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Report: Rachel Maddow Thinks Obama Avoids MSNBC Because He’ll Get Asked Tough Questions
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| March 23, 2013
| Noel Sheppard
Posted on 03/26/2013 8:35:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
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If the New Republic's Rebecca Dana is correct, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is more deluded than anyone thought.
In her lengthy piece about MSNBC president Phil Griffin, Dana claimed Maddow believes the reason President Obama hasn't given the cable network an interview since 2008 is because "his people know he’s going to get asked difficult questions":
Many of MSNBC’s hosts are also more liberal than the White House is, particularly on issues like drone warfare, indefinite detention, and relief for the financial sector. And Maddow argues that Obama avoids the network (he hasn’t agreed to an interview since 2008) in part because his people know he’s going to get asked difficult questions. “What MSNBC has done is help create something of a North Star for a lot of progressive opinion to follow,” says Erik Smith, a senior media adviser to both Obama campaigns. “But as quickly as they’re with you, they can be on the left of you. It’s not like it’s a booster club on the air.” Axelrod noted the network’s lack of support after Obama’s poor first debate performance. “I wasn’t terribly happy about it,” he says of the MSNBC backlash, “but there’s no doubt they were opinion leaders.”
Can you imagine any of Obama's biggest cheerleaders in the media - Maddow, Martin Bashir, Chris Matthews, Al Sharpton, Ed Schultz, Lawrence O'Donnell - asking Obama a single tough question?
The reality is Obama has no reason going on MSNBC.
His shills there are already reading his talking points verbatim 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: liberallunacy; rachelmadcow
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To: Kaslin
“Why have you failed so far in your plan to round up all {insert members of groups Madcow doesn’t like} and kill them in the camps?”
“Why do you allow dissent to continue?”
“Why haven’t you used your superpowers to burn out conservatives’ brains?”
And so on, and so on...
To: Kaslin
That Rachel, she’s such a card!
To: Kaslin
Tough questions for Obama... What is your favorite brand of cigarette? ...When you were smoking pot with the Choom Gang what was your favorite kind of pot?
To: Kaslin
Report: Rachel Maddow Thinks Obama Avoids MSNBC Because He’ll Get Asked Tough QuestionsLike "Who do you think is the prettier of your daughters, Sasha or Malia?"
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posted on
03/26/2013 10:15:59 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: All
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posted on
03/26/2013 10:17:53 AM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: dfwgator
I watched a show on the Military Channel last night. It was about the hunt for Bin Laden and the intel that was gained from the raid. Wish someone would start a thread about it.
Anyway. A couple of things. Al-Quida(?) was deeply saddened that Keith Olbermann was let go from whatever rock he was under at the time. And, they were very supportive of CNN and MSNBC. Hated Fox.
Bunch of other stuff that was very interesting and it seemed they touched on many subjects that would be devastating to the Democrats. But kinda just mentioned in passing.
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posted on
03/26/2013 10:25:26 AM PDT
by
saleman
To: Kaslin
L
L!
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posted on
03/26/2013 10:30:35 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
To: Kaslin
Delusion: it’s not just a river in Egypt.
To: kempster
“If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?” The “journalist” who is famous for asking this tough question is considered one of the greatest of all time.
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posted on
03/26/2013 11:03:47 AM PDT
by
Terry Mross
(This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
To: Kaslin
Why haven't you closed Gitmo?
Why haven't you unilaterally disarmed the US nuclear stockpile?
Why haven't you shut down talk radio hate speech?
You could have a fabulous White House wedding. Why don't you get married to Reggie Love?
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posted on
03/26/2013 11:46:25 AM PDT
by
Zuse
To: Kaslin
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posted on
03/26/2013 11:47:04 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Kaslin
“a North Star for a lot of progressive opinion to follow...”
Sorry, Erik. Karl Marx owns that spot.
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posted on
03/26/2013 11:52:57 AM PDT
by
Lee'sGhost
(Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
To: musicman
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posted on
03/26/2013 11:54:08 AM PDT
by
Lee'sGhost
(Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
To: Lee'sGhost
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posted on
03/26/2013 11:56:17 AM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: kempster
Mr. President, do you ever feel isolated because you are forty seven times as brilliant as any other living human? Are you able to look in a mirror without being blinded by your own radiance? Do you ever wonder why you were picked to be the savior of mankind? If you were asked politely would you, in your infinite compassion, possibly consent to serve a third term? Have you ever known anyone who deserved to be allowed to sit at your feet and adore you?
Real tough questions, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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posted on
03/26/2013 12:16:26 PM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(I was born on Earth, what planet is this?)
To: Kaslin
Just who is this Rachel Maddow guy anyway and why is he always so snarky?
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posted on
03/26/2013 12:42:11 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
To: RipSawyer
Now you are taking it to a new level of tough questions. I can see why he would not want to face the likes of Matthews or Raddow.
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posted on
03/26/2013 1:24:24 PM PDT
by
kempster
To: Kaslin
Report: Rachel Maddow Thinks Obama Avoids MSNBC Because He’ll Get Asked Tough Questions Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
That's why Fox news gets all his interviews!
< /sarc >
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posted on
03/26/2013 2:10:53 PM PDT
by
publius911
(Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
To: Kaslin
“Are you really as bad as those evil right-wingers say you are?”
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posted on
03/26/2013 2:21:56 PM PDT
by
scott7278
("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked..." - BHO)
To: Kaslin
why waste his time.
msnbc cheered at barakopolis.
msnbc reads verbatim wh press releases
cnbc has a political officer approving all stories
msnbc is a wholely own subsidiary of obama inc.
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posted on
03/26/2013 6:59:14 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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