Not that she needs my protection, I'm sure she can handle herself. But when the NY Times wrote this about her new show, http://www.nytimes.com/... I had to respond.
To paraphrase McLaughlin, from the show you assert is the only one that fosters lively debate: Wrong! Ms. Maddow had proved her ability to handle worthy opponents when she was on David Gregory's borefest on MSNBC before she got her own show. She has plainly stated that she invites "anybody, please" from the McCain campaign to come on her show. Isn't it obvious who is afraid to face a worthy opponent here? It isn't Rachel Maddow.
Not that she needs my protection. I'm sure she can handle herself. But when the NY Times wrote this about her new show, http://www.nytimes.com/... I had to respond.
To paraphrase McLaughlin, from the show you assert is the only one that fosters lively debate: Wrong! Ms. Maddow had proved her ability to handle worthy opponents when she was on David Gregory's borefest on MSNBC before she got her own show. She has plainly stated that she invites "anybody, please" from the McCain campaign to come on her show. Isn't it obvious who is afraid to face a worthy opponent here? It isn't Rachel Maddow.
More that that, thank god in heaven for the Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann. That now at least we finally have two voices in the mainstream media who aren't likely to, as most of the mainstream media did in the lead up to the Iraq war, to roll over and just accept whatever is fed to them by a popular president in a "time of war". Now he's unpopular and it's obvious to us all that justifications for the war were a sham. But very few of the so called objective journalists in the mainstream media had the stones to call Bush on it. To ask the hard questions.
False "media objectivity" is a useless concept in an age when one side of the political debate is completely disingenuous, willing to manipulate the media, coordinate talking points, engage in Orwellian newspeak, and outright lie to us about things as important as war and looming economic depression. It is not what the country needs or wants. What we need is someone with the stones to cut through all the bullshit and tell it like is. Both Rachel and Keith have them. That's why they are as popular as they are. If we had at least one of them before the Iraq war, we might not be where we are right now while people like those writing for this paper were abdicating their responsibility to the public at large.
If you feel the same way, let them know, http://www.nytimes.com/...