Maddow discusses the 2000 election debacle with The Nation’s Chris Hayes.
The next time I hear a talking head refer to this nonsense as the work of “concerned political activists…’ I’m coming through the EF’ing screen! At least with Rachel, my television will always be safe.
At some point, as I suggested in an August 6 Care2.com post, convincing a bunch of poorly informed, needlessly frightened citizens to advocate contrary to their own interests, as a political strategy (if you can call it that), eventually has to backfire. How can it not?
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Rachel Maddow: Reviewing the history of fake conservative protests
Maddow discusses the 2000 election debacle with The Nation’s Chris Hayes.
The next time I hear a talking head refer to this nonsense as the work of “concerned political activists…’ I’m coming through the EF’ing screen! At least with Rachel, my television will always be safe.
At some point, as I suggested in an August 6 Care2.com post, convincing a bunch of poorly informed, needlessly frightened citizens to advocate contrary to their own interests, as a political strategy (if you can call it that), eventually has to backfire. How can it not?
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