Rachel Maddow is slammed for peddling 'fake news'...

I'll give her a pass for one incorrect report considering how many lies are daily spewed from dear leader and Fox news. I haven't watched her in the last few days but every time (and not many times she is incorrect)  she has reported something that is incorrect she corrects it on air as soon as she realizes she made incorrect statements.

IMO ( yes my opinion not fact ) I have every faith in both military ships doing what they can do where they are ordered to do it as promptly as humanly possible. I have extensive faith in our military.

Key word ‘ordered’ they can’t move those ships until they are given the order to do so. Once Trump publicly said he would order them to go, he can’t delay too long in giving the order, he might have actually already issued the order who knows with him.

I don’t know why she insinuated it would take weeks, the ships are not going off shore or to another country where things would be more difficult to ship to them after they moved so the gear up to move could be much faster. And it was.

I don’t fault her her opinion but I do think it wasn’t a well thought thru opinion. Maybe there was a delay between him saying he would do it and actually issuing the order, I don’t know but that is far from deserving the label of ‘fake news’ she issued her opinion on how soon she thought it would happen she did not portray that as a factual time the ships would move & arrive. Just because I don’t/didn’t share her opinion doesn’t make it ‘fake news’. She based her opinion on her lack of faith in Trump, and that lack of faith is based on valid thoughts about Trumps response. My opposing opinion, which I only told my dog, was based on both my full faith in our military and the fact that supplies can still be shipped to both ships after they have moved, my opinion was ignoring the validity of not having faith in Trump. Truthfully it could have gone either way with the man since he lies daily. ( where [actually WTF ] are the thousands of ventilators hesaid they were sending ? )

Lastly, in my opinion, Trump needs every shove in the direction toward responding to this crisis that there is. If people have to goad him into helping and helping quickly so be it.

I’m sure I won’t always agree with Rachel, it’s called critical thinking and thinking thru a situation.

Dude. Her show is clearly opinion and not straight journalism. We all know that. She does however, include multiple award-winning journalists on her show.  Feel free to knock her, but the most important concept that has come out of her head, and that straight journalists might want to entertain is, “Watch what they do, not what they say”.

Your post is a symptom of a wider problem that people don’t understand how journalism works or confuse journalism with fluffy shit. 

BTW I don’t watch Rachel ( don’t have cable ) but I heard about the weeks vs days debate online from multiple places. And just formed my opinion on what I know our military can do when given the task. She isn’t the only one who thought it would take longer

BTW the comfort is docked in NY yesterday, yes, but they did say it was not operational yet. Meaning they still have some stuff to do.

Imho better to continue in place so they can help when if needed.

Kudos to the navy

Same kudos to the Army Corp of engineers for the incredibly fast deployment of field hospitals around the nation. Getting the additional spaces ready at a seemingly impossibly speed.

rachel tries to tell the straight story.. and we can't fault her for once in a blue moon being shown to be wrong. the list of maintenance on those ships was long.. so the navy either speeded up the repairs, or put them aside and showed up in a week.. so many commentators out there don't try to tell the truth.

she has great experts on her show to try to figure out what is really going on... those doing the criticizing are not putting this into perspective. trump and his friends don't try to tell the truth.. they just lie and lie and lie.

rachel has an opinion show.. not a documentary.

Hmm.  The Rachel Maddow show was one of the first cable shows that brought attention to Flint Michigan and high levels of lead in the drinking water.  And how it got there.

The Rachel Maddow show was one of the first cable shows that brought real attention just how much Puerto Rico was being ignored by the trump administration after the hurricane that ripped through the island.

But I guess you consider high levels of lead in the drinking water and Americans dying in Puerto Rico because of the trump administration ignoring the island after the hurricane “fluffy shit”.


FYI From USNI on March 18, 2020. link

“Trump: Hospital Ship Comfort to go to New York City, Mercy Set for West Coast Support”


From the article..

”The Pentagon has given orders for East Coast-based Comfort and West Coast sister ship Mercy to be activated and staffed to support the domestic COVID-19 related response, USNI News reported on Tuesday.

It’s unclear how quickly both hospital ships can be ready to deploy. Comfort is in the midst of a maintenance period at its homeport at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., a Navy official said. Mercy was recently spotted by USNI News in a maintenance yard in San Diego, but the official said Mercy is closer than Comfort to being physically ready to deploy. More importantly, though, both ships will also need to be staffed with active-duty and reserve medical personnel.


Basically the bolded part was reported by various news agency.  Rachel repeated what was widely being reported at the time.  She also added her disgust toward trump and the lack of urgency on his administration’s part in fighting the virus.  She tends to get a little testy when talking about trump’s shortcomings especially when people get hurt or die because of it.  

By the way based on the title of your thread, this disclaimer you posted means nothing.  You deliberately wanted to imply Rachel is part of the “fake news media”.  Own it.

“ETA: I don't consider it fake news, that's just what the article title says. She was just wrong this time. ”

Nice attempt at spin.

I was very careful in stating “one of the first”  cable shows which in no way implies “the ONLY” cable show to report on these subjects.  

And I was addressing this comment of yours.. “Glad we seem to agree that the Rachael Maddow show is fluffy shit and not actual journalism.”

I don’t know if her show is ‘fluffy’ but it IS an opinion show not a news show and the differentiation is important

Well by that measure the federal press briefings are opinion shows not news shows.