It’s sad that the Republicans feel so threatened by a liberal TV talking head. (Nevertheless, I’m sure she appreciates the recognition.)

that was dumb, we dont want a bigass pipe arcoss the usa..

There are 12 pipelines coming in from Canada now. No reason at all to stop this but politics.

the guy they got to play that rachel dude was hilarious…

There are roads, bridges and school that can be rebuilt and provide more jobs than a pipeline but….. politics stopped that also..

I am sure they are extremely threatened by all 4 of her viewers.

Is that Maddow? Seemed a bit too girly for Maddow.

Republicans are more threatened by Maddows sexual orientation than the actual issue at hand.

Ah the irony, they don’t even realize what they’re saying with their “Lean Backwards” mockery.  The U.S. would be leaning backwards if we continue our dependence on dirty fossil fuels.  Given the fact the oil being produced in Canada’s “tar sands” fields is extra dirty and cannot even be refined into the type of diesel we now use in this country.  The dirty diesel would be produced in American refineries(owned by the Kochs) and shipped for use to south America and Europe. I can’t wait for Rachel’s take on this,supposedly the purest form of flattery, albeit done so badly.

There is a reason there are no good conservative comics and no good conservative filmmakers.

One hundred thirty thousand jobs? The latest credible analysis says this project won’t come close to producing 10,000 jobs. This just proves the extent to which republics will go to protect their big oil sugar daddies.

The spot is LAME and a LIE!

She must be doing something right if the GOP is so threatened by her that they have to make attack ads against her. Awesome! Keep doing what you’re doing, Rachel.

When conservatives try to be funny it just ends up looking really sad.

The proposed pipeline will create up to 130,000 jobs – 10,000 jobs to build and run the damn thing, and 120,000 jobs to clean up the environmen­tal devastatio­n when it ruptures.

And of course, it will reduce our dependence on foreign oil, because everyone knows that Canada is really a wannabe state of the U.S., and the petroleum industry would never combine the pipeline oil with other supplies that it sells on the open international market, right?

Isn’t that the truth? Ms. Maddow, who I like on MTP and other programs, but not on her own show, seems to wield much more power amongst Republicans than Democrats. This is a real testament to her value.

If she only has four (4) viewers, why did the RNC dedicate this spot to her? She must be a very real perceived threat.

Conservative humor? Or, lack thereof?

Barack Obama told me that this pipeline would save or create 8 billion jobs. 

Yeah, could you imagine if there were pipes running all over the country?  What a concept.  You’re worried it’ll be an eyesore, huh? 

Great ad but I wish they hired Andy Dick to play Rachel.
http://www2.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Premiere+Dreamworks+Nickelodeon+Hotel+Dogs+BZ0oxqswa1hl.jpg

That’s Rick Santorum

moved

Coffee spew. I guess Vince never noticed those little yellow stakes in
the ground along with those clear cut paths that run through the fields
and woods…you know, those natural gas pipelines that are everywhere.

It seems that since she is both gay and works for MSNBC, she gets the usual ignornamuses and tea dreggers all riled up.

A bit of both.

Wow, I grew out of that juvenile level of humor in 10th grade,

How dumb ARE you people? Get a map of all of the pipelines ALREADY crossing the US. During WWII, the government was desperate to get energy to the East coast to run the plants to ramp up production for the war effort. 

I assume that most of you want to go “Amish”- feel free, but let the rest of us enjoy the fruits of civilization. No one wants dirty air or dirty water and none of the companies who produce oil and gas want oil spills, etc- if nothing else, it’s too expensive. 

If you have an “electric” car, WHERE IN THE WORLD DO YOU THINK THE ELECTRICITY COMES FROM? You can’t stick a kite into the air and pull down electricity. D’uh. 

The company has already moved the portion of the pipeline that was in question. Canada is not going to sit around and wait for Obama to play politics with the pipeline- they’ll simply build a pipeline to the west coast of Canada and sell the oil to the Chinese.

