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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRachel Maddow Defends Bridge Coverage Following 'Morning Joe' Criticism
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On Wednesday's edition of "Morning Joe," former George W. Bush aide Nicolle Wallace criticized MSNBC for "covering every teeny, minuscule, breaking non-news event" related to the politically motivated lane closures on the bridge. When NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd refused to praise Christie's performance at an event in Chicago, Wallace went off.
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Maddow devoted part of her broadcast Wednesday to defending MSNBC's coverage of the scandal against criticism from New Jersey Republicans, whose attacks levied at the cable news channel sounded pretty similar to Wallace's own critique.
"To all of the hundreds of thousands of people who were hurt here on purpose, the New Jersey Republican Party would like you to know that the real outrage here is that this tv network is reporting on what happened and trying to figure out the answers that the Christie administration still won't provide," Maddow said.
"They want you to know that we're the real outrage and that they're the real victim not you. They want the people of New Jersey to stand up, not against this kind of corrupt and abusive outrage by their government, they want the people of New Jersey to stand up against us covering the story. It's amazing, but it's good to know."
Full article + video
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rachel-maddow-christie-bridge-scandal-morning-joe-criticism-msnbc
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)They're STILL trying to toot that old dead story.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)Cha
(297,220 posts)think
(11,641 posts)Good on Maddow to defend JOURNALISM.
Govt officials willfully violated the law and caused hundreds of thousands of people's lives to be messed and disrupted with all for political gain.
EVERY news organization should be discussing this!
And shame on former George W. Bush aide Nicolle Wallace for trying to obstruct the news....
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)she kept on shrieking...and then Joe said to Chuck "Let Nicolle finish..." I hope Todd chewed out Joe's ass at the break...
corkhead
(6,119 posts)I don't live in New Jersey, so it really isn't relevant to me other than that it has eliminated a possible contender for 2016. I have really appreciated the detailed daily coverage she has brought to bear. I have found it to be a fascinating anatomy of a scandal. Her reporting is actually part of the story. It has been as enjoyable as reading a good crime novel.
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)Between her coverage of Gov Spongebob Vaginaprobe and Ken Kookienellie, I had plenty of reporting to point to when discussing the war on women in Virginia to my coworkers and handful of gop friends.
All those reporting on Christie need to keep at him, the Sandy stuff is yet to come.
wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)Apparently Mika mentioned it today on Morning Joe. Sarah Paulson brought too much gravitas to playing NW in "Game Change."
winstars
(4,220 posts)gwheezie
(3,580 posts)I noticed Mika mumbling something about Nicole Wallace and "human resources"
kydo
(2,679 posts)wallace is a shill can't stand her. I hope she did leave. Hopefully joescum will leave too. Then I can watch this program. Maybe he will run for Pres. We should encourage this. He would have to leave Morning Joe, he won't even win the nomination and once gone his replacement will be better and poor joe won't be asked back.
But hopefully wallace truly is gone, she should check out fox news they are more in line with her train of thought. No brigade talk there, just ever detail about Benghazi and the bad roll out of the health care website over and over and over for years. She'd love it there and we would be happy as she would not be our problem anymore.
Please please please be true.
TeamPooka
(24,226 posts)Cha
(297,220 posts)P.S. I bet Nicole Wallace was fuming. No accountability for their corruption and lies to cover it up.
Thanks Don~
AnnieBW
(10,426 posts)While I love the fact that Christie is getting skewered, there are other things going on in the world beside Bridge-Gate. Rachel is devoting her WHOLE SHOW to it! C'mon, Rachel... there are other news stories to cover, too!
corkhead
(6,119 posts)Retrograde
(10,136 posts)Sure, keep Christie on the coals. Don't let the issue drop. But for the majority of the country that doesn't live in the NYC metropolitan area, how about some other news for a change? I'm sure something's happening somewhere.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)NJ voters must be FORCED into seeing their UNMITIGATED FOLLY.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)She exposed Virginia and now she is exposing CC and his cronies. This is called journalism and CT, Mika and JS are not one but hound dogs for the RW. I have no sympathy for CT at all. He's a tool.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)Go Rachel Go!
malaise
(268,998 posts)I want more coverage not less
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Paladin
(28,257 posts)lacisash2
(4 posts)We need more Rachael's who speak truth to power.
