Top Democrat election denier <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-says-maga-republicans-are-the-reason-summer-is-hot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> took some backlash after she appeared to be giddy over the most recent indictment thrown at her 2016 nemesis — former President Donald Trump.
The former Secretary of State — who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/finally-its-done-trump-wins-304-electoral-votes-hank-berrien" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost to Trump</a> in 2016 and has since told everyone who would listen that he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-suggests-she-ran-best-campaign-had-joseph-curl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stole that election</a> from her — was speaking with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow about the indictment out of Fulton County, Georgia, that alleged Trump and more than a dozen of his closest allies were &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-grand-jury-returns-10-indictments-in-georgia-election-case-against-trump-allies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-conspirators</a>&#8221; in a coordinated attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
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Maddow had intended to interview Clinton about an article she wrote for The Atlantic titled, &#8220;The Weaponization of Loneliness,&#8221; but instead they started off with a conversation — and laughter — about the slate of indictments in Georgia.
&#8220;It&#8217;s always good to talk to you,&#8221; Clinton said to Maddow, &#8220;But honestly I didn&#8217;t think it would be under these circumstances. Yet another set of indictments &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;If bad actors tell us falsely that every election is stolen and that the only way an election is trustworthy is that if they come out on top of it, it tells you something not just about that person but it wounds us as a democracy in a way that’s hard to repair,&#8221; Maddow went on to complain later in the segment — with no mention of how <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-hillary-clintons-new-excuse-why-she-lost-ryan-saavedra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clinton</a> herself had done exactly that.
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Rachel Maddow says to Hillary Clinton &quot;if bad actors tell us falsely that every election is stolen and that the only way an election is trustworthy is that if they come out on top of it, it tells you something not just about that person but it wounds us as a democracy in a way… <a href="https://t.co/QEt1yl9FhG">pic.twitter.com/QEt1yl9FhG</a>
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Grabien founder Tom Elliott shared a super cut of Clinton essentially making the same claims that Trump is under fire for making:
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Indict <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a>! <a href="https://t.co/6K6nrYmJ0V">pic.twitter.com/6K6nrYmJ0V</a>
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&#8220;Indeed. Hillary claimed the 2000 and 2016 elections were stolen — and questioned the legitimacy of the 2004 elections,&#8221; David Harsanyi <a href="https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1691281745134391298" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
&#8220;Kind of awkward to tell Hillary to her face that she’s a bad actor who wounded our democracy,&#8221; Seth Dillon <a href="https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1691284021362245632" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
Sirius XM podcast host Megyn Kelly <a href="https://twitter.com/MegynKellyShow/status/1691808915640754254" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the entire exchange &#8220;a disgusting display by both women on the set.&#8221;
Fox Business anchor David Asman <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidAsmanfox/status/1691420622755123200" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a>, &#8220;Do we even need an explainer of why this is such a perfect combination of irony, hypocrisy, and projection?&#8221;
&#8220;The irony of watching Rachel Maddow and Hillary Clinton scold people for spreading conspiracy theories about stolen elections when they were the biggest Trump-Russian collusion hoaxers after the 2016 election,&#8221; Kevin Tober said.
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The irony of watching Rachel Maddow and Hillary Clinton scold people for spreading conspiracy theories about stolen elections when they were the biggest Trump-Russian collusion hoaxers after the 2016 election. <a href="https://t.co/ptBksdnCpZ">pic.twitter.com/ptBksdnCpZ</a>
&mdash; Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94) <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinTober94/status/1691264994996895744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The @OccupyDemocrats account on X ignored the giggles and suggested Clinton&#8217;s reaction had been &#8220;classy&#8221; — and focused solely on the fact that she later called the indictment a &#8220;sad&#8221; reflection of where America was as a society. &#8220;Trump would never have such a classy reaction,&#8221; they <a href="https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1691603834559185233" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>.

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MSNBC host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-do-you-live-with-yourself-rachel-maddow-slams-gorsuch-for-keeping-sotomayor-from-being-able-to-come-to-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Maddow</a> warned Wednesday that Americans will lose respect for the rule of law if the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-a-look-at-some-of-the-activists-who-protest-outside-the-supreme-court-justices-homes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a>&#8216;s “new conservative supermajority” goes against leftist positions on election results, affirmative action, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-fetterman-asked-if-he-supports-making-lgbtq-education-in-schools-mandatory-nationwide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQ issues</a>, and voting rights.
It was a pending Alabama redistricting case which set the cable news host off. Supreme Court observers believe justices are <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/10/conservative-justices-seem-poised-to-uphold-alabamas-redistricting-plan-in-voting-rights-act-challenge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poised to uphold</a> a state Congressional map that was challenged under the Voting Rights Act as minimizing black representation in the House of Representatives.
“And if you think that is too radical a thing to imagine them doing — I mean, this is the court that just overruled Roe v Wade, right?” Maddow said.
Maddow cited polling that shows fewer Americans trust the high court, and said she believes the conservative justices she disagrees with on key issues are the reason.
&#8220;If the perception of the court keeps dropping like that, you might think the court would start to get worried that Americans soon just won’t respect the court enough to follow its rulings anymore,&#8221; Maddow said. &#8220;Which of course would be a disaster for the country. That would literally be the end of the rule of law in a very fundamental way.&#8221;
Maddow called on liberals to get out the vote in the upcoming midterm elections, in which Democrats appear headed for major defeats. Should the currently deadlocked Senate flip to Republican control, President Joe Biden&#8217;s effort to reshape the judiciary, let alone get a Supreme Court justice confirmed should an opening arise, would likely be doomed.
&#8220;Whether you are volunteering for a candidate that’s running this year or maybe you’re running for office yourself or you’re volunteering as a poll worker or you’re door-knocking for the latest good-government pro-democracy initiative that’s on the ballot where you live, whatever you are doing right now, particularly over the next six weeks, you are part of what will decide what happens next in our country,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The outcome is not at all certain at this point; we are in the middle of all of it.&#8221;
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Rachel Maddow on historic low job approval of SCOTUS: &quot;If the perception of the court keeps dropping like that, you might think the court would start to get worried that Americans soon just won&#39;t respect the court enough to follow its rulings anymore.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/oInqhGPqm7">https://t.co/oInqhGPqm7</a> <a href="https://t.co/odh6izjizS">pic.twitter.com/odh6izjizS</a>
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Maddow’s attack on the Supreme Court for its opinions that do not jibe with her political views is consistent with at least one legal jurist’s opinion of her bias.
“Maddow does not keep her political views a secret, and therefore, audiences could expect her to use subjective language that comports with her political opinions,” U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant wrote in a court case involving Maddow and OANN.

