Rachel is back! After more than a week off, Rachel Maddow returns to her show. And, first, a few things about her wardrobe.
For the first time I am aware of, she wore a collared shirt. She usually wears those decolletage-bearing shirts that have never been all that Rachel, if you ask me.
And for the first time I am aware of, she wore a pair of waders. She usually wears miners’ hats or FDR masks, but Sarah Palin’s interview with Andrea Mitchell deserved a special kind of parody.
Watch as Rachel dissects what it really means for a fighter to fight the good fight by quitting and catching fish.
8. July 2009 at 3:36 pm
When she accepted the VP nomination, she knew she needed to bring her professional game up to another level, she never did. She knew that her family would get attacked as did Hilary and Chelsea before her (by even her twin maverick brother McCain in 1998), let face it she knew her family affairs would come out. But now she plays the victim card again, a card she played after those comical first extended interviews that we all enjoyed and SNL immortalized. But for the icing on the cake, she quits, because she does not want to be a lame duck governor, because the lawsuits keep coming, because it was the media’s fault, because seeing Russia from her house finally got to her, because its not fair that Alaskan’s paid her salary while she was running for the VP position, take your pick. So what does she tells us? Dear Mr. President, when things get tough, quit. Dear military men and women, if you are not having fun, quit. Dear son or daughter, if things are not going your way, quit. Sure, I agree when she first was introduced and gave a descent speech, sure the polls went up, but after the extended interviews, they went where they ended, down. She showed her true character, I real hope the book deal, Radio/ TV shows and the lecture circuits make up for what her party has lost by her actions. She may go down in history as the quitter that twittered.
11. July 2009 at 3:12 pm
Can anyone real tell me that you were impressed by her exit speech? You can’t real believe that she is the only person that can win in 2012. You know, if she can’t take a joke, don’t get in the game, its politics, they all get kicked around. Let me paint you a picture, in my opinion, for the last eight years where the mantra was no regulation and no oversight and spread to all federal agencies and the justice department was filled by unqualified religious morons and the dullard (ex-drunk) religious president started two wars of choice with extreme tax dollar spending, well we now find ourselves with our current economic situation because of those choices. Do you remember how Ronald Reagan got us out of a recession? By spending and we will do the same. Oh, by the way I read that God blog, very funny, it reminds me of those TV evangelists who claim the talk to God and want so and so foreign country leader to be killed or such and such a us state to be punished for a court ruling that intelligent design is just another word for religion. We had enough of religious dullards in our government. If you believe that the USA has strayed from God then go out to your communities and preach to your neighbors, the sick, the shut ins, the poor and invite or take part in your church, build a community. But I know that’s hard work we want a government official to do that for us, well that was tried and look where it left us, in the gutter, but our country does not quit and we will rise again. I am not a pro at this, for that tune in to those who love to speculate Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck, ok maybe not.