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Maddow: If O’Donnell Really Got Secret China Info Shouldn’t There Be A Criminal Investigation?

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Rachel Maddow started her show last night by declaring that she had probably given Sarah Palin less attention than anyone else on cable. The reason for that, she explained, was primarily because Palin does not have job beyond her Fox News position. Should Palin ever officially throw her hat in the ring, however, she can probably expect the same level of attention Maddow has been devoting to Christine O’Donnell of late.

Said Maddow last night: “In the last 24hrs, remarkably, the Republican party decided to get behind probably their least viable ticket candidate anew…they’ve also decided the party is going to adopt the single craziest position that candidate has taken in what has been a thoroughly crazy campaign.”

You got it! Christine O’Donnell’s secret security clearance that enabled her to obtain classified information about China’s impending takeover of America. In the last few days neither Michael Steele nor Ed Gillespie would deny that Christine O’Donnell could possibly have obtained this information.

“This is incredible!” Says Maddow, pointing out that security clearances are not all that easy to come by, “my guess is conservative pr reps with friends who are missionaries, are probably not at the top of the governments need-to-know list…even in the Bush administration.” Not to mention, the person “leaking” that information would be subject to prosecution, and if Steele and Gillespie are unwilling to deny the possibility of O’Donnell having access to this information perhaps there should be a criminal investigation! Watch below (and yes, she’s kidding).

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  • CosmosDan

    It’s completely obvious she just made it up isn’t it? She doesn’t have access to classified information about China, and she made it up.

  • writer

    Yes, there should be an investigation. Oh,you mean into O’Donnell.

  • paulmdoro

    The kind of thing you say when you’re an obscure candidate running in a small state?

  • Latin2

    Now if you want to talk about dealings with China look no further than Bill and Hillary Clinton

  • Penguin60

    Extra, Extra! Let’s discuss one of the most obscure points by a candidate that has very little chance of winning!
    mmm, unemployment?, what ever happened to Iran(no big deal), iraq, Afghanistan?(everyday on the news when Bush was in office), economy? Gas(went up $,.10 yesterday, must be those nasty oilmen in the WH).

    Nope let’s focus attack machine on this woman, maddow(the smartest woman in the world……….)

  • Latin2

    Mediaite is doing their part as the Leftist MSM to vilify Conservatives and not post articles about Liberal candidates.

  • WildMan

    Yo, Rach….the criminal investigation should be done to find out why/how/what` you, Olbie, Angry Edie, Angry Larry and Chris Tingle are doing on the airwaves period. I mean, is msNBC trying to become the new comedy central? What a waste of tv time.

  • puck30

    What’s the big deal? Maybe she needs a few bucks? She can just do a Clinton and sell them off to the Chinese.
    But do we really need to worry as long as we have Al Frankin’ guarding things, it’s all good!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvgMIerTXl4

  • felixw

    Check it out — on November 2, voters will decide who wins

    435 seats in the House of Representatives
    37 Senate seats
    37 Governorships
    and many, many state and local positions, initiatives, etc.

    Yet the leftwing media is obsessed with one race, namely the Delaware senate race — a supposedly safe Democrat senate in a Blue State against a supposedly unelectable candidate. And why is that? Because the Left picks issues to discuss based on what subjects work best in comedy routines.

    So, clearly, if you think politics is joke, and just good for laughs, you really ought to vote Democrat. But if you have a genuine concern for the economy, the war on terror and all those other issues that never get mentioned by Maddow, Olbermann, Stewart, Colbert, Maher, etc., you are advised to go with the people who take matters seriously.

  • paulmdoro

    The GOP mouthpiece returns. Do you get paid to be a cheerleader?

  • timcajun

    Baggers don’t want their jokes to be talked about, but shes your nut, own her!

  • Penguin60

    Good luck wth Steele and Mad Dog Grayson, now that’s comedy.

  • The Real Royal King

    felixw said:
    Check it out — on November 2, voters will decide who wins 435 seats in the House of Representatives37 Senate seats37 Governorshipsand many, many state and local positions, initiatives, etc. Yet the leftwing media is obsessed with one race, namely the Delaware senate race — a supposedly safe Democrat senate in a Blue State against a supposedly unelectable candidate. And why is that? Because the Left picks issues to discuss based on what subjects work best in comedy routines. So, clearly, if you think politics is joke, and just good for laughs, you really ought to vote Democrat. But if you have a genuine concern for the economy, the war on terror and all those other issues that never get mentioned by Maddow, Olbermann, Stewart, Colbert, Maher, etc., you are advised to go with the people who take matters seriously.

