Rachel Maddow's Mea Culpa on the Preamble to the Constitution

Image from source, Newsbusters

It never fails. If I'm on a message board, or the comments section on somebody's blog responding to the rampant stupidity of something or someone, I will myself have a moment of stupid. I'll misspell something, I'll make an unfortunate typo, something. And seconds after hitting the "post" button, I'll realize what I've done, and have an oh crap! moment.

Much the same thing happened to Rachel Maddow on her program on Thursday. Maddow was covering the silly multi-thousand (millions!) protest on the Capitol steps, and poking fun at orange-faced John Boner Boehner. The facial-twitch affected House Minority Leader was gettin' all high and mighty, waving around his micro-copy of the United States Constitution. He then proceeded to recite part of the Declaration of Independence, calling it the preamble to the Constitution.

That's pretty funny right there, and Maddow--as she is often wont to do--called him on it snarkily. Unfortunately, she had one of those "oh crap" moments herself, saying the Constitution doesn't have a preamble, rather than that the Declaration of Independence doesn't have one (it sort of does, but it isn't really called that). I knew it as soon as she said it, and I wouldn't doubt that she did too, or at least shortly thereafter.

The folks at Newsbusters, an outfit that sees its mission as a watchdog on the dreaded "liberal media" has come down like a ton of bricks on Maddow. Which is expected, but rather unnecessary. As any watcher of TRMS knows, if Rachel makes a mistake, she almost always corrects it, which she did in her usual entertaining fashion. First up, here's Newsbusters' take on the story.

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Maddow Wrongly Claims 'Constitution Doesn't Have A Preamble'

Did you know the United States Constitution doesn't have a Preamble?

Well, that's what the oh so arrogant, high and mighty MSNBC host Rachel Maddow told her audience Thursday night. . .

More at: Newsbusters

I'll have an update with Rachel's School House Rock mea culpa as soon as it becomes available.

UPDATE:

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