Rachel stages latest clown show!

TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 2023

These are the hacks we have chosen: Last evening, at 9 P.M., former Rhodes scholar Rachel Maddow emerged from the company clowncar.

We thought her lengthy opening segment was the dumbest segment ever. Just like that, her second segment arrived, and it was even worse.

After tumbling out of the car, what did the former Rhodes scholar dispense in that second segment? On the surface, she seemed to be trying to explain why Donald J. Trump hasn't (yet) been charged for those payments to Stormy Daniels. 

If Michael Cohen pled guilty to federal crimes in this matter, why hasn't Trump ever been hit with similar federal charges? On the surface, that's the question the orange-shoed star was attempting to answer last night.

On the surface, Maddow was responding to three GOP committee chairmen. They have now claimed that the Justice Department must have decided that Trump had, in fact, committed no crime in the hush money matter. In response, our silliest child started out offering this:

MADDOW (3/20/23): The New York investigation into the Trump campaign having this hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, it did start on the federal level. It was the U.S. Justice Department through SDNY, through the U.S. Attorney's office in the Southern District of New York, that prosecuted Michael Cohen for his role in the hush money scheme, and they got him to plead guilty. 

But even though federal prosecutors said they had evidence that Michael Cohen committed that crime at the direction of President Trump and for the benefit of President Trump, they never charged President Trump, and that was sort of flummoxing for a long time. But we do now, with the benefit of hindsight, we do have clarity of how that came to pass.

That's the way the clown show started. It got world-class dumb after that. 

To make it harder for outsiders to comment on behaviors like this, MSNBC stopped providing transcripts of its TV shows last year. Below, we'll show you how you can watch our silliest child as she continued this historically stupid performance on last evening's program.

Below, we'll give you a link. For now, we'll direct you to MaddowBlog's Steve Benen, reporting Maddow's "logic" in an equally ridiculous piece of work.

Benen is thoroughly capable. It's very, very hard to believe that he offered this in good faith:

BENEN (3/21/23): As Rachel explained on last night’s show, it’s true that this case was initially a federal case, initiated by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York. In fact, they’re the ones who prosecuted Michael Cohen, who paid Stormy Daniels in the hush money scandal.

At that point, did federal prosecutors conclude that the case was simply over and walk away? Not exactly. What they actually found was that Cohen acted at Trump’s direction and to Trump’s benefit. 

Why didn’t prosecutors pursue the matter further? According to Geoffrey Berman—the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, who wrote a book about his experiences—it’s because there was political interference from other Trump appointees who ordered prosecutors to end their investigation.

Indeed, according to Berman’s book, then-Attorney General Bill Barr not only intervened in the case, he tried to kill the ongoing investigation and even suggested that Cohen’s conviction should be reversed.

The GOP committee chairs wrote yesterday that federal prosecutors “determined that no additional people would be charged alongside Cohen,” but they conveniently overlooked why they made that determination.

It wasn’t because of a thorough review of the law; it was because Trump’s attorney general told them to stop—because in the previous administration, the brazen politicization of federal law enforcement was the norm.

Benen did in fact give a faithful account of Rachel's "explanation." For the sake of simplicity, let's assume that everything said so far is correct.

If everything said so far is correct, this explains why Trump wasn't charged with a federal crime in the hush money matter as of January 20, 2021. But uh-oh:

After January 20, 2021, Bill Barr was no longer in charge of the Justice Department! 

Duh! After January 2021, Joe Biden's appointees were in charge of the Justice Department! And as Rachel's good friend Nicolle Wallace angrily notes five times a week, twenty-six months have now passed, and the Merrick Garland Justice Department hasn't charged Trump with a federal crime in this matter any more than the Bill Barr DOJ did.

Every single day of the week, Wallace rails against this inexplicable failure on the part of the cowardly Garland. Maddow may be off in LaLa Land, but it's very, very hard to believe that Benen doesn't know such things as that.

Maddow has been such a clown for so long that it's always possible that her absurdly triumphant performance last night resulted from genuine cluelessness. But in her ridiculous performance, she only explained why Trump hadn't been charged with a federal crime in the hush money case as of January 20, 2021. 

She failed to explain why the Merrick Garland DOJ also hasn't charged him. She didn't show the slightest sign of knowing that this question is being asked, every day, on her own "cable news" channel—and by one of her very best "friends!"

Every blue voter is being insulted when the corporate suits at MSNBC keep putting this crap on the air. It's very, very hard to believe that Benen's post was offered in good faith. Maddow has been so nutty for so long that it's hard to make a similar assessment.

As best we can tell, the Maddow Show hasn't posted videotape of this performance. We can't say that we blame them for that. If our cash cow offered a similar commentary, we wouldn't rush to post it either.

That said, we thought we'd seen the world's dumbest segment as of 9:24 last night, when Maddow's first segment mercifully reached its end. After a few commercial messages, Rachel came back on the air and topped her previous effort.

Question:

Why hasn't the Biden / Garland Justice Department charged Trump with a crime in the matter of the "hush money" payments? Is it possible that they don't think a sustainable federal charge can be drawn from Trump's behavior?

