Rachel Maddow Wins Best Video Clip Of The Year 2012

[JeffHead]

[zeemike]

1. Let me be the first to K&R this.

No doubt...she made her point.

[Unknown Beatle]

2. Rachel

is the ma'am!

[Auntie Bush]

3. Yeah for Rachael! She certainly deserved that!

I love that Ad she does.

[Isoldeblue]

4. It was definitely one of the most awe-inspiring thing I've watched and heard

I broke down and cried for happiness, listening to her say all this right after the election! She is by far, the classiest pundit there is and the most intelligent.

[ReRe]

5. Amen... Rachel nailed it...

K&R

....we ARE NOT GOING THERE. We're going Forward, not backwards. We are out of the ditch. and we have a firm grip on the steering wheel. We have turned this ship of state around and are headed AWAY from the cliff. We truly have so much to be thankful for at this point in time. And I am.

[mimi85]

6. She sure did nail it!

This is one of the most powerful clips ever. Now that it's been used as sort of a commercial for MSNBC, it's the only one I don't mute or change the channel. Kudos to Rachel! She's the best!

[Cha]

7. I saw some of that the other day..

Thanks for posting, JeffHead. I'll see the whole thing!

[supercats]

8. THANK GOD

None of that happened. If it did we would be moving backwards as a nation. There would be a lot of harmful callous pain. The one positive I could see, is that there would probably be a revolution, for greater change than what I expect will happen in the next four years.

[SunSeeker]

9. There's a reason her ratings are through the roof!

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She is one of--if not THE-- best commentators on TV.

[whathehell]

29. Absolutely Agreed. There's one show I never miss, and it's The Rachel Maddow Show.

She's the best....A national treasure.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

37. Yayyyyy!

Oh geee...maybe I should get cable..... she would make it worthwhile....

[eaglesfanintn]

38. Podcast

You can get the video podcast. I watch it every morning (I usually miss her show at night). Best part is - no commercials.

[Qutzupalotl]

44. "Evolution is a thing!"

I LOL'd when she delivered that line.

[Volaris]

46. Yep..I got to the moon landing one before I burst out laughing.

The Founding Fathers believed that a Representative Government was the best of all possible choices for a Human-Created Government. They thought that Direct Democracy was a bad idea because a lot of 'The People" were too dumb and uneducated to engage in the politics of the day.
LOVE that Fox, et al, keeps proving these men so smart lol.

[Stellar]

45. Thank you for sharing!

[Demo_Chris]

10. Great clip! Thanks for the reminder! (nt)

[wiggs]

11. saw it when it originally aired and was amazed. nt

[amuse bouche]

12. That clip still gives me goose bumps

Rachael is brilliant

[whathehell]

31. Me too...I love it!

and yes, she's effing brilliant, and perhaps just as importantly,

so likable and "even" of temperament that she's able to make her point,

without the alienating propensities of sarcasm and anger that even many

good progressives carry (myself included).

I can think of only three progressives on the airwaves who posses this magical

combination of "A first class temperament and a first class mind", and they are:

Rachel Maddow, Tom Hartman, and Chris Hayes.

[Stuart G]

13. K and R nt. thanks for posting

[NBachers]

14. *Sigh of Relief* Thanks for reminding me all over again

[longship]

15. We said it loudly; Rachel just said it.

I Love Rachel Maddow!

I watched/listened to this clip the day after the election. It did then, and it still brings tears to my eyes.

Rachel -- as she is want to do -- lays the core of the issues bare, with no equivocation. This is what truth sounds like. This is what we elected.

Let no DUer say any different without a floor fight.

Thank you, Rachel. You see what many of us still see.

R&

[Rozlee]

16. Maybe in an parallel universe, Mitt won over Obama.

Better them than us.

[JB126]

17. Best riff ever!

Makes me smile every time!

[xtraxritical]

18. K&R

[Snarkoleptic]

19. Here's a link to the extended version.

It's a really satisfying clip...

#!

