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What a sad old bitch she is.
In case you missed it (and let’s face it, you probably did
because no one watches MSNBC) last night’s installment of the
Rachel Maddow show boasted a journalism fail so epic that it
should have been directed by David Lean. As you’ll soon see, a
story they thought would be a massive “gotcha” moment blew up in
the host’s face like one of Bugs Bunny’s exploding cigars.
Maddow, you see, had gotten ahold of Donald Trump’s 2005 tax
return. ...So she took to Twitter to hype the big reveal.
Rachel Maddow MSNBC ? @maddow
BREAKING: We've got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC.
(Seriously).
4:36 PM - 14 Mar 2017
84,849 84,849 Retweets 164,440 164,440 likes
Can you sense the condescending glee? Can you picture Maddow’s
smile as her head twitches back and forth like a preening,
gloating, parakeet? Sure you can.
Clearly this was going to be really, really, important. After
all, the left has been telling us - for at least a year - that
Trump lost so much money in the late 90’s that he hadn’t paid
taxes for decades. He’s always been a terrible fraud, dontcha
know. His wealth is probably non-existent.
As former Clinton Campaign Press Secretary Brian Fallon put it,
this was the “Holy Grail.”
http://canadafreepress.com/images/uploads/laurie031517a.jpg
Unfortunately, about a half hour before Maddow went on, The
White House stole her thunder by releasing the following
statement:
“Before being elected President, Mr. Trump was one of the most
successful businessmen in the world with a responsibility to his
company, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than
legally required,” the official continued. “That being said, Mr.
Trump paid $38 million dollars even after taking into account
large scale depreciation for construction, on an income of more
than $150 million dollars, as well as paying tens of millions of
dollars in other taxes such as sales and excise taxes and
employment taxes and this illegally published return proves just
that.”
Immediately, sane people realized that this was not going to go
well for those hoping to see Trump obliterated by an obnoxious
MSNBC host. If Maddow was smart, she would have toned down her
report, and backed away from the edge of the cliff. That’s not
what she did. Instead, she went full throttle, opening her show
with a 20-minute monologue filled with innuendo, shadowy
connections, conspiracy theories, and her trademark arrogance.
It began with Chris Hayes admitting that lots of people tell him
to shut up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unql_b-WHf4
Yep. It’s incredibly tedious, and you probably skipped most of
it. That’s ok. It’s Rachel Maddow. No one blames you for
refusing to subject yourself to her rant.
That said, some prominent liberals thought it was very, very,
important that you tune in:
http://canadafreepress.com/images/uploads/laurie031517b.jpg
Apparently, they either ignored, or never saw, the White House
statement. “Finally,” they thought, “we’ve got him.”
They did not have him.
In fact, they confirmed the White House statement and ended up
making Trump look pretty good. As Van Jones admitted:
Yes, when you’ve lost Van Jones, you’re in trouble. Maddow’s
over-hyped report fizzled in spectacular fashion, making the
host, her network, and liberals everywhere look like idiots.
Instead of demolishing Trump, Rachel Maddow succeeded in giving
him one of his best nights since he took office.
Robert Laurie @RobertLaurie
Congrats to @maddow for proving that
A: he's rich
B: he paid a crapton of taxes
C: I can't trust government to protect my private info.
https://twitter.com/maddow/status/841795163664089089 …
6:17 PM - 14 Mar 2017
58 58 Retweets 96 96 likes
Immediately, all those super-important lefties started running
away from the non-story of the century. All their hopes, dreams,
and hard work had been reduced to smouldering rubble. The
“Trump doesn’t pay taxes” narrative was gone, so they began
screaming “new plan! new plan!” and set about moving the goal
posts.
They’d defeated their own argument. Somehow that had to be
Trump’s fault, too. The “leak” must have been a deliberate act
of misdirection, committed by Trump himself.
http://canadafreepress.com/images/uploads/laurie031517c.jpg
So…not the “holy grail,” then? What a difference a half hour
makes!
They’ve now endured about 12 hours of brutal mockery and one
yuuuuge self-inflicted wound. They spent over a year carefully
constructing the tax narrative only to push the plunger and
demolish it in one half-hour MSNBC segment. It was, like an
actual structural implosion, something to see.
http://canadafreepress.com/images/uploads/laurie031517e.jpg
You can watch the reveal segment below. It will go down in
history alongside Geraldo’s infamous “Al Capone’s Vault” special
as a spectacular example of over-hyped, on-air self-
idestruction. Try not to pull a muscle with all the laughing and
pointing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=0eB-xjDMGdQ
Just proves faggots are ignorant.
http://canadafreepress.com/article/rachel-maddow-embarrasses- herself-torpedoes-liberals-everywhere-by-handing
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