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Rachel Maddow Points And Laughs At Politico’s Coverage Of P90X Workout On Capitol Hill

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by Tommy Christopher | 11:21 pm, June 14th, 2011

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On Tuesday night’s The Rachel Maddow Show, eponymous host Rachel Maddow noted what appears to be a peculiar pattern of reporting by Politico. Running down a litany of stories stretching back 20 months, Maddow noticed that the DC website had managed to mention the P90X workout ten times during that span, including several front page stories, and wondered aloud, “Are they (Politico) in love?”

While the criticism was made in a lighthearted fashion, it was also oddly vague. Is it that the P90X workout lacks sufficient gravity to warrant so many mentions? Is it that they’re desperate for clicks from the P90X press page? Exploiting Congressional abs for sex appeal?

In Politico’s defense, the P90X workout is something of a pop culture phenomenon, along the lines of the Slap Chop or the Snuggie, and its adoption by a group of congressmen is exactly the kind of trend you would expect a DC-centric site like Politico to identify, and track.

Ten mentions in twenty months might sound like a lot, but not when you measure it against the voracious demands of a 24-hour news cycle with a 7 second attention span.

On the other hand, that “X’ salute is goofy in the X-Treme.

Here’s the segment, from MSNBC:

P90X, Politico, Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show

cjd ohio 1

and this was the person yesterday bitching about the important issues lol
slickerwick

i thought she wanted to focus on important issues? What a hypocrite, not to mention a juvenile ass.

I don’t watch her show. Did she happen to mention that the Piss Prize Winner has today ramped up predator drones against Yemen?
slickerwick

Interesting how Obomber has started two new wars and very little discussion of it in the lapdog press. Imagine if he had an R on his jersey instead of a D.
http://www.facebook.com/miraclelurker Ellen Carey Rowe

Love you Rachel !
seek

the depth that this girl goes to for a story is just amazing. That’s what happens when you’re the “genius” I guess. lol
slickerwick

Ellen Carey Rowe said:
Love you Rachel !

Maybe she’ll tweet you and send some photos. Anything can happen!
Dem4Ever

Move over Cronkite…Maddow has just surpassed you as the most serious and trusted news person ever.
illusive man

I tried to watch the video, but all I seen and heard was a bleating goat sitting behind a table.
How very strange.
http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

No wonder I do not watch MSNBC, that is supposed to be news? Or political or what?

That is right, everything is great in the world like the economy is great, catastrophic peace has broken out, the government is living within it’s means.

Oh well, I am glad to find out that Politico is running too many stories about P90X!

Next on the Rachel Maddow show, Mediaite covers MSNBC too many times!
http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

seek said:
the depth that this girl goes to for a story is just amazing. That’s what happens when you’re the “genius” I guess. lol

Must be another of those measurements on a curve we always hear about. I guess if they were measuring only those on MSNBC!
http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

Question, when was Egypt mentioned last on MSNBC?

Now that Egypt has become such a bastion of peace and democracy, pay no attention to the Christians being slaughtered, the call for war with Israel, the MB forming a political party, Egypt not supplying Israel with natural gas (that non fossil fuel that Pelosi likes to speak about) etc etc etc.

Heck, why don’t they send Maddow over there to do a special on the Democracy that has broken out?
RhapsodyinBlue

cjd ohio 1 said:
and this was the person yesterday bitching about the important issues lol

Let me fill in the blank spaces for the people too dumb to figure it out, she’s talking about how Politico has product placement in their articles, a bad sign for anyone a fan of journalism or fairness.
Glackin

RhapsodyinBlue said:
Let me fill in the blank spaces for the people too dumb to figure it out, she’s talking about how Politico has product placement in their articles, a bad sign for anyone a fan of journalism or fairness.

