Rachel Maddow: Hypocrite

Last Friday, Rachel Maddow of MSNBC delivered a monologue in response to Keith Olbermann's suspension.

The arrogant, elitist liberal Maddow used Olbermann's suspension to take shots at FOX News.

Watch the video.



Here's the transcript of the conclusion of her long-winded remarks:

RACHEL MADDOW: Here's the larger point though that's going mysteriously missing from all the Right-wing cackling and the Beltway Old Media cluck, cluck, clucking about this. This is what I think is missing:

Let this incident lay to rest forever the facile, never true any way, bull-pucky, lazy conflation of FOX News and what the rest of us do for a living. I know everybody likes to say, 'Oh, that's cable news. It's all the same, FOX and MSNBC, mirror images of each other.'

Let this lay that to rest forever.

Hosts on FOX raise money on the air for Republican candidates. They endorse them explicitly. They use their FOX News profile to headline fundraisers. Heck, there are multiple people being paid by FOX News now to essentially run for office as Republican candidates. If you count not just their hosts but their contributors, you are looking at a significant portion of the whole line-up of Republican presidential contenders for 2012. They can do that because there's no rule against that at FOX. They run as a political operation. We're not.

Yes, Keith's a liberal and so am I, and there are other people on this network whose political views are shared openly with you, our beloved viewers, but we are not a political operation. FOX is. We are a news operation, and the rules around here are part of how you know that.

Before it was politically safe to do it, Keith Olbermann attracted the ire of the Right-wing and a lot of others besides when he brought to light and raged against what he saw as the errors and sins of the previous presidential administration. Keith was also the one who brought to light FOX News' water-carrying role for the Bush administration. He was one whose point of view journalism exposed and put exclamation points on the problems in the political operation disguised as news network model embraced by the guys across the street at FOX.

Now, weirdly, once again it is Keith who is illustrating the difference between what he does on TV, what we do here at MSNBC, and what goes on across the street.

Maddow's story is a lie.

She's a hypocrite, chastising FOX for similar activities engaged in by MSNBC.

Watch this video.

It completely debunks Maddow's claims that MSNBC is a news operation and not a political operation.



Very embarrassing for Maddow in the context of her pontificating on Friday. Very embarrassing.