2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Flacks Like Rachel Maddow Are Killing Us... [View all]Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)She's an amateur.
I stopped watching her regularly quite awhile ago, maybe a little over 2 years ago, because she usually stammers and stutters her way through her pieces, and then she has this annoying habit of constantly repeating the end of her statements all of the time.
Like she, herself, can't believe what she just said.
And, then for whatever reason she has, she is constantly writing stuff down when she comes to the end of those pieces, circling crap all of the time on her paperwork.
Like she is keeping some permanent record of it for posterity sake or whatever.
It makes her look crazy, like Glen Beck.
Only because other people complained about her, did I start watching her again, just recently.
And she is far worse than she ever was before.
When she had Nate Silver on her program 2 weeks ago, the camera angle on Nate was from above him, and the background behind him was an orange slate!
It made Nate look like he was a little kid, reporting to her from a cardboard box, somewhere else in the studio.
Not only does Rachel ramp up the anxiety level on her program on purpose, unnecessarily, in my opinion.
But, she also ignores cold, hard facts.
Like the fact that we have tried to contact her through twitter, e-mails, and have even made phone calls to the studio heads, to get her to realize that Nate is including false numbers for the polls in his tabulations.
Nate is including Gravis Marketing polls, which the DU Work Group has decimated in their analysis.
Evidently Nate won't respond to any e-mails either, so the entire reporting of Nate Silver's "polling analysis" is flawed from the get-go!