Tonight's guests:
- Steve Kornacki, co-host of MSNBC's The Cycle and a senior writer for Salon.com
- Nancy Keenan, president, NARAL Pro-Choice America
Here's executive producer Bill Wolff with a look at what's to be covered (cue soundtrack).
Ahead on the 9/7 Maddow Show
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Fri Sep 7, 2012 7:25 PM EDT
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Do we get a retrospective... For example video of Rachel on Air America before the makeup artists started applying the silly lashes?
John, I am seriously hoping that post was made by your twelve year old daughter, when you left your computer logged in. [grin] It definitely sinks to a lower intellectual level than many of your other posts, which are often quite insightful and suggest new perspectives on important issues.
Your recent post about what I call "disincentivizing outsourcing", for instance, is something I would like to see being more widely discussed. That issue is heavily tied to the 30-year trend of income and wealth transfer upward, to me the most important issue we need to face. That the value of the stock market has skyrocketed at the same time wages have declined should be frightening to everyone, even 99% of republicans.
Yeah John! We expect better from YOU. No more shallow lash appeals.
"Happy B-day TRMS! You're looking MARVELOUS !!", because... I appreciate you and don't want to come across as insincere.
Wow, that comment did not go as I planned.
Two people were offended and it is obvious re reading it how I stuck my foot in my mouth. From the brevity and lack of context of my perspective, most people would understand it as an offensive cut on someone else- babble about her personal taste or appearance which of course no one has any business commenting on. My intent was to dish on the network that has seemed to want to mold her into their view of what a more mainstream "acceptable" look would be like. I get the impression they make the hosts step into these kind of full body masks that have holes arranged for their eyes and mouth. Anyway, it is something I detest about the the media and my personal perspective is that people should be allowed to present themselves on air as they see fit. Really I have no idea what her personal taste is- but my presumption was that she has little use for all that extra stuff, and thinks the whole "do" thing is comedic/ fun/ silly stuff to poke fun at. If not, then I was way way off. Either way I should not have made the comment.
aw shucks. All joking aside - I hope doesn't mean convention post-parties are over.
Wonderful response, John. Re the 'full body mask': I cringe every time I see lipstick on a man. (Not a huge fan of it on women, either)
I personally hate communicating subtle or complex ideas by either written or electronic means.
People read a little, then react before they see the dots connected in the next paragraph.
Face to face is the only way to convey nuance.
I recently felt compelled to conduct an intervention with my 30 year Mormon friends. Most right-wingers I wouldn't even try, but he and I have worked together off and on during that entire period, and he is very capable of processing information that contradicts his current position in our professional roles. It puzzles and disturbs me that he has NONE of that ability when it comes to politics. I drove 80 miles to talk to them. It didn't turn out well. I walked out once when she started with the "Harry Reid did this and Harry Reid did that", but later came back. I don't think they realize he is LDS also, yet they praise Romney because they know "he is a good man". We are still friends, and he says he wants to continue the discussion (we talked for five hours) but I don't think our friendship would survive any further conversations - he is so "in the bubble".
Please explain to us why Romney's Acceptance Speech was intentionally directed to the audience of people who had passed Ellis Island "driven by the hope for a better life in America"? Did he intentionally leave out African Americans, and Native Americans as he shunned the illegals that don't "sign the guest book" in NY Harbor? Am I trippin'? And why wasn't the omission of those groups fodder for the Democrats (or MSNBC) at the convention?
Good point!
We Are Better Off Part II Choose That Future!
I saw the top ten political speeches of my lifetime at the Charlotte Democratic Convention and if you STILL don't think we are better off than four years ago then remember this...'W' was still 'the president' four years ago! Nuff said!
Not only did the Democratic Party prove with facts and figures that we have begun to fix the horrendous mess the Republicans had put us in, but the Democrats proved it with body and soul as well! If you weren't inspired by Lilly Ledbetter then you're crazy! If Gabby Giffords didn't make you cry and determined to fight hate and bigotry then you're heartless! And while the Democrats put our brave members of the Armed Forces in center stage of their convention, the Republicans forgot they existed!
And if you didn't see a great president and vice president with the most perfect spouses and families for our times...sorry, but I think you're lying!
LONG LIVE AMERICA! FOUR MORE YEARS! FIRED UP, READY TO GO!
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I'm still surprised that I seem to be the only viewer who caught what flashed behind John Oliver during his street-corner segment (Stonewall St. in Charlotte) on Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" the other night.
