Rachel w/live audience, all about DADT! Hot stuff!!! Tape montage

[babylonsister]

of her shows leading up to the final vote worth a view (and how wrong she was and gladly admitted it).

At 92nd Street Y (YMCA, I presume).

[elleng]

1. Beat me to it, b'sis!

[babylonsister]

3. Such a great, positive show! Matt Taibbi coming up to talk about

START and 9/11 workers and rethugs. :grr:

[madamesilverspurs]

7. Loved it when Taibbi

said that Republican obstructionism is morally lower than pimping.

'Strue.

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[vaberella]

2. I'll have to watch it later tonight. No live stream anywhere. n/t

[eleny]

4. That montage was joyfully tearful

[tabatha]

5. She is doing an awesome job of educating people.

If only there were 10 Rachels - Fox would not have a chance.

[elleng]

6. Roubini supports payroll tax cut, for both 'ers and 'ees,

as important and necessary stimulus.

[vaberella]

8. Ah..the uppity Y. The Harlem one is better! And it's next to an IHOP.

You can't go wrong with that.:silly:

[Rosco T.]

9. She needs to go live shows with audience more...

fits her style.

[Clio the Leo]

10. It would be nice to see her at the bill signing....

... but that whole "journalistic integrity" thing may prevent that from happening.

[Clio the Leo]

11. The amazing part of that segment she opened with.....

.... is that she showed clips where she was (in her own words) "wrong."

Takes a big person to do that.

That Rachel Maddow ..... I like her! ;)

[Tx4obama]

12. The opening was great, still haven't found a clip of it yet on YouTube ;( n/t

[frazzled]

13. Yes, but I hope we learn a lesson from it

I like Rachel, too--it's hard not to. She's smart as a whip. But all this doubt and negativity and dark predictions ... will we learn to have more faith next time, even as we work hard to push for things? The two are not mutually exclusive.

The WH kept saying, "this will happen; this will happen by the end of this year." I believed them (though of course remained fearful of obstructionism from Republicans or weak-kneeism from Democrats). But even though I believed the president, I worked hard to make phone calls and sign petitions, and bug the heck out of Mark Kirk's office, and so forth.

Already we have sky-is-falling predictions of what dastardly evil, or at least bone-crushing disappointment, the president will deliver next. Oh noes, he will decimate Social Security! He will give our Intertubes to the corporations! Or, as Huffington Post so elegantly hyperbolizes, America is a Third World Nation!

I hope we learn to fight and support at the same time. To trust with constructive skepticism about full success.

[Clio the Leo]

14. If you helped bug the heck out of Mark Kirk....

... then YOU, my friend, deserve a ---> terrorist fist jab! :fistbump:

It worked!

[frazzled]

15. It did work! ...

Though I swear, you could have knocked me over with a feather.

[Clio the Leo]

16. Yep, you me and half of Twitter! It was amazing.

.... hopefully he'll turn out to be more "Scott Brown" than "Jim Demint."

[starroute]

17. 92nd Street Y = Young Men's Hebrew Association

Actually, I think it's officially the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association -- but that name went out of style back whenever it was that Jews stopped being called "Hebrews."

I went to day camp there a couple of summers when I was 12-13. Very hip, very intellectual, very New York. Well known for poetry readings and stuff like that.

[babylonsister]

20. Thanks for the clarification. I didn't know that obviously. nt

[AtomicKitten]

18. Rachel is on a rapid upward trajectory in her career.

She went from newbie to best interviewer on the tv box in record time.

I would LOVE to see her run for office.

[impik]

19. That was quite moving. There will be a lot of tears tomorrow at the WH. And good for

Rachel to ONCE AGAIN admit she was "spectacularly wrong".

[impik]

21. Just noticed that Mr. Choi wasn't there. Good for Rachel. This man crossed every line possible

[superduperfarleft]

22. What? n/t

[cottonseed]

23. Kick