Maddow v. Berman

categories: Media, Politics and Law, Videos

Published October 08, 2009 @ 04:19PM PT

I like Rachel Maddow. I do not like Rick Berman -- or his deceptive Center for Consumer Freedom or Berman/CCF's mouthpiece David Martosko (who gets a shout-out from Berman, and gets called out by Maddow, during the following interview; see the list at the end of this post for previous posts related to these shady characters). And the two videos that follow further confirmed which party I like and which I despise. The first five minutes of video 1 are of Rachel Maddow giving us an intro to Berman and some of his many front-group organizations, and the remaining five minutes feature an interview between Maddow and the creep himself. Video 2, under five minutes long, is the last half of the interview.

Berman's a bit of an evil genius, and he's been spinning and equivocating and deceiving for a long, long time. But Maddow held her own and didn't let him pull all his usual crap. Good for her. (You can also view these videos on the show's site: part 1 and part 2.)

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Previous Berman/CCF/Martosko-related posts:

The Center for Consumer Freedom: Allow Me to Introduce You

Berman, From the Perspective of His Son

Animals in the News: Meat-Loving Vegheads, Barker, Berman, SHAC (see end of post)

Thousands of Chickens Burn Alive; CCF Is Amused

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Berman is a smooth operator. Very good at what he does. Which is frightening on many levels. Scary.

I heart Maddow, though. :)

Posted by Marji Beach on 10/08/2009 @ 06:53PM PT
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Berman is a modern sophist. He can only be trusted to endorse an unduly skeptical and relative perception of "truth."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophism

Posted by Andrew Collins on 10/08/2009 @ 09:19PM PT
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