On today's Meet the Press Round-table Rachel Maddow went after Sarah Palin's propensity for choosing White Supremacists or those who have partnered with White Supremacists to co-author her books. In a sharp exchange with Mike Murphy Republican political consultant to John McCain, and Jeb Bush, Maddow raised some important questions about the woman Right Wing bloggers named in a recent poll as their "Most Respected" Republican politician.
MS. MADDOW: I, I do think that there's a little bit of reckoning that needs to happen on the right for Sarah Palin's success. I mean, she was the vice presidential nominee, she is going to sell a kazillion books and she is the biggest brand name in Republican politics still right now. And she's chose--the person who's writing her book, her last--the last person who she co-authored a book with was called "Donkey Cons" and it was co-authored with a guy who's widely believed to be and I believe him to be a white supremacist. So she's chosen Lynn Vincent, who's written a book with a white supremacist, to write her book, and she's the biggest name in Republican politics.
MR. MURPHY: Oh, but, Rachel...
MS. MADDOW: And you can dismiss her and say she's not going to be the nominee, but I do think the right needs to sort of answer for what's happened to conservatism.
MR. MURPHY: But let me just say, I am a well-documented nonfan of Sarah Palin, at least as a national politician. I don't know her personally. But that's guilt by association stuff. That's the cable stuff. That's the problem.
MS. MADDOW: But why would you--you can pick anybody to be your ghostwriter.
MR. MURPHY: Sarah Palin's a lot of things, but she's not a white supremacist. And...
MS. MADDOW: You could--no, I don't think she is. But when you can pick anybody, why would she pick somebody who's associated with the League of the South, who said that Americans are revolted by the idea of having a black sister-in-law. I mean, she--this is who she picked to write her book.
MR. MURPHY: Yeah, but there's...
MS. MADDOW: Why do you do that?
MR. MURPHY: That's sort of guilt by association stuff, which I don't know and it can--I--check it out.
MS. MADDOW: It's guilt by choice. It's guilt by choice.
GREGORY: OK.
MR. MURPHY: It is, is so, so not important to the central questions in the country right now. But that's what cable TV has become, so I...
MS. MADDOW: Sarah Palin's popularity is a central question in the Republican Party right now.
Meet the Press Round-table transcript
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Rachel Maddow exposes Sarah Palin's lack of scruples in her preference for choosing co-authors connected to White Supremacy for her books. Madow rightly sees this as a symptom of a larger trend. Later in the Round-table Rachel points to the Republican Party's lack of scruples in the way it resorts to false inflammatory attacks as a means to obstruct formulating policies. The policies urgently needed to address the most critical challenges Americans must now face, as a legacy of Republican neglect during their time in power.