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Rachel Maddow Calmly Targets Glenn Beck: ‘Politics As Performance Art’

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Is Rachel Maddow going to make it her job to target Glenn Beck, Van Jones-style? Maddow calmly went to town on Beck last night — “the sous chef of politics as performance art” — about his 9-12 Project which takes place tomorrow in Washington DC. According to Beck’s promo, the day will celebrate the “9 founding principles and 12 eternal values,” which sort of sounds like Joel Osteen meets The Secret, with a little Joe Wilson thrown in for good measure!

Anyway, Maddow thinks that Beck is exploiting the tragedy of 9/11:

It’s called the 9/12 Project, it’s not the 9/11 Project presumably because 9-11 falls inconveniently on a Friday this year, not a Saturday. Is there a statute of limitations on when its okay to start being really blatant about exploiting a national tragedy for other purposes, did that statute expire this year.

Also, Maddow asks, what exactly is the connection between the day after 9/11 and Joe Wilson disrupting the President during a speech to Congress? (Fear?) The overall sense of the clip is that Maddow appears to be attempting to apply logic to her coverage of Beck, which is a refreshing change of ‘Worst Person in the World’ pace, and also something more of the MSM might want to try in light of Beck’s growing influence on White House staffing. Will it have any effect? Doubtful — unless she turns it into a nightly campaign! — but it’s a nice change from the normal cable hyperbole.


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  • JimW

    Wow, Glynnis, it’s a good thing no one watches Rachel Maddow. She’s a joke. Glenn Beck, on the other hand, has a huge audience and is extremely effective in exposing the lunatic fringe in government. Do you really want to give ACORN billions of dollars to do the census? They seem to be one catastrophically corrupt organization. But I guess you really can’t tell Rachel Maddow anything.

  • tjl

    Jim, not only do we want to give ACORN billions of dollars, but we want to subsidize abortions with your tax dollars, give free healthcare to any and everyone who illegally enters this country, raise your taxes so that black people don’t have to pay their mortgages, and build FEMA camps to put Republicans into when they disagree with our Haitian born president. THAT’S WHAT WE WANT TO DO! Glenn Beck is onto us, so this is why we are trying to silence him.

    Send me your address, Jim, and I’ll send you money for a membership to Match.com. I know it gets lonely out there….

  • JimW

    Please send all money knicker pictures to: Jim W, 60 rue de la Victoire, 6 rue Chantereine, The Petit Luxembourg Palace, Parus.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Fred-Farrar/1409154527 Fred Farrar

    If Mediaite is going to be little else but a repeat of MSNBC talking points, why bother?

    How about just one mention of Rachel’s numbers trend in the past nine months?

    Or Keith’s for that matter.

    No bogus comparisons with the fast-fading CNN, no excuses, no spin; just a straight recitation of their viewer numbers, total and news demo.

    Of course we all know that Keith and Rachel speak nothing but the truth and the FNC people are pompoius blowhards concerned only with their own egos.

    But since every clear-thinking viewer already knows those “facts”, why keep hammering the same points, day after day after day in Mediaite?

  • JimW

    oops…. Paris

  • Colby Hall

    Hi Fred – thanks for reading the site. Not sure that we’re little else but a repeat of MSNBC Talking points — do you think Bill O’Reilly would give as his on-air blessing if we were as you described?

    Thanks for reading and hope you come back to the site.

    Colby

  • TfT

    Blynnis says: “The overall sense of the clip is that Maddow appears to be attempting to apply logic to her coverage of Beck, which is a refreshing change of ‘Worst Person in the World’ pace, and also something more of the MSM might want to try in light of Beck’s growing influence on White House staffing.”

    Maddow is NOT attempting to apply logic to anything– Maddow continues her “teabagging” commentary, dismissing american citizens who are standing up against a “fundamental change” of this country.

    Why would the MSM want to take on Beck, given his influence on White House Staffing? What are you suggesting Glynnis? I thought the MSM was to serve the people not the Government.

    The MSM should be doing exactly WHAT Beck is doing, not working against him.

    A self-admitted communist and 9/11 truther is no longer in the White House — that’s a GOOD thing.
    Two ACORN employees have been fired based on what they were doing — that’s a GOOD thing.
    Thousands of people will be gathering in DC tomorrow to peacefully protest the Government’s takeover of their freedoms — that’s a GOOD thing.

    I guess “dissent is patriotic” only applies when a Republican is President.

    Maddow will have NO affect on Beck, other than to possibly make him laugh out loud on the air over her absurdity of claiming Beck is trying to exploit 9/11.

  • sarainitaly

    Once again, msnbc reveals how lame they are.

    Beck is exposing ACORN and their enabling of prostitution and child prostitution slavery, and Maddow is mocking Beck for his 9/12 project.

    A project that started in March, 2009.

    “The 9-12 project is designed to bring us all back to the place we were on Sept. 12, 2001. The day after American was attacked we were not obsessed with Red States, Blue States, or political parties. We were united as Americans, standing together to protect the values and principles of the greatest nation ever created.”

    I can see why Maddow would mock that….

    “It’s called the 9/12 Project, it’s not the 9/11 Project presumably because 9-11 falls inconveniently on a Friday this year, not a Saturday.” OK, I am sorry, but what a b*tch. That was an evil awful thing to say. Two seconds of research and she would have seen the above statement.

    She has become truly evil and hateful.

  • sarainitaly

    excuse my typo above, I was retyping what is on Beck’s site, and I goofed.

    The day after America was attacked…

  • TfT

    Sara: “Two seconds of research and she would have seen the above statement” Ditto’s for Glynnis who wrote this article.

    Research on MSNBC? HA! (in my best Chris Matthews imitation). It doesn’t exist. Rachel has one purpose, like the rest of MSNBC — cover for Obama, trash anyone who dissents.

    Remember: MSNBC Motto “It is my job to make sure this President succeeds” (Chris Matthews speaking on behalf of the network).

  • m

    The best part about you trashing MSNBC is that every single statement equally applies to Fox News. The difference is that MSNBC doesn’t pretend that they’re news channel or that they’re fair and balanced.

  • sarainitaly

    m says:
    September 11, 2009 at 2:04 pm

    Beck is exposing ACORN and their enabling of prostitution and child prostitution slavery, and Maddow is mocking Beck for his 9/12 project.

    “The difference is that MSNBC doesn’t pretend that they’re news channel or that they’re fair and balanced.”

    That’s completely obvious.

  • TfT

    Two more ACORN people were fired today — thanks to biggovernment and Glen Beck. So that’s four folks fired — seems to be a pattern going on at ACORN on how to teach folks to avoid paying taxes and supporting prostitution. HMMMMMMMM Rachel is ABSENT on this story. So yes, m, MSNBC proves they are NOT a news organization.

  • blrenz

    Tou know it’s funny to watch every time some show get’s great numbers msnbc does the same thing start insulting so to start a fight so people will watch…..Sad

  • blrenz

    sarainitaly….Are you off your Med’s

  • blrenz

    TfT …..Yeah I also hear OJ is out of work

  • blrenz

    Can some body tell me is Maddow a Man or woman or is it a shehe

  • sarainitaly

    blrenz – are you a bigot?

  • blahblahblah

    LOLz zOMG teh Stoopid has invaded Mediaite.

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