Comments on: Partisan Hacks: Rachel Maddow ‘Would Bet’ That McCain Chooses Jeb Bush As VP

By: stopdrugwar

stopdrugwar — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:23:40 +0000

Come on, no one can be paired with Coulter, least of all Franken. Franken’s comments are meant to be humorous, Coulter is purposelessly and effortlessly mean.

As for Maddow and the acussation of beignorant of her position as a partisan hack, the author is either ignorant or disingenuous. The guests on these shows are there to balance partisan hacks. She was obiediently filling her role as the liberal hack.

As for Jeb Bush, he’s a good as any choice McCain can make. At this point he ain’t ducking Bush, why not embrace it and by doing so, guarantee Florida (Katherine Harris we need you again).

By: 2008Central.net

2008Central.net — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:56:58 +0000

Criticizing someone on the left doesn’t automatically make one right-leaning or vice versa. I wasn’t really criticizing a political position, but rather, a baseless one.

I have a fundamental problem with someone on television proudly pronouncing their ignorance on a subject and then spewing wild conclusions anyway. The tenor of the press coverage, which relies heavily on blind partisans, is a significant contributor to some of the problems we’re facing.

I’m just not sure why people should be rewarded for ignorance, that’s all.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:37:23 +0000

Haha, I noticed that too mw.

She isn’t too bad normally. I did like how she couldn’t stop laughing when all the other analysts wouldn’t agree with her that Obama hadn’t changed on Iraq. I partially agreed with her that his website and handlers said the same thing than as now but in the specific instance in the debate he make it seem as though we will for sure have troops out in 16 months.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UiF6xvKYBo

A little harsh on Hannity there, run out of Lefties? I personally think Limbaugh is way worse than Hannity. I would probably go Hannity vs Rhodes but her star has fallen way down as of late.

By: mw

mw — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:14:31 +0000

As far as partisan hacks go, Maddow is one of my favorites on the left. She usually can articulate a pretty good rationalization for anything she says, and she will be pretty explicit about her own biases. As an excercise I like to pair off right and left partisan hacks with comparable levels of duplicity and annoyance factors (Moore & Limbaugh, Olbermann & O’Reilly, Coulter & Franken, Hannity & Joseph Stalin, etc. ). I find Maddow and Scarborough a good matched set, which is probably why they hate each other (Scarborough has walked off the set in the middle of a show with Maddow).

BTW, I just noticed that when Justin is not here, this blog starts listing pretty heavily to starboard. He has got to be hanging way off the port transom to keep this thing tacking down the center.