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snowybirdie

(5,225 posts) Thu Jan 16, 2020, 10:51 AM Jan 2020

Old enough to remember

at times of U.S. crisis, it's media who changed hearts and minds. Edward R. Morrow finally spoke out against McCarthyism, and it went away. Walter Cronkite decried the unending war in Vietnam, and protest became mainstream. Now Rachel Maddow has again spoken truth to power.. Thank you Ms Maddow, you just might have saved our Republic!

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Old enough to remember (Original Post) snowybirdie Jan 2020 OP

Let's hope it has similar effects...nt Wounded Bear Jan 2020 #1

..................... Upthevibe Jan 2020 #2

Rachel used to try to be more diplomatic Bayard Jan 2020 #3

Wounded Bear

(58,648 posts)

1. Let's hope it has similar effects...nt

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Thu Jan 16, 2020, 10:52 AM

Jan 2020

Upthevibe

(8,042 posts)

2. .....................

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Thu Jan 16, 2020, 11:21 AM

Jan 2020

……………………I hope.....

Bayard

(22,063 posts)

3. Rachel used to try to be more diplomatic

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Thu Jan 16, 2020, 12:23 PM

Jan 2020

Just reporting facts without criticism. She's become increasingly more blunt over the past several months, and I welcome it.

Remember: She started out on Keith Olbermann.

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