MSNBC's Rachel Maddow was a guest on Thursday's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
Maddow has appeared on the show several times. Rather than politics and controversial subjects, discussion usually focuses on lighter topics. Then, after some chitchat, Maddow the mixologist does a demonstration, mixing up some sort of alcoholic concoction. It's always amusing.
On Thursday, there was the usual cocktail segment, but some of the talk before the drinks was not entertaining at all. That was very unpleasant. The crap began right after Fallon introduced Maddow.
RACHEL MADDOW: (Referring to the band) I have such Roots derived happiness every time I arrive to see you.
JIMMY FALLON: You do?
MADDOW: They make me happy. Yes.
FALLON: Yeah, the Roots make people happy. That's what we want to do on our show. Now we're going to make people think.
MADDOW: Oh, God.
My feelings exactly -- Oh, God. Don't make people think. Make people happy.
FALLON: No, no, no. We'll have fun.
Wrong.
MADDOW: All right. Let's go.
FALLON: We should talk about something a little... some politics.
MADDOW: Oh, yeah.
FALLON: Maybe like President Obama. The big story... the Iraq is now... is...
MADDOW: Different.
Fallon seemed uncomfortable, possibly because his show is usually lighthearted and fun. This wasn't.
FALLON: New Dawn?
MADDOW: Yeah.
FALLON: It's called now Operation New Dawn.
MADDOW: Operation New Dawn, which -- it's a bad name.
FALLON: It's not a good name.
MADDOW: It is a bad name. It sounds ironic.
FALLON: It sounds like a Twilight movie.
MADDOW: Yeah.
FALLON: Doesn't it?
MADDOW: It sounds like the third in a series of something.
FALLON: Yeah.
MADDOW: Yeah.
That exchange was kind of funny. (To me, New Dawn sounds like a new and improved dishwashing liquid.)
But then Maddow got into a bizarre construction of a new reality.
FALLON: So it's Operation New Dawn. How do you think the president handled this whole thing?
MADDOW: Well, you know, he gave this, he gave the speech that you need to give, because it is, I mean, Operation Iraqi Freedom, seven and a half years, becomes Operation New Dawn, which is not a combat mission. And so, everybody's very nudgy about saying the war is over because of George Bush and the flight suit on the aircraft carrier saying everything's fine when it really wasn't.
FALLON: Right.
I am so tired of Maddow and others talking about that speech Bush gave from the USS Abraham Lincoln and distorting it.
Bush didn't say everything was fine. The "Mission Accomplished" sign referred to the 10-month mission ending for the sailors on that carrier, not the mission in Iraq.
Yes, the banner should have been more specific. That was a mistake, but to continue to suggest that Bush was lying about what was happening at the time in Iraq is unfair.
MADDOW: But you sort of have to mark it. And, um, he gave a very serious speech. The president very much wants to be, um, not divisive.
She can't be serious. Obama seems to go out of his way to be divisive. We've seen the community organizer at work. His strategy is divide and conquer. It's class warfare with Obama. He demonizes individuals and industries for political gain.
Not divisive? No way.
MADDOW: And he does not talk about George Bush, and he doesn't like to talk about Bush policies.
WHAT? At this point, we're screaming at the TV.
Obama loves to talk about George Bush and Bush policies. He constantly brings up Bush and what he inherited, blaming Bush for everything, blah, blah, blah.
Maddow must be on a different planet if she thinks that Obama doesn't talk about Bush. Good grief.
MADDOW: But it was sort of weird, I think, to talk about the war ending and then not talk about what the war was for, about how it started. And so I think Obama's never gonna be the kind of president who says, 'Hey, this war was a bad idea, huh?'
FALLON: Yeah.
BS.
Again, where has Maddow been?
Obama said Iraq was a "dumb war." Over and over, Obama has said the war was a bad idea. As a candidate, Obama insisted the surge was a bad idea. He's on the record.
Of course, he's the kind of president to say Iraq was a bad idea.
MADDOW: Um, but that's sort of the subtext to the whole idea that it's ending. So, it's... I was just in Iraq. I just got back. I was in Baghdad this month, um, and there's 50,000 Americans still there, and it's still a very dangerous place. And the war was a really bad idea in the first place.
(Some applause)
FALLON: It was. Yeah.
Oh, God.
Maddow was spewing the typical MSNBC Leftist drivel and Fallon agreed with her, albeit rather sheepishly.
I don't watch Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to get that. I want to relax and laugh and smile at the end of the day, not be pissed off.
Just mix drinks with Maddow. Just mix drinks.
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