As I said, I ma not interested in the scripted TV SHOW that political conventions have become. However, I will rarely surf through the cable channels just to get a feel for what the commentators are saying. Bad mistake, except for blog entries.
Rachel Maddow is this chick from Air America who is somewhere to the left of Keith Olbermann. You don't get any more left than that, or any more dishoenst in a politically partisan way. YEARS ago, I dismissed Ketih Olbermann as the most despoicable cable TV host on this, or any other planet. He has no redeeming features, as a political hack or as a human being (something I don't say lightly, as--for example--I have no problems with Obama as a human being). Rachel Maddow is not QUITE as obnoxious as Olbermann (how could she be?), but she really is actually to his LEFT. That is evidently why MSNBC has now hired her. If you did not know, MSNBC has lost all pretense of objectivity, and put all of its bets on being the LEFTIST cable network. Indeed, parent NBC has seemingly made the same decision, and has become an arm of the Obama campaign (even more than the rest of the TV networds, other than Fox News). This is just background.
As noted, I was surfing, and I watched about a minute of Maddow (she is good looking) talking with MSNBC people (Olbermann, Buchanan, and maybe Brokaw). Maddow went on a tirade about what Hillary Clinton needed to do in her speech tonight.
Maddow's thesis was that Hilalry needed to SMACK DOWN McCain for USING Hillary Clinton. Review my entry this week about Obama being a "dead man walking", for having DISSED Hillary Clinton (the entry about Hillary Clinton and the REAL 3 a.m. phone call).
Maddow wants to sell the idea that it is MCCAIN who is USING Hillary Clinton, like men traditionally use women against their will? Can you get any more politically biased, ont to mention stupid, than that. Maddow is talking about the McCain ADS showing Clinton talking about Obama. Is that "using" Clinton? Of course not. That is simply using the WORDS Clinton has said, as Obama would use the words Romeny said if Romney is McCain's VP pick. McCain doesn't expect any help from CLINTON (althogh he may, subtly, get it). He wants to appeal to Clinton VOTERS. McCain, of course, is similarly "using" Joe Biden's words. For Maddow to suggest that this has anything to do with FEMINISM, and with men using women, shows why nobody listens to either Air America or MSNBC.
Look at OBAMA, though. Obama passed over Hillary Clinton for Vice President, even though she got 18 million votes, in favor of a MAN who got 5,000 votes. At times, Obama called the Clinton campaign RACIST (directly suggesting Bill Clinton was making racist remarks). There has been no sign that Obama respects Clinton AT ALL. He certainly doesn't like her.
So why is Hillary Clinton going out there to praise Obama tonight? She is being USED. Oh, she knows she is being USED, but she has no choice. Think of it. The Democratic Party, AND MSNBC, pass over and dis a MORE QUALIFIED WOMAN for President. Then Obama passes over the same woman in faovr of a LESS QUALIFIED man, for Vice President. And now they all want Hillary Clinton to SAVE Barack "World" Obama, and "unify" the Democratic Party. This is after Obama did not even ask her ADVICE on the VP, or talk to her about it.
Is there any question that it is Obama that is attempting to USE Hillary Clinton in the sense that Maddow was using the word? Obviously not. It is not McCain that is using Hillary Clinton It is Obama. And it really is fundamentally against her will, since she has no real choice (as women allegedly had no real choice back when they were housewives and had to please their husbands or be out on the street).
If you don't laugh hysterically at Rachel Maddow, you have no sense of humor. Considering how she looks, maybe the entertainment value would be worth watching her? Nope. Not worth the agony. At some point, partisan stupidity stops being funny, and just grates.
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