[lexw]

24. Thanks! Hadn't see the full version.

There was so much I wanted to applaud and to comment on.

For one thing, I have never really watched Fox News, but just watching that short clip, made me feel like I was watching one of those Christian broadcasts—god forbid.

What a horrid format for news: it makes me feel like I need to take a shower to clean that garbage off. Yuck!

[renate]

41. added to my YouTube favorites so I can watch it again and again

How fun to relive that wonderful happy feeling we had right after the election... gosh, that was fantastic! Thanks so much!

[HoosierRadical]

20. We said HELL NO!

I loved that clipped from Rachel, I was watching live when she first said it, MSNBC was right to include parts of it as a promo.

[delrem]

21. What's insane is that those were the choices.

Where anything to the left of teabagger freedomworks insanity is a win.
Here's what's wrong:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/9666345/US-election-2012-how-US-voters-have-changed.html
1. Obama won by a mere 2% vs the dregs of the Rep. party. I mean, look at what was offered in the Rep. primaries, and what kind of a candidate the Rep's eventually ran with. Every one of those people including the winning candidate would be outliers in a sane society. Yet it was a contest!!
2. Obama lost the "white" vote 59 to 39 %

That says something deep.

So OK, I'll say it: if Obama were 100% "white" then, all things being the same, the popular win wouldn't have been a mere 2%, given that kind of opposition with those kinds of ideas it'd be over the top. And if the win were over the top, the notion of what is "political center" in US politics would be radically different.

I congratulate US Americans for electing Obama for the second time! It was totally worth every effort put into it. It's now time to take all factors into consideration and redefine what is meant by "the political center" - to realize that the notion of "political center" it is very badly skewed and that it's now proven that this is correctable.

[nolabear]

22. Seems like a bad dream.

And one we'd better be damned sure never becomes reality.

[Left Coast2020]

23. Abso-friggin-loutely!!!

I think I was near tears when I saw this because it hit me that we won and peoples lives will have meaning. In other words, a chance to rebound from the 8 fucking miserable years of that war criminal POS.

And Hannity is still whining about November!

[RBInMaine]

25. I hope anyone here who bashes Obama warches this one REPEATEDLY.

[krispos42]

26. For the win!!!!

K&R

[UCmeNdc]

27. Congratulations Rachel Maddow!

[Cetacea]

28. Thanks. This is vastly superior to the condensed ad version shown on M$NBC

Thank you and congrats, Rachel!

[mountain grammy]

30. Congratulations, Rachel!

Even my husband, who has no use for pundits, listens to Rachel. He also likes Stephanie Miller. I'm starting to wonder if he has a thing for lesbian talkers. He works with mostly right wingers spouting their lies and Rachel provides him with answers to their fox crap. He said they've pretty much quit talking politics with him around.

[bayareaboy]

32. Castro Valley Ca ...

Seems to be on the map now. largely because of Ms Maddow! A Rhodes scholar and I think one of the most insightful folks on the news today.

One of the things that I like about her style is that when she interviews someone she always asks if the her lead-in was correct.

Oh and I am from Castro Valley too, but hell I am just a landscaper.

[tavalon]

33. I watched that one right after she originally did it

Well worth the trip down memory lane. It was a beautiful thing.

[Brigid]

34. We love Rachel!!

[Hekate]

35. Kick and Rec for Rachel's Best Moment

She's the best.

[Blue Idaho]

36. An Amazing Clip

From an Amazing Person.

[siligut]

39. When you put it that way . . .

We have so much fighting left to do. How did we even come close to this alternative?

[caledesi]

40. BIG K & R! NT

[Brigid]

42. I wonder . . .

Does Rachel know about DU and how many fans she has around here?

[Stellar]

43. I still have this on my Tivo!

Thanks for sharing it again!

[bvar22]

47. ...but WHERE is the Democratic Party Vision ?

I agree that the Republicans ARE terrible.
I love Rachel, and that was a beautiful clip,
but what was MISSING from that clip
is the same thing that is Missing from our Party Leadership:
[font size=3]A Democratic Vision for the Future.[/font]

Instead, the Whole National Conversation is about what the Republicans want to do,
and How MUCH Obama is going to let them do.

