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Rachel Maddow Tears Into Karl Rove-Funded Anti-Obama Ads: ‘Gold-Plated Campaign Bullpucky’

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With the 2012 elections looming, the media has dedicated much of its time these past few weeks to figuring out the ultimate Republican field to challenge President Obama. On her program today, Rachel Maddow warned that to worry too much about who would actually end up on the ballot would be dropping the ball, because it was the financial infrastructure behind the Republican Party, led by Karl Rove, that would be doing the heavy lifting, and has already begun to do so.

RELATED: Karl Rove On Rick Perry: ‘I Didn’t Realize I Was Under His Personal Care’

Whoever the President ends up debating after the primaries end, Maddow argued that “Barack Obama is running against Karl Rove,” and the “quarter of a million dollars” his SuperPAC already has in the kitty to go to war with. The money is already circulating, as Maddow aired an ad that accused the President– through the voice of a CNN reporter– of betraying the American people by raising taxes. The part of that CNN report the ad doesn’t show is what those taxes were for. The ad, Maddow joked, appeared “cut and pasted as if it were refrigerator poetry,” and had excluded the part of the report that explained the President wanted to “pay for his tax plan by taxing corporate jets.” “It is gold-plated campaign bullpucky,” Maddow concluded, and “if I were that CNN reporter, I might sue for being used like that.”

RELATED: Rove: Rick Perry’s Campaign Will Have To Deal With ‘Toxic’ Ideas Expressed In Book

Maddow concluded that this was only the beginning of a long 13 months where the aftermath of Citizens United would mean the President would face an extraordinary amount of money used to attack him– no matter who won the election in the end.

The segment via MSNBC below:

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  • Anonymous

    will someone please get ms maddow a tissue please

  • Anonymous

    NEWSFLASH!!!   HOLD THE PRESSES!!! 

    Madow makes up crazy $#% to defend Obama and trash conservatives.  What a surprise…

  • Mr. Pennypacker

    The GOP is not evil they’re PURE EVIL!!!

  • Byrnie

    Rachel is bleeding viewers. Her show used to get more than a million viewers nightly but no longer. She is just another Obama shill on the national barak channel.

    Yawn

  • Sharpo

    why are you a coward ? shave her taint .

  • Michelle

    Liberal whiner alert!!

  • Anonymous

    Rachel is up in arms about the “financial infrastructure”?  How Obama wanting to raise a billion?  Oh, but that’s just fine is it?  

  • Anonymous

    thanks for the nightmares now sharpo, lol, you pooooossy

  • Anonymous

    So she has no problem with an incumbent in the WH that is facing no Primary moseying all over the Country raising money for his campaign as  opposed to staying in DC doing his job.  She is worried that the other side will raise enough to counter his Billion dollars……GMAB

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Now I know why his nickname is turdblossom..he is a turd.  Great show Rachel. 

  • gordonbloyershow

    Maddow is one of the dumbest people on the planet.

  • Dog, Bob Dog

    I believe it’s a quarter of a “billion” war-chest thusfar Frances and thanks to Citizens United, a quantity easily replenished by the Koch brothers as Rove needs.

  • Lloyd C

    you are as dumb as a bag of hammers.

    can i shave you ?

    whoisllloydc@gmail.com

  • http://skaughtbj.tumblr.com Skaught

    Great! The campaign season is going to reinvigorate the economy since the 1% now have reason to spend boatloads of cash. Campaign-based economy!

  • http://flipthelib.com Averageconservative

    Hey, cow… there are a handful of liberal billionaires giving money to your candidate too.  What a delusional twit!

