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11/16/09
Funnily I think what's really being said here is less about the statement itself, but the attitude of the recipient. #rachelmaddow
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Though to be fair, I believe Rachel has said in a couple of interviews that she doesn't own a television, so she might not know what's on MSNBC before she gets into the building.
Unless of course, someone blogs it. #rachelmaddow
11/16/09
And I sometimes think of an old teevee gag no one else remembers, back in the time when drunks were funny, and to sober this one up, they somehow nailed all his furniture to the wall, so that he woke up with a hangover like always but had to negotiate breakfast on the wall with his robe somehow falling behind him followed soon by his orange juice.
And so the allegory has come true, and we are invited to an equivalency set whereby screaming off-the-wall teabag twits equate sharing health care and the Holocaust with the request by anyone on MSNBC to "write your congressperson."
Idiocy, plain and, as the teabaggers themselves, simple. #rachelmaddow
11/16/09
I saw the thrust of the story as being how MSNBC's progressive headliner-ideologues are not all rah-rah Obama on their "nightly news-and-views-casts" but are trying to hold him accountable to their agendas. The distinctions with Fox that Maddow was making seem true for the evening and prime time shows. But yeah, Ratigan (I've never seen his show) shares their network so the story should have taken him into account.
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Also, you do come across the pundits on MSNBC (Maddow is one who comes to mind) who, regardless of your politics, seems to genuinely encourage and debate opposing points of view. Name a single Fox talking head who does that. #rachelmaddow
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However, even that is beside the point, really. Because my problem with Fox isn't that it's conservative. They have every right to be as conservative as they like, if they'd only be honest about it. What they don't have a right to do is to consistently misrepresent opinion as fact, misreport events, and create news, while pretending to be a "fair and balanced" source of information. #keitholbermann
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11/06/09
People can call MSNBC "left leaning" but they regularly give Pat Buchanan airtime for his crazy old time republican nonsense, and Joe Scarborough (un)Fair his own show. The best that Fox could do was let Alan Colmes meekly defend the left from time to time. #keitholbermann
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10/30/09
Scarborough is douche-lite. #joescarborough
10/30/09
You don't think taxes are going to increase?
Interesting. #joescarborough
10/30/09
If it's all a gigantic lie, like his secret birth certificate, or his secret love of -isms, like communism/fascism/socialism, then I will retract when it all comes down. Or up, as the case may be.
[www.barackobama.com] #joescarborough
10/30/09
Well, it's just that historically tax increases track increases in sovereign debt. While possible that the so-called "ordinary American" won't be taxed, I'm a skeptic in that area. Not trying to be all "SECRET NAZI TRICKS!" about it, but my thought was that we collectively understood that health care and the like were going to result in tax increases.
I used to bitch about "dishonesty" from the Obama administration about who would pay for the public option, for example, but I eventually agreed with supporters that most people had an understanding that there would be cost-to-you implications. It's a transaction, not a gift. If you're expecting a gift I'd recalibrate those expectations. #joescarborough
10/30/09
Which is the very reason why Republicans are frantically using so many of those big stupid lies AND little smart lies. #joescarborough
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Like Medicare? Unless it helps them scare the shit out of the olds, Republicans don't give a rat's ass about Medicare, and haven't since it started. #joescarborough
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"... please love me?" #joescarborough
10/30/09
This is what kills me (even as a woman, myself) because they're the ones who usually turn out to be the nuclear winters of drama. Always tell your guy friends to stay away from the girl who makes it a point to point out that she hates all the dramz.
#joescarborough
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10/21/09
And? You say that as if Fox News doesn't have a history of being openly (and cheerfully!) racist, such that it would be understandable to suspect the slip of being part of a pattern, rather than an isolated incident. #msnbc
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Yeah, cos that's what I did.
I was referring to the Fox/MSNBC distinction. Not the racism.
"So I will "chill" the moment this shit is deemed once and for all intolerable!"
For your sake I hope that's soon. #msnbc
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And I'll bet nobody knows who any of these people were. #msnbc
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