Rachel Maddow Slammed After Being Announced DNC Debate Moderator
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🗓️ 12 June 2019
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Rachel Maddow Slammed After Being Announced DNC Debate Moderator. Rachel Maddow is under fire after being named a moderator for the first DNC presidential debates. Many view her as the wrong choice due to her being an opinion show host and not a journalist while others, including myself, are more concerned with her Russiagate rhetoric and calls for impeachment.
Many have pointed out that while other networks have had opinion hosts moderate they still think its a bad idea, citing Don Lemon and Megyn Kelly as previous moderators.
Assuming the Democrats will want to offer something real to the American public they need to stick to the issues such as healthcare and the economy. There is a concern that with Maddow she will start to push on impeachment and Russia which most Americans do not care about.
These lines can be used by conservatives, republicans, and Trump supporters to show how Democrats aren't focused on solutions. It shows that they are just mad about losing 2016.
But more importantly it would speak to moderates and independents that the Democrats only care about old news and not moving the country forward and helping make the country better.
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| 0:00.0 | Rachel Maddow is being scrutinized after it was announced she would be a moderator for one of the |
| 0:05.1 | first Democratic presidential debates. There are a lot of people saying that conservatives are |
| 0:09.9 | criticizing this decision because Rachel Maddow is a conspiracy theorist which she is, she went |
| 0:14.3 | on for years about Russiagate, or that she's just not a partial host. She's going to be very biased. |
| 0:20.0 | However, it's not all coming from the right. There's actually an article in Newsweek questioning |
| 0:24.4 | whether or not she should be a host and even a journalist from the Washington Post |
| 0:28.1 | is questioning whether or not she should be involved in this debate. So today, let's take a look |
| 0:33.4 | at what the critics are saying and then I want to show you some examples of why both left and right |
| 0:39.3 | take issue with Rachel Maddow. Before we get started, head over to timcast.com slash down it if |
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| 0:58.8 | helps. First, from the Daily Caller, NBC faces FLAQ for naming Maddow a moderator for presidential |
| 1:04.8 | debate. A MSNBC prime time anchor Rachel Maddow was named Tuesday as one of the five moderators for |
| 1:10.3 | the first presidential debate and it's caused some commotion on the right. But I do want to add, |
| 1:14.8 | it's not just on the right and it's surprising the Daily Caller would would would mention this |
| 1:18.9 | when they actually have a quote from a media studies professor at DePaul University. However, |
| 1:24.1 | they're going to say her inclusion as a moderator is raising eyebrows because she's not viewed as an |
| 1:29.7 | impartial host. Jeff McCall, a media studies professor at DePaul University, told the Daily Caller. |
| 1:35.7 | I think the voting public would be better served if hosts of opinion shows were kept out of |
| 1:40.0 | moderating campaign debates. That's not to say that an opinion host such as Maddow couldn't |
| 1:44.4 | generate helpful questions, but the appearance appearance is an advocate is helping to referee the |
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