Rise, Rachel Maddow, Rise
You know, there’s a reason that no Republicans will come on Rachel Maddow’s show, and it’s not because they know they’re going to get pwned like suckas by a girl. It’s because they’re going to get their asses stomped into a mudhole by a gay girl. Because no matter how many “gay friends” Sarah Palin claims she has, the official GOP position on gays is that we’re icky. And scary. And we’re going to gay marry your unborn fetuses.
It’s the reason that David Frum thought he could spit in her eye on her own show. The DC Cool Kids have his back, or so he thinks, so he felt safe knocking her tray out of her hands in the cafeteria at lunch. He probably thought he was going to go back to the green room and do a little, “I’m bad! I’m bad!” victory dance with his entourage afterward. Yeah, Dave, dig you. You tried to beat up the lesbian girl and she gave you a black eye and split your lip. And then you had to apologize. Hive five, there, Sparky.
There’s a paricularly hostile brand of condescension that some straight (and closteted) (I mean, I’m not saying anything about Hit’n'Run Frum, but come on) men brandish toward gay women. It’s ugly in that way that invariably indicates that there among their billions of swarming insecurities about their manhood, a nerve has been touched. It generally falls somewhere between the constant clangor of “Mine-isn’t-big-enough” and “She doesn’t want me, so there must be something wrong with her”.
Which is why the angry straight boys and the women who reinforce them feel like they can say these kinds of deeply dismissive things.
From the Financial Times:
This shift leftwards online has been matched on cable television, where Fox News, the rightwing news channel, has increasingly faced its mirror image at MSNBC. The latter’s leftish talk-show hosts, Keith Olbermann and now Rachel Maddow, a chirpy gay liberal, dish out scorn about Republicans in opposition to Bill O’Reilly and others at Fox.
This joker seems to think that if he’s flippant enough about Maddow that she’s going to just go away. Given her staggeringly high ratings, I don’t think that’s likely to happen any time soon. In fact, he might want to take it easy on those typing hands. He’ll need them when he’s pumping Rachel’s gas.
16 Responses to “Rise, Rachel Maddow, Rise”
By may on Oct 29, 2008 9:06 pm |
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By skippy on Oct 30, 2008 12:00 am |
i saw that on the original show, and i thought to myself that if rachel needed any help, i would have said to frum, “sir, considering your party has constantly encouraged even more hateful punditry from the likes of hannity, limbaugh, coulter, malkin, et. al, for you to decry the obviously benign jokes of the left (by comparison) without calling the mouthpieces of your own party to task, is not only disengenuous and hypocritical, but down right cowardly.”
but she seemed to handle him without my help just fine.
if she were straight and i wasn’t married and i knew her and i was actually much younger and i had hair, i’d ask her to go out with me.
By Shadowstalker on Oct 30, 2008 4:57 am |
She’s smart, and witty, and seems damned friendly. And hot.
If I hadn’t been so attached for a quarter century now, I’d ask her out too.
By ixnay on Oct 30, 2008 6:22 am |
Rachel Maddow is, with no doubt whatsoever, the wittiest, most intelligent, most beautiful commentator on the air (well, cable) today. Someone who understands and is dedicated to the concept of intelligent fun is vital to the survival of any thinking person.
To riff on Skippy’s assertion: if I were gay and not married and about 20 years younger and as fit as I was then, and maybe knew someone to introduce us, I’d ask her to go out with me.
(My dear husband points out the loveliness of expression of someone who is not botoxed: eyebrows! they work!)
By MR Bill on Oct 30, 2008 6:55 am |
Some of the most fun I’ve ever had was as an honorary lesbian: as the only guy with a bunch of gay girls, who kicked ass…
I only see Maddow on the intertubes, as my cable package is crappy. What I see of her an Olbermann is killer stuff.
I look forward to more capitalists realizing there is money in marketing to the Left in this country, in Reality based news. I look at Lou Dobbs, and know it just kills Ted Turner to see what CNN has often become. Now is the moment when some smart dude/dudette could make a mint with reality based, progressivly oriented news operations.
