Note this is from the uber-liberal Guardian UK who mistakenly calls Maddow a “top US news anchor”. For the record Maddow’s shoe is in the cellar on ratings, has been for a while. Fewer than 500,000 watch per night. Not major. On the cutie part, I guess after a shitload of beer.

But this proves she’s got no brains either.

“Whereas in Britain the newspapers are openly partisan and the TV news is expected to be politically neutral, in America it is the reverse, at least on the cable networks. Fox News is the most notorious example of nakedly political cable news and MSNBC represents the other end of the political spectrum. And Maddow insists this is no bad thing: “I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they’re the voice of God. I think it’s just honest to say, yes, you know where I’m coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.”

Of Fox News, she says simply “When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else’s bidding for them.”

At MSNBC, on the other hand, “there are people here who are identified as liberals, but there is no political agenda”.

Yeah, Keith Olbermann made his career – or lack thereof covering basket weaving. Maddow is the most partisan personality on cable TV and the most corrected. In fact that count is about 19 or 20 corrections thus far depending on who’s counting.