Rachel Maddow: Fox Is All About Electing GOP, But MSNBC Has No Political Objective!
In an interview with Slate.com, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow unloaded the bizarre claim that Fox News is "operating with a political objective to elect Republican candidates," but MSNBC doesn't resemble that in any way.
"I think the thing that is underappreciated about MSNBC is that we don't really do anything as a company, that we all sorta get to do our own thing," she claimed. "There may be liberals on TV at MSNBC, but the network is not operating with a political objective."
I think that the new model in cable in news broadcasting is that when you hear a host talk, you are expecting that they are saying exactly what they believe...We are actually saying what we think. We are not playing a role. We are not being fake-objective. We are not being directed in political talking points in any way. That it’s us. That means management has to be hands off with all of us, because in order for you to believe that The Rachel Maddow Show is saying what this person named Rachel Maddow believes, there can’t be anybody else telling me what to say. So that’s the rule with everybody. Everybody gets to say their own piece.
Slate's Jacob Weisberg unspooled the usual liberal attack line: "There’s no Roger Ailes moving the chess pieces around with the goal of advancing the conservative cause, you know ‘Glenn Beck, you’re good for the cause,’ ‘Nope, you’re not good for the cause any more. You’re out.’ He somehow ignored that MSNBC dumped Keith Olbermann (like Beck left Fox), or that all around Maddow, they've moved the chess pieces of Ed Schultz and Larry O'Donnell.
Maddow played along. "Yeah. That’s exactly right. We are not, we, there may be liberals on TV at MSNBC, but the network is not operating with a political objective. Whereas Fox is operating with a political objective to elect Republican candidates, and particularly, to elect Republican candidates Roger Ailes likes. I think Roger Ailes is a really good TV executive, but their operation is essentially a political operation to elect Republicans."
Weisberg asked if the network was a propaganda channel and if liberal journalists should refuse to appear on Fox News and help it out, since it's apparently not real journalism (like Newsweek when Weisberg was there?) Maddow seemed to agree with that boycotting idea.
MADDOW: I don’t think that the Republican Party calls Fox in the morning and tells Fox what to do. I think that Fox essentially starts broadcasting every day and the Republican Party takes their cues from them. I think that Roger Ailes is a Republican political operative, but that the arrows go from him out, not toward him. I can’t imagine him taking direction from anybody. He doesn’t need to. I mean, who’s going to call him? Reince Priebus? [Laughter] Really? Tell Roger Ailes what to do? I don’t think it works that way.
WEISBERG: It’s the other way around.
MADDOW: Yeah. So you have to consider if you’re going to make a decision to help Fox out, to get more people to watch them, and to validate what they do by being there, you have to decide if you want to be part of their project, and their project is to elect Republicans, and to move the Republican Party right on specific issues that Roger Ailes cares about, and Rupert Murdoch cares about.
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Rachel Maddow
Submitted by NewLife56 on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 12:22am.
No Objective at MSNBC?
Good Grief this womans nose will grow into Outer Space. I guess it's come to the point of just simply lie with every word out of their Mouths now, then again, that's all they have been doing there for 2 years now
Don't remind her on how she
Submitted by kg on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 1:50am.
Don't remind her on how she promoted the WI Republican recall elections while barely mentioning the Democrat recalls. Her coverage was run like a Presidential election with all the bells and whistles. Also don't reminder there is no Presidential Democrat primary.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
Which is funnier
Submitted by NotFondOfLibs on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 12:28am.
It's a tough call to decide which is more absurd, Maddow's comments or her clothes.The characters on "The Big Bang Theory" have a better sense of style than this boring nitwit.
When did Fred Savage get
Submitted by okie-pastor on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 12:34am.
When did Fred Savage get glasses?
Excuse me for being petty,
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 2:00am.
Excuse me for being petty, but does this woman keep get emails from GLAAD telling her she doesn't look enough like a man yet?
It's A Tie!
Submitted by miss911ninja on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 1:47pm.
I think she and her look-alike Ron Reagan Jr. are now tied for looking like a man!
I think s/he borrowed them
Submitted by FishFace222 on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 9:34pm.
I think s/he borrowed them from Lester Holt.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=lester+holt&view=detail&id=541F1E9B1...
Talk about wild conspiracy theories...
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 12:35am.
Roger Ailes is controlling the GOP?
