Baseless slander, a MSNBC specialty.
Via Daily Caller:
There MSNBC goes again.
On his primetime show “All In” Tuesday, Chris Hayes accused Florida Sen. Marco Rubio of blocking the nomination of Judge William Thomas to the federal bench in order to pander to the “right wing” by blocking a gay black man.
Hayes explained that since Rubio earned the ire of some in the conservative base by supporting the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, he is now attempting to win that constituency back by pandering to it. And since, according to Hayes, the conservative base loves nothing more than blocking gay black judges from making it to the federal bench, Rubio pulled his support for Thomas, who would be the first openly gay black federal judge.
“And now Marco Rubio can say with pride to his base that he successfully blocked the first openly gay black trial judge in American history,” Hayes said. “These are what the victories for congressional Republicans look like these days. Not implementing some affirmative policy victory but successfully hurting someone or some group of people. Food stamp recipients. The long-term unemployed. A qualified out gay black man who was within a hair’s breadth of the federal bench.”