The ReTHUG fascists are going after Rachel now

[malaise]

Please watch the first three sections of her show last night

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/

[inademv]

1. oh hell to-tha naw

If they take any action based on their "findings", that is crossing a dangerous and plainly illegal line.

[bluethruandthru]

2. Hard to believe that someone unrecced this.

This is extremely eye-opening. Too bad those who need to see it never will.

[malaise]

3. Not really

We've been invaded by ReTHUG and Teabagger plants.

[bluethruandthru]

4. kinda like cockroaches? n/t

[malaise]

5. Yes indeed

:D

[mod mom]

6. That's an insult to roaches.

;)

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

7. ... and tea bags!

[Jack Rabbit]

54. Besides, tea baggers don't smoke tea

They snort Koch.

[MaeScott]

8. ...more like kochroaches. nt

[malaise]

9. kochroaches - love it

:fistbump:

New bumper sticker
Clean house - remove the Kochroaches :evilgrin:

add

[mod mom]

11. love it!

[Plucketeer]

48. Love it!

KochRoaches - KookRoaches - there's plenty lurking here. If we'd turn off the lights for a minute or two, I'm sure they'd come skitterin' out!

[louslobbs]

50. Yuck! But it's such a fitting description for them and the current infestation into Governorships

KookRoaches lol, yeah that fits too.
Lou

[AlbertCat]

55. remove the Kochroaches

And Tom Delay's in jail....


Isn't he?


I wouldn't hire him to exterminate kochroaches anyway.

[liberalla]

10. +1000 !

Perfect!

[madrchsod]

13. it`s early in the day but you earned my....

to you

for coining the word "kochroaches"!

[malaise]

14. It's brilliant n/t

[The Doctor.]

45. Yes, it's impressive coinage.

But... it wasn't coined here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x492065#492257

Probably not there either. I think it was a sign in WI.

[malaise]

46. We should give Kber his/her due

Thanks

[bdamomma]

15. funny.

and definitely appropriate.

[myrna minx]

23. LOL -

:hi:

[calimary]

65. SUPERB! kochroaches!

And that they are!

Hey, if the motel fits...

[KansDem]

44. I was thinking "bedbugs"

When I think of "cockroaches," I think:


The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel

the lesson of the moth, by Don Marquis

i was talking to a moth
the other evening
he was trying to break into
an electric light bulb
and fry himself on the wires
why do you fellows
pull this stunt i asked him
because it is the conventional
thing for moths or why
if that had been an uncovered
candle instead of an electric
light bulb you would
now be a small unsightly cinder
have you no sense
plenty of it he answered
but at times we get tired
of using it
we get bored with the routine
and crave beauty
and excitement
fire is beautiful
and we know that if we get
too close it will kill us
but what does that matter
it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while
so we wad all our life up
into one little roll
and then we shoot the roll
that is what life is for
it is better to be a part of beauty
for one instant and then cease to
exist than to exist forever
and never be a part of beauty
our attitude toward life
is come easy go easy
we are like human beings
used to be before they became
too civilized to enjoy themselves
and before i could argue him
out of his philosophy
he went and immolated himself
on a patent cigar lighter
i do not agree with him
myself i would rather have
half the happiness and twice
the longevity
but at the same time i wish
there was something i wanted
as badly as he wanted to fry himself

archy

on edit: Bedbugs are creepy...

[Patiod]

19. Also invaded by people who accidentally un-rec

I wish the "rec" and "unrec" buttons were further apart. I didn't un-rec this thread, but have un-recced others without meaning to, no doubt setting off countless conspiracy theories.

(and, lest you think I don't believe there are any trollers anywhere, I just this morning emailed my public radio station, asking the producers why a teacher from Kentucky was calling in to a Philadelphia radio program in the middle of a school day to say how wonderful her life in Kentucky was, teaching without those pesky unions. I suggested that perhaps calls from out of the area might be driven by something other than an honest interest in contributing to the conversation).

All I'm saying is that here on DU, the un-rec button is WAY to close to the "rec" button...

[PCIntern]

35. Listening to 1210, I daresay! n/t

[Patiod]

61. WHYY

I only listen to 1210 during Phillies games!

[Horse with no Name]

52. It seems that the Admins could check on the unreccers and boot them out of here

their slips are starting to show.

[QC]

18. It's not hard to believe at all, actually. n/t

[Lucky Luciano]

68. Who cares?

If all threads get unrecced, then all threads maintain the same prioritization as if no rec or unrec happened. Now if they start reccing really useless and inane threads while unreccing important threads, then that will have more of an affect...but they seem to just auto-unrec everything thereby drowning their influence.

[liberalla]

12. I saw that last night

That's how you know she's being effective - Good job, Rachel!