    You have lied. Again. There has been tremendous amounts of coverage about a number of races, AK-Senate, AR-Senate, CA-Gov, CA-Senate, CT-Senate, DE-Senate, Fl-Senate, IL-Senate, MO-Senate, PA-Senate, SC-Gov, TX-Gov, WA-Senate, WI-Senate and others have all been covered rather extensively.

    I assume the reason you lied is because you couldn’t articulate your whine without lying.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    There needs to be an investigation in to how Rachel Maddow got a tv show?
    She should be the big star on the new lesbian network.

  • The Real Royal King

    Penguin60 said:
    Good luck wth Steele and Mad Dog Grayson, now that’s comedy.

    See Phelix, even Penguin has helped me. Yet another race garnering attention.

  • The Real Royal King

    gordonbloyershow said:
    There needs to be an investigation in to how Rachel Maddow got a tv show?She should be the big star on the new lesbian network.

    That’s vile. Your hideousness is far more than skin deep.

  • writer

    There, there, old timer.

  • The Real Royal King

    I believe, technically, an investigation is triggered when such a breach of security is confessed. However, it is so obvious that Randi the witch is just a pathetic, attention-seeking yet media eschewing liar that an investigation is not warranted.

  • Tony the Fist

    This reminds me of some pesky neighbor eyeballing the mailbox next door to make sure there’s no termites in it while their own house is burning to the ground. Aren’t there any bigger fish to fry, Rachel? They should call it “The Rachel Maddow Show featuring Christine O’Donnell.” Even Glynnis sees that.

  • writer

    Often during King’s Navy JAG days, a recess would be called so they could change him.

  • The Real Royal King

    timcajun said:
    Baggers don’t want their jokes to be talked about, but shes your nut, own her!

    All the Marys in Heaven know we have our own, but I find Randi particularly enjoyable. As nutty and self-absorbed as the Drop Out Governor, but in a fun sort of way ….

  • writer

    That’s okay, King. Lots of people your age get cranky. Of course, your meanness and hatefulness is taking it a bit far, but we understand.

  • paulmdoro

    gordonbloyershow said:
    There needs to be an investigation in to how Rachel Maddow got a tv show?
    She should be the big star on the new lesbian network.

    If you have a show (of any kind) the standards must be nonexistent. And you have the humor of an adolescent male who is concerned because he’s discovering that he is not attracted to the opposite sex.

  • Tony the Fist

    You gotta love the Harry Potter/O’Donnell backdrop, though. Clever, if a little snarky. Christine should embrace it.

  • Penguin60

    The Real Royal King said:
    See Phelix, even Penguin has helped me. Yet another race garnering attention.

    Has maddow even mentioned either of these 2 embarrassments?

  • The Real Royal King

    paulmdoro said:
    If you have a show (of any kind) the standards must be nonexistent. And you have the humor of an adolescent male who is concerned because he’s discovering that he is not attracted to the opposite sex.

    He doesn’t have a show.

    He spent a cable of years boring some old guy who lost his remote and had to stay on cable access. Somehow, he lost that. I can’t imagine how one loses a cable access show. For years, we had a late Saturday night show called “Painting With Poo”. I’ll let figure out the plot.

  • The Real Royal King

    Penguin60 said:
    Has maddow even mentioned either of these 2 embarrassments?

    Grayson, for sure, and Steele, I believe.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    paulmdoro said:
    If you have a show (of any kind) the standards must be nonexistent. And you have the humor of an adolescent male who is concerned because he’s discovering that he is not attracted to the opposite sex.

    When is your brain transplant? We will all be awaiting the outcome. I know the chimps brain will be an improvement for you.

  • paulmdoro

    gordonbloyershow said:
    When is your brain transplant? We will all be awaiting the outcome. I know the chimps brain will be an improvement for you.

    Is that the best you can do? Now I just feel bad. It’s like arguing with a third-grader. Or someone with learning disabilities. Oh wait….

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    The Real Royal King said:
    He spent a cable of years boring some old guy who lost his remote and had to stay on cable access. Somehow, he lost that. I can’t imagine how one loses a cable access show. For years, we had a late Saturday night show called “Painting With Poo”. I’ll let figure out the plot.

