Pervading it all was the sense that she could see the deeper forces behind the headlines, she could discern the pattern in all the dots, and you could, too, as long as you paid close enough attention to her program. She did dramatic readings of courtroom transcripts. No proceeding related to the probe was too small for her long, involved explications. She took evident pleasure over even minor jail sentences for minor players. She covered the story with a consistent breathlessness. Yet Maddow approached it with a notably conspiratorial cast of mind and style. The Mueller probe was a real thing, and obviously newsworthy. It is perhaps unfair to say that Maddow believed in a conspiracy theory, although her theory was quite literally that there was a conspiracy between Donald Trump and the Russians, perhaps an ongoing one. Only the story had a surprise twist at the end - she was completely wrong.įew people invested more in the Russia probe, night after night, monologue after monologue, with an ever-building sense of anticipation.
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