Monday Night Video – The Rachel Maddow Show Talks to Jon Tester About Open Democracy

July 16, 2012 by Leave a comment

HARRY REID: If this flood of outside money continues, the day after the election, seventeen angry old white men will wake up and realize they just bought the country. That’s a sad commentary. About 60% or more of these outside dollars is coming from these seventeen people.

RACHEL MADDOW: Our nation is being sold to a few billionaires.

Indeed.

Despite all the shrill lip service they pay to the Constitution and its magical superpowers, the Republican Party just isn’t that into democracy. Witness A is all of the Republican voter suppression efforts. Witness B is the Republican efforts to prevent you from knowing just who is buying the election.

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Friday Night Video – Rachel Maddow and Shannon O’Brien on Mitt Romney’s Bain Truthiness

July 13, 2012 by 4 Comments

I think it’s smart of Mitt Romney to demand that Barack Obama apologize for Romney’s lies about when Romney left Bain Capital. It’s straight from the Karl Rove playbook of accusing your opponent of your own crimes. For example, George W. Bush ran away from serving in the Vietnam war, so he accused the war hero John Kerry of being unpatriotic. So long as the media doesn’t do its job investigating and reporting on the facts, the truth gets obscured in the minds of those who don’t follow politics closely.

Romney’s current problems concerning his lies about when he worked at Bain Capital don’t reside in the lies themselves, but with the possibility that the media might actually report these lies. Rachel Maddow certainly engages in actual reporting, including a conversation with Shannon O’Brien, who lost the 2002 Massachusetts governor’s race to Mitt Romney in part because Romney denied any association with Bain’s unethical activity after February 1999. Despite being paid, you know, $100,000 per year by the company. Nice work if you can get it…

SEE ALSO
peer-reviewed by my neurons: Mitt Romney Seems to Think Corporate Accountability is Voluntary
masscommons: Tomorrow’s News Today – Romney’s Next Political Problem

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Thursday Night Video – Rachel Maddow on Mitt Romney’s Bain Lies

July 12, 2012 by Leave a comment

Earlier tonight Rachel Maddow spoke with Boston Globe DC bureau chief Christopher Rowland about Mitt Romney’s attempt to claim he wasn’t working at Bain Capital when he was still their CEO and sole stockholder. The fact that Mitt Romney lies without qualm is no longer news, but this is an important issue because for years he has been trying to run away from Bain’s record of destroying jobs. I would like to point out that there actually is some consistency when it comes to Romney. He seems to have a spine when it comes to the moneyed elite. That’s his prime constituency, then and now. Romney is as insufferable as his “Is there a VIP entrance?” supporters, and I would bet that he doesn’t care about his lying as he simply doesn’t believe that people such as himself should follow the rules. Only I’m not a wealthy man, so my bet would have to be $10, not $10,000.

Note that many of Romney’s SEC filings contradicting his public statements were originally unearthed by David Corn at Mother Jones and Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo.

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Wednesday Night Video – Mitt Likes Dick

July 11, 2012 by Leave a comment

On the Rachel Maddow Show tonight, Maddow highlighted the overlap between Mitt Romney’s policies and policy advisers with the Bush/Cheney administration. She introduced the segment with a list of economic facts that should be repeated frequently. Loudly. During the George W. Bush years…
…the unemployment rate went from just over 4% to just under 8%
…the budget surplus went from $236 billion to -$1.4 trillion
… poverty went up
…the uninsured rose

Conservative economics has been tried. It doesn’t work. The reason why the recovery has lagged is because many elements of the conservative economic plan has been retained, including massive deficit spending fueled by military spending and tax cuts for the elite. Mitt Romney’s planned fundraiser on Thursday with Dick Cheney is emblematic of Romney’s desire to repeat this recent past.

