Beth's Blog: Rachel Maddow

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow tore into the fact-checking website PolitiFact on Wednesday for confirming that President Barack Obama’s job numbers were correct, but rating his comments only “half true.”

During the State of the Union address on Tuesday night, Obama stated: “In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005.”

PolitiFact confirmed that both statistics were correct, only to rate Obama’s statement as “half true” on their Truth-O-Meter. The site said the statement was only half true because “he implicitly credited his administration.”

“PoiltiFact, what is wrong with you?” Maddow said. “You think the president calls himself ‘businesses?’ Like it is a nickname for himself?”

PolitiFact later revised its Truth-O-Meter rating to “Mostly True.”

“Mostly true? PolitiFact, you are fired,” Maddow said. “You are a mess. You are fired. You are undermining the definition of the word ‘fact’ in the English language by pretending to it in your name.”

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Friday, December 23, 2011

How to help the economy: BUILD

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Leaderless GOP Attacks Itself

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Must-Watch Maddow Segment on New GOP Voting Restrictions Barring Elderly Women From the Polls

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Friday, December 02, 2011

Woo Hoo - The Republican's voted to raise our taxes last night!!!

When are you brain dead folks who worship at the alter of the Republican Party going to wake up and realize they don't give a damn about you ? What is it you need to see to finally conclude that you are being lied to? I have some beach front property in Alaska I'll sell you at a steal!

“Tonight, Senate Republicans chose to raise taxes on nearly 160 million hard-working Americans because they refused to ask a few hundred thousand millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share,” Mr. Obama said in a statement after the first Senate vote.

The video below outlines how Republicans contradicted themselves by reversing what they have said in the past in order to justify their position on this issue today. More spin, spin, spin.......voting for political gain rather than what's best for the people of this country.

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