 If you’re so clever, why don’t YOU come up with an alternative to the internal combustion engine? You don’t want nuclear power, you don’t want oil or gas, you seem to only want solar power or “condor cuisinarts!” Have you not figured out that solar and wind are NOT constant and reliable sources of power? Go out and buy Mark Levin’s book, “Ameritopia” and realize that “Utopia” DOES NOT AND CANNOT exist- anywhere, ever.

and someone said Obama was going to give all the children ponies for their birthday

bye

So, you don’t think it was an oxymoron moment? Funny, I would have thought you would catch that.

How dumb ARE you people? Get a map of all of the pipelines ALREADY crossing the US. During WWII, the government was desperate to get energy to the East coast to run the plants to ramp up production for the war effort. 

I assume that most of you want to go “Amish”- feel free, but let the rest of us enjoy the fruits of civilization. No one wants dirty air or dirty water and none of the companies who produce oil and gas want oil spills, etc- if nothing else, it’s too expensive. 

If you have an “electric” car, WHERE IN THE WORLD DO YOU THINK THE ELECTRICITY COMES FROM? You can’t stick a kite into the air and pull down electricity. D’uh. 

The company has already moved the portion of the pipeline that was in question. Canada is not going to sit around and wait for Obama to play politics with the pipeline- they’ll simply build a pipeline to the west coast of Canada and sell the oil to the Chinese.

 If you’re so clever, why don’t YOU come up with an alternative to the internal combustion engine? You don’t want nuclear power, you don’t want oil or gas, you seem to only want solar power or “condor cuisinarts!” Have you not figured out that solar and wind are NOT constant and reliable sources of power? Go out and buy Mark Levin’s book, “Ameritopia” and realize that “Utopia” DOES NOT AND CANNOT exist- anywhere, ever.

Kinda like telephone, and electric poles.

“near iconic status”….so funny TC; in your dreams mayhaps.

Actually, I do think they should build the pipeline. But spare us the slam against Maddows, who at least has a college education as opposed to fatheads like Beck, Hannity or Rush

“The ad does correctly point out that the pipeline enjoys some support from Democrats and labor unions, but doesn’t mention the significant environmental risks involved. This isn’t a question of whether some beavers might be put out of their habitat; the Keystone pipeline poses a threat to one of the world’s largest aquifers, which supplies irrigation and drinking water to eight states.”One must wonder whether the rube who authored such commentary is even dimly aware of the fact that thousands of miles of oil and gas pipelines have been crisscrossing the Ogallala Aquifer for decades without significantly befouling the environment?The original pipeline route was only manipulated into a controversy by Big Green because it crossed the Nebraska Sand Hills in the far north eastern corner of the Ogallala. 

AND would make it so the unemployment would never go above 8.5%

moved

I think, unconvincingly, would have been a better analogy. She was too feminine to pull off a good Maddow impression.

It’s always amusing to hear conservatives say no one pays attention to this women yet they have to run adds to attack her. Why do that if no one is paying attention?

Make sure you don’t miss the Daily Show tonight! That’s real high brow, sophisticated stuff!
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em!

So…..is Fox News doing something right since Obama has felt a need to mention them several times?  Sean Hannity  particularly.    Don’t screw yourself into the ground with your backspin now.

Wow! now it’s up to 130,000 jobs now? I wonder how many jobs it will be come election day.

We sure don’t want those 10,000 jobs! No sir, not after they inflated the number……geese. We’ll show them, we’ll stop that pipe and in so doing, shut off the energy and jobs, that’ll show’em…yes sir….

If only she were also Black, it would be a trifecta.

(R)egressives are NOT funny.

Arrogant elitist. Many of the posters to whom you have addressed your remarks only walked by the 10th grade on the way to lunch.

It would seem the Republicans have made her iconic. Demonstrably so.

They probably inflated it in a sarcastic way to emulate Obama’s ‘jobs created and jobs saved’ claim.  Heck, they may as well have said 130 million jobs, it’d have just as much truth as Obama’s claim.

‘Fair and Balanced’ evokes the image of Fox News. ‘Lean Forward’ calls forth first, the image of snapping on the latex glove and then, MSNBC. Why would someone do this on purpose and then brag about it?

“tea dreggers”

No you didn’t.

Lmao… Romney fired more than 10,000 people in an hour….

Good thing we don’t have those giant unsightly, noisy  windmills either….wait a minute…..nevermind

Her status is comedic, not iconic, among moderates.

