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Rachel Maddow Thrilled To Discover Rick Santorum Is Using Her Name To Fundraise

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Rachel Maddow keeps finding herself in Republican politicians’ fundraising pleas. Her latest cameo appeared courtesy of Rick Santorum, who asked for money to help fight the “smut” she peddles against him, but she has been here before. Delighted to be mentioned yet again by someone she admits to thinking of “as kind of a bigger deal” than herself, Maddow took a trip down memory lane, to an Ohio GOP robocall calling her a “cross-dressing ultra-liberal lesbian from NYC.”

That last one, Maddow admitted, as the fund-raising plea attacking her “that means the most to me, I think,” because at the time she was a barely-known talk radio host. The candidate, Bob Ney‘s, opponent had visited her program, and so, in a robocall, voters were told he had participated in a “show from New York City hosted by a cross-dressing lesbian.” Maddow reported with glee that this robocall occurred shortly before Ney “had to go to prison in the Jack Abramoff scandal.” “One of his last political acts,” she notes, “was to call me a cross-dressing ultra-liberal lesbian from New York City.”

Then she turned to the matter at hand– Santorum, who she notes lost his last election by 18 points and is trailing in funds behind the “head of a mafia-themed pizza chain,” among others. Using her name, she says, Santorum is now “trying to make sure that everybody” Googles him. Highlighting the long, enraged email that mentions her and describes in euphemism what happens when you search his name. He does so, however, in a way that makes the prospect of Googling him all the more tempting. If you got said email, Maddow asked her audience, “would you run to your checkbook, outraged by the mere mention of these liberal names… or would you, out of curiosity, Google Santorum?”

“It is very flattering to have people try to raise money off of the sheer outrageousness of the mention of your name,” Maddow noted, and “it’s also hilarious,” so, Maddow concluded, Santorum was free to use her name to publicize his Google problem.

The segment via MSNBC below:

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  • http://www.facebook.com/miraclelurker?v=wall Ellen Carey Rowe

    Love you Rachel !!

  • Anonymous

    And yet, Rachel dosen’t even know you exist :( 
    But look at the bright side, at least you still have your Obama cardboard cutout. However, not even that will hold you, keep you warm and say ” I love you” at night.

  • Anonymous

    And yet, Rachel dosen’t even know you exist :( 
    But look at the bright side, at least you still have your Obama cardboard cutout. However, not even that will hold you, keep you warm and say ” I love you” at night.

  • Anonymous

    If she has a chance to play gotcha on a Republican, Rachel will always seize the opportunity, no matter how small the stakes.  A comet could hit the earth, and Rachel Maddow would spend her next show correcting spelling errors on Sarah Palin’s Twitter feed.  You see, there would no points to score against Republican if she covered the comet. 

    Same reason why she ignores unemployment, the national debt, the economy, war casualties, the border, and all those other issues — and fixates instead on a fundraising letter from Rick Santorum.  She can’t score points on Republicans talking about the economy, so even though it is the single biggest issue in America, she goes to enormous lengths to avoid mentioning it.   The end result is the most irrelevant show on cable TV. 

    And this is the woman that progressives set forth as their most intellectual pundit — someone who ignores the major issues of our day, and wastes hour after hour scoring points on the most trivial matters. 

  • Anonymous

    It just shows Rick “man on dog” Santorum is desperate. 

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Man on man … I just gurgled Santorum. I had no idea that’s what it meant. You have to hand it to those old Latins – they had a word for everything.

  • Anonymous

    I never heard of her before visiting Mediate and a few of the other political sites.  After hearing so much fuss about her from the right, I felt compelled to find out why.  I’ve watched her a few times and can appreciate her at her best.  She pointed out some politcal goings on in the rustbelt that I think needed national attention.  However, she does tend to ingnore important stories if they don’t suit her agenda.  I lean slightly (some say more) to the left, so take that for what it’s worth.  I’m not regular viewer and I do take her with a grain of salt.

  • Anonymous

    Do you actually watch her show or did you come to this conclusion from the clips Mediaite picks?

  • http://twitter.com/NotTheNoob NotTheNoob

    You go ahead and keep thinking that way about Ms. Maddow. What is the drinking age in the great state of Denial?

  • Anonymous

    I love that she doesn’t cover the exact same things that are covered by Matthews, O’donnell and Shultz. She does show interesting relevant political stroies that are not current events but just “for your knowledge” peices.
    She is the only person that points out how many governors who did not run on the abortion ban issue are banning them left and right in many states. I think this issue is important and undereported.

  • gordonbloyershow

    She should be happy when anyone mentions her name. What is “her” name?

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Yeah I know! Pretty soon she will have to resort to posting comments on political websites to market herself.

  • Moderate

    Soon Maddow will discover that she can destroy a politician’s career, simply by endorsing them.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Not that the truth matters to you, but she has ignored none of these.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Actually, you have much in common with you. Neither of you has a local access cable show in Portage, Indiana.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I’m glad Sanitarium has found a way to raise money. Frankly, I was embarrassed for him.

  • Anonymous

    Show me the time she devoted a broadcast to unemployment in America?  Show me the show she has devoted to the Border?   Show me her episode on the $14 trillion national debt?  On the looming bankruptcy of Social Security?

    You can’t.  Rachel is too busy scoring gotcha points. 

  • holistic

    Does this mean she is having multiple O’s when thinking of Santorum? Wow!

  • holistic

    Does this mean she is having multiple O’s when thinking of Santorum? Wow!

  • Levin

    A quick Google search for “Maddow on unemployment” brought up this link:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#42331472

    Gotcha! How many points do I get?

  • Xlawnman

    Soial Seurity is by far not bankrupt and I’m sure she could explain it to you that is if you had sence enough  to listen….I know that she knows how much is owed to S.S. from the general fund.

  • Anonymous

    You might be kidding on this, I can’t tell, because this so off base and wrong. Almost every show she does covers these topics. When not on one show it will be next. Just google each one of those topics from her show and you’ll have your hands full. We’ll just mark it up to “tea” spin!

  • http://ja-js.blogtownhall.com Chuck Fowler

    Radical Madcow is probably just happy anybody is using her name for anything, especially given her huge audience and ratings.

  • Andy

    You don’t have to be a dick. Or do you?

  • Andy

    Well she has a show and you don’t so….

  • http://ja-js.blogtownhall.com Chuck Fowler

    So……….what?

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