When this interview started, I assumed it would be all about the homosexuality/bestiality comparison that’s been outraging the left. I was wrong and pleasantly surprised.
In fact, I thought the interview started out well as Hayworth defended himself against incorrect information regarding the Abramoff scandal and Maddow let him talk at length as he corrected the record.
All is going well so far.
But then Maddow asks him where to find the specific intimacy clause in the Mass. court ruling that he quoted in an interview on the previous day:
You see, the Massachusetts Supreme Court, when it started this move toward same-sex marriage, actually defined marriage — now get this — it defined marriage as simply, ‘the establishment of intimacy’.
Hayworth had no good answer. When Maddow said that after going through the ruling earlier in the day that she didn’t believe “the establishment of intimacy” was in the ruling, Hayworth simply said they could disagree on it. She implored him that it was empirical and either it was in there or it wasn’t. He insisted they could disagree, which is the lamest response I’ve heard him give in an interview. I believe that now, before he speaks he will get his facts straight.
Even through all of this, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the fairness that Maddow exerts in this ‘hostile’ interview. She let’s Hayworth speak and doesn’t try the antics that we’ve come to hate at MSNBC. For all the disagreement I have with her, she is the most fair interviewer that MSNBC has on staff.
That said, I really can’t watch her show for very long because it makes me want to punch my TV. MSNBC has a way of doing that to me.