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Rachel Maddow: The Rolling Stone Interview

Tahuyaman said:
I don't know how she recovered after her Trump income tax embarrassment. That was freaking incredible.
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And hillarious ! I think its called " shaudenfraude ", when you derive pleasure from watching someone make a fool out of themselves.

Normally I cut people breaks when it comes to honest mistakes but the MSM since Trump won has been throwing a 5 month long temper tantrum
 
Cigar said:
:roll: I bet you look at the Sky and see Marshmellows
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Lately only some really impressive cumulonimbus clouds.

Houstons heat and humidity team up this time of year and produce a massive amount of atmosspheric energy.

Massive amounts of latent and specific atmospheric loads build up into thunderheads that extend 40k feet into the stratosphere.

All that energy gets released in a afternoon thunderstorm that produces huge downblast and lots of lightning and rain.
It last for an hour and dissapates only to start over the next day
 
Fenton said:
And hillarious ! I think its called " shaudenfraude ", when you derive pleasure from watching someone make a fool out of themselves.

Normally I cut people breaks when it comes to honest mistakes but the MSM since Trump won has been throwing a 5 month long temper tantrum
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The media doesn't make " honest mistakes" very often.
 
Fenton said:
Lately only some really impressive cumulonimbus clouds.

Houstons heat and humidity team up this time of year and produce a massive amount of atmosspheric energy.

Massive amounts of latent and specific atmospheric loads build up into thunderheads that extend 40k feet into the stratosphere.

All that energy gets released in a afternoon thunderstorm that produces huge downblast and lots of lightning and rain.
It last for an hour and dissapates only to start over the next day
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So it Sucks to Wash the Car :2razz:
 
Fenton said:
She's a embarassment. She's gone full blown conspiracy nuttery and even tried to blame Ossoffs loss on the weather.
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that would be an embarrassment, not "a embarrassment."
 
Before the election, she predicted there was no freaking way Trump could win. She's got some dynamite analysis skillz.
And there's that blockbuster Trump tax return episode with a 40 minute lead-in, 5 minutes of data, and a 15 minute mea culpa without the culpa.
But her election-night shows in November '16' and June '17' were why TV was invented.
 
Cardinal said:
I have family who turn on the tv every time she's on. I really loathe her delivery style.
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She is unwatchable. Not sure why she gets all the accolades. She is the left wing version of Ted Cruz-condescending to the point where they must believe those listening to them are complete idiots. Chris Hayes is ten times more interesting and is by far the best on what is otherwise an unwatchable channel.
 
Trippy Trekker said:
I haven't opened up the link yet, but expect to later.

RMs communication style- My eyes roll. She lays out her main points in a narrative really, really slow. I yell at my TV "Come on already!" Like she hears me right? She makes eye contact, does that little smile, says "Wait... wait"... then reiterates her first three points for the upteenth time. I grimace, grind my teeth, and think about changing the channel. But I don't because I want a sense of the whole story.

Did you mean that kind of annoyance?
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I get what you mean, but as someone who's done both that job, and also various teaching sorts of jobs... she's doing it because the average person needs it in order to grasp everything.

They need that exposition. They need to hear that dude's name and title 3 or 4 times before they can place him correctly in the web of the story. It's annoying to those of us who are a bit quicker than average. But it's necessary.

The reason it seems so much more pronounced with Maddow is that she does much more sort of broad narrative stories than most cable news shows which often run over multiple days, so it requires more repetition.
 
SmokeAndMirrors said:
I get what you mean, but as someone who's done both that job, and also various teaching sorts of jobs... she's doing it because the average person needs it in order to grasp everything.

They need that exposition. They need to hear that dude's name and title 3 or 4 times before they can place him correctly in the web of the story. It's annoying to those of us who are a bit quicker than average. But it's necessary.

The reason it seems so much more pronounced with Maddow is that she does much more sort of broad narrative stories than most cable news shows which often run over multiple days, so it requires more repetition.
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I don't consider her a Conspiracy Theorist. She clearly has a unique and effective style of journalism. I enjoy her coverage of the less obvious aspects of the political arena. Case in point: Oliver Stone in a trailer of an interview w/ Putin - the two of them purportedly using Putin's Smart Phone to view recent video of Russian Military taking out ISIS militants in Syria... when, according to RM's research, the video dated from 2009 and shows American Military taking on the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Just about every week, I watch at least part of several RM shows. All grins!
 
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