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Rachel & Scott are getting married - and other webfibs

Rachel Maddow is not running for Senate. Just wanted to set that straight. Particularly if you were not convinced by the full-page ad that ran in the Boston Globe today, or her live confirmation of this fact on the Ed Schultz show on Revolution radio this afternoon, or when she said it live on her TV show.

Apparently, someone on Facebook decided to start a fan page called Rachel Maddow for Senate in 2010, and some conservative creative guy working on the Scott Brown campaign decided to jump on it. This person/people decided not to verify it as in, did not call Rachel's show, did not email her, did not respond to four days of calls from Maddow and her people. They just threw in an email to out-of-state conservative donors the "facts" that the Democratic party had try to reach her in order to woo Maddow to run against Brown - and I like to think they added: "ooOOOoo we can't have that happen, can we? Take out your wallets and help us beat the crazy liberal lesbian lady!" (No, they did not say that but I bet they would like to have)

Really?

Rachel Maddow is the big threat?

They can't just say that Scott Brown is a decent candidate, would do his best for Massachusetts and here's why [list good policy points here]?

No, they can't. Because Scott Brown is - least not in my mind - not good for Massachusetts. And as for his being "an independent voice" for the state, I have to heartily disagree with that statement as he has been doing nothing so far but reiterate the conservative GOP talking points.

And allowing this email to go out to people - as I am sure he had to approve it - without checking the facts (I know, like that's ever stopped a politician), as well as believing, like his campaign staff, that "while [he's] sure she's a nice person", she is truly a liberal threat worthy of luring lots of money from conservative donors...oh wait, of course he'd believe that. She has her own show which is "a nightly platform for her liberal agenda" And, of course, the little, unheard conservative folk don't have that kind of voice. Nobody speaks for them [Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly and all the Fox News people who repeatedly had Scott Brown on their various shows plugging him like he was the guy to save the state of Massachusetts from all those crazy liberals like the deceased Ted Kennedy are beside the point].

What he and his people appeared to have forgotten is that this is how the internets works: when you don't fact check, other people do.

At the same time, I guess Scottie can breathe a sigh of relief after hearing for a fact that he doesn't have to run against, and potentially lose to a smart, witty, gay woman from Western, MA who actually probably COULD get all her campaign funds in her home state...and definitely from around the country as well.

KEEP PAYING ATTENTION!!!

Peace --Alex

posted by funkweee @ 1:45 PM