E. Jean Carroll unleashed a string of wild boasts, predicting all the things she might do to benefit &#8220;women&#8217;s rights&#8221; with the nearly $84 million judgment that she was awarded in the defamation trial against former President Donald Trump.
Carroll laughed through her recent MSNBC appearance on Monday as she suggested new wardrobes, new shoes, and even a penthouse for host Rachel Maddow — among a number of other lavish gifts and expenditures — all while her attorney, looking increasingly uncomfortable waved her off: &#8220;That&#8217;s a joke.&#8221;
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Rachel Maddow asks E. Jean Carroll what she&#39;s going to do with &quot;Trump&#39;s money&quot; to help &quot;women&#39;s rights.&quot;
Carroll says she and Maddow will &quot;go shopping, get completely new wardrobes, new shoes&#8230;Rachel, what do you want, penthouse?&quot;
Her lawyer nervously says &quot;that&#39;s a joke&quot;: <a href="https://t.co/5LAx5xU5Uy">pic.twitter.com/5LAx5xU5Uy</a>
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Maddow kicked off the exchange by recalling a previous statement from Carroll, in which she had promised to do something with &#8220;Trump&#8217;s money&#8221; to benefit women&#8217;s rights — and then she asked Carroll if she had any firm plans with that regard and to describe what that might look like.
&#8220;Yes, Rachel!&#8221; Carroll replied, clearly excited. &#8220;I have such — I have such great ideas for all the good I&#8217;m going to do with this money.&#8221;
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&#8220;First thing, Rachel, you and I are going to go shopping,&#8221; she continued in exaggerated tones, getting laughs from her attorneys and Maddow. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to get completely new wardrobes, new shoes, motorcycle for [Attorney Shawn] Crowley, new fishing rod for [Attorney Roberta Kaplan] — Rachel, what do you want? Penthouse? It&#8217;s yours!&#8221;
Maddow continued to laugh, and Carroll kept going: &#8220;Penthouse &#8230; France? You want France? You want to go fishing in France? No? Oh, all right.&#8221;
Maddow shook her head, still laughing, and one of Carroll&#8217;s attorneys jumped in quickly to clarify: &#8220;That&#8217;s a joke.&#8221;
&#8220;Although, if me fishing in France could do something for women&#8217;s rights, I would take the hit,&#8221; Maddow replied. &#8220;I&#8217;d take one for the team.&#8221;

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‘Penthouse? It’s Yours’: E. Jean Carroll Quips About Spending Spree With Trump Judgment Cash

'Penthouse? It's Yours': E. Jean Carroll Quips About Spending Spree With Trump Judgment Cash

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British commentator Piers Morgan ripped CNN, MSNBC, and Rachel Maddow for not showing former President Trump’s victory speech after he won the Iowa caucuses.
CNN showed a part of Trump’s speech before cutting away as host Jake Tapper remarked, “Here he is now, under my voice, you hear him repeating his anti-immigrant rhetoric &#8230;” while Maddow claimed they had would not show the speech because Trump would be saying “untrue” things.
“There is a cost to us as a news organization of knowingly broadcasting untrue things. That is a fundamental truth of our business and who we are. And so his remarks tonight will not air here live &#8230;” Maddow had stated.
“I&#8217;m sorry, Rachel Maddow banging on about disinformation and how damaging it would be to MSNBC, didn&#8217;t she lead the charge on Russian collusion for two years? Right?” Morgan snapped as he <a href="https://news.grabien.com/story-piers-morgan-slams-msm-for-censoring-trump-what-about-your-own-backyar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> on Fox News’ “One Nation” with host Brian Kilmeade.
“I watched that night after night,” Morgan continued. “I would tune in, not for very long, and hear, ‘Russia collusion, Russia collusion’ on MSNBC, my former bosses at CNN. And It turned out to be complete nonsense, a massive nothing burger.”
“No apology, no acknowledgment,” Kilmeade interjected.
“Nothing,” Morgan agreed. “But now they have the brass neck to say, ‘We can&#8217;t possibly show Trump&#8217;s victory speech because he might spew disinformation.’ Well, what about your own backyard?”
Kilmeade pointed out that foreign leaders were also targeting Trump, with the former head of Great Britain’s MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, saying, “For the UK’s national security, is problematic,” and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declaring, “If there is a second time, it won’t be easy either.”
“If you take Trudeau, for example, he banged on about Trump being a fascist, when he is the number one woke fascist in the world. The most woke human being alive,” Morgan commented.
“He destroyed that country,” Kilmeade echoed.
“I saw a poll last week that said more young Canadians would vote Trump than vote Trudeau,” Morgan laughed. “They would if they could.”

