Let's classify this as an eclipse story, bringing the raw elements of prejudice and fear out of the mists of night where these factors have been lurking. Thanks to Jill and Americablog for this piece of video that was censored by MSNBC from last night's "Race to the White House" program: This clip captures an exchange between Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan over whether Obama exhibits too much "hubris," which I think we can safely read to mean "is too uppity."
If you don't know Rachel Maddow yet, do a YouTube search and watch some clips. She is the smartest human on television, and one of the few good remnants of Air America radio.
If the birth data given for Rachel is correct (4/1/1973), she has the Sun in Aries conjunct Venus, giving her a strong will (Aries) that comes in an attractive and people-pleasing package (Venus). The power of her will is more strongly shown by the conjunction of Jupiter (expansion) to her Mars (assertiveness) which are both in Aquarius, the sign of invention and revolution. Mars and Jupiter are trined by Pluto (transformation), and all of this adds to her exceptionally focused energy that is able to get right to the point of an issue and debate it brilliantly. That Aquarian energy, when filtered through the Will of Mars and the faith and belief of Jupiter is extremely rational and tends not to become overly emotional or distressed.
The rumor is that Rachel will soon be given her own show. It's hard to imagine that Rachel would take sitting down the kind of censorship that MSNBC demonstrated by eliminating this five minute exchange from the footage on their website.
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Rebecca, I just tried the link and it's still working. Try it again!
I guess I see this a little differently...I've been a political and news junkie for a very long time and am familiar with all of these players. Rachel is very intelligent and it was right for her to point out that the quote by Dana Milbank was inaccurately framed. It was over the top, in my opinion for her to make the crack about Pat's perspective saying more about him than it did about his opinion--suggesting that he alone has bias. So does Rachel. Rachel has a very high IQ and is now a bona fide member of the punditocracy. As such she has been sounding more than sure of herself as she needles her panel members. And I think that's what Aries sometimes ends up doing--that fiery impulse that renders other's opinions to cinders. Transformation and revolution are great, but do they need to take someone else out or down in order to transform? I'm appreciating her, but with a grain of salt.
Sheila
Funny....They don't let you put a web site address in your comment, but the system Beliefnet uses doesn't screen out spammers. My comment spam at my place is usually in Chinese, though. *grin*
Jill and all, I'm trying to get this changed so people can put in their web addresses. I miss that!
Rachel Maddox is one the best talking-heads in Washington. She is smart, intuitive, and efficient. Most of the other analysts just love to hear themselves talk. She has real things to say.
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