On Tuesday night, Rachel Maddow highlighted Senator Scott Brown (R-MA)'s latest bizarre electoral tactic: insisting that MSNBC not host a prospective debate with his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren. One of his conditions for agreeing to debate Warren was that "MSNBC not be included as a broadcast partner."
The problem, Maddow said, was that no such a thing had ever been proposed in the first place. "MSNBC is not the host of the debate, MSNBC was never going to be the host of the debate, MSNBC never even got asked about hosting the debate," Maddow said. She later added, "What is going on with Senator Scott Brown?"
It was not the first time Maddow and MSNBC had been targeted by Brown. In early 2010, Brown sent out a fundraising pitch warning Republicans that Maddow was going to run against him in 2012. Of course, Maddow never had any intention of running. As she wrote in a full-page ad, published in the Boston Globe: "I never said I was running against Scott Brown. It's just not true. Honestly. I swear. No, really."
Maddow wondered aloud on her show on Tuesday night what exactly was going on. "Are other Senators like this? Is anyone else besides us at MSNBC having to deal with a sitting U.S. Senator making stuff up about their hosts running campaigns against him and saying we're hosting debates that we're not hosting?"
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If I was Republican I wouldn't want MSNBC within 50 miles of any debate I was participating in. It's the most partisan outfit probably in the history of broadcast media.
Rachel . . . you are soooooo pathetic. Really now . . . the "weird" and "fixating' stratagem, huh? That is the best you and your jamaican posse can come up with? Smears in the form of code words for "creepy and "mentally ill"? How old are you?? Grow up. Would I be shocked if YOU were found to satisfy many of the criteria set forth in the APA DSM-V as well as the upcoming DSM-5? Ah, that's a negative.
I love how your gal Warren has the temerity to run an ad playing to those who have been victimized by the home mortgage loan industry when she is one of the vultures who swooped in and took advantage of the plight of that very same group she claims to now want to help. The prototypical lefty limo liberal, and another candidate for "Do as we say, not as we do: Tomes in liberal hypocrisy".
Oh . . . before I forget: why did you gal fail to take corrective action on flawed assertion regarding the supposed imputations of Native American heritage?? To condone a lie is just as bad as to utter a lie. The answer: no integrity.
Newsflash Rachel: you and you clique aren't as smart nor we as dumb as you think.