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Piers Morgan Rips MSM For Not Showing Trump’s Iowa Victory Speech

With Donald Trump as the presumptive 2024 nominee, Joe Biden ailing, and Kamala Harris being the backup for Biden, panic has set in on the Democratic side of the aisle.
Full-scale panic.
This panic is also an ally of Trump because the more they say Trump is Mussolini or Hitler and the world is going to end if he&#8217;s elected president, the more everybody looks at them like they’re crazy.
Because they are.
Here is the thing: No matter what you think of Trump, the notion that he is in the same league as Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini is an absurdity. He was already president once. And what happened? Some tax cuts, some Supreme Court appointments, pretty good foreign policy, a good economy, some bad governance during COVID.
Then he made some dumb statements between November 4 and January 6. A few hundred people walked into the Capitol building, and then, within three hours, they were cleared and then he wasn&#8217;t president anymore.
That&#8217;s the story. Does that sound like Mussolini or Hitler? Was that the March on Rome? Was that Hitler&#8217;s Reichstag fire? Where is the comparison? I need the comparison in order to really understand the claim Democrats are making.
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So Rachel Maddow had her say following the Iowa caucuses, and she turned it up to Spinal Tap 11. But when the volume continues to be turned all the way up, everyone goes deaf and spends nine years with the volume at Spinal Tap 11. We can&#8217;t hear you because you went nuts too many times too often.
Maddow <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2024/01/16/maddow-rants-gop-potentially-fascist-backing-mass-deportations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>:
<blockquote>The big picture take away from that — and I don&#8217;t mean to be, again, too dark, as you said, on this. But it is not — if we are worried about the rise of authoritarianism in this country, we are worried about potential rise of fascism in this country, if we&#8217;re worried about our democracy falling to an authoritarian and potentially fascist form of government, the leader who is trying to do that is part of that equation.</blockquote>
Then she segued to people who would vote for Trump:
<blockquote>But people wanting that is a much bigger part of that equation. And the American electorate is made up of two major parties. One of those parties has been flirting with extremism on the ultra-Right for a very long time. They&#8217;ve brought them in in a way that they haven&#8217;t been central to Republican electoral politics ever before. And I know because I&#8217;ve been studying this, but once you have radicalized one major party so that those are the preferences of the people who adhere to your party, the leader’s interchangeable. 
And yes, Trumpism is sometimes what we call it; MAGA movement is probably a better way to do it, but there is an authoritarian movement inside Republican politics that isn&#8217;t being bamboozled by Trump; they are pushing Trump to get more and more extreme because the more extreme things he says, the more they adhere. And that is coming from a very large proportion of the American right that adheres to the Republican Party. And that&#8217;s why this is a Republican Party problem more than it is the problem of one man and his language.</blockquote>
Notice what she&#8217;s doing here. She&#8217;s not saying Trump is fascist. She&#8217;s saying you&#8217;re a fascist if you voted for or would vote for Trump against Biden.
The checks and balances of the presidential office prevent Trump from doing what he might have an inclination to do. But the checks and balances have been working less well with Biden.
Trump surrounded himself with professionals. Those professionals very often told him, “Don&#8217;t do this thing. It&#8217;s illegal.” That happened a lot during Trump&#8217;s administration.
Meanwhile, Biden does illegal things regularly and his people are ok with it.
When you assess the presidential candidates, we all assume there is a filter — the filter of governance reality. It&#8217;s like a coffee filter. The water is poured on the coffee grounds, and the filter prevents the actual coffee grounds from getting in the coffee.
Much of what Trump says is the coffee grounds, and a lot of his worst stuff doesn&#8217;t get through the coffee filter. But with Biden, the grains are too small. They&#8217;re too fine. They get right through the coffee filter. And so on the other end, it&#8217;s actually worse coffee with Biden than with Trump.
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But the Democrats are already turning it up to, “It&#8217;s not just Trump; it&#8217;s everyone. If you vote for Trump against Biden, it&#8217;s because you are an authoritarian wannabe. You want the federal government weaponized against you.”
The only candidate in this race who&#8217;s actively weaponized the federal government against its citizens is Joe Biden. It is Joe Biden who tried to use the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to ram a vaccine on 80 million people.
We here at The Daily Wire sued him to stop that from happening.
It is Joe Biden who suggested he could unilaterally not enforce immigration law, change all of our immigration laws, and let five, six, seven million people into the country illegally.
So all the talk of Donald Trump being a threat to the country?
We can all see what&#8217;s happening here.

