Fox News’ opinion website Fox Nation ran quite the headline above a story on Rachel Maddow’s Grammy Award nomination.
The MSNBC host was nominated for Best Spoken Word Album with her book, “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power.” Fellow category nominees include Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama.
While most websites ran with a straightforward headline announcing her nomination, Fox Nation took a different approach.
Above a bizarrely-chosen photo of Maddow, a headline reads, “Rachel Madd-Cow Gets a Grammy Nomination?”
When Maddow appeared on Ellen DeGeneres’ daytime talk show in 2011, the MSNBC host discussed how she receives hate mail from people who call her Rachel Mad-Cow.
Maddow said, “A constant 14 percent of the feedback I get is hate mail,” she said. “But 100 percent of that 14 percent hate mail is about what what I look like … ‘I hate you because you’re Rachel MadCOW, you look like a cow!’ Or, ‘You’re Rachel but I’m going to call you him.'” She joked that she would like to get new hate mail that was not about her “being mannish and cow-like.”
Stay classy, Fox Nation!
I rest my case. Why is it necessary to resort to demean people? Isn’t it enough to just disagree with their politics? Fox News and Fox Nation need to clean up their acts.
That is the point I have been trying to make locally. One can criticize behavior, policy and politics without attempting to destroy the person. Mad-cow….ok, perhaps that can be seen as fun. Perhaps, if it isn’t your last name isn’t the name being mimicked.
Enough people had fun with Anthony Weiner’s name. On the other hand, his behavior brought about that onslaught. No pity here. Some names are meant affectionately. Some are not. Using the President’s whole name is a dog whistle.
Congratulations to Rachel Maddow for her efforts. I have not read her book. It must be good. Shame on Fox Nation for not staying classy. Those headlines put them into National Inquire league.
Meanwhile, locally, gnomes sit behind their computers, biting the heads off of bats, attempting to control their own local government. They will become irrelevant. The voters aren’t paying attention to the bat-bitters. (yes, that was a dog whistle.)
Why am I not surprised?
Can we all agree that those who run the Grammies are maybe, just maybe a leeeetle left-leaning? Rachel Maddow, Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama? No political bias to be seen in that group of nominees is there?
Seems that way, doesn’t it. However, that’s no reason, no reason at all,
for Fox to lower themselves with expressions like Mad-Cow.
As for me, I LIKE the way she looks. Wish I had hair like that!
@punchak
I agree about the name-calling. I prefer to discuss how biased these awards are, and useless. Moon’s other story about the nurse committing suicide is an awful situation. I like a good prank as much as the next person, but a “good” prank is one that doesn’t harm someone or cause public humiliation.
I had never seen “Fox Nation” until Moon mentioned it above. I had a look and it appears very much like a tabloid – not serious at all.
Very poor taste
@Need to Know
You know, most of awards, of any kind, really have nothing to do with reality.
One of them is the Nobel litterature award / more often than not, given to “weird” and unknown authors.
NTK,
Just to make liars out of us both, MNSBC was on all night with reruns of the host shows. No prisons. I hope it continues to do that.
After their disastrous coverage of the last election, anyone still watching Fox anything deserves what they get. My guess is that a lot of folks are jealous of Maddow because of her intellect and her ability to dissect and analyze a given subject. She gets a little preachy sometimes, but is generally much more even-handed than anyone at Fox news or anything else Fox.
Now if I can only get my mother to stop watching it all day…
My cousin has the same problem with her dad.
Maddow is one of the most courteous people on TV. I think there are a lot of jealous people out there.
She sometimes goes on a little too long for my tastes but that isn’t a serious flaw.
…Fox, that is.