at msnbc for two reasons. first, i have the highest-rated show on the network as my lead-in, anchored by the incomparable rachel maddow, and second, rachel has defended me tonight against politifact's false finding of fact, better than i ever could myself. this is not the first time rachel has brilliantly deconstructed a politifact finding. our blog now has links to all of rachel's takedowns of politifact, which everyone in journalism should see. i was going to fill this space tonight with a detailed defense of my use of the word "welfare" in our ad, which is the only word that politifact objects to. i was going to explain that other words were used at that time, such as "the dole," and "relief," and those words morph offered the decades into what we now call welfare, and that if i used one of those words in the ad, no one under 70 would know what i was talking about. but, as you saw earlier tonight, rachel already did that, better than i ever could. now if i could just get rachel