re: #217 Mattand

I was listening to the podcast of the show this morning and just wound fast forwarding through most of the Rather stuff. You could just hear Rachel getting progressively (no pun intended) wound up as the segment progressed. I couldn’t deal with listening to Rather.

My worry is that Maddow could easily go down the same path as Rather on this. She obviously thinks the documents aren’t fake. I just don’t want to see her screw up like Rather. She’s one of the few decent journalists on TV. I’d hate to see her implode the way Rather did.

Me too. I like Rachel a lot, and almost always agree with her on political issues. But she’s way wrong on this one. Seems like her admiration for Dan Rather’s career (which isn’t undeserved - he did some first-class reporting in his day) is coloring her coverage of this issue, and that’s a shame.