More MSNBC Maddow Misinformation

For someone touted by the media as brilliant, MSNBC's left wing prime time host Rachel Maddow is wrong much of the time. Her latest exercise in misinformation came on her Thursday program, much of which she devoted to the execution of convicted rapist-murderer Humbarto Leal in Texas. Maddow criticized Gov. Perry and the U.S. supreme Court for refusing to delay Leal's death by lethal injection so Congress could have more time to pass legislation dealing with how the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations should be applied to such cases:

Leal, who in 1994 raped a 16-year-old girl and then strangled her and crushed her skull with a 35-pound piece of asphalt, was sent to prison in 1998 but did not discover until two years later that he was supposed to be legally entitled to ask for help from the Mexican consulate in his defense.

Maddow never informed viewers that neither Leal nor his defense attorneys asked for such assistance before his trial, or that article 36 of the Vienna Convention which she refers to does not seem to require arresting authorities to contact a prisoner’s home country unless he requests it.

The MSNBC host instead went on to dismiss the "conservative" U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that allowed the execution to take place as scheduled, and incorrectly claimed that Texas was not following the law.

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Like most liberals, Maddow never lets such pesky trivialities as facts get in the way of a good left wing rant.

- JP