Judging from MSNBC weeknight anchor Rachel Maddox's actions while covering Wednesday night's events at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, she has never heard the motto “If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.”
In an obvious attempt to diminish the importance of GOP speaker Natalie Gulbis before the professional golfer had a chance to utter a single word, the liberal host stated that Gulbis “is the 492-ranked pro golfer in the world” and mocked her for being on one season of NBC's Celebrity Apprentice reality show.
“Continuing a sort of theme tonight where they’re putting on people who are not necessarily well known,” Maddow grumbled that along with Gulbis, “we have [Andy] Wist from Standard Waterproofing. … We're also going to have an employee of a Trump winery speaking this evening.”
She also noted:
I should tell you that there’s also a landmark moment in American political history.
I think it’s going to be the only national convention in American political history in which we are going to have not one, but two former cast members from The Bold and the Beautiful (soap opera) speaking on two different nights of the convention.
At that point, anchor Brian Williams asserted: “I think you are using sarcasm right now.”
“No, it’s true,” Maddow stated. “Antonio Sabato, Jr., yesterday -- underwear model -- was on The Bold and the Beautiful. Tonight there is a person who’s being billed as an avocado farmer. She was also on The Bold and the Beautiful, who’s the last on the agenda, for tonight’s prime-time list.”
“She was also on The Bold and the Beautiful but not at the same time as Antonio Sabato, Jr.,” the liberal host asserted. "Gulbis was also on the soap opera, but she’s the only 'young and restless' actor in the whole convention.”
That dialogue led Mark Finkelstein, a blogger at the Legal Insurrection website who posted items for NewsBusters for over 10 years, to ask: “Where does Rachel Maddow’s feminist solidarity end?“
Finkelstein answered his own question by stating: “When a woman has the audacity to support a Republican.”
“In doing so,” he stated, “Maddow ignored the fact that Gulbis is a former #6 on the LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association) money list, has won four professional tournaments and at one point placed in the top 10 in four consecutive major championships.”
“If Tiger Woods spoke for Trump,” Finkelstein noted, “I suppose Maddow would dismiss him as 'the 628th golfer in the world' (his current ranking).”
However, Williams called on two panelists to comment on Maddow's harsh remarks.
The first was Eugene Robinson, an American newspaper columnist and the former assistant managing editor of the Washington Post, who noted: “I don’t know from The Bold and the Beautiful, but I believe Natalie Gulbis was once ranked higher than that as a golfer.”
“And she’s fairly well known in golfing circles,” he continued, “because she’s been kind of on the cover of golfing magazines because she -- frankly, because she’s good looking.”
Next up was Steve Schmidt, a campaign strategist and public relations worker for the Republican Party, who asserted: “Golf’s a cruel sport, and 500th in the world makes her a hell of a good golfer. I’ll tell you that.”
It won't be long -- next week -- until we see how Maddow gushes over speakers at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia regardless of any mistakes or blunders they may make. It's nice to know that some things never change, including the MSNBC host's hypocritical rantings.