When one of your very own prominent and very popular GOP leader, also a Presidential candidate bizarrely expresses support for corpse desecratio­n and another supports child labor then the NRCC should be very careful mocking anyone on ANY subject.

Oops! You forgot a few….  you know like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt just to name a few..  the list is long but impressive all the same. 

Did you even read TC’s article?  It appears not based on your comment.

Yeah and my kid was really pissed about that a few weeks back…  I think that he has now become a republican at much to early an age.  

Since you’re posting to Mediaite, you may have already seen some ratings for The Rachel Maddow Show;  on an average weekday night NOT OPPOSITE A DEBATE (like last night), she reaches one-million-plus viewers in the 9:00 pm Eastern Time slot, according to tvbythenumbers.com.  That site doesn’t display the number of viewers for the midnight showing in the East, 9:00 pm Pacific time.

“A little more than a year later, the slogan, and the commercials, have reached near-iconic status,”

Yep, you know what’s iconic?  The MSNBC Super PAC campaign commercials.  Really.  They are “iconic”.  Really. 

Bwahahaha.

Oh, Tommy.  You’re so silly sometimes.  Well, often times.  Unfortunately for you, I think it’s unintentional.  But, it’s fun for us!

Anything related to MSNBC is “iconic” much the same way the shake weight is. 

John Boehner told me he’s gonna create jobs.

Wonder if Tommy thinks Fox News is vindicated every time somebody calls it “Faux Noise”?

You’re playing the college education card?  Who gives a shiite?  Having a college degree means you took the requisite courses to obtain a degree.  Thabits Aball.  There are plenty of dumba$$es with a degree and plenty of brilliant people without one. 

It’s sad that the Democrats feel so threatened by a conservative TV talking
head. (Nevertheless, I’m sure they appreciate the recognition.)

Or it’s just funny.

That analogy works both ways. you do see that right?

I mocking only funny when liberals do it?

So an educated person uses “teaba@@er”?

Something We Should Be Worried About, but Aren’t: Water.
Under the high plains of the midwest, there is a resource called the Ogallala Aquifer, which is a subsystem of a huge underground mega-system called the High Plains Aquifer. It is made of permeable layers of sand, sandstone, and gravel within which are contained billions and billions of gallons of water. The nature of the aquifer geology makes the water easy to pump. The system covers 174,000 square miles beneath eight different states, ranging north-south from North Dakota to Texas, and from Nebraska in the east all the way west to parts of New Mexico. Nebraska depends most vitally on the water found in the aquifer. And there are two concerns about the aquifer that ought to be serious concerns in our politics, but that aren’t. One of them isn’t being treated as a concern at all. The other is not being treated seriously, but instead as a slogan and one more litmus test by the Republican presidential candidates, and as some sort of nuisance complaint by a Democratic administration that appears to be falling down on the job

None of the GOP candidates, including Perry, take at all seriously most of the science behind the anthropogenic climate change that many scientists believe is behind the horrendous drought conditions that are putting such a strain on the depleted aquifer. (Perry thinks the whole thing is a scam thought up by scientists who are just trying to suck up grant money.) But, while they may not be concerned about the Ogallala Aquifer, they do all love them some of that XL pipeline. Prior to the Iowa Straw Poll, all eight of them pledged their undying fealty to the project. It is now one of those things you have to say if you want to be a serious Republican player. No abortions. No tax hikes on anyone or anything ever. And glory be to the XL pipeline.
The XL — also known as the Keystone Pipeline — is an ambitious project that seeks to transport 900,000 barrels a day of synthetic crude oil and diluted bitumen all the way from upper Alberta in Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. This is to enable the energy companies to exploit the Athabasca “tar sands,” and it is the latest miracle of “energy independence” being peddled by the extraction industries. There is a lot of money and political clout behind it; to the surprise of absolutely nobody, the Koch Brothers, the Randolph and Mortimer Duke of wingnut welfare, stand to make a fortune if and when the pipeline is built.
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/ogallala-aquifer-6531527#ixzz1jkhYJG6M.

Each side needs a boogieman. Soros = Koch.

Something We Should Be Worried About, but Aren’t: Water.

