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Rachel Maddow Attempts To Ambush Jon Huntsman At New Hampshire Event

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Jon Huntsman and his campaign have made it clear they don’t really have any interest in getting their candidate on the air with Rachel Maddow. But Rachel Maddow really, really wants to talk to him. Maddow got in a car and drove to a Huntsman event in New Hampshire, and did her best to approach the candidate.

RELATED: Jon Huntsman Fundraiser Riles Up Conservatives By Calling Rachel Maddow Her ‘Hero’

The sad news is that (spoiler alert!) Maddow does not get to meet or talk to Huntsman, as he is surrounded at all times. Maddow explains on the drive over to the Huntsman event that his handlers had said “no way, never going to happen” to an interview with her, but that she was going to try her best to get close to the candidate, anyway. As he finishes giving a speech, Maddow goes outside the venue and attempts to find the car she believes contains the Republican candidate. She approaches dramatically, with boom mics and cameras, but he eludes him, and so she must wait while he is approached by a media scrum that is surprisingly large to Maddow. One of the Rachel Maddow Show‘s reporters did get a question in– a benign one about Afghanistan, which he answered with numbers on how many and when he expected to pull out.

NBC News Jo Ling Kent, who had followed Huntsman for much of his campaign, explained to Maddow that only recently has his campaign gotten much press because New Hampshire is so integral to his campaign. After her attempt to get him on the program failed, Maddow, reporting from the studio, once again opened her studio to Huntsman. “You have an open invitation any time to come to the show,” she offered. “I do not bite– unless you want me to.”

The segment via MSNBC below:

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  • Gloves Lucas Donahue

    Who else has she not interviewed?

  • Anonymous

    Probably alot of other people that won’t be president either. 

  • Anonymous

    Did someone tear the “A” section out of your dictionary?

  • Henry Wood

    The Huntsman campaign includes an interesting lesson for libruls.

    All we have to do is say nice things about a viable, competent republiklan candidate, and we can completely destroy their campaign.  I guess this is because republiklans are more interested in hating libruls than anything else on earth.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4FIXQZ45KDYLOD4QPILHSNP5CQ CSC

    That dude looks pissed off.

  • Anonymous

    Rachel must have read all the nasty references about Ann Coulter’s Adam’s Apple, so, in order to prevent the inevitable and justified potential references to hers, she decided, wisely, to wear a turtle neck shirt.

  • Anonymous

    “…but he eludes him…”  That is priceless.

  • Anonymous

    Start with the O’s.

  • Anonymous

    I’m thinking, anyone of relevance.

  • Anonymous

    She doesn’t bite unless someone wants her to?  OMG, this woman is sick sick sick.  A supposed journo makes this a point fr an interview?
    No republican should ever go on MSNBC, or NBC, for that matter.

    Rachel hates all things conservative/republican; she works for the National barak Channel and should be shunned, ignored, and “flicked” away just like the little gnat she is.

  • Anonymous

    Once again she miscalculated. When she says she doesn’t bite, what is she referring to?

  • http://twitter.com/US3South Roberta Metalious

    hahaha…the Madcow can only get news by talking to a junior reporter.  LOL!!  And to Henry Wood…this “republikan” IS more interested in hating “libruls” than anything else on earth because “libruls” are thieves, liars, lazy, always looking for handouts.

  • Anonymous

    Most liberals support Huntsman more than the other candidates.. at least Huntsman supports science and education. That said, he doesn’t exactly make his platform well-known and you rarely hear about him because he isn’t in the top 3. I wouldn’t count him out but I only really see him as someone else’s vice president option at this point.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Most LOUD homophobe Republicans get caught didling the same sex..

    Do you cruise bathrooms?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Good to know MORON.

  • Anonymous

    “…but he eludes him…”

    Freudian slip perhaps, Francis?
    Editor took a break?

  • Anonymous

    And most phony liberals who pretend to champion for the poor have been caught with their sticky fingers in the cookie jar. How else did Jesse Jackson, Lois Farrakhan and Al Sharpton became millionaires?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tim-Malone/100002475802402 Tim Malone

    Ugly carpet muncher with no viewers did what? 

  • http://twitter.com/kkbear Kaye Bearden

    oh my, check out Rachel’s picture on her story and olberman’s on his…..separated at birth?

  • Anonymous

    “She Maddow got in a car and drove to a Huntsman event in New Hampshire, and did her best to approach the candidate.”

    Did you feel the need to reveal her gender Frances? What kind of car did “She Maddow” drive to the event?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    It’s for you Republican MORONS.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Avoiding the question?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    O you’re a dumba$$.

  • Anonymous

    HAHA, great catch!!  If a Conservative made the slip, they’d be called a homophobe.

  • Anonymous

    Heck, NO NO NO.

    When nature compels me to P, I P.

    You know, use the bathroom.  

  • Anonymous

    Speculating and assuming are a sign of an ignorant liberal!!

  • Anonymous

    Conservatives are all for science and education, but not your vision of liberal indoctrination.  That talking point is played out. 

  • Jardino

    Did you forget to take your meds today, Tina?

  • Jardino

    Maybe she can get Huntsman’s daughters on her show. That would be great!

  • Vlad Retailer

    Is there a chance Mediaite will hire me to edit these articles?  Here is some of my work.

