Posted on 06/22/2012 7:20:56 PM PDT by Kaslin
In a ten-minute rant on her show Thursday night, Rachel Maddow tried to explain the long NBC and ABC blackout of “Fast and Furious” scandal news by somehow tying it to the Shirley Sherrod controversy. The American people should move along, since this scandal is only a “paranoid delusion” and shouldn’t be covered by anyone other than Fox News. It should be carefully quarantined.
The graphic behind Maddow read “WHAT YOUR UNCLE WHO WATCHES FOX NEWS ALL DAY IS ALL WORKED UP ABOUT.”
Maddow began: “The great Fox News conspiracy about Shirley Sherrod, the racist, that nobody else was covering, was, in fact, a paranoid delusion of the conservative movement and the conservative media machine. And so now, we find ourselves, a couple years later, facing another test for the news media. Do you take the bait again? Do you follow the latest Fox News conspiracy theory?”
If you watch MSNBC all day, you and your uncle think there's a vast conspiracy called the "War on Women" and a plot to deny black and Latino people the right to vote in swing states. You might also be outraged daily that the Boy Scouts doesn't yet have gay scoutmasters teaching twelve-year-olds a merit badge in government-subsidized contraceptive techniques.
Alongside Mother Jones and other left-wing journalists, the MSNBC host claimed that blogger Michael Vanderboegh was the evil genius who uncorked this whole "cuckoo for Cocoa puffs" conspiracy theory for Fox News, and concocted the notion that the Obama administration engaged in gun walking to make a case for gun control inside the United States:
MADDOW: This is not some weird, boggy offshoot of what the Fast and Furious scandal is. This is what the Fast and Furious scandal is. This is it. It is a conspiracy theory on the right that President Obama is secretly trying to take away all your guns. That's what it was. They created this program was actually started by George W. Bush as a means of upsetting people about gun violence and their abolishing the Second Amendment.If you watch Fox News, as your source of information, you marinate daily in conservative media and that is your source of information about the world. This has been drilled into your head over and over and over again.
Fox News is now apparently conspiring to force the rest of the “real media” into covering this non-story:'
MADDOW: Just like with the Shirley Sherrod story. Fox News has been very upset that they haven`t yet been able to bait the rest of the real media into following this crazy conspiracy theory of theirs yet, and they are starting to overtly bait the mainstream media into covering it and they are starting to lash out and blame people who do not cover it yet.
BRET BAIER: NBC Nightly News is playing some serious catch-up, because the network news show has only mentioned the failed gun tracking program, "Fast and Furious," once for a few seconds since the scandal broke last year. Keep in mind Attorney General Holder has testified before Congress no less than nine times.
MADDOW: That was a host named Bret Baier on Fox News last night. He`s supposedly one of the straight news, no opinion anchors on Fox. That’s the same Bret Baier incidentally whose news program has been identified the militia-blogger guy, the throw-bricks-through-their-windows guy whose conspiracy theory this is. He’s been identifying him as an online journalist helping out with their coverage of the "Fast and Furious" scandal.
If you put the name “Vanderboegh” in the Fox transcript file on Nexis, you’ll find one appearance in a William LaJeunesse story on July 8, 2011 – just one. He's not exactly a Fox News regular contributor, as Maddow implied.
Maddow concluded; “This is a test. This is a test. We have been here before. We know how this ends. News media of America, you are getting baited to cover this story that Fox and the right have cooked up in their own special cockamamie marinade for more than a year now. Are you going to swallow this one, too?”
But let a few hundred of those brown people south of the border get gunned down (by guns given to the murderers by the executive branch of our government) and she yawns and tells everybody to go look at something else.
She's a bitter twisted racist.
But there’s MORE:
Remember the Dept of Customs guy who got zapped by some non-Sinaloa cartel guys down in Mexico about 2 years ago? They said it was random, relying on the public image of Mexico as generally very dangerous, which is true. But in fact the reason for the kiling was specifically BECAUSE of this Obama/Sinaloa agreement:
You see, apparently how things go down in Mexico is this; when word gets out to cartels that some entity does important business with ONE cartel, the general view of the others is that that entity is more or less an extension of THAT cartel. See?
And apparently that’s the view even if the deal seeker is the US Dept of Customs. The other drug scums think, “they are proto-SINALOA guys...”
So they killed him.
Now, that is bad enough. But what if instead you were a lowly badged gringo schmuck simply doing what you were told, down there, and you didn’t KNOW of the arrangement? That is just a GUESS of mine —that the secret agreement might be so sensitive that for security and political reasons they might not tell the guys low on the totem pole.
That would mean whenever you drove around town down there you might be passing drug guys on the street who saw you as a RIVAL drug dealer AND YOU DID NOT EVEN KNOW THAT.
I mean you would NOT KNOW you were in danger, you would not know to use stealth. It would be like finding out mid-way during a cocktail party that you’d been nude that whole time.
So it’s NOT one officer killing, that BP agent —it’s TWO, with the US Customs guy.
I saw it. Great insane rant. The left is coming unglued.
Notice that she didn’t mention CBS, which has actually been on this story a lot longer than Fox.
Maddow: “We don’t report, we decide.”
Dead brown people south of the border don’t matter unless they can further the leftist goals.
RACHEL MADDOW: So what's the big deal??
Hundreds dead is not paranoid delusion. It also classifies as an international incident and an arming terrorists incident.
3 officers. You forgot about Zapata who was assassinated after he traced a F&F weapon and began investigating, unaware of the operation that his own department was running north of the border.
Absolutely agree. To call the left wing media hypocrites on this doesn’t even begin to encompass what they are.
The only thing I can come up with at this time is utterly despicable lying filthy scum that, just by their very existence, gives all of humanity shame.
I actually saw that program. Never in my life had I watched msnbc but that night I decided to flip through news channels to see what was being reported on fast and furious.
My jaw dropped listening to the most illogical, elementary piece of “reporting” ever delivered.
As she was ridiculing Fox news she was doing exactly what she perceived Fox of doing.
The entire piece was a hit piece on Fox News. Unfreakingbelieveable this passes for news.
Yes! Exactly. Unglued is the perfect description for that insane rant.
...since this scandal is only a “paranoid delusion”...”
That must be why Dumb’O asserted executive privilige - to hide right wingers’ delusions
As Hank Hill Says “ That boy just ain’t right”. Boy being Madcow. Why are liberals so crazy? I mean they can’t see that Obama has broken laws all over the place. They are brain tainted morons. They will all burn in hell when they die. They deserve hell fire and damnation. Liberals are the freakiest and by far most amazingly disturbed. I really think these Journo-lists would love to see Bill Ayers dream of 25000000 million Americans exterminated. I believe they would go right along with. IMHO
when we finally extract the whole truth out of Obama about this, it will make Watergate seem like nothing. the flak gets heaviest when you’re right over the target and the flak is damn heavy right now.
You said it all
TRANSLATION:
ATTENTION MAJOR MEDIA TYPES: If you don’t want to be a pariah at the Gay Bar, or Unemployed, play along with the Current Truth!
At least this guy Maddow doesn’t hide behind a cloak of supposed objectivity. He wears his liberalism right on his chest.
hehe
(S)he sure does
I used to say that if Clinton mowed down a Girl Scout Troop with a machine gun on the steps of the Whitehouse the lamestream media would defend him.
I was right.
Obama has allowed guns to illegally be sold to Mexican criminals that have killed American and Mexican citizens and agents and the lamestream media is covering up for their Demcorat.
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