The Many Lies of Rachel Maddow

@Greg: We all know that Maddcow doesn’t lie. She is so friggin ignorant, she thinks she is telling the truth. But she can’t be helped, you can’t fix stupid.

@This one:

The report on Rachel MadCow’s lies did not come from Fox, but don’t let that stop you for blaming Fox for something they did not do. It’s what you lying liberal progressives do best.

@Greg:

Rachel Maddow is generally aiming around 20 IQ points over some people’s heads.

Greg, you didn’t have to bring Dimocrats into this, we all know she is their darling. And yes, she likely does talk ‘down’ to most of them. I’ve only watched short clips of her when she makes idiotic statements, etc so have no problem with her maintaining her “stupid” rating.

@retire05:

consequently having Rachel MadCow either a) knowing lying about it or b) she’s too stupid/lazy to do her homework?

Actually all of the above.

@Greg:

She merely stated that a Koch-affiliated group did so.”

Affiliated by the seven degrees of separation that lives in liberal progressive heads.

@Redteam, #12:

Somebody had to put her up to it, she doesn’t have enough brain power to come up with that on her own.

Right. Insufficient brain power. That would certainly explain her undergraduate degree from Stanford University, and her doctorate degree in philosophy from Lincoln College at Oxford University.

If she wasn’t making sense, what she says wouldn’t be annoying people like the Koch brothers and their media toadies so much.

I just watched the Thursday edition of the Rachel Maddow show. The hastily mounted campaign to discredit her might not have so much to do with concern about Koch brothers funding issue after all. Instead, it may be an effort to get ahead of the theory she just floated concerning what’s really behind the New Jersey bridge lane closing. It’s an interesting theory. If she’s right, it won’t be possible to prevent the entire story from coming out.

I hope her theory proves to be wrong. I like Christie.

@Greg:

I like Christie.

You should, he’s a Socialist Lite.

@Greg:
Our president is also well educated. After 5 years in office it appears he hasn’t learned a thing.

@Redteam, #16:

Let me get this straight, her theory about the Koch brothers, she now admits she was wrong about, was put out there to distract from Christie’s aide having a highway blocked from midnight til 5 A.M.

That’s not exactly straight.

Maddow hasn’t retracted her theory that Koch money could be behind the Foundation for Government Accountability. That story was presented as speculation, not as verified fact. Maddow explained what has led her to wonder if it might be the case. Viewers are left to draw their own conclusions. The story wasn’t put out as a distraction. It’s a topic of interest in its own right. That’s pretty much what her program is all about. It isn’t news. It’s political fact, speculation, and discussion.

Traffic on the busiest bridge in the United States wasn’t deliberately disrupted “from midnight til 5 A.M.” Three of 4 ramps affecting traffic to Fort Lee were closed down for no apparent reason over a period of 4 days. The resultant traffic snarls were more than a serious inconvenience for targeted commuters and commercial traffic. There will have been significant economic consequences that resulted from thousands of hours of time lost. People weren’t out on leisurely Sunday drives. They were going places to do things.

Maddow’s theory about the “real story” seems to make more sense of events. Adam O’Neal has summarized it in an op ed piece on Real Clear Politics better than I could. You can read it yourself if you’re curious: Maddow: Was Senate Leader Target of N.J. Scandal?

Greggie,

I’ll see your Koch Brothers, raise you every single public-sector Union and trump you with George Soros.

Back when there used to be a liberal radio station called ”Air America,” I gave Rachel Maddow a couple of chances while I commuted.
Far from talking over people’s heads, she talked down to them …. big time.
She also repeated the same thing over and over and over, like a rant.
But, later, when I got out of a car (no chance to fact check from a car) and looked to confirm her repeated story via news sites on the computer, I found out she was 180 degrees off!
Weird that she kept repeating it if she knew it was false.
Weirder still that I could find no source to confirm her story.

