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Clinton's Claim Veterans Are 'Satisfied' With VA Health Care Disputed by Whistleblower
By Randy Hall | October 26, 2015 | 5:55 PM EDT

One of the most controversial remarks made by Hillary Clinton -- a 2016 Democratic presidential candidate -- during her interview with MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow on Friday night came when the party's frontrunner quoted “a number of surveys” that claimed “overall, veterans who get treated” in Veterans Administration facilities “are satisfied with their treatment.”

That remark drew a challenge from retired U.S. Marine Brandon Coleman, who on Monday told Elisabeth Hasselbeck -- one of the hosts of the weekday morning Fox & Friends program -- that he was prepared to give Clinton a tour of the Phoenix VA facility “whenever she wants to do it, unannounced.”

Hillary's Cure for Inept VA Bureaucracy: Hire More Bureaucrats
By Jack Coleman | October 25, 2015 | 8:10 PM EDT

During Rachel Maddow's live but actually not interview with Hillary Clinton on Friday night, Maddow asked Clinton if she had any "new ideas" on improving health care for veterans provided by the notoriously schlerotic Veterans Affairs department.

Considering that Maddow put this to a paleo-Dem whose politics have remained static since her undergrad days at Wellesley, Clinton's answer to Maddow's query was nearly certain to amuse.

MSNBC Touts 'Live' Interview with Hillary Clinton - That Wasn't, Uh, Live
By Jack Coleman | October 25, 2015 | 4:28 PM EDT

Liberals often proclaim their devotion to "free" health care and "free" college, thereby demonstrating their flimsy grasp of the word "free."

The word "illegal" is also a challenge for them as shown by their unwillingness to utter the dreaded term "illegal immigrant."
 

Rachel Maddow Swoons Over ‘Universally Well-Liked’ Biden
By Jeffrey Meyer | October 22, 2015 | 1:18 PM EDT

Following Rachel Maddow’s over-the-top praise of Vice President Joe Biden after he decided against a 2016 White House bid Wednesday afternoon, the liberal MSNBC host used her prime time show that night to continue to cheer the “universally well-liked” Biden. Maddow opened her show by gushing that “no one of his political stature has built up more of a store of legitimate human emotional goodwill with political enemies and friends alike. Nobody has that kind of reservoir of goodwill. Nobody has anything like that, compared to Joe Biden.”

Maddow Producer: The Real Benghazi Scandal Is the GOP's Investigation, Which Should Be Investigated
By Tom Johnson | October 17, 2015 | 4:45 PM EDT

Michael Kinsley’s second-best-known contribution to political discourse, trailing only the “Kinsley gaffe,” is his observation that “the scandal isn't the illegal behavior -- the scandal is what's legal.” In a Thursday post, Steve Benen, a producer for MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show and the primary writer for the TRMS blog, sought to apply Kinsley’s wisdom to the congressional inquiry into the September 2012 Benghazi attack.

“The Benghazi Committee isn’t investigating a scandal. The Benghazi Committee is the scandal,” declared Benen (italics in original). “There’s been some debate in recent weeks about whether congressional Democrats should continue to participate in such an obvious farce. It’s a worthwhile question that deserves an answer.”

Bizarro World: Rachel Maddow Claims NYT Has the ‘Knives Out for Hillary’
By Scott Whitlock | October 15, 2015 | 1:04 PM EDT

According to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, it’s shocking that the liberal New York Times would praise the liberal Hillary Clinton. While recapping the Democratic presidential debate, host Maddow seriously claimed, “... The New York Times has its knives out for Hillary Clinton more so than any other mainstream media outlet in the country.”

'Me Too!' Politico Reporter Assures Harris-Perry He's Also a Feminist
By Mark Finkelstein | October 12, 2015 | 10:13 PM EDT

Isn't that sweet: a Politico reporter assures a far-left MSNBC host that when it comes to a major issue, he shares her political viewpoint.

On this evening's Rachel Maddow show, guest host Melissa Harris-Perry happened to mention that she was a "feminist." Hardly had Harris-Perry uttered the words when Jake Sherman, congressional correspondent for Politico, broke in to assure her "me too!"

Awww! Justice Breyer Ducks Question on Citizens United Ruling During MSNBC Interview
By Jack Coleman | October 6, 2015 | 5:39 PM EDT

"Tonight for the interview ..." -- or The Interview as this species of schmooze is known on The Rachel Maddow Show -- "we've got a sitting Supreme Court justice," trumpeted Maddow on her program Friday night. "What?! Yes! ... It is very rare for Justice Breyer to do an interview but we have got that here tonight."

Halfway through the show, Maddow made another plug for The Interview -- "There are nine justices on the Supreme Court. Contrary to popular impression, the nine life-tenured members of the United States Supreme Court  -- they are human. They are people. That said, that doesn't mean you can talk to them. Except tonight we can. Tonight an interview with sitting Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer. Seriously."

Maddow Bemoans ‘Demagoguery’ in Planned Parenthood Hearing; ‘It Went Very Badly’ for GOP
By Curtis Houck | September 30, 2015 | 3:14 AM EDT

Not surprisingly, liberal MSNBC host Rachel Maddow led off the Tuesday edition of her eponymous show by opining on the House hearing featuring Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards and lamenting how “the whole Republican Party is more unified to try to destroy Planned Parenthood than they are unified on anything else” with their “demagoguery” that she determined worked out “very badly” for them.

Maddow: Conservatives Lament Pope's Visit to US as 'The End of the World'
By Jack Coleman | September 23, 2015 | 7:45 PM EDT

It's too much to expect that Rachel Maddow will accurately report that many conservatives express misgivings about Pope Francis's leftist economics and willingness to wade into the political realm.MSNBC's most earnest evening host prefers to depict conservatives as adorned with sandwich boards and sputtering incoherent warnings of doom in response to the pope's visit to the U.S.

MSNBC’s Maddow Gushes to Sanders: ‘You’ve Been Preparing for This Your Whole Life’
By Curtis Houck | September 18, 2015 | 9:38 AM EDT

Appearing exclusively on Thursday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, Democratic presidential candidate and socialist Bernie Sanders was lobbed one softball question after another that included Maddow gushing that “[y]ou’ve been preparing for this whole life” and wondering if the success he’s had thus far was “energizing” or “tiring and overwhelming.”

MSNBC RINO Parrots Myth of Nixon's 'Secret Plan' to End Vietnam War
By Jack Coleman | September 17, 2015 | 8:18 PM EDT

It is among the most durable of left-wing delusions, one that refuses to die a worthy death nearly a half-century after liberal propagandists dumped it on the public.

The bogus claim made its most recent appearance on -- go figure -- MSNBC during yet another earnestly deceptive broadcast of The Rachel Maddow Show.