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It's an AMBUSH!!!! Rachel Maddow is doing a job on Kellyanne the Con as we speak! (Original Post) skylucy Dec 2016 OP
i agree. nt DesertFlower Dec 2016 #1
She's a slippery one, that Kellyanne. nt Xipe Totec Dec 2016 #2
K-A is one remarkable, amoral mouthpiece. JohnnyLib2 Dec 2016 #3
Rachel just laughed in her face... Satch59 Dec 2016 #4
A little gift.. con-way getting a well deserved SMACKDOWN! Cha Dec 2016 #6
Exactly. I wish Rachel had said that. SunSeeker Dec 2016 #11
I always wondered whether I had a basic misunderstanding of the Clinton Foundation renate Dec 2016 #13
Not only did the Clintons NOT benefit personally from the Foundation, pnwmom Dec 2016 #22
glad to hear that. KAC needs to be called on her bs. niyad Dec 2016 #5
I'm somewhat shocked at just how woefully unprepared she is. procon Dec 2016 #7
Ms. Conway is a bullshit artist, which works well with stupid, ignorant people Skittles Dec 2016 #15
I think she arrived thinking she was the "cool" Kate McKinnon version ToxMarz Dec 2016 #19
Kellyanne has never used facts in a discussion. She just smiles and says things pnwmom Dec 2016 #23
Sounded Like Rachel Ended Her Show With A.... global1 Dec 2016 #8
The right-winged suits upstairs are her worry. Griffin for one..n/t monmouth4 Dec 2016 #14
May I ask a question here? sheshe2 Dec 2016 #9
nay, rachael not included. zippythepinhead Dec 2016 #18
Not the best at all. Even on her network Lawrence O'Donnell is better. pnwmom Dec 2016 #24
She's incoherent malaise Dec 2016 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author lordsummerisle Dec 2016 #28
why would you ask that? Skittles Dec 2016 #32
Who will SNL get to play Maddow this week for the spoof? JudyM Dec 2016 #12
I can hardly wait Hekate Dec 2016 #16
One Part Rachel Blew jaxind Dec 2016 #17
I swear zippythepinhead Dec 2016 #20
I thought so too! femmedem Dec 2016 #33
No kudos from me. Where was this Rachel a few months ago when that gasbag came on her show? AgadorSparticus Dec 2016 #21
The normalization of Sniffles elmac Dec 2016 #25
It was *beauteous* to behold!1 & she went *BOOM* with RADDATZ!1 UTUSN Dec 2016 #26
Too fucking late, Rachel. Too fucking late, MSNBC. Stinky The Clown Dec 2016 #27
Unfortunately, there are very few options. pennylane100 Dec 2016 #30
Did not like... Mike Nelson Dec 2016 #29
Once again, so disappointed in modern journalism. citizen blues Dec 2016 #31

Satch59

(1,353 posts)
4. Rachel just laughed in her face...
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 10:42 PM
Dec 2016

About Conway going on about Clinton pay to play...and then she rattled off ALL the pay to play Trump and family are engaging in... Conway: "it's not the same...it's not the same..."

Wow, she needs a smackdown and Rachel is doing a pretty good job!!

SunSeeker

(51,368 posts)
11. Exactly. I wish Rachel had said that.
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 11:12 PM
Dec 2016

It absolutely is not the same. Neither Hillary nor any of her family members benefited from donations to the Clinton foundation. They received no money from the foundation, it all went to the Clinton Foundation's mission to help the poor and sick around the world. The same cannot be said about the Trump Foundation, or Ivanka sitting in on the meeting with the Japanese President while Ivanka was seeking a loan in Japan for her retail business. Or Trump's sons auctioning off time with Ivanka and Donald himself. It is the very definition of "pay to play."

renate

(13,776 posts)
13. I always wondered whether I had a basic misunderstanding of the Clinton Foundation
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 11:35 PM
Dec 2016

People always talked about donations to the Clinton Foundation while she was SoS as if they were donations to the Clintons themselves. NEVER did I hear or read a clarification that the Clintons did not personally benefit from donations to the foundation. Of course I assumed that they didn't, while wondering whether I was the one who misunderstood (otherwise why would anybody make such a big deal out of it), but I wonder how many people just assumed that donations to the Trump Foundation were no worse than those to the Clinton Foundation.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
22. Not only did the Clintons NOT benefit personally from the Foundation,
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 12:04 AM
Dec 2016

they donated many millions of their own money to the Foundation -- which did important work like supplying low-cost HIV meds to poor people around the world.