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MSNBC has chosen Alex Wagner to succeed Rachel Maddow as host of its nightly program, marking a major change in leftist media.
MSNBC revealed the change on Monday regarding the 9 PM ET slot on Tuesday through Friday nights. However, Maddow intends to continue hosting the show on Mondays.
&#8220;I am absolutely thrilled and honored and generally upside down with excitement to come back home to @MSNBC to host the 9 PM hour, beginning August 16th. LET&#8217;S DO THIS,&#8221; Wagner tweeted.
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I am absolutely thrilled and honored and generally upside down with excitement to come back home to <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a> to host the 9PM hour, beginning August 16th. LET&#39;S DO THIS <a href="https://t.co/bgJAcmuDtt">https://t.co/bgJAcmuDtt</a>
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Wagner also shared her excitement in a statement regarding the change.
“I’m honored to be anchoring a key hour of television in such a critical time for American democracy,” Wagner <a href="https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/alex-wagner-msnbc-9pm-rachel-maddow-1235304177/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “In many ways, the stakes have never been higher, and there’s no better place to explore this moment than MSNBC. I’m thrilled to be coming home.”
MSNBC President Rashida Jones noted the importance of Wagner&#8217;s experience in political journalism as critical as the network prepares to cover midterm election issues in the months leading to November.
“This is not a show where our hair is on fire and we’re yelling past each other, and we’re creating these manufactured moments of tension,” Jones <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/27/business/media/alex-wagner-rachel-maddow-msnbc.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Times. “I really want the takeaway from this show to be a better understanding of what’s happening in the world.”
The report also noted Wagner as the only Asian American to host a prime-time cable news show.
Wagner had recently served as one of the program&#8217;s rotating guest hosts. The longtime journalist has also been the co-host of Showtime&#8217;s &#8220;The Circus&#8221; and wrote the 2018 memoir &#8220;Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging.&#8221;
Wagner&#8217;s background already included previous experience with MSNBC. She hosted a daytime show on the network, which was canceled in 2015, and has also served as a guest host for Chris Hayes on the network.
<div class="zn-body__paragraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_0C983232-F7D5-36E5-109F-A64CED410B91" data-act-id="paragraph_6">&#8220;She pulls in perspective. She brings in some of the context throughout her discussion,&#8221; Jones <a href="https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/alex-wagner-msnbc-9pm-rachel-maddow-1235304177/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Variety in sharing the news. &#8220;She knows politics. She knows everything from foreign policy to culture.&#8221;</div>
Maddow had already stepped back from hosting after a new deal with NBCUniversal, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/06/27/msnbc-alex-wagner-rachel-maddow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> Axios. The host planned to leave her position but decided to remain active as the program&#8217;s Monday host.
The program, running since 2008, announced Maddow&#8217;s plans to take a hiatus in January.
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rachel-maddow-taking-hiatus-from-her-msnbc-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the news of Maddow’s break from hosting came after she signed a new contract with MSNBC last summer. Maddow’s new contract was reported at $30 million a year to keep her at the network through the 2024 election.
The long-running program has remained popular for the network. <a href="https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/alex-wagner-msnbc-9pm-rachel-maddow-1235304177/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to</a> Variety, Maddow&#8217;s show &#8220;captured $45 million in advertising in the first ten months of 2021, according to Standard Media Index, a tracker of ad spending.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-times">The New York Times</a> and others on the Left linked Fox News personality <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tucker-carlson">Tucker Carlson</a> to Saturday&#8217;s horrific <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shooter-kills-10-wounds-three-in-buffalo-grocery-store-authorities-investigating-as-racially-motivated-attack">massacre in Buffalo</a>, despite no evidence the shooter is a fan or even watched the conservative cable news host&#8217;s highly rated show.
The Times cited the gunman&#8217;s alleged support for so-called &#8220;replacement theory,&#8221; an anti-semitic conspiracy theory that claims Jews are importing minorities to change the country&#8217;s racial makeup. Some have conflated that theory with claims that Democrats favor amnesty for illegal immigrants in order to change the voting demographics of the country, which Carlson has asserted.
“No public figure has promoted replacement theory more loudly or relentlessly than the Fox host Tucker Carlson, who has made elite-led demographic change a central theme of his show since joining Fox’s prime-time lineup in 2016,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/15/us/replacement-theory-shooting-tucker-carlson.html?referringSource=articleShare">the Times wrote</a>.
The suspect, who The Daily Wire is not naming in keeping with its policy to deprive mass killers of the notoriety they often crave, was radicalized online and immersed himself in &#8220;replacement theory and other kinds of racist and anti-semitic content,&#8221; The Times wrote, apparently relying on a 180-page manifesto believed to have been posted online by the suspect. In that manifesto, the author characterizes himself as &#8220;authoritarian left wing.&#8221;
“Someone like Carlson can introduce viewers to ideas that they then explore more fully online, searches that lead them into far-right spaces that either reinforce their existing views or radicalize them,” a Columbia University historian told the Times for the article.
The Times was not alone in linking Carlson to the incident, in which 10 people were killed and three more wounded.
Far-Left California Rep. Adam Schiff, who infamously claimed to have seen evidence that former President Trump had colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election, accused the cable news host of issuing a &#8220;call to arms&#8221; to right-wing lunatics.
“Tucker Carlson is many things — but he’s not stupid,&#8221; Schiff tweeted. &#8220;When he pushes racist conspiracies like ‘the great replacement,’ he knows the risks. He knows some view his vile hate as a call to arms.”
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Tucker Carlson is many things — but he’s not stupid.
When he pushes racist conspiracies like “the great replacement,” he knows the risks.
He knows some view his vile hate as a call to arms.
The problem is Tucker just doesn’t give a damn about anyone but himself.
&mdash; Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1525855322698653696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“More blood on the hands of @tuckercarlson and @foxnews this killer used their racist talking points to justify killing 10 people. Carlson won&#8217;t stop because as he explained to the NY Times, it&#8217;s good for ratings. Lives be damned. As Carlson will be at judgement day,” former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart, who served under former President Bill Clinton, ranted.
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More blood on the hands of <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@tuckercarlson</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@foxnews</a> this killer used their racist talking points to justify killing 10 people. Carlson won&#39;t stop because as he explained to the NYTimes, it&#39;s good for ratings. Lives be damned. As Carlson will be at judgement day. <a href="https://t.co/fse5bRvEbN">https://t.co/fse5bRvEbN</a>
&mdash; Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) <a href="https://twitter.com/joelockhart/status/1525585940655357952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Hollywood actor/director Rob Reiner, who played the iconic liberal character &#8220;Meathead&#8221; on the 1970s sitcom &#8220;All in the Family,&#8221; spread the blame beyond Carlson,
“The racist massacre in Buffalo rest at the feet of Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and the GOP,&#8221; Reiner tweeted. &#8220;There are not fine people on both sides.”
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The racist massacre in Buffalo rest at the feet of Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and the GOP. There are not fine people on both sides.
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There were others:
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The horrific murders in a grocery store on Buffalo&#39;s predominantly Black East Side were an act of domestic terrorism fueled directly by white supremacist conspiracy theories repeated by Tucker Carlson and supported by Republicans like Matt Gaetz. 1/ <a href="https://t.co/rnLjBcf9Ur">https://t.co/rnLjBcf9Ur</a>
&mdash; Indivisible Guide (@IndivisibleTeam) <a href="https://twitter.com/IndivisibleTeam/status/1525626431971201026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In addition to having no evidence that the shooter was a Carlson, or even Fox News, watcher, the far-Left dot-connecting is a departure from past cases involving potential political links to mass shootings. The gunman who targeted Republicans, including then House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, on a Virginia baseball diamond in 2017 “posted Bernie Sanders signs in the yard” and “cited MSNBC&#8217;s The Rachel Maddow Show as one of his favorite television programs,” <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/14/illinois-suspect-va-shooting-raged-against-trump-republicans/102846780/">USA Today</a> reported.
&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe this even needs to be said, but Tucker Carlson is no more responsible for the Buffalo shooting than Bernie Sanders was for the Congressional baseball field shooting,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/chicksonright/status/1525848662177366016?s=20&amp;t=vaunqzDq2q_DKiItswD37w">tweeted podcaster Chicks on the Right</a>. &#8220;If you&#8217;re a person who is blaming anyone other than the shooter you&#8217;re a complete idiot.&#8221;

