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How Rachel Maddow Turned Into Infowars
The American Conservative ^ | 4/5/19 | Peter Van Buren

Posted on 04/05/2019 10:46:52 AM PDT by OddLane

Though she doesn’t often bring it up these days, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow remembers how the media abetted the Bush administration’s lies justifying the 2003 Iraq invasion. That was when elite (in many cases handpicked) journalists spent months serving as stenographers for the push to war, parroting every carefully crafted leak without question. They dismissed skeptics as disloyal and spiked stories that would have raised questions about the narrative. When they got caught, they declared “never again.”

Yet with Rachel Maddow as their poster child (along with David Corn, Luke Harding, Chris Hayes, the entire staff at CNN, and hundreds more), journalists over the last two years repeated every mistake their predecessors had made in 2003...


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1 posted on 04/05/2019 10:46:52 AM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane
Where does this go?

Does Rachel Maddow:

  1. walk it back in stages
  2. walk it back all at once (Dallas shower scene)
  3. move on, pretend it goes away
  4. go full Howard Beale on the air
  5. get fired

2 posted on 04/05/2019 10:56:35 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Steely Tom

f. pretend it never happened.


3 posted on 04/05/2019 11:02:01 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: Steely Tom

To a liberal, history started at breakfast this morning, so everyday is a brand new clean slate.....................


4 posted on 04/05/2019 11:04:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Steely Tom

Two directions:

1) Imply it was a coverup, the nation is rigged and let’s burn the whole thing down. (most likely)

2) Let it fester as the rabid will never accept it was not true


5 posted on 04/05/2019 11:04:15 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is now a hate-mob)
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To: simpson96
f. pretend it never happened.

That's c.

6 posted on 04/05/2019 11:04:45 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Steely Tom

Who cares as does anyone here watch her? I sure as hell don’t.


7 posted on 04/05/2019 11:05:00 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: OddLane

Pair her with @AOC after she loses in 2020.
The combo will delight liberals for decades to come.


8 posted on 04/05/2019 11:05:03 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Steely Tom

g. Keep insisting there was collusion but that it has been covered up.


9 posted on 04/05/2019 11:05:50 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
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To: OddLane

Lez be not watching it.


10 posted on 04/05/2019 11:08:12 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Steely Tom

d. go full Howard Beale on the air


11 posted on 04/05/2019 11:21:02 AM PDT by samtheman (To steal an election, who do you collude with? Russians in Russia or Mexicans in California?)
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To: simpson96
f. pretend it never happened.

Years ago I remember watching some sports show during football season, and they had on two 'experts' who were selling their betting picks, and they gave out a number of games for free.

EVERY SINGLE ONE was a loser...wrong, wrong, wrong. I tuned in a week later just to watch them eat some crow, but they never mentioned it and just went on as though nothing bad had happened.

12 posted on 04/05/2019 11:24:33 AM PDT by JPG (MAGA!)
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To: Harpotoo

You may want to for a bit to see just what the rabid left is feeding on. She tops out in ratings at times.


13 posted on 04/05/2019 11:29:10 AM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: OddLane

Rachel Maddow? Never heard of him.


14 posted on 04/05/2019 11:33:29 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: OddLane
She's mayonnaise.

She's got nowhere else to go.

15 posted on 04/05/2019 11:35:35 AM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: Steely Tom

F. Full speed ahead!! Forward Comrades!!


16 posted on 04/05/2019 11:38:55 AM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: dead

Nice movie reference!


17 posted on 04/05/2019 11:39:57 AM PDT by mellow velo
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To: Texas resident
F. Full speed ahead!! Forward Comrades!!

yeah, she might go that route.

18 posted on 04/05/2019 11:40:39 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: JPG; simpson96; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON; Army Air Corps; KC_Lion; Rebelbase; ...
f. pretend it never happened.


19 posted on 04/05/2019 11:43:42 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: simpson96

g. go full Budd Dwyer on the air?


20 posted on 04/05/2019 11:50:15 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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