Last night I came across two clips from Stephen Colbert’s show last week where his guest was Rachel Maddow. Both clips … different segments from the same program … are well worth seeing and pondering, I think, so I’m sharing them with you today and I hope you have just a few minutes (about 12 minutes total) to watch.
Makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it?
Discover more from Filosofa's Word
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Filosofa's Word 
Prequel is on my Christmas gift list. Which might be a mistake…perhaps the last thing I need right now is a dark political book about the rise of fascism in America!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I have put it on my wishlist, too! I think it’ll be well worth the read, and we can’t fight the enemy we don’t know, so we have to learn as much as we can about it!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I always try Stephen Colbert, and I’ve seen these. He always gives a good ‘picture’ of real happenings and Rachel M. never held back with her views.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, I am a big fan of Colbert and really missed his show during the writer’s strike! His opening monologues are always fun! I like Maddow, too, though sometimes she can be a bit too much for some.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Agreed… you can have too much Maddow !
LikeLiked by 1 person
😊
LikeLike
Jill, it is nice to see articulated thoughts and opinions for a change. Whether one agrees totally with them or not, they are worth being heard. I was sharing with my niece last night that graduates of The Daily Show are far more informed than most folks on conservative opinion shows.
I like Rachel Maddox more when she is not on her show talking like she did with Stephen Colbert. On her show, she tends to go more over the top, but she has good grasp of rye issues. In contrast, Sean Hannity was hired by Roger Ailes at Fox, not because he could debate issues, but because he would beat up on people with opposing positions.
Keith
LikeLiked by 1 person
Agreed! A world of difference from the likes of Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, to name a few. I agree that sometimes Rachel Maddox is a bit over the top on her own show, which I rarely watch, but she makes a lot of sense, and has a better grasp than most Fox personalities. Ailes’ reason for hiring Hannity is no surprise … the nastier the better seems to be the Fox motto.
LikeLike
Could be a slip of the tongue. He’s old, and bordering on dementia. I’ve dealt with enough drunks, dopers and dementeds in recovery and later recovery services to see when background is leaking out. He was raised a racist, father was Klu Klux Klan and proud of it and it is purported the only books he’s actually read are Hitler’s Struggles and the Politics of Breathing (Space) … at this point in his life it’s not surprising something like that slips out. He believes this stuff, he’s just no longer cognitive, sly, enough to contain it
And then there’s the meth-psychosis. Just because it’s been years of British Sudafeds it’s still amphetamine, still meth …
LikeLiked by 1 person
No fucking way. I fully believe that old people with dementia are speaking MORE truthfully. They’ve lost their filters completely.
LikeLiked by 1 person
That’s what I said: drunks, dopers and dementeds no longer cognitive, sly, enough to hide it ~ the background, the truth, leaks out
LikeLiked by 2 people
I somehow doubt it was a slip of the tongue, though I’m sure what you are saying is true. Yes, he is bordering on dementia I think, as evidenced by him saying he beat Obama in 2016, and that Viktor Orban wants Obama to step down and let Trump take over. None of it makes sense, but what bugs me is that millions of people seem either unable or unwilling to see what he really is.
LikeLike
So good to see thst some Mainstream journalists not only speak about the threat to your democracy.but do so in a clear, impassioned way without all the personal insults thst would be present if this were a Right Wing review or a Trump interview. It seems America’s first flirtation with fascism was long enough ago to be forgotten by most people and ready to be repeated by a new generation. Hitler, Mussolini and other fascist dictators have not been enough to warn people that the Strong Man in charge is not the way to go. Perhaps not enough is being made of the current lack of freedoms of those under the dictatorships of Putin, Bolsonaro and Victor Orban? What has happened to the freedom of the press under Erdogan in Turkey?Must the World turn fully fascist before people realise what they are losing, too late to do much about it? Hugs
LikeLiked by 2 people
I agree … the very antithesis of what you would see on Fox or Newsmax, or even the major television news shows that try so hard to be unbiased that they end up being biased in reverse. Yes, it seems that once the generation that lived through something has died out, people forget … we truly do not learn the lessons of history. It galls me today to hear people praise the likes of Hitler, Putin and other dictators. The GOP has aligned itself with Viktor Orban and people think he’s great … a “strong” leader. They seem to value ‘strength’ more than intelligence or compassion. They truly don’t understand, but they are going to take us all into a very dark place if we cannot open their eyes. Sigh. Cwtch
LikeLiked by 2 people
2 respectable peeps. I enjoyed these videos and learned something in the process!
LikeLiked by 2 people
I’m so glad!
LikeLike
The turnip doesn’t want to be president. He wants to be dictator.
LikeLiked by 2 people
You’re exactly right. The scary thing is that the GOP learned from the mistakes of his first term and they’re prepared to start his next term with guns blazing. We cannot let that happen!
LikeLiked by 1 person