  • NeverWrong

    Randy, Randy, Randy…your numbers are dropping almost as fast and far as Joe ‘Blowhard’ Scarborough In The Morning. Why aren’t you going after the White House and their continuance of Fast & Furious giving guns to drug cartels so they can kill our hard working Border Patrol. Why aren’t you going after The oBUMbler’s giving $500,000,000.00 of OUR Money to a bunch of crooks and scam artists. Why aren’t you going after all the crookedness in your own party. I mean there is nobody better at telling LIES than you dunderheads on PMS/LSDnbc. Could it be that you and your party know the end is near for Mr. oBUMer. At least go after both sides, Ms. Madcow. Go after everyone of the politicians in Washington, DC and do so evenly and people might start respecting LSD/PMSnbc. How ’bout it, gal/guy? TIA

    BTW, I will give you the fact that you are a better talking head than Chrissy Tingles, Racist Bigot Al NOTsharpton, Angry & Very UNhappy O’Donnell and let us not forget the overfed redhead, Big Ed Schultz.

  • Anonymous

    LOL
    I always get a kick out of the way that Maddow thinks that it should somehow be illegal for Republicans to raise buckets of cash and actually network like Democrats do.  It’s like she thinks the GOP has no business trying to win elections.
    It is hilarious to hear her whining about money when EVERYBODY knows Obama intends to raise a billion dollars to campaign on and a lot of that will be from redirected stimulus funds that went to public unions.
    Obama gives them stimulus cash.  They shave their dues off of it and then give it right back to Obama for his campaign.

  • Anonymous

    I am getting so sick of Rachel’s phony outrage at “billionaires” who are allegedly using all their evil dirty money to crush the saintly and defenseless Obama, as if George Soros and his ilk simply don’t exist.  

  • Priorities USA

    I wonder if Rachel has ever heard of Priorities USA Action , run by former Obama spokesman Bill Burton ?  I hope she has . We’re counting on her for a sizeable donation .

     http://www.prioritiesusaaction.org/welcome

  • Anonymous

    Her whole damn network  is a contribution. If what MSNBC  does for Obama isn’t a corporate donation then I don’t know what is.

  • Michelle

    But, but she’s a road scholar!

  • BSNBC

    Lez’behonest,
    Maddow and all you libs, enough bitchin’
    bitching!!!

  • Anonymous

    Rachel Maddow comes out against character attacks? 

    Pot….kettle…black

  • Dog, Bob Dog

    You must live on a planet in an alternate universe because Ms. Maddow is one of the smartest people on TV today.

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t Obama planning on raising a BILLION DOLLARS!!! for his hit pieces(campaign ads).

  • Anonymous

    What’s the difference between Maddow and Rove?
    One slimeball went to Oxford, the other didn’t.

  • Anonymous

    Solyndra loan was started during the Bush administration.  Just think it’s fair to include that in the discussion.

  • Anonymous

    Who exactly are Soros’ ilk?

  • Anonymous

    You are dumb.

  • Anonymous

    These Leftist Media Hacks are in such a rabid state now; if they didn’t have such limp wrists, they might be tempted to actually pick up a gun and use it on themselves. Just look at how despondent this shrew looks.

    The next year will be beautiful as we watch these Leftist Media Hacks self-immolate one by one…

  • OSux

    Of course the truth is that Obama ran more negative ads in 2008 than anyone else ever.  I don’t watch his show but I doubt Richard Maddow mentioned it.

  • TruDat

    I think that’s the first time I’ve seen Ronnie Reagan in a white suit.

  • TruDat

    And he’s doing it on the taxpayers’ dime; but that don’t count, don’t cha know?

  • TruDat

    You spelled twat wrong.

  • TruDat

    That’s rich.

  • Farnsworth

    This is 100% false

  • Pablo

    Then why is she wrong so often?

  • Anonymous

    No doubt a good number of companies applied for loans. But in the end the Bush guys decided NOT to hand out any money to Solyndra, correctly deciding that the business model was flawed.

  • Anonymous

    Prove it. And while you’re at it, ask Maddow about the billion dollars Obama is trying to collect for this coming election.

  • Anonymous

    One would think that someone with her educational background would actually have a real job.

    That’s OK, I guess. She’s in the same category as her great leader.

