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The Liberal Media: Rest in Peace

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In August 2008, Nation magazine called her a "ballsy gremlin of the left, (an) explosive star, (a) popular guest analyst on MSNBC (now likely to) get her own show (as) one of the few left-liberal women to bust open the world of TV punditry, (not by) bluster and bravado but with a combination of crisp thinking and 'galumphing' good cheer."


The New York Times calls her a "defense policy wonk" reporting embedded in July from Afghanistan, supporting the war, not how bad it's going, yet opposing withdrawal, defending power and privilege like other faux liberals. Some call them liberal fascists, well paid to suppress, sanitize and distort truths, support imperial wars, and why not.


Maddow represents upwardly mobile middle class values. She's a Democrat party stalwart, indifferent to working class needs or suffering imperial wars cause, let alone why fought, reasons unrelated to democracy, human rights, and moral principles, notions never considered by her or other fake liberals.


At a time of deepening economic crisis, unemployment, poverty, and other needs aren't discussed, nor is Obama's public trust betrayal and permanent war agenda, one Maddow supports.


On his nightly Countdown program, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is another unabashed Democrat party supporter, uncritical of outrageous Obama policies, including:


-- imperial wars without end;


-- anti-labor opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), and agenda to destroy, not create, jobs when they're most needed;


-- a "Race to the Top" scheme to destroy public education;


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