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Rachel Maddow is taking a hiatus from her prime time MSNBC show.
Starting this week, the liberal host will take a break from anchoring her nightly show in order to focus on other projects, according to <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/just-in-rachel-maddow-reportedly-taking-a-hiatus-from-her-top-rated-msnbc-show/">multiple</a> <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/rachel-maddow-hiatus-msnbc-1235084484/">reports</a>.
&#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show,&#8221; which airs at 9 p.m. ET Monday through Friday on Comcast-owned MSNBC, is the network&#8217;s top-rated show by far. The program is the most-watched cable news show outside of Fox News shows.
Maddow has hosted the program since 2008, cultivating a loyal following of viewers hungry for her liberal takes on the political landscape.
Maddow will announce her hiatus on Monday, and it will begin on Friday. A slate of several hosts are expected to take turns filling in for the host during her break.
In the meantime, she has plans to work on several projects for NBCUniversal, including a new podcast and a movie based on her book, Bag Man, which delves into the scandal that dogged and eventually forced the resignation of former U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew. Ben Stiller will reportedly direct the movie, a Focus Features production, and Maddow will executive produce the film.
Maddow will not completely disappear from the network during her break, though. She will return briefly to her show during the next few weeks for MSNBC special events including President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, which is scheduled for March 1.
The news of Maddow&#8217;s break from hosting comes after she signed a new contract with MSNBC in the summer, following reports and rumors that she had considered leaving the network, perhaps to start her own media company.
Maddow&#8217;s new contract involves paying her an eye-popping $30 million a year to keep her at MSNBC through the 2024 election.
Even though she has decided to stay at MSNBC, however, Maddow is reportedly about to become less visible, at least on screen.
Starting in the spring, Maddow is expected to scale back her show from airing every weeknight to a weekly show that will air about 30 weeks of the year. Maddow <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/inside-massive-msnbc-deal-paying-152555355.html/">reportedly</a> wanted to have more time with her family, and that issue was a dealbreaker for the anchor in negotiations.
Maddow&#8217;s shifting role at MSNBC is not the only shakeup the network has experienced in recent months.
Last week, MSNBC announced that Stephanie Ruhle will replace veteran anchor Brian Williams for the network&#8217;s 11 p.m. ET news broadcast. Williams previously anchored NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Nightly News&#8221; but was ousted in 2015 for falsely claiming that in 2003 while he was covering the Iraq War, he was in a helicopter that was forced down by enemy fire, among other fabricated stories.
In addition, MSNBC said that “Morning Joe,” hosted by married couple Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, will expand from a three-hour broadcast to four hours.
In 2017, Maddow was criticized for <a href="https://twitter.com/maddow/status/841795163664089089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">overhyping</a> that she &#8220;got Trump tax returns,&#8221; only to produce two pages from former President Trump&#8217;s 2005 1040 form on her show that evening. The information in the two pages did not produce the damning information her viewers appeared to be waiting for.
Maddow later defended her approach after the anti-climactic broadcast.
“Because I have information about the president doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily a scandal,” she <a href="https://observer.com/2017/03/rachel-maddow-blames-viewers-for-trump-2005-tax-return-flop/">said</a> at the time. “It doesn’t mean that it’s damning information. If other people leapt to that conclusion without me indicating that it was, that hype is external to what we did.”

