Who's Petty Now?
Yesterday we posted about Air America entertainer Rachel Maddow, who, on Keith Olbermann's Countdown show, railed at Democrats for daring to appear on Fox News and, even worse, say something nice about them. The money quote we focused on:
MADDOW: If you just think about the petty stuff that Fox News has done. The fact the last time they hosted a Democratic Presidential candidate campaign, they referred to all the candidates as Democrat candidates.
As we documented from the transcripts of not just one but three debates hosted by Fox, they never once referred to any of the contenders as a "Democrat" candidate. Maddow was making it up: currying favor with Olbermann, perhaps in the hope that she'll get another chance to guest-host his show.
By why would she want to? Why does Rachel Maddow, enemy of using "Democrat" as an adjective and other "petty" insults, even allow herself to appear on MSNBC? We ask that question because of what we found during a brief excursion into the MSNBC transcript archives:
- CHRIS CILLIZZA: Then you look at polling where it says for president would you prefer a generic Democrat candidate or generic Republican candidate?
- CHRIS MATTHEWS: What is the fight between your party and the Democrat party, Democratic Party, over the Patriot Act?
- DANA MILBANK: Mark McKinnon is a Democrat strategist happened to have a man crush on George W. Bush.
- TIM RUSSERT: If you do not become chairman of the Democrat Party, might you consider running for president?
- CHUCK TODD: She was not seen as the—inside the Democrat Party as a rank and file liberal.
- CHRIS MATTHEWS: There isn‘t a unified Democrat Party, in all due respect.
- TUCKER CARLSON: And could his Joe-mentum be the death of the Democrat Party‘s hopes for the White House in 2008?
- KEITH OLBERMANN: Party leaders, superdelegates, not the pledged kind selected by the voters rearing up and taking command of the Democrat Party.
- TIM RUSSERT: Coming this fall, who will you vote for, the Democrat candidate, or Republican candidate?
- CHRIS MATTHEWS: I’m going to ask you about six or seven questions, they all deal with sensitive constituencies in the Democrat Party.
- JOHN HARWOOD: I talked to a top Democrat strategist yesterday.
- KEITH OLBERMANN: And our fifth story in the COUNTDOWN, the Democrat Party, not to mention the American democracy, should be all the better for it.
- CHRIS MATTHEWS: Kweisi Mfume, he is the former president of the NAACP and a former congressman. Until last week, he was the Democrat candidate for Senator in Maryland.
- DAN ABRAMS: My problem is with the Democrat Party establishment.
- TIM RUSSERT: There will be an uproar, an upheaval within the Democrat party.
- CHRIS MATTHEWS: And speaking of Pennsylvania, we‘ll also talk to the state‘s Democrat Party chair.
- CRAIG CRAWFORD: I actually think a big part of the problem in the leadership of the Democrat Party, Keith.
- KEITH OLBERMANN: Typically, this far into the primaries, the remaining Democrat candidate goes after the Republican.