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MSNBC will generally not air remarks or speeches by former President Donald Trump, the leading Republican presidential candidate, as they happen, network anchor Rachel Maddow said Monday night.
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iowa-exit-polling-shows-scope-of-trumps-domination-with-republican-voters">won</a> the Iowa caucuses, the first contest of the GOP presidential primary, on Monday with more than 50% of the vote. He beat his next closest competitor, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, by a roughly 30-point margin.
As Trump delivered his victory speech in Iowa, Maddow told viewers of the left-of-center network that it would not air Trump’s remarks live over concerns of broadcasting “untrue things.”
“At this point in the evening, the projected winner of the Iowa caucuses has just started giving his victory speech. We will keep an eye on that as it happens. We will let you know if there’s any news made in that speech, if there’s anything noteworthy, something substantive and important,” Maddow said. “Of course, there is a reason we and other news organizations have generally stopped giving an unfiltered, live platform to remarks by former President Trump. And it is not out of spite. It is not a decision that we relish. It is a decision that we regularly revisit.&#8221;
“Honestly, it is not an easy decision, but there is a cost to us as a news organization knowingly broadcasting untrue things,” Maddow continued. “That is a fundamental truth of our business and who we are. And so his remarks tonight will not air here live. We’ll monitor them and let you know of any news that he makes.”
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MSNBC host <a href="https://twitter.com/maddow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@maddow</a> says NBC and other mainstream news networks have decided not to show Trump’s victory speech. CNN had him on briefly but then cut away and replaced him with <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a> who says “caucus goers believe the lie.” <a href="https://t.co/dnUHEB1wqH">pic.twitter.com/dnUHEB1wqH</a>
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Networks and news organizations have routinely refused to air live remarks by Trump in recent years. Outlets such as CNN and NPR have joined MSNBC over fears of spreading misinformation.
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Trump has led Republican primary polls in the months leading up to the Iowa contest and is favored to become the eventual GOP nominee to challenge President Joe Biden for the White House in November. MSNBC’s decision to continue its filtered coverage against Trump raises questions about media fairness and objectivity in political coverage.
Networks were accused of interfering in the Iowa caucus Monday night over the decision to call the race early, as well. Multiple outlets – including Fox News, the Associated Press, CNN, and others – called the race for Trump with about 1% of results in. Voting had not started in many areas of the state when notifications were sent out declaring a winner.

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Rachel Maddow Signals That MSNBC Won’t Air Live Donald Trump Speeches

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>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1691267611395330048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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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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Critics Drag Top Democrat Election Denier For Giddy Reaction To Trump Indictment

Critics Drag Top Democrat Election Denier Hillary Clinton For Giddy Reaction To Trump Indictment

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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.
&mdash; Rob Reiner (@robreiner) <a href="https://twitter.com/robreiner/status/1525771154375458817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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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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Leftists Blame Tucker Carlson For Buffalo Massacre. They Didn’t Blame Maddow In Scalise Shooting.

New York Times, Others On Left Quick To Link Fox's Carlson To Buffalo Murder Spree

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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’

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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.

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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.

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