How Rachel Maddow Turned Into Infowars

The American Conservative ^ | 4/5/19 | Peter Van Buren

[OddLane]

Though she doesn’t often bring it up these days, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow remembers how the media abetted the Bush administration’s lies justifying the 2003 Iraq invasion. That was when elite (in many cases handpicked) journalists spent months serving as stenographers for the push to war, parroting every carefully crafted leak without question. They dismissed skeptics as disloyal and spiked stories that would have raised questions about the narrative. When they got caught, they declared “never again.”

Yet with Rachel Maddow as their poster child (along with David Corn, Luke Harding, Chris Hayes, the entire staff at CNN, and hundreds more), journalists over the last two years repeated every mistake their predecessors had made in 2003...

[Billthedrill]

Maddow is a sad story.

Not really, I think it's funny as hell. And judging by the number of my liberal friends who have suddenly found something else to talk about, she'll ignore the whole thing, and a year from now when the public's memories have been suitably re-molded, we'll be hearing the classic "Our intentions were good." Being a liberal is never having to say you're sorry.

[laweeks]

Rachel Maddow? Never heard of him.

Try Raging Madcow