We don't know the answer to that, but Hacks Like Ours produce performances like Maddow's. They aim such works at Marks Like Us, assuming we'll come back for more. 

None of this has a thing to do with whatever Alvin Bragg is going to do in Gotham. But Maddow has been doing this sort of thing forever, mugging and clowning in ways that help us learn how to love her even more.

Last night's first segment was equally stupid. To watch this entire show, you can click here for the Internet Archive's recording of the nonsense.

Her work was blindingly stupid last night. If we might borrow from Don Corleone, these are the hacks we have chosen.


47 comments:


  1. tl;dr.

    "Every blue voter is being insulted when the corporate suits at MSNBC keep putting this crap on the air. "

    Meh; far from that.

    We have no idea what "blue voter" means, and we'll assume that most of 'em "blue voters" never watch MSNBC and won't give a shit about its corporate suits putting crap on the air.

    ...as for your, dear Bob, unfortunate fellow tribesmen, please rest assured that they happily swallow all that crap and ask for more...

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  2. “This is the business we’ve chosen.” Hyman Roth said that. Not Don Corleone.

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    1. Yes, but Hyman was justifying looking the other way at terrible crimes. So as projection, it kinda makes sense for Bob.

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    2. Human was pretending to look away. He wanted vengeance in due time.

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    3. I typed Hyman but it got corrected to Human.

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    4. If the word you are searching for is hymen, you need to get out your Russian-English dictionary and look it up.

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  3. Maddow wears pants made out of squid meat.

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    1. I can't wait until Republicans take away her Right to vote, like they do with other minorities.

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    3. We’ll allow Rachel to vote in the occasional runoff, but only after her seventh baby.

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    4. @Cecelia 4:04 PM
      Meh. Do we really need so many shape-shifting reptiloids?

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    5. So we are down to lame one liners, eh Cecelia? Good sign.

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    6. Anonymouse 4:47pm, it’s good sign that you didn’t launch into a scathing lecture because anonymices have lead ears.

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    7. Keep practicing Cecelia, you could write for a sitcom if they bring back “Small Wonder.”

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    8. So who named a sitcom after you?

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    9. What a waste of comment space. This sequence would be more cogent if it were just the word Digby repeated over and over. You guys truly add nothing to this blog.

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    10. Anonymouse 6:57pm, you’re here every day to hike your leg on this blog.

      How seriously do you think you’re taken?

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    11. You have no idea who 6:57 is and how often he or she comments here or what opinions are stated on any topic except your stupid chatter today. Those who hike their legs on Somerby's blog are held in higher esteem than you, that's obvious. You add nothing to this blog.

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    12. I second 7:30. Big time.

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    19. “You have no idea who 6:57 is and how often he or she comments here or what opinions are stated on any topic except your stupid chatter today. Those who hike their legs on Somerby's blog are held in higher esteem than you, that's obvious. You add nothing to this blog.”,

      Anonymices count upon no one knowing you from anyone else, Anonymouse 7:30pm. Yet conversely try to claim originality and individuality when treated that way.

      That’s why, much to anonymouse consternation and scolding complaints, I treat you as though you are all the same person.

      In essence, that is true. You all say the same things every day, You never engage in the typical sort of conversation of thanking or encouraging Bob when he says anything that mitigates some aspect of your opinion of him.

      You never act like a singular human being in this .

      Whatever they’re paying you apparatchiks, It’s not enough.

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    20. Expect more of this. They joke nervously now, But as the Orange God goes down they will go full Nicholson in “The Shinning.”

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    21. Nicholson was the dad, it was the kid that said redrum.

      Somerby is a right wing shill, just like you.

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    22. Somerby is correct as always, sadly. If Trump is arrested, it will make you feel really good but it will be a hollow victory because it's not a political victory. Not to mention an arrest could backfire and help Trump. It's very shallow. Sorry to break it to you. I know you don't get it. But as always, he is right and you are wrong. That's just how it is here in the real world - where criticism of the media and thought leaders of a political party does not mean support of that party's competition. It's weird how stupid you are. Maybe you are a paid propagandist. That would make more sense as your logic is too inscrutable and childish for a normal person.

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    23. Cecelia comes here to fight with others, not to discuss politics.

      All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. That's what Nicholson said.

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    24. What a tragedy!

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  4. Bob seems to have turned into Eros the Alien from "Plan Nine From Out Space." All you of earth are Stupid!
    Of course it's occurred to many of us how the guy who carried the bribe went to jail and the guy who F@cked the porn star and paid the bribe went free. It's been answered,
    never that soundly to my ear. But, that's what trials are
    for.
    Bob is obviously deeply invested in inflicted pain on
    the people he despises by continuing Ttrump's lawlessness.
    Today he is making an ass of himself over it, and I for
    one, all too human, am enjoying the hell out it.

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  5. Have some crabcake, Bob. Your ennui is showing again.

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  6. Once upon a time Bob’s onetime friend Al Gore was getting tarred with fairly ridiculous sexual assault charges. It got a lot of play on “The View” from Joy Baer or whatever her name is.
    Bob took it very seriously, He strained really, to be objective. It was thrown out when some underwear the woman was waving on the cover of The Star tested negative. Anyway, I guess Trump’s victims don’t get that kind of respect,
    as he has said nothing about EG Carroll. Her assault, I guess, just goes in the “Trump Trump Trump” file….