  • Anonymous

    FARNSWORTH,

    Still fixated on “100%,” I see.  Is this another example of your sarcastic wit, or, are you actually citing a fact in an attempt to refute OSUX?

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    In deference to FARNSWORTH, a quick look at some statistics reveals that McCain actually had more negative ads than Obama.

    HOWEVER, is a negative ad, negative, if its true?  Furthermore, such is becoming more and more apparent that Conservatives, especially the McCain campaign, did not expose Obama for whatever he really is, as we still don’t know whether his real name is Ivan or Muhammed?

    Purveyor

  • Farnsworth

    I really don’t care about any of that. I just don’t like people making allegedly definitive but utterly false statements without even attempting to back it up with evidence.

  • Anonymous

    This kind of stuff is stupid and pointless.The implication is that the Obama campaign isn’t and won’t do the exact same things as Rove and the GOP campaign and that is a complete lie.

    Sh*T they are going to talk people into giving them a billion dollars,think that’s to buy positive truthful ads?

  • OSux

    Farnsworth, like all liberals, hate the truth.

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081031102057.htm

  • TruDat

    How dare you question a Rhodes Scholar!

  • Hugo Daun

    Don’t worry, Tubby…you’re still the biggest dummy.

    By the way, I simply love your inspirational rendition of “America the Beautiful”.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0mQXq7FfCM&feature=player_embedded#!

  • Dflojak

    Mensa candidate number two, the question is because she’s a gay rhodes scholar or because she backs up her lies with lies. Let me know when you get free from watching the L word.

  • Dflojak

    always love to see likes for incorrect information from the left. about right.

  • Dflojak

    always love to see likes for incorrect information from the left. about right.

  • Anonymous

    Good news!  As long as voters are happy with Obama’s policies, leadership and results, he’ll get re-elected.  The results are really in his own hands.

    Oh wait, while normally an advantage, not so much in 2012.

    Still time to work with republicans and actually eliminate all these tax exemptions, loopholes, etc that everyone agrees are unfair.  

  • Anonymous

    Good news!  As long as voters are happy with Obama’s policies, leadership and results, he’ll get re-elected.  The results are really in his own hands.

    Oh wait, while normally an advantage, not so much in 2012.

    Still time to work with republicans and actually eliminate all these tax exemptions, loopholes, etc that everyone agrees are unfair.  

  • Anonymous

    Obama said he would not raise taxes on anyone in any way while he was running for President.  Maddow, wipe off your chin.

  • Anonymous

    Obama said he would not raise taxes on anyone in any way while he was running for President.  Maddow, wipe off your chin.

  • Farnsworth

    Firstly,I’m not a liberal. Secondly, did you even read the article you posted? It contradicts your assertion in the second line – “A University of Missouri professor analyzed this year’s candidates’
    television spots, including last night’s 30-minute ad by Sen. Barack
    Obama and found that only one other campaign matched this level of
    negativity.” – I refer you to your original statement – “Of course the truth is that Obama ran more negative ads in 2008 than anyone else ever.” – he didn’t even run as many negative ads as McCain never mind more than anyone in history.

  • Anonymous

    You’re a person who doesn’t have a biased statement.

  • Anonymous

    Rachel Maddow is a graduate of Castro Valley High School in Castro Valley, California,
    later obtained a degree in public policy from Stanford University in 1994. She
    then received a Rhodes Scholarship in 1995 and used it to obtain a doctorate in
    politics from Lincoln College, Oxford University.

    It clear to me who is stupid,

  • Dog, Bob Dog

    Ms. Maddow corrects herself nightly during her “Department of Corrections” segment.  When do you correct your mistaken idiocies spewed on this site?  Oh, and I’ve not renewed my Mensa membership for years and there’s no question in your question. Also, I have never watched an episode of the L-word though I do find lesbian sex very entertaining.

  • caconservative

    Does she ever plan on applying her suspect education to reality? Castro Valley…isn’t that in the Castro-district?

