Rachel: Talk me down. Are we looking at Bill Clinton's third term?

[ecstatic]

She's found a new concern outlet. :rofl:

[MadMaddie]

1. Yea

It is way too early to be stressing...even if she picks a few people that served under Clinton it is clear that Obama is his own man.

[GrizzlyMan]

2. She's totally off base

Podesta will be gone after the transition is done. Axelrod and Gibbs have no connections to the Clintons. So of the 3 long term choices he's made just one has ties to the Clinton admin.

[Bicoastal]

3. Worry, worry, worry...

Rachel really needs to get laid.

[annabanana]

11. She's in a long term relationship. . . .

but thanks for your concern.

[Colobo]

14. Maybe she needs more loving from her girl?

It could be! She's too negative lately!

[Kahuna]

44. She's being herself. She's always been this way. Very superior. nt

[AlCzervik]

4. she needs to wait and hear from Obama as well before she makes the talking point

Michael Savage did.

[Xipe Totec]

27. She needs to run for president

If she wins, then she can pick whoever she likes.

[Kahuna]

45. Riiight! But I think she thinks that with her one vote, she gets to set

his agenda. I knew she was going to do that.

[Teaser]

5. Can't we get a week without concern trolling?

Oh lord.

[DarthDem]

6. Jesus!!

Dump the FUCKING talk me down segment!!!!!!!! WE WON!!!

[liberalmuse]

7. Fuck.

I need to cut my vacation short and get back to work. According what I've heard and read today, Obama has already fucked up his Presidency before even being sworn in. All this idiotic speculation is going to drive me insane.

On edit: I do love Rachel. It's not her. It's EVERYONE.

[merh]

34. You and me both.

it is very unnerving.

[Divernan]

37. It is idiotic, which is particularly irritating since she is so bright & knows better.

She's hyping the drama to keep her ratings up. Her constant, exaggerated facial expressions and intonations come off to me as talking down to and trying to manipulate people. Is she capable of a calmer, more serious presentation? I get enough droll political humor and commentary from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Someone remind Rachel she's not on the Comedy Channel. I found her entertaining for a few weeks and then found her irritating. If she develops some more confidence in the value of her comments and analysis, maybe she'll dial down the hyper delivery.

[annabanana]

8. She cracks me up.

I think her "concern" persona makes for a useful way to introduce more progressive positions in a non-threatening way to people who have NO EXPOSURE to anything resembling real liberalism...

[JVS]

13. I'm not sure. Chicken Little is hardly one of the most beloved literary figures.

[Kahuna]

46. LOL!!!!

:rofl:

[dascientist]

9. TALK HER DOWN, YES, MMMMMMM YES!

[fascisthunter]

10. actually, she may be right

if we don't push these "centrists" back... I had a feeling this would happen especially after how these so-called centrists behaved while the Dems had the majority. Let's all look at all that really bad legislation that Bush wanted passed and see how many of these centrists voted for it too. Me thinks these "centrists" also love the Bush tax cuts.

[ecstatic]

well hopefully Obama will see the show and get an idea

of what we're expecting from him. I see Rachel's point, but it might be too soon to worry about that.

[Lumpsum]

18. I tend to agree.

But I'm gonna give Obama 6 months or so before I start questioning.

[fascisthunter]

23. I suppose you are correct however I say we push now...

before it's too late.

[Gregorian]

12. The Talk Me Down segment isn't about Rachel.

She's playing the role of a concerned viewer. That's my take on it.

There is no way Rachel Maddow does not know the answer to the question she asks during these segments.

I seem to recall the same posts on this forum when Colbert's show first started. There was a lot of talk about how he was really a conservative.



By the way, it took me quite a while to really discover that Victoria Jackson wasn't playing her role. But Rachel isn't Victoria, by any means. Haha.

[Ichingcarpenter]

19. He talked her down... I thought it was a good segment

I think everyone needs to mute that segment if they can't handle it.

[Gregorian]

22. A successful 2/3rd's talkdown.

:)

She's cool.

I like the King of Bhutan's "awesome footware".

[Lisa0825]

33. AMEN!

I love her show, and I am sick of people bitching about her. "Talk me down" expresses particular concerns and asks for reasons NOT to be concerned. The segment generally diffuses whatever the topic was. Are people here too dense to understand that??? I expect more of DUers! :wtf:

[Kahuna]

47. Really?? We're dense??? Negative Nelly CAN'T be talked down.. Didn't

you hear her say she was only 2 thirds talked down??? That means her viewers get to hear her bitch about this yet again. Shoot me.

[Eric J in MN]

15. We have a lot to do with it.

If we let Republicans take back the House or the Senate, then the Obama presidency will be more like the Clinton presidency then if we don't.

[Occam Bandage]

16. Rachel: Jump.

[BuyingThyme]

17. What the fuck could that possibly mean?

[Eric J in MN]

21. Allowing more mergers of media companies...

...and of financial companies.

Ideally, the government would be breaking up huge corporations.

But Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) is considering changing the law to allow a single bank to have over 10% of the nation's deposit money.

[BuyingThyme]

29. That's insane.

That's how we got into this mess in the first place, by way of too-big-to-fail.

Schumer can get stuffed.

[S_E_Fudd]

20. And that's a bad thing?...nt

[MelSC]

24. She's annoying as hell

I'm sorry, I have no idea what has happened to this woman, she is nothing but a buzzkill. I used to love her show too!

[WinkyDink]

25. If this is code for "SURPLUS", I'm all for it!

[PretzelWarrior]

26. settle down, Rachel. We won. Try and act like it.

you must be getting lots of ratings with that tagline. But it is putting you in a box where you will be branded that "TALK ME DOWN" lady who wears the dark jackets.

[jenmito]

28. WOW-she was "talked down" 2/3rds of the way! That's a first!

:rofl:

[ronnykmarshall]

30. Oh jesus.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

31. I'm anxious to see how effective two ex-Senators (Obama and Biden) will be

in influencing the legislature to get their programs through, such as a reform of healthcare. I think it's very premature and unfair to try to prejudge how the Obama administration might govern at this point. I'm hoping that Obama will find a very receptive legislative body before him, eager to consider his programs for reform. And since his coattails in this past election were very long, I think that gives both Democratic and Republican legislators coming up for re-election in 2010 something to seriously think about. Having an amazing campaigner like Obama on your side or against your side in 2010 could be a factor in their minds.

[Ichingcarpenter]

32. Genius Nate Silver thanks both the Alaskan and Georgia elections

results are fraudulent.

[ecstatic]

35. I think so too. How could the GA results be soo far off

when I saw damn well how long the lines were all over the state? They tossed out results! I feared they would do that to us early voters. Looks like we were right to be wary. :( :mad:

[Ichingcarpenter]

36. He said the poll discrepancies are enough to bring in Obama lawyers

in both states.

[MarjorieG]

38. Both states have admitted, bad theft in recent years. Means the Senate.

[PretzelWarrior]

39. Georgia is a racist fucktard state

there are good people there. Don't get me wrong. But racism and disenfranchisement is institutionalized down there.

I'm sure they were offended that so many "colored" folk dared to vote for that "uppity fella".

[Doctor_J]

41. Little doubt about AK.

Polls were 10 points off. It was fixed

[Doctor_J]

40. Yeesh. I thought winning 350 EV would get her back on our side

Silly me. Unless she's being sarcastic

[MarjorieG]

42. Change would be Obama's policy and decisions. Necessary with least mistakes and wasted time.

Clinton's term proved how mistakes can cause the loss of Congress.

[Kahuna]

43. She's preparing Obama's agenda. What took her so long?

:eyes: