Greg Hollingsworth

I'm guessing that most, if not all, of you have never heard of Bart Stupak before. To be honest, I hadn't heard of him until last fall and had almost forgotten about him until this morning when I heard of the 12 Dems who were planning to kill health care reform over abortion language that was supposedly in the bill. I have not read the bill, I cannot comment on the language in it regarding abortion and to be honest, this post has absolutely nothing to do with any of that.

Tonight I happened across the Rachel Maddow show, and watched her spend the first 15 minutes of her show talking about Bart Stupak (D - MI). The program began with her discussing Mr. Stupak's objections to the current health care reform plan before congress. Then, she did something that I have to admit I wasn't expecting, she launched into over 10 minutes of pure and simple obfuscation and character assassination.

Bart Stupak may or may not be a noteable congressman (although he has obviously done enough to keep the people of his district sending him back (he has been on the Hill for over 15 years), but I don't see how his involvement (or non-involvement) with some mysterious secret theocracy has anything to do with his stance on abortion. Yet, the segment made up the entire 1st 15 minutes of her show.

And we wonder why voters are uninformed.