I want to say here and now that in my opinion Rachel Maddow’s tireless and consistent coverage of this legislation helped produce this outcome. As far as I know, she is the only on-air news reporter to have covered this story and one of the few from any major media outlet, print or broadcast. I really think that she is largely responsible for making this as much of a public issue as it has become.
Perhaps, as Pam Spaulding suggests, the White House did read her guest post at Daily Kos, but Maddow has been all over the “kill-the-gays” (in her pithy phrasing) bill in Uganda since news of it broke, and I’m fairly certain that the White House does watch MSNBC and Rachel Maddow.
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