Rachel Maddow Gets Her Point Across on Real Time

[UrbScotty]

Run time: 03:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWWEoiZn6AU   Posted on YouTube: January 22, 2011 By YouTube Member: esbyvids Views on YouTube: 226   Posted on DU: January 22, 2011 By DU Member: UrbScotty Views on DU: 7097

 

[tabatha]

1. L.O.V.E R.A.C.H.E.L

That jerk tried to shut her down - and she would not be shut down!

[Poll_Blind]

2. Hilariously awesome, troubling piece! K&R!

:thumbsup:

PB

[Frustratedlady]

3. One of my biggest complaints about the RW panel guests is that they

ALL must be trained on talking so fast they don't let anyone else in.

Rachel snowed him with her facts and her ability to outshine him...which you don't see very often, as they won't shut up long enough to get a word in edgewise.

I'm at the point where I hate interviews with right wing pundits anywhere near a mike.

[mopinko]

6. they are trained to act that way. same guys who brought

the rich all those tax cuts knew they couldn't really defend them, so they learned to blow the debate apart. frank luntz and all that, all part of the same deal.

love that rachel. maybe that approach can catch on.

[fascisthunter]

7. the speak fast without end to filibuster

and some wonder why we on the left say, these people aren't worthy of politics... they spoil everything they touch. Debate is only good when both are being honest, and the right wing knows that. Check out Coulter's Goebbels rip-off, on how to Talk to a Liberal.

They deserve to live in Somalia where there is low tax if any... see how far their greed gets them there without the tax funded infrastructure that allowed them to get as wealthy as they have gotten. No appreciation or gratitude, just delusion.

[Blue State Bandit]

4. Boom goes the dynamite!

Rachael dunks on republican.

[SheilaT]

5. God, I love her.

The RW jerk said several times, "Facts are facts," and I only wish Rachel had thrown that back on him. She is ABSOLUTELY correct about what happened to incomes under Reagan, and I also believe there was little or no job growth under him.

In Republican administrations, jobs remain flat or go down. Under Democrats, and under higher taxes, jobs increase.

[Plucketeer]

8. Rachel's truly a treasure

I hope she's able to stay on every night. I'll NEED her balm of truth with Keith's departure



GOP JOBS PLAN

[awoke_in_2003]

29. "I'll NEED her balm of truth with Keith's departure"...

she will be MSNBC's next victim, unfortunately.

[Enthusiast]

33. I'm sorry for Rachel.

But in my home MSNBC will never again light up the screen. I won't write them with threats -I am clear done. Now we can have the equivalent of two Foxes. Life will be wonderful.

[karmkay]

37. But in my home MSNBC will never again light up the screen

Punish yourself. That'll show'em.

[godai]

40. Me too. Rarely if ever will I watch MSNBC. n/t

[forty6]

55. Keith is leaving so we must punish Rachel? Makes no sense to me!

Let's make sure ad revenues drop from lack of viewers who are boycotting Rachel and MSNBC entirely, that will show the progressives in the national media ...until they all are jobless!

Bill O'Reilly and Glen Beck will dance and sing all the way to the bank. We'll show MSNBC !!

[godai]

58. Not all KO viewers watch Rachel.n/t

[AC_Mem]

9. Republicans think

if they talk over people stating that their lies are "facts" that they then become facts.

Not so. Rachel is right, they are wrong.

It's so frustrating to watch it in our lifetime. It's like we are witnesses to this alternate reality that is played out before our eyes.

Annette

[jjewell]

10. With Olbermann gone...

Rachel Maddow and Ed Shultz are about the only reasons left
to watch MSNBC.

[silverweb]

11. Go, Rachel!

I was waiting for Maher to tell that asshole "commentator" to STFU and let her finish what she was saying, but she did better without any help.

Awesome, Rachel!

:applause:

[The Wizard]

12. Steven Moore is an adroit liar

and shill for the wealthy elites. He follows the same pattern as many of his ilk like that annoying Congresswoman from Florida, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who Richard Belzer to to shut the fuck up on Real Time. They just won't let any other ideas get presented. In essence, they're totalitarians.

[bdamomma]

13. She's great can't lose her, but she can go back to radio too.

[awoke_in_2003]

30. we lost Keith...

Rachel is next.

[bdamomma]

52. could be their (right) ultimate plan to systemically stifle

progressive voices I don't see anyone from the right who spew venom each day being terminated, such crap is being done. Keith an honest and tell the truth individual gets canned makes no sense at all.

[Red Knight]

14. Is that guy on drugs?

I want some of that.

Because if he thinks wages for the middle class have not been stagnant for years he must be taking something. Anyone in the middle class KNOWS that's BS.

