By Patrice Greanville
Rachel Maddow…”deconstructed”
As the adage in old newsrooms has it, “News is not dog bites man, it’s man bites dog,” as lefties, this is “news” to us, MSNBC’s host Rachel Maddow castigating Obama. What’s the world coming to?
Rachel Maddow, like many of her liberal analogues on TV does the system’s bidding—for the most part. Her style is to do extremely well researched and argued “demolition” jobs on Republicans, who, of course, amply deserve it, if not much worse than mere tongue-lashings, while holding her fire toward Democrats—especially Obama—who, by default, become the only “White Knights” around. This is dishonest and she must be aware of it, but hell, she must rationalize it somehow, as a luminous career on TV is not something to easily discard over small matters such as principles. Assuming that she—a liberal after all— might share our principles, a kind of hopey hopey sort of thing on our part.
In any case, whatever Maddow thinks, most of my colleagues at Links for the Wildly Left got her number a long time ago, and they can be scathingly accurate (and funny!) in their descriptions:
Diane Gee She’s a liberaloid – well meaning and leftish on social Issues, a Democrat who will criticize Obama, but still hawkish enough to go to Iraq and brag up the troops.
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Keith Farris That’s about what I thought, except for the going to Iraq thing…I shall despise her then…dirty liberaloid.
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Brad Holhut Rachel is the anchor of her show on MSNBC… she is widely seen by the sheeple of Amurrika as a lefty or liberal… we here at Links almost ALL see her as a sellout, left-gatekeeping capitalist tool.
▪ She doesn’t “lie” and make shit up (like so many assholes on the right tv machine) but she never tells the whole truth. She is no different than ANY corporate TV talking head. She only covers a narrow spectrum – within corporate approved topics – and she spends way way too much time telling the viewers how bad and scary the Re-thuglicans are. Ya, Rachel, we get it. How about telling us the truth about the ‘cruise-missle liberals’ who support an expanding empire, austerity measures here at home and Neoliberal economic policies abroad that are KILLING the good jobs in this country?
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▪ So hate her if ya like. I just recognize her for what she is. A paid shill of the ruling class. A whore and handmaiden to power, a courtier.
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▪ ps, she’s openly gay so many ppl think that makes her a real lefty… sigh.
Ayesha de Queiroz Her coverage of Fukishima was pretty good. ▪ She is an Obama cheerleader. Her reporting omissions speak louder than any truthful GOP finger pointing.
Woody NinetyNiner Konopak Rachel’s an “acceptable ‘liberal'”…She’s no less a tool of the CorpoRat/SCUM than any of the blonde, panty-flashing Gretchens on Fauz Nooz..4 hours ago ·
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David Peery Woody just surpassed Brad for best Maddow shredding: Maddow is “no less a tool of the CorpoRat/SCUM than any of the blonde, panty-flashing Gretchens on Fauz Nooz..” ROTFLMAO!
Lynda Wisniewski She did call oBOMBa out on his attack on civil liberties though. I was shocked and she did not pull any punches. I guess you could say as with most things you have to chew the meat and spit out the bones (Editor’s Note: This is the post that led me to this video.)
Addison DePitt Excellent diagnoses! Brilliant in their brevity and clarity.
▪ Maddow is as you describe, with occasional —very occasional—deviations from her Obot /Dem shill unofficial role. Same could be said about Olbermann, who, however, was more prone to push the limits of the invisible “permissible” boundaries.
▪ The lesson here I suppose is that while these media figures won;t be sent to Siberia for a few “transgressions” to the code of silence and misinforation, frequent transgressions as to constitute a pattern will. It’s a very nuanced approach, implemented with finesse by the top echelons of the media whorehood.
▪ They know that, given the abysmal attention span (let alone knowledge base) of Americans, only a very heavy barrage of messages in a certain direction will stick on the wall if it contravenes the official narrative about America…everything else will just vanish without much residue.
▪ Heavy concentration of any meme is also a basic rule of all modern propaganda, and the best examples are seen in common ads, whose repetition insures memorization if not automatic credibility
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Patrice Greanville is editor in chief of The Greanville Post.
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