I guess Maddow "forgets" about the meetings MSNBC reporters had with Obama at the White House, or the talking points sent to Mika on Morning Joe.
I don't which is more frightening, that she's outright lying or that believes what she says.
Well, Ms. Rad - these MSM
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 12:48am.
Well, Ms. Rad - these MSM types take their cues from their main 'man' (I'm thinkin' that Maddow is more of a man than Barry) Barack Hussein Obama - who is the KING of 'outright lying AND beleiveing what he says'!!!
By the way - Hauoli Makahiki Hou..............Happy New Year. The surf was beautiful today - 8-12' and classic Hawaiin conditions.
killa
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 11:03pm.
Happy New Year to you. Weather in PA today was classic Pennsylvania conditions, cold, windy, damp, and cloudy. But at least Obama isn't from here.
I actually laughed out loud when I saw this...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 1:11am.
Maddow's statements are beyond absurd...I wonder what color the sky is in her world? If she only knew how ridiculous she sounds when she says bs like this. And along the lines of what you said Rad, I don't know whether she's lying, or that she truly believes what she says...My hunch is the latter is probably the case, and that's truly sad.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Of course she believes, it
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 8:45am.
Of course she believes, it Sky! Like all lefties, she believes they are all "right" and the Right is wrong.
Like all lefties, she believes they are "non-partisan," as opposed to conservatives, who live on partisanship.
As for MSNBC, they just hire the best people around. it's just "coincidence" that all their hosts do[ing] our own thing are all the same.
<snort>
Maddow answering the age old question:
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 12:45am.
Maddow: "Ummm, is Shinola the one that comes in a can?"
Seriously, Rich? er Rach?
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 12:50am.
"but the network is not operating with a political objective" she whined about PMSNBC. Yet, their new ads, which NBC is inflicting all over DirecTV, each and every "news" person they have speak, advances the liberal, democrap talking points. Yeah, no political objective there, right Richie, er Rachel?
Oh yeah. No one tells her what to say.
Submitted by NeoKong on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 12:57am.
They tell her what NOT to say.
Solyndra.
Fast and Furious.
No budget in two years.
Crimes from OWS.
Obama's big donor billionaire buddies.
Real unemployment numbers and so on.
Tim, please!
Submitted by Lord-come-soon-... on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 1:10am.
We know what Maddow looks like. Please stop running his picture with these stories. Do you own stock in Alka-seltzer or something?
Not one ounce of credibility
Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 1:14am.
Maddow is out of her mind. The NBC news room's only purpose is to support the Democratic Party. Because FOXNEWS provides at least some semblance of fair reporting maybe a flaming liberal like Maddow has a hard time seeing the forest through the trees.
Just more proof that liberals
Submitted by robert108 on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 1:19am.
Just more proof that liberals have to lie constantly, since the truth is not on their side.
Taking Will Rogers too far
Submitted by Russian55 on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 1:20am.
Maybe Rachel Maddow is buying the old line from Will Rogers ("I don't belong to an organized political party, I'm a Democrat") seriously?
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Those who beat their swords into plowshares will end up plowing for those who kept their swords in the first place!
MOOOOOO!
Submitted by ironhead4099 on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 1:23am.
Wow, the madcow is at it again! The really sad part is that this dumbass believes what she says is true. I'm sure those coke blttles he wears on her nose are actually blinders, and not glasses.
MessNBC get's most their material from far-left extremist blogs
Submitted by OxyCon on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 1:33am.
Markos Moulistsas is MessNBC's "Roger Ailes" and Ezra Klein's "JournOlist", in whatever it's present incarnation is, is responsible for the rest of the political material.
...and, the earth is flat and
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 2:03am.
...and, the earth is flat and she looks like a woman
Justin Bieber look-alike?
Submitted by smitty195 on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 2:02am.
The lesbians LOOOOOOOVE Rachel Maddow. It's like a cult, or a club. They ALL tune in and listen to every word she speaks. They think she is soooo smart and soooo politically savvy. I feel like I'm living in the Twilight Zone, because I have watched her show, and she doesn't know what the hell she's talking about. The majority of the time, she's just flat wrong. At least Newsbusters monitors her and points out many of her errors. I just feel sorry for the staff member that has to watch her show, because I can't stand her voice--I'd rather listen to fingernails scraping the chalkboard.
