Friday, August 7, 2009

If You Aren't Watching The Rachel Maddow Show, You're Missing Out

Rachel connects a few more dots to expose the people behind the teabagging protestors that are disrupting the townhalls of Democratic members of Congress. This time she connects some shady former Bush Adminstration officials.




Then she calmly, carefully and politely connected Americans For Prosperity and their President, Tim Phillips, with this astroturfing effort and with catering to the religious right. If you pay attention you will actually see near the end of the interview where realizes that he has said too much and tries to call what she is doing gotcha journalism, but by that point it the cat was already out of the bag. I think he was thrown off because she was so mild mannered when asking him tough questions. So she came off as friendly all the while she was pulling negative information out of him. That's some top notch work righ there! She deserves an award for her reporting on this issue.

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3 comments:

  1. UnknownAugust 7, 2009 at 8:36 AM

    Holy Crap that guy is a scum bag.

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  2. Jack T.August 7, 2009 at 8:45 AM

    I was hoping you would post this. She also got him to admit she wasn't being unfair, which made the "gotcha journalism" thing seem like sour grapes, which is pretty much what all the astroturfing is based on.

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  3. RooseveltOctober 12, 2009 at 1:38 AM

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