Rachel Maddow Talks to Dick Armey’s Cold Shoulder on MTP

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by Glynnis MacNicol | 11:59 am, August 16th, 2009

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Meet the Press convened its own panel today to discuss this week’s angry town halls and the death panel, Nazi, Tree of Liberty assertions that have accompanied them. Today’s panel consisted of three middle-aged white men and Rachel Maddow (with a drop-in from Charles Rangel).

Some highlights: Tom Daschle, apparently unperturbed, assures the abrasive tone some of the town halls have taken is merely the “sound of Democracy.” Senator Tom Coburn (R- OK) says the tone is not about Health Care at all, but fear of loss of control over the government. Rachel Maddow thinks that the Dems are giving up their elected majority to GOP’s like Senator Grassley who are touring the country handing out copies of Glenn Beck‘s book. And Dick Armey, under fire this week for his alleged involvement with helping organize the protesters, mostly appears tolerantly amused that Maddow has been allowed on the panel at all. Until she starts grilling him, at which point he turns a cold shoulder, literally. (Begins about the 3:20 marker).

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TfT

Who will be on the panel next week – Keith Olbermann?
Randy M

Maddow, was informed, well spoken and wouldn’t let Army get by with his spin. We need more people on panels who can present the facts and call people out on their spin in the nice way Rachel did. I hope the rest in the MSM were watching they could learn a lot from Rachel’s appearance.
TfT

I especially loved it when she gave Glen Beck’s book a plug! Would you be surprised Randy if I said I disagreed with your take? Both Coburn and Armey took Rachel to task. She was honest though — especially claiming that the goal is Single Payer system and Obama isn’t going to get that, despite how much political capital he is spending.
Pam1151

I couldn’t ;help but wonder just how DICK felt sitting next to the woman that called him oiut on all of his BULL He is definately a woman hater as we have seen often on other programs such as Hardball when he went after Joan Walsh’s throat. I bet the fact that she is an out of the cloiset lesgian didn;t help much either. Rachel is very bright and knows how to confront people without being ugly. She did well enough for her first time with the “big boyys”. Since it looked much like it was three against one (DG is no help) I say she did the best she could. Go Rachel!!!