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MSNBC host Rachel Maddow lashed out at Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, accusing him of preventing his colleague, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, from &#8220;being able to come to work.&#8221;
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-hillary-clinton-has-coughing-fit-on-rachel-maddow-show/">Maddow</a> was responding to reports indicating that Sotomayor has refused to attend the high court&#8217;s oral arguments in person because <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/washington-post-columnist-blasts-justice-neil-gorsuch-for-not-wearing-mask-during-vax-mandate-hearing/">Gorsuch</a> refuses to wear a mask, and she suggested that he might &#8220;revel&#8221; in the knowledge that everyone now knew that he was the reason she felt unable to come to work.
&#8220;It&#8217;s folly to try to get inside anyone else&#8217;s head, I know, but I just can&#8217;t shake this,&#8221; Maddow tweeted Tuesday, adding, &#8220;Does Justice Gorsuch revel in everyone now knowing that he&#8217;s keeping her from being able to come to work? Or is he embarrassed? I mean, how do you live with yourself?&#8221;
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It&#8217;s folly to try to get inside anyone else&#8217;s head, I know, but I just can&#8217;t shake this.
Does Justice Gorsuch revel in everyone now knowing that he&#8217;s keeping her from being able to come to work? Or is he embarrassed? I mean, how do you live with yourself?<a href="https://t.co/O8AfWHafPP">https://t.co/O8AfWHafPP</a>
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) <a href="https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1483521424371421193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Writer <a href="https://twitter.com/MarieMyungOkLee/status/1483527840075333632">Marie Myung-Ok Lee</a> responded, saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand why Gorsuch isn&#8217;t the one being exiled for being a d***.&#8221;
And others quickly agreed that Gorsuch should have to be the one working remotely if he was not going to wear a mask during oral arguments.
The Daily Caller&#8217;s editor-in-chief Geoffrey Ingersoll offered a different perspective, noting that all of the Justices were vaccinated and were constantly being tested.
&#8220;Maddow [quoting] npr&#8217;s garbage story is like a multilevel marketing scheme for political hacks,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They&#8217;re all vaxxed and tested every day. Nothing is stopping her from going to work but herself. The shrieking from cultish covid enthusiasts puts westboro baptist to shame, my god.&#8221;
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Maddow qting npr&#8217;s garbage story is like a multilevel marketing scheme for political hacks.
They&#8217;re all vaxxed and tested every day. Nothing is stopping her from going to work but herself.
The shrieking from cultish covid enthusiasts puts westboro baptist to shame, my god. <a href="https://t.co/Am2TY8XQpJ">https://t.co/Am2TY8XQpJ</a>
— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) <a href="https://twitter.com/GPIngersoll/status/1483522336297041924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073428376/supreme-court-justices-arent-scorpions-but-not-happy-campers-either">Sotomayor</a> is diabetic and at higher risk of complications from a COVID-19 infection — and according to NPR&#8217;s report, she opted to wear a mask even when none of the other justices felt the need to do so. As the Omicron variant spread, however, Sotomayor said that she was no longer comfortable working where others remained unmasked.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/liberal-sotomayor-wont-attend-scotus-in-person-because-gorsuch-wont-wear-a-mask-report">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
<blockquote>U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is refusing to take part in person when the Supreme Court takes the bench for one reason: Justice Neil Gorsuch steadfastly refuses to wear a mask, according to a report.
Sotomayor, who has diabetes and has been the only justice to wear a mask since the Court resumed activity in fall of 2021, will only join the other justices through a microphone setup in her chambers. After Chief Justice John Roberts requested that all the justices wear a mask because of the Omicron surge, Gorsuch, who sits next to Sotomayor on the bench, refused, according to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073428376/supreme-court-justices-arent-scorpions-but-not-happy-campers-either">NPR</a>.
“Last week, Gorsuch was the only justice in the courtroom not to wear a mask during oral arguments, while Sotomayor and Justice Stephen Breyer both appeared remotely. Breyer, at 83 the oldest member of the court, stayed out of the courtroom after a spokesperson said he received the results of a Covid test that was later determined to be a false positive,” <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/18/supreme-court-gorsuch-refused-to-wear-mask-despite-sotomayors-covid-concerns.html">CNBC</a> reported.</blockquote>

Today – Season 68

‘How Do You Live With Yourself?’: Rachel Maddow Slams Gorsuch For Keeping Sotomayor From ‘Being Able To Come To Work’

Face Masks

Neil Gorsuch

A producer of MSNBC’s top-rated “Rachel Maddow Show” accidentally copied the office of Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) on an email saying the show refused to contact Cawthorn because it “worried” the congerssman would want to appear on the show. The 26-year-old Republican has fired back that MSNBC’s “woke dystopian bubble” wants to “silence” conservative views.
“We are kinda interested in this AP story (below) that just dropped about Rep. Madison Cawthorn. A group of voters in NC is challenging his candidacy based on his ties to the insurrection,” an MSNBC senior producer wrote in an email to an NBC News staffer on Capitol Hill. The producer then asked:
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<li> Do you or any other NBC Hill folks plan to ask him for comment on this story? </li>
<li> If not, is that something you guys could do? We don’t have a relationship with his office and between you and me are a little worried that if we did inquire he might ask to come on and explain. I know that is HIGHLY doubtful, but don’t want to take that risk. </li>
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The MSNBC official apparently did not realize Cawthorn’s office had been copied on the email.
“Whoopsies @MSNBC!” Cawthorn mocked the network in a <a href="https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1480669544943595523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">tweet</a> after the story went public.
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Whoopsies ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a>⁩! <a href="https://t.co/zKmJ0tHHIX">https://t.co/zKmJ0tHHIX</a>
&mdash; Madison Cawthorn (@CawthornforNC) <a href="https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1480669544943595523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Fake news MSNBC doesn’t want to ‘take the risk’ that I’ll come on their show and trigger the left with my America First message and burst their woke dystopian bubble,&#8221; Cawthorn’s office said in a statement. &#8220;The left doesn’t want debate from conservatives, they want silence. And now we have it in writing. Sad!&#8221;
The email became the first public document to expose that Maddow, who has mentioned Cawthorn only a handful of times in the last year, typically in passing, fears a personal confrontation with the forthright Republican congressman.
The email also exposes one of the ways networks prevent those targeted by their hosts from personally holding their hosts accountable. Networks that belong to large news conglomerates, like MSNBC, secretly filter their requests for comment through other branches of the corporation, keeping the offending host at arm’s length from the individual whom the host intends to target.
The story that triggered the senior producer’s inquiry came when a left-wing nonprofit named Free Speech For People <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/group-of-nc-voters-file-complaint-attempting-to-block-madison-cawthorn-from-running">filed a lawsuit to prevent</a> the 26-year-old conservative, who displaced democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as the youngest member of Congress, from running for re-election this November.
The <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21176353-cawthorncomplaint">34-page</a> legal complaint notes that the <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/">Fourteenth Amendment, section 3</a>, states that “no person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress” who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the U.S. government. The group then asserts that Cawthorn’s <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?507744-1/rally-electoral-college-vote-certification">two-and-a-half-minute speech</a> at the peaceful “Stop the Steal” rally last January 6 “led directly, intentionally, and foreseeably to the insurrectionists’ violent assault on the Capitol.” The North Carolina congressman, who has used a wheelchair since a car accident left him <a href="https://www.wxii12.com/article/north-carolina-24-year-old-partially-paralyzed-after-car-crash-could-be-youngest-member-of-congress/32991945">partially paralyzed</a> at age 18, told the crowd outside the Capitol to “hold your representatives accountable” and “make sure they stand up for election integrity.”
He concluded by leading the crowd in chanting, “USA!”
Cawthorn previously addressed the 2020 Republican National Convention from his wheelchair, where he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoQuSvRHisQ">hailed</a> “the dream of MLK and the American dream.”
Cawthorn’s spokesman <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/589011-north-carolina-voters-file-suit-to-disqualify-cawthorn-from-running-for?rl=1">dismissed</a> the group behind the complaint as “a dozen activists who are comically misinterpreting and twisting the 14th amendment for political gain.”
Cawthorn, who represents the 11th district of North Carolina, plans to seek re-election this fall in the state’s newly redrawn 13th district.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Republicans Hold Virtual 2020 National Convention

