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Maddow and MSNBC make fools of themselves on live TV
Canada Free Press ^ | 03/16/17 | Joseph Klein

Posted on 03/16/2017 8:47:03 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

The MSNBC host's "breaking story" releasing Trump's tax return on air breaks apart

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow went on Twitter Tuesday (March 14th) to hype her “breaking story”: “We’ve got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC. (Seriously).” This no doubt sent the Left into a state of delirium. Then, Maddow followed up with another tweet, lowering expectations slightly: “What we’ve got is from 2005… the President’s 1040 form… details to come tonight 9PM ET, MSNBC.” That was not quite accurate either. What Maddow finally revealed on her show, after all of her self-promotion, were only two leaked pages from President Trump’s 2005 tax return that she had received from former New York Times reporter David Cay Johnston. Johnston claimed he just happened to receive them in his mailbox. And all that Maddow managed to prove was that President Trump paid $38 million in federal income taxes on reported income of $150 million, at an effective rate of 24.5 percent, as compared to the Obamas’ payment of federal income taxes on their reported income at an effective tax rate of 18.7 percent in 2015. In anticipation of Maddow’s attempted “scoop,” the White House scooped her and released information on President Trump’s 2005 taxes before Maddow did.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: bandwidthbandit; blogbot; blogpimp; clickbait; maddow; msnbc; taxreturn; trump

1 posted on 03/16/2017 8:47:03 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony

The MSMLSD will make her out a hero (vs heroine, what ladies are) because of .....


2 posted on 03/16/2017 8:49:26 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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3 posted on 03/16/2017 8:49:39 AM PDT by Baynative ( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Hahaha...like an exploding cigar!


4 posted on 03/16/2017 8:52:30 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: Baynative

Your’s is an awesome post!


5 posted on 03/16/2017 8:53:03 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: Sean_Anthony

If you consider the Coyote is the lib media and President Trump is of course the Roadrunner this makes perfect sense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aCgSwmm5Ho


6 posted on 03/16/2017 8:54:43 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Sean_Anthony; All
—Bombthrowers: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow went on Twitter Tuesday (March 14th) to hype her “breaking story”: “We’ve got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC. (Seriously).” This no doubt sent the Left into a state of delirium. Then, Maddow followed up with another tweet, lowering expectations slightly: “What we’ve got is from 2005… the President’s 1040 form… details to come tonight 9PM ET, MSNBC.” That was not quite accurate either. What Maddow finally revealed on her show, after all of her self-promotion, were only two leaked pages from President Trump’s 2005 tax return that she had received from former New York Times reporter David Cay Johnston. Johnston claimed he just happened to receive them in his mailbox. And all that Maddow managed to prove was that President Trump paid $38 million in federal income taxes on reported income of $150 million, at an effective rate of 24.5 percent, as compared to the Obamas’ payment of federal income taxes on their reported income at an effective tax rate of 18.7 percent in 2015. In anticipation of Maddow’s attempted “scoop,” the White House scooped her and released information on President Trump’s 2005 taxes before Maddow did.

Maddow continued to spin her wild conspiracy theories While Maddow continued to spin her wild conspiracy theories about some nefarious connection between Russia and the Trump campaign or even President Trump himself, the tax documents she released on her show provided no substantiation of her charges.

The whole exercise rivaled the broadcast three decades ago of Geraldo Rivera’s hyped special focusing on the opening of a secret vault in the Lexington Hotel once owned by Al Capone. The vault turned out to be empty except for some dirt and several empty bottles. After the show, Rivera was quoted as saying “Seems like we struck out.”

Maddow also struck out, big time. She received criticism not only from the right, as expected, but also from more liberal circles. For example, a writer for “The Fix,” the liberal politics blog of the Washington Post, called the whole brouhaha over Donald Trump’s 2005 tax return “a total nothingburger.” CNN’s senior media reporter Dylan Byers‚Äè tweeted: “Disappointment for Democrats. Fodder for Trump supporters. Setback for serious journalists.” Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign press secretary Brian Fallon tweeted: “Dems should return focus to Trumpcare tomorrow & the millions it will leave uninsured, not get distracted by two pages from ‘05 tax return.”

The fact that Maddow has become an object of derision is actually the least of her problems. She may have violated a federal criminal statute, which prohibits the unauthorized public release or publication of a federal tax return or “return information.” The original leaker, as well as David Cay Johnston, who claims to have received the tax document in his mailbox unsolicited, may also be in trouble.

You know you are desperate for ratings when you are willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago “You know you are desperate for ratings when you are willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago,” the White House said in a statement. “It is totally illegal to steal and publish tax returns. The dishonest media can continue to make this part of their agenda, while the president will focus on his, which includes tax reform that will benefit all Americans.”

Maddow has claimed First Amendment protection as a journalist against criminal prosecution. However, any solicitation by a journalist of illegal leaks by a government employee should not be protected by the First Amendment. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff appears to have done just that, urging IRS employees to illegally leak President Trump’s tax returns. It is worth checking whether Maddow and/or Johnston did more than just passively receive the leaked information.

The criminals operating in the deep state federal bureaucracy who are out to get President Trump by illegally leaking classified and confidential information must be rooted out and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Purging the government of Obama’s political hold overs and dismantling the entrenched elements of the deep state are imperative.