This is NOT a "VICTORY" for a President who WON in November with a MANDATE from the People.

WHERE is the DEMOCRATIC PARTY VISION for The FUTURE?
THAT should have been The FOCUS on Day ONE,
not what the republicans won't be allowed to do,
NOT Boehner and Plan B.

Things like:
*Lowering the Retirement Age to 62

*Raising the CAP

*EFCA

*Stop Federal Funds to Private Universities,
and DOUBLING or TRIPLING the funding for Public Universities

*Forgiveness of Student Loans

*Stop Subsidies to Oil Corporations

*MORE regulation of Wall Street

*EXPAND Medicare

*MASSIVE Jobs Programs, a la Republican President Dwight Eisenhower

*Medicare? allow Medicare to negotiate prices with Drug Companies

*Transaction Taxes for Stock Trades

*VAT Taxes or 15% Tariffs for Imported Manufactured Goods (like Europe)

*Fair Competition Regulations (Sherman Act)
that let Mom & Pop (small locally owned businesses) compete with WalMart
(Big Boxes) on a level playing field

*Not JUST let the Bush Tax Cuts expire, but go back to the Pre-Reagan Tax Rates

ALL that and MORE should have been put On-the-Table on DAY ONE.
THEN say to Boehner and the Republicans....
"OK. NOW lets talk compromise."
I weep over another Missed Opportunity to Frame the Debate.

I'm an old FDR/LBJ Working Class Democrat,
and just being not as bad as Republicans
is NOT Good Enough for me.

my 2 cents.


You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their rhetoric, promises, or excuses.
[font size=5 color=green]Solidarity99![/font][font size=2 color=green]

[JeffHead]

50. I agree 100%

I posted this because Rachel gives a damn good example of what could have been if we fucked up and somehow elected Mitt. I'm not saying Obama is perfect. In fact he's far from it. You make a lot of good points in your post and I agree with all of them. We have a lot of work to do to get money out of politics and elect more progressive politicians to get all of this done and a whole lot more to turn this country around and headed in the right direction. Our first priority must be amend the constitution to overturn Citizens United. Secondly establish federal election standards to ensure everyone that is legally allowed to vote can vote. These 2 things would go a long way to solve the real problems this country faces.

My 2 cents change.

[pasto76]

48. 51% isnt exactly a 'mandate'. it means that 49% of the voters dont agree with it.

people liek you should really consider that. Your whole post is the same thing as a right wing nutjob post. "we won so shove everything down their throat." Your ideas are better than theirs, but something this country NEEDS TO RELEARN is _compromise_ is how shit gets done. if you dont understand that ideal, then consider the stark reality of none of your items above will EVER pass with a republican controlled house. period.

but you know what, 'mandate' is a dumb thing anyway. it just is. Beside that, Bush 43 ruined it for everyone, forever. Everytime you scream "MANDATE!" all we see is Bush telling us that he had a "mandate" too.

[Ilsa]

49. Did you intend to reply to the OP or

another post? The OP was a celebration of RM's eloquent coverage and summary of the meaning of the election, and many of the items on her list (banning gay marriage, overturning ACA, etc) are not going to be compromised on. These items are not all up for a vote by a GOP-led House.

As far as Obama's 51% is concerned, he did it twice, even R Reagan didn't win by a 4pt+ advantage twice. It's as close to a mandate we'll ever see again in a general election, I bet.

[JeffHead]

51. Obama is the first Prez to be elected with 50% of the vote twice since, wait for it.....

Eisenhower. Not LBJ, Not St. Ronnie, Not Clinton, Not W but, Barack Hussein Obama. If that isn't a mandate, I don't know what is. You know what Ike did with his mandate? He paid off the WW2 debt, and built the interstate highway system with borrowed money, balanced the budget (the last republican to do so) So I agree, He has as close to a mandate as there could be in today's political climate.