    “She Maddow got in a car and drove to a Huntsman event in New Hampshire, and did her best to approach the candidate. ”
    “She got in a car and drove to a Huntsman event in New Hampshire and did her best to approach the candidate.”

    “She approaches dramatically, with boom mics and cameras, but he eludes him, and so she must wait while he is approached by a media scrum that is surprisingly large to Maddow. ”
    “She approaches dramatically, with boom mics and camera, be he eludes her, and so she must wait while he is approached by a media scrum that is surprisingly large to Maddow.”

    I believe I could be an asset to your organization, and I need a job and have the ability to recognize the proper use of conjunctions with punctuation to separate independent clauses. Thank you.

  • Anonymous

    ummmmmmmmmmmm……..

    “be he eludes her,”

    Well….it’s the thought that counts.

  • Anonymous

    If a conservative made the slip, “they” would not be the proper pronoun.

    Not all conservatives are for education, or are beneficiaries of it.

  • Anonymous

    Still hasn’t been fixed two hours after two commenters mentioned it. Quality work from Mediaite.

  • Anonymous

    Decided not to run for President as a Republican, saying that “in the coming weeks I will help coordinate strategies to assist in replacing the President, re-taking the Senate, and maintaining the House.”

  • Vlad Retailer

    I’m SO GLAD you caught that!  I just edited that in there!  You’ve just reaffirmed are belief that everyone (other than the publisher) notices these typos and that they’re in need of an editor.  You honestly just lost be $10 on a bet in SECONDS.

  • Anonymous

    Speculum licking and ass munching are the signs (plural!) of a Colorado Conservative.

  • Anonymous

    The powers that be here are completely okay with racist, sexist and homophobic comments, threats, insults, slanders and allegations of pedophilia, incest and murder, but don’t point out in comments that the writing and reporting are substandard. Also, there aren’t any editors, at least in the sense of persons employed to correct grammar, punctuation, usage, etc. and/or check facts.

  • Just Ed

    Thanks it really was poorly written.  For awhile I though a Mad Cow did it.

  • DoNotMindMe

    Hay wihl yoo ker-ect mai com-meant, cents yer sew intel-uh-gent. 

  • http://www.songsforamerica.net/photogallery/funny%20middle%20finger/Funny_Finger_anyquestions.gif AliveStillKickin

    “She Maddow got in a car and drove to a Huntsman event in New Hampshire, and did her best to approach the candidate.”

    I am guessing it was a Chevy Volt (yet another Obama-subsidized failure)
    I hear that GMC is giving up on the Volt and designing a new car based on 2 others….. … the Volvo and the 60s car…the Mercury Comet.
    Viola….The Chevy Vomit

  • Anonymous

    That was just such a childish and asinine comment from Rachel. What the he’ll is with her?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    People need to be constantly reminded she’s not a guy.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Thanks for making a list of people who can’t be joked about or it constitutes bigotry. That’s a great case for making them seem like just another guy. Why not tie red sirens to their hind ends? Once again white men are the only ones who seem to be able to take it and brush it off – at least according to you.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    It’s not a Freudian slip: you can’t hurt a dildo.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    They should’ve mentioned the temperature and humidity with the location on a Google map inset on the screen.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Good Job Rachel!!  I was there at that event, but I missed seeing Rachel. Her camouflage works very well.  I will be at Romney’s event tomorrow night.  

  • us995

    she’s not a guy tranny?

  • us995

    she didn’t shave for a few days

  • Anonymous

    Lots …

    But don’t you just love this choice of words by Frances Martel:

    She approaches dramatically, with boom mics and cameras, but he eludes him, and so she must wait …

    “HE eludes HIM …  (she did recover as she said ‘she’ must wait.)

  • Anonymous

    Just commented on it – didn’t mean to repeat Oeno’s observation – going on 17 hours now !

  • Anonymous

    She just learned of a website which was created to coin the new word ‘maddow’, which refers to the xxxxxxxxxx which results from two girls xxxxxxxxxxx.

  • Anonymous

    I was thinking Obimbo…..I bet you were too, you just won’t admit it.

  • Anonymous

    Your sure that’s not foreskin?

  • Anonymous

    She’s kinda like the ghost hunter news anchor. She relies on shadows and noises instead of fact and reality. You gotta hand it to her though, she does do well with absolutely no material fact.

  • Anonymous

    Are you asking for a date? All thoughs pretty words….wow….

  • Anonymous

    Help me here. In that group of reporters who were there asking questions for quite along time, how is it that Maddow could walk slow enough to not ambush him.
    Wait, I think I answered my own question.

  • Anonymous

    She had absolutely no intention of catching him. Catching him would have ruined her attempt at appearing as though she was the super news anchor on an irreverent charge at windmills.
    Contrived, come to mind.

  • Anonymous

    Mediaite must’ve had a slow news day.
    Is anything Maddow does newsworthy or even remotely interesting to the majority of mankind?

  • Anonymous

    Yes, we get it. You’re an attention whore, Rachel. You’d think having your own show would satisfy her craving for attention, but unfortunately for her selfish personality nobody watches her show.

  • http://www.songsforamerica.net/photogallery/funny%20middle%20finger/Funny_Finger_anyquestions.gif AliveStillKickin

    If this dyke gets a pimple on her ass….Mediaite is right there covering the “event”
    This crap belongs on Nancy Grace.

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