Under the high plains of the midwest, there is a resource called the Ogallala Aquifer, which is a subsystem of a huge underground mega-system called the High Plains Aquifer. It is made of permeable layers of sand, sandstone, and gravel within which are contained billions and billions of gallons of water. The nature of the aquifer geology makes the water easy to pump. The system covers 174,000 square miles beneath eight different states, ranging north-south from North Dakota to Texas, and from Nebraska in the east all the way west to parts of New Mexico. Nebraska depends most vitally on the water found in the aquifer. And there are two concerns about the aquifer that ought to be serious concerns in our politics, but that aren’t. One of them isn’t being treated as a concern at all. The other is not being treated seriously, but instead as a slogan and one more litmus test by the Republican presidential candidates, and as some sort of nuisance complaint by a Democratic administration that appears to be falling down on the job

None of the GOP candidates, including Perry, take at all seriously most of the science behind the anthropogenic climate change that many scientists believe is behind the horrendous drought conditions that are putting such a strain on the depleted aquifer. (Perry thinks the whole thing is a scam thought up by scientists who are just trying to suck up grant money.) But, while they may not be concerned about the Ogallala Aquifer, they do all love them some of that XL pipeline. Prior to the Iowa Straw Poll, all eight of them pledged their undying fealty to the project. It is now one of those things you have to say if you want to be a serious Republican player. No abortions. No tax hikes on anyone or anything ever. And glory be to the XL pipeline.
The XL — also known as the Keystone Pipeline — is an ambitious project that seeks to transport 900,000 barrels a day of synthetic crude oil and diluted bitumen all the way from upper Alberta in Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. This is to enable the energy companies to exploit the Athabasca “tar sands,” and it is the latest miracle of “energy independence” being peddled by the extraction industries. There is a lot of money and political clout behind it; to the surprise of absolutely nobody, the Koch Brothers, the Randolph and Mortimer Duke of wingnut welfare, stand to make a fortune if and when the pipeline is built.
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/ogallala-aquifer-6531527#ixzz1jkhYJG6M

Something We Should Be Worried About, but Aren’t: Water.

Under the high plains of the midwest, there is a resource called the Ogallala Aquifer, which is a subsystem of a huge underground mega-system called the High Plains Aquifer. It is made of permeable layers of sand, sandstone, and gravel within which are contained billions and billions of gallons of water. The nature of the aquifer geology makes the water easy to pump. The system covers 174,000 square miles beneath eight different states, ranging north-south from North Dakota to Texas, and from Nebraska in the east all the way west to parts of New Mexico. Nebraska depends most vitally on the water found in the aquifer. And there are two concerns about the aquifer that ought to be serious concerns in our politics, but that aren’t. One of them isn’t being treated as a concern at all. The other is not being treated seriously, but instead as a slogan and one more litmus test by the Republican presidential candidates, and as some sort of nuisance complaint by a Democratic administration that appears to be falling down on the job

None of the GOP candidates, including Perry, take at all seriously most of the science behind the anthropogenic climate change that many scientists believe is behind the horrendous drought conditions that are putting such a strain on the depleted aquifer. (Perry thinks the whole thing is a scam thought up by scientists who are just trying to suck up grant money.) But, while they may not be concerned about the Ogallala Aquifer, they do all love them some of that XL pipeline. Prior to the Iowa Straw Poll, all eight of them pledged their undying fealty to the project. It is now one of those things you have to say if you want to be a serious Republican player. No abortions. No tax hikes on anyone or anything ever. And glory be to the XL pipeline.
The XL — also known as the Keystone Pipeline — is an ambitious project that seeks to transport 900,000 barrels a day of synthetic crude oil and diluted bitumen all the way from upper Alberta in Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. This is to enable the energy companies to exploit the Athabasca “tar sands,” and it is the latest miracle of “energy independence” being peddled by the extraction industries. There is a lot of money and political clout behind it; to the surprise of absolutely nobody, the Koch Brothers, the Randolph and Mortimer Duke of wingnut welfare, stand to make a fortune if and when the pipeline is built.
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/ogallala-aquifer-6531527#ixzz1jkhYJG6M

“Presidential candidate bizarrely expresses support for corpse desecratio­n”

Quite wrong, I agree.  Guess you are just as outraged by our CIC also? 

