Media GateKeeper Earns her Phat Salary, Rachel Maddow

[abduLMaria]

what caught my attention was this article about a Christian Zionist group known as "The Family", a referral to a group of Republican Christian legislators in the US.

"The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power,"
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archi ... _big_time/

what is interesting is how it's OK to talk about secret Christian Fundamentalism, but not secret Jewish Fundamentalism, in the mainstream media.

Maddow is earning the new 7 figure salary as a propaganda-caster at MSNBC.

Maddow's background - according to this, she is not Jewish.  She is a Stanford brat.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_Rachel_Maddow_Jewish

[scorpio]

what is interesting is how it's OK to talk about secret Christian Fundamentalism, but not secret Jewish Fundamentalism, in the mainstream media.Maddow is earning the new 7 figure salary as a propaganda-caster at MSNBC.
Maddow's background - according to this, she is not Jewish.  She is a Stanford brat.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_Rachel_Maddow_Jewish

Yes! Great observation. Strange how that works.

All I can see is that she looks Jewish to me.  
She is a Rhodes scholar just like Bill Clinton.
Jewish or not, she is a gatekeeper and she knows where her bread is buttered  :twisted:  :roll:

Scorpio11

[abduLMaria]

so, the question is, how does she treat the subject of Israeli treatment of the Palestinians in the Gaza ?

http://swedenburg.blogspot.com/2008/12/ ... -gaza.html

the way Israel wants her to.

and to think someday Stanford will probably have her back as a commencement speaker to share her pseudo-wisdom with the graduating seniors.

[scorpio]

so, the question is, how does she treat the subject of Israeli treatment of the Palestinians in the Gaza ?
the way Israel wants her to.

Exactly! - She wouldn't have her own tv show if it were any other way, would she? :roll:
Turned off my tv years ago....Best thing I ever did
Couldn't watch the whole clip....too many lies.
 The Israelis were in the process of killing 1300 Palestinians, and there she was giving excuses :evil:

[kolnidre]

Turned off my tv years ago....Best thing I ever did
Couldn't watch the whole clip....too many lies.
The Israelis were in the process of killing 1300 Palestinians, and there she was giving excuses :evil:

I'd reckon the number of dead has climbed since then with the poor sanitation and the number of maimed people dying, not to mention future health complications and diseases for those that survived.

Last year during a speech on athletic training among my tips for maximizing training time. My top tip was turning off the TV, and I added in that it was a lie machine that just makes us feel inadequate. The reception I got was astonishment. Almost everyone knew on some level what TV does, but their reaction was more how I managed not to watch TV than why, reflecting exactly the kind of narcotic it is.

I'd never heard of Maddow until recently when she was mentioned in a podcast. But her voice sounds familiar from the clip with the crazed female host claiming that we should thank China for giving us toys with lead in them because they hold so much debt. Wonder if that was her.

[scorpio]

My top tip was turning off the TV, and I added in that it was a lie machine that just makes us feel inadequate. The reception I got was astonishment. Almost everyone knew on some level what TV does, but their reaction was more how I managed not to watch TV than why, reflecting exactly the kind of narcotic it is.

Norcotic is right!
The longer I go without watching TV, the more I wonder how I was ever able to stand it.

Scorpio11

[kolnidre]

I was on the Brad Blog just now looking at the latest Sybil Edmonds distraction (it's all for the oil, Turkey was a pawn, but Turkey's cozy relationship with a certain illegitimate country of psychos isn't mentioned) and clicked on a link to the new book, The Family. I was amazed to find that the entire text is on line at the publisher's site, not for download but for browsing or reading if you have the determination. Just skimming through I found out that the author is Jewish on his father's side. No problem there. But the reason he shares that tidbit is that he interviewed a so-called "fundamentalist" named Schenck also shares the same type of background as the author. And this guy has been associated with radical abortion protests that led to the death of a doctor at the hands of a follower. Meanwhile, he reveals that Jerry Falwell's handler, "a Yiddish speaker named Howard Phillips" who convinced Falwell to form the Moral Majority and claimed to have converted to Christianity, was also born Jewish.

People can't choose their heritage and it's always possible that conversions are genuine, but I'm seeing a pattern here. More cut-outs established to discredit Christianity and Christians on the one hand and steer them towards the ridiculous construction of "Christian Zionism" on the other.

Anyway, the book seems interesting and from what I skimmed the author is a skilled writer with a great sense of humor.