  • caconservative

    WRONG!! If it’s fair to include, why don’t you fairly state the outcome?

  • caconservative

    On is of character (Rove) the other isn’t!

  • Anonymous

    Not only will the Republicans go ugly early (after all, they have no popular ideas and no popular accomplishments), the Democrats have to run on Obama’s record, which means they will also go ugly. 

    It’s gonna be a solid, disgusting 6 months of negative ads from both sides.  Yay?

  • caconservative

    Half of any candidates argument is negative, on both sides of the isle. The issue is, is that negative add correct and to the point.

  • Anonymous

    Uh, because Obama’s money is regulated and disclosed and Karl’s is neither.  And, I know you forget that Rove is not the Republican party and all, but the Republican nominee will also be out there trying to raise a billion.

    Rove gets his undisclosed corporate money and then the oligarchs can go home and give money to the Republican candidate in their name.

  • Anonymous

    Karla, do you only pay attention when Democrats are in the White House?  EVERY incumbent President runs around the country campaigning

  • Anonymous

    Nice homophobia dude.  Are you that threatened by a woman who is not that into you?  I would think you’d be used to it by now

  • Anonymous

    Finally, those rich bastards have a reason to spend….so they can keep more money later.  The only growth industry in America is local TV ownership?

    Publicly funded campaigns now

  • Anonymous

    Uh, Rachel said 250 MILLION.  For a guy imagining he can parody the limping step-child of Crossroads, you’d think you could get the difference between a thousand and a million.

  • Anonymous

    Is there a right winger on this board who understands even the basics of the argument?  This is unregulated, undisclosed money which is being used to affect our election process.  it has not happened in a Presidential election since the turn of the 20th century when Congress barred direct corporate spending on elections.

    For all you little boys and girls who think Karl Rove is furthering democracy by taking under-handed, anonymous money from who know who to affect the election, think about how you’re gonna feel when someone like George Soros gives 300 million anonymous dollars to a Dem group

    Anonymous money is anathema to democracy. It’s the oligarchy and powerful buying elections and making your vote and contributions count for nothing. The fact that many of thing it is cool because it benefits your chosen team is unsurprising, but should trouble any of you who actually care about living in a democracy, rather than the kleptocracy we are sliding towards

  • TruDat

    spend some time following Soros money before mouthing off.

  • Anonymous

    She is wrong so much with Facts, its a hard stand up and say she is one of the smartest people on TV. You can blame her producer I guess but she is the face of the mistakes.

  • Anonymous

    Before the arrival of European settlers the area was settled by the Chocheño (also spelled Chochenyo or Chocenyo) subdivision of the Ohlone Native Americans.
    With the arrival of Europeans, Castro Valley was part of the land granted to Mission San Jose in 1797. The area Castro Valley now occupies was part of the extensive colony of New Spain in what was the state of Alta California.
    Castro Valley is named after Don Guillermo Castro, who was a soldier in the Mexican army and a rancher.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_Valley,_California

  • Anonymous

    Right, because you CAN follow Soros’s money, but you cannot follow Rove’s. See the difference yet, TD?

    What will it take for you to understand the power of unregulated corporate money in an election? Let me know

  • TruDat

    Both sides are doing the same thing, and it’s permissible by law.  Sadly, you don’t like it.  Apparently you’re swayed by infomercials; I am not.

  • Anonymous

    I thought that was a contest between you and Sharpo…er Lloyd?

  • Anonymous

    Where can I donate to Karl Roves fund?

    Hey Rachel sweety, have you heard of Fast and Furious or Solyndra? Might want to google that as I am sure the network you work for are trying hard to bury it deep!!!! Or are you under strict orders not to comment about them?

    In other words, Karl Rove is not needed to take down Oblamer. Oblamer and his admin are doing that all by themselves!!

  • Anonymous

    Ok, That was rude……….but funny I’ll give you that. Not to encourage you.

