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Rachel Maddow Is Not Happy Joe Biden Was Nice To George Bush On The Colbert Report

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Wednesday night, during The Colbert Report’s salute to our troops returning from Iraq, Stephen Colbert asked his guest, Vice President Joe Biden, to comment on the previous administration. Biden looked into the camera and gave a sincere thanks to George W. Bush for consistently honoring our armed forces. Last night on her show, Rachel Maddow called the moment “inexplicable,” “whitewash,” and “weird.”

Maddow wasn’t just referring to the Biden comments but also to sections of President Obama’s Iraw War speech (which she’s already gone on record about her displeasure with) and that’s fine. However, I’m going to have to completely disagree with her on Biden’s Report interview. No matter what he felt, had Biden gone off and criticized Bush at that moment, it would have been entirely inappropriate.

Last night’s Colbert Report was basically a homefront USO show, and a great one at that. It was entirely about respecting, honoring, and entertaining the troops (whom Colbert invited to fill the audience and drink beer, eat hot dogs, and feel nice tracts of American green grass). Despite a few jokes about the distinction between combat and non-combat forces and the beginnings of the war, there were no politics involved. It was just a solid half hour of fun.

Biden understood that. Colbert and his staff understood that. It’s a shame Maddow apparently couldn’t.

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  • Big Eddie

    That dame is a major sourpuss . Lighten up , Toots .

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

    Haters are never happy….

  • tatboy

    He’s as hateful as ANYONE on the right.

  • Kitsune

    Calm down, Maddow. God Forbid Biden say something that doesn’t continue to perpetuate all the hate.

  • Big Eddie

    This broad reminds Big Eddie of a hatcheck girl at the Club Babbaloo way back . Never happy no matter how much you duked her .

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    I heard reports that all 448 people that watch her show are as upset as she is.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    This from the same woman who relentlessly lectures the right on their intolerance. How reactionary does she have to be to get in a snit any time somebody has a positive word about Bush? Talk about inexplicable and weird.

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  • AngelPeters

    Lighten up Rachel. It’s Colbert shtick. It’s called comedy.

  • DukeCO

    I thought it was a class move by Biden. Rachel’s wrong on this one

  • TfT

    Mediaite criticizing MSNBC and Rachel? WOW….

  • redwriteblue

    Rachel Maddow is becoming more agitated and her mannerisms are becoming more exagerated as she is becoming more of a critic than a commentator. Have you noticed that she repeatedly has the same guests on her show as she has treated the ones that used to appear that have positions contrary to hers badly, even though she says in her promos that she practices “fair play?”

  • notsofast

    Rachel Maddow Is Not Happy Joe Biden Was Nice To George Bush On The Colbert Report”

    FK him!

    And I mean RM.

  • MaggieP

    It is thoroughly amazing to me that this woman has a show at all, but considering the network she is on it figures… all 448 viewers huh? That include everyone who fell asleep during the previous program?

  • dhg

    What a fool Maddow is.The “angry lesbian with blinders on” act has become so old…

    It’s a shame that some of these people will allow partisan politics and ideology to become so powerful in their lives that they can’t act or react without it tainting who they are as a human being.

    It’s truely unfortunate that some of them have a national media platform to display this utter foolishness and by doing so imply that it’s acceptable.It is not.

    We currently have two so-called news outlets so tainted by bias that they cannot and should not be trusted.That goes for the partisan fodder they run at night.

    I mean let’s face it,these programs do one thing and that’s stoke the flames of the partisan.No minds are changed,no relevations made,no great purpose exists beyond the ability to create money.

  • ganymede

    It was the nice and politic thing for Biden to have a few positive words for Bush, after all he wasn’t a totally evil person. However, if there were true justice in the world Bush, Cheney, Blair, Wolfowitz and a few other neo-cons would be in jail for crimes of high treason. Most of you rightwingers are in denial about many things, and it’s almost psychopathological that you don’t understand that Bush and Co. as well as nearly most of the rest of the world knew they were fibbing and cooking the data to justify the Iraqi invasion, and it’s clearly evident that what we’ve done to iraq is infinitely worse than what would have happened if we had not invaded. Just think of the hundreds of thousands of slaughtered Iraq innocents and the killing and maiming of our young men. History is not on your side and the truth will prevail. In the meantime it would be great if you could turn your misplaced anger about the world and yourselves into something more worthwhile

  • CAconservative

    Rachel…get a haircut, you almost look feminine.