I’m really digging the way those solar panels look attached to every single telephone pole in New Jersey.

Obama won’t let him!

Just another failed attempt at Republicans trying to be humorous!! If they really wanted to score a hit, they should be mocking Fox News’ “Fair & Balanced”!!

Leave it to the humorless to miss that.

They are afraid they may catch “the gay”.

Except these can rupture and harm America’s water supply.

Where did you get that idea?

So if Maddow is really so irrelevant and her audience so tiny, why would the NRCC stoop to take a swat at someone they think is inconsequential?

Are these 12 pipelines going underneath giant aquifers as well?

Take a ride over to PA, look at those once pristine ridge tops and try to stifle your vomit.

According to the article I just posted and the Canadian government, it doesn’t look like Canada is waiting around for Obama’s political games.

My neighbor and friend (who is also Black) is a recently unemployed pipeline engineer who is having trouble finding another job contract. He has alot of mouths to feed too. Shame there isn’t some big pipeline project nearby for him to work at that would also lower the nation’s fuel and food costs while weening the nation off middle eastern oil. Remember how big a deal that was to candidate Obama?

http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/10/10/what-are-the-keystonexl-pipeline-risks-to-water-resources/

http://www.gsjw.com/catalogs/catalog110/section175/file554.pdf

You will certainly admit that hostile jokes directed at gays and lesbians are almost exclusively the province of conservatives. Belittling Maddow for her not being “girly” enough is right out of the swamp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE23NuY5T44

LMFAO…Less than 13,000 hits! So iconic!

I got over 25,000 hits for a crummy Jon Stewart/Anthony Weiner video I threw together in five minutes

You are assuming that the NRCC has a measurable intelligence.

Just so we know what we’re talking about — which conservative talking head has the DNC mocked in a commercial?

Keep reading “News”week for fair and balanced then Lapdog. And what is it with you chickenlittle liberals trying to save the world from Fox News? Always wanting to save the world, lapdog? Is anyone not quite convinced yet that liberals find Fox News threatening?

a little sensitive

None of them are either alive nor right wing media fatheads

And you would have the admit that hostile jokes toward religious people is almost exclusively done by liberals. True.

I was making a general statement. Do I not have a point? If you want I can look for one later.

The only refinery Koch Industries owns on the Gulf is in Corpus Christie. The pipeline isn’t proposed to go anywhere near there.

Do you just make your facts up or has someone been bullshitting you? Where did you get the idea that oil sands can’t be refined into diesel? Diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel are all in the plans.

Very true, very true. But if I was going to bet on who may be smart or not, and all I knew is where they went to school, like Maddow is a Rhodes scholar, I would play the odds and bet on the college degree. Because both Hannity & Beck sound pretty stupid and low brow, even with their teams of advisors and writers behind them

No more than you.

What is with you ignorant Conservatives always wanting to destroy the world and use Fox News as your mouth-piece??

Furthermore, Liberals find Fox News disgusting and deceiving and just like to point those facts out to others!!

Not me. Never have. Never will.

oh no, the dreaded Big Green! There coming for my Hummer and Escalade, my 2 stroke 4 wheelers, dirt bikes and  snowmobiles and my helicopter and jet too. I mean 4 wheeling over wilderness areas is good for the land.

I am sorry but you shouldn’t promote anything but saying “Lean Backwards” irony or not

LMAO!!!

Was aimed more at your friends on the left than yourself. Sorry. Should have made that clear.

And conservatives are more likely to make racist jokes. We can do this endlessly, but it gets us nowhere. I was simply responding to your comment that seemed to pooh-pooh the gay-bashing joke. If you want to turn this into a tit for tat, have fun, but I’m not going to participate.

Not really. You’re creating a fictional event and trying to make it fit your narrative. When you have an actual DNC spot that stoops to attack a conservative pundit, let me know.

Those “4″ viewers are smarter than the entire viewership of fox news! Yourself included.

Like most pipelines, Keystone XL is buried. In its case at a depth of four feet. The depth of the Ogallala in the part of Nebraska it is projected to run through is deeper than 300 feet. The Sand Hills section was problematic because the water table varies wildly and is sometimes less than four feet deep.

