BBE/IE: Rachel Maddow

[BlameThe1st]

Long story short: Rachel Maddow claimed that Florida's drug testing requirement for welfare recipients was funded by the--dun, dun, dun!--Koch Brothers. Turns out that her accusation was--surprise, surprise!--false! From The Washington Post:

The Kochs' extensive reach notwithstanding, they cannot be connected to everything.Tarren Bragdon, the chief executive officer of the FGA, tells the Erik Wemple Blog that his organization "did not work with the Kochs on the Florida drug-testing issue. To the best of my knowledge, they were not involved at all." The Kochs' general counsel, Holden, is a bit more definitive: "Right hand to God, we were not involved."

A Nexis search seeking coverage of Koch involvement in the 2011 welfare-drug-testing debate in the months prior to the law's passage comes up limp.

Representatives of the Florida Justice Institute and the state's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union each told the Erik Wemple Blog that they encountered no evidence of the Koch brothers among the law's champions. "This is the first I've ever heard of the Koch brothers being involved. You got me," says Randall Berg, executive director of the Florida Justice Institute, a group that, along with the ACLU, successfully challenged the law in federal court.

A lawyer sent her a memo telling her to rescind her false accusation. This was her response:

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"I will not read scripts provided to me by anyone else. I do not play requests."

You know, an honest journalist admits when they're wrong and retract their statements when they're false. Too bad there are no honest journalists on MSDNC--or anywhere for that matter!

[Travis Retriever]

Yeah, that's not cool Maddow, that's *not* cool.

[evensgrey]

Seems typical of Maddow:  Make up crazy shit, get caught making up crazy shit, get called on making up crazy shit, scream defiance.

[dallen68]

The problem is, she think's she's right, so she's not going to back down or apologize, or anything like that. To her, the fact someone failed to find a link to the Koch brothers just means either a) that someone works for the Koch brothers or b) the Koch brothers successfully covered their trail.

[Ibrahim90]

Seems typical of Maddow:  Make up crazy shit, get caught making up crazy shit, get called on making up crazy shit, scream defiance.

she'd fit right in with the rubenistas....

[R.E.H.W.R.]

The problem is, she think's she's right, so she's not going to back down or apologize, or anything like that. To her, the fact someone failed to find a link to the Koch brothers just means either a) that someone works for the Koch brothers or b) the Koch brothers successfully covered their trail.

I did a quick youtube search Maddow Koch brothers, good lord, she's done so many segments on them, that I swear she just wants to have sex with them.