trying to find embeddable video, but rachel maddow - who, actually, i like to watch - is incessantly touting her show on timothy mcveigh: it's all about the dangers of "anti-government violence." i guess really they focus-grouped the phrase "anti-gov" and now use it as a synonym for insanity. but i would put this to you: which has been more of a problem: anti-government violence, or government violence? multiply by millions, baby.

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[SillyWilly]

With that kind of slant in the promos, something tells me she won't be asking Gore Vidal for his opinion.

[Thomas J. Bieter]

Ann Coulter referred to Maddow as "the very macho Maddow." I think Maddow is a guy. She certainly isn't very female.

[marriotr]

She's openly gay. That quote is an example of Coulter baiting folks to attract attention to herself.

[crispy]

i think she's cute.

[CF Oxtrot]

The only reason to mock Maddow's macho posturing is to call attention to one's self?

I don't think so.

[Mr. Ziffel]

"Mach posturing?" Really? Do you even know who Rachel Maddow is?

[CF Oxtrot]

No, Mr Ziffel. I just made her up. She really exists? Here I thought you were just a porcine 4-legger on Green Acres, and yet you're posting things, curious things, things that make no sense.

Pardon me, but Rachel Maddow's persona that I've watched pontificate from her meritocratically wonderful Uber-CV perspective is nothing but macho posturing of a think-tank type of machismo. Sorry if that bothers you, little pig.

[marriotr]

CF, seriously, are you trolling or what? I'm starting to wonder if you have some kind of internet anger fetish. Sure, Rachel Maddow is a rhetorician, but you aren't going to communicate anything but the diameter and density of your head if every post you write is an insult parade.

[Andrew Dobbs]

I would challenge the characterization of Timothy McVeigh as "insane." He was certainly evil and a violent extremist, but I would recommend you read "American Terrorist" by Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck. The image you get of McVeigh from the book is that if you were to meet him you'd think his politics were a bit wacky, and he ran his mouth about it too much, but generally he's a decent, working class, beer drinking kinda guy. That someone can be that normal, but through a combination of desperation (McVeigh couldn't find a decent job) and true-believerism could take the lives of 168 people is the real lesson.

And I have no use for Maddow, but when I saw her on Bill Maher a while back she wasn't as annoying as I was expecting her to be. She's certainly better than Olberman, who looks like the kind of guy who pays hookers to piss in his mouth. He should have stuck to sports...

[Mr. Ziffel]

@marriotr: I see you're familiar with Oxtrot's routine.

@Oxtrot: Look, Chuck, I know you no like the pwoggie, and that's fine. Have at her for that (and, personally, I think she's kinda silly for being frightened of teabaggers). I rarely watch MSNBC myself. But I like it when words mean something. Maybe you define "macho posturing" differently then I do. In my world, macho posturing is bullying, belligerent behavior by those who with self-esteem issues. Read your response to my post for an example.

But perhaps you simply mean "the bitch is butch." If so, then just fucking spit it out, like the moron earlier in the thread.

[marriotr]

Mr. Ziffel, bear in mind that in your post, you're being a kettle amongst the pots. Macho is a term that, IMO, can have a valid use when applied to commentators like Maddow; it just comes loaded with additional, unfortunate baggage when it's applied to her.

And Ann Coulter knows this, of course. Her skill is in saying things that let her split the difference, so she can offend those she wishes to offend, while delighting her base at both her insight and her offense.

[Mr. Ziffel]

Point taken, marriotr. I usually avoid commenting on blogs to avoid this kind of stuff. I just find Oxtrot's tendency for knee-jerk pwoggie pile-ons tiresome, and you have to admit that the other comment quoting Coulter was nasty and irrelevant. However, I still don't think macho posturing applies to Maddow; she's hardly a torture/war apologist, from what I've seen anyway. YMMV.