Ahh – there’s the resentment factor, right on cue. 

http://www.tv.com/shows/the-rachel-maddow-show/ 

Plus, I guarantee you Roger Ailes would take her demographic over Hannitty’s greater number of unemployed mouth-breathing droolers.

I’m not sure her being lesbian is anything more than a hook for the resentment. The wingers pretty much love going after Olbermann to the same extent. But she’s proven quite a bit better & more resilient (that is, less thin-skinned) than Olberman (tho both Olbermann & she credit him for convincing msnbc to take her on board).

No, the idea that the aquifer feeds the Colorado River. BTW, changing it to Columbia River makes it even more dopey, as the Columbia is nowhere near the Ogalla Aquifer.

Drama Queen !!!

No, I see progressives calling conservatives gay and making homosexual insinuations here at Mediaite all the time. As for calling Maddow Dude-like, well, I guess she’s a swamp dweller. http://tinyurl.com/74rxkga

The Emperor Prefers The Word “Cracker” !!

I Love Lesbians !!

The Ogallala Aquifer is east of the Rocky Mountains. It would be impossible for any of it to lie within the Columbia River’s watershed. Anyone with even a rudimentary grasp of geography would instantly recognize how silly such a statement is. Neither of your links makes such a claim.

I did mean Colorado river. My bad

Dude, the Colorado River lies west of the Continental Divide. The Ogallala lies east of the Continental Divide and is recharged only by rivers that lie east of the Divide.

And neither article you link in any way suggests that the Ogallala “feeds” the Colorado River. That is just non-sensical. 

It really isn’t about building the Keystone – it’s about manufacturing a ‘win’ over Obama.  

But okay – let’s look at the talking points:

The Keystone will a shitload of money for a handful of Canadian tar sands mining companies (some with some minority U.S. ownership). Then, on being transported, it will make another shitload of money for a Canadian-owned pipeline company, TCPL. Finally, it will make a another shitload of money for a number of currently underutilized refineries in Texas, all of which are owned by multinationals.

If Keystone gets approved for construction, it will create a brief flurry of direct employment for a construction force – but one mainly of TCPL’s own Canadian workers – & with it a brief flurry of limited indirect stimulus to U.S. service industries along the construction route (hotels, motels, restaurants … & prostitutes), but both those flurries won’t last more than a couple of years. 

Now – once the sludge gets to Texas for refining, it provides maybe up to 3,000 more ‘permanent’ technical jobs, mostly in the Houston area – but at the same time it’s going to create an enormous strain on Houston-area fresh water resources: the refining process is incredibly demanding on fresh water (This could – should – result in a big increase in desalination projects in the Houston area, but if it does, then most of the construction & technical expertise in that area is Scandinavian, British & Canadian, at this point getting most of their work in that area in the Middle Eastern Gulf area, primarily in Saudi Arabia.), plus an enormous impact on ambient air quality & groundwater security (The tailings ponds in the region where the Canadian tar sands are mined are more like lakes than ponds; go to Google Maps to see how huge they are.). 

But hey, energy is energy, so the argument devolves to whether the U.S. being able to secure more of this extremely toxic energy source is going to lead to some sort of employment stimulus. The answer should be obvious: no. That’s because the very essence of artificially-introduced energy is to substitute for expensive human-produced energy; that is, this added energy will go almost entirely to automated uses, to DE-emphasize dependency on human energy. 

There will be a stimulus – but it won’t be in employment; indeed, over the long term, even over the medium term, it will result in increased unemployment in every area except one: medical care.

So… no college for Liberals = good, no college for Republicans = bad?

Maddow is a hypocrite when it comes to that commercial because her and the looney environmentalists all would not allow the Hoover dam to be built today due to fish and environmental concerns. If she was a real woman (not sure on that one either) she would speak the truth…

Aquifers run underground over vast area. The point is you are runnning a pipeline through and under a giant watershed.

It is not a threat that moderates and conservatives feel when they think of Madcow. It is derision.

Thus, she is a natural object to taunt when it comes to a political ad focusing on infrastructure.

I bet that’s what you tell ‘em.

