Rachel Maddow is hosting Countdown tonight. Looks like it will be a good one!

[Tatiana]

I can't wait to see what leisure-time activities Bush has been up to during the war.

[Coexist]

1. wow! I am so excited.

[Tatiana]

2. We all are, apparently! LOL! n/t

[DerekJ]

3. Looks like KO finally found someone he can entrust the show to. She has done good job last time.

[Tatiana]

4. Wolffe says that McSame is stuck in 2004 mode. n/t

[kohodog]

5. I wondered why she wasn't on the 6:00 show.

Thought she might have taken the night off and thought Keith would too. Rachel deserves her own show. Maybe she'll replace "The Race to the White House" in November. I can wait.

[myrna minx]

6. How wonderful.

I adore her. :loveya: Her observations are so astute and most, if not all of her predictions while sitting at the Gregory table of the damned come true.

[crankychatter]

7. "A cautionary tale for political hacks lacking history." RM

that was yummy

[Tatiana]

8. Wolffe says that the Obama campaign needs to do a better job of fielding surrogates

to "correct the record" and defend against these silly sort of Rethug attacks.

He says Obama cannot waste his time correcting all of the Rethug lies or else he will not be getting out his own message.

I agree.

[Tatiana]

9. Alter: "A lot of right-wing people don't know what the term appeasement means."

Called Bush's attack "distasteful" and "a direct violation of 60 years of American policy."

"At this point the White House can't get its story straight."

[City Lights]

10. The Huckster's apology:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/huckabee-targets-obama-with-gun-joke/

During my speech at the N.R.A., a loud noise backstage, that sounded like a chair falling, distracted the crowd and interrupted my speech. I made an off hand remark that was in no way intended to offend or disparage Sen. Obama.
I apologize that my comments were offensive. That was never my intention.”

[blonndee]

12. No, he just showed his true colors with that remark.

The fact that it slipped out says a lot about the "charming" "Christian" huckster. I'm sure he didn't INTEND for that to happen, but it did.

[City Lights]

17. He could only hide his ugly, inner self for so long before it oozed out.

But I expected him to issue an "apology" regardless.

[aaaaaa5a]

28. This is the same guy....

who in the South Carolina Primary said it was okay to fly the Confederate flag over the capitol. That's all it took for me!

By the way... Not only does Rachel Maddow beat down Morning Joe... She can take Chuck Norris too.

[TheDonkey]

11. Rachel Maddow: You go girl.

[Aloha Spirit]

13. Rachel is in heaven right now... the hardball appeasement debacle...

[Tatiana]

14. Tweety is up next.... n/t

[Aloha Spirit]

18. Tweety: "The whole mindset since 2000 has been to shut up critics."

[Aloha Spirit]

21. "the shutting up of opposition is critical to running a country in an undemocratic way"

on "appeasement": "anybody can use the buzzwords, the dittoheads can use them..." ha.

he makes fun of the phrase "homeland defense", why not call it national security.. ha.

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. Be sure to catch the producer vs O'really segment

DU had the link up this morning.

I hope to see Rachel every Friday until she gets her own show.

[helderheid]

16. GOOD FOR HER!!!!

[Skidmore]

19. Wow! Good discussion with the Tweetster.

Perhaps we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now if he had questioned the use of language more vociferously when it counted.

[Tatiana]

20. Tweety sez "Giving a damn, arguing over policy is the very essense of patriotism"

OMG... bring up Bill Mahr

The shutting up of opposition is critical to running the country in an undemocratic way.

:wow:

[slinkerwink]

24. that was a great substantive discussion

[Tatiana]

22. "I'm not really happy with phrases like 'homeland security'"

"What's wrong with NATIONAL DEFENSE?"

WTF Tweety?

:wow:

[PM7nj]

23. Woah! What happened to Chris Matthews?

I haven't watched his show since he started obsessing about the "white vote." But, wow... he was totally right in that last segment.

[Tatiana]

25. My only question is, why doesn't he talk like this on his own show? n/t

[TheDonkey]

30. KO and Countdown have CHANGED cable news and Tweety is getting on board. I was impressed

telling it like it is. People are waking up and thankfully because KO has showed them the way. You don't have to be fox-lite in order to get ratings.

[Ichingcarpenter]

26. Here is the original posting of the Producer vs O'really on DU

Funny as hell


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3294356&mesg_id=3294356

[Aloha Spirit]

27. Do you all get the feeling that LOGIC is like, trendy all of a sudden?

It seems like everyone and their pet gecko is standing up to BushCo lies and propaganda.

[iconicgnom]

32. Yes, I do.

I'm fairly backward politically, I don't watch TV (ever), I've mostly stayed away from politics on the net until recently I've been frequenting a few sites e.g. Asian Times Online, Salon, DU, C & L, and the like. Most recently I've taken to interjecting a bit at DU - an interesting process to say the least.

I first saw Rachel Maddow on a youtube clip where she vivisected Tucker Carlson in just a few minutes, on air right before my eyes, then sewed him back together and, her performance was that good, it seemed that she nodded right at me, "See? Good as new!" -- and Tucker didn't have a clue what happened. Following that, on Rachel's show I was introduced to Naomi Klein (amongst many, but to just name the brightest star) and her thesis on political/economic theory, 'Shock Doctrine'. I could go on, but what I see here is a cross-spectrum political flowering, in front of my eyes, based on a true *ownership* of logic, of reason combined with political idealism (e.g. a belief that concepts of Human Rights are first principles).

I like how Obama fits into this reality. The more I see, the more I like this new (I'm older) generation of leadership. It makes me comfortable.

[TheDonkey]

29. Hillarious BarelyPolitical spoof on O'Riely played IN FULL on Countdown. EFFING HILLARIOUS!!!

[Greyskye]

31. I was HOPING they would play that!

Here's the web link for people who haven't seen it yet: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1815979

:rofl:

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