MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow blasted former Rep. Tom Tancredo’s opening speech at the National Tea Party Convention last night, then directed her own brand of off-color criticism right at the event’s attendees.
“People who could not even spell the word vote, or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. His name is Barack Hussein Obama,” Tancredo said, to some applause.
The remarks left Maddow fuming for what she perceived as their apparent xenophobic racism. She went on to explain that the crowd’s reaction was barely audible not because some attendees didn’t laugh, but because their amusement was “sort of a little bit muffled by the white hoods.”
Speaking of unfair speculation, Maddow may be stepping up her rhetoric in a bid for attention after January’s television ratings came in recently. Maddow, who drew just 876,000 viewers, was soundly bested in the 9 p.m. slot by Hannity (2.88 million viewers) and CNN’s Larry King Live (930,000 viewers). And rumors abound that fellow far-left MSNBC host Keith Olbermann will soon be out of work.
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