoganda in the article by Bentley, I am truly convinced we now live in Bizarro world.
How do you get off this rock ?
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
Rachel Madcow. LOL
April 21, 2009 - 20:11 ET by Massage_Master07MSNBC boasts Maddow has become the network's first program to beat CNN talker Larry King in more than a dozen years.
WOW!! Who the hell CARES? Jump for joy when or IF you beat the lowest rated Fox News program. Until then, Shut UP. This woman is really a PIG. Plain and simple.
After watching that clip, I was thinking to myself... How would those two tw@t jockeys know ANYTHING about teabagging? LOL Could it be that they weren't always lesbo's?
Sorry people for the language, but just watching those two talking like a couple of Jr. high school girls, gossiping and giggling in the girls bathroom. Truly and totally immature, crude, rude and socially unexceptable.
MSNBC boasts Maddow has
April 21, 2009 - 20:23 ET by BlazerMSNBC boasts Maddow has become the network's first program to beat CNN talker Larry King in more than a dozen years.
Yea, well Larry's been phonin' his show in for year's, so that there's a major feat to be proud of. The guy look's and sound's like he's doin' his show from inside his casket every night.
Wake me up when she beat's Nancy Grace who's been on a nightly Casey Anthony screed for the past 9 month's.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
i'm offended by the term "tw@t jockey"
April 21, 2009 - 21:30 ET by puredmashiei much prefer the term, c@rpet munching groove gobblers.
swing hard in case you hit it.
Funny, because I alway liked goober cheese...
April 21, 2009 - 21:42 ET by R D Helm...or rug muncher, or...well, you get it.
-Dave
This coup has gone on long enough. The time to put it down is NOW.
Sorry people for the
April 21, 2009 - 21:34 ET by balboaSorry people for the language, but just watching those two talking like a couple of Jr. high school girls, gossiping and giggling in the girls bathroom.
Yes, because "twat jockeys" is the epitome of maturity, especially when you use the "@" sign instead of just spelling it.
*boink* That was the
April 22, 2009 - 06:41 ET by HockeyKid*boink*
That was the sound of yet another point bouncing, unnoticed, off of balboa's skull.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Right back atcha.
April 22, 2009 - 09:09 ET by balboaRight back atcha.
Tea bagging is derogatory
April 21, 2009 - 20:15 ET by HatedByLiberalsThis dork uses junior high language to make fun of a group of people and they call it news. The despicable crap that has been aired on MSNBC is ridiculous. Maybe MSNBC really stands for Morons Saying Nasty Boring Carp. It would account for their ratings.
Hated...
April 21, 2009 - 20:17 ET by Massage_Master07They don't "say" anything. It should be Morons SPEWING Nasty Boring Crap. LOL
Morons SPEWING Nasty Boring Crap (MSNBC)
April 21, 2009 - 20:39 ET by HatedByLiberalsThink about it. If we referred the gay day parades as butt pirate bonanzas or code pink as light ministration then we would be accused of being close minded or intolerant and raciest. But Tea Bagger is ok?? That’s the liberal media for you.
Nice acronym.
April 21, 2009 - 21:08 ET by CKA in Red State USAJust for the fun of it, just ran a three-word anagram of Rachel Maddow.
My favorite: Macho Lard Dew.
I'm Game....
April 21, 2009 - 23:03 ET by sflconHow's this (forgive the apostrophe)?
He'd Do Awl Cram
Rick Bentley and al
April 21, 2009 - 20:39 ET by TERick Bentley and al McClatchy were, no doubt, among the hundreds (thousands?) of fawning leftists in the self-described "mainstream" media who repeatedly called the vile, vulgar, obscene Rosie O'Donnell the "Queen of Nice".
Yeah, liberal voices on the TV
April 21, 2009 - 20:43 ET by c5thenAre almost as rare as pigeons in New York City. Or maybe I should have written "rats in the subway"?
Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!
www.loyaltoliberty.com
'Liberal TV Host Rachel Maddow Works for Civility'
April 21, 2009 - 21:00 ET by GalvanicIsn't Civility the name of her "life partner?"
Galv... LMAO...you are on
April 21, 2009 - 21:10 ET by bigtimerGalv...
LMAO...you are on a roll tonight.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
PJ - Your warning didn't help me. I almost fell out of my chair
April 21, 2009 - 21:49 ET by Rush Fanafter reading Bentley's asinine money quote. Bentley's perspective reaffirms my belief that not only do those on the left live in a different world then the rest of us, but that liberals are mentally challenged.
Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness has written: "liberalism is nothing more than politics practiced by someone with a mindset of a five-year-old, immature and emotional."
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Maddow conveniently
April 21, 2009 - 21:55 ET by RagamuffinFranken left for a better gig, namely the U.S. Senate. Who needs fact checkers at NewsBusters?
Rag, Airhead Amerika was already in huge financial debt.
April 21, 2009 - 22:03 ET by pahuberHis "gig" was not the reason he left AA. You are disingenuous and pretty careless with facts.
Idiot trolls GET fact checked.
April 21, 2009 - 23:41 ET by JWFIdiot trolls don't understand Al Franken left the show to run for Senator BECAUSE his show was in the pooper and was in danger of getting canceled.
Idiot trolls think they are smart but are really idiots and easily disproven by people that outclass them.
Sincerely,
a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.
(1) http://www.conservapedia.com/Al_Franken
Feelings
April 22, 2009 - 06:12 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsJWF, why are you using facts to undermine said Troll, don't you know that's unfair?
D
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Silly liberal. Franken's
April 22, 2009 - 06:47 ET by HockeyKidSilly liberal. Franken's rating were so low HE was paying AIR AMERICA to do his show. It went from startup, with normal pay arrangements, to Franken doesn't get paid, to Franken pays THEM. All as an attempt to keep a dead horse on the track.
I would agree that the Senate is a "better gig", but Franken didn't leave AA because of his Senate run. His AA run was dead long before then.
Ain't facts a bitch?
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Point of fact #1
April 22, 2009 - 08:45 ET by Lord ErondIf a liberal says it, it's 99% certain it's a lie.
"Left for a better gig"..... sheesh we need better trolls on here than this super turd
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Tea bags
April 22, 2009 - 00:06 ET by Joe CamelI heard the remarks. I immediately turned off the channel where I was working out and told my wife about it. She of course, like most in life, had no idea what that meant. Since I don't live under a rock, I knew it's meaning up front. Disguisting is not the word I would use to describe the ilk of these folks, but, I won't say it here..See that perv Mr. Hilton's remarks about Miss California to see what I think about MZZZ Maddow.
Speaking of Maddow
April 22, 2009 - 00:18 ET by lookWhat's the difference between Obama and a blond?
Bentley is an Edsel
April 22, 2009 - 00:39 ET by Lord-come-soon-pleaseBeing here in Central California I've had to endure Rick Bentley's lame writing for a long time in the Fresno Bee, the newspaper known around my house as "The Paper the dogs poop on". He consistently approves of anything to the left and criticizes anything to the right. Sound familiar? No wonder he likes Maddow. They're two boys cut from the same cloth.
Tea bagging-Now we know what is important to the liberal mind
April 22, 2009 - 00:52 ET by Cho Yi FanI guess that I am just an old and ignorant kind of guy because before the term tea bagging was over exposed on April 15th I had no idea that what it meant or that it even existed.However,after seeing the glee that Rachael "the schnozzola" Maddow, Andy 'the wiz" Cooper and David "snarky" Schuster got when using it; I can only assume that they are somehow obsessed with both the term and the deed itself. Their coverage of the TEA Party events on April 15th was not only unprofessional but completely juvenile and an embarassment to news reporting in general. I think the real problem with these folks is that FOX routinely kicks their behind in the ratings. They are plain and simple just desperate folks boiling over with envy and jealousy that even with their superior intellect and job skills they can never seem to beat the evil FOX News in the ratings. I guess life is a bitch when you work at MSNBC especially when you are living in the shadow of the greatness that is Keith Olbermann.
Well summarized. MSNBC
April 22, 2009 - 06:52 ET by HockeyKidWell summarized. MSNBC has well and truly become "The World According to Beavis and Butthead".
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
not surprised
April 22, 2009 - 07:31 ET by AJBI really not surprised that a liberal guy named Rachel knows all about some perverse sex practice called Teabagging. I could have guessed that!
Laughable as always
April 22, 2009 - 08:40 ET by Lord ErondI love it. The media dogs scrabbling for the scraps that comes with being firmly seated in last place. "The first to beat Larry King?" I could put a rotting corpse in a chair with a microphone and get higher ratings than Larry King so forgive me if I don't view that as much of an accomplishment.
MSNBC, you're horrible. This leftwing harridan is driving you into bankruptcy. Several parties will be in order when GE goes under along with the NY Times.
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