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On Monday night, Rachel Maddow apparently made the following rather shocking claim: MADDOW: Yes, this has happened to a smaller degree before. In 1994, in the first mid-term election after the last Democratic president was elected, we got a slate of candidates that included Helen Chenoweth of Idaho and Steve Stockman of Texas. These two were so close to the militia movement in this country that Mr. Stockman actually received advance notice that the Oklahoma City bombing was going to happen.

"Lean Forward," MSNBC's new slogan suggests. The better to stick a shiv in your opponent's back. Ethics-averse Rachel Maddow did exactly that on her MSNBC show last night. After disparaging Republican candidates for their gall in criticizing reckless federal spending and government-controlled health care, Maddow made this jaw-dropper of a claim -- (Snip) These two were so close to the militia movement in this country that Mr. Stockman actually received advance notice that the Oklahoma City bombing was going to happen.

The segment started promising. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow began her interview with Oregon Congressional candidate Art Robinson (R) by telling the audience she was “delighted” to have him on the show. But delighted was soon replaced by words such as “criminals,“ ”communists,“ and ”concerned.” Maddow was trying to to accuse Robinson of receiving a de facto $150,000 campaign contribution because a third party group produced an independent ad apparently costing that much. The ad targeted Robinson’s challenger: 12-term Democrat Rep. Pete DeFazio.

The vice president told Democrats to “stop whining,” the president told them to “buck up,” and if there was any remaining doubt that press secretary Robert Gibbs’s exasperation over the summer with the “professional left” was the official view of the White House, they dispelled it this week. But who, exactly, makes up this “professional left” that is so bothering President Barack Obama and his advisers? On Tuesday, Gibbs’ deputy, Bill Burton, made it clear that the occasionally critical cable personalities originally associated with this comment have the administration’s blessing. "If you're on the left, if you're somebody like Keith...

In an otherwise serious poll from Politico and George Washington University, the survey also asks respondents which cable-news network they access most for political news. The results aren’t terribly surprising, as they more or less mirror the ratings, but are still noteworthy for one network’s almost-total marginalization. While Fox News Channel sailed to an impressive 42% and CNN got a substantial if unimpressive 30%, MSNBC got … More people are getting their news about the upcoming election from cable television than any other source, and from Fox News more than any other cable channel, according to a POLITICO/George Washington University...

Rachel Maddow has become a target of some on the left. Lanny Davis has called her "sanctimonious and intolerant" in an interview. Back on March 31 Maddow said on her MSNBC show that "Bill Clinton was probably the best Republican president the country ever had." Clinton didn't forget. He fired back this week: "One of the leading television commentators on one of our liberal cable channels said I was the best Republican president the country ever produced, which would come [as] quite a surprise to the Republicans, half of whom still think I'm a closet communist. "What she meant by...

New Crop of GOP-Tea Party Senate Candidates Holds Radical View on Abortion: Believe Govt Should Enforce Births by Rape, Incest Victims On her MSNBC show last night, Rachel Maddow reported that, with addition of Christine O’Donnell to the 2010 roster of U.S. Senate candidates, there are now five GOP-tea party candidates who oppose abortion, even in the cases of rape and incest. The others are Sharron Angle of Nevada, Ken Buck of Colorado, Joe Miller of Alaska and Rand Paul of Kentucky.

In case you haven't seen it, check out Rachel Maddow's lame hit piece on Christine O'Donnell last night. The crux of it is that Maddow seems to have a problem with the fact that O'Donnell is a Christian who believes in Biblical morality. On the clip O'Donnell is quoted as speaking out against masturbation. So has Maddow crafted a new campaign slogan for Chris Coons? "Vote For Chris Coons! He's The Candidate That SUPPORTS Masturbation!" C'mon Freepers, let's have some fun with this. Give us some great campaign slogan suggestions for Coons based on the Rachel Maddow hit piece.

RENDELL: We Democrats are too afraid of talking about the things we believe in.... (Clip )…..Look, what worries me most about this election is the turnout factor. MADDOW: Yes. RENDELL: You saw “The Wall Street Journal” poll. Among all voters, they choose Democrats by a slight majority. But among voters who are likely to vote, it‘s 50 to 39 Republicans. So, we‘ve got to do things to get our base to come out. And that means talking about what we believe in, talking about health care. Do you know in September in Pennsylvania, Rachel, I‘m doing three press conferences: one...