>> Tommy Christopher: “The ad doesn’t mention the significant
environmental risks involved. This isn’t a question of whether some
beavers might be put out of their habitat; the Keystone pipeline poses a
threat to one of the world’s largest aquifers, which supplies
irrigation and drinking water to eight states.”

>> Kerry: “One must wonder whether the rube who authored such commentary is even
dimly aware of the fact that thousands of miles of oil and gas pipelines
have been crisscrossing the Ogallala Aquifer FOR DECADES without significantly befouling the environment?”

SHHH…you’re forgetting that this is a Tommy Christopher piece.
No reason a little thing called FACTS should get in the way!

Remember, we’re officially in the new election cycle and Tommy has to be a dutiful water carrier for Obama. Which, in the months to come, is going to make his rants and raves all the more hilarious to read as he continually makes totally absurd reaches. Watching Tommy as he comically fumbles around in the dark and tries to regurgitate the latest talking point he got from DNC command is equivalent to watching John Belushi getting all worked up at the end of ANIMAL HOUSE…

Bluto: What? Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until we decide it is!
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!!!!

Otter (puzzled): The Germans?

Boon: Forget it, he’s rolling.

Rachel is the recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award. She is wick-eyd smahhrt. She uses these things called Facts and Data when she reports. It drives those on the right crazy because, as we all know, facts have a liberal bias.

>> Tommy Christopher: “The ad doesn’t mention the significant environmental risks involved. This isn’t a question of whether some beavers might be put out of their habitat; the Keystone pipeline poses a threat to one of the world’s largest aquifers, which supplies irrigation and drinking water to eight states.”

>> Kerry: “One must wonder whether the rube who authored such commentary is even dimly aware of the fact that thousands of miles of oil and gas pipelines have been crisscrossing the Ogallala Aquifer FOR DECADES without significantly befouling the environment?”

SHHH…you’re forgetting this is a Tommy Christopher piece.
No reason a little thing called FACTS should ever get in the way!

Remember, we’re officially in the new election cycle and Tommy has to be a dutiful water carrier for Obama. Which, in the months to come, is going to make his rants and raves all the more hilarious to read as he continually makes totally absurd reaches. Watching Tommy as he comically fumbles around in the dark and tries to regurgitate the latest talking point he got from DNC command is equivalent to watching John Belushi getting all worked up at the end of ANIMAL HOUSE as he frantically tries to convince his fellow frat mates to take action…

BLUTO: What? Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until we decide it is!
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!!!!

OTTER (puzzled): The Germans?

BOON: Forget it, he’s rolling.

You lost me at “Madcow.” Are you in the third grade?

You get lost very easily then.

Did you even finish second grade?

Long ago. And even back in second grade I’d have thought that “Madcow” was pretty juvenile.

Wow, you have a helicopter and a jet? Guess you must be one of those greedy 1%’ers. 

Other than that revelation your post in nothing but useless prattle.

Wow, you have a helicopter and a jet? Guess you must be one of those greedy 1%’ers. 

Other than that revelation your post in nothing but useless prattle.

Wow, you have a helicopter and a jet? Guess you must be one of those greedy 1%’ers. 

Other than that revelation your post in nothing but useless prattle.

I find your offense at the use of figurative speech, specifically a pun, exceedingly juvenile.

And indicative of a limited and irrationally partisan intellect.

Thanks to its abuse by Fox News, the term “fair and balanced” has become the double-speak term of the decade.

Maddow was awarded the Walter Cronkite Faith & Freedom Award by The Interfaith Alliance. A progressive charitable front group that the Better Business Bureau strongly suggests donors avoid due to its shady accounting standards and lack of charitable activities:  http://www.bbb.org/charity-reviews/national/civil-rights/interfaith-alliance-foundation-in-washington-dc-6891
I’m not sure why a real journalist would even accept an award from such an organization. 

Says the man who thinks name calling is a suitable replacement for argument.

Just grow up.

Where is it?

Nothing at the BBB negates the purpose and intention of the recognition. Nor does it negate her superlative journalism and journalistic standards.

Regarding the award:
“The award ‘recognizes individuals who courageously promote democratic values, defend religious freedom, and reinvigorate informed civic participation,’ according to an announcement from the Alliance. [Walter] Cronkite served as Honorary Chairman of the organization until his death….”

