Maddow explains why she fell for Palin/Egypt hoax

She blames -- wait for it -- Glenn Beck!
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We posted Tuesday about how MSPDS host Rachel Maddow, whom the left touts as "brilliant" (like Bill Clinton, she's a Rhodes scholar), fell hook, line and sinker Monday for an internet spoof by a satirical website that Gov. Sarah Palin was advocating an attack on Egypt.

Maddow took 24 hours to come up with an excuse, and, as Noel Sheppard reports, on Tuesday's program explained that it was all conservatives' fault, in particular that diabolical Glenn Beck:

And that was Maddow’s explanation for getting duped by a satirical website: in her view, conservatives – especially Glenn Beck – are saying all kinds of crazy things. As a result, it’s become difficult for her to know what’s real and what’s a spoof.

If this is the case, then maybe she should stop reporting on what conservatives are saying.

If she can no longer discern between fact and fiction, serious commentary and satire, she can’t possibly be trusted or taken seriously about anything, for who knows what her next source will be and whether or not it’s actually legitimate.

Maybe more importantly, how can anyone on television – Rhodes scholar or not! – be deserving of the public’s trust if she blames her own mistakes on others not at all involved in her program?

Sadly, this is par for the course on MSNBC as well as other liberal media outlets.

These are the same people that disgustingly blamed conservatives for the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) last month. They’re used to pointing fingers at others without merit.

Leftists have been mocking University of Idaho graduate Sarah Palin for two years for biting down on a prank by two Canadian DJs pretending to be French President Nicolas Sarkozy, claiming it makes her dumb as a rock. By their thinking, then, Rhodes Scholar Rachel Maddow, because she fell for an internet spoof, should be dumb as a bag of dirt.

After all, the DJs got Gov. Palin's telephone number and called her, putting the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate on the spot. But Maddow and her producers, on their own initiative, found the spoof story and ran with it without bothering to take a couple of seconds to do a Google search to verify the story. So by the left's own standards, Sarah Palin is not just smarter than the average Grizzly Bear, she's just as smart -- if not smarter -- than a Rhodes Scholar.

- JP

Watch leftist Rachel Maddow make a fool of herself

She does that every weeknight, of course, but this is special...
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Even Palin hypercritc Glynnis MacNicol has to admit that "This is pretty lamestream":

Alas, apparently the story sounded solid to the Maddow team because they ran with it last night.

Maddow's people caught the mistake a short while later (as the Atlantic Wire notes, more than can be said for HuffPo). But so much for Sarah Palin making it through the month without getting connected to Egypt.

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Wow, leftist anti-Christianist Rachel Maddow gets punked by a leftist anti-Christianist satire site. Who says God doesn't have a flair for irony?

Update: NewsBuster Noel Sheppard is all over this story.

- JP

Bernie Quigley - Rand Paul and the winged monkeys: Palin 5, Republican Establishment 0

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Here are excerpts from Bernie Quigley's latest Pundit’s Blog column for The Hill:

Just as the winged monkeys descended from the huge UFO that hovers over Washington to slander and disgrace Sarah Palin when John McCain selected her for VP, MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow insinuates that Tea Party activist Rand Paul is a racist and an extremist in his first TV interview.

Maddow brings the classic old-school trade device of mnemonic slander to her interviews, the same tool used most effectively to reinforce institutionalized racism in the South for 100 years. In an earlier report, for example, she presented as a representative figure of the Tea Party a politician who had solicited a prostitute. She also associated the Tea Party with white extremists, including the fascist group Storm Front, secessionist groups and armed militia, adding that she “wouldn’t accuse the Tea Party of that, but... ”

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We are today at a generational shift and will see the passing of Clinton liberals and Krauthammer/Kristol conservatives going off the cliff together like Sherlock Homes and Professor Moriarty. As the Tea Party event in Nashville a few months ago, featuring Palin as head speaker, suggested a political folk revival in the American heartland, Rand Paul is the rough-hewn folk hero rising from that event. And no question, Palin is the Grizzly Momma of this group, the majority of whom are women.

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Kristol and Krauthammer can no longer sit back with a smirk and depend on the winged monkeys of the MSM to demolish the opposition for them. In NY-23, in Massachusetts, in Virginia, in the Texas primary and now in Kentucky we have seen the lineup of Cheney, Gingrich, Rove, Bush I and Bush II (by proxy) line up against Palin. The score so far: Palin 5, Republican Establishment 0.

