Last Thursday, Rachel Maddow had her long-time sparring partner, Pat Buchanan, on her show to discuss the SCOTUS confirmation hearings of Judge Sotomayor. Now Pat and Rachel are ideological polar opposites, however both are well-spoken, smart and love a good debate; hence why he ends up on Rachel's show so damn much. Usually he is treated as sort of the "crazy uncle" of MSNBC, the one who gets drunk at Thanksgiving and goes all hate-monger racist even before the pie is served. Well, this time Pat went overboard...so much so that even smooth-tempered, logical, gets-along-with-everyone Rachel came back three days later with a "Yeah, what he said? Not true. Totally not true. Here's loads of proof. Sorry Pat, but you are WRONG."

Here is the original debate that caused all the hubris for context:

Here is tonight's Rachel Re: response that she obviously spent all weekend thinking about:


Ms. Maddow, you done good.

Last night was the ACLU of Utah's annual fundraiser dinner with Bill from X96 Radio From Hell acting as the emcee and Rachel Maddow as keynote speaker. So exciting! We finally got Rachel to visit Utah AND she brought her partner Susan for the weekend.

(A short disclaimer: No, I did not know the ACLU was suing my company until after I had bought my ticket to the dinner. I am supposed to refer all queries to our Director of Communications so don't ask me, I'm tired of talking about it.)

I was at the Drinking Liberally SLC table, a fabulous bunch of people I met during the 2008 election. This picture is a horrible picture of the view of Rachel speaking from our table (usually my Berry takes really good pics but I think the dark of the room threw it for a loop.) A couple of us went booking it up to Rachel's table right after the dinner ended, but she had already bailed! Bah. Sneaky. Her talk was recorded, hopefully it will end up on Youtube or something so I can post it because it was very entertaining and enjoyable.