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Rachel Maddow is Alex Jones with an inside voice
The Spectator ^ | 9/7/2022 | Rachel Maddow

Posted on 09/08/2022 5:06:35 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111

Rachel Maddow has departed MSNBC but her legacy there and across cable news will live on. The network’s transformation from Keith Olbermann’s George W. Bush hyperventilations to Nicole Wallace’s intelligence apparatus would not have happened without Maddow massaging the crazy through her windy pontifications.

Maddow was Alex Jones with a smug Ivy League elitism and inside voice. No one has ever mastered the “Weekend Update for very serious people” format better than her. While some point to how Bill O’Reilly mainstreamed pen pointing at Fox News, Maddow perfected gestures of disbelief. She might have been intelligent and sincere yet it’s not so much Keith Olbermann who she has to thank for paving her way as Jon Stewart. Maddow simply repackaged many of the same subjects that Stewart was lampooning Republicans over and made them sound more serious.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: democrats; homosexualagenda; learnhowtopost; maddow; msdnc; mslsd; msnbc; pmsnbc; rachelmaddow
Watching her freakout over Trump in 2016 was classic. I watched every second.
1 posted on 09/08/2022 5:06:35 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
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To: whyilovetexas111

BS. Alex Jones comes across as a looney tunes conspiracy theorist, but it turned out he was just decades ahead of his time. He was right. Maddow is just insane.


2 posted on 09/08/2022 5:31:58 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: whyilovetexas111

Her legacy is mostly the same as any leftist tool: bombastic propaganda works.
Lie ..distort..omit facts ..
Just keep hammering away.


3 posted on 09/08/2022 5:45:32 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: whyilovetexas111

I call her Rachel Madcow.


4 posted on 09/08/2022 6:42:43 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven.)
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To: whyilovetexas111

Written by:

Stephen L. Miller


5 posted on 09/08/2022 7:21:58 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta ( )
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To: whyilovetexas111

Why did you put Rachel Maddow as the author?


6 posted on 09/08/2022 10:10:46 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Hoplophobia will never be in the DSM, because the DSM is written by hoplophobes.)
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