This just kills me:[quote]An MSNBC host has taken a full page ad out Friday in The Boston Globe slamming Sen. Scott Brown, R-Massachusetts. Rachel Maddo..."/>
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Rachel Maddow: I'm not running!
Friday, March 26, 2010 1:09 PM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:An MSNBC host has taken a full page ad out Friday in The Boston Globe slamming Sen. Scott Brown, R-Massachusetts. Rachel Maddow accuses the senator of making things up, and smearing her to raise money and, essentially, insulting Massachusetts. In the ad, Maddow, who lives in Massachusetts, criticizes Brown for a fundraising e-mail that he sent out this week where he suggests she might challenge him in 2012. "efore I've even settled into my new job, the political machine in Massachusetts is looking for someone to run against me," Brown wrote supporters. "And you're not going to believe who they are supposedly trying to recruit – liberal MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow." Brown's e-mail then takes a shot at the cable news host. "I just don't think America can afford her liberal policies," he said. Brown cited an obscure Boston-area blog post from March 5 as the source of the Maddow rumors. Firing back, Maddow wrote in her ad, which she also posted on her blog that Brown, "made that up." "I'm not running against Scott Brown," Maddow wrote. "I never said I was running against Scott Brown. The Massachusetts Democratic Party never asked me to run against Scott Brown." "It's just not true. Honestly. I swear." The cable news host added that Brown "never even tried to find out if it was true." Instead, Maddow claimed Brown is smearing one of his constituents to "scare donors into giving him more money." Maddow said, to her, that feels like Brown is insulting Massachusetts. Brown won his seat in a January special election to fill the remaining three years of the late Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy. But he must face voters again, in 2012, to win a full term.
Friday, March 26, 2010 1:14 PM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Friday, March 26, 2010 1:35 PM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Friday, March 26, 2010 1:59 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Ahhh, good ol' Rappy - topical as never! "I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions
Friday, March 26, 2010 2:15 PM
Friday, March 26, 2010 2:49 PM
Friday, March 26, 2010 3:02 PM
BIGDAMNNOBODY
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: To me it's interesting 'cuz Brown pulled it out of thin air and is using it to solicit donations. That's a statement right there...and he's continuing, despite everything she does. Hey,that good old Republican tactic: FEAR!! Brings in the dough...
Friday, March 26, 2010 3:17 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Friday, March 26, 2010 3:49 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: Really, you are never going to convince Repubs that Repubs play on fear more than Dems. At times, it's tempting to use the same tactics as the Repubs, except that Dems tend not to run as scared as right-wingers.
Quote: Now, the infamous Bart Stupak is getting in on the act. Stupak has released a series of offensive voicemails he received after abandoning his "principled" stand against public abortion funding in the health care bill. The contents of these messages are, indeed, venomous and totally inappropriate. The media is eagerly circulating the audio because it fuels their "look out, the crazy wingnuts are gettin' dangerous" narrative. Curiously, Stupak chose not to make public any of the harassing calls and threats leveled against him waaayyy back when he was still seen as a major obstacle to Obamacare's passage. Even after one report emerged that Stupak was facing relentless intimidation from the Left, there were no breathless bulletins, no public hand-wringing, no front page headlines. Curiouser. Indeed, mere days before his epic cave-job, The Hill reported how Stupak's life had become a "living hell"
Friday, March 26, 2010 3:50 PM
FREMDFIRMA
Friday, March 26, 2010 3:52 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Conservatives fake up death threats routinely, and then go whining to the media and have press conferences over it. The national networks breathlessly lead their shows with 'breaking news' over harassing letters sent to Michelle Bachmann, or talk show hosts, like Boortz or Limbaugh. Hell, it's almost routine.
Friday, March 26, 2010 3:59 PM
CUDA77
Like woman, I am a mystery.
Friday, March 26, 2010 4:05 PM
Quote: and "cheerleaders" like these LEFT wingnut morons...
Friday, March 26, 2010 5:07 PM
Quote: After fanning the flames of idiot discontent, did anyone ever hear any retractions or corrections by either the media OR the Dems ?
Friday, March 26, 2010 5:08 PM
Quote:Originally posted by BigDamnNobody: Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: To me it's interesting 'cuz Brown pulled it out of thin air and is using it to solicit donations. That's a statement right there...and he's continuing, despite everything she does. Hey,that good old Republican tactic: FEAR!! Brings in the dough... You find that video evidence for Auraptor yet?
Friday, March 26, 2010 5:11 PM
Quote:Conservatives get death threats routinely, and they don't go whining to the media and have press conferences over it.
Friday, March 26, 2010 5:12 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote: After fanning the flames of idiot discontent, did anyone ever hear any retractions or corrections by either the media OR the Dems ? Why would the media or the Democrats issue retractions because the Republican idiots fanned their own discontent? After all, I didn't hear the Democrats screaming that this was "Armageddon", did you?