Last week, she was upsetting people in the Obama administration (Dept of Energy, I believe) about approving new leases to drill in the Gulf. She had received some very VERY unhappy phone calls, but she was standing by her story.

She's getting noticed alright! I love that she's ruffling feathers. People are recognizing that she's a force to be reckoned with. I'm just so happy she's on our side.

[immoderate]

16. Yep. The most dangerous woman in America!

She is diligent and perceptive. Her literary skills make it all so effective.

--imm

[Le Taz Hot]

17. I'm always appreciative

of her scholarly approach which always includes well-researched, valid data.

Edited for gooder grammar.

[malaise]

20. I agree

Rachel is a consummate professional.

Love the 'gooder grammar' :D

[Cleita]

21. Not surprised. I wonder what took them so long.

They don't want the truth out there that she works hard to do so. I believe they also must be behind the sacking of Keith Olbermann too.

[hfojvt]

22. good to see Dean Baker on there

"it's hard to do that in the absence of the leader of the party"

Not sure why you want to make it all about Rachel though. Except that Rachel so often makes it all about Rachel.

But those were pretty good segments. Contrasting authoritarian with libertarian and connecting the dots with a drug testing company in Florida.

[hfojvt]

24. another point about pronounciation

apparently Rachel has never driven over the Mackinack bridge. It is the people of Michigan who, apparently, pronounce Mackinack as Mackinaw. So she may think she is insulting the organization by mispronouncing their name, but she is really insulting the people of Michigan.

Also, I have been pronouncing the name LaFollette as Lafall-it, instead of as she did La-Fo-let. Presumably she is doing it right since she actually talked to the guy whereas I, even though I lived in Wisconsin for about a decade, have only read about his famous ancestor in history books. But we always called it the Mackinack bridge too and not the Mackinaw.

[Critters2]

27. She got the pronunciation of LaFollette right the last time she said it last night.

I wondered if a producer whispered in her ear. I was surprised to hear a progressive mispronounce LaFollette.

[Blacksheep214]

43. I also grew up in Brew City

Whenever I heard the name on the news it was, (at the time), Bronson LaFoll' et.

I must presume that this is a case of good Wisconsin manners not correcting the host!

I also believe it is a purposeful mispronunciation of the asshats to earn the Mackinack deignation. Mackinaw would show even the slightest respect which this group has not earned.

She does have some problems with Wisconsin names and cities though.

Fon Du Lock? How about Fon Du Lack? Want to take a crack at Kinnikinick?

[hfojvt]

75. then there are trickier ones

like Muscoda, Wi and Pierre, SD and Kearney, Ne (and Kearney, Mo)

Non-natives are very likely to say Mus-coduh, Pee-air, and Keer-nee whereas locals know them as Mus-co-day, Peer, and Carni

[butterfly77]

25. Kicked&Recommended...

[jillan]

26. Thanks for posting this. I didn't get to watch any news yesterday so I would've missed this.

Watch out for that Maddow ;)

[hifiguy]

28. Would that we had a few hundred more like Dr. Maddow

She is the smartest person in television news and her meticulously documented, fact-based ass-kickings of the reichwingers are a pleasure to watch.

[opihimoimoi]

29. SHE SHOULD GET THE NOBEL, PULITZER, and HUMANTARIAN AWARD

sorry for shouting but trying to emphasize.

Rachel got LUNARESQUE BALLS...there is no other way to describe her...and the others who try to make a better difference...Schultz, et al

[glinda]

30. She should get bodyguards.

[opihimoimoi]

32. No shit....big ones....

[Hubert Flottz]

69. Speaking of KochRoaches...

Washington has become the Mother Of All KochRoach Motels...the KochRoaches move in, without any intention of EVER moving out.

[annabanana]

47. + a lot of 1's. . . n/t

[Biker13]

31. She's The ONLY One I Watch!

She's so damn smart and always makes me think. I feel so good after her shows, just knowing she's out there telling it like it is.

Biker's Old Lady

[opihimoimoi]

33. Fair and Balanced with wisdom and TRUTH....Bagger remorse evident

[Biker13]

62. Exactly!

She's the only one I trust to tell the truth, so of course, she must be stopped!

I don't understand why she's not more popular among the masses, not just us progressives.

I guess what Biker13 says is true, that people don't want the truth, they just want to be spoon-fed what they already believe!

Biker's Old Lady

[opihimoimoi]

63. GOP BULLY Machine in play using Negative Tactics: Intimidate, infiltrate, brown shirt harrassment,

anger, denial, lie, cheat, steal, hate.

