Rachel Maddow defends her long-time friend Booker [View all]

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Maddow gave Booker 12 minutes to try to save his political career last night. At one point Maddow even slammed liberals for jumping in on the "feeding frenzy" against Booker:

When off-message happens on the Democratic side, there`s no mitigating factor that can distract from the feeding frenzy. Democrats join right in with the attack. Liberals join right in. The Beltway media joins in with the attack in way that they can almost not control.

The Republicans not only attack but they caricature this Democrat in this case into a helpless victim who they supposedly want to rescue from being silenced since he obviously isn`t allowed to speak for himself.

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Maddow is being criticized by liberal media critic Bob Somerby:

"Daily Howler (5-22-12): Rachel Maddow and Cory Booker have been friends ever since they went to Stanford together. When Booker appears on her show in better times, Maddow often mentions this fact."[

Last night, she didn’t do so. But she staged a truly gruesome cable segment in defense of her horrible, scam-heavy friend./b]

Maddow mentioned nothing about her good friend's ties to Wall Street big-shots.