Quote: By the way, the GOP already acknowledged that fear is its big money-raiser. Maybe you missed the memo. You must have been hiding under your bed from the big bad terrorists.
Friday, March 26, 2010 5:26 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Did you nod off? That was posted on the other thread hours ago. Even Rappy admitted the guy spit on Cleaver.
Friday, March 26, 2010 5:37 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote: After fanning the flames of idiot discontent, did anyone ever hear any retractions or corrections by either the media OR the Dems ? Why would the media or the Democrats issue retractions because the Republican idiots fanned their own discontent? After all, I didn't hear the Democrats screaming that this was "Armageddon", did you? Boehner was talking about the disastrous bill which was signed, and not the phony, trumped up hysteria that the Left ( and the MSM ) were screaming about, at every turn. But way to stay off topic, per usual.
Quote: Quote: By the way, the GOP already acknowledged that fear is its big money-raiser. Maybe you missed the memo. You must have been hiding under your bed from the big bad terrorists. Link ?
Friday, March 26, 2010 6:28 PM
Quote: Things got ugly early between the NAACP and Bush the candidate in 2000, when the group ran an anti-Bush ad featuring the daughter of James Byrd Jr., a black Texas man who was tied to a pickup truck and dragged to his death by three white men.
Quote: -- the Missouri Democratic Party ran this radio ad: "When you don't vote, you let another church explode. When you don't vote, you allow another cross to burn. When you don't vote, you let another assault wound a brother or sister. When you don't vote, you let the Republicans continue to cut school lunches and Head Start.
Friday, March 26, 2010 7:01 PM
Quote: No, not exactly. I said it's possible the shouter, in the midst of being overly animated, may have 'sprayed' Cleaver, who walked directly in front of him, but there wasn't any indication that he 'spit' on the Congressman, or that did anything which was premeditated. I don't even know if the man in the hat SAW Cleaver until he was directly in front of him. See, it's this sort of intentional distortion and misrepresentation of what others say and post on here that makes honest and sincere debate nearly impossible. I never "admitted " any such thing, and yet you felt perfectly fine to lie about my view on this matter.
Friday, March 26, 2010 7:11 PM
Quote: And as for fundraising, there's no 'fear mongering' in trying to raise awareness and there by support for your side by reporting the truth. Hell, at least the GOP isn't spreading lies and true fear, like the NAACP did , back in 2000.....
Friday, March 26, 2010 7:14 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote: And as for fundraising, there's no 'fear mongering' in trying to raise awareness and there by support for your side by reporting the truth. Hell, at least the GOP isn't spreading lies and true fear, like the NAACP did , back in 2000..... That sounds an awful lot like a "Yeah, but..."
Friday, March 26, 2010 7:57 PM
Friday, March 26, 2010 8:13 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: Fuck it, vote for her anyway. I mean come on, the dumb shit just HANDED IT TO HER on a silver platter with his typical GOP overblown stupidity, and "cheerleaders" like these rightwingnut morons in this very thread would skew the vote in her favor as they slime him by mere association. Dude, that's win-win, innit ? -F
Friday, March 26, 2010 8:35 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: That's not a bad point, but I think Maddow's got far more power doing what she's doing now. And obviously the right agrees with that assessment, which is why they want her to drop her show(s) and run against Brown. And I kinda wish she would, because I think she'd take him. Hell, if Al Franken could take that dipshit Norm Coleman, I'm betting Rachel would annihilate Brown. But I'd rather have her right where she is, where she can do more good.
Saturday, March 27, 2010 3:57 AM
Quote: Rachel Maddow incites violence 2010 MARCH 26 BY NEWSREAL BLOG by Tabitha Hale “Be careful what you wish for – the right to bear arms means that everyone can bear arms.” “We will be fighting you to the death.” “I’m so glad that I saw Rachel Maddow. She’s brilliant. She’s absolutely fantastic. And her diagnosis of the ills of the American right are so right on. I mean, basically, what you’re doing is just saying no. You’re like belligerent children. You have no concept of how hard people have worked to get this together, and to make sure that we win. We WILL win, and will continue. That’s why Obama got elected.” “We are now organized. We will show up at your town meetings, and your town halls, and trust me, it’s a force to be reckoned with.” Sounds pretty threatening to me… but will Rachel condemn this? I’m sure she won’t. How about any of these phone calls, posted back in August? http://www.freedomworks.org/press-releases/freedomworks-issues-abject-apology-to-left
Saturday, March 27, 2010 6:27 AM
Quote: And as for fundraising, there's no 'fear mongering' in trying to raise awareness and there by support for your side by reporting the truth.
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