On Worst Possible Day for Russiagate Bitter Clinger Maddow, She Invites on Worst Possible Guest

By C. Douglas Golden

November 6, 2021 at 1:30pm

I’m sure the circles in the Venn diagram of “Western Journal commentary readers” and “Rachel Maddow watchers” overlap somewhere. Granted, we may have to break out the electron microscope to find the overlap, but the laws of probability ensure it has to exist.

For the rest of you who haven’t been keeping up with MSNBC’s favorite woodland sprite, here’s a “previously on Rachel Maddow” pre-episode recap.

In the immediate aftermath of the 2016 election, Maddow bit hard on Russiagate in general and on the dossier assembled by former MI5 agent Christopher Steele in particular.

Maddow wasn’t the only one, of course — but she was so taken with the conspiracy theories that thumbtacks-and-pieces-of-string-era John Nash would have told her to take it easy.

In case you missed it, here’s a viral supercut of one night of Russia references on Maddow’s show during its most febrile period:

After the Mueller report was released and found no evidence of Russian collusion, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee wrote an Op-Ed entitled, “Now That Russian Collusion Is Over, Which Conspiracy Will Maddow Choose Next?”

The answer was — none. Russia was still the bogeyman, the Steele dossier was still very real and Mueller just hadn’t found the evidence of what was clearly right in front of us.

Flip the political affiliation, insert a bit more screaming and some ads for colloidal silver and you have a bad episode of Alex Jones.

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