    Should we call the grammar police on you? ……….I’ll let figure out the plot.

    RRK you really need to take your crap some place where it is welcome. Maybe the White House?

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    paulmdoro said:
    Is that the best you can do? Now I just feel bad. It’s like arguing with a third-grader. Or someone with learning disabilities. Oh wait….

    When you get a real name I might try harder for you. When you stop taking the drugs you might stop watching the Cartoon Network.

  • paulmdoro

    gordonbloyershow said:
    When you get a real name I might try harder for you. When you stop taking the drugs you might stop watching the Cartoon Network.

    Maybe you should start making sense, difficult as that might be.

  • ZoneDaiatlas

    The Real Royal King said:
    I believe, technically, an investigation is triggered when such a breach of security is confessed. However, it is so obvious that Randi the witch is just a pathetic, attention-seeking yet media eschewing liar that an investigation is not warranted.

    You, Mediaite and the dumbest “Rhode Scholar” on the planet have no clue. All you need to get a clearance is…

    Secret clearance is a background check going back 10 years. Top Secret goes 15 or 20, and no polygraph. You want get this factual information from MSM, MEDIAITE or Media Matters…

  • felixw

    The Real Royal King said:
    You have lied. Again. There has been tremendous amounts of coverage about a number of races, AK-Senate, AR-Senate, CA-Gov, CA-Senate, CT-Senate, DE-Senate, Fl-Senate, IL-Senate, MO-Senate, PA-Senate, SC-Gov, TX-Gov, WA-Senate, WI-Senate and others have all been covered rather extensively.

    I assume the reason you lied is because you couldn’t articulate your whine without lying.

    Can you count, RRK? If you can, go and count the number of articles here on O’Donnell and Witchcraft, and you will see that this issue is dominating the coverage in the leftwing media.

    Whoops, I forgot…that would require you to count to double digits, and when you run out of fingers you are in deep trouble. As we have seen by your frequent mathematically-challenged posts here.

    Maybe you should just stick with nursery rhymes.

  • writer

    Like saying he went to college, law school, then was in JAG during Vietnam. But if you say he must be pushing seventy, he gets upset. Oops.

  • The Real Royal King

    That’s a remarkably clumsy effort to cover your lie. You said the “leftwing media is obsessed”. You did not say “Mediaite is obsessed”. Clumsy. CLUMSY. C L U M S Y.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    The hypocrisy of Maddow is astounding, I don’t seem to remember this level of outrage whenever TNYT or the WaPo prints leaked information. Also, isn’t she the same person who recently lamented that ODonnell’s people kicked her out of campaign headquarters? And all the poor girl was doing was being respectful of O’Donnell, I recall her saying.

  • CAconservative

    This girl must be scarring the hell out of Democrats? The constant, Ms.Madd-cow attempt to make her look crazy is really becoming transparent. Ms.Madd-cow “doth protest too much”!!

  • Pecunium

    “You, Mediaite and the dumbest “Rhode Scholar” on the planet have no clue. All you need to get a clearance is…

    Secret clearance is a background check going back 10 years. Top Secret goes 15 or 20, and no polygraph. You want get this factual information from MSM, MEDIAITE or Media Matters…”

    Um…. how to best say this….

    Got it. You are wrong.

    Those are the, approximate, details of the requirements for the background checks for a clearance (though completely and validating an EPSQ, is also needed, as well as some more detailed checks, even for a Secret depending on agency and access desired, but I digress).

    The most important part, however, is an agency (be it a part of the DoD, DoE, Dept. of State, etc.) has to request it. Then, once the justification for the clearance has been seen to be proper, the background check can be started.

    Once the clearance is granted (from as little as 2-3 months for a secret, as long as 2 years for a TS/SCI, or a Q (which is a DoE specific clearance, relating to issues of Nuclear Proliferation, and always added as a form of SCI to a TS, but again, I digress), then the person is cleared to see classified materials for which that person has a need to know.

    So, if I have a TS/SCI:Q, and a Secret document, about a program I have not been read on to comes into the office, my boss can’t show me, nor may I demand of a subordinate that I be shown the information. I may have a clearance which is higher than the material but without a need to know it’s a federal felony to tell me about it.

