This is a delightful clip, in general, but Rachel Maddow here elucidates the exact difference [at least one of the most major differences] between liberal and conservative media:
“I think the conservative media model involves this one really important step that liberals don’t use,” Maddow continued, “which is, ‘listen to me, I am the light and the truth and the way, you have to believe what I say and everybody else is out to get you and you can’t listen to anybody else, don’t change the channel, they’re trying to kill you.’ Liberals don’t say that. Conservatives tell their audience that.”
“That sense of an embattled community that needs to protect itself from someone who is trying to victimize them is not part of a way liberals talk in the media.”
EXACTLY. At no point do liberal writers and commentators treat our audiences like they are either stupid or perpetual victims. Conservatives do this pretty much whenever their mouths are open.
“At no point do liberal writers and commentators treat our audiences like they are either stupid or perpetual victims. Conservatives do this pretty much whenever their mouths are open.”
Of course. It fits perfectly into the Persecuted Christian narrative.
“If I am trying to get across a point of view, I have to persuade and not assert.”
Since he was again a topic du jour here, perhaps Mr. Savage could listen to the brilliant Ms. Maddow. Savage’s apology for and admission of having been wrong in the way he spoke to his teenage audience would never have had to happen if he only understood and lived this concept.
And, by the way, Rachel Maddow ain’t just actually smart, she is absolutely gorgeous.
Oh, Justine, stop.
Everybody knows who Dan Savage is and how he talks, and if somebody is too much of an effing moron to do their research before hiring him, then it’s their fault. That said, he’s done more for our movement than you, Justine, will ever do, in your entire life.
Can it.
nothing sexier than a woman who is smarter than you are!
justme, you seem to be obsessed with Dan Savage. It’s a little creepy.