Calling Out the Hypocrites and Liars (VIDEO)

Re:  Maddow Slams Orrin Hatch For Lying, Washington Post For Printing It (VIDEO), Huffington Post, 03/03/10

Rachel Maddow took aim at Sen. Orrin Hatch Tuesday for lying about health care reform and reconciliation in an op-ed written by the senator and published by The Washington Post. Maddow called Hatch a hypocrite and wondered aloud why the Post published his falsehoods:

Maddow:“[Hatch's op-ed] has so many blatant, out-right falsehoods in it that It made me wonder if maybe there’s a deal or something. Where if maybe you’re a United States Senator who’s been in office for 33 years like Orrin Hatch has, you just don’t get fact-checked anymore in the Washington Post. They just allow you to print whatever you want. Is that the rule? ‘Cause if it isn’t the rule, than how do you explain this?”

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Sen. Hatch’s column, “Reconciliation on health care would be an assault to the democratic process,” argued against the use of reconciliation, a simple majority voting procedure, to “to jam through [health care] legislation.” Maddow noted that Sen. Hatch used reconciliation no less than 10 times over the past 21 years.

Encarta dictionary defines hypocrite as “somebody who pretends to have admirable principles, beliefs, or feelings but behaves otherwise”. Synonyms for hypocrite include charlatan and fraud. Rachel Maddow has bravely called out these pasty old white men who have gladly sacrificed their credibility for nothing more substantial than opposition. She has thrown down the gauntlet and is standing on principles. I salute you, Rachel. I send shouts out and kudos to you for having the gravitas to speak the truth on national TV and damn the consequences.

Rachel said, “For us all to just let this slide and call it politics is to surrender to cynicism profoundly.” So, let us all relay this word, like the signal fires atop the mountains in Lord of the Rings. This repudiation, this exposure of the hypocrites and liars and the media that backs them, must go viral.

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