Firing Rachel Maddow!

[emanymton]

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This cannot be allowed to stand. The truth is seeping out and it must be stopped. The ‘Rachel Maddow Show’ is one of the few remaining thought-provoking media platforms on the airways/internet today! The ‘Rachel Maddow Show’ represents a threat to political kabuki theater that is Washington D.C.

Friday’s (22 April 2011) show is an example of the quality of the show’s ability to put things in prospective. Her discussion with Matt Miller, “Why isn’t the progressive budget plan on the table?” is outstanding. If anything captures the frustration of ‘the ‘rest of us’ it is how the establishment corporate media are not even pretending to act as ‘honest brokers’ to truth.
(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#42726093)

Keep firing Rachel. The beltway media does not cover ‘Liberals/Progressives.’ How can the house of cards that is Washington D.C. be expected to withstand this wind of truth howling across the vast emptiness of the corporate media.

I hope the ‘Rachel Maddow Show’ is allowed to remain on the air. But I am not optimistic the establishment will tolerate the truth telling much longer.

Ema Nymton
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[RayStar]

1. OH NO

Rachel does such a great job of informing the public of the mean world of politics.

[Distant Observer]

2. Is there a report of the Maddow Show being slated for cancelation?

[Botany]

3. What the hell are you talking about?

n/t

[malaise]

10. Ditto n/t

[bluestate10]

31. People. Don't try to stretch out weed by putting other green looking stuff in it. nt

[demmiblue]

4. Unrec...

for scaring me before I had my coffee.

:hangover:

[CTyankee]

5. Please god, no...

[dembotoz]

6. hope this is just crazy talk--seen nothing on this

we have enough real threats, we do not need to make more up.

if threat is real, please what is your source??????????????

[Recursion]

7. Nobody's getting rid of Rachel; she gets good ratings

They didn't get rid of Keith for "speaking truth to power" or anything romantic like that; he's pissed his bosses off at every job he's ever had and is something of a diva off screen.

Barring a plunge in her ratings, Rachel's show is staying put.

[ReggieVeggie]

8. keep firing Rachel?

is this an ongoing process?

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. You are being misleading, on purpose

When you open your post with "This cannot be allowed to stand", after the title "Firing Rachel Maddow!", you intend us to think that some decision to remove her from her job has been made. You are not just 'making a clever play on words', you are misusing words, and then going back on them.

This thread is pointless. Maddow is probably the most popular broadcaster for DUers; there is no need to rally support for her here. She gets it 100% of the time. All you are doing is spreading fear, with no basis at all for it.

[emanymton]

12. To Borrow A Line From Fozzie Bear Of The Muppets ...

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"Am I too hip for you in the room?"

You know when you have to explain what you've said, you're playing to a slow audience. It is safe to say the play on words went right over some heads. I image these same people will not like it if one were to say,"I am so broke I can't pay attention."

Rachel Maddow is firing on all burners. Her ability to articulate the issues clearly and concisely makes her show an example of what political discourse should be. She is capable and competent. Her show is outstanding and a joy to watch.

My apology to all who missed the pun.

Ema Nymton
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[Motown_Johnny]

13. pun

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pun

^snip^

noun

1. the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.



Our taking the word "firing" literally when you were trying to use it figuratively isn't really a pun. Also, the subject matter that the literal use of the word implied was not humorous.


If you would like an nice example of a pun posted here on DU then please check out the first response to this thread, and notice who posted it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x916028

Both meanings of the word are literal. That is what makes it funny and therefore a pun.



P.S. I am afraid the response to your question is the same one Fozzie would have received.

[emanymton]

15. So Do The Trees Moving Make The Wind Blow?

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Let us not get too deep into the forest. The 'Rachel Maddow' show is talking truth to power "in a time of universal deceit." Her telling the truth is a revolutionary act (as George Orwell put it). I support her actions and want her show to succeed.

Does any one honestly believe should she become noticed to the general public, she (and her show) will be tolerated?

Regardless, keep firing Rachel Maddow.

Ema Nymton
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[Motown_Johnny]

17. I'm leaving for work now

have a nice day

[blondeatlast]

32. That was, indeed, an awesome pun--and so is your response here. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. So what "cannot be allowed to stand"?

That "Rachel Maddow is firing on all burners"? You spoil what you thought was a pun with your first sentence. That's where you are spreading fear.

[pintobean]

16. Its not the audience

[fishwax]

20. lol -- it's not always the audience's fault when you have to explain what you've said

:)

[CrownPrinceBandar]

21. Nah, its more like a sign in front of a bar that says "Free Beer".......

and when you go inside it turns out to be the name of a shitty cover band and the beer still costs.

But, whatever. You still got your point across.

[blondeatlast]

27. LOLed at the analogy!

:thumbsup:

[emanymton]

37. Thank You

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"You still got your point across."

Ema Nymton
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[lunatica]

24. When you have to explain what you said, you're not saying it well to begin with

And you're also not very clever.

[blondeatlast]

26. "when you have to explain what you've said, you're playing to a slow audience." No,

I've done comedy writing and it means that your joke fell flat on its face. It hurts, but that's how it is.

[Iggo]

28. Unfunny and unclever puns make you hip?

And what "cannot be allowed to stand"?

[blondeatlast]

33. The poster didn't get Fozzie's point, either. nt

[highplainsdem]

30. It isn't the audience who's slow. Once you saw from the reactions just how badly your OP had failed,

you should have deleted it yourself -- which would have been much better than an "apology" that sounds condescending and is buried in a reply. I hope this topic will be locked soon so it won't continue wasting people's time and upsetting some who didn't get your "pun" that didn't work.

[dems_rightnow]

11. Sucky thread

With made up outrage over something that isn't in the works. Shame on you.

[Champion Jack]

18. +1,000,000,000

[taterguy]

19. Terrible news. Thanks for letting us know

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. WTF? Unrec.

[Cleita]

23. I don't think they will shoot themselves in the foot twice.

However, if they do, there is room for her I'm sure at KO's new digs, Current TV, or Free Speech TV with Thom Hartmann, Laura Flanders and Amy Goodman.

[Bluenorthwest]

25. Shitty tactic

And you know, Olbermann got a better job, which he sought, using new smarter agents and rafts of lawyers. He was not fired, and Rachel is not being fired. This is reckless bullshit.

[Warren DeMontague]

29. Do people think their OPs won't get enough attention if they only contain actual information & facts

Jesus. Enough with the breathless, misleading hyperbole, already. :eyes:

[jillan]

34. Who is going to fire Rachel Maddow? I don't see any thing that says that. I'm so confused.

:silly: :wtf:

[blogslut]

35. Groan

This is the second faux-concern thread about beloved DU television shows in as many days.

Is this a new trend?

[MilesColtrane]

36. And, wit is obviously emagrouyton.