But she still seemed like the tamest and most sane of all the MSNBC stable when it had Matthews and Larry O’Donnell.
Now MSNBC is actually culling out their crazies.
So, maybe she is looking loony simply by process of elimination of the even loonier.
She is wrong about Koch.
Unless guilt-by-association is valid.
But, guilt by association is a fallacy, a variant of the ad hominum attack (name-calling.)
Here’s an example of her faulty reasoning made so simple even a Koch brother hater can understand it:
“You think that 1+1=2.
But, Adolf Hitler, Charles Manson, Joseph Stalin, and Ted Bundy all believed that 1+1=2.
So, you shouldn’t believe it.”

@Greg:

The Rachel Maddow Show isn’t a news program. No one pretends that it is.

You’re correct, the few viewers that do watch pretty well agree it is a POS.

@Greg:

Nor has Maddow stated that the Koch money is secretly behind the Foundation for Government Accountability,

So you’re saying she doesn’t believe it is true, but

presented a number of convincing reasons why she believes it to be possible.

Why is she trying to prove something she doesn’t believe? Strange. The mind of a liberal.

@Redteam:

Greg is a lefty. They believe in new “Progressive” math where any answer a progressive states must be accepted, regardless of whether it is mathematically correct.

So, she only ”raised the possibility?” Is that what you say, Greg?
What was Obama’s promise to do on his 1st day in office?
Close Gitmo.
And WHY?
WHO wanted it closed?
Who has been driving the anti-Gitmo disinformation campaign these past 12 years?
An international, fervently anti-American, far-left coalition attacking the nation through a savvy propaganda effort.

This includes those linked to Al Qaeda financiers, communist groups, anarchist movements – backed by sympathetic press and politicians.

It’s a coalition President Barack Obama has sided with in his priority to release as many Al Qaeda, Taliban and “affiliates” as humanly possible.

Let’s take a look at the key players:

*Amnesty International. Along with Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International was revealed as partner organization to Al Karama, a human rights non-profit run by Qatar’s Abdul Rahman Omeir Al-Naimi.

Al-Naimi was recently exposed by the U.S. Treasury Department in December 2013 as a long-term major financier of Al Qaeda. According to an expose by Eli Lake in the Daily Beast, “Terrorists for Human Rights,” the Treasury Department’s designation said he, “oversaw the transfer of hundreds of thousands of dollars to Al Qaeda and its affiliates in Iraq, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen over the last 11 years.”

*Center for Constitutional Rights. CCR was founded by far-left civil rights lawyer William Kunstler in the 1960s, a man who told the press his goal was to “destroy society from within.”

Kunstler represented the “Chicago 7,” a group that was charged with conspiracy to start a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and later he defended domestic militant/terror groups like the Black Panthers, Weather Underground, and Attica Prison Rioters.
CCR is currently funded by groups like the “1848 Foundation,” named after the year Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto was published and revolutions swept through Europe.
Kunstler would be proud of CCR’s signature work over the past decade in coordinating the “Gitmo Bar Association” of 500 lawyers representing detainees.

*Reprieve. A British organization led by blogger Andy Worthington, it pressures release of British citizens and residents. Ethiopia’s Binyam Mohammed, a British resident, allegedly plotted to blow up high rise apartment buildings in the U.S. with a dirty bomb; Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal, and Shafiq Rasul, a.k.a., the Tipton Three, ethnic Pakistanis went to fight for jihad in Afghanistan but were caught by the Northern Alliance in Nov. 2001; and Shaker Aamer, a Saudi citizen with British residence, alleged to have led a unit of Al Qaeda fighters in Tora Bora, and reportedly a former close associate of Usama Bin Laden, shoe-bomber Richard Reid and 20th hijacker, Zacharias Moussaoui.

*World Can’t Wait. This organization is believed to have been founded by members and supporters of the Revolutionary Communist Party & Anarchists. It organized at least 24,000 supporters during Iraq War, including actor Sean Penn and anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan.

*Jason Leopold. Leopold is a former Los Angeles Times investigative journalist with a checkered past. According to Fox News media critic Howard Kurtz, writing in a 2005 Washington Post feature, “Leopold says he engaged in ‘lying, cheating and backstabbing,’ is a former cocaine addict, served time for grand larceny, repeatedly tried to kill himself and has battled mental illness his whole life.”

Obama is as farther in bed with all of the above IF the Koch brothers are in any way close to what Maddow said about them.