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Fox Headline Refers to 'Rachel Madd-Cow'

Not the first time the network has name-called Rachel Maddow

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by Lisa Fine

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The Fox News Network can't seem to resist name-calling when it comes to MSNBC progressive host Rachel Maddow. Less than a month after a Fox News anchor got suspended for referring to the openly gay Maddow as an "angry young man," the network is at it again.

A headline on the Fox News Nation website this morning on an article about Maddow's grammy nomination for best spoken word album, screamed: "Rachel Madd-Cow Gets a Grammy Nomination?" The story featured a picture of Maddow making that sign of the devil hand symbol used by heavy metal rockers and Texas Longhorn fans next to a picture of a grammy.

Maybe Fox was making an attempt at word play on the fact that her New York Times bestselling non-fiction book, Drift: The Unmooring Of American Military Power, has the letters m-o-o in it. Who knows.

Either way, the mean-spirited headline about the MSNBC host, who is known for her respectful tone even when disagreeing with a conservative, elicited an expected mix in the comments under the article. There was a chorus of other name calling, but quite a few others rushed to defend Maddow.

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  • DARSB
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    @MBernard I think Fox serves a purpose, and it does actually employ some pretty good reporters (Shep Smith, f'rinstance). It is the major source for interviews and information from conservative politicians. To be sure, most of the interviews are with commentators instead of journalists (Hannity, Fox & Friends, etc), but you have to go where the the people are talking. For those reasons I'd not want to see Fox go away.

    Besides, I can't imagine the withdrawal symptoms several million Fix addicts would experience, but since most of them are on socialized medicine they would be promptly treated.:-)
  • kathyparsell
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    It doesn't take socilaziled medicine to find fox funny, even stone cold sober I sometimes do. But then to be "fair and balenced" I find many "news" channels hilarious when they try so hard to influence the people with multiple guests saying the same things, using tired arguments to sway us toward their way of thinking. Maybe that is why I tune in to so many...
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    vigilant
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    ... said to the kettle - by the pot that has ALL the legacy media operating as its propaganda outlet. You rascally Democrats spend so much time swimming in your own sea of hypocrisy, that you can't even see how ironic your allegation is.
  • PNWest
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    @vigilant You are a prime example of a typical Fox viewer. You think that every other media source is liberally biased because they all say one thing and Fox Noise says another. It never occurs to you that the odd man out, Fox, could be the one outlet doing the propagandizing. Every one of the other networks is operated by giant corporations whose leaders are primarily conservative. But to you somehow it makes sense that all of them as well as the rest of the world's media is liberally biased. I comes as no surprise that Fox News viewers are less informed than even people that don't watch any news. NPR listeners rated highest. I suppose you believe that ACORN stole the election for Obama.

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    NO-BAMA
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    Where's the uproar from the libs complaining about all the garbage coming from the left?
    Just another hypocritical story from a liberal website? Politix should actually try to hide their bias sometimes. Absolutely pathetic.
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    Cheenoguy
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    I'll bite. Show me a story where MSNBC or CNN says something like this. "It happens all the time" is not an acceptable answer. Show an actual story.
  • PoliticalSpice
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    Does anyone consider that msnbc and fox encourage this stuff? Kind of like repub pols and dems, its for show. It gets ratings up, maybe even gets veiwers to watch the others programs. Oberman and O Reily attacked ach other all the time and until he left msnbc he was top rated on that station and O Reily was same on fox...
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    NO-BAMA
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    @Cheenoguy Examples? Google "liberal hypocrisy" that will come up with pages of examples for you.
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/...

    Just because the lib media condones the "hypocritical" behavior and demands "civility" from others while they attack/degrade anyone who's not into the proven to fail socialistic utopia leeches of society dream of, doesn't make it so.
    Going through life an ignorant "sheep" to be led around with promises of "redistribution" and "entitlements" is a sad way to live. Do you have any self respect?
  • DogLady_1
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    @NO-BAMA - Alec Baldwin is not a news reporter on any network that I know of. He's an actor, and actors are NOT members of the press. So, the freep article you cited is comparing apples to rocks. Baldwin doesn't get paid to call people names and insinuate they are sluts.