  • OSux

    Farnsworth, I will give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you misread the article and/or what I wrote earlier.  I wrote “ran more negative ads”.  I did not write ran a higher percentage of negative ads.  Considering Obama spent more money and ran more ads than anyone in U.S. history and had the second highest percentage of negative ads second only to one election in the 1950s it is safe to assume that he ran more negative ads than anyone else ever.

  • Anonymous

    Obama ran more negative ads in 2008 than anyone else ever……………………………………………….Source For your statement?. And was it Obama or a “Swift Boat” (a political 527 organization )type org that ran these ads ie:Move on ?

  • Anonymous

    Maddow must be nervous about this;

    http://nation.foxnews.com/political-ads/2011/10/04/devastating-rove-ad-unmasks-obama

    The facts make it harder for Obama’s followers to justify his policies.

  • OSux

    See below.

  • Anonymous

    First of all, you ARE swayed by infomercials…by Limbaugh and Levin, etc.

    Secondly, both sides doing something wrong, but legal, is not a reason to shrug your damn shoulders and go back to bitching about Obama. It’s a call to change the law.

    What’s maddening is that you people can’t see that Karl Rove is a despicable liar. That’s not partisan. You see me lauding a crook and moron like Mark Penn? Both sides have disgusting leeches whose main goal is to enrich themselves by pumping sewage into the body politic. These people distort your elections and your government’s policies. Why shouldn’t you care?

    The law which makes it easier for them to steal our democracy and place even more of it in the hands of the people who can pay for it should trouble you, TD. The fact that you shrug your shoulders says more about what you really think of politics (ie, not much).

  • Dog, Bob Dog

     And F&F began under Bush in 2006 as “Operation Wide Receiver.”  Don’t worry, this is just now coming to light and F&F will be only a memory of the right, like teleprompters.

  • Anonymous

    One mans analysis doesn’t make it so.

  • Anonymous

    NeoKong, that’s so true….best part is, you’ve never heard of a thing called Fox news, which actively serves to elect Republicans.  You should watch it some time.  I think you’d enjoy it.

    You would have loved it in late October of 2004 when a non-partisan genius named Sean Hannity held rallies and did talk shows in the state of Ohio, which the incumbent President won by less than 100,000 votes and was the difference in the Electoral College.  No campaign contribution there!

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure, like everyone with a brain and a conscience, that Rachel’s problem is with the undisclosed and unregulated money that Rove spends from unknown donors, not election contributions in general.

    Sort of different from Obama’s goals

  • mac691

    Obama’s idiocy and failure are examples of the current value of Ivy League or Stanford education.  They are great, if all you want to do for the rest of your life is live in a classroom arguing about theory, but without any consequences.   But for people in the real world, that education is now devalued to the level of “tits on a boar!”

  • mac691

    Operation Wide Receiver did NOT allow the guns to go across the border, the people were immediately arrested.   Obama’s F&F apparently was providing weapons to the cartels in order to support his re-election.   And Bob, how do you answer the charge that the purpose of F&F was an assault on the 2nd Amendment in order to gin up support for further gun control?

  • Anonymous

    Would you like Saudi and Chinese money in our elections? I am sure Karl would take that too.

  • Anonymous

    Karl Rove spread rumors that Ann Richards was a lesbian.  Karl Rove falsely bugged his own office the night before a debate. Karl Rove testified he fired US AG’s for finding there was no evidence of voter fraud. Karl Rove leaked the name of CIA agent in order to destroy her career as retribution for her husband’s politics. He lied to investigators about until he was informed by another member of the press that he would be charged with perjury if he lied again, at which time he recanted his earlier testimony and admitted it.

    Learn something about this terrible human being

    http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/11/karl-rove-in-a-corner/3537/

  • Anonymous

    Whats a Rachel Maddow, is it like a real bad bowel movement?