I guess this fish doesn't
Submitted by amyshulk on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 2:05am.
I guess this fish doesn't realize she's all wet, huh?
Ronald Reagan
Her doctorate is less valuable than toilet paper.
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 2:06am.
For someone who earned a doctorate in political science (probably thanks to politically correct demographics), she is remarkably stupid and short-sighted about the political bias in her own network. Good Lord! What will it take for Rage-hole to finally realize she's nothing but a endless voice recorded loop of liberal propaganda?
Doesn't Rachel Maddow meet
Submitted by shannon76 on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 2:22am.
Doesn't Rachel Maddow meet with the President in the White House?
Didn't Chris Matthews say it was his job to make sure Obama succeeded?
Doesn't Zakaria (as in Fareed) give Obama foreign policy advice and promote Obama every chance he gets?
And, of course, there is the obvious...most journalists voted for the man and they want to see him do well.
And let's not forget Sharpton
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 4:03pm.
Watch his program (if you can stomach it) and note how many times he refers to Democrats as "
we" and Republicans as "they."
Add Special Ed Schultz to the coffee-with-the-President club.
Maddow's self-contradictory denials have become a matter of course at MSNBC, and that may partly explain why its audience is the size that it is.
(I believe Zakaria's show is on CNN, not MSNBC, but he'd dovetail nicely in their evening line-up.)
Rachel rachel rachel
Submitted by Jersey Girl on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 5:18am.
Some people will do or say anything to get a mention on Newsbusters!
You gotta wonder
Submitted by panzerakc on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 6:39am.
what kind of drugs MSNBC passes out at their staff meetings.
Wow
Submitted by Nonanon on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 6:58am.
When you look at truth and reality, you notice liberals/Democrats/progressives/whatevers are nowhere to be found. And lately they are rocketing away from them at breakneck speeds. The stuff they say is just lies! As addressed earlier, do they actually believe these things they say? They not only will not criticize sin but actually promote it.
They keep trying to push Fox news as conservative propoganda while ignoring the multitudes of Democrat campaign machines formerly known as news agencies like ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, NPR, NYT, Time, Newsweek, etc., etc., etc. which are constantly documented on sites such as NB.
Ahhhhh
Submitted by donabernathy on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 7:30am.
I can picture this scunt standing on the train platform, pencil in hand, all Mengele-like deciding who goes where. Welcome to America.
roflmao
HE doesn't
Submitted by BBallleaper on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 8:06am.
speak for me!
Wow. It's only 7 AM
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 8:09am.
and I've already seen the Howler of the Day.
Everything is going to come in second after this!
Maddow Needs A Dose Of Reality
Submitted by Bourbeau on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 8:30am.
Let's give her the cable version of "waterboarding" - tie her to a chair and make her watch one week of
MSNBC programming, non-stop, then give her the political bias quiz. The sad thing in reading something like this is the realization that people like Maddow, have the station to make comments like this without being challenged directly. We wonder why our politicians feel emboldened to ignore the electorate. It's not hard, they realize they can spew whatever nonsense the want to rationalize their stupidity and are rarely challenged. Case in point: look at any presser for Boehner, Pelosi, McConnell or Red on anything. They stand their with their lapdogs behind them, spew their nonsense, and there's barely a question. Huh? This is our goverment and we permit this nonsense, whether it's MSNBC or the Congress; and we deserve what we get.
The quote is: "I think the
Submitted by TheHistorian on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 8:43am.
The quote is:
"I think the thing that is underappreciated about MSNBC is that we don't really do anything as a company, that we all sorta get to do our own thing," she claimed. "There may be liberals on TV at MSNBC, but the network is not operating with a political objective."
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/01/01/rachel-maddow-fox-all...
Rachel, look at your coverage and answer a question: If MSNBC is not partisan, when was the last time you covered the Tea Party, conservative issues, and Republican campaigning in a positive light? When was the last negative coverage you did on President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, liberals, and Democrats?
Every one of you on that network is a liberal (except Joe Scarborough on rare days). Your pitch is just like that of the rest of your network. When you look at it, your network is so skewed liberal and Democrat that it shows the liar that you are in other subjects as well. You convicted yourself and your network by your own words, Rachel.
Dennis Prager
For a moment, when I saw the picture.......
Submitted by richard on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 8:58am.
