Oh come on. Does anyone really believe this? Seriously?
Dishonest and frighteningly biased like the paper he works for, New York Times pundit Peter Baker actually had the gall to post this on “X”:
To which Sidney Wang quickly responded,
“Changed” since when? Maddow has been allied with the Trump-hating Cheneys and Bushes since at least 2015.
Maddow was invited to Chaney’s funeral, a gathering one wag described as a meeting of the “I Hate Trump” club, by Liz Cheney, who became a favorite of MSNBC’s talking heads once she voted for the second of Nancy Pelosi’s partisan impeachments against President Trump and was complicit in the rigged Star Chamber hearings on the so-called J-6 riots. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” is an ancient proverb that has turned up in many cultures and in the mouths of many philosophers since the dawn of speech. It is simple Cognitive Dissonance Scale reality. Glenn Greenwald gets it, but then do Elmo and the cast of “Jackass!”, I bet:
It isn’t Maddow’s presence at the funeral but the absence of President Trump and Vice-President Vance that shows the collapse of professionalism, mutual respect, decency and decorum in today’s politics. Neither were invited to attend. Trump recklessly (and, as I have written before, stupidly) insulted the Bush-Cheney political machine when he was running for President in 2016, and it wreaked its revenge by abandoning the supposed conservative principles its members stood for to become bitter and fanatic NeverTrumpers. Dick Cheney and his daughter endorsed Kamala Harris, proving that personal vendettas were more important to them than the welfare of the nation.
If Maddow’s smirking presence at the funeral showed how “politics have changed in America,”it only demonstrated that they have become more petty and and vicious, with its institutions being weakened and the public trust in its motives justly reduced to vapors.
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It appears that what transpires in DC circles is nothing more than a scripted reality show to keep the masses occupied while they keep amassing great fortunes. Trump is the odd man out who has money coming in.
“I don’t consider it hypocrisy to attend the funeral of someone who you didn’t like personally.
The one person we can be confident is NOT at the funeral (in the flesh, anyway) is the deceased. It’s about the people left behind. And in this case, to me at least, partly about the office held by the deceased.
Whatever the faults of the deceased, I think it is reasonable to assume that some of the people attending were genuinely grieving the loss — in this case presumably Dick’s wife Lynne, their two daughters, and their grandchildren. And probably W and Laura Bush.
Among the more “political” attendees were all the former VPs — this can be reasonably construed as respecting the VP office rather than due to particular feelings about this particular VP. Given they were invited by the family, it seems to be appropriate to attend.
I assume Rachel Maddow didn’t just wander in off the street? She was presumably also invited…ditto Fauci and Carville.
Funerals are for the living, after all — so to me it is more of a question of whether your presence will be appreciated by the mourners or not. If you are invited, your presence is requested. So I think in this case you should go if you can, and send regrets if you can’t.”
Thanks Old Bill!
I do not think we can criticize Rachel Maddow for attending Dick Cheney’s funeral, given that she was invited. In this case attending the funeral is a matter of respect, and therefore ethical.
However Rachel Maddow’s attendance illustrates how alliances in politics can shift. Twenty years ago Dick Cheney was akin to Darth Vader to the MSM, but when the Cheney and the Bush families got afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome all was forgiven.
I didn’t suggest that there was anything wrong with Maddow attending the funeral. The point is that there should be no fantasies about why she was invited and why she came. If she had not been a furious and relentless Trump critic, she would not have been there.
“If she had not been a furious and relentless Trump critic, she would not have been there.”
Like CVB claims above, the easiest way for a virulently reviled Righty to resurrect/reverse Lefty’s steadfast enmity (McCain, L. Cheney, Bush, Romney, et al) is to publicly profess Orange_Man_Bad; most recently Marjorie Taylor-Greene
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As they say, Marjorie Taylor Green grew in office. Regrettably for the Democrats, she will resign as per January 2026.
Even if she hadn’t…um…evolved, I myself (who leans well starboard) would still be happy that dimmest of bulbs will be gone!
PWS
This falls under the “stop making me defend Donald Trump”.
Let’s not forget why Donald Trump attacked Cheney. DT is an old school anti-war liberal. DT has been consistent in his position. The Trump deranged, Maddow included, threw all of their anti-war views out the window because going after DT was a higher priority in their book. For decades the left has ranked anti-war as very high on their list of priorities, but that went out the window once DT was in office. They are adamantly opposed to the ONLY president post WWII who hasn’t started a new war yet*.
It makes me suspect that the left wasn’t anti-war, what they were really opposed to was anti-communist wars. They hated seeing their preferred political system being contained from global domination.
P.S. Regarding the starred sentence. Trump’s action off Venezuela is probably crossing the line right now and taking away his stance as the only president to not start a war.
“They are adamantly opposed to the ONLY president post WWII who hasn’t started a new war yet*.”
On the subject of WAR and ONLY, lest we forget: Nobel Peace Price Laureate Hope-n-Change is the ONLY President to preside over two full terms of UNINTERRUPTED WAR.
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