Congressman Slams MSNBC’s ‘Woke Dystopian Bubble’: Rachel Maddow’s Producer Feared He’d Want To Appear On The Show

Madison Cawthorn

NBC News

Rachel Maddow is one of America&#8217;s most popular proponents of socialism. Government is never big enough for Maddow. Bernie Sanders has a friend in Maddow. But when the subject is abortion, you will not find a more enthusiastic libertarian.
After the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Nov. 30 on Mississippi&#8217;s law banning the termination of unborn children after 15 weeks, Maddow championed lawyer Julie Rikelman for the Center for Reproductive Rights for arguing this is &#8220;about American women being forced by the government to give birth against their will.&#8221; She added: &#8220;This is what the supposed small-government conservative movement has brought us, right?&#8221;
Maddow complained about &#8220;this very big government idea, the idea that the government will decide whether or not you get an abortion. The government will decide whether or not you stay pregnant. The government will decide whether or not you give birth. It&#8217;s not your choice. The government gets to decide it.&#8221;
This MSNBC host has one central issue when overweening government can be demonized. She has one issue where, suddenly, precedents must never be overturned, where she claims judges are acting like legislators and that Brett Kavanaugh now represents &#8220;a little mini-Congress with robes on.&#8221;
The Left very eagerly finds a &#8220;liberty interest&#8221; in the Constitution for the premature death of the unwanted &#8220;fetus,&#8221; for their lust to &#8220;terminate a pregnancy.&#8221; In general, they find &#8220;liberty&#8221; arguments in American courts or legislatures to be incredibly cynical capitalist excuses. But not when it comes to enjoying sex without consequences. Any woman who can&#8217;t get an abortion after 15 weeks is now victimized and &#8220;devastated.&#8221;
Maddow touted the headline on a Washington Post staff editorial: &#8220;Gutting Roe would devastate millions of Americans and the court itself.&#8221; Using the word &#8220;gutting&#8221; to describe the people procuring the literal evisceration of the most vulnerable human beings is pretty sick stuff.
But the Post couldn&#8217;t stop ignoring the fetus in their editorializing. They concluded any &#8220;gutting&#8221; of the Roe v. Wade precedent would result in &#8220;deep and immediate harm to millions.&#8221;
Nowhere in the Maddow/Post moral calculus of immediate harm are the tens of millions of unborn children who have been gutted and devastated and poured into dumpsters and sewers since the court decided Roe in 1973. There is only a right to choose, and never a life to lose. They celebrate something called &#8220;International Safe Abortion Day.&#8221; They&#8217;ve poked their own eyes out and called themselves the visionaries.
The legitimacy of the court is now endangered, they argue, as if legitimacy and libertinism are linked. Maddow touted the liberal justices saying, &#8220;Hey, if you do this, this will be the end of the court as we know it.&#8221;
Maddow spoke next to a graphic of capitalized letters quoting Justice Stephen Breyer about the court looking like politicians: &#8220;THAT&#8217;S WHAT KILLS US AS AN AMERICAN INSTITUTION.&#8221; Right above those words on screen is a poster claiming &#8220;Abortion Is Essential.&#8221;
The headline on MSNBC&#8217;s video page is &#8220;Supreme Court faces credibility crisis as anti-abortion justices set to fulfill purpose.&#8221; We&#8217;re told, &#8220;Rachel Maddow explains why the anti-abortion justices on the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade would confirm what many people already think about the court being compromised by politics.&#8221;
But saying that &#8220;many people think&#8221; overturning Roe ruins the public standing of the Supreme Court is &#8230; politics. Nobody should pretend that &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show&#8221; isn&#8217;t a soapbox for politics. The &#8220;credibility crisis&#8221; should be assigned to the liberal media, which only speaks of credibility and legitimacy and landmark decisions when they win.
The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

