(I always loved that radio snippet from her show)
Reading Glenn Greenwald, he cites Maddow making an excellent point:
I feel like I've become kind of a semi-pro listener to the news, where I‘m always listening for Democratic candidates and even their surrogates to say John McCain. Every time I hear them say it, a little bell goes off in my mind, because that's what I think Democrats -- anybody who has an interest in John McCain not becoming president, whether or not you support Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or Ralph Nader or anybody else in the race, Mike Gravel as the Libertarian -- if you want John McCain to not win, you have to start hitting him now, because the default position of the press toward John McCain is so positive that unless other candidates are actively and specifically going after him all the time, his free ride takes him right to the White House.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/01/great_american_hypocrites/index.htmlI would add: the American public really IS stupid enough to make it 3 in a row, unless we force them not to (by rubbing the idiocy and evil of McSame in their faces).