Rachel Maddow Takes Out Full-Page Ad To Declare Non-Campaign Against Scott Brown
Think Scott Brown is regretting his imaginary campaign against Rachel Maddow yet? Maddow has been on a rampage these past few nights after discovering that Brown had not only not rescinded his initial fund-raising email declaring her his opponent, but had refused to acknowledge the falseness of it during a talk radio (or even bothered to call her to confirm it in the first place). All this after Maddow spent a segment of the show denying she had any intention of running for office….ever.
Last night Maddow unveiled her anti-Maddow campaign ad to aid Brown in his “fake campaign” and then followed it up this morning by running a full page ad in the Boston Globe to reconfirm she’s still not running. One two SNAP.
Here’s the thing about the letter, though, it’s more political than funny. Actually, there’s one or two grafs (the 5th and 6th to be exact) in there that, dare we say it, sound a teeny bit platformy. I know Rachel Maddow is not running for office. Not not not. However, if she ever deep, deep down wanted to test the waters this would certainly be a grand way to do so. Meanwhile, how long till the Maddow, Brown sitdown interview? I think he may have painted himself into a bit of a corner here. Text of the letter below.
“Hi, I’m Rachel Maddow. I host a TV show on MSNBC. I also live in Western Massachusetts, in the beautiful hilltowns of Hampshire County.
“This week, our new U.S. Senator, Scott Brown, sent a fundraising letter that says I’m running against him for Senate when he’s up for re-election in 2012.
“I’m not running against Scott Brown. I never said I was running against Scott Brown. The Massachusetts Democratic Party never asked me to run against Scott Brown. It’s just not true. Honestly. I swear. No, really.
“Senator Brown never even tried to find out if it was true, before using the made-up threat of me running against him, to try to scare donors into giving him more money. He sent the letter all around the country, to the out-of-state conservative activists who provided so much of the funding for his successful Senate campaign.
“Do you remember when Mitt Romney ran for President after being our Governor and he went around the country insulting Massachusetts, talking about what an awful state we are? To have our new Senator raising money around the country by saying how terrible one of his Massachusetts constituents is, kind of feels the same way to me.
“It’s standard now for conservatives to invent scary fake threats to run against — things like the made-up ‘death panels’ in health reform, or the fake controversy about the president’s birth certificate. Senator Scott Brown’s only been in DC seven weeks, but he already seems to be fitting right in with how conservatives operate there.
“I’m running this ad not because I’m running against Scott Brown — I’m not, he made that up — but because he’s the Senator for all of us, and maybe this will make him think twice the next time he wants to smear one of his constituents to raise money out-of-state.
“My show airs at 9PM Eastern in Massachusetts on MSNBC. So far, Scott Brown refuses to come on. Maybe he’ll change his mind — I hope he does.
“Sincerely,
“Rachel Maddow”
