Rachel Maddow on the Preet Bharara firing. This one looks real!

[mark kennedy]

It's a little dated but really got me spooked. I won't bother with details the video speaks for itself. I'm something of a conspiracy buff and the bane of conspiracy theory is one day you might find a real one. I don't know yet but this one has me on edge:

All I ask is you listen to this crazy thing, or as much as you have time for and tell me what you think.

Grace and peace,
Mark

 

[football5680]

I can't listen to Rachel Maddow for that long.

 

[mark kennedy]

I can't listen to Rachel Maddow for that long.

She can be annoying but I'm seriously wondering how serious this is.

 

[USincognito]

I can't listen to Rachel Maddow for that long.

She's one of the more sober and serious talking heads in the 8-11pm time frame.

And unlike most of them, she admits when she was wrong.

 

[football5680]

She's one of the more sober and serious talking heads in the 8-11pm time frame.

And unlike most of them, she admits when she was wrong.

I just find her mannerism annoying.

 

[football5680]

She can be annoying but I'm seriously wondering how serious this is.

It could be a conspiracy but I would like to see a counter-argument before I would decide. Some stuff could just be circumstantial but other stuff would need a good explanation.

 

[Rion]

What's the time stamp for when she stops her rambling and gets to the actual story? She opens up every show with this long, pointless story that only connects with the topic if you squint your eyes and bite your tongue.

She's one of the more sober and serious talking heads in the 8-11pm time frame.

And unlike most of them, she admits when she was wrong.

For someone who likes to disparage other people's sources, that's the equivalent of throwing rocks in a glass house.

 

[mark kennedy]

I had been watching the Deutsche Bank, they showed a net loss 1.9 billion Euro loss and they are grossly under capitalized. When the Wall Street banks complain about not having enough capitol it's because they want to play that money on securities and such. Anyway, they have to pay a 1.9 billion dollar settlement in connection with the derivatives that was so much a part of the Great Recession.

She's saying it's involved in money laundering for Russia and others. Some of it seems like mild investigative journalism, dubious real estate deals, and apparently the Southern District is perhaps the most powerful prosecutor power with regards to securities exchange because it's New York. Along with 40 US attorney Preet Bharara was dismissed late on a Friday, actually told to resign, he refused and forced Trump to fire him. Everyone says it's normal to clean house but not like this, especially when Trump's track record of getting appointments done is so weak.

This is the stuff of conspiracy theory but, even though I'm still sorting it out, this one looks like a number of on going criminal conspiracies. Anyway, just wanted to see if anyone else was disconcerted by all this.

 

[USincognito]

For someone who likes to disparage other people's sources, that's the equivalent of throwing rocks in a glass house.

I know you're trying to be clever, what what in the world are you talking about?

 

[mark kennedy]

It could be a conspiracy but I would like to see a counter-argument before I would decide. Some stuff could just be circumstantial but other stuff would need a good explanation.

I'm really just trying to find something concrete here, I don't see a smoking gun yet. Rachel Maddow is clearly biased, she loves interviewing people like Elizabeth Warren and bashing the President, mostly because he is a clod, not because he has necessarily done anything illegal.

I'm getting increasingly worried about the possible damage Trump could do to our reputation abroad. They lie to us, from Johnson and the Tonkin Bay incident to weapons of mass destruction to, 'I never had sex with that woman'. I'm embarrassed to say the only thing that gives me any comfort with this administration is that I think Trump is already a lame duck. That's a sad state of affairs and God help us if any of this smoke turns out to be fire. All we need is another stupid scandal or, God forbid, another impeachment debacle.

 

[mark kennedy]

She's one of the more sober and serious talking heads in the 8-11pm time frame.

And unlike most of them, she admits when she was wrong.

She just seems like a liberal Rush Limbaugh, I get a kick out of her. In one of her comical little commentaries she shows Trump at an executive order signing, saying they look like menu folders. He walks in, they ask him about Flynn and he just walks out. Pence picks up the order and follows him out the door, I guess he signed it latter.

I'm not kidding Ucog., this stuff is actually starting to worry me. I was actually hoping someone would tell me I'm just taking a little politically motivated satire too seriously.

When she starts talking about the Deutsche Bank, and I already have grave concerns about their investment practices I start to get worried.

 

[Rion]

I know you're trying to be clever, what what in the world are you talking about?

She is like a liberal version of Glenn Beck. Except instead of using a chalkboard, she rambles on for 20 minutes at a time providing "context." For crying out loud, when she had a tax return of Trump's, the white house got tired of waiting for her to get around to it on her show and revealed the information themselves.

 

[USincognito]

She is like a liberal version of Glenn Beck.

Except instead of using a chalkboard, she rambles on for 20 minutes at a time providing "context."

Yeah, I get it. Some of you don't like the way she weaves history into contemporary reporting. In today's soundbite/talk radio world it's much more popular (for some) to just shout stuff than to speak clearly and cogently for five minutes.

For crying out loud, when she had a tax return of Trump's, the white house got tired of waiting for her to get around to it on her show and revealed the information themselves.

That never happened.

 

[Rion]

Yeah, I get it. Some of you don't like the way she weaves history into contemporary reporting. In today's soundbite/talk radio world it's much more popular (for some) to just shout stuff than to speak clearly and cogently for five minutes.

How condescending of you.

No, I don't have a problem with people weaving history into a news story to build perspective. Maddow doesn't do that. She rambles on and makes random leaps in logic like a less entertaining version of Alex Jones.

That never happened.

WH releases Trump tax info ahead of MSNBC report

 

[USincognito]

How condescending of you.

Thanks, I leaned from the best.

No, I don't have a problem with people weaving history into a news story to build perspective. Maddow doesn't do that. She rambles on and makes random leaps in logic like a less entertaining version of Alex Jones.

We'll just have to disagree on that. And (I would suspect) unlike you I watch her often enough to have a better perspective in her shtick.

WH releases Trump tax info ahead of MSNBC report

I didn't see anything in there about the White House releasing the documents during her show because they "got tired of waiting for her" during her monologue (which was the context in which you posted that assertion). Looks like another Hydrogen Hillary moment.