GRAHAM: Rachel Maddow, Libertarian On One Issue

Abortion

Roe v. Wade's Long And Brutal Legacy

Failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton painted American voters as gullible during a recent interview on MSNBC, saying that they failed to appreciate the alleged &#8220;extraordinary accomplishments&#8221; of President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration.
Clinton told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow that figures in the Republican Party &#8220;truly just want power, power to impose their views, power to exploit financial advantage, power to implement a religious point of view.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, a lot of people got, oh, I think kind of frustrated looking at the messy process of legislation, and they &#8212; they didn’t really appreciate that within a year, the Biden administration has passed two major pieces of legislation through both the House and the Senate. They passed another major piece through the House that will soon be in the Senate,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;By any measure, those are extraordinary accomplishments, and they really will help many millions of Americans with health care and prescription drug prices as well as climate change and so much else.&#8221;
&#8220;But because of the way we are getting our information today and because of the lack of gatekeepers and people who have a historic perspective, who can help us understand what we are seeing, there is a real vulnerability in the electorate to the kind of demagoguery and disinformation that, unfortunately, the other side is really good at exploiting,&#8221; she claimed.
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<blockquote>RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC HOST: You know, less than a week after the January 6th attack, in the second week of January, you wrote a piece in &#8220;The Washington Post&#8221; that I reread today. Among a lot of other observations you said this.
You said: It is sobering that many people were unsurprised by what occurred last week &#8212; meaning January 6th &#8212; particularly people of color for whom a violent mob waving Confederate flags and hanging nooses is a familiar sight in American history.
I have been thinking a lot about that recently, because &#8212; I mean, on one hand we have what feels like an emergency going on. We have a disturbingly large part of the right promoting and excusing political violence while at the same time, they’re trying to discredit our political system and our electoral processes. That combined message from the right that politics doesn’t work and violence is okay, that is &#8212; that’s a recipe for disaster. That is a recipe for the end of democracy.
But on the other hand, we keep talk about that as an unprecedented threat, and it &#8212; to me, it doesn’t feel unprecedented. I mean through the lens of how people have color have lived in this democracy, the rejection of political mechanisms, you know, choosing violence instead of fair political contests, that’s the history of how people of color have been treated in this country over and over and over again. I feel like you’ve been trying to make that point aggressively.
Does understanding that, does understanding that the not-unprecedented nature of where we are help us figure out a way out of this particular mess?
HILLARY CLINTON, FAILED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, I think it points us in the direction that we go when our better angels are leading us, and that is understanding, human nature being what it is, we do need boundaries. We need guardrails. We need to have an understanding amongst this great pluralistic country of ours that if we’re all going to get ahead we all had better be much more sensitive to, understanding and empathetic toward each other, and that particularly applies to people of color, minority groups of all kinds, because we truly rise or fall together.
And we’ve had leaders who have risen to those occasions, who have certainly done their best, both to inspire us and create the right environment for us to, you know, look past our differences and find our common humanity, our common ground, and we’ve had laws passed that try to create those structures, those guardrails, those prohibitions against mistreatment of each other.
But what we’ve seen sadly in the last several years is not new in our history because it is rooted in the struggles that we’ve had going back to before our beginning, but it is, unfortunately, turbo-charged by the combination of demagogues, social media that is more interested, frankly, in profitability than the rule of law or unity, that feeds disinformation in a way that strips people to the core of their insecurities and their fears.
So, it’s not new in any way, but the way it’s being implemented is new. And it’s really hard to escape. So, the problem that we face is an old problem, but with a new twist because of technology.
And I think we’re really on the precipice, Rachel, of seeing people, particularly in the Republican Party, but not only there, who truly just want power, power to impose their views, power to exploit financial advantage, power to implement a religious point of view. We see all of that converging.
And, as you said in the very beginning of your question, this is not an American phenomenon, you know. Anne Applebaum, whom I respect greatly, has been covering this from her perch in Europe, particularly in Poland, because we see the signs of it everywhere.
You know, democracy is messy. You know, a lot of people got, oh, I think kind of frustrated looking at the messy process of legislation, and they &#8212; they didn’t really appreciate that within a year, the Biden administration has passed two major pieces of legislation through both the House and the Senate. They passed another major piece through the House that will soon be in the Senate.
By any measure, those are extraordinary accomplishments, and they really will help many millions of Americans with health care and prescription drug prices as well as climate change and so much else.
But because of the way we are getting our information today and because of the lack of gatekeepers and people who have a historic perspective, who can help us understand what we are seeing, there is a real vulnerability in the electorate to the kind of demagoguery and disinformation that, unfortunately, the other side is really good at exploiting.</blockquote>

Hillary Clinton installed as chancellor of Queen’s University

Hillary Hits Americans As Gullible: ‘Didn’t Really Appreciate’ Biden’s ‘Extraordinary Accomplishments’

Joe Biden

After keeping a low profile for much of the last year, Hillary Clinton reappeared on the “Rachel Maddow Show” on Tuesday night — and so did the cough that plagued her throughout much of her failed 2016 presidential campaign.
The former first lady closed her half-hour interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow by hacking, momentarily losing her voice, and waving goodbye at the camera.
Clinton began to grimace and clear her throat while discussing the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-6-biggest-lies-youve-been-told-about-the-texas-abortion-law">Texas heartbeat law</a>, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-bias-101-pro-life-restrictions-vs-pro-abortion-protections">pro-life protection</a> that shields unborn children from being aborted if medical personnel can detect a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-cuomo-suggests-babies-dont-have-a-heartbeat-at-6-weeks-heres-what-science-says">fetal heartbeat</a>.
“I was born before” Roe v. Wade, said Clinton, a streak of gray clinging to the 74 year old’s left temple. “It seems likely” in upcoming Supreme Court decisions “that if Roe is not completely overturned, it’s going to be considerably limited,” she continued after <a href="https://youtu.be/cvgQOLKzD3A?t=653">clearing her throat</a>. Referring to herself as “a recovering lawyer,” Clinton surmised that “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-takes-up-mississippi-abortion-case-that-could-limit-roe-v-wade">[t]he Mississippi law</a> may be a more <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/diabolical-that-supreme-court-didnt-protect-abortion-like-religious-liberty-msnbc-legal-analyst">direct threat</a>” to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/if-the-supreme-court-is-illegitimate-so-is-abortion-gay-marriage-and-taking-prayer-out-of-schools">1973 Supreme Court decision</a> that first asserted an unwritten “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-life-americans-are-like-suicide-bombers-msnbc-guest">penumbra</a>” of the U.S. Constitution conferred a previously unknown “right” to have an abortion.
She then began coughing uncontrollably.
Maddow attempted to cover Clinton’s coughing fit by claiming she had caused it. “Oh, excuse me,” Maddow told Clinton. “I didn’t mean to jump in there in a way that surprised you,” she said, laughing. A federal judge once <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-rules-rachel-maddows-statements-cannot-reasonably-be-interpreted-as-allegations-of-fact">ruled</a> that Maddow’s “statements cannot reasonably be interpreted as allegations of fact.” Clinton then reached for something off-screen.
Maddow ended the interview by saying, “It’s a real pleasure to have you.” Hillary Clinton waved goodbye before saying mustering the words “thank you” in a noticeably hoarse voice.
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🇺🇸🧐Hillary est-elle malade ? Elle vient d&#39;avoir une quinte de toux à la fin de son interview sortie de nulle part / Is Hillary sick? She just broke out into a coughing fit at the end of her interview out of nowhere 👀 <a href="https://t.co/9fBRA5g2WU">pic.twitter.com/9fBRA5g2WU</a>
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The hacking attack marked the reemergence of a cough that interrupted numerous speeches and personal appearances — and fueled endless speculation about her health — during the 2016 campaign. She suffered from a long-lasting bout of coughs during a speech in Cleveland, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/clintons-worst-coughing-fit-yet-robert-kraychik">joking</a>, “Every time I think of Trump I get allergic.” As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-coughs-lot-just-lying-hank-berrien">reported</a>, a &#8220;sudden <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/clinton-coughing-fit-benghazi-hearing_1051230.html">coughing fit</a> plagued Hillary Clinton in the middle of her lies as she gave testimony at the congressional Benghazi hearing” in April 2015.
Her most serious health scare occurred as she apparently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-possibly-faints-she-abruptly-leaves-ground-hank-berrien">fainted and collapsed</a> into a van on <a href="https://twitter.com/zgazda66/status/774993814025011200">September 11, 2016</a>. Her campaign <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-lies-about-everything-including-ben-shapiro">alternately explained</a> the episode as the result of pneumonia, overheating, and/or dehydration. Nearly a year after the election, Clinton <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-misses-tv-appearance-after-being-ryan-saavedra">injured her foot</a> in a fall, forcing her to miss multiple TV and radio appearances.
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Hillary Clinton 9/11 NYC <a href="https://t.co/q9YnsjTxss">pic.twitter.com/q9YnsjTxss</a>
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During the Maddow interview — which was intended to promote the book Clinton co-wrote with Louise Penny titled &#8220;State of Terror&#8221; — Hillary Clinton called for “gatekeepers” to control the way people access information, decried people who broke the law without suffering consequences, and warned of the possible return of a terrorist threat to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
She called for stern punishments for lawbreakers. &#8220;We have got to end impunity. We have to hold people accountable for their actions particularly when those actions threaten our way of life, our rule of law, our future as a democracy,” she said, speaking of Charlottesville, not her own unpunished use of a private email server that resulted in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/investigation-into-hillarys-emails-concludes-nearly-600-security-violations-found">nearly 600 national security violations</a>, last summer’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-people-only-think-blm-riots-were-violent-because-of-fox-news-newsmax-oan-bubble">deadly riots</a>, or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ronan-farrow-bill-clinton-credibly-accused-of-rape-investigation-long-overdue">credible</a> allegations that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted Juanita Broaddrick.
She apparently asked for greater regulation of the way Americans consume information. “Because of the way we are getting our information today — and because of the lack of gatekeepers and people who have a historic perspective, who can help us understand what we are seeing — there is a real vulnerability in the electorate to the kind of demagoguery and disinformation that unfortunately the other side is really good at exploiting,&#8221; she warned darkly. “I think we’re really in the precipice, Rachel. Seeing people particularly in the Republican Party, but not<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-one-thing-that-explains-everything-democrats-do"> only there, who truly just want power</a>,” including the “power to implement a religious point of view.” During the 2016 presidential primaries, candidate Hillary Clinton said that “religious beliefs” that oppose abortion-on-demand “<a href="https://therightswriter.com/2015/04/hillary-clinton-religious-beliefs-that-oppose-abortion-have-to-be-changed/">have to be changed</a>.”
She called for greater understanding and social harmony. “We all had better be much more sensitive to, understanding and empathetic toward each other,” said Hillary Clinton, whom many believe lost the 2016 presidential election after calling “half” of President Trump’s voters “deplorables” and “irredeemable.”
While she blamed the fall of Afghanistan on former President Donald Trump, she warned of a potential resurgence of terrorism in the region. “There is a continuing need for great vigilance about possible threats coming toward us out of Afghanistan again,” she said.
Maddow appeared to unintentionally insult Hillary Clinton at the beginning of the interview. “We use this comically long set of titles to introduce you — presidential nominee, former first lady, former senator, former secretary of state — but now you’re just a novelist,” Maddow said.
At the beginning of the second interview segment, Maddow again introduced Clinton with that full list of titles, sans the term “novelist.”
You can watch the full interview below (in two parts):
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The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

