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Sneering at Protesters, Maddow Praises Whitmer, 'Out Ahead' of Other Governors With Strict Orders
newsbusters.org ^ | 4/17/2020 | Kristine Marsh

Posted on 04/17/2020 9:40:18 AM PDT by rktman

After MSNBC host Rachel Maddow mocked Michiganders protesting their Democrat governor’s sweeping draconian stay-at-home measures on her Wednesday night show, she brought on that governor for a softball interview full of flattery, Thursday. Maddow even ended the interview entertaining the idea that the Democrat governor could be our next Vice President.

Immediately before bringing on Michigan governor and media favorite Gretchen Whitmer, Maddow sneered at her state’s residents trying to recall her with a dismissive and haughty assessment:

[C]onfederate flag waving, Trump 2020 flag waving, people out on the street and ultimately blocking traffic in protest of the Michigan governor having a stay-at-home order in place. These protesters demanding that the governor ‘just rip the lid off, open it back up, let folks get back to business as usual, why all this overreacting?’ It's only more than 2,000 dead and counting.

Whitmer joined Maddow in attacking protesters, once the interview began. Maddow hyped how her state was in “dire straits” and asked her what she was most worried about in the coming weeks. Whitmer used that question to blame her constituents protesting her as a reason to extend her extreme stay-at-home orders:

When you see a political rally, that's what it was yesterday, a political rally, a political rally like that where people are not wearing masks and in close quarters and they are touching one another, you know that that's precisely what makes this kind of a disease drag out and expose more people. People can converge together in Lansing and then they went back out to their homes across the state of Michigan.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dumbassery; mi
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What do you have when you put maddow and halfwhitmer in a room? Nothing. Yeah, I guess all them south side MI rebels caused her some concern huh. Dang Johnny Rebs. Fookin' idjit. And you thought obxxx was full of himself.
1 posted on 04/17/2020 9:40:18 AM PDT by rktman
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It seems the left really DOES want the CV to destroy the economy. They are not nice people.


2 posted on 04/17/2020 9:42:42 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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Leftists hate freedom and love it when the totalitarian instincts of elected Democrats come out.


3 posted on 04/17/2020 9:44:15 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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What miserable people.


4 posted on 04/17/2020 9:48:08 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Rachel and Gretchen, birds of a feather.


5 posted on 04/17/2020 9:49:24 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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It’s even money the rebel flags were paid rat actors.


6 posted on 04/17/2020 9:49:37 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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Me thinks Rachel protesth etoo much. I bet Maddow would be shocked if she knew exactly how bipartisan the protest was.


7 posted on 04/17/2020 9:52:15 AM PDT by Saltmeat (69)
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Whitmore will be Biden’s VP - He needs a shot at the rust belt. She is playing all the attention like a screen test


8 posted on 04/17/2020 9:53:52 AM PDT by Jimmy The Snake (Remeber)
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I am afraid Whitmer is doing everything right in her audition for the VP slot. Her presence will be very dangerous for Trump, making it hard for him to retain Michigan.


9 posted on 04/17/2020 9:53:55 AM PDT by nwrep
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She may have made too enemies in Michigan to be a Biden asset here.


10 posted on 04/17/2020 9:58:17 AM PDT by madison10 (Wash your hands & say your prayers cause Jus & germs are everywhere)
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Surprised that maddow is not pushing the Governor to pass a dictat that EVERY TV in the State be required to broadcast her TV show. ALL networks MUST broadcast her show and ALL internet providers MUST block everything BUT her show.

THAT sounds like something that ‘Richie’ madcow would demand, as a demonstration of her ‘democracy’ towards the proles.


11 posted on 04/17/2020 9:58:46 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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That’s my thought. The crackdown didn’t do any favors for her.


12 posted on 04/17/2020 9:59:26 AM PDT by ferret_airlift
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They seem to forget that wanting to get back to work is not a partisan issue.


13 posted on 04/17/2020 10:17:57 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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“Me thinks Rachel protesth etoo much.”

She wants to mow the Whitmer lawn.


14 posted on 04/17/2020 11:08:44 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: jazusamo

“Rachel and Gretchen, birds of a feather.”

Birds of a Karen flock together.


15 posted on 04/17/2020 11:09:12 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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Whitmer is an evil fraud

16 posted on 04/17/2020 11:10:22 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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MSNBC is Comcast

Maddow works for Comcast


17 posted on 04/17/2020 11:42:52 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Bonemaker

Turfbuilder.


18 posted on 04/17/2020 11:45:06 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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This guy, Maddow is wearing his jockstrap too tight.


19 posted on 04/17/2020 11:50:10 AM PDT by windsorknot
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Tyranny has always come from the left.


20 posted on 04/17/2020 2:14:50 PM PDT by DeplorableGirl
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