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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere's no way for them to trick Rachel Maddow.
In their DREAMS.
She and her team are so many times smarter than they are, and so aware of recent history let alone current events, they're doomed if they keep trying.
Actually, I hope they keep trying.
mopinko
(70,434 posts)Sparkly
(24,162 posts)and I yelled in agreement when she mentioned it just now.
This is EXACTLY what they do. (We used to call it Rovian, but these people have twice as much to hide, with half as much brainpower to work with.)
calimary
(81,644 posts)George HW Bush very much counted among them.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...the document in question was DELIBERATELY FALSE to shut down any further investigation or examination.
Obviously, the Rethuglican spinmeisters are pulling out all the stops to shut down the further investigation of traitor tRump* and his Russian sugar daddy.
mopinko
(70,434 posts)knocked down
it gets to wearin thin.
certainot
(9,090 posts)the difference is 1000 coordinated radio station screaming for rather's head, and americans continue to ignore it.
talk radio is still trumputin's best weapon and americans are doing fuck all about it.
the story they tried to trap rachel into is just a slightly more eleborate than a hundred others already making the rounds on those radio stations while enjoying a complete free speech free ride.
madaboutharry
(40,250 posts)is brilliant.
I hope they find out where it came from.
nikibatts
(2,198 posts)Sparkly
(24,162 posts)Didn't want to say it.
And no need to elaborate.
CincyDem
(6,426 posts)Sparkly
(24,162 posts)She is awesome.
hlthe2b
(102,634 posts)Sparkly
(24,162 posts)She didn't fall for it, and they take the gambit further ... = further proof they are out of their league.
politicat
(9,808 posts)I looked up the tweets recently. The (one or two) tweets that evening said she had two pages of a return. They used to regularly tease the A block. (Less, now.) And it was interesting information - at least for accounting types. Those numbers *still* look funky. Too small to be proper LTCG and wrong for STCG.
She & staff can't be blamed for the Twitterverse.
Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)This sounds like the handiwork of Bannon. I strongly suspect the American named in the document was Kushner. Bannon is obsessed with discrediting Briebert's legitimate competition. And he hates Kushner.
Sparkly
(24,162 posts)Yes, that would make sense.
You don't fool PHD researchers that easily - and she's close to Rather so she understands a setup.
Checkers to chess
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Jim__
(14,101 posts)Hope they find out and blast it all over the news.
Sparkly
(24,162 posts)-- with plenty of proof, because they know a trap when they see one, thank GOD. This war against the legitimate press is seriously dangerous.
ecstatic
(32,829 posts)I think it was Kushner/Ivanka (egged on by Trump Jr). I can't imagine anyone other than family doing something that stupid.
Volaris
(10,284 posts)Ahahahahahha.
Rove was a evil pick to be sure, but at least he was a SMART evil prick. Bannon, not quite so much.
VOX
(22,976 posts)On right-wing asshole-ism. Bannon brings chaos, but he's a one-trick pony and easy to second-guess.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)and warned other news organizations. She has the integrity that too many lack.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Coming out like this enables her to frame the narrative and protects her and other journalists from getting Rathered. Big kudos to her!!
Stay woke, folks....
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)Akamai
(1,779 posts)Great job! Rachel and company!
Hekate
(91,181 posts)But as with assassins, the target has to be lucky every single time, while the murderer has to be lucky only once. May she always be this smart and this lucky.
Rachel and all the free press in this country are now being hunted -- go safely, people.
PS: What the heck was that bit about Richard Engel moving into Rachel's time slot as of tomorrow? Or did I misunderstand because she said 6:00, and Rachel comes on at 6:00 California time, when I watch her show? I feel like I misunderstood.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,106 posts)for those slots.
Hekate
(91,181 posts)BarbD
(1,195 posts)I'm not sure what is going on -- they should have been clearer. Will Rachel be back tomorrow?
Gothmog
(146,202 posts)gaiadiversity
(60 posts)It's this kind of thinking that makes us all look like fools.
Justice
(7,188 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)lostnfound
(16,208 posts)revmclaren
(2,587 posts)or us as in 'other'?
Very curious to know...
randr
(12,418 posts)The alarmist milking of imagined threats is getting old.
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