By gloomrider on Oct 30, 2008 9:27 am |
The quality of TRex’s prose makes me wonder if perhaps he has fallen off the cigarette wagon. I haven’t seen a post with quite this much bite in some time
By TexasEllen on Oct 30, 2008 12:05 pm |
Rachel is now must viewing at our house. What a breath of fresh air! Good point about the lack of botox, ixnay. It is weird to watch the injected ones talk about stories that are hilarious and tragic with the same frozen faces. When they try to grin, they remind me of McCain’s grimace.
PS, I’ve VOTED! Happy days are coming.
By punaise on Oct 30, 2008 1:09 pm |
If I had a little sister I’d want her to be Rachel Maddow.
By punaise on Oct 30, 2008 1:11 pm |
watch chirpies and Qs.
By TRex on Oct 30, 2008 4:42 pm |
gloomrider said
Uh, nope. Three weeks tomorrow since I smoked my last cigarette.
Yay, me!
By litbrit on Oct 30, 2008 6:54 pm |
Hey T, I just got off the phone with my sister. She and my Mum, who both live in Sarasota, saw Senator Obama speak at the stadium today. And Rachel was there, out on the field, too! My sister said she wanted to run down and hug them both. (We all love Rachel and as for the Senator, well, duh.)
She’ll be back in NY (one presumes) to air the interview tonight (9pm MSNBC). You can download the whole RM show as a podcast, too, according to Rachel the other night (I think it’s available at her MSNBC page). Wheeee!
By Funnydiva2002 on Oct 30, 2008 9:32 pm |
Yay for you, TRex! And great post. I love it when you get on a roll like this.
Yay for Rachel, too! And for KO for touting her ratings on his show.
XXOO
FunnyDiva
By bonkers on Oct 30, 2008 11:51 pm |
You said:
“The DC Cool Kids have his back, or so he thinks, so he felt safe knocking her tray out of her hands in the cafeteria at lunch. He probably thought he was going to go back to the green room and do a little, “I’m bad! I’m bad!” victory dance with his entourage afterward. Yeah, Dave, dig you. You tried to beat up the lesbian girl and she gave you a black eye and split your lip. And then you had to apologize. Hive five, there, Sparky.”
Perfecto! That is SO what’s going on. Exceptional, TRex.
By HarpoSnarx on Oct 31, 2008 12:10 am |
Whodda thunk a few years ago that a cable network would devote its two prime time hours to lefties? I always knew our side’s marketshare was formidable.
If, Gawd please, Obama prevails, Rachel (and Olbermann) are going to play important roles countering the Gooper Slime Network which will rev up when the results are declared.
By Sharkbabe on Nov 1, 2008 4:00 pm |
Thx for this post, T. God, if only she’d decide she needed an Ed McMahon, and would choose you. (Yeah you may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.)
K, a few Rachel thoughts:
Still can’t get used to her tv-glam look … I miss her TOTE-ELLL butch thing at the Air America mic back in the day … but must admit, wanted her to take off those glasses ..
Who knew she’d be the Big Stah out of that rolling AA clusterfuck .. I did .. or hoped, anyway
Whoever the fark designed her MSNBC set is a saboteur and should be eaten by rats .. I could do better blindfolded and in my sleep .. cold, uninteresting, worst possible red/blue color choices among million possibilities (even red/blue thing, yawn) ..
She’ll just keep writing her own ticket, by her sheer quality .. esthetics will solve themselves as she becomes the Cronkite of our age
Her interview with Barry was truly impressive .. he was tired, everyone’s tired .. still she set a standard of intelligent probing and follow-up that are miles ahead of anything you see anywhere
K, so she’s soaring, everyone loves her .. cuz she’s making money for Jack Welch .. um, doesn’t something collide badly eventually here?
By Katherine Garza on Nov 12, 2008 7:51 pm |
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