The Rachel Maddow Show – Season 2019

WATCH: Hillary Clinton Has Coughing Fit On ‘Rachel Maddow Show’

MSNBC may lose the star of its highest-rated program, as numerous sources say Rachel Maddow is considering cutting ties with the network and launching her own streaming media venture when her contract expires early next year. But others are raising questions about the timing of the notice, which comes during heated negotiations with the left-wing cable news network.
Maddow, whose show anchors the network’s prime-time lineup, may start her own podcasting and streaming service to escape “the toll of hosting a nightly program since 2008,” the website reports.
“Six people familiar with the situation” <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/rachel-maddow-considers-leaving-msnbc">told</a> The Daily Beast that Maddow has “a desire to spend more time with her family” and escape the grind of hosting MSNBC’s top-rated daily <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-rules-rachel-maddows-statements-cannot-reasonably-be-interpreted-as-allegations-of-fact">opinion program</a>.
CNN’s Brian Stelter seemed to confirm the rumors on Thursday, <a href="https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1425875034283839495">tweeting</a> that the “Daily Beast beat me to this one — I&#8217;ve been hearing the same and was working on a story about it.”
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Daily Beast beat me to this one — I&#8217;ve been hearing the same and was working on a story about it 👀 <a href="https://t.co/hHSyexsaTx">https://t.co/hHSyexsaTx</a>
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If true, Maddow’s departure would prove devastating to MSNBC in the short term. Her show has served as the network’s ratings tent-pole for years.
The “Rachel Maddow Show” regularly makes the top five shows in prime time, the only offering at either MSNBC or CNN to do so — usually in the third or fourth spot behind “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” “Hannity,” and “The Five.”
No other personality in the left-wing cable news network’s primetime schedule approaches her popularity. Joy Reid, the host of “The ReidOut,” had the lowest ratings in the show’s history last week, attracting <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-struggles">1.1 million</a> total viewers — about half of Maddow’s typical audience. Maddow’s lead-in, “All in with Chris Hayes” at 8 p.m. Eastern, saw its audience contract to 1.2 million people, its lowest level in 55 months.
And with Rachel Maddow on vacation last week, her show reached its smallest audience since December 2015.
“It has not been lost on network higher-ups that MSNBC does not have an immediate or obvious successor if Maddow chooses to leave,” the Beast reports.
The question facing most analysts is whether this is an honest expression of fatigue or a strong-arm negotiating tactic.
Maddow, who rose rapidly from Massachusetts radio to be the face of MSNBC, has long been open about the pressure and wear inherent in hosting a daily program. She <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/magazine/rachel-maddow-trump.html">told</a> The New York Times in 2019 that, while she has no aversion to long hours, “it’s not good to work incessant long days, five days a week, 50 weeks a year for 10 years.”
On the other hand, Maddow recently hired a more aggressive team to represent her in contract negotiations with MSNBC’s parent company, NBCUniversal. And the desire to “spend time with family” is the most <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-31-lv-resign31-story.html">shopworn excuse</a> in politics.
Maddow jettisoned Napoli Management Group in favor of Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel and President Mark Shapiro, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/rachel-maddow-endeavor-msnbc-contract-1234996897/">according</a> to The Hollywood Reporter.
Talks have since gotten “heated,” two sources told The Daily Beast. “Nothing has been decided,” Shapiro told the website. “We are deep into it with NBCUniversal, and Rachel has an excellent relationship with them.”
But Maddow’s purported desire to leave the network leaked out shortly after the shake-up, and the news made the show business Bible, <a href="https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/rachel-maddow-msnbc-negotiations-contract-1235040483/">Variety</a> magazine.
“Is this on the level, or is Maddow playing hardball with MSNBC in contract negotiations?” <a href="https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2021/08/13/whoa-maddow-heading-for-msnbcs-exits-in-an-election-year-n408646">asked</a> Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com.
Maddow currently earns <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9888435/Rachel-Maddow-considering-leaving-MSNBC-contract-ends-year.html">$7 million</a> a year and has an estimated net worth of $25 million, according to multiple sources. She reportedly wants more time off and greater scheduling flexibility.
Has the far-Left host suddenly discovered the virtues of entrepreneurship? While Maddow has a firm grip on the “MSNBC Moms” who form the core of her audience — and some independent media ventures, like Glenn Beck’s <a href="https://www.blazetv.com/">BlazeTV</a>, do work out — most attract only a fraction of their former network audience.
“If she wants to see how that path works, she can just cast a glance at the career of her former mentor Keith Olbermann and see how well he’s done in the podcast/self-publication space,” wrote Morrissey.
Whatever the truth, the prospect of losing Maddow’s star quality has instilled fear at every level of the network. NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell and NBCUniversal News Group Chair Cesar Conde “remain focused on retaining her, and are gearing up to offer her a major contract extension in order to do so,” The Daily Beast reported.
And at least one of her fellow MSNBC personalities burst into an unprompted moment of praise on the air Thursday night.
“You are our North Star,” Ali Velshi, who guest-hosted “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” gushed. “You are revered and respected, and I am not alone in saying that. I speak for my colleagues when I say I appreciate you.”
A clearly moved Maddow replied, “You’re going to make me cry without even explaining why?” Velshi said the praise came from his recent experience guest-hosting her show. “I know that your viewers do because, when I was sitting in that chair for a few weeks, they wanted me to make sure you knew that.”
“You are very, very kind,” Maddow replied, her eyes welling up with tears. “I have to go now.”

