Everybody wants to ride in Rachel Maddow’s new little red wagon.

True, Phil Griffin gave it to her as a gift and when you get a brand new red wagon as a gift or otherwise, you want to ride people in it whom you want.

Proud Rachel did for a brief time and with great dignity go about riding people whom she wanted to ride in her sparkling brand