Rachel Maddow and Steve Stockman - Oklahoma City Bombing

UPDATE, October 21, 2010: Maddow Retracts and Apologizes… Sort Of
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A retraction and apology is in order from Rachel Maddow and MSNBC.

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RACHEL MADDOW: But the media dressing these guys up like there is some coherent narrative, like there is some cogent argument here, that conveniently obscures what‘s really going here, which is that we are on the precipice of elevating the federal office, the most extreme and in some cases strange set of conservative candidates in a lifetime.

Yes, this has happened to a smaller degree before. In 1994, in the first midterm election after the last Democrat president was elected, we got a slate of candidates that included Helen Chenoweth of Idaho and Steve Stockman of Texas. These two were so close to the militia movement in this country that Mr. Stockman actually received advance notice that the Oklahoma City bombing was going to happen.

There are extremist candidates who from time to time survive the churn of electoral politics and actually make it into the mainstream. There‘s always a few. But there has never been this many.

None of this makes any sense. We‘re just about to elect a whole bunch of extremists—unless thing change in the next two weeks.

Two weeks out. How do Democrats run against this? That‘s next.

Maddow does not have the right to lie about Stockman and the horrific Oklahoma City bombing, spreading Leftist propaganda.

She is the extremist. She sounds like the conspiracy nuts that insist Jews working at the World Trade Center received advance notice of the 9/11 attacks and stayed home to escape death.

MSNBC must take responsibility for Maddow's stunningly irresponsible remarks and set the record straight.

Here's the 1995 statement from Stockman regarding reports that he received ADVANCE notice of the bombing.

Maddow should really do some research if she wants to establish any credility as a serious commentator.