Right Wing claims it was Rachel Maddow, not Sarah Palin, who got Martin Bashir fired. Maddow calls BS on that accusation.

"I'm sorry, I did what?"

It looks like the attempts to damage the credibility of MSNBC has taken a new tack. Now the MSNBC hosts are being accused of eating their young.

This courtesy of National Review Online: 

Sources say it is Maddow rather than Phil Griffin who provides MSNBC’s editorial direction, and that she also holds considerable sway over personnel decisions. “I know I’m never going to get freakin’ talking points from Phil,” Maddow told The New Yorker last year. “Can you imagine? Like, what would they be?” 

Behind her back, colleagues call her “the queen,” a not so subtle suggestion that Maddow gets what Maddow wants. And what she wants is a network filled with young wonks such as Chris Hayes, Ezra Klein, Alex Wagner, and Harris-Perry, whose highbrow intellectualism can, she hopes, push the Democratic party, and the country, to the left. On Twitter, Harris-Perry’s show proudly uses the hashtag #nerdland. Alex Wagner’s move to the 4 p.m. hour, where Bashir’s show once aired, has Maddow’s fingerprints on it. 

Griffin, who came of age as a sports producer at CNN and then as a booker on the Today show, is, according to a former colleague, “utterly non-ideological.” “He makes decisions,” says the former colleague, “based on 30-day trailing numbers” and lacks a strategic vision. Maddow, who came aboard in 2008, has filled the ideological void. “Alec Baldwin and Martin were outliers; they weren’t part of her inner circle,” says a television insider. “Bashir’s contract was up, he was twisting in the wind when this happened, and he was out of sync with Rachel’s ideology.” 

First I am not at all convinced that Phil Griffin is "utterly non-ideological," there are plenty who believe he is fairly Right Wing but keeps that under wraps in order to run a mostly Left leaning cable show.

As for this "scoop" the writer is Eliana Johnson who was once a producer for Fox News, and now works for this Right Wing rag.

The Fox News vendetta against MSNBC is well documented and I doubt there are very many on the Right who would not like to see them go down in flames. So recognizing that reality, WHO exactly on the MSNBC staff would be giving up dirt on Rachel Maddow?

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.

As for Rachel, she wasted no time in refuting this conservative fantasy: 

“This is categorically false,” Rachel Maddow said. “I have never had any role in any management decision at MSNBC. Any source who says otherwise is wrong.”

You know when I think of integrity it is Rachel Maddow's face I see.

Number one this does not sound like her, and number two if it WERE she would simply stay silent about it. NOT lie. 

NO if anybody is responsible for the firing of Martin Bashir, it is Sarah Palin and the flying monkeys on the Right Wing fringe. Oh, and Phil Griffin of course.

(H/T to Politicususa.)