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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Like Naked Scotty Brown Before Him, Marco Rubio Tries to Play the Rachel Maddow Card... And Gets Played

He shoots:



She scores:

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You really have to wonder just what it is about Rachel Maddow that keeps prompting these rather dim Republican guys like Dick Armey, like Scott Brown, like Marco Rubio to attack her as they do, usually without much in the way of direct provocation to explain the attacks, as if something about her makes her feel to them like an opponent to their position in the world even though she so manifestly is not running for any public office they hold and given that as a critic of their ideological positions she is among the more respectful and non-threatening of their many critics in the media. I recall that fascbag Rush Limbaugh drew enormous attention to Rachel Maddow long before most who would sympathize with her viewpoint had otherwise noticed her, for example. She used to run his rather breathlessly paranoid exasperated "Has anybody ever heard of Rachel Maddow?" clip on her radio show every day in tribute to the free plug he was drawn so curiously irresistibly to provide her, provoked like so many of the patriarchal pricks of the Gelded Oldsters Party to shine a spotlight on Maddow's awesomeness and always only to their cost. What is it? What can it be that so drives these GOP-boys to weepy hair-tearing distraction?

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