I may get a raise every year or not but it sure as heck is not keeping up with inflation.

The upper class has done VERY well.

I'm glad Rachel had facts on her side but I guess if he thought he could just talk over them it wouldn't matter. Unfortunately for him---no one needs statistics to show them what they already know. We're living it.

He's clueless.

[JHB]

17. He's got better than drugs. He's got the Wingnut Welfare teat.

He was born in 1960, and take a look at his bio below: it starts in 1983 (circa age 23, pretty much right out of university), and from there it's one conservative spin-tank, propaganda outlet, or political campaign after another.


From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Moore_(economist)">his Wikipedia page:

Early career
From 1983 through 1987, Moore served as the Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Budgetary Affairs at the Heritage Foundation. Moore also was a fellow of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.

Moore was the senior economist of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee under Chairman Dick Armey of Texas. There, he was also an architect of the Armey flat tax proposal in 1995. He was also part of the research team hired by Americans For Fair Taxation to create the FairTax, the most co-sponsored tax reform proposal in Congress. He is currently a partner in the econometrics firm Arduin, Laffer & Moore Econometrics.

Moore resigned his position as president of the Club for Growth in December 2004. His opponents within the organization faulted him with disorganized management, while his supporters credited him with raising $20 million to fund candidates for the 2004 elections.

Free Enterprise Fund
In 2005, he founded the 501 c(4) Free Enterprise Fund with other prominent Club for Growth members including Arthur Laffer and Mallory Factor. Under Moore's direction, the Free Enterprise Fund lobbied for Social Security privitization, the permanent repeal of estate tax, and for tort reform. It is also opposed to the Sarbanes-Oxley law.

Wall Street Journal
On May 31, Moore left the Free Enterprise Fund to serve on the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal.

Don't you just love "free market" ccheerleaders who never spent a moment of their lives actually trying to support themselves in one?

[gtar100]

24. Ah, the boneheads of my own generation.

The dream of making it rich without having to actually create anything in the process was such a draw for people in the 1980s.

Reagan's perceived "success" was in moving money to the upper class while riding on the goodwill and fortune of America up to that point in time. He and all the other right-wing followers have since been pissing that all away. Reagan only looked good because he operated at the beginning of the dismantling of unions and our social safety net. It's not so easy to hide the ugly truth of their failed policies now.

Moore is obviously a jewel in the right-wing cesspool. He obviously learned all the stunts - never stop talking, assert talking points, never concede anything, don't bother listening carefully or considering anything said, just say no to every counter-argument...and just keep talking.

I'm sick of watching these right-wing pukes not even give a moment's consideration to historical fact. It makes them complete fools. They are either ignorant or playing on the ignorance of others, either way causing disastrous affects because their lies are amplified in the media.

Thank God for Rachel.

[underpants]

25. Steven Moore was on this very show 3 years ago saying that "24" should set national security policy

as was the talking point of the day in RW circles.

Steven Moore is a line reader. Voice in the choir. A complete joke..... you know, like Reagan.

[gateley]

15. I love that woman. I think she's the smartest of them all. nt

[butterfly77]

16. This bastard ...

runs all over the television praising tax cuts and talking about how happy he is that the cities and states can take care of its citizens but he praises money for bombs..

[JHB]

18. It's a dirty job, but someone has to get paid well for it...

...he figures it might as well be him.

[colsohlibgal]

19. Steven Moore Is An Obnoxious Twit

And completely in the tank for the gilded set. You Go Rachel, way to go get this jerk.

[BlackX-068]

20. YOU cant HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!

It was a nice way for Rachel to have her STFU moment. Awesome!

[Devil_Fish]

21. pulled, is there another link?

[travelingtypist]

22. Here's the video again.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/01/22/rachel_maddow_and_steve_moore_argue_over_reaganomics.html

[0rganism]

32. i notice the RCP comments section has a different take from DU's

very enlightening, in itself, as to how our counterparts view the world.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

38. Thanks!!!

[proReality]

42. Wow!

A lot of extremely and willfully ignorant people use that site to make comments.

[anAustralianobserver]

23. She drop-kicked that dropkick.

[AsahinaKimi]

26. Typicial Republican

Strategy, if you can't make your point...

SHOUT LOUDLY OVER YOUR OPPONENT!!

[Enthusiast]

34. Another Nazi-like quality.

Just saying.

[swimboy]

27. "Hey, there was a NOUN in my question!"

She is absolutely brilliant. The only defense against her facts and logic and truth is to talk over her and SHE WASN'T HAVING IT! But oh so kindly and effectively.