It’s something in the DNA or lack there of. Sophomoric, asinine,bull$hit. This is why there are no t-bag J. Stewarts or S. Colberts.

Tommy calls Maddow a “Star”. LOL. He praises ads for a losing network that is going nowhere.
Tommy is delusional.
The arrogance of the people on MSNBC is amusing. They talk like they have influence and viewers. If I had a show on a major cable network that got less than a million viewers most of the time I would not brag about having a show. Maddow and crew should be hiding under her desk.

you betcha

That’s funny…. What jobs bill did the GOP offer

What does being black have to do with anything?

The actress should have used a deeper voice.

To Obama’s sycophant media…way too much.

Here’s one. You should expand your news sources, if you have any.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2011-10-13/Republicans-jobs-bill/50756360/1

The problem isn’t the politics so much as the CUT FROM Hoover Dam to: A CRAPPY LOOKING DITCH with a pipe in it. lol EPIC VISUAL FAIL.

Another creative facepalm by conservatives. (btw, i think they should start the pipe line.)

Why am I not surprised the GOP are championing a bill that would create most of the jobs abroad. 

No, the point is that your claim that the Ogalla feeds the Colorado is just dumb and utterly incorrect.

Obama is a big fan. http://tinyurl.com/7n9jufd

Fox beats her in the demo, numbnuts.

Every time you want to use the word “conservative,” please consider the alternative word, “fundamentalist.” The vast majority of these people are not conservative. They are radical fundamentalists that want to blow up our society and replace it with some sort of free market utopia. That goal is anything but conservative.

There are 27 jobs bills sitting on Harry Reid’s desk. He refuses to even let them be heard in the Senate, because all the Democrats do is obstruct progress. Do a little research before you make such stupid comments.

http://www.gop.gov/indepth/jobs/tracker

Today’s liberals wouldn’t allow the Hoover Dam to be built (over so called environmental “concerns”), because today’s liberals are nothing but anti-progress obstructionists.

In case you don’t know because you’ve been watching tabloid entertainment at Faux, The Rachel Maddow Show is the top rated cable news show on MSNBC.  Viewers are most known to go to her for factual advice on the issues. 

Unlike Hannity where the demographic is solidly only older white male lifelong Republicans looking for hyper-partisan rhetoric and rubbernecking ‘what did he just say? that’s crazy!!’ news.

People watch Fox because it is hilarious. The contributors actually think they’re reporters, the reporters actually think they discuss real news, and the best part is no one tells them it’s all a big joke and we are laughing at them, not with them.

It’s like comedy central but more humiliating.

and Gay. oh wait. and a woman!.  oh wait a sec.  And a Democrat.  daggon, just a minute.  And a friend of Oprah! Okay, now that does it@!

In other words, you are an out of work bum……

Can you imagine Madcow’s face  between Rosie’s fat, cheesy, cellulite, hairy, smelly, slimey thighs……sexy !!!

A folk singers work is never done.

I “fundamentally” agree with you. The people who claim the mantle of conservatism would probably make William F. Buckley throw up in his mouth.

Your rupturing our commonsense supply. Did you know the earths flat and if you walk too far you’ll fall off?

Just how does that apply to this issue?!

But not enough, not to comment on it.

The proposed pipeline is not the one shown on TV, it’s not the essentially straight line one shown.  It instead connects to, runs parallel to, and in some instances, ties into Koch brother facilities along the way. Since I am, like the rest of the world having trouble accessing  needed information today, I cannot at this time provide the link.  But rest assured the Koch brothers stand to gain substantially should the XL pipeline be approved.

Yes? It IS mockery after all. 

Is she really gay…. how come she never smiles……never mind laugh.
  Oh, ok…….. Fox didn’t hire her and had to settle for …msnbc 

Ridiculing the ridiculous.
Will the REAL Rachael Maddow please STFU.

Your implication is that most people are idiots?

It is curious that Republicans are absolutely incapable of being funny.  How come none of those Daily Show ripoffs ever work?  This Maddow thing is the most tone-deaf attempt at comedy since I don’t know when.

She does have a habit of falling for hoaxes.  She had to issue 2 or 3 retractions last year.