Obnoxious Doofus Shill of the Week-- Rachel Maddow

This is really pathetic-- I've really lost all respect for Maddow. I used to enjoy her show at times, but she's been getting progressively more annoying of late:




Really? Shilling for Popular Mechanics' lame 9/11 Conspiracy Debunking book and the 9/11 Commission Report? Sad.

Alex Jones is obviously an idiot drama queen (and Glenn Beck 1000 times so), but Jones is right about a lot of things (Beck is almost always wrong).

The attempt to blame Jones for radicalizing Tsarnaev is disturbing, definitely.

The Alice ("Hi Mom, this is Mark Bingam... you believe me don't you") Hoagland segment was interesting though. Hoagland herself is terrible-- a deluded character. She used to say that her son referred to himself by his first and last name as an inside joke or something, now she has a new story-- that Bingham said his last name out of habit as a way of being calm and professional.

One of the first interviews with Hoagland:

ALICE HOGLAN:
I took the phone and I heard my son's voice and he said to me, "Mom, this is Mark Bingham." I knew from that he was trying to maintain composure, but I could tell he was a little rattled because he was giving me his first and last names. He said, "I want to let you know that I love you. I'm on a flight from Newark to San Francisco, and there are three guys on board who have taken over the plane and they say they have a bomb."

KIRSTY WALK:
No-one will ever know how the plan to attack the terrorists was hatched, but early indications from analysis of the recordings suggest it began in the front of the plane in first class. Mark Bingham was sitting next to Todd Beamer whose call to the operator suggests he was not talking to her, but someone else, possibly Mark, about jumping the guy with the bomb saying, "You ready? Ok, let's roll."

ALICE HOGLAN:
It sounded as if someone was speaking to him quietly, possibly sitting right next to him, then he came back on the line and said, "You believe me, don't you?" I said, "I believe you, who are these guys?" There was another long pause. I listened and then the phone went dead. (snip)

ALICE HOGLAN:
(snip) Aside from having Mark Bingham as my son, perhaps having those babies for Vaughn and Cathy was the most important thing I've done."

What mother mentions her son's name like that?

Also, what exactly is her name? Some places it's Alice Hoagland, others it's Alice Hoaglan, in the interview above they have Alison Hoglan at the top and then it switches to Alice Hoglan.Also, there is the coincidental tidbit that Hoagland was a flight attendant for United airlines (like flight 93), but was off on 9/11.