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Maddow's rhetoric is a good example of the admin's propaganda machine. People are long fed up with it, meaning those who used to follow that are seeing what it really is now. Good for them.
Guess you teabaggers have something to gloat about, I'm sure having a liberal talk show host have a ratings slide is much more satisfying than actually getting a conservative into the White House. Anyway I suspect its because Chris Hayes is a terrible lead in, hes very bland. I used to watch Big Ed sometimes then tune into Rachel but I usually end up watching entertainment now.
Maddow's rhetoric is a good example of the admin's propaganda machine. People are long fed up with it, meaning those who used to follow that are seeing what it really is now. Good for them.
Yet I'd bet Rush Limbaugh practically broadcasting from the White House basement didn't bother you in the least Rachel is actually a principled liberal who doesnt care much for Obama's triangulation of right wing principles. Liberal pundits will never be as successful as conservative pundits because conservatives are basically idiots who NEED Rush Limbaugh to tell them what to say to liberals. Most liberals never listen to liberal shows or talk radio because one becomes liberal through education and life experience rather than by listening to a radio show with a loudmouthed Oxycontin addict.
Yet I'd bet Rush Limbaugh practically broadcasting from the White House basement didn't bother you in the least Rachel is actually a principled liberal who doesnt care much for Obama's triangulation of right wing principles. Liberal pundits will never be as successful as conservative pundits because conservatives are basically idiots who NEED Rush Limbaugh to tell them what to say to liberals. Most liberals never listen to liberal shows or talk radio because one becomes liberal through education and life experience rather than by listening to a radio show with a loudmouthed Oxycontin addict.
This in large part is why Maddow's ratings suck. She too often takes this same viewpoint which gets very old very quickly. Many years ago when Alan Colmes was still just a radio guy I really liked listening to his program. Not because I agreed with him in most cases but rather because he presented his opinions in a respectful, principled manner.
It seems the left couldn't stand him when he went to Fox because he wasn't willing to compromise his principles or call those who he disagreed with names.
I would watch on occasion but I quit after he left.
This in large part is why Maddow's ratings suck. She too often takes this same viewpoint which gets very old very quickly. Many years ago when Alan Colmes was still just a radio guy I really liked listening to his program. Not because I agreed with him in most cases but rather because he presented his opinions in a respectful, principled manner.
It seems the left couldn't stand him when he went to Fox because he wasn't willing to compromise his principles or call those who he disagreed with names.
I would watch on occasion but I quit after he left.
Riiiiiight, thats why Alan Colmes was such a hugely popular radio personality (cough cough). Alan sold out to the right by being their little b***h to present liberals as wimpy strawmen. He made a very lucrative career of it but he is no hero to liberals. Again, conservatives are too braindead to defend their ideas without Rush and the like, its why conservative radio prospers when America has so few actual right wingers. Liberals dont need to be told what to think, a person wouldnt be liberal in the first place if they werent educated. That is the permanent dilemma liberal pundits and hosts face and its why there will never be a liberal as popular as Rush. Rachel has done remarkably well for herself considering how bleak it is for liberal pundits.
Riiiiiight, thats why Alan Colmes was such a hugely popular radio personality (cough cough). Alan sold out to the right by being their little b***h to present liberals as wimpy strawmen. He made a very lucrative career of it but he is no hero to liberals. Again, conservatives are too braindead to defend their ideas without Rush and the like, its why conservative radio prospers when America has so few actual right wingers. Liberals dont need to be told what to think, a person wouldnt be liberal in the first place if they werent educated. That is the permanent dilemma liberal pundits and hosts face and its why there will never be a liberal as popular as Rush. Rachel has done remarkably well for herself considering how bleak it is for liberal pundits.
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The good news: you can gloat today, which you're obviously enjoying.
The bad news: her ratings will get better.
There are hundreds of cable and satellite choices, and many of them have little to no viewership at all. By the time your delusion comes true, it will have never happened. She'll have been off the air by that time and replaced with another host.
A solid hour of just listening to Rachel ramble on is a bit much. Sometimes she is funny and she certainly doesn't always agree with the President . . but still . . an entire hour listening to one person's commentary? Can't do it.
She needed to invite more guests on. Guests that didn't always agree with her.
The bottomline is....the show sucks. It's not just that I disagree with her POVs, but more so that she's an academic who is attempting to cross the line into pop culture and it simply doesn't work on her end.
BTW Her show also crashed and burned on Air America radio back in 2007.
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Rachel is actually a principled liberal who doesnt care much for Obama's triangulation of right wing principles. Liberal pundits will never be as successful as conservative pundits because conservatives are basically idiots who NEED Rush Limbaugh to tell them what to say to liberals. Most liberals never listen to liberal shows or talk radio because one becomes liberal through education and life experience rather than by listening to a radio show with a loudmouthed Oxycontin addict.