[w4rma]

34. First they came for Olberman, now they're coming for Rachel. (nt)

[highplainsdem]

58. And Keith and Rachel, as far as I know, have been the only people to mention ALEC on

MSNBC. Keith mentioned it in early January, a couple of weeks before he left. Link to the reply in my compilation topic on ALEC which quotes what Keith said then:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x591230#592643

Here's the topic I posted yesterday about Rachel's name being mentioned in that FOIA request:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x769143

Rachel was wondering aloud on last night's show about the Mackinac Center possibly including her name because she'd mentioned them as being behind the EFM, emergency financial manager, legislation in Michigan. But the other search terms point toward Wisconsin and ALEC. The Mackinac Center works closely with ALEC, and I think they're just helping with the witch hunt that started after Professor Cronon posted his blog about ALEC and the WI GOP demanded his emails.

Republicans love witch hunts...

[Pacifist Patriot]

36. Wow

[undeterred]

37. Are they asking for her birth certificate?

[certainot]

38. their samson's hair is their right wing radio monopoly and

all that coordinated unchallenged repetition from think tank talking points reading blowhards protected by call screeners.

it does the groundwork for everything the GOP does and takes free potshots at the rachel madows AND THE LEFT LETS IT HAPPEN WITHOUT A FUCKING WHIMPER.

until the left orgs just even TRY to fix the radio problem, and stop giving it a free speech free ride, we're fucked and progressives will be lying to say they're getting their media friends and reps backs.

[certainot]

39. PS and why the fuck do cronon's university supporters go along with

his university broadcasting their athletics on the right wing radio stations.

ALL universities need to pull out of right wing radio - and a quick check turned up that 15/16 teams in the final 16 NCAA bball tourney broadcast on at least one limbaugh station- all of which do anti-science global warming denial.

[Enthusiast]

71. I'm with you on the

"their samson's hair is their right wing radio monopoly."

As crazy as it might sound to many DUers, Limbaugh's words morph into reality for millions of listeners and listener's acquaintances. I say listener's acquaintances because any time a Limbaugh listener has a discussion about the economy, the war, terrorism, unions, liberals or Obama, that listener is going to parrot the words of misinformation that he heard from Limbaugh. And this phenomenon is repeated millions of times.

This endless repetition even affects the mentality of left of center citizens that have NEVER listened to Limbaugh. The reason for this is because these convoluted Limbaugh directives eventually work their way into popular culture.

[certainot]

74. so it's 50mil a week get RW radio (limbaugh +) and then the many millions

that that proportion of the 50 mil that parrot the RW message preach to - family , friends, i've heard and read may progressives repeat their lies.

the fact that virtually all the RW regulars are on the same page from the heritage foundation is another factor- it's a lot more persuasive when the next five blowhards repeat the same meme with their own flavor- how can it be a lie?

[mstinamotorcity]

40. I saw this on her show.

They have come after every sane entity in America so they can have a country full of batshit crazy people following like the pied piper, it wouldn't be long before they got to fucking with Universities and colleges and it Professors and educational staff. They don't want any form of intelligent life existing on the planet. therefore, Ms. Maddow would be a considerable threat. She thinks!!!And she teaches the people that watch her to think based on the information and not speculation. Although, you may speculate based on information.

[malaise]

42. She is very very good

and she is a teacher

[pam4water]

41. She should have stuck up more for Keith.

[AlbertCat]

59. She should have stuck up more for Keith.

And then what....?

What makes you think she has clout to effect Olberman's fate.

And she had nothing to do with the situation.

What did you expect her to do?

Ridiculous.

[Shagbark Hickory]

49. No thanks.

[efhmc]

51. What's new? She is female and she is progressive. She

is smart and she tries to present both sides of the issues. That is ground for destruction, pretty much everywhere.

[tcaudilllg]

60. Never will forgive her for the attack on Olbermann

She upheld his suspension as grounds for criticism of FOX News for not doing the same to their people.

[countmyvote4real]

66. What are you referring to?

Can you supply a link to a video or a transcript?

I recall an incident, but I believe it was with KO's blessing.

[tcaudilllg]

67. It involved Sean Hannity and the 2010 elections, donations to candidates.

MSNBC rebuked Olbermann, he ended up leaving afterward. Murdoch refused to rebuke Hannity, leading Maddow to criticize him for not upholding MSNBC's precedent, effectively approving of Olbermann's sanction.

[trumad]

70. Link please

oh never mind---you're full of shit.

[Enthusiast]

73. I agree.

Full of shit.

[Enthusiast]

72. True.....nt

[Kitty Herder]

53. kick

[silverweb]

56. She'll chew them up and spit them out.

Politely. With a smile. :D

[Forkboy]

57. I played hockey and I wouldn't take her on.

I almost feel bad for the Republicans going after her.

Almost. :)

[Metta]

64. What else is new?

:hi: