Tag Archives: Rachel Maddow

Last night Rachel tore in to the lying wingnuts group, Americans For Prosperity. Their own words hang them.

The New York Times has uncovered serious ethical violations committed by anti-gay Sen. John “Defender Of Marriage” Ensign. This new information is related to the adultery scandal Ensign confessed to early in the summer. Rachel Maddow lays it all out below.

At yesterday’s Senate committee vote against the public option in health care reform, GOP senators cited studies from a right-wing think tank and an insurance company astroturf group as evidence that the public option would lead to “denial of care” and “rationing.” Surprise!

It turns out that the 2009 GOP candidate for Virginia governor, Bob McDonnell, cited Michael Schwartz (the “all porn makes you gay” guy) two times in his master’s thesis at Liberty University. As has been noted here, McDonnell’s thesis also rails against “cohabitators, homosexuals and fornicators” and says that women shouldn’t work outside the home. Since Bob McDonnell thinks Schwartz …

Rachel gets into the “all porn is gay” fuckwit and a racism-tinged story told by Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO).

Barney Frank voted “present” on the Wilson rebuking because he thinks “it’s a bad precedent to put us in charge of deciding when people act like jerks.” Maddow goes on to list the various merchandising that has sprung up with “You Lie!” slogans.

RELATED: It’s Rachel Maddow’s one year anniversary on MSNBC. Hooray!

Wash your hands. Do your homework. Exercise. Congratulations, you have now been indoctrinated into the Communist Party.

Guest host Ana Marie Cox takes on the world’s craziest conservative site.

Rachel Maddow reports that after five years of legalized same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, the state’s divorce rate has plummeted to “pre-WWII levels.” Kinda sticks a fork in the argument that homo marriage destroys opposite marriage, dunnit? Oh, but don’t you dare expect our enemies to squawk a peep about this.

More on the sexual hazing by Wackenhut employees guarding the U.S. embassy in Kabul.

Rachel Maddow tears in former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge on the legitimacy of the Iraq war. Required viewing.

Last night on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Rachel Maddow revealed that her weeklong absence from her show was due to the swine flu. Maddow: “I went and I got diagnosed and I got the special swine flu drugs. I’m better. I had it. It’s over. It’s done. It’s the predominant strain of flu now. First my girlfriend got it …

I love it when Rachel gets cute.

Turns out wingnut radio host Ernest Hancock, the guy who staged the assault rifle stunt at Obama’s event in Arizona, has ties to militias who may be linked to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

On yesterday’s Meet The Press. Things get going around the 5:00 mark.

Rachel Maddow tips us to ResistNet.com, a racist GOP-astroturf group that is organizing against health care reform.