While her counterparts on the Fox News Channel find themselves under intense media scrutiny, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow frequently embraces fringe conspiracy theories, with seemingly no fallout. Why is this?
-When she can’t easily explain misbehavior by her own side, Maddow readily embraces baseless allegations. During the early days of his seemingly endless series of scandals, Maddow defended former Congressman Anthony Weiner and pushed a seemingly-crazy Twitter hacking conspiracy:
-After the Boston Marathon bombings, Maddow promoted outlandish conspiracies, denying that Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were Islamists, claiming they had books on “Zionism” and were actually influenced by opposition to US foreign policy:
-And when a third bombing suspect, based in Florida, died after a skirmish with FBI agents, Maddow endorsed a bizarre cover-up conspiracy theory:
-When struggling to defend unpopular proposals, Maddow has a habit of resorting to desperate measures. During the initial debates over Obamacare, she claimed it opponents were planning actual ‘assassinations’:
-Sometimes, her outlandish theories are downright silly, such as the time Maddow claimed pollster Frank Luntz secretly dictates all GOP policy positions to party leaders:
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