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Rachel Maddow Falls for Fake Story About Conservatives and Sarah Palin

X Factor said:
Sorry, you're not one that has any cred to be admonishing me about this.
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Not sure I was admonishing you. Nor do I care about what you consider cred. It is merely a fact that inappropriate is inappropriate no matter who's doing it.
 
Boo Radley said:
Not sure I was admonishing you. Nor do I care about what you consider cred. It is merely a fact that inappropriate is inappropriate no matter who's doing it.
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I'm just referring to your recent characterizations of Rush. I'm not at all sure that you're able to recognize "inappropriate" when it comes from the left.
 
X Factor said:
I'm just referring to your recent characterizations of Rush. I'm not at all sure that you're able to recognize "inappropriate" when it comes from the left.
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Whetehr I am or not is besides the point. If you see it and recognize it as inappropriate, aand you recoginize this as inapprorpriate, there shoudl eb argument that you can't excuse one with the other. Inappropriate is inappropriate no matter who's doing it.
 
Boo Radley said:
Whetehr I am or not is besides the point. If you see it and recognize it as inappropriate, aand you recoginize this as inapprorpriate, there shoudl eb argument that you can't excuse one with the other. Inappropriate is inappropriate no matter who's doing it.
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Well, but the problem is, if you can only recognize the inappropriateness from one side, then you'd have to wonder if something is inappropriate in fact or if that's just your own bias that makes it seem as if it is.
 
Whovian said:
may I direct your limited attention span to this, previously posted, segment...
Maddow:"Props to them for a brilliant piece of satire, shame on us for believing them. But in a world where China taking over New Zealand [cue visual of Glenn Beck] is what passes for real analysis on the situation in Egypt how do we know that's not satire too?"
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This shows she was blaming Beck? Seriously, I don't think so, it's a stretch to think she did.
 
X Factor said:
Well, but the problem is, if you can only recognize the inappropriateness from one side, then you'd have to wonder if something is inappropriate in fact or if that's just your own bias that makes it seem as if it is.
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However, you didn't dispute it was inappropriate. You merely pointed to someone else. See my point? ;)
 
Dittohead not! said:
There is a lot of good information on the internet, along with a pile of manure and a lot of irony and satire. One would think that Maddow would have figured that out by now, and check her sources before reporting a story.

"Sarah Palin led invasion into Egypt?" Why would anyone even have to check out anything so absurd to know it has to be either satire or nonsense?
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when you talk every night and no one ever hears you, why would you think what you says should have any relation to reality?
 
Zyroh said:
when you talk every night and no one ever hears you, why would you think what you says should have any relation to reality?
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Someone must listen, or no one would sponsor her show. Why anyone would listen is a mystery, but the foregoing discussion including such as Glenn and Rush and the total nonsense that they spout, gives us a clue: People like to hear nonsense as long as it supports their biases. It really is amusing to read how "your" pundit made some absurd statement, so that makes it OK that "my" pundit is an idiot as well.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Someone must listen, or no one would sponsor her show. Why anyone would listen is a mystery, but the foregoing discussion including such as Glenn and Rush and the total nonsense that they spout, gives us a clue: People like to hear nonsense as long as it supports their biases. It really is amusing to read how "your" pundit made some absurd statement, so that makes it OK that "my" pundit is an idiot as well.
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Absolutely. Same with bias. Too many are really agaist bias, they just want their bias to be prevelent. ;)
 
Dittohead not! said:
Someone must listen, or no one would sponsor her show.
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No one may sponsor her show. Sponsors which run ads during that timeslot may not need to specify or, due to the number of ad runs required by contract, those sponsor's ads may just be run due to the contract. Also, since this is cable, the cable company runs against those timeslots which may be national, state or local, or the advertiser may be have specifically asked for ad runs against Maddows show. We really don't know.

Dittohead not! said:
Why anyone would listen is a mystery, but the foregoing discussion including such as Glenn and Rush and the total nonsense that they spout, gives us a clue: People like to hear nonsense as long as it supports their biases. It really is amusing to read how "your" pundit made some absurd statement, so that makes it OK that "my" pundit is an idiot as well.
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All pundits cater to a specific audience. Maddow caters to middle to upper class progressive liberals who are upwardly mobile, feel elitist but may be depressed about it, and who enjoy snark as it applies to Conservatives and Republicans. It's the same audience Air America couldn't support before they filed for protection. Maddow hasn't change. The audience she caters to hasn't changed... the company and financing has changed. MSNBC, GE soon to be Comcast and Microsoft. That's a lot of money to back a biased ideal and to continue to push it over the air.
 
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