Rachel Maddow's 'Debunction Junction' corrects a correction: Rachel was accused of spreading false information by watchdog site Politifact recently when she claimed Wisconsin is just fine and on the road to a surplus, and the site attacked her for omitting information about the state's budget shortfalls. She knocks down the claim with video evidence, defends Shepard Smith, and addresses personal attacks on her for being gay.
"Maddow lied!" she exclaimed, mocking the folks at Politifact who claim she had never addressed the budget shortfall in Wisconsin just before playing a clip of herself saying "There is a budget shortfall in Wisconsin." It wasn't the first time she had addressed it and she had the video to prove it. "Putting the word 'fact' in your name does not grant you automatic mastery of the facts." She said that her show had reached out to Politifact, but they notified the program that they were not going to run a correction - and, I have to agree with Rachel here - completely negates the entire point of the organization.
She also dismissed personal attacks on her for being gay and describing her as looking 'like a man.' Rachel stayed on the point of being factually correct with "Just because you don't like the way it sounds when I say it, or just because you don't like my haircut, or just because you don't like that I'm gay doesn't make it not true. It is true," she quips, "If you squint sometimes, I look like a dude, and I am definitely gay."