Except on this board, I've never heard one person say a negative syllable about Rachel Maddow. "Hard listen?" Like, too smart or something? I don't get it. She's eloquent and smooth, doesn't even require a prompter.
She is highly selective with her facts and her facts are usually wrong. I agree she is eloquent and smooth, but most of what she says is simply made up. There is no need for a prompter when one can wing it as easily as she can.
But honestly, her "accuracy" is not even a conversation. She doesn't pitch concepts, she uses actual news footage and articles, connects prior events for context, and does not produce any "facts" at all. Then she brings on the highest level experts and the very first question she asks is, "Did I misrepresent or overshade anything here?" It's vitally important, it's her brand.
But if you notice who she usually has as her guests, then that shouldn’t be too surprising.
Honestly, anybody saying she's a hard listen or "inaccurate" (!!!) must not have seen her before and is just against all things MSNBC. There's just no possible way to make her a hard listen, like a screechy voice or Trumpy vocabulary or something. I mean, to each his own but that's a really tough one to sell.
Have to agree her presentation is smooth.
Her Q is absurdly high, along with her ratings. Book sales were through the roof. She's a massive superstar for a good reason, really surprised to hear even attempts at negativity. First time ever.
Her ratings were through the roof back when Russia-gate was going strong and she was certain that Trump was toast. Indeed, her ratings were sometimes actually higher than Hannity’s.
And she still has her audience although it is considerably diminished. If you checked the ratings lately, you would find that Hannity is doing better than ever while Rachel’s ratings have dropped almost a third.
BTW: National numbers look to be on the good side of the curve... until you remove NY. Then it's going up steadily still.
I don’t know what you are looking at. The US had 2,528 deaths yesterday, the highest total since April 21. That was fed by higher than usual number from New York which was the highest since April 21. I suspect that the number from New York involved some more adjustments, however. My guess is that we will have a better view of what is happening in a couple more days, or maybe not.
In the meantime, I learned today in an update from the governor that Oklahoma has the 8th lowest infection rate in the nation, States with a lower infection rate are Maine, Wyoming, Montana, West Virginia, Oregon, Hawaii and Alaska.
Also, I was particularly impressed with the governor of Iowa and her meeting in the White House today so I decided to add a video of the meeting since the thread has been moved to Church and State:
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