Subtlety is not their forte. They are more “Three Stooges”, sledgehammer to the head types.
OxyCon

Politico and P90X must be some of those “important” stories Maddow was worrying about…what was it…yesterday?:

In the eyes of Maddow, the massive amount of news coverage dedicated to the recent sexting scandal of Rep. Weiner has become an enormous distraction from more important political and economic news. After listing a lot of far more significant news items that are currently being ignored by the mainstream media, she makes what seems to be a very valid point: our nation’s apparent obsession with “Weiner” is coming at the expense of other more significant news.
OxyCon

seek said:
the depth that this girl goes to for a story is just amazing. That’s what happens when you’re the “genius” I guess. lol

This is what Maddow meant when she said “we begin tonight with a story no one is talking about” in her “Loon Forward” commercial.
Jaurez

Wow, that’s some really hard hitting “news” there maddow…
Jaurez

SockyinBlue said:
Let me fill in the blank spaces for the people too dumb to figure it out, she’s talking about how Politico has product placement in their articles, a bad sign for anyone a fan of journalism or fairness.

And cjd was talking about how just yesterday maddow was screaming “it’s about the real Issues!” or did you glaze over that part?
Jaurez

SockyinBlue said:
a bad sign for anyone a fan of journalism or fairness.

As you sit glued to msnbc specifically the maddow show. Oh, the f’n irony.
RhapsodyinBlue

Jaurez said:
And cjd was talking about how just yesterday maddow was screaming “it’s about the real Issues!” or did you glaze over that part?

Yeah, because journalistic integrity isn’t important, especially not on one of the most influential political sites on the net, no. Spoken like a true FoxNews fan
Jaurez

SockyinBlue said:
FoxNews

*drink*
RhapsodyinBlue

Jaurez said:
*drink*

You forgot to mention your beverage: Kool Aid
Jaurez

Nope…Pale Ale. ;)
DookieStainLaFlair

RhapsodyinBlue said:
Yeah, because journalistic integrity isn’t important, especially not on one of the most influential political sites on the net, no. Spoken like a true FoxNews fan

Do you get paid royalties every time you mention FOX?

Why are you even bringing up fox at all?

This article is about a strange little boy and his obsession with politico.
Jaurez

It’s official: The housing crisis that began in 2006 and has recently entered a double dip is now worse than the Great Depression.

Rachel? Hello? Is this thing on?
Glackin

Jaurez said:
It’s official: The housing crisis that began in 2006 and has recently entered a double dip is now worse than the Great Depression.

Rachel? Hello? Is this thing on?

http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/affordablehousing/programs/home/addi/

Found your villain! Have another 800!
Big Eddie

Maddow . So, you prefer the exercise your friend Weiner does in the gym ?
Just4thefax

Fact: Didn’t madcow star in the movie where’s Pat?
TfT

This is the real rachel, she has two speeds:

1. Make fun of other people.
2. Threaten to out closeted gays who are in the public eye.

Yup, COMCAST is proud of this one.

MSNBC/NBC – a joke and a disgrace.
cjd ohio 1

RhapsodyinBlue said:
Yeah, because journalistic integrity isn’t important, especially not on one of the most influential political sites on the net, no. Spoken like a true FoxNews fan

and what would rachel know about journalistic intergrity? she is no journalist, and has no intergrity
writer

Rachel’s idea of fairness is when she’s laughing at someone, she can point at them with either hand.
W.I.S.C

cjd ohio 1 said:
and what would rachel know about journalistic intergrity?

She brought in Larry Flynt in an attempt to spin Weinergate onto Republicans.
lane

DavidKramer

Next on the Rachel Maddow show, Mediaite covers MSNBC too many times!

Funny!

The clip itself was very youtube-type funny. She obviously had NO CLUE the this is a fitness craze, and her non-athletic movements and snarky comments made me laugh… Free commercial for the company though….
MrTPar_taY

That’s OK-Lots of us laugh and point at her!
http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

lane said:
Funny!

The clip itself was very youtube-type funny. She obviously had NO CLUE the this is a fitness craze, and her non-athletic movements and snarky comments made me laugh… Free commercial for the company though….

I thought it was funny. I guess the thumbs down was for the other things I said. Or maybe it is just me. Ya think? LOL
5ASMC

Id give her 500 bucks if she could complete 1 month of the program straight.