Maddow also gets extra points for her pointed takedown of the Washington Post transcribing Mitt Romney spin, rather than engaging in, you know, journalism. Your liberal media, not at work…

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The Right to Work Without Rights

June 5, 2012 by 4 Comments

Rachel Maddow is right that the conservative crusade against unions and worker protection in Wisconsin should be seen as political as well as ideological, in that they are attempting to make sure that it’s only corporations and billionaires who can spend big on elections. Which will lead to more for the billionaires and ever-fewer worker protections. Around and around we go.

MADDOW: Killing off the unions is what Republicans want to do in every state of the country. That is why Scott Walker is the poster boy for the Republican Party this year. Republicans understand that this is the way they can win not just now, not just in the current election cycle, but forever. Republicans get this, and they want it to happen in every state in the country. Republicans get this. Do Democrats get it?

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Sunday Night Video – Rachel Maddow Interviews Steve Bullock About Containing Corporate Campaign Spending

June 3, 2012 by Leave a comment

The unrestrained corporate campaign spending brought to us by the activist judges on the Supreme Court may be the worst of the worst in our corrupt political system. That’s why I’m eager to hear crumbs of hope, rays of light, and the like, such as former Justice John Paul Stevens stating that he thinks Citizens United will be revisited. Here, Rachel Maddow interviews Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock on the case he’s fighting, seeking to allow Montana to continue to limit campaign spending as it has done for 100 years. Who knows what will happen with the Supreme Court. On the one hand, occasionally conservatives care about states rights. But will they care when the states right is to restrain corporations from buying themselves more politicians?

BULLOCK: In 1906, a newspaper in Montana said the greatest living issue that confronts us today is whether the corporations shall control the people or the people shall control the corporations.

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Wednesday Night Video – Paul Krugman Visits Rachel Maddow

May 2, 2012 by 2 Comments

Paul Krugman was on The Rachel Maddow Show last night speaking about his new book, End This Depression Now. He has clear, articulate, practical solutions to our continuing willful economic crisis. Krugman continues to be right about the recipe for recovery, but the matter of what will actually happen is quite different. Are things supposed to just keep getting worse until people get fed up enough?

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Where does Fox Find Its F#cking Liberals?

April 18, 2012 by 5 Comments

Did you see Bob Beckel on Monday, dropping an F-bomb on Hannity?

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Monday Night Video – Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher

April 16, 2012 by 1 Comment

One of the reasons that I’m so glad that Rachel Maddow’s book reminds us of the Iran-Contra affair is because it points out much that is wrong in our country concerning national security. Namely, that we allow the president to do whatever he wants, which is much of the point of Drift. I also wonder how conservatives reconcile the sainthood they have bestowed upon President Ronald Reagan with their view of Iran as an imminent threat and Reagan’s history of, you know, selling them arms.

In case you missed it, here’s Maddow and Bill Maher talking about this in Los Angeles last week.

Polentical: Friday Night Video – Rachel Maddow on Romney’s Rovian Tactics
The Feminist Texican [Reads]: Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

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Friday Night Video – Rachel Maddow on Romney’s Rovian Tactics

April 6, 2012 by 2 Comments

Yet again, Rachel Maddow demonstrates how she is usually the smartest person in the room. She breaks down with forceful precision how Mitt Romney has attempted to adopt Karl Rove’s tactic of portraying one’s own weaknesses as the weaknesses of one’s opponent. Romney does this by accusing President Obama of being out of touch, anti-Medicare, and the like. Rachel talks about this approach as a well-known tactic, but it is only visible insofar as people such as her bring it to public attention. Most of the media, of course, doesn’t have her awareness.

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Rachel Maddow on Rick Santorum’s Latest Lie

April 3, 2012 by 12 Comments

Last night Rachel Maddow highlighted Rick Santorum’s latest lie. In this edition, Little Ricky claims that he read on the internets how:

I think it’s seven or eight of the California system of universities don’t even teach an American history course. It’s not even available to be taught.

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Best of the Week: The Daily Show on Trayvon Martin and more…

March 30, 2012 by Leave a comment

MONDAY (March 26, 2012)

Jon Stewart joked about how Dick Cheney’s heart transplant would be covered in the organ community.

Innocent Heart Sentenced to Life in Cheney

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