Posted on 02/14/2010 1:57:48 PM PST by Michael van der Galien
Leftists can only succeed if good men don’t point at them and laugh. Ridicule, sneers and insults aimed at the right have become a trademark of MSNBC’s commentators, but Rachel Maddow took them to new heights last week providing an opportunity to turn the tables. Proving herself to be agenda-driven and ignorant, Maddow launched an uninformed assault against Alabama Tea Party candidate Les Phillip, a black businessman and Navy veteran who immigrated with his parents from Trinidad in his youth.
Following Meghan McCain’s recent appearance on ABC’s The View, which NRB covered here and here, where the ‘Valley Girl’ equated racism with a comment made at the Tea Party Convention regarding literacy tests for voting, Phillip responded with the statement,
“Ms. McCain has led a life of privilege and couldn’t understand the pressures of living paycheck to paycheck. I respect her father’s service to this country, but she ridicules what she cannot understand.”
Leaping to McCain’s defense, Maddow not only mocked Phillip but alleged he wants,
“To bring back Jim Crow era voting literacy tests that were used for generations in this country to deny black people the right to vote.”
Perhaps Maddow was assuming Phillip was another one of those angry white racist Republicans. Look again Rachel. Perhaps you should become familiar with both content and visuals aired on your show. It looks like the last laugh’s on you..........
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I thought the entire raison d'etre of MSNBC was to strive for new lows, not highs.
I really have very little exposure to these people. But when I do happen to catch their act, it just amazes me that these so-called “journalists” see it as their job to defend Democrats 100% of the time and to ceaselessly ridicule anyone who opposes Democrats. They will say anything, make up any lies, assert the most preposterous allegations. All in service to their god.
If ignorance kept people from voting Maddow wouldnt get a vote.
Rachel, if you’re going to rip off Dennis Miller’s schtick, you could have left the hairdo and kept the intelligent, witty commentary.
The right to vote is sacred.
The earlier rationale for limiting votes to property owners (tax payers) and persons who could read the candidates’ positions on issues resulted in disenfranchisement but the remedy that followed has caused chronic corruption.
Aware of the propaganda that attempts to secure votes by promising largesse to one group in return for taxing another - demonstrates the need to protect voters’ rights by education not brain washing.
She’s a bull dyke with a PHD,,,what do you expect?
That' just one of the problem with lib logic, they can't speak for more than a minute without contradicting themselves.
BTW Rachel, get a hair cut, and whats up with the eraser on top of that dudes head?
This stupid bitch has about all the historical perspective and political intelligence God gave a f**king a mothball. And this is as polite as I can be without getting tossed off here.
The really sad fact though is there are people who listen to this bile and believe it. If only the good Lord would open their eyes.
he’s the cutest little boy i ever did see.
is directed at Megan McCain, Mr. Maddow or both :)
I kept hearing about MSNBC but never watched it. So I decided the night that Scott Brown was elected to the Senate I’d tune in to Keith Olbermann.
How the heck does this guy keep a job? I wouldn’t hire him to flip burgers?
I’ve never understood why she is on TV.
MSNBC is under the false assumption that they can be the liberal answer to Fox News. The problem is...every channel is a liberal channel outside of Fox...just a question of degree. And MSNBC now has become a laughingstock. Jon Stewart makes fun of them as often as Fox now, which shows you what a joke it is.
Rachel Maddow is simply a partisan idealogue who rants...Olbermann is just an idiot.
Mr. Maddow. Ms. McCain is too dumb to even know what planet she’s on. Mr. Maddow at least knows that.
Go away Rachel Mad-COW!
Will you not however concede that she does indeed have a purdy mowf?
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