Comments on: The Ascension of Rachel Maddow

By: Pdub

Pdub — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:24:56 +0000

Olbermann was a second rate sports broadcaster, fourth or fifth rate political analyst. Maddow, she is just a bi!@h. Both of those extremely biased partisan hacks are still currently talking about potential made up war crimes against the Bush Administration when there is also way much more important sh!t going on. Hey, we won in Iraq, did what we had to do, and we haven’t been attacked again. Maddow and Olbermann should make a baby. What a scientific study that frickin child would be. Impossible though, since their sexual preferences would never allow them to mate. Hope Perez Hilton doesn’t see this, he might flip, or shall I say, flake out.

By: anthony innes

anthony innes — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:59:07 +0000

Max ,Nolan ,Hr and DV thanks all you good folk who contribute to wider understanding . Here in Oz we do not get Maddow but we have plenty of the same clones. Status Quo apparatchics and no coverage of real depth .Real alternative and independent candidates just are not getting a hearing . Max is right on; the system is suss.

By: Steven Sherman

Steven Sherman — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:29:56 +0000

I feel more or less the same way about Rachel Maddow (or Keith Olbermann) as I do about Obama. All are symptoms of a notable shift leftward of American public opinion. None are ‘one of us’, but all offer a bit more space than the alternatives. No reason for wild hosannas, but opportunities to be critically assessed. So Maddow doesn’t support Nader. Stop the presses. Its more notable that someone who has Jim Hightower on from time to time is getting a show on a corporate network. It would be much more interesting if the far left actually came up with something interesting to watch, than denouncing Maddow for being impure.

By: Hue Longer

Hue Longer — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:17:00 +0000

I remember a couple years back giving Air America online a listen and being amused at how someone so smart would get so “angry” at Lou Dobbs, only to have him charm her into agreeing to disagree. Her morning drive format was like EVERY corporate morning show format juiced on coffee. Out of all of them, Malloy was the most honest (amazing how relative honesty is a great thing), but the package and message of AA as a whole was devious as well as painful to listen too.

No shit HR, you’d think people looking for change and information would kill the box instead of trying to replace heroine with methadone

By: Max Shields

Max Shields — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:45:32 +0000

I think Nolan and HR are right on point.

Maddow, who I don’t watch anymore, is a duopolist Dem. She sells the system just like Fox sells the system for the Repubs.

It’s the ruling system “stupid”; not which side of the coin you speak.

By: HR

HR — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:18:15 +0000

Why is it that the “left” is always looking for iconic counters to the repeaters of bar talk, like those on right-wing radio? First it was a second-rate sportscaster named Olberman that everyone went goo-goo eyed over. Now it’s Maddow, whom I’ve never seen and never plan on seeing (easy when you don’t get MSNBC, or NBC for that matter, except the in-training newscasters who work on the few-and-far-between Wyoming stations). On Free Speech TV, it’s the yuppie-directed fluff of Flanders. You’re never gonna get anything more than tokens from the corporate media, or from upper-middle-class-dominated “alernative” media, which get most of its money from pseudoprogressive yuppies and foundations established by the truly wealthy (just like the PBS/NPR monstrosity). Get over it. Turn the damned box off.

By: Nolan P.

Nolan P. — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:27:37 +0000

Maddow is a joke, and is symbolic of everything that is wrong with the Democratic Party.

Point the finger at everyone else but themselves. And attack progressive candidates who speak the truth even worse than your Republican opponents.

The broken-party Democrats would do well to take a note from McCain and start trying to reform their party from within.

Nader/Gonzalez ’08
“People Fighting Back”