    If O’Donnel had a clearance, she would be committing such a crime to share the information. Her declarations of having had one, and that she was sharing classified information, is presumptive evidence to deny her a clearance. She does not show the discretion needed to be trusted with information which cannot be shared.

    (I apologise for the jargon, but 16 years dealing with such issues makes it hard to explain without using technical terms.

  • newzmaker

    Maddow is such a drama queen. Voters from both parties, in November, will be willing to vote for Lucifer, just to get rid of the DC political establishment, of both parties. Change takes time.

  • StewartIII
  • Dandee

    Something tells me that Maddcoww is just jealous, knoing it is a lie, and she couldn’t have gotten the information had it been true. What a terrible person who thinks she is a journalist. All she does is try to dig up dirt on a person, and if she can’t, WELL she just makes it up. That goes for her brother in politics, KEFF Olberrmmaann!

  • esd2000

    gordonbloyershow said:
    There needs to be an investigation in to how Rachel Maddow got a tv show?
    She should be the big star on the new lesbian network.

    You spew hatred just like your identical cousin Rushbo.
    Still, they’re cousins,
    Identical cousins and you’ll find,
    They laugh alike, they walk alike,
    At times they even talk alike –

    You can lose your mind,
    When cousins are two of a kind.

  • MerryMarjie

    gordonbloyershow said:
    There needs to be an investigation in to how Rachel Maddow got a tv show?
    She should be the big star on the new lesbian network.

    Rachel Maddow does not need defending, but she is being denigrated because she is a lesbian woman, not because she is wrong. She is one of the most intelligent political commentators on TV, and yet it is pointed out time and again, that she’s a lesbian woman. Does that mean we should discard her opinions?

    Please, add a brilliant idea to conversations such as this instead of writing for the thousandth time that Rachel Maddow is a lesbian woman as if that were a pejorative.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    It is so easy to make the libs go crazy. Just mention the truth about a lib. I do this on purpose and they fall for it everytime.
    Tell lies about conservative women or make a false attack on Limbaugh or Bush and you never hear a peep of outrage. They are sooooooooooooooooooooo funny.

  • timcajun

    What difference does it make if Maddow is a lesbian? Are the conservatives upset because Maddow won’t go out with Dick Cheneys daughter?

  • Pecunium

    “A conservative women” Really? Subject and verb should agree in gender and number.

    Does this have any relevance to your comment? Sort of, because this sort of irrelevant, non-related fact is an ad hominem attack; her sexual preference, no matter if she likes women, men, singly, in mixed groups, or not at all, has nothing to do with her merits as a commentator.

    As to your allegation of lies…. care to point at them? O’Donnell claims to have classified information. One of the requirements of access to classified information is a legal obligation to not disclose it to anyone who does not have both the appropriate level of clearance, and the need to know.

    The public at large does not have either (in the legal sense. Were China actually bent on, “taking over” the US, that would be a different matter, they aren’t so it’s not. If you want to argue they are using their ability to provide cheap labor, rare earth minerals, the purchase of our debt, in the hope of establishing hegemony, the case might be made, but that’s not, “taking over,” and so not material).

    So, either O’Donnell is, to use a technical term, making shit up, or committing a crime.

    To argue that she lied, in a cheap attempt to gain national security credibility with credulous is probably the most charitable gloss one can put on the matter.

  • http://none pyrope

    Latin2 said:
    Now if you want to talk about dealings with China look no further than Bill and Hillary Clinton

    And while you’re discussing that part of the globe, how about Madame Halfbright who danced around with Kim Jong Il, as she passed the technology that enabled North Korea to build its atom bomb?

  • http://none pyrope

    MerryMarjie said:
    Rachel Maddow does not need defending, but she is being denigrated because she is a lesbian woman, not because she is wrong.

    I didn’t know she was a lesbian. All I know is that I don’t find much ground with those who support socialism, communism, fascism, marxism, or the so-called “progressive” movement. Oh, and I also don’t support people who cannot speak in a civil manner on those matters with which they do not agree. As far as being a lesbian is concerned, I’ve gotta tell you, had I been born a woman, I would probably have been a lesbian, too. There’s NOTHING sexy about any men I’ve ever seen.

  • http://none pyrope

    CAconservative said:
    This girl must be scarring the hell out of Democrats? The constant, Ms.Madd-cow attempt to make her look crazy is really becoming transparent. Ms.Madd-cow “doth protest too much”!!

    People tend to react irrationally when they are afraid.

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