Washington Post media reporter Jeremy Barr wrote a very lovely valentine to Rachel Maddow’s brief return to five-nights-a-week fretting over Trump. This was the sappy headline:
Rachel Maddow is bringing viewers back to MSNBC — and giving them hope
Every quote in this story was either Maddow or Maddow’s backers. He was….”Jeremy Barr None.” There were seven quotations of “brilliance” from Maddow’s MSNBC programs, starting with the first sentence: “We will get through all of this together. You and me.”
It included two positive quotes from Keith Olbermann, who’s still taking credit for her career:
“If your numbers are lagging, then bringing in a personality who is the embodiment of that network and has been for [many] years only makes sense,” said Jonathan Klein, the former president of CNN U.S. “If she would work 24 hours per day, they…