David Letterman took a jab at Bill O’Reilly while hosting MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on his show saying ” I don’t think you can be as smart as he is and actually believe what he believes”, his theory is driven by the idea that he only does it for the money. Of course, Letterman is not only taking a shot at O’Reilly, but at Conservative beliefs in general– which no doubt made his ultra left-leaning guest feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Letterman said, ” I have a theory about Bill O’Reilly, smart guy, and I think he knows better than...

David Letterman, speaking to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on his show, asked about the Shirley Sherrod incident and took it upon himself to slam Andrew Breitbart. At one point during the interview he asked her “how much time, energy was wasted on this a*shole ****ing around?” Maddow described Breitbart as a “spinoff from Matt Drudge, from the Drudge Report.” Breitbart, indeed, used to serve as an editor of the Drudge Report, but her intentions in mentioning the Drudge Report probably amount to the effectiveness of the site to sway public debate– not to mention millions of viewers visiting per day....

OBAMA'S POLL NUMBERS DOWN, IMAGINARY RACISM UPJuly 21, 2010 The Democrats are depressed about their collapsing poll numbers, so it's time to start calling conservatives "racist." As we now know from the Journolist list-serv, where hundreds of liberal journalists chat with one another, and which was leaked to Daily Caller this week, journalists cry "racism" whenever they need to distract from bad news for Obama. (Ironically, this story did not make headlines.) When the Rev. Jeremiah Wright scandal broke during the 2008 campaign, the first response of Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent was to demand that they start randomly...

Rachel Maddow: The device Mr. Cheney received is being worn outside his body, like a sort of bellypack. ~~~ Dr. Stewart: The device is powered by batteries for 6-8 hours outside to be untethered; and he'll carry a number of battery packs either in a handbag or in a harness which has become quite small and really not visible underneath the clothes; however, at nighttime, he'll need to be hooked up into a power adapter, into the wall. Rachel Maddow: Wow...without a pulse. Mr. Cheney is now ready for that lie detector test... [VIDEO AT SITE] Read more at...

While channel-surfing last night I wanted to see which Conservative Rachel Maddow was trashing and lying about. To my astonishment, she was doing her best impression of 'Poor Dick Cheney' and his heart condition. The segment included a heart specialist explaining Cheney's new hardware as Rachel sat listening intensely and sympathetically. This was the most phony BS concern I've ever seen. Watching her, you knew what she was really thinking, 'When is this bastard gonna die?'Rachel Maddow's Dick Cheney Death Watch

UnAmericana has this photo of a young Rachel Maddow and in case you haven’t caught the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC lately, TheDC has provided you with the striking contrast.

Whatever else the storm over General Stanley McChrystal is about, it's not about a bunch of rude remarks from him and his staff in Rolling Stone. The world already knows that military types get drunk and sing stupid songs and make fun of their higher-ups. That's been the stuff of war -- fictional and real -- forever. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin writes this morning about the incredible rudeness President Lincoln tolerated -- for a while -- from Gen. McLellan during the Civil War. The big difference, of course, was that President Lincoln was trying to win the Civil War, a...

President Obama met with a group of prominent liberal commentators on Thursday to discuss the Gulf oil spill and the administration's response. The meeting came in the midst of a rare firestorm of criticism from the left over the president's response to the spill. It was surely not coincidence that the journalists seen leaving the White House that afternoon--the New York Times's Gail Collins, the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, and the Wall Street Journal's Gerald Seib--were some of the more prominent critics of the president's Oval Office address on Tuesday

Glenn Beck has been waving a giant warning sign for years, but did liberal MSNBC anchors Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow finally side with him against Obama’s threat to our liberties? I cannot say that for sure, but listen to their words and judge for yourself. http://www.libertyjuice.com/2010/05/25/did-olbermann-and-maddow-finally-turn-on-obama/

Rachel Maddow joins "Tingles" Matthews...

Who Would You Prefer To Give Your Commencement Address? Beck or Maddow? Maddow is beating Beck 58% to 42%