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no matter how many times they try to dupe people into thinking "libertarian" is just another version of "liberal." And no matter what occasional article might appear to be written from a progressive viewpoint in The Intercept.

http://thedailybanter.com/2017/04/rachel-maddow-voted-off-the-purity-island/

Rachel Maddow Attacked by Greenwald Left For Too Much Reporting On Russia

Greenwald's "The Intercept" is deeply troubled that she's spending too much time covering the single largest story in American political history.

Glenn Greenwald's ostensibly liberal "The Intercept" is still hard at work trying to convince the world that the mountain of evidence piling up that Donald Trump is a puppet ("No puppet! No puppet!&quot of Vladimir Putin is fake news. Their latest target is, incredibly, Rachel Maddow who has put considerable effort into connecting the myriad dots into an increasingly hard-to-ignore picture. Why? Because The Intercept's Aaron Maté just isn't convinced the Russia scandal deserves this much attention:

While proof of collusion with Moscow could well emerge — and could well topple Trump’s presidency — the “above all else” focus on Russia lacks concrete supporting evidence, either of Russian hacking and cyber disinformation impacting the vote’s outcome or of the Trump campaign’s complicity with it. Journalist Matt Taibbi calls it “an exercise of conspiratorial mass hysteria.”

Lacking concrete supporting evidence didn't seem to stop The Intercept's breathless reporting on Hillary's mythical "corruption." But, you know, "Clinton Rules" rule when it comes to standards of evidence.

Maté goes on to give a thorough analysis (with pretty charts!) that show Maddow has been devoting slightly more than half of her show to stories related to Trump's Russia scandal for the past several weeks. What a waste of time! Instead, Maté suggests, Maddow should be spending her time attacking, who else, the wicked and corrupt Democratic Party: