Posted on 09/19/2009 12:33:06 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
Our friend and colleague David Swindle wrote that Rachel Maddow is the Mary Poppins of the left--pleasant and reasonable-sounding enough that she comes off as more reasonable than her actual stance might be. Mary Poppins used a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, but Maddow's sweetener of choice is something different. Hers is pure fiction--a calorie-and-truth-free artificial sweetener to help the leftist ideology go down. And (with apologies to diet soda aficionados) like most artificial sweeteners something about it tastes wrong, it's a poor substitute for the real thing, consuming too much can give you a headache, and prolonged exposure can lead to cancer. OK, so that last part of the analogy doesn't really hold. But observe the artificial truth flavoring her latest show.
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Maddow’s sugar is more like potassium cyanide.
Artificial Sweeteners gives me immediate Gastro Intestinal Distress - much like Maddow...
Reasonable?
Give me a break.
Mary Poppins? I tried to watch her once and could not get past the overly smug tone and facial expressions. She would smile after everything she said like it was the smartest thing ever uttered.
Statistics in the right hands can be quite clear!
…on the other hand Rachel Maddow supports only convenient facts and truths.
Graphs show it's introduction tracks perfectly with the rise in obesity.
I loved her position that card check legislation is all about choice. It doesn’t eliminate the secret ballot. It just gives union bosses a choice between secret elections and tire slashing to achieve their organization goals.
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