  • lonestar77

    People like Maddow are so radical in their hate for Bush that they simply can’t tolerate anybody saying anything nice about him. People like Maddow are full of hate & venom and there’s not much anyone can do about that. She just continues to show the world what a petulant little wingnut she is.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Becky-Johnson/100000170627507 Becky Johnson

    Maddow did what she did because all she and Olbermann have done since Bush left office is talk bad about him EVERY NIGHT Bush and Palin hating is the theme of their shows so for Biden or any one else to say anything positive about Bush to them is being a traitor
    Without Bush hating MSBC would have no dialog
    Some where along the line Maddow got the idea that she was regarded as intelligent camera worthy and that people listened to her and followed
    Now living in a million dollar apartment with her girlfriend seems to give her the idea that she is of some kind of importanceObama had to back off the ashing Bush when he was informed it wasnt working anymore and the public was tired of it
    Someone at the top of MSNBC should tell Mad and Olb that it isnt working for them either

  • felixw

    Of course Rachel is unhappy about this. She gave up being a commentator long ago, and is now just an attack dog for the far left. I heard her a couple weeks ago attacking George Bush’s skill riding a bicycle, attacking his rapport with the horses on his ranch, etc. I mean, talk about derangement..

    Of course, Maddow will destroy her career this way. Why tune into a TV show, where you already know everything the host will say before the words leave her mouth? Even the far left will grow tired of her before much longer. And no one of independent views or with an open mind can have any reason to waste an hour on this predictable and rant-filled program.

  • jk76

    didn’t take long

  • Karol

    Vice President Biden was being a gentleman, as he well should be under the circumstances. This was a show honoring the troops with lots of fun thrown in. For Biden to be critical of President Bush at this event would be grossly inappropriate. It is easy for Biden to goof in his comments. Not this time. He handled the question with class.

    It is Maddow who shows no class. This woman is the most hateful, hate-filled individual on the air. Shame on MSNBC for retaining her. It is disconcerting that much of the public enjoys and agrees with this kind of hostility.
    If Maddow had any real journalistic talent she would have kept her mouth shut if she could not think of anything neutral to say. That’s just it. She does not think. She hates.

  • Nachi

    Bush, the coward. The drunk. The absolute dirtbag. Deserves nothing but contempt. And a noose.

  • Arkansas Steve

    THE MSNBC MASTERPLAN

    MSNBC is haaving a “really big” meeting to plot their business strategy.
    The outcome of the meeting will include the following directives:

    (1) Keith Olbermann is fired as a public service to America.

    (2) Ed Schultz will be retained at his current time slots. He serves the viewing public as comic relief.

    (3) Chris Matthews will be retained, but his pay will be cut. We’d like to pay him what he’s worth, but current labor law forces us to pay minimum wage.

    (4) Rachel Maddow is hereby directed to spend at least 5 minutes of each hour interviewing people who have 3-digit IQs. She must, as a public service, identify herself as a member of the PROFESSIONAL LEFT as referred to by Robert Gibbs. This is in anticipation of a new law requiring the PROFESSIONAL LEFT to register and identify themselves. This listing will be placed just to the LEFT of the sex offender registry.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Ark Steve, you forgot one. They will fire all the fiction writers for Olby, Ed and Rachel.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stan-Maday/100001229602987 Stan Maday

    Cannot believe maddow and olberman are still on the air.I swear they are twins with their beliefs,mannerisms etc.Always the same topic,HATE,HATE,HATE on BECK,LIMBAUGH,PALIN ad nauseum.IF PALIN IS SUCH AN IDIOT WHY IS SHE A TOPIC ON YOUR SHOWS EVERY NIGHT?Have you or will you ever talk about the OBAMA administrations faults.Oh sorry they dont have any.Who told Keithy he was expert on anything? TERRIBLE SHOWS!

  • Sunnyr

    Joe Biden’s dismal poll numbers will go up a bit while the hateful Lesbian Femi-Nazi will continue to spew her bile to the few Useful Idiots who tune in for their daily ration of Hate-Speech. Poor Rachel.

  • http://none pyrope

    Becky Johnson said:
    Bush and Palin hating is the theme of their shows

    The major source of red meat for the libs.

    But, you know, ol’ madcow has been even more testy than usual these days so I did some checking about to see if I could find out why. One source reported that her strap-on has been pulling too many pubic hairs–now that’s gotta make you short tempered, right?

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