After a week of serious grownup news, what we all really needed was a little comic relief and thank goodness for the self-absorbed rantings of MSNBC's Rachel Maddow for supplying it.In an apparent attempt to reverse slumping ratings, Maddow's bosses even took out an ad so she could vent uncensored about how Sen. Scott Brown “smeared' her by indicating in a fund-raising letter that Democrats were trying to recruit her.
Now we're a little unclear how a run for Senate - however improbable - constitutes a “smear.' But that aside Maddow's petulance seems, well, just a little contrived.
Brown, of course, has been inundated with interview requests since his January election victory. He's just as popular on the Republican fund-raising circuit.
And Maddow might want to contemplate these numbers: Brown got 1,167,178 votes in that Senate election. Maddow's total national Nielsen Company ratings run about 881,000 (but only 240,000 in the coveted 25 to 54 age group).
Now if only Keith Olbermann would buy a summer home on the Cape . .