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yellow dahlia

(5,498 posts)
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 10:47 PM Saturday

Quintessential Rachel Maddow! Who benefits?

Rachel was on MSNOW earlier, with a 19 minute commentary about the motivations behind the act of war against Iran. 19 minutes of truth and analysis, as only Rachel can do it.

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appmanga

(1,458 posts)
1. Rachel, Lawrence, and, at one time...
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 10:52 PM
Saturday

Keith Olbermann were doing video-essays that were as good as anything that was on TV.

Rhiannon12866

(253,727 posts)
6. When EarlG moved us to DU.4, he replaced V&M, the video forum, with Liberal YouTubers and Cable News Clips
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 11:42 PM
Saturday

So there are now 2 video forums.

usonian

(24,609 posts)
3. Transcript. I'm doing this for Rachel. It has been a crazy busy day.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 11:04 PM
Saturday
https://pastebin.com/raw/83s4ydjL

Projecting onto Obama (tweets)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221058132

And projecting his own crimes. Any more coming (and lots more is coming) and his ship takes on more water.


YES, that's about crime, but "CRIME IS MONEY" either coming in or going away, and life to him is entirely about money and the power to get more money. He can lose it all.



usonian

(24,609 posts)
9. Copying and pasting parts of videos and emailing them doesn't work for me!
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 12:24 AM
Sunday

I have video short attention span, and most of the time, have classical music playing.

I highly recommend it, especially in these times.

yellow dahlia

(5,498 posts)
11. Next time I grab a vid from youtube, I will see if I can grab the transcript also - great idea.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:04 AM
Sunday

usonian

(24,609 posts)
12. Here's what I use.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:59 PM
Sunday

Get the video URL, ususlly the little"lazy 8"

Plug the video URL into:

https://www.youtranscripts.com/

Copy the transcript. There's a button to do so. The transcript may be badly formatted. So, go to

https://sentencesplitter.com/

And paste the transcript. Nothing I found splits paragraphs, so this has to do.

It will let you copy the easier try read result (manually, sadly for phone users without a Command-A "select all" key).

If I could share the doc file it offers, great, but pdf and doc hosting are a PITA.

To share, Go to

https://pastebin.com and paste the copied text there. Ask for a "new paste"

It may refuse!

If it doesn't refuse, hit the "raw" button and grab the URL off the address/search bar. Done.

Post it here on DU.

If not, try

https://rentry.co/

Naturally, this is tedious, and I do it only for videos that get my interest.

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