Prog intelligentsia at MSNBC worries that cops - not violent mobs - are out of control in Baltimore

Rachel Maddow is not just your ordinary, run-of-the-mill, liberal. She's not even your average MSNBC host.

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While lefties may quietly nod and agree that Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, and Al Sharpton are buffoons, Rachel Maddow occupies a loftier plane. To the left, she's a hero - one of their great, high-minded and highly educated thinkers - someone whose opinions are to be revered. So, of course, she's a veritable font of lunacy. Case in point is this clip from last night's show, where she laments the notion that the police - again, that's the police, not the rioters - are a "little bit out of control" in Baltimore.

"If they're picking up things that are being thrown at them and throwing them back, that implies to me, just as a lay observer, that the police feel .. that the police are a little bit out of control, or that they may not be using disciplined police tactics."

Perhaps the best part of the segment is the bit where Maddow tries to get her guest, The Baltimore Sun's Erica Green, to agree with her assessment. It obviously doesn't go well. The fact is that anyone with a 3rd grade education should be able to see what's happening on the streets of Baltimore. It has little or nothing to do with the case of Freddie Gray and, even if it did, the violence does absolutely nothing to address that issue. Only a moron, or a hopeless ideologue like Maddow, would try to spin the rioting into a "cops out of control" narrative. ...Particularly after Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake bragged about how police were giving rioters "space to destroy." But facts be damned. This is the thought process that top-level zealots like Maddow employ. Maybe we should thank her for putting it on display.