Accuracy-Indifferent Maddow Invents Alleged GOP Push for US to Leave United Nations
Rachel Maddow's self-proclaimed “obsessive” devotion to the truth again proves fickle. As an example of what she sees as the resurgence of wedge issues, Maddow said this on her MSNBC show last night — The culture war era conspiracy theories about black helicopters and a one-world government secretly pursued by America's elites, that stuff is back from the culture war eras too. The new Republican head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee convened the first hearing of that committee this week. What's the topic? Get the US out of the UN! To back up Maddow's hypercaffeinated claim (she tends to talk in italics), an article titled “House Republicans' next target: the United Nations” from Foreign Policy magazine was shown on the screen. Awkwardly absent from the actual article was any mention of what Maddow claimed . [Video clip below page break] Here's how the article reads — The new GOP leadership in the House is promising to aggressively confront the Obama administration on a full range of foreign policy issues. Now, it has reopened the debateover the performance and reform of the United Nations. “Policy on the United Nations should be based on three fundamental questions: Are we advancing the American interests? Are we upholding American values? Are we being responsible stewards for the American taxpayer dollars?” read the opening statement by House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) at Tuesday's committee briefing on the U.N. “Unfortunately, right now, the answer to all three questions is no.” Ros-Lehtinen, born in Havana, is the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress, according to her online bio . Do you think Maddow would have neglected to mention that were Ros-Lehtinen a Democrat? More from the Foreign Policy article — Ros-Lehtinen, who didn't attend the hearing because she was in Florida tending to her ill mother, criticized several instances of alleged poor corruption at the U.N. in her statement. She railed against the Human Rights Council (HRC), a U.N. organization the Obama administration joined, as “a rogue's gallery dominated
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