    And isn't it a bit childish that your best defense is "well, they do it too!" As a mother, I am compelled to ask you, "If your pundit jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?"
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    Cheenoguy
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    @NO-BAMA
    Not a single story about a journalist saying anything remotely like "Mad-Cow".
    If there are soooo many instances like you claim then you could easily post an actual occurrence. Right?

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    Sharpshooter
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    " MSNBC host, who is known for her respectful tone even when disagreeing with a conservative,"

    You must be kidding....

    More to the point, I doubt FOX is too worried about it, Cows don't pay much attention to the news or the internet and cows have pretty thick skin.
  • PoliticalSpice
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    Just goes to show how much perspectives differ. I actually don't watch her cause she seems to go out of her way to be polite when interveiwing repubs who appear on her show. I prefer a tougher style.
  • FFX_VA
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    Can't stand her, but name calling is weak & unprofessional. Fox should be better than that, sounds more like MSNBC
  • jessejaymes
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    I have a number of comments on this one and none of them will please my fellow posters. 1.) Fox is a network pandering to rednecks and hicks. 2.) People in glass houses etc.. 3.) Rachel Maddow is the second most offensive woman on TV after Nancy Grace. She's condescending, rude, arrogant, dismissive and extreme. And her voice is like chalk on a blackboard. 4.) If her politics were in total 180 she could fit right in at Fox and you'd never know she wasn't there all along. This is one abrasive person.
  • PNWest
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    Nice link. Very funny. All very light hearted - none of the mean and hateful stuff you typically see from Fox.
  • truthsayer
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    Fox news and MSNBC are opposite sides of the same coin. You can find about 2% truth in either. And 2% maybe stretching it a bit and requires one to have to sift though 98% pure bulls@ to find it.
  • mimi57
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    Fox News is taken seriously...# 1 for Ten years in a row.. Now, Rachel Maddow who spends all her time trying to look masculine, is upset someone called her on it. But, I heard no out cry from anyone when her co-worker
    Chris Matthews called Michelle Bachman a" Balloon head". Or, those who disagree with his views on climate change, "Pigs". Ed Schultz called Laura Ingraham a "Right Wing Slut", but I guess when you're on the Left you
    are free to call names... they just get highly offended when it comes back. I get so tired of the double standard and the whiny wimpy 'children', who though they can dish it, sure can't seem to take it. Boo Hoo...Get over it!
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    woodtick57
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    Wasn't "American idol" the #1 show for years also? i wouldn't use top TV ratings as a measurement of being good, if I were you...

    in fact, the best news show ever on TV, Mcneil Lehrer news hour, usually had the lowest popularity rating and the highest journalistic ratings...
  • PNWest
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    Question for you Mimi... On the one hand you claim that all of the other media sources (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, etc) are left wing biased media. On the other you claim that Fox is #1. By your way of thinking the only reason that Fox is #1 is because we liberals have so many choices. If you add up the numbers for all of the liberal media together we cream Fox News. Anything wrong with this argument?
  • mimi57
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    @woodtick57 I loved American Idol until everyone started bailing, but I don't watch much tv., especially Prime Time... I do watch Fox News, it keeps me Fair and Balanced and I love Bill O'Reilly and have most of his books.
    Lehrer is okay. I guess it's all in what you prefer.

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    ZenBirdist
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    I've never watched MSNBC before, but seeing how worked up Rachel Maddow gets Rupert Murdoch's buffoons makes me want to tune in to her show.
  • bsking
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    that's ridiculous they should just stuck with the angry young man.

    but for her/him ( whichever is the politically correct reference) to be upset or even annoyed at it is ridiculous at MSNBC name calling and rude behavior on air is part of the company policy.
  • MRMacrum
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    " They are competing with comedy central, not cnn or msnbc." .....

    And they are losing that battle IMO. Good comedians do not take themselves too seriously.
  • MRMacrum
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    "I see no reason for Fox to fall on the sword." ....

    In order for them to fall on their sword, they would first have to extract it from their butts.
  • Quantummist
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    @MRMacrum ... Since their ratings outshine Mad Cow's and all other cable networks I tend to think they are doing just fine... Just because you have a quiver running up your leg does not make it a given others do...
  • MRMacrum
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    @Quantummist "Just because you have a quiver running up your leg does not make it a given others do... " ....

    I'll assume we have not met yet. That is no quiver running up my leg. It is well... can't say now. But the ladies like it.
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