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I found it very striking how Inhofe constantly made clear that he saw EVERY issue as having two sides. One the Godless liberal, brainwashing side, and the other his version of the revealed truth side.No matter how brilliantly Rachel presented the facts, and how clearly she articulated them, he simply dismissed them as being incorrect, or poisoned with a liberal bias.
THIS is why the GOP wants to do away with public education, encourages the idea of faith over knowledge to the American population, and vilifies anybody who will not open wide and swallow their humongous load of bullshit.
I was also struck several times by Inhofe's condescending attitude toward Rachel Maddow.
That is "Doctor" Rachel Maddow to you, you anti-science, homophobic, snake oil salesman! And don't you fucking forget it!
You can see Rachel call Rep. Inhofe out on his connection to the "Kill the Gays" bill in Uganda by clicking here.
Now if you will excuse me I have to go punch something.
O/T to this topic, but I had to post it somewhere. Drooling white Senator says Palin is a "fox".
ReplyDeletehttp://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/state/20120316_Clout__Clout.html
Well yeah she is rabid flea bitten,patchy haired and with a mouth full of chicken feathers.That's our gal.
DeleteHey G Man, you're mentioned on Wonkette today related to your post about...
ReplyDeleteBristol Palin Has a Mommy Blog
Bristol Palin has a blog, you guys, and for serious we are so jealous! It is super exciting and insightful and intimate and well-written and she promises lots of neat stuff, like maybe a picture of Tripp with a mohawk, if you are very very good and buy her book and watch her show and watch her other show and go see her lectures on inspirationalism and how to become a grandmother by 30. Now, you might think the following posts are illiterate enough to have been written by Bristol herself, but as the godless heathens at ImmoralMinority point out, the posts were originally signed by longtime Palin apparatchik Nancy French, who was all whoopsie, nah nah nah mang, I was just showing her how to use WordPress.
http://wonkette.com/467255/bristol-palin-has-a-mommy-blog
From the comments:
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"the godless heathens at Immoral Minority"
DeleteWow, what a complement!
Love the Grifting comment- was that one of our posters??
I watched the interview yesterday and found it difficult to view. He is one of those typical Republicans in Congress that has an attitude that stinks - Rachael was respectful and he was not of her. I absoultely detest the Republican men in our Congress! They need to be voted out this next election cycle and we need NEW and younger blood there.
ReplyDeleteHe is a member of The Family, the elite fundamentalist sect that operates within the highest levels of government. Jeff Sharlet wrote about this group and their secret maneuvers in "The Family" and in a second book "C Street". They are very powerful and twist Christianity to fit their worldview and their acquisition of power in the U.S. and around the world.
Deletehttp://www.amazon.com/The-Family-Secret-Fundamentalism-American/dp/0060559799/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331931772&sr=8-1
The Right-Wing has been engaged in a decades long endeavor to create an Alternate Conseravtive Reality which they can use to keep Americans voting against their economic self-interests.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I can watch it. I love Rachel, and I would want to kill the...nevermind! I'll just take some deep breaths and move on.
ReplyDeleteI watched Rachael's show and their discussion ,poor Rachael she could get laryngitis trying to converse with such a closed minded person.
DeleteInhoff is a racist braindead know-nothing. You really have to feel sorry for how deluded and misinformed he is. Typical rethuglican.
ReplyDeleteI don't feel one bit sorry for him or the idiots that keep electing him. When severe storms hit OK, let them all rot in hell. They are bringing it on themselves by continuing to buy this sack of shit's garbage. So be it. Tornadoes away ,and not one thin dime of federal money to help you rebuild.
DeleteBill Clinton talks about GOP world view i.e. ideology vs. being idealistic in his latest book. Having a philosophy that is liberal or conservative is fine if you at open to facts. An ideology begins from the stance your beliefs are truth. No facts can change that. Everyone else us automatically wrong.
ReplyDeletehe's an idiot and an embarrassment but at least he went on her show unlike a certain $arah who would never do that.
ReplyDeleteI tried, but just couldn't make all the way through. What an a**h*le!
ReplyDeleteOklahomans, always on the wrong side of history.....and damned proud of it.
ReplyDeleteWatched Rachel's interview with Inhofe twice yesterday. He totally reveals himself to be divisive and ignorant of a "middle way." With him, everything was "us and them," so he disqualifies himself as a credible source of information. I thought Rachel held her own, though. I know she's trying to engage more right-wingers, so she couldn't go for the jugular, but she did confront him on the "kill the Gays" bill in Uganda. To me, this interview gave great insight into the insanity of the "Right." Funny that they're called "Right" when they couldn't be more WRONG! My friends and family in England can't believe that ANY Americans would vote for Teabaggers and their ilk. I must send them Alexandra Pelosi's film of the inmates who run the asylum in the South.
