This is a very short diary about a rather dated event, but I want to record this in my diary records here. It just came to my attention.
One week ago (Thursday, April 29th) Muzikal203 had an interesting diary about the appearance on the Rachel Maddow show of super-snake Dan Stein, long-time president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). FAIR is very slick, and pretends to be a moderate, mainstream group. In truth, however, it (and its think-tank accomplice and affiliate the Center for Immigration Studies) is a wildly biased, nativist, racist organization that was founded by a white supremacist, John Tanton, M.D. (who is still on the FAIR board of directors).
To read more about him, see this page from the Southern Poverty Law Center: http://www.splcenter.org/... .
Here is Muzikal203's diary:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
In the comments to Muzikal203's diary, I took the rather contrarian position that Rachel actually got schooled by Stein, who is slick as the devil himself. I know she's right, and I know he's lying--but I thought he did an effective job of deflecting and muddying the waters, and on balance I think most viewers who didn't know anything about the issue would think he mainly got the better of her.
But oh did she get her revenge! Here is her rebuttal from her next show (on April 30th):
http://www.youtube.com/... .
If you haven't seen this yet, take a look! It's an incredible takedown.
And she doesn't mince words. She says "lying" and "lie"!
At the end of the interview, Stein agreed to return to her show. I wonder if that will ever happen. If he does, I would certainly bet that she will turn him inside out.