Appearance on Mike Signorile to discuss Rachel Maddow and closeted journalism
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=A0587DEF63684E72C1D32B96CD67B5C6?diaryId=8478Pam Spaulding
Tue Dec 09, 2008 at 16:00:00 PM EST
Mike's interview was tough, but fair, IMHO. I have great respect for Rachel Maddow for going on the air to answer some difficult questions. I was disappointed to hear her defend her editorial decisions (she said MSNBC does not tell her what to report on, btw) by suggesting that Mike (or I) expect her to cover LGBT issues 24/7 or in a certain way because she is out of the closet. No one said that -- it's that she's progressive and has oddly given short shrift to the issues, in particular challenging Mike Huckabee, who showed up to hawk a book about the appeal of social conservatism after saying that gay rights movement hasn't had enough skulls cracked to earn civil rights on The View. To deem a potential 2012 presidential candidate who was the governor of a state that just banned same-sex couples from adopting "uninteresting" because everyone allegedly knows the depth of Huckabee's anti-gay issues is breathtaking.