Rachel Maddow Considering Leaving MSNBC: Report

One of the Republican congressmen who most visibly opposed Democrats’ mishandling of classified information has sued MSNBC’s parent company on the grounds that Rachel Maddow defamed him.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) filed a lawsuit against NBCUniversal on Tuesday over claims that Maddow made, suggesting that Nunes did not turn over a package he received from a pro-Russian Ukrainian lawmaker in late 2019.
“How do Republicans keep Devin Nunes on as the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee given his unexplained interactions with Andriy Derkach?” the show’s official account <a href="https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1372745804981604354">tweeted</a> at the time.
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How do Republicans keep Devin Nunes on as the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee given his unexplained interactions with Andriy Derkach? <a href="https://t.co/d9wKsrJVAe">pic.twitter.com/d9wKsrJVAe</a>
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“Congressman Nunes has refused to answer questions about what he received from Andriy Derkach. He has refused to show the contents of the package to other members of the intelligence community,&#8221; Maddow told MSNBC viewers. &#8220;He has refused to hand it over to the FBI, which is what you should do if you get something from somebody who is sanctioned by the U.S. as a Russian agent.”
But in a 17-page legal complaint, Nunes states that Maddow knew that he turned the package over to the FBI and alerted then-Attorney General William Barr at the time, but she chose to run the segment without asking him for a comment.
These “statements were a product of Maddow’s imagination,” <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/4/devin-nunes-sues-for-defamation-over-rachel-maddow/">said</a> his lawyers, Madhu S. Sekharan and Steven S. Biss. “She made them up out of whole cloth in order to impute intentional wrongdoing to” Nunes.
“Although Maddow made it appear as if she had direct knowledge of facts, she did not have one shred of evidence to support the statements,” they said.
“The statements falsely accuse [Nunes] of criminal conduct (obstruction of justice and treason), serious breaches of the Code of Conduct and violations of protocols concerning the handling of information that comes to the House Intelligence Committee from foreign sources such as Derkach, concealment and deception, lack of integrity and ethical improprieties,&#8221; they continued.
Nunes’ attorneys stated that Maddow aired the spurious allegations, because “MSNBC and Maddow harbor an institutional hostility, hatred, extreme bias, spite and ill-will towards plaintiff due to plaintiff&#8217;s emergence as the most prominent skeptic in Congress of Maddow&#8217;s marquee news narrative from 2017 to 2019: that the Trump campaign colluded with Russians to hack the 2016 presidential elections.”
Nunes could face an uphill battle against Maddow because at least one judge has already ruled that Maddow&#8217;s viewers are aware that statements Maddow makes on her show may not be &#8220;fact.&#8221;
After One America News Network sued Maddow for falsely claiming that OANN received money from the Russian government, U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant — an Obama appointee — ruled last May that Rachel Maddow’s “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-rules-rachel-maddows-statements-cannot-reasonably-be-interpreted-as-allegations-of-fact">statements cannot reasonably be interpreted as allegations of fact</a>”
The Nunes segment aired on the March 18, 2021, episode of MSNBC’s top-rated program, the “Rachel Maddow Show.”
Nunes, who serves as the ranking Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, earned the ire of congressional Democrats in February 2018, when he released a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/6-serious-outstanding-questions-house-intelligence-ben-shapiro">four-page memo</a> summarizing abuses the Obama administration’s FBI and Justice Department engaged in to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Derkach has also been an irritant to Democrats. Last May, Derkach released what he claimed was a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ukrainian-lawmaker-releases-recorded-phone-calls-of-biden-poroshenko-that-contain-eyebrow-raising-remarks">private recording</a> of then-Vice President Joe Biden speaking with then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that appeared to confirm the allegation that Biden demanded a quid pro quo from the Ukrainian leader. In it, Joe Biden allegedly boasted to the Council on Foreign Relations that he threatened to withhold a $1 billion loan guarantee unless Poroshenko fired prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was investigating the Ukrainian oil company Burisma, which employed Hunter Biden.
“Despite the fact that we didn’t have any corruption charges, we don’t have any information about him doing something wrong … I specifically asked him to resign,” Poroshenko said.
Nunes has attempted to hold the media accountable for misstatements about him in the past. He sued CNN for <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/08/04/rep-nunes-sues-msnbc-after-rachel-maddow-allegedly-smeared-him/">$435 million</a> for accusing him of being part of an opposition research project against Joe and Hunter Biden. In 2019, he sued Twitter for $250 million for silencing center-Right content. Judges dismissed both lawsuits.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-rules-rachel-maddows-statements-cannot-reasonably-be-interpreted-as-allegations-of-fact">https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-rules-rachel-maddows-statements-cannot-reasonably-be-interpreted-as-allegations-of-fact</a>
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