Rachel Maddow talks to McCain surrogate Nancy Pfotenhauer about the bailout and the state of the McCain campaign.

Rachel talks to Jonathan Turley about Sarah Palin's statements about expanding the powers of the Vice President during the debate and her Cheney-like actions in Alaska with refusing to honor subpoenas and hiding emails.

Rachel reports on the recent revelation that Condoleeza Rice has admitted to the Congress in writing that Cabinet members discussed in the White House how to torture people. Alex Gibney who's new movie Taxi to the Dark Sie will be airing on HBO shortly weighs in.

Rachel talks to Alaska State Senate President Lyda Green about the similarities of the Palin administration in Alaska to the Bush administration now.

Rachel Maddow makes a very good metaphor for what's going on now with the Wall Street kids in the candy store holding their hands out for more. Robert Reich weighs in.

Sarah Palin has used Bush justice:

First, Palin has asserted that her records and communications are protected by executive privilege. Second, her senior assistants have been instructed not to cooperate with the probe. Third, the Alaska attorney general (a Palin appointee and confidant who faces conflict-of-interest charges himself) has issued a series of opinions designed to bar the way for the probe. So how does the McCain team deal with accusations that it is attempting a cover-up of Palins involvement in a matter which, at the very least, raises severe questions about Palins credibility? They argue that the inquiry should be handled by the Alaska Personnel Board, not by the legislature. The Personnel Board, of course, is dominated by Palins cronies and reports to her. If it works in Washington, why not in Juneau?
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/a-fast-learner.html
Why Palin Fired Monegan. To hire Chuck Kopp as police chief - because national Christianist forces were looking for a commitment before they helped launch her national career:

Kenai City Police Chief Chuck Kopp was a rising star in Alaska's Christian conservative movement. He was a frequent speaker at local religious and patriotic gatherings. He was school board president of Cook Inlet Academy, the fundamentalist Christian high school in Soldotna his missionary-educator father founded. Kopp also was on the board of Port Alsworth's Tanailan Bible Camp, also founded by his father.

Through Samaritan's Place, Franklin Graham has been the chief benefactor of the Tanailan Bible Camp building and rebuilding a church and meeting hall and guest cabins. The evangelical scion of Alaska, Rev. Jerry Prevo of the Anchorage Baptist Temple, is on Samaritan Purse's Board of Directors, so there's a clear connection between Graham, Prevo and Kopp.
Only problem: Kopp was a known sexual harasser when Palin appointed him (and she knew it). But religious fanaticism and sexual acting out are not exactly strangers to one another, are they?
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/why-palin-fired.html

Hilarious.

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On the Maddow Show, David Sirota and Rachel Maddow discuss McCain's long record of opposing regulations, his recent flip flop and his involvement in the Keating Five scandal.

Via the NYT:

"Speaking in Florida, he [McCain] said that the economys underlying fundamentals remained strong but were being threatened because of the greed by some based in Wall Street and we have got to fix it.

But his record on the issue, and the views of those he has always cited as his most influential advisers, suggest that he has never departed in any major way from his partys embrace of deregulation and relying more on market forces than on the government to exert discipline.

While Mr. McCain has cited the need for additional oversight when it comes to specific situations, like the mortgage problems behind the current shocks on Wall Street, he has consistently characterized himself as fundamentally a deregulator and he has no history prior to the presidential campaign of advocating steps to tighten standards on investment firms." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/us/politics/16record.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Rachel Maddow interviews Ari Berman about the piece that is going to be published in The Nation tomorrow about McCain's meeting with Anne Hathaway and swindler Raffello Folleri and his campaign manager Rick Davis.

For a bit more on this check out this celebrity site:

http://defamer.com/396924/raffaello-follieri-arrested-for-swindling-god-out-of-his-savings

I look forward to linking up The Nation's article once it goes up.

Maddow - McCain and lobbyists

Rachel Maddow and David Sirota discuss McCain's dishonest and perverse ad which attacks Barack Obama for supporting educational programs that help protect children from child molestors.

Rachel Maddow fact checks a number of statements made at the Republican National Convention, calling them out for what they are: Lies.

"Let's call lies, lies" Maddow says.

On the same day that the Republicans were forced to dramatically cut back their convention activities, the Palin Meltdown unfolded with extraordinary speed. It's worth pondering the totality of what happened today, in a mere half day...

* The news that Palin once backed the Bridge to Nowhere went national.

* It emerged that Palin has links to the bizarro Alaska Independence Party, which harbors the goal of seceding from the union that McCain and Palin seek to lead.

* The news broke that as governor, Palin relied on an earmark system she now opposes. Taken along with the Bridge to Nowhere stuff, this threatens to undercut her reformist image, something that was key to her selection as McCain's Veep candidate.

* The news broke that Palin's 17-year-old daughter became pregnant out of wedlock at a time when the conservative base had finally started rallying behind McCain's candidacy.

* Barely moments after McCain advisers put out word that McCain had known of Bristol Palin's pregnancy, the Anchorage Daily News revealed that Palin's own spokesperson hadn't known about it only two days ago.

* A senior McCain adviser at the Republican convention was forced into the rather embarrassing position of arguing that McCain had known about the pregnancy "last week" -- without saying what day last week he knew about it.

* It came out that Republican lawyers are up in Alaska vetting Palin -- now, more than 72 hours after it was announced that she'd been picked.

* Palin lawyered up in relation to the trooper-gate probe in Alaska -- a move that ensures far more serious attention to the story from the major news orgs.

What else will come out today? After all, there are still six hours left until September 2nd...
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/the_palin_meltdown_in_slomo.php

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Rachel Maddow hits Pat Buchanan hard on what his views of McCain's attack ads say about him.

Rachel Maddow and Rob Millis discuss media bias toward McCain and Obama. The press is allegedly in love with Obama, while McCain woos them with BBQs and camaraderie. But what about that CBS edit this week?

Rachel Maddow interviews Jonathan Turley on Countdown, 7_08_08

June 17, 2008
MSNBC Keith Olbermann

Aaron Barnhart, TV critic of the Kansas City Star, recently interviewed Air America host and MSNBC contributor Rachel Maddow for a dual profile of Maddow and NBC political director Chuck Todd. You can read the full story at NBC.com.

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Aren't interrupters annoying? In honor of Rachel Maddow's birthday, the extended version of her complete domination of Joe "The Interrupter" Scarborough.

Rachel Maddow is the leading representation of truth in the media. If MSNBC knew better they would give her her own show. Here she is 03-27-2008 on Keith Olbermann

Olbermann and Maddow talk about Dennis's move to impeach Dick Cheney. Impeach the VP!

MSNBC Ft. Rachel Maddow "The Gay Bomb" (6/12/07)

Although she's "off-limits", so to speak, I find Rachel Maddow to be endlessly more attractive than Ann Coulter.

September 30, 2008

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