ReplyDeletePeace, All. Now, more than ever, we need a Democratic (mostly women, please) landslide!!!
I saw that last night and was amazed at Senator Inhofe. Does he have dementia? He made absolutely NO SENSE. None. Sorry, Senator. Our children need to compete in the world economy. The fact-based world. This science-denying, religion-based "education" of our children has to stop. If you want to send kids to private schools - or home school - have at it. But I want PUBLIC education based on fact. Not fantasy.
ReplyDeleteI watched the interview last night and I must compliment Rachael on her patience and tolerance. The man is as arrogant as he is ignorant....if it comes out of his morth it must be gospel and damn the facts.
ReplyDeleteThis is the type of man that is leading the war on women's rights. We all just need men like him to tell us how tho think and to make decisions for us. :)
My sister and I were just talking about Rachel and Imhofe - Pennsylvania and Michigan - and then I checked in here at IM and guess what, that's part of our conversation! I don't think I can watch it. He is so astoundingly ignorant and she is so brilliant! Why do these idiots get elected to Congress?
ReplyDeleteBecause brain washed people voted for him.
DeleteO/T Game On for 'Game Change'
ReplyDelete...Worse yet, she appeals to the worst side of the people by whipping up hate and vindictiveness against candidate Barack Obama and all liberals. Then she becomes a despised woman with more shenanigans up her sleeve than a leprechaun. Again, we saw this on TV after the campaign as she resisted disappearing back into the woodwork as staffers expected her to do. Instead, she became the torch bearer of the Tea Party and helped ramp up divisive politics to a feverish pitch...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/olga-bonfiglio/game-change-review_b_1353368.html?ref=politics&ir=Politics
I tried to get through it twice and couldn't do it. That guy must breathe thru his ears 'cause he just kept talking and talking. Poor Rachell could hardly jam a word in sideways.
ReplyDeleteLet's see there is a conversation going on between someone from Oklahoma and the other person with Rhodes Scholar behind their name. Now let me see who rat balled the biggest chunk of air time out of that deal?
BP in OR
Rachel was much too polite! I'd have knocked him upside the head to get him to shut up!!! Kidding of course. I know she wants Repubs on her show, but it must be soooo frustrating to her - I'm sure she'll get better at handling them! I felt like he just played with her really. The guy was a jerk!
Deleteso sick of the Republican debate strategy of not ever closing their mouths in order to either listen or allow the other side to make a point or ask a question! I guess if you keep talking long enough and loud enough you win the debate?
ReplyDeleteThose elderly, long-serving Republican men in Congress all sound the same! I don't care how much $$ is thrown at them by corporations, the voters need to get out and get these types out of office.
DeleteThere are some Republican women that are just as bad and say and do (vote) the opposite! Meaning Lisa Murkowski from Alaska! Watch her closely!!
I watched the interview twice last night. It was painfully frustrating. There was no give and take as in a normal conversation. Rachel was talking to dead air.
ReplyDeleteTalk about some word salad, Inhofe has mastered the talking in circles about ten other things other than the question asked much like the Palin and Bachmann method of 'fine interviewing'. It was obvious that he is used to overtalking anyone who challenges him and substituting folksy jabber for truth and wisdom. Despite Rachel owning his stupid butt on so many points he will slither home to OK thinking he really did a good job of snowing her. Fail Inhofe, epic fail. Rachel and staff likely had one of the best laff fests ever upon his exit.
ReplyDeleteInhofe was an embarrassment last night. Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
ReplyDeleteInhofe is a pimple on a boil on Satan's ass. He has no redeeming features. He's a bought and paid for Senator by the fossil fuel and industrial agriculture corps. A fanatical religious nut, homophobic and a racist. I think his brain has been doused with Roundup- its obviously damaged and unable to function normally.
ReplyDeleteSo true.
DeleteGryphen, this little anedocte about Inhofe isn't going to make you like him even more. As the airport manager quoted about Inhofe's refusal to adhere to the airport's landing instructions, "In over 50 years flying, three tours of Vietnam, I have never seen such a reckless disregard for human life in my life. Something needs to be done. This guy is famous for these violations.”
ReplyDeleteRead more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53250.html#ixzz1pJVJOe6B
Maybe Sarah n Todd could "lend" him some "gasoline" for his plane...
DeleteLike Curtis Menard Jr.
And Ted Stevens...
Just sayin...
rachel really needs to use the mute button on repub guests when they rant so that she can answer each subject. it's her show for goodness sake!
ReplyDeleteShe was too polite and he showed himself horribly! He obviously didn't respect her opinion. These religious nuts are frightening as hell. Vote them out of office!!!!!!
