You completely lost me at "Ms. Maddow, more often than not a whip-smart commentator and one of broadcast journalism’s best assets".  Maddow is a complete partisan hack.  The moment she even breathes a word about a conservative, it is with a smirk, as if "of course their idiots, don't you know they're Conservative??".  Lucky, very few people ever watch the show.  As others have stated, I too had a huge laugh on election night. Not because Trump won (which may or may not be a good thing, time till tell), but because the likes of Maddow were so clearly crushed, and it showed.  MSNBC is not a news outlet, it is the mouthpiece of the Liberal movement.  They should stop pretending.