It was a brief moment but it holds the same power as Kelly Osbourne’s speech at a Los Angeles fundraiser for Trevor Project in which she told an audience of LGBT people to give Trump’s homophobic administration a chance. What Andy did was bat it down and treat it like a Debbie Downer moment with insufficient glitter power. So, Rachel’s question deserves an answer. Our clocks are going to be set back 25 years. There’s every reason to expect that those homo-hatred agendas will now play out in national policy. There has not been a single administration appointment thus far who does not have a long history of activist hatred toward the LGBT community. We are terrified at every turn by every appointment in Trump’s singularly homophobic cabinet. Her question is the most outrageous fear we have and it’s not something anyone in modern America should be in a position of wondering about. It’s the very question was are all afraid to ask, partly because it seems insane but also because every day seems worse than the last. He just ended the discussion by changing subjects.īut Maddow’s imaginary question for Donald Trump is one that really deserves an airing.
Rachel answered: “Are you going to send me or anybody that I know to a camp?”Īndy couldn’t have gotten away from the question any faster. In a segment of his show in which Andy asks viewer to submit questions they’d like him to ask his guest, Andy asked Rachel “If you booked Donald Trump on your show, what would your first question be?” The episode may just be emblematic of where we are as a community now and so it’s worth examining. The host of MSNBC’s highest-rated program was a guest of Andy Cohen on his Bravo program, “What What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.” But it turns out that want happened was Andy Cohen asserting himself to keep Rachel from asserting herself. She may also be the most respected LGBT person on television.
Yes, she has a much broader range of talking points that cover a wide array of political concerns, but on LGBT issues, she may be the ‘mainstream’ media’s most educated, far reaching and influential voice.
RACHEL MADDOW SHOW JANUARY 5 2017 DOWNLOAD
To join the Indivisible movement or download and read the organizing guide, click here.BY TROY MASTERS | Rachel Maddow, MSNBC’s most effective - and most popular - progressive voice is also one of America’s leading analysts of what a Trump administration will look like for the LGBT community. If a small minority in the Tea Party can stop President Obama, then we the majority can stop a petty tyrant named Trump.’ He does not have large congressional majorities. ‘We believe that protecting our values, our neighbors, and ourselves will require mounting a similar resistance to the Trump agenda - but a resistance built on the values of inclusion, tolerance, and fairness. Success against an inept and thin-skinned President Trump would surely come easier than the attempted takedown of a beloved president and former constitutional law professor like President Obama. If the Tea Partiers could achieve what they did with such a narrowly defined (white) base and horrifyingly hateful undercurrent to their agenda, imagine would could be done by a movement that is inclusive with an agenda that really does fight for the constitutional rights of all American citizens. Their ideas were wrong, cruel, and tinged with racism – and they won.’ We saw them organize and convince their own MoCs (members of Congress) to reject President Obama’s agenda. ‘We saw these activists take on a popular president with a mandate for change and a supermajority in Congress.
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