DeleteI had to laugh - WND is calling this interview 'Rachael Maddow's Embarrassing Moment' and claiming she got all her information wrong:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wnd.com/2012/03/maddows-embarrassing-moment-that-couldnt-be-edited/
Then - in an adjacent article, all their products are on sale for 99 cents - including the Inhofe book (Greatest Hoax)Rachael displays during the interview.
Herman Cain's Journey to the White House and Michele Bachmann's new book are also on sale for .99 - ROFL
-OzMud
$.99 too much...
DeleteI am seriously concerned about the future of our country. This "debate" show the problem. On one side we have highly educated, well informed on global issues and ready to engage with the important world concerns. On the other side we have home or church schooled people with a misinformed view of history, science, social issues, and world politics who deny anything that doesn't fit their narrow worldview. With these two groups, how is America going to function both at home and in the world?
ReplyDeleteWe have to go to the polls and vote these assholes out of office. We need new, young, blood in Congress. We have too many jerks in Congress that seem to sit on the Republican side. Many of the elderly ones are racists to boot and are just arrogant fools that think their shit smells good!
DeleteInhofe: takes taxpayer trips, esp. to Africa, to spread the word of Jesus;
ReplyDeleteWas CEO of Quaker Life Ins. Co. when it went bankrupt and then liquidated;
Is notorious for landing his Cessna wherever he wants to, having caused near accidents. He believes he has the right to use whatever airfield he wants to, whenever he wants to.
Just a few of the highlights of James Inhofe:
Business incompetent, and self-righteous religious bully.
Maybe one day it will all catch up with him and he will crash in a Monsanto corn field.
DeleteRepresenting Jokelahoma.....
ReplyDeleteLove it! LOL
DeleteJim,
ReplyDeleteThis is a hole in the ground.....0
This Senator from Okieland sure can spout the stuff that is bouncing around in that "republican bubble" he resides in. I almost believe he is one of the major architects of their false reality. As others have stated the GOPer/conservative method is to talk over and talk louder than the one you are talking too. It is strange, they think this method is not annoying to most of us. Guess it part of that living in the bubble thing. I do hope Climate Change bites this darksider on the behind in a big way.
ReplyDeleteThe best thing about Maddow's interview of Imhofe is how great it made her look.
ReplyDeleteDespite all his irrational, divisive, "us and them" blather, she remained patient, respectful, unflappable, classy and even (somehow) upbeat.
Maddow makes the on-air "talent" at Faux News look like a pack of shrieking hyenas by comparison.
An educated, thoughtful and savvy woman can make anyone look like a shrieking hyena...but Rach is a master of her trade.
DeleteI do hope she can moderate a debate...she'd be worth watching, and she wouldn't let Obama or the GOP slug get away with squat.
OFF TOPIC
ReplyDeleteWanker? Whacko?
www.tmz.com/2012/03/16/kony-honcho-arrested-for-allegedly-masturbating-in-public/
Hah, the dominionist grifter got caugth wanking in public.
ReplyDeleteCheck out this creep video of him speaking at Liberty Univ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjAn88NHA_I
Good article on who Invisible Children pals around with. Get the message out. These people are not what they seem.
http://www.truth-out.org/node/13481#comment-464367844
Whoah!
DeleteI get that "attitude" just about every day from some man or another, in the food store, out walking the dog, stopping in at the copy center, etc. When you are female, it's all just part of the every day world. "I'm smarter than you because I am a man."
ReplyDeleteRachel M. has the technique down pat. Give them just enough rope so they look like fools, and enjoy yourself.
My grandmother couldn't vote until middle-aged. The grand-daughters of today's grand-daughters might (hope, hope, hope) never have to deal with this attitude.
That would be nice, but don't hold your breath.
DeleteNot too difficult to find another woman (usually Conservative Republican) who thinks that women are FemiNazis who hate men and shaving their legs.
the irony, of course, is that the LIBERAL women before them are the reason they are able to VOTE...to take away their own rights...
wait, wTF??
Exactly.
I have been keeping up on the Uganda story and am happy you are featuring this Gryphen! Missionary zealots are travesty enough, but when you tie in messing with cultural values as the Ugandan story implies, it makes my blood boil.
ReplyDeleteInhofe looked like a well oiled political PR machine and Rachel looked like a well informed member of the public with legitimate questions.
ReplyDeleteMichael Steele has impressed me as a thoughtful man in his discussions with Rachel, though I disagree with his logic.
Inhofe did not impress me. All he is is a regurgitator of talking points, perfected through decades of practice at saying as little a possible in as many words a possible.
Rachael at her finest. I love when she re-played the original show and showed him to be a liar. If I can only watch two hours of tv it would be Rachael and Larry O'Donald. We just got Current TV on our cable programming (And the 700 Club, for some reason). So good to see Keith and Chenk again.
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