Rachel Maddow eviscerates Michele Bachmann’s lies about Obama’s India trip … and more

This video represents the first 14 minutes or so of Rachel Maddow undressing the whole lying machine so carefully constructed by the right, with their crafted lies that a gullible media either willfully ignores or is too ignorant or lazy to fact check.

Last night and a little bit tonight, Anderson Cooper explored the same Bachmann and Co. lies but Cooper did it far less effectively, with far less conviction and without the use of facts or video evidence Maddow employs so well.

Watch this video. It is journalism. It is partisan to be sure but it is true, it is devastating but it will not resonate any further than Cooper and Maddow and their select audience. That is the sick part. Politico? No. WSJ, certainly not. WaPo, not a chance. Even the NYTimes will demure.

Rachel you’re on your own here. Anderson tries but lacks the balls, brains and humour. Sorry Rachel, Americans don’t want to know. They are too busy celebrating how great they are instead of exploring ways in which they can contribute to making a failing country great again.

One thing that may seem incongruous, but it is technically sound: all the voices from the right in these clips are calm, regulated and tone-based. Rachel Maddow is a little bit on edge (as are most of the MSNBC pundits – bad, bad audio crew – too much echo, too loud, too in your face). The solution is easy. Your pundits must sound reasonable but passionate. The best way to do this is to make the audio reverb free and with full dynamic range. And no fucking echo!