...I thought Keith was back, a few pounds lighter. Now that Chaz and his girlfriend have broken off, maybe he and Madcow can hook up and play switcheroo back and forth, and determine what role fits them best. Come to think of it, wouldn't this make a great reality tv series? Certainly would be better than the Kardashians.
They believe this
Submitted by gwalt on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 9:50am.
Yes they believe they are being fair and objective. I asked my cousin who has worked at CNN for years why they are so biased and ludicrously claim they are down the middle and objective.
He said they really really really believe they are being fair, honest and impartial. Really? my F-inlaw believes Tom Friedman "opinions" are fact.
Liberalism is a mental disorder. I sincerely believe that. Really.
"A lot of briefing for a 2 hr. special with Dan Rather. Saw the show & wonder why we bothered". Ronald Reagan
Hahahahahahah
Submitted by ant on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 10:12am.
I saw, just as one example, every moment of that rabid, fat dog Ed Schultz hunkered down in the Wisconsin Union grievance camp last year. And if that's objective reporting, I'm Brad Pitt.
So "Lean Forward" must mean????
Submitted by dopeandblame2012 on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 10:51am.
MSNBC has a promotional campaign with a tagline of "Lean Forward". They promote their own network as being progressive/liberal and then Mr. Madow has the nerve to claim they don't have an agenda?
Rule #1: When a liberal speaks, you can rest assured the complete opposite is the actual truth.
maddow
Submitted by driguana on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 10:52am.
Truly amazing. This woman is not only dillusional, she is an incredible hypocrite. MSNBC worships at the altar(alter) of Obama. She is the imagined vestal virgin!
Hey Rachel...
Submitted by wahappened on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 11:07am.
go to the edge of the Grand Canyon...and lean forward!!!
queen of da-Nile
Submitted by wizardjr on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 11:10am.
I begin to believe these people in the LSM actually believe the stuff they say, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. I think they think they are truly in the main stream of America's citizens thinking. Much like other self deluded folks, they reject out of hand any polls or other evidence to the contrary.
Liberalism IS a mental disease. (and apparently it bleeds through to the surface... eeeeyuk!)
On the contrary
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 11:16am.
The media believe they are way more intelligent and worldly than those in 'the main stream of America's citizens thinking". Their mistake is in believing that most of the people in America actually look to them for what to think about the issues. Sadly, too many still do.
Who is this guy?
Submitted by StCroix64 on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 11:30am.
Who is this guy?
Wow....
Submitted by DaMama on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 11:33am.
Does Maddow really think we are that naive? Of course NBC has a political objective - to keep Obama in office at any costs! This woman is either completely blinded by her leftist liberal ideals, or she's just plain stupid.
A New Years Resolution....
Submitted by nw_pa on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 12:57pm.
Let's not worry and fret what Butch Maddow says. He's a clown.
MSNBC Has No Political Objective...
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 1:01pm.
that the mainstream media organs don't have.
I agree.
There may be liberals on TV at MSNBC?
Submitted by THBarb on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 1:31pm.
Is the Pope Catholic? Are there bears being bears in the woods?
So if I understand Ms. Maddow correctly, Fox is controlled by a conspiratorial elite and they also control the G.O.P. But her network may just have a few liberals in it?
I'll bet she thinks she is in the middle of the road. Therefore, if you are to her left, you are a liberal and not knowing too many to her left, they must be a rare breed. Anybody to the right of her must be a conservative. And conservative means conspiracy so it makes perfect sense; to her.
"Agree with me and I'll let you be. Do Not and I'll hit you with all I've got."
BTW Why does Ms Maddow always look like a man. Is that part of the FOX conspiracy or does she really look like that?
Meetings at the white house
Submitted by Benson on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 1:47pm.
Journalism is not only corrupt with their bias, they are also shallow. Perhaps the interviewer could have done a smidgen of research and asked an educated question related to MSNBCs frequent visits to the white house as a followup question. Bush would have been harpooned if the same corrupt practice happened by Fox. Lefties don't even see the absurdity in their hypocrisy
Struggling
Submitted by LarryG on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 4:40am.
Liberals are struggling with the same malady that alcoholics have to deal with everyday - denial. They are in deep denial and the incorrigible scourges at MSNBC have their enabler in the form of their employer. They are free to say any outrageous thing without recrimination which is nothing more than acquiescence on the part of MSNBC which is tantamount to endorsement.The whole organization is preposterously out of balance to the left and they are the only ones that don't see it. An enigma at best.