Nicole Wallace hired on Morning Joe is just another republican sycophant along with Joe, and Mica seems to just lap up whatever Joe says. Worst show on tv stopped watching a long time ago.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)werinbigtrouble
(4 posts)Some think the bridge closings were not serious. My first reaction was what if there was a terrorist threat? All hell would break loose. Abandoning cars and panic. A woman died at the hospital after being trapped in that jam. Maddow is a good reporter and it should get the attention it has gotten. Politics should not jeopardizing citizens lives. Even if Christie didn't know about it he shows that he has bad taste when it comes to managing his hand picked administration.
underpants
(182,803 posts)plus they had maybe 6 people making the decisions (all horrible) and she wasn't one of them
OLDMDDEM
(1,575 posts)I think Rachel's coverage of Bridgegate has been very fair. Just imagine if this were a Democratic Governor with full national exposure who has/had aspirations of running for president. Faux News would be all over this and the kids on Fox and Friends would be slobbering all over themselves to lie and demean the referenced governor to shame (in their eyes only).
Now we learn that Governor McCrory and his team and Duke Energy are being criminally investigated for the coal ash spill in North Carolina.
To both governors: I realize you are not convicted of anything yet. And, if you didn't do anything wrong, then great. Everyone goes on with their life. But don't lie about what has happened in your state. It only makes you seem like the scandal you are involved in is really something that we should be looking into. It's human nature to "judge" someone prior to the full investigation being finished. In this case, Christie has stuck his foot in his mouth way too many times. McCrory, I'm not so sure about. He has already made himself out to be a liar about what he will do for North Carolinians. So, I would imagine that he would be doing the same over this scandal. I just judged him based upon his past. It's probably unfair to do that, but so what. If the world is falling apart around you, in both cases, it's your own damn fault.
I copied the following from Unhappy Camper.
Federal prosecutors investigating Duke Energys 82,000-ton coal ash spill
By Reuters
Thursday, February 13, 2014 18:20 EST
By Colleen Jenkins
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) U.S. prosecutors are investigating whether a crime was committed when thousands of tons of coal ash sludge spilled from a Duke Energy power plant in North Carolina in early February into a river that supplies drinking water for nearby towns.
Subpoenas were received this week by Duke Energy, which retired the coal-fired power plant in Eden in 2012, and the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources regulator, spokesmen for the two entities said on Thursday.
The U.S. Attorneys Office in Raleigh ordered officials with the state agency to appear before a grand jury next month with documents related to the spill that began on February 2, according to a copy of the subpoena provided to Reuters by the department.
The spokesman for Duke, which installed a permanent plug at the site to stop releases from the ash basin on February 8, declined to share a copy of the companys subpoena. He said the utility, the largest electric power provider in the United States, was cooperating with all state and federal investigations.
And, here's more:
Rachel Maddow: FEDERAL PROBE of NC Toxic Polluter Could Be Bad News For Gov. McCrory
May I suggest a new ' Going-To-Jail' or 'Jail Doors' smilely for DU.........We are going to need them!....
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said on Thursday that a burgeoning federal investigation could spell trouble for not only the North Carolina company behind an 82,000-ton toxic spill, but also for former employee Gov. Pat McCrory (R). Maddow pointed out that, since McCrory took office, the state not only blocked at least two lawsuits challenging Duke Energys environmental practices, but has also stopped environmental activists from legal actions concerning any of the companys 30 coal ash sites in North Carolina. Now the state is going to have to answer for that to a federal grand jury at least thats what it looks like in this surprise development today in snowy, snowy, snowy North Carolina, Maddow said.
Both Duke Energy and McCrorys office have been subpoenaed by investigators. Some of the information they are seeking relates to two settlements the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) reached with the company after invoking a loophole allowing state officials to nudge plaintiffs out of two separate lawsuits, and reach agreements totaling less than $100,000. In the wake of a third spill that broke out on Feb. 3, that spilled enough ash to fill nearly 32 Olympic-size swimming pools into the nearby Dan River in Virginia, however, the state opted to delay another settlement.
But, Maddow noted, the company itself is worth $50 billion, and has donated more than $1 million to McCrorys election campaign, who worked at Duke for 28 years. The states proposed settlement for contaminating the groundwater in Asheville and contaminating the groundwater in Charlotte was that Duke would have to study the issue of how they were contaminating the groundwater in places like that, Maddow said. But they would not have to clean up any of the contamination that they had caused, and they would not have to stop contaminating the groundwater or do anything different at those sites.
luckykate54
(50 posts)She is the worst...
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)onto the public.