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Brilliant historical overview of the Federal government at work literally telling ReTHUGs and hacksto STFU with their BS about authoritarianism - yes he can.
elleng
(130,147 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)The eye rolling, the shaking of the head, the smirking, the facial expressions.
I want my news without her 'entertainment'.
zuul
(14,615 posts)as if her viewers are low IQ morans. She talks down to her audience and explains her point 12 different ways. Its insulting.
Trueblue Texan
(2,372 posts)...when I come home form work, my brain is fried. I'm grateful for her careful explaining. It used to annoy me, but now I need it. My brain is exhausted a lot these days. She is my hero and does her best to bring accurate reporting to working stiffs like me.
malaise
(267,817 posts)jrthin
(4,825 posts)Pluvious
(4,278 posts)We're lucky she's not burned out yet :-/
greblach
(256 posts)I love Rachel, from the Keith days...but I have to admit she ends up making me sleepy with her monologue so I never finish, gets me to bed early...
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)Like here with the Medicare-Civil Rights Act ties. Or, she reminds me of something I already knew, but hadn't thought of in the given context. I don't know everything, like some here do, so I'm always happy to hear what she has to say.
jimfields33
(15,462 posts)Then it turned out to be a bust, that was it.
Trueblue Texan
(2,372 posts)She and her team do a great job. She did have his tax returns for one year and they did reveal how much money he lost and how little taxes he paid. It wasn't enough to nail him to the wall and lock him up, and maybe it was a setup, but she still reported information we didn't have before. Nothing wrong with that.
radical noodle
(7,990 posts)but that's just me. I've heard both sides.
i like her way of explaining things.
she can take the most complex issues and whittle them down to a toothpick.
malaise
(267,817 posts)That is all
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Hers is the one news show I always watch. She is a TEACHER. That's who she is, what she does. Her show is like going to the best poli-sci class ever with the best professor ever. I LOVE that. And her! Dr. Maddow can educate me any day. I will listen and learn.
Unwind Your Mind
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USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Ha
Fabulous program tonight
vanlassie
(5,637 posts)I respectfully suggest you are talking old news. Why? Many people here have responded to similar comments by saying that we noticed that Rachel improved her delivery dramatically several years ago. She has the highest viewership on her network. She provides unique and well researched content every single night. She gets the TOP experts while being supportive of her colleagues, who pretty much worship her. Maybe try tuning in for a week sometime soon.
malaise
(267,817 posts)Silver Gaia
(4,514 posts)lark
(23,003 posts)The others too often fall for the rw ploy of the day and especially with Afghanistan really really irritated me. I rarely watched tv for the last few weeks before we were all gone, too sickening and slanted.
Jakes Progress
(11,121 posts)I find her delightful.
So where do you get entertainmentless news?
calimary
(80,699 posts)Jakes Progress
(11,121 posts)calimary
(80,699 posts)fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)Watch the beginning. Then fast forward to the end.
SharonClark
(10,005 posts)Good job, as usual.
Polly Hennessey
(6,746 posts)I always know more after watching her than I did before. She explains, I listen, I learn. That is a winning plus for me.
malaise
(267,817 posts)many many folks don't know the history
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johnnyplankton
(350 posts)But she's a genuine human being too. If she fucks up, she admits it and always asks the guests if she summarized their positions correctly. She's the best thing on TV when it comes to accurate reporting.
malaise
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A PhD requires lots of research and she has a great team
Grammy23
(5,808 posts)It gave me some good replies to those who try to say it is massive over reach by the President. It was also a nice review of history I witnessed as a teenager but was not necessarily paying close attention at the time. 😉
malaise
(267,817 posts)chopped off workers' hands.
TurboDem
(211 posts)When she showed the video of the man dropping the pin in there while he was holding on to the moving part of the train I literally gasped because I thought he was going to get his hand chopped off.
Mister Ed
(5,896 posts)CatWoman
(79,283 posts)malaise
(267,817 posts)Thanks sis ;grouphug:
why do you keep double posting?
malaise
(267,817 posts)I cleared cache, tried everything and it sitll happens sometimes
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orleans
(33,987 posts)Hekate
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was worth the whole price of whatever book she writes next. In 1964-65 I was full of all the angst of being a senior in high school, and I never, ever knew there was a connection between the Civil Rights Act and the Medicare law.
malaise
(267,817 posts)when he was doing graduate studies in Detroit. He told me a progressive white doctor told taught him all about the history of segregation in American medicine. Racism is institutional big time - and no sphere was spared.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)important goals to be achieved baked in. Certainly the big bills we're trying to pass now do.
I was even younger than you at that point, but I later read about LBJ in that era. My favorite president to admire greatly and be appalled by also. I probably should read more about congress since liberal (and to be fair a few moderate conservative) legislators created all this monumental legislation.
Pinback
(12,134 posts)Im always amazed at the non-assholish things Nixon did, like presiding over the creation of both EPA and OSHA.
Dammit, dont make me start liking Nixon, even a little bit!
I also remember Tricky Dicks administration putting price controls in place in the 1970s to curb inflation talk about your Communist Party central planning!
madaboutharry
(40,152 posts)He was corrupt and underhanded and ruthless.
But he also believed that government had a role in serving the people. I think it was that he grew up in deep poverty. His family sometimes didnt have enough food. There was a lot of bad in Nixon, but he never forgot where he came from.
He was a complicated man.
malaise
(267,817 posts)Pinback
(12,134 posts)Id do a picture of Nixon in a red beret.
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JohnSJ
(91,962 posts)orleans
(33,987 posts)i was about ten minutes late to the dance, but i got there--i'm still there.
i loved what i saw on the "yes he can" topic.
(actually--it's all good)
LetMyPeopleVote
(143,999 posts)underpants
(182,279 posts)civil rights Medicare seatbelts meat inspection railway cars so far.
👍
malaise
(267,817 posts)That was one of her best ever
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GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)I like how they're explaining the whole Merrick Garland response to the corrupt Texas abortion law.
malaise
(267,817 posts)Great program
Greybnk48
(10,148 posts)Rachel's a must see for me nightly. But you're right. Last night was particularly interesting and informative! I love how she and her crew dig up the foundations for a lot of things going down now. She always adds the missing puzzle pieces.
halfulglas
(1,654 posts)The best college instructors repeat the important things so they sink in. Plus she explains some of the things I lived through and didn't understand their significance at the time - like not understanding how much of a crook Agnew was. I knew that the hospitals were segregated but it was Medicare and the dollars behind it that unsegregated them is obvious, once it was actually explained to me. Oh, of course, the money.
We are living in such a political maelstrom surrounded with so much political crap that sometimes what's important has to be explained as being important. Like when Rachel often says "don't pay attention to what they say, pay attention to what they do." Of course, sometimes even that is a bit wrong in that we didn't pay much attention at the time to what they were saying about 1/6 so we missed so many of the warning signs.
But yes, she is like one of the best polisci profs.
malaise
(267,817 posts)Great post