Posted on 01/07/2014 1:49:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Eliana Johnson’s National Review piece on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has provoked some buzz on Twitter today. Here’s an excerpt:
“Behind her back, colleagues call her ‘the queen,’ a not so subtle suggestion that Maddow gets what Maddow wants. And what she wants is a network filled with young wonks such as Chris Hayes, Ezra Klein, Alex Wagner, and Harris-Perry, whose highbrow intellectualism can, she hopes, push the Democratic party, and the country, to the left.”
Notice that (according to Johnson, at least) Maddow’s goal isn’t to win the ratings war, but rather, to “push the Democratic party, and the country, to the left.”
My guess is this is an unintentional observation, but one which is, perhaps, true.
If Maddow’s objective (the premise of the piece is that Maddow is calling the shots, behind-the-scenes) were to create a network that garnered high ratings today, then she might be considered a failure. But one could argue that long-term political goals and short-term business objectives for a cable news network are mutually exclusive — or, at least, they don’t necessarily correlate.
And, if nothing else, Maddow & Co. are populating the mainstream media with young wonky pundits — folks who will likely be around for decades, pushing their liberal agenda.
Now, these talking heads may not always be as attractive or charismatic as their counterparts on other networks (that’s often the tradeoff with wonks), but the point is to create tomorrow’s opinion leaders — to groom some smart, young ideological folks — and grant them the imprimatur that comes with hosting a TV show (or being a regular guest).
Only time will tell if this pans out, but conservatives would do well to at least consider whether or not there might be something to learn from Team Maddow.....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
We did have someone like that, His name was Glenn Beck until he left Fox News, and most people’s access to his message.
The only difference was is Glenn Beck was widely successful, where as Rachel Maddow is still selling the same old lefty stuff that killed the Soviet union and has led to a demographic collapse in the western world..
It may be effective in elevating the career of the pinhead nut jobs she employs to push it so that they can carry on pushing it for decades to come but it doesn’t resonate very well with the demographics that still watch TV.
Nobody needs a lesbo libtard.
No thanks, ours are attractive.
True. Nobody needs that.
The “right” could use a TV channel though, we have zero TV channels right now.
“No one watches MSNBC.”
That is not the point the article is making, nobody watches the network but the people it supports in the spot light are then made available and ‘legitimate’ to other forms of media and information that people do read for decades to come.
They call these imbeciles “wonks”
I don’t think it means what they think it means
She probably has the biggest balls eat PMS..NBC.
Who says Madcow is intelligent? Madcow? Always makes me chuckle how libtards put the word out how smart they are.
Nope, all you have to do is listen to her. She is a dysfunctional pervert idiot.
Glenn Back supports gay marriage and supports GLAAD over Russia.
He is not on the “right”
We can't sit around and wait for someone else to make things happen for us. We need grass roots action. We The People need to quit being We The Sheeple, and do something!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Better yet, we need to buy networks. We need to buy cable TV systems. We need to buy record labels, movie studios, etc, etc. Buy one channel would be a start.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
No, we do not need a lesbionic hag.
Thats a woman??? I thought that was a dude!
“True. Nobody needs that.
The “right” could use a TV channel though, we have zero TV channels right now.”
The only way we are going to get a channel is by taking over an existing network.
There is no way we will be allowed to enter the stage with a new network of our own. Remember how the left struggled to shut down fox-news and black it out of vast areas of the USA?
It will be worse now because the left has only become more totalitarian in their desire to squelch contrary points of view just as they have become all that more effective. Their campaign against all our existing intellectual leaders is clear evidence of that fact.
You want to break a Totalitarian regime you either have to build your own army capable of overwhelming and destroying that regime as a whole or you got to infiltrate and corrupt it.
Locally in the south we can build our own army, but in the US as a whole we haven’t that strength, they perhaps control too much of the existing distribution networks with a fascist desire to keep us out to start a new.
Rachel Maddow - she’s such an unpleasant fellow.
bump
Ditto Tammy Bruce.
Heyellll no! Conservatives need a Rachel Maddow like a sprinter needs a leg amputation.
A graduate of Castro Valley High School[18] in Castro Valley, California, she attended Stanford University. While a freshman, she was outed by the college newspaper when an interview with her was published by the student newspaper before she could tell her parents.[19] Maddow earned a degree in public policy at Stanford in 1994.[20] At graduation she was awarded the John Gardner Fellowship.[21] She was also the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and began her postgraduate study in 1995 at Lincoln College, Oxford. This made her the first openly gay or lesbian American to win an international Rhodes Scholarship.[22] In 2001, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in politics at Oxford University.[23] Her thesis is titled HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons and her supervisor was Dr. Lucia Zedner.
Distinguishing herself from others on the left, Maddow said she’s a “national security liberal” and in a different interview that she’s not “a partisan.”[52][53] The New York Times called her a “defense policy wonk”[40][52] and Maddow has written Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power (2012), a book on the role of the military in postwar American politics. During the 2008 presidential election, Maddow did not formally support any candidate. Concerning Barack Obama’s candidacy, Maddow said during the primaries, “I have never and still don’t think of myself as an Obama supporter, either professionally or actually.”[54]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Maddow
I am just saying she is intelligent, unlike most on MSNBC. Being that she’s a lesbian, I doubt she will ever go conservative. Still, I have a certain amount of respect for her because she is smart. I have never thought Obama was smart. If he were white, he would probably be unemployed.
Harris-Perry is smart? She sure had me fooled.
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