DT, on the other hand, hasn't donated to his own foundation since 2008 -- and he had turned it into his personal piggy bank for paying legal bills.

procon

(15,805 posts)
7. I'm somewhat shocked at just how woefully unprepared she is.
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 10:54 PM
Dec 2016

As expected, Rachel is well armed with facts, something Kellyanne seems to be totally unfamiliar with. She repeatedly falls back to the hackneyed tropes Trump used during the campaign instead of giving actual substantive replies.

She appears rigid, not only in to interactions with Rachel, but also in her overall demeanor and even her posture. She apparently arrived with the assumption she was going to have a lovely tea and would her an uninterrupted prime time slot to buff up Trump's creds for a liberal audience.

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
15. Ms. Conway is a bullshit artist, which works well with stupid, ignorant people
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 11:43 PM
Dec 2016

but she cannot go one on one with ANYONE who is intelligent - they make her look like the senseless repuke hack she is

ToxMarz

(2,154 posts)
19. I think she arrived thinking she was the "cool" Kate McKinnon version
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 11:53 PM
Dec 2016

Rachel slapped her back in the direction of her sewer.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
23. Kellyanne has never used facts in a discussion. She just smiles and says things
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 12:07 AM
Dec 2016

that sound like sentences but make no sense.

She is just one step away from Palin, who couldn't even say things that sounded like sentences.

global1

(25,167 posts)
8. Sounded Like Rachel Ended Her Show With A....
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 11:06 PM
Dec 2016

disclaimer of sorts - kind of a grovelling - perhaps her network bosses called in and told her she was too tough on KellyAnn.

I hope Rachel doesn't get intimidated by Trump and his minions.

sheshe2

(83,338 posts)
9. May I ask a question here?
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 11:07 PM
Dec 2016

I do not watch TV the media are hacks. Always loved Rachael yet why the hell were they not attacking sTrump all along. They gave him a pass. Now is a little to late. They helped build him, they own him. Sorry to say Rachael included.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
24. Not the best at all. Even on her network Lawrence O'Donnell is better.
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 12:08 AM
Dec 2016

And Van Jones on CNN is also better than Rachel.

She is just too chirpy in the face of DT's loathsomeness.

Response to malaise (Reply #10)

jaxind

(1,074 posts)
17. One Part Rachel Blew
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 11:50 PM
Dec 2016

During the last segment, Rachel talks about how tRUMP lied about Martha Raddatz. Then, the discussion goes onto Kelly Anne saying that if people would just stop lying, then Melania wouldn't have to file lawsuits. That's when Rachel should have said, "Yeah, you mean like how Mr. Trump lied about Martha Raddatz???"

femmedem

(8,188 posts)
33. I thought so too!
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 10:20 PM
Dec 2016

Kelly Anne said that even though Melania got a retraction, the damage still exists and she should still sue. But with Martha Raddatz, Kelly Anne said that Trump apologized privately, and that was sufficient even though the public never heard a retraction. I was surprised that after setting it up so brilliantly, Rachel didn't connect the dots and call her out on the hypocrisy.

AgadorSparticus

(7,963 posts)
21. No kudos from me. Where was this Rachel a few months ago when that gasbag came on her show?
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 11:58 PM
Dec 2016

I heard she lobbed nothing but softballs at Kellyannew. Bleeeh...

 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
25. The normalization of Sniffles
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 12:12 AM
Dec 2016

Soon she will be arguing with the KKK & the Nazis, may even see some chairs thrown.

pennylane100

(3,425 posts)
30. Unfortunately, there are very few options.
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 02:28 AM
Dec 2016

I can hardly stand to watch MSNBC any more. I now listen to BBC world news. It is quite refreshing to listen to a real news show with very little opinionated interpretations from the reporter. It is also good to know what is happening
all over the world, rather than just here. It also helps me keep my mind off the shit show that will start in January.

Mike Nelson

(9,903 posts)
29. Did not like...
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 02:23 AM
Dec 2016

...how it ended. If you can sue a liar/journalist and put them out of business for lying, then thousands could sue Trump. His lies about the ABC reporter were not tied-in and Hillary Clinton could sue Kellyanne Conway. Also, I thought they were too chummy. I get that it's Rachel's style and she want access to Trump and would like to keep her job... I guess that's okay and Rachel could be replaced with a more "fair and balanced" host. That would be bad.





citizen blues

(570 posts)
31. Once again, so disappointed in modern journalism.
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 02:45 AM
Dec 2016

If Rachel was really going to bring the hammer down on Conway, she needed to contrast Melania's lawsuit with Trump's slandering of Martha Raddatz being ok. No public apology needed.

Journalists need to start doing their jobs! Start connecting the dots! Cause the American people really suck at it! The Trump family needs to be held up as the two-faced hypocrits they really are!

This is why the corporatization of our media was the first strike in undermining of our democracy.

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