On November 5th, the following took place on the left wing Kool-Aid network, PMSNBC:
RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: Congressman Akin was not alone in stumbling over a little basic U.S. history. He had some good company in the top Republican in the House, Minority Leader John Boehner.
(VIDEOTAPE)
JOHN BOEHNER: (R-OHIO.): This is my copy of the Constitution. And I'm gonna stand here with our Founding Fathers who wrote in the Preamble, "We hold these truths to be self-evident..."
(END VIDEOTAPE):
MADDOW: (waving hands): Nnn, Constitution doesn't have a Preamble. Not. Nope. Stop it. That would be the Declaration of Independence. Ooh.
Rachel, my dear sweet leftist dunce, The Constitution does have a preamble. Allow me to present it to you:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Oh snap, looks like the congressmen weren't the only ones "in stumbling over a little basic U.S. history." Ouch, quit it!
I'm not taking my foot off the accelerator. Since lefties love Wikipedia so much, here's an excerpt from its section titled "Preamble to the United States Constitution":
The Preamble to the United States Constitution is a brief introductory statement of the fundamental purposes and guiding principles that the Constitution is meant to serve. In general terms it states, and courts have referred to it as reliable evidence of, the Founding Fathers' intentions regarding the Constitution's meaning and what they hoped it would achieve (especially as compared with the Articles of Confederation).
Consider the fact checker checked.
The following night, Dearest Rachel stated the following:
RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: And finally to our department of corrections. On last night's show I made fun of who House minority leader John Boehner because at yesterday's whites of their eyes Michele Bachmann-led anti-healthcare reform rally on the Capitol steps, he waggled a copy of the Constitution at the crowd, bragged that he was standing with the Founding Fathers and then said he was quoting the Preamble to the Constitution while he actually quoted from the Declaration of Independence. Being myself constitutionally incapable of leaving well enough alone, I then excitedly exclaimed not that he wasn't reading from the Preamble to the Constitution but that there wasn't a Preamble to the Constitution at all, which of course is total nonsense and which I'm very sorry to have said. However, it does also give me the opportunity to do penance to the Preamble by -- you know what's coming, don't you? Get up, get out of your chair and let me not only apologize to the Preamble but join us all together now in civics geek karaoke to "The Schoolhouse Rock" version to the Preamble. Go, go, go, go! [...]
♪♪ America. Never fun to have to correct a mistake but this one was close to fun. Thank you, Schoolhouse Rock. I'm very sorry.
I'll give Rachel some cool points for owning up to her gaffe, but since leftists by and large have contempt for and are ignorant of The Constitution, it doesn't surprise me in the least that it happened. The left spends their time trying to ignore, subvert, shred, and get around The Constitution. Must be the Kool-Aid. Maddow has whopping flubs pretty regularly (see here, here, & here,) and making fun of her ignorance would become a entertaining, full time job.(HT NewsBusters, IUSB Vision, & Wikipedia):
NewsBusters: Maddow Wrongly Claims 'Constitution Doesn't Have A Preamble'
NewsBusters: Maddow Apologizes For Constitution Gaffe With Schoolhouse Rock
IUSB Vision: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Doesn’t Know The Constitution: Claims It Has No Preamble.
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