| The first person who bitches that I'm continuing on about Rachel Maddow ... I'm hunting them down and stapling to their head a hard copy of every post and comment I've made about her inaccurate story last week on immediate effect and how it's made it more difficult to actually hold Republicans accountable for violating the state constitution. Today, from Arianna Huffington's unpaid internship farm. Conservatives promptly denounced the story, pointing out that Democrats have also used the immediate-effect clause. On Tuesday, Maddow conceded that she should have noted that point. But the MSNBC host argued that what the Republicans were doing was drastically "different" than what Democrats had done. She replayed a clip of the House Speaker noting 73 Republicans present, and ignoring a Democrat's call for a count.
She did note that point, however. She just waved it off as if it annoyed her. Then, she buried the bit about Republicans gaveling through bills for immediate effect without figuring out if they actually had a constitutionally-mandated supermajority at the end, after repeating a bunch of nonsense about Benton Harbor's emergency manager. "On a personal note, I have to say I am more inclined than ever to stay on this story," she said. "I think something is going on Michigan that's not going on anywhere else in the country, and it deserves a lot more attention than it's getting."
Fine. Just get your damn facts straight. |
