{"id":12120,"date":"2020-01-07T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12120"},"modified":"2020-01-07T08:08:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T16:08:30","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-rachel-maddow-robert-muellers-legal-dream-team-paul-krugman-all-have-lessons-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-rachel-maddow-robert-muellers-legal-dream-team-paul-krugman-all-have-lessons-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson: Rachel Maddow, Robert Mueller&#8217;s legal dream team, Paul Krugman all have lessons for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Washington Post recently published a surprising indictment of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/media\">MSNBC<\/a>&nbsp;host, Stanford graduate and Rhodes scholar Rachel Maddow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post media critic Erik Wemple wrote that Maddow misled her audience by claiming the now-discredited&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-impeachment-inquiry\">Steele<\/a>&nbsp;dossier was largely verifiable \u2014 even at a time when there was plenty of evidence that it was mostly bogus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the very time Maddow was reassuring viewers that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/news-events\/russia-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christopher Steele&nbsp;<\/a>was believable, populist talk radio and the much-criticized Fox News Channel were insisting that most of Steele\u2019s allegations simply could not be true. Maddow was wrong. Her less degreed critics proved to be right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/rachel-maddow-robert-mueller-paul-krugman-lessons-2020-victor-davis-hanson\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News The Washington Post recently published a surprising indictment of&nbsp;MSNBC&nbsp;host, Stanford graduate and Rhodes scholar Rachel Maddow. Post media critic Erik Wemple wrote that Maddow misled her audience by claiming the now-discredited&nbsp;Steele&nbsp;dossier was largely verifiable \u2014 even at a time when there was plenty of evidence that it was mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-39u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12129,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-01-08-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":12120,"position":0},"title":"Angry Reader 01-08-2020","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 8, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: You are doing the same thing you claim Maddow is doing. 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