If Maddow manages to get her hands on any more illegally leaked information from Donald Trump’s tax returns, she will undoubtedly try to use it to enhance her crazy Russian-Trump conspiracy narrative. Maddow has tried to paint Russia in villainous terms in order to show why the supposed collusion between President Trump and Russia she constantly talks about, without any proof, is so dangerous to America. She is irresponsibly using her platform to whip up anti-Russian hysteria as a way to get at President Trump.

56 Years Ago, Eisenhower Warned Americans Of "The Unwarranted Influ... Russia certainly did not bother Maddow back in 2012 when she made fun of Mitt Romney’s statement that Russia is “without question our number one geopolitical foe Russia certainly did not bother Maddow back in 2012 when she made fun of Mitt Romney’s statement that Russia is “without question our number one geopolitical foe, they fight every cause for the world’s worst actors.” Maddow quipped that Romney “isn’t done pretending he deserves a seat at the big-kids’ table… It’s not just that Romney is uninformed; it’s that he hasn’t figured out how to fake it.”

It is Rachel Maddow who has been faking it as a supposed “journalist” for years. Now she simply cannot get Russia out of her one-track mind.

Norman Solomon, the executive director of the progressive leaning Institute for Public Accuracy and an anti-Trumper himself, expressed some dismay regarding one of Maddow’s rants in an article he wrote in January for Consortiumnews.com:

“The standard memes demanding hostility toward Putin virtually never address some crucial questions. Such as: What are the plausible results of escalating a new Cold War? Is it wise to push the U.S. government into ever more assertive brinkmanship with Russia? Wouldn’t the degree of success in that endeavor increase the degree of danger that the antagonisms will spiral into a military confrontation and, from there, into a nuclear holocaust?”

“Sliding through a kind of time warp, Maddow’s performance on the night of January 26 was akin to what the most extreme Republicans have reveled in doing to incumbent Democrats in past decades—baiting them as accomplices of the Kremlin and warning against actual d√©tente between the two countries.”

Maddow opposes the lifting of sanctions on Russia, which she fears the Trump administration is prepared to do as a favor in return for Russia’s alleged actions to influence the election in Donald Trump’s direction. Of course, there has been no such quid pro quo—the sanctions have remained in place. Cabinet members have continued to talk tough in condemning Russia’s activities in Syria and Ukraine. And President Trump’s plans to build up the military are surely not going to meet with favor in Moscow. But Maddow does not care about the truth. She will keep bottom feeding to promote her show and shill for the rabid Never Trump crowd.

This article first appeared at FrontPageMag.

7 posted on 03/16/2017 8:57:35 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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If the bosses thought she had “the goods” they would have had her “report” it on NBC Nightly News. So, did her bosses stand back and allow her to make a fool of herself? Are they looking for a reason to fire her to make room for Kelley?

Did anyone watch the show? How did she report it? Did she say he paid $38 million in taxes then smirk?


8 posted on 03/16/2017 9:03:53 AM PDT by Terry Mross (How long has it been since you've haowl of ..... Democrat whip ass chili?)
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To: TADSLOS

A setback for ‘serious journalists’? Maddow is a serious journalist?


9 posted on 03/16/2017 9:11:25 AM PDT by Terry Mross (How long has it been since you've haowl of ..... Democrat whip ass chili?)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Nah, I read over on DUmp that she was just showing her Awesomeness by allowing the Trumpster to THINK he had set her up when in fact she was being uber-brilliant by playing along.

Or something.


10 posted on 03/16/2017 9:16:56 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Sean_Anthony

The title restates reality, no surprises here.


11 posted on 03/16/2017 9:20:01 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Terry Mross
I thought Maddow WAS pMSNBC? No, not ratings-wise, but the crazed lesbian power monger behind the scenes?

In any case, she'd better hope Al Capone's safe doesn't land on her.

12 posted on 03/16/2017 9:27:27 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Sean_Anthony

Just to put this in perspective..
Last night on the ABC Evening News it was reported Trump paid 25% AMT income tax, But other multi-millionaires paid the full 35%.
Oh, and no mention of Obama’s puny 18%.

So Pres. Trump is a tax cheat. Sick bunch.


13 posted on 03/16/2017 9:30:19 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Terry Mross

They were so damned greedy that they lost all common sense and logic and rushed it out to the public. Sort of like pigs and feeding time at the trough.

Which proves a point, doesn’t it? :)

So now that we have “seen Trumps tax returns” will they shut up already? Ah, probably not.


14 posted on 03/16/2017 9:34:11 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: bigbob
Lol.

Liberalism is truly a mental disease.

Truth be told, they know that she was made a fool but they have to pretend that she wasn't.

The stages of liberalism.

1. denial.
2. but it is still true — fake but real.
3. everyone else does it so it is okay.
4. time to check into the mental hospital.

15 posted on 03/16/2017 9:46:43 AM PDT by dhs12345
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This is the way liberals “stick it to the man”. It does not matter what was in the return. The fact that she could commit a felony on live TV is enough to encourage more “civil disobedience”. Precedents are being set and the left is paying attention.


16 posted on 03/16/2017 12:32:18 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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17 posted on 03/16/2017 2:27:13 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Sean_Anthony

The Trump victory is the gift that keeps on giving.


18 posted on 03/19/2017 8:21:17 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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