  • TruDat

    As would Obama. He bellyaches about Wall Street, yet he’s there bi-weekly looking for handouts for his campaign.

  • TruDat

    Sounds like you just completed some political science term paper and your professor is a loony lib. You bitch about Rove, yet say nothing about Soros or MSNBC (which is a campaign propagandist for Obama).  An entire network (MSNBC) devoted 24/7 to the reelection of Obama, but you’re worried about political ads.  Come on; get serious.

    I’m not swayed by political ads, and those who are will be swayed by something equally irrelevant if these outside groups are banned.

  • Anonymous

    Your Alma mater ?

  • SoThere

    And we’re coming your way.  BOO!

    LMAO

    “TMP”

  • lady,lady

    well done covering all the loons on msnbc…she can be amusing and is very bright but that does not make her right!

  • Anonymous

    He also didn’t know Bush had taken out loans from China to finance his 2 wars, and kept it quiet from the tax payers as well.  No one knew exactly how bad things were until another president took office and found the mess we were in.  I’m also saying any president from either party would have discovered it when they took office.  Except for secretly barrowing money from China, I’m not blaming Bush for all of our current economic problems either, which actually started during Reagon’s administration and contiued after his administration to today, particularly our deficits.  If you don’t believe me, look up yourself how the deficits accumulated from Reagon forward.  Reagonomics has been a failure from the day it was impemented to today.  And it’s also what the Republicans want to continue today, so that the rich will continue to donate to their campaigns.

  • mac691

    Michigan.  But during grad school, I came to an epiphany that these instructors know nothing of the real world beyond what they read about that someone else may have actually done, or what they heard about in the faculty lounge.   Nothing breeds more contempt for higher education than experiencing it.

  • Anonymous

    URI…….Michigan. Isn’t that Gerald Ford’s Alma Mata?

  • Anonymous

    Did you really type that about msnbc, when msnbc is just a reaction to Fox? How is that possible to point to the network which fired Phil Donahue because he was an anti-war liberal and claim it is a propaganda arm of the Democrats when fox creates it’s own world of propaganda and is not subtle about it.

    I will try one more time: partisanship team rooting is no way to approach issues which affect everyone. Unlimited money affects all of us

  • Anonymous

    Uh – think you are doing a bit of floundering.  Rachel is so concerned about Rove buying ad times – with very little money… that is accountable and accounted for, while Obama is attempting to raise $1 billion and that’s a lot of $3 donations. lol

  • Anonymous

    Again, it is unregulated, anonymous money. If Bill Burton managed it, you would be so pissed. Wake up from your partisanship and recognize that ANYONE with a 250 million dollar anonymous slush fund is dangerous

  • Anonymous

    Unemployment is up
    National Debt is up
    Government Spending is up
    HealthCare Costs are up
    Nation Wide Unrest is up
    Gas Prices are up
    Food Costs are up
    Bank Fees are up
    Regulations are up
    Poverty is up
    People on Food Stamps are up

    Thank you Mr. President.  Like you said…we are to blame…not your policies.

  • mac691

    Voltman, what’s your alma mater?  and be honest. (yes it is Ford’s alma mater, and he isn’t one of my favorites).

  • Anonymous

    University of Rhode Island, BTW: I Liked Ford and his wife. I have a lot of repect for both of them.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Yeahm,tracking all of Rove’s donations is REALLY hard: http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Karl_Rove.php
    $35,852 to Republicans
    $14,000 to Special Interest
    Rove’s Max Net Worth: $6,645,999 (2007, most recent data I can find http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/CIDsummary.php?CID=N99999989&year=2007 )
    George Soros donations:
    $5,000 to Republicans
    $671,805 to Democrats
    $3,101,032 Special Interests
    http://www.newsmeat.com/billionaire_political_donations/George_Soros.php
    George Soros net worth: $22 Billion per Forbes 400 Richest People in America, 2011.
    So you can account for everyone of those $3 million that Soros gave to Special Interests?

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