{"id":1083721,"date":"2021-12-04T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T16:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1083721"},"modified":"2021-12-04T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T16:14:13","slug":"graham-rachel-maddow-libertarian-on-one-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-rachel-maddow-libertarian-on-one-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: Rachel Maddow, Libertarian On One Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraham-rachel-maddow-libertarian-on-one-issue%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1083721&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rachel Maddow is one of America\u2019s most popular proponents of socialism. Government is never big enough for Maddow. Bernie Sanders has a friend in Maddow. But when the subject is abortion, you will not find a more enthusiastic libertarian.<\/p>\n<p>After the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Nov. 30 on Mississippi\u2019s law banning the termination of unborn children after 15 weeks, Maddow championed lawyer Julie Rikelman for the Center for Reproductive Rights for arguing this is \u201cabout American women being forced by the government to give birth against their will.\u201d She added: \u201cThis is what the supposed small-government conservative movement has brought us, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maddow complained about \u201cthis very big government idea, the idea that the government will decide whether or not you get an abortion. The government will decide whether or not you stay pregnant. The government will decide whether or not you give birth. It\u2019s not your choice. The government gets to decide it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This MSNBC host has one central issue when overweening government can be demonized. She has one issue where, suddenly, precedents must never be overturned, where she claims judges are acting like legislators and that Brett Kavanaugh now represents \u201ca little mini-Congress with robes on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Left very eagerly finds a \u201cliberty interest\u201d in the Constitution for the premature death of the unwanted \u201cfetus,\u201d for their lust to \u201cterminate a pregnancy.\u201d In general, they find \u201cliberty\u201d arguments in American courts or legislatures to be incredibly cynical capitalist excuses. But not when it comes to enjoying sex without consequences. Any woman who can\u2019t get an abortion after 15 weeks is now victimized and \u201cdevastated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maddow touted the headline on a Washington Post staff editorial: \u201cGutting Roe would devastate millions of Americans and the court itself.\u201d Using the word \u201cgutting\u201d to describe the people procuring the literal evisceration of the most vulnerable human beings is pretty sick stuff.<\/p>\n<p>But the Post couldn\u2019t stop ignoring the fetus in their editorializing. They concluded any \u201cgutting\u201d of the Roe v. Wade precedent would result in \u201cdeep and immediate harm to millions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere in the Maddow\/Post moral calculus of immediate harm are the tens of millions of unborn children who have been gutted and devastated and poured into dumpsters and sewers since the court decided Roe in 1973. There is only a right to choose, and never a life to lose. They celebrate something called \u201cInternational Safe Abortion Day.\u201d They\u2019ve poked their own eyes out and called themselves the visionaries.<\/p>\n<p>The legitimacy of the court is now endangered, they argue, as if legitimacy and libertinism are linked. Maddow touted the liberal justices saying, \u201cHey, if you do this, this will be the end of the court as we know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maddow spoke next to a graphic of capitalized letters quoting Justice Stephen Breyer about the court looking like politicians: \u201cTHAT\u2019S WHAT KILLS US AS AN AMERICAN INSTITUTION.\u201d Right above those words on screen is a poster claiming \u201cAbortion Is Essential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The headline on MSNBC\u2019s video page is \u201cSupreme Court faces credibility crisis as anti-abortion justices set to fulfill purpose.\u201d We\u2019re told, \u201cRachel Maddow explains why the anti-abortion justices on the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade would confirm what many people already think about the court being compromised by politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But saying that \u201cmany people think\u201d overturning Roe ruins the public standing of the Supreme Court is \u2026 politics. Nobody should pretend that \u201cThe Rachel Maddow Show\u201d isn\u2019t a soapbox for politics. The \u201ccredibility crisis\u201d should be assigned to the liberal media, which only speaks of credibility and legitimacy and landmark decisions when they win.<\/p>\n<p>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Maddow is one of America\u2019s most popular proponents of socialism. Government is never big enough for Maddow. Bernie Sanders has a friend in Maddow. But when the subject is abortion, you will not find a more enthusiastic libertarian.After the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Nov. 30 on Mississippi\u2019s law banning the termination of unborn children after 15 weeks, Maddow championed lawyer Julie Rikelman for the Center for Reproductive Rights for arguing this is \u201cabout American women being forced by the government to give birth against their will.\u201d She added: \u201cThis is what the supposed small-government conservative movement has brought us, right?\u201dMaddow complained about \u201cthis very big government idea, the idea that the government will decide whether or not you get an abortion. The government will decide whether or not you stay pregnant. The government will decide whether or not you give birth. It\u2019s not your choice. The government gets to decide it.\u201dThis MSNBC host has one central issue when overweening government can be demonized. She has one issue where, suddenly, precedents must never be overturned, where she claims judges are acting like legislators and that Brett Kavanaugh now represents \u201ca little mini-Congress with robes on.\u201dThe Left very eagerly finds a \u201cliberty interest\u201d in the Constitution for the premature death of the unwanted \u201cfetus,\u201d for their lust to \u201cterminate a pregnancy.\u201d In general, they find \u201cliberty\u201d arguments in American courts or legislatures to be incredibly cynical capitalist excuses. But not when it comes to enjoying sex without consequences. Any woman who can\u2019t get an abortion after 15 weeks is now victimized and \u201cdevastated.\u201dMaddow touted the headline on a Washington Post staff editorial: \u201cGutting Roe would devastate millions of Americans and the court itself.\u201d Using the word \u201cgutting\u201d to describe the people procuring the literal evisceration of the most vulnerable human beings is pretty sick stuff.But the Post couldn\u2019t stop ignoring the fetus in their editorializing. They concluded any \u201cgutting\u201d of the Roe v. Wade precedent would result in \u201cdeep and immediate harm to millions.\u201dNowhere in the Maddow\/Post moral calculus of immediate harm are the tens of millions of unborn children who have been gutted and devastated and poured into dumpsters and sewers since the court decided Roe in 1973. There is only a right to choose, and never a life to lose. They celebrate something called \u201cInternational Safe Abortion Day.\u201d They\u2019ve poked their own eyes out and called themselves the visionaries.The legitimacy of the court is now endangered, they argue, as if legitimacy and libertinism are linked. Maddow touted the liberal justices saying, \u201cHey, if you do this, this will be the end of the court as we know it.\u201dMaddow spoke next to a graphic of capitalized letters quoting Justice Stephen Breyer about the court looking like politicians: \u201cTHAT\u2019S WHAT KILLS US AS AN AMERICAN INSTITUTION.\u201d Right above those words on screen is a poster claiming \u201cAbortion Is Essential.\u201dThe headline on MSNBC\u2019s video page is \u201cSupreme Court faces credibility crisis as anti-abortion justices set to fulfill purpose.\u201d We\u2019re told, \u201cRachel Maddow explains why the anti-abortion justices on the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade would confirm what many people already think about the court being compromised by politics.\u201dBut saying that \u201cmany people think\u201d overturning Roe ruins the public standing of the Supreme Court is \u2026 politics. Nobody should pretend that \u201cThe Rachel Maddow Show\u201d isn\u2019t a soapbox for politics. The \u201ccredibility crisis\u201d should be assigned to the liberal media, which only speaks of credibility and legitimacy and landmark decisions when they win.The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}