Read Quigley's full post here. More from The Cypress Times:

Defending Rand Paul is a man who knows him well from being the #2 head of the GOP in Kentucky, attorney Marcus Carey. Marcus, who predicted the mass media would turn on Paul after the primaries... at Blue Grass Bulletin, insists that Paul is a patriot, and a statesman, saying, “Rand Paul is a bright individual who wants to switch from ‘dumbing down’ the electorate to having intelligent discussions about constitutional issues and is willing to take this approach in order to be a game changer.”

Marcus Carey, who has witnessed Rand Paul’s actions and character for many years in Kentucky politics, says Rand has taken the high road, instead of continuing the typical political path of ‘dumbing down of the electorate and that he is elevating political discourse discussions to those of principled constitutional principles and welcoming all American citizens to participate in their government of and by and for the people.

A new Rasmussen Reports poll of Likely Voters in Kentucky, show Paul earning 59% of the vote, while Conway picks up 34%. So the mass media has their work cut out for them!

And on the Laura Ingraham Show today, Paul clarified remarks he made on Maddow's MSNBC (Moonbat Sycophantic Neosocialist Barack Channel) show last night:



- JP

Maddow: "The Constitution doesn't have a preamble"

MSNBC anchorcreep Rachel Maddow, while mocking TEA Party protesters and GOP congressmen, stated on her poorly-rated cable television program Thursday night that "the Constitution doesn't have a preamble." The moment is captured on YouTube at Freedom's Lighthouse.

As every high school civics student should know, the U.S. Constitution does indeed have a preamble, and it is a vitally important part of that document:

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

While we have little use for radical leftists such as Ms. Maddow, we don't believe for one minute that she is that stupid or that ignorant. Like her fellow radical Alinskyites, she's simply a liar. Like last April, when both of Maddow's viewers [rimshot!] heard her say of Sarah Palin:

"Last week, she got precisely zero support for her call for Alaska's Democratic Senator Mark Begich to resign because Ted Stevens' corruption conviction was overturned."

However, according to Politifact.com:

But did Palin get "precisely zero support" for the idea?

No. In fact, it wasn't even her idea in the first place. It was the Alaska Republican Party that suggested it.

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Wev Shea, a former U.S. attorney now in private practice in Anchorage, did not specifically call on Begich to resign but he endorsed the idea of a special election and told the New York Times, "There’s a groundswell all over the state for a special election."

So Maddow left her viewers with two incorrect impressions — that Palin had initiated the idea for Begich's resignation, and that no one else supported her. In fact, it wasn't Palin's idea, and she wasn't particularly wedded to it, and others supported it. We find Maddow's claim False.

The lie was such a whopper that the pointer in PolitiFact's Truth-O-Meter is resting on the peg on the far left. Which seems entirely appropriate...

Update: NewsBusters.org Associate Editor Noel Sheppard notes Maddow's mea culpa:

"Well, at least she showed some character and admitted her mistake -- which puts her in a whole different league than her cowardly colleague Keith Olbermann who almost never issues a correction or offers an apology for his frequent gaffes."

- JP

How now, Rachel Maddow?

Sunday on what Mark Levin lampoons as "Meet the Depressed" MSNBC moonbat Rachel Maddow accused Robert Stacy McCain of being a white supremacist. Pat in Shreveport wonders if Rachel has been catching too many little green footballs:

The panel was discussing the Sarah Palin book, Going Rogue, when Maddow offers her criticism of Lynn Vincent, Palin's ghostwriter. Maddow explains that Lynn Vincent "co-authored a book with a guy who is widely believed to be , and I believe him to be, a white supremacist. So she's [Palin] chosen Lynn Vincent who has written a book with a white supremacist to write her book." Robert Stacy McCain and Lynn Vincent co-authored Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party in 2006.

Melissa Clouthier, Little Miss Atilla and a long list of people who know RSM have rallied to his defense. Stacy may be a pit bull wearing Chapstik, but he's not any kind of racist. It's obvious what Maddow was trying to do, as Miss Atilla pointed out:

"Any chance that this old allegation about McCain is simply being trotted out to slander Palin—the racist who married a native American?"

At Saber Point we find agreement that Maddow has lowered herself by resorting to the old liberal slander schtick of guilt by association, but McCain isn't guilty of anything to associate with, unless you count pimping for his tip jar, but that's just a weak attempt on our part to bring a little levity to this latest incidence of lefty nastiness.

Saber Point also demonstrates how easy it is to smear anyone, even though they may be innocent of the allegation specified:

Let's apply Rachel's despicable reporting standards to Rachel. "Rachel Maddow is widely believed to be, and I believe her to be, a crack whore." Therefore, Sarah Palin's book was criticized on the air by a crack whore. Are you going to believe a crack whore? Especially one who looks like your younger brother? Of course not.

Dude! That is so Alinsky...

- JP