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  7. "To make it harder for outsiders to comment on behaviors like this, MSNBC stopped providing transcripts of its TV shows last year. "

    Somerby has no evidence that this is true. For one thing, transcripts of cable news shows are available in other places. For another, MSNBC may have stopped doing its own transcripts as a cost saving measure, not to foil critics. It is arguably a duplication of effort. MSNBC is not a courtroom where transcripts are part of the process and are owed as part of a court record.

    Somerby, in the throes of narcissism, seems to be taking this lack of transcripts personally, as if it is intended solely to make it harder for HIM to write his complaints, but there is no reason he couldn't produce his own transcript of the parts of the show that he finds most egregious. Using MSNBC as an excuse for not quoting, and especially not summarizing appropriately, is just a lazy person's excuse.

    What is today's summary of what Maddow said? He calls her a clown and calls her segments clownish and bad, without specifics and without even telling us what she talked about in her first segment. That is unacceptable as any form of serious criticism and we are left knowing only that Somerby dislikes Maddow for some unspecified reason. It is only name-calling, not analysis, and that makes Somerby the clown in this situation.

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    1. For another thing, if he takes this seriously, spring for TiVo or get a tape recorder. Or take frickin notes!!!

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  8. "former Rhodes scholar Rachel Maddow emerged from the company clowncar"

    This is how Somerby puts his thumb on the scales. Maddow is not a former Rhodes scholar. That is an academic honor, like valedictorian or Phi Beta Kappa or magna cum laude. It doesn't expire when you leave college but it signifies distinction in achievement. The only way she would be "former" is if they rescinded the honor, which has not occurred.

    But this is how Somerby shows disrespect toward both Maddow and academia. When he calls her a clown, we recognize his animosity. When he calls her former, he implies that her distinction is past or gone, which is far from the truth. She has written historical books that have been well-received by experts, and she now has a historical podcast that has attracted positive notice. These are the kinds of accomplishments that people who study at Oxford University, earn advanced degrees and graduate go on to achieve. Whatever Somerby thinks about her politics, it is a cheap shot to knock her honors as a student.

    Somerby, meanwhile, is truly a former standup comic of no particular distinction. He plays at media commentary while carrying water for Trump, worst president ever. I have no doubt that Al Gore is ashamed of the things his former friend has been saying, since Gore is actually a Democrat and cares about our planet, while Somerby only uses climate concerns to bash female journalists. Somerby was never in Maddow's league and if she is a clown, what does that make him? A flea on her orange clown shoe.

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    1. Well, there aren’t too many Harvard grads who will hold your impressive academic credentials against you. Give Bob that…

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  9. "Why hasn't the Biden / Garland Justice Department charged Trump with a crime in the matter of the "hush money" payments? Is it possible that they don't think a sustainable federal charge can be drawn from Trump's behavior?"

    Is it possible they have bigger fish to fry than whatever charges might arise from the Stormy Daniels case? Why isn't that obvious to Somerby?

    Merrick Garland brought in the special prosecutor who is pursuing federal charges against Trump. It takes time to put together a strong case against a former president with strong political support, especially in a context where such efforts are going to be called politically motivated without strong evidence. That has very little to do with Stormy Daniels and her case, the wrongdoing that Cohen was charged with, and Trump's activities before he was president. Cohen has been Trump's fixer since long before he was coaxed into running for president by the Russians. Just as the other state charges being pursued against Trump's organization and his business activities predate his campaign. Trump didn't start being a crook when he became president.

    Alvin Bragg is the New York County District Attorney. That is not a federal office and it isn't under the purview of the DOJ or Merrick Garland. He hasn't charged Trump yet with anything, so we do not know whether federal charges are involved, nor what local charges are being investigated.

    Somerby appears to be trying to confuse matters. That is easy to do in confusing situations like this one. It doesn't make Maddow a clown, especially if this is Somerby's misunderstanding about the nature of Bragg's investigation, and not anything Maddow is confused about. That Benen explained things to Somerby's satisfaction suggests it wasn't Maddow who is muddying the water today. This seems to be an example of Bannon's tactic:

    "And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit."

    Somerby is flooding his discussion of Maddow's show with shit in order to imply that she was confused, when it is Somerby's shit that stinks.

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    1. Well said. How sad that Bob, like so many others, sent his decency to die on Trump Hill. What a way to go.

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    2. Hello.

      I have a warning about eat of it the Punjab cricket.
      Do not eat of it the Punjab cricket.
      If eat of it the Punjab cricket, you have it a bad smell gas.
      One time lady friend Smupa eat of it the Punjab cricket.
      She then have it bad smell it gas for 3.5 days.
      Not good my friend.

      Thank you.

      Bhopal

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  10. Keep on sucking Drumpf off, Blobby Baby. U no U wanna.

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  11. "MSNBC's Inside with Jen Psaki was the top cable news show with viewers age 25-54 on Sunday as it beat Fox News and almost doubled CNN."

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