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    Man Up! (Ode to Rachel Maddow)

    By Jeni Decker on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 10:09am |

    You know you have too much time on your hands when you spend your Friday making a horribly off-key song parody video while sitting in your car waiting for your kids to get out of school. This one was inspired by a wonderfully epicene political wonk and her Thursday segment about the Koch Brothers.

    It was a coincidence eerie enough to make me wonder if I needed to update my spyware and my life insurance policy. See, I’d spent the day working on some chapter segments for the sequel to Waiting for Karl Rove- tentatively titled Waiting for a Plot. Yes, Kat Nove and I are hard at work writing book two, and on that very day I’d been writing a scene about the Koch brothers and their involvement in the current 2012 election run-up.

    Satire + fiction + a sprinkling of facts (divided by) what might or might not be happening behind closed doors = humorous conspiracy theories that have the ability to saunter a bit too close to reality for my good taste.

    You’ll have to wait and read the book to know what I’m talking about.

    At any rate, I settled into my comfy recliner and tuned in to hear Rachel Maddow challenge Charles and David Koch to “feel free to man up.”

    (I suggest watching the entire segment. It’s poetry in motion, my friends: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK6RGV2PldY)

    See, that’s the difference between Rachel and I; why she has a show, while I merely have a tiny little inconsequential blog. She simply, succinctly, sublimely (alliteration, suck it!) told the Bro’s Koch to “feel free to man up” while I’d have told them to “feel free to…” do something that involved a lower orifice accompanied by a few badly-chosen naughty epithets.

    Her way was much more effective…

    Holy Sh*tballs, Batman! She just told the overlords of the beltway to f-ing MAN UP! Boy, oh boy - I’m one smitten kitten. Ms. Maddow has my full attention. If she shows up for work on Monday with all of her appendages intact, Kat and I should be OK with what’s going into Waiting for a Plot.

    Hopefully.

    Rachel, this one’s for you. Keep up the good work!

     

    Comments

    I hope it's politically correct to laugh at this piece, because I did. Bring it on in, Jeni.


    by Oxy Mora on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 11:56am

    It is always politically correct to laugh at ANYTHING I do, and I expect it! ;)


    by Jeni Decker on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 4:03pm

    Excellent!  I agree/  That piece she did calling out the Koch brothers deserves a BIG shout out! 

    Talking about two very corrupt and super greedy people among the 1%.

    Rachel Maddow is on it!


    by synchronicity on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 3:32pm

    Yeah, I get a sense that she's a real "decent" person, which is not often the case. I like how she approaches a story and how she explains it. Her show should be required viewing. Common sense stuff. Though the stuff she tackles usually leaves me with a stomach ache because it's never that stuff that's 'easily fixed', you know. It's that stuff that makes you groan and wonder if it CAN be fixed.

     

    At any rate, I thought that particular show was not only spot on, but I seriously couldn't believe I was seeing someone on TV, (live!) take on the Koch Bros.

    Seriously big cahones that one has! ;)


    by Jeni Decker on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 4:07pm

    If anyone knows how to "Man Up," it would be Rachel Maddow.


    by Richard the Ele... on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:42pm

    When I started blogging I was not ashamed to discuss my attire.

    PJ's were my main choice of attire; although I did not reside in mumsy's basement. hahahha

    So Rachel had just began her own show and during one segment put up videos of conservative bastards screaming at the liberal bloggers. We were all in PJ's living in mother's basement.

    Lo and behold she stood up from behind her desk and she was wearing pajama bottoms--the same design I had on.

    I could not stop laughing. hahahahahahahah


    by Richard Day on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 7:45pm

    When it was useful to them the Koch Bros touted the benefits of social security.See the Oct 11 Nation.

    In 1973 Charles Koch wanted to hire Friedrich Hayek (Road to Serfdom). He sensibly, afraid of giving up the benefits of Austria's health and retirement programs, turned Koch down. Koch's operatives responded by  emphasizing the benefits of  social security  and Medicare.

    Koch himself  wrote to Hayek saying  " In order to  be eligible for medical coverage you must apply during the registration perod ....etc.etc.". So social security and medicare are scorned by the K's except when they are useful to them.

     

    . T


    by Flavius on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 9:35pm