:loveya:

[ErikJ]

28. CARTER'S VOLKER

Newsbusters still has the video.
When will they learn! The Reagan boom was because of Jimmy Carter's Fed Chief VOLKER who finally broke the back of inflation in 1983 or 4. NOT BECAUSE OF REAGAN TAX CUTS! In 1986 Reagan REALLLY slashed taxes from on the rich from 50% (15% higher than now) to 28% which caused the 1987 Stock market Crash,
the S& L Bank crisis,
and recession in 89-92!!

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/01/22/rachel-maddow-tells-bill-maher-100-falsehood-about-reaganomics

[Capn Sunshine]

31. BINGO!!! CARTER is a hero because of this

Carter knew that Volkers policy would be ruinous short term but that is was necessary to save the economy from a descent into Wiemar Republic like inflation. Knowing full well that the results would make him a one term president, but save the country, Carter told Volker "do it".

A more heroic stand we could not ask for by a President who is mocked to this day.

[ErikJ]

54. Greenspan appointed 1987

Greenspan was on Reagan's Social security reform commission in 1981 and DOUBLED the SS tax for all making below $30,000. It built up a huge surplus, while Reagaan cut taxes on the rich in half. Then as Reagan's advisor, Greenspan and Reagan started borrowing from the SS Trust fund to pay for Reagans spiralling national debt from his tax cuts on the rich.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oGhEZxXY3E8J:blog.buzzflash.com/hartmann/10015+greenspan+social+security+thom+hartmann&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

[chervilant]

45. yes,

and Volker worked like a mad man to keep Reagan's economic policies from bankrupting this nation, even as he walked the fine line of further enriching himself and his cronies.

Ironically, Volker 'predicted' the economic morass in which we're currently mired--like that was any real stretch.

[cynthia]

57. thanks for this link

I always love to see Rachel. She is so smart and cool headed. They can't touch her.

[SemperEadem]

35. I fault Maher for not telling that dude to stfu and let Rachel answer the question

that was completely stupid how that interchange was handled.

[TuxedoKat]

39. Yeah, what's the matter with him

She had to stand up to get that idiot to finally shut up and behave. She didn't look too pleased about having to do that either.

[jimlup]

36. Rachel is my favorite media personality

I'm upset about losing Keith. We really really can't let COMCAST fire Rachel and they will probably try.

[JHB]

41. I wonder if Rachel will take time on her show to go over the facts on this...

...either to show where and how he was wrong, or even for a mea culpa if he was somehow technicaly right?

May be worth a suggestion.

[rurallib]

43. crap - too late again!!!

YouTube says fuck you.

[Towlie]

47. ... and someone said the same thing back to YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDqbJye7SVg

... if it's the right video, that is. At least it has the same title.

[rurallib]

56. thank you - that was worth seeing!

[AlbertCat]

44. Interesting...

I had to do a search and watch the clip elsewhere (god I hope I saw the right clip!) and what you have here is a moderator, a propagandizing liar, and 2 people telling the truth. It is very easy to see which is which.

The audience gets it, don't they?

[Myshadow]

46. Stockman was great too

This fragment is a misleading. David Stockman clubbed this little douche with reality. For some reason moore is on every cable rolodex, polluting the thought stream with his supply side bullshit on cnn, cnbc,msnbc, and faux. Stockman and Maddow totally doubleteamed and drank his milk shake for the whole show. russell simmons came on in the last segment and laid a steamer on the proceedings referring to his 'friend rog' er ailes as a go to guy about prison reform. Maher was incredulous, and asked WTF?
simmons then went on to give a completely incoherent recall of their discovery of 'common ground' and solutions about prison reform.

[ErikJ]

48. 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America

Here's what the RepubliCons dont want you to know. Charts including the Reagan admin.

"The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Cliché, sure, but it's also more true than at any time since the Gilded Age.
The poor are getting poorer, wages are falling behind inflation, and social mobility is at an all-time low.
If you're in that top 1%, life is grand.
Here's 15 Mind-Blowing Charts About Wealth And Inequality In America"

http://www.businessinsider.com/15-charts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america-2010-4

[ErikJ]

50. Top 10% own 70% of wealth in America

On "Meet the Press" this morning they were talking about the debt.

The hot Republican chick from CNBC said that our household assets are $63 Trillion and we have a National debt of $13 Trillion.

The top 10% therefore own $45 Trillion net worth assets.
The top 1% own over $20 Trillion assets.

And so they are going to cut the social services part of the budget for the bottom 50% that own 2.5% or $1.5 Trillion of the nation's assets?
And the bottom 25% who own ZERO % of the nation's assets?

[Iggo]

49. The youtube vid's been whacked.

Where else can I see this vid?

[JHB]

51. Crooks and Liars has it up...

...with partial transcript.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/rachel-maddow-takes-stephen-moore-task-ove

[progressoid]

53. Thanks!