Maddow strikes back at Dick Armey's nonsensical attack on her

[Ichingcarpenter]

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During the Code-Red event, Armey began to introduce Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), who Armey oddly refers to as 'Doc Colbin' more than once, but he then stops and starts to spin a tale that took shots at Maddow. "The last time Doc Colbin and I were together, I had the amazing opportunity to watch him receive a lecture on health care from a woman named, uh, uh, uh... 'Maddox.' A television personality, who I'm told has a Ph.D. in something that doesn't matter. Who knew she was qualified to lecture the good physician on health care in America because she had actually gone to a doctor once," Armey said finishing his tale to the gathering of anti-health care reform activists who nodded and laughed as he spoke.

Maddow recalled appearing with Senator Coburn and Dick Armey on 'Meet the Press' and replays video of the brief exchange with Coburn. The discussion was centered around threats of violence that have been heard at some of the anti-health care reform rallies around the nation, and the Senator was defending the threats by claiming that they were "Just symptoms of a loss of faith in government," and that "When people are afraid, they'll do all sorts of things they wouldn't normally do."

Barely able to get a word in with Coburn, Maddow's response was that she didn't believe the government had done anything that would justify threats such as "The blood of tyrants must run in the streets!"

"That was my only exchange with Tom Coburn in front of Dick Armey," the MSNBC show host explains, "Now if Mr. Armey thinks I was not qualified to be in that discussion because Tom Coburn is a gynecologist and I'm not, I wonder why Dick Armey thought that he was qualified to be in that room?"

Dick Armey has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oklahoma.

The host of MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show is a Rhodes scholar with a Ph.D. from Oxford in political science. Her doctoral thesis was titled "HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons."

[Enthusiast]

1. Dick Armey?

Just another filthy corporate Republican whore. If it was up to me Armey would be in Gitmo sharing a cell with a suspected terrorist.

[pattmarty]

4. If I can add a thing to your apt appraisal of "Dick" it would be...........

............."sharing a cell with a aggressive sexual predator terrorist". I realize when you are in a hurry, sometimes important things can be left out of a post.

[Enthusiast]

6. Zactly.

[ScottLand]

2. You rock, Rachel. We love you on DU.

That Dick was just grandstanding in front of his supporters. One would think he wouldn't have to cheapen himself before people that actually support him already.

[robo50]

3. Dick Armey has a PhD?? How did THAT ever happen?

He's dumber than a box of rocks!
and speaking of rocks...


As always, RACHEL ROCKS!!!!!

[trungpa ricochet]

5. Look where it came from....

His B.S. is Piled higher and Deeper. He is a joke.

[TankLV]

7. I "love" dicks PROJECTION!!!

He is THE example of what he's TRYING to claim Rachel is - while Rachel IS EXACTLY what he has "labeled" her - and EXPERT WITH A PHD ON MEDICAL ISSUES, as opposed to the "gynochologist" - and BTW, Rachel IS a WOMAN - so she BY DEFAULT would know more about her OWN "gynological" issues that that fucking IGNORANT MAN would!!!

[Laf.La.Dem.]

8. Why they call him DICK?

Look at the video - what else would you call that:evilgrin:

[Magleetis]

9. Armey

is a liar and a narcissist. He cant stand being challenged by a woman who just happens to be smarter than he is.

[robo50]

10. 99% of the women in the nation are smarter than he is!!! Only Sarah P

and Michelle B are on a par for his level of intelligence.