Salon: ‘Maddow feels the wrath of Obama fans‘ (Lovely, teabagger-speak!)
Natasha Lennard (Salon): Following the announcement on Friday of same sex marriage legalization in New York, Rachel Maddow made a comment on her MSNBC show - a comment which invited a backlash Maddow could not have expected …. “Obama is against what just happened” she said … the comment invited a backlash on Twitter from Obama fans, and some of the criticism was heated.
“What u said was that Obama was against what happened in NY which is inherently dishonest. U made like he lobbied against the bill,” read one tweet; “why did you lie?” demanded another; and “@maddow has Hate and Racism towards Obama!” wrote another. The playwright and journalist J. Samuel Cook tweeted, I feel sorry for all the #LGBT Americans whose victory last night in New York is overshadowed by @maddow’s and @ltdanchoi’s hatred of Obama.”
…… Maddow is not the first person to publicly criticize the president and endure the wrath of his defenders. Indeed, as our own Glenn Greenwald sees it: (Obama is evil …. bla bla bla …. Obama is a monster …. bla bla bla …. Obama forces me to live in luxury in Brazil! …. bla bla bla …. OMG! I hate Obama! Like SOOOOOOO much!)
Maddow may have been a too strong in her initial comments, but clearly she touched a fragile, irrational nerve in the body of Obama’s diehard supporters.
Full article here
Thanks Tulips
So, supporters of the President are fans; supporters of his opponents are, well, supporters?
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Interesting - if you’re lucky you’ll forget my past rants about GOPolitico’s ‘Click’ page, one of the most vile, scummy corners of cyberspace you’ll ever come across. I emailed them a few times asking why they allow endless racist comments appear under stories about the Obamas, but I never got a reply.
Guess who was a staff writer for Click until a couple of months ago? Yep, Natasha Lennard. (See here)
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Some of Natasha’s work in recent times:
Matt Damon disappointed in Obama - By Natasha Lennard (Politico) …. Luke Scott: Obama Wasn’t Born Here - By Natasha Lennard (Politico) ….. Obama apparently unaware what year it is - By Natasha Lennard (Salon) …. Obama mistimes his toast to the Queen - By Natasha Lennard (Salon) ….. Does Obama’s trip to the border actually matter? (The president is calling for immigration reform — but there’s reason to treat it as an empty gesture ) - By Natasha Lennard (Salon) …. Does “Dinner with Barack and Joe” break the rules? - By Natasha Lennard (Salon) …. and on and on and on
Crikey, it’s hard to tell her Salon work from her Click efforts.
Ah yes, such impartial reporting.
White House.gov
why am i surprised?
Tags: Barack, click, comments, hate, Obama, politico, President, racism, racist
Politico’s Click page is basically a bunch of junk, their attempt at a light and frothy collection of stories…. but always reported with a typical Politico slant: ie sneering at anything to do with Democrats or the President, all the time fainting with swooniness at all things Palin.
Any way, because I’m a light and frothy person I look at it sometimes … and began noticing the simply-beyond-belief racist comments Politico allowed to be posted under any story to do with the Obamas.
So, starting a few weeks ago, I began emailing the authors of these stories to ask them why Politico wasn’t ‘moderating’ this hate and racism.
Replies so far? None.
I know, I know: Why am I surprised? This is Politico after all. A right-wing rag.
But that they allow racist hate to be posted on their site, and make absolutely no effort to moderate it?
Well, yeah, even that surprised me.
**** them.