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Rachel Maddow Works On A Weekend

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Over New Year's I noted that NewsNation and CNN had second-string reporters out in the Minnesota snow, not really covering the Somali fraud as much as doing what they could to get ahead of Nick Shirley's reporting. One of Shirley's insights, I feel pretty sure, was that mainstream media doesn't work very hard, and the Christmas break was a perfect time to drop his video, when the cartel had tacitly agreed there'd be no other news. I also inferred that Trump and his key people had come up with the same strategy over the Venezuela raid, with the news coming out on one of the deadest Saturdays of any year. Let's remember that for Trump, there's no such thing as bad publicity, he makes the news simply by being Trump. It's a losing game for anyone to try to upstage him, but the suits at MS NOW gave it their best shot: they got Rachel Maddow in on a Saturday . Part-time MS NOW host Rachel Maddow remarkably showed up to work on a weekend, appearin...