The following gasoline prices were plastered on the side of a large truck van:
Bill Clinton photo on left, underneath $1.46
GW Bush photo in middle, underneath $1.82
Barack Obama photo on right, underneath $3.72
Hmmm, I seem to remember in 2008 under GW Bush that gasoline prices in the U.S. skyrocketed past $4.00 a gallon ($5.00 a gallon on the coasts).
The only reason gas prices plummeted from record highs in 2008 under GW Bush was because the stock market crashed and oil futures trading was disrupted. However, the speculators got bailed-out, so they're back. And since many of them hate President Obama, especially the Koch brothers, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that they're rigging and jacking-up the oil futures market again (thus nearly $4.00 a gallon at present) just so they can run ads (or drive truck vans by) blaming President Obama for what they're actually doing.
And rising fuel costs drives up food costs. Are Republicans (especially oil futures speculators) deliberately buying up oil futures stock in an attempt to drive up fuel costs so they can run smear ads attacking President Obama, claiming he's responsible? Maybe someone in the Obama administration realized this might be happening a week or so ago, when President Obama said he would release millions of barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserved if necessary to rein-in rising fuel (and food) costs? Was this the Obama administration's shot across the anti-Obama oil futures speculators' bow? Are there anymore of these Republican truck vans roaming the streets of America with this lying "gasoline price comparison" plastered on their sides?
Hey folks! Really enjoyed the Virgil Goode segment tonight. I'm originally from Southwestern Virginia, and the idea of that guy as potentially the Ralph Nader of this year's election amuses me greatly. I did want to let you know, because it's kind of unusual, that I think Goode actually pronounces his last name not like "good" but like "goo" meets "food." At least, that's how his constituents were pronouncing it back when I lived there.
Thank you, Rachael, for doing the HARD work of digging out the facts in your reporting. I believe we ARE at a turning point; the biggest in my life.
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Did Nancy Keenan just say that abortion should be legal?
Is the sound level really low in this clip, or is it just my computer?
It was a big night for me, the night of the first show. I'd been driving for 2 days from NY to WI, to visit my then 96-year-old grandma. Along the way (in western PA) my mom called from Alaska and said, unbelievably, that McCain had PICKED PALIN!
I had to pull over to a truck stop to go online and check the stats on my blog (I was still blogging there back then too), because I knew it was the first link on Palin's wikipedia page (an old HS basketball picture Wonkette linked to back in 2006). The hits were thru the roof! McCain and Palin made me a couple hundred bucks in Google ads thru the Minneapolis convention and after, tho the page was later edited by her people.
Meanwhile, I got to grandma's and just KNEW that this new show MSNBC was launching (and Keith too) was gonna be all over the Palin story, and I couldn't wait to hear what y'all had to say. I made Grandma watch too, and we watched #Maddow together, on the phone, many more nights right through to the historic election night.
It was something really special Grandma and I did together. I lost her in 2010 at age 97. She had a good run. But I always remember her with the launch of The Rachel Maddow Show.
Happy Birthday, TRMS! May you never have to go to PRISON without a Cocktail in hand!
Congrats to the Maddow Show, not just Rachel, but to Bill, Corey, and all the great staff.
Your time at MSNBC shows that YOU are the one to interview Mitt Romney NOT David Gregory. I don't expect an indepth interview from him.
Happy Birthday Rachel and the worlds best crew that make it such a great show. We love you all so much.
Why was it necessary to show those horrific pics re the torture at Abu Graib(sp) prison again, especially now?
What was the purpose for that? As a reminder of what was done or to shock or to show the seriousness of what happened back then?
Frankly folks who saw them the first time years back ... all you have to do is mention the name of the prison and the memories come flooding back.
War crimes are war crimes and do not simply go away because the war ends or because the people who were committing such acts are or were not held accountable immediately or at the time these dispicable acts were committed.
Could the outcome of the investigations have been different if these issues were dealt with at a later date when our Armed Forces are no longer in immediate harms way?
Anyway I found the photos disturbing no matter if the faces were covered. The other thing is though, the outcome may not have been what was wanted but there is such a thing as karma. What was done to those harmed will no doubt haunt the doers for the rest of their lives.
Look how many years later that folks have been taken before the International Courts in the Hague...to answer for their actions... it could happen again, couldn't it?
Must be Friday.... hmmmm
This is the second all bold post I've found here tonight. I normally ignore them, although this one, while impassioned, was not the normal screeching associated with all caps or all bold.
You do realize we (GWB) "opted out" of the International Courts Treaty precisely because we would have been obligated to submit those investigations to the court, right?