..
Submitted by LarryG on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 4:42am.
..
Tony Danza-Maddow
Submitted by Kleenex on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 2:26pm.
I think this hideous bull-dyke actually believes MSNBC is objective. In their minds the left is the "normal" part of society so anything that deviates from that is automatically branded as "extreme". They know their viewership is small and will never grow but as long as they can preach to the lefty choir on a daily basis they don't care.
Sputter!!!!
Submitted by Nelbert on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 2:37pm.
I just spilled coffee all over myself after reading that headline.
Holy freaking lunitard! Is he - I mean , she - really that crazy?
Ralph Madcow of MESSDNC...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 4:32pm.
...Must be trying out his night club routine for after he gets flushed from his job...
It's the new talking point from Team Obama
Submitted by frank14 on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 5:54pm.
There is no lib media bias. If you say so you are a sorehead, as Charles Krauthammer said the other day. You must accept your whacks and say "Thank you sir may I have another."
Oh Rachel
Submitted by wingnut55 on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 7:08pm.
Did she say that with a straight face? Because all I can say is: Brahahahahahahahahah.
Rachel
Submitted by Access Denied on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 7:20pm.
What an idiot she is..... and I'm being a little conservative with that statement...
M.S.N.B.C. THE TOADY NON-NEWS NETWORK
Submitted by greatj on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 11:00pm.
All of M.S.N.B.C. takes their orders from Obama and the Democratic party.They are indoctinated to hate all Republicans and Conservatives.They are all toadies.
No political agenda
Submitted by TommyGun25 on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 12:52am.
She clearly misspoke . She meant to say MSNBC has " No Coherrent political agenda"
Jimmy Durante didn't have a
Submitted by LarryG on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 4:22am.
Jimmy Durante didn't have a big nose, either.
WTF
Submitted by John21 on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 8:37am.
MSNBC is the PR department for the Democratic party and have been for at least the last decade..
These people keep telling us that they are the best and brightest in their field, why is it that everytime they open their mouths they prove their stupidity? Or, are they convinced that they are so wise that means we are so stupid that we must listen to them. Madcow is only slightly less insane than her mentor "The great Oberdouche", who has more than proven that he is commitable for any number of metal disorders.
The battle sir, is not the strong alone: it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Patrick Henry
twin
Submitted by tomolson3 on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 11:19am.
The picture in your article of this guy looks just like his butt buddy Scarborough. They were twin boys seperated at birth!! What kind of parents name ther son Rachel????
Ahhh... another well placed qualifier....
Submitted by FearMonger on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 12:52pm.
"There may be liberals on TV at MSNBC, but THE NETWORK is not operating with a political objective."
I capitalized the key words in that BFL (big fat lie). You can't really blame him/her/it... him/her/it's just repeating what him/her/it's been taught. That particular BFL is the first lesson in Plausible Deniability 101. The Master must be protected. What better way to do that than a lineup of he/she/it pawns?
You breed the dogs to be vicious. You condition them to attack fat people. You line them up all in a row and unleash them one by one, night after night. They run amok just like the barbaric savages you've trained them to be... with utter disregard for fairness or decency... but they stay consistent with their conditioning and only maul fat people. YOU don't witness any of it because YOU'VE chosen to look elsewhere (which is exactly what YOUR masters trained YOU to do).
YOU then stay consistent with YOUR training saying "I'm not responsible for the carnage allegedly caused by my pure-bred, impeccably trained attack dogs... they're just doing what dogs do! Is it my fault that they prefer to chew on fat people? Heck, I'll bet fat people taste better! Furthermore, fat people DESERVE to be gnawed more than the rest of us, right? Maybe if they weren't so fat they could run away faster...."
Of course, it could simply depend on what your definition of the word 'not' is....
another piece of the puzzle
Submitted by rowdygirl on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 12:53pm.
This sentence kind of says it all, and explains why they're so annoying.
"I think the thing that is under appreciated about MSNBC is that we don't really do anything as a company"
Tam
Now, now....
Submitted by uhohshortsonthe... on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 3:02am.
...let's not stoop to the liberal level and resort to mocking Maddow's appearance. If she chooses to look like a man, that is her choice. I just take issue with her repeated idiotic and biased statements.