Rachel Maddow telling the truth to Bill O’Reilly … gee she’s good at this stuff!
Spot the pattern:
Rather than contribute to a debate about ‘the facts’ Maddow asserted about him and Fox News, (e.g. ‘This is why what she’s saying is wrong…’) Bill O’Reilly merely whacked Maddow’s sincerity (‘you have to be kidding’) and mental alertness (‘Unbelievable. Do you even live in this country?’) and then trumpets the relative ratings of their networks (Fox ‘kicks your network’s butt every night, madam’).
In other words, a smoke screen. (A classic example of a bully’s crap argument style.)
That’s pretty much how liars deal with someone challenging them:
(1) Ignore the facts or assertions of facts
(2) Abuse and smear your critics as somehow mentally deficient or ‘envious’ of your ‘achievements’
(3) Go on working your con-game and feeding your lies to anyone who will listen … until you are finally exposed by inconvenient truth (like Bernard Madoff?) and STOPPED IN YOUR TRACKS.
Then, when you’re out of jail again, move on.
Find another niche (maybe in another country?) Rinse and repeat.
Watch the Rachel Maddow video below the fold. Or visit her page at MSNBC
Shep Smith (the exception that proves the rule) at Fox called it like this on the original disgraceful Shirley Sherrod smear story:
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/21/shepard-smith-unloads-on_n_655013.html
Get that last line: DID NOT TRUST THE SOURCE. That’s it exactly.
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Another round between O’Reilly and Maddow. He pours some more scorn and insults on her. She shows him up again…
“Remember, Mr. O’Reilly says there is not a shred of evidence that Fox News hypes stories about scary black people taking white people’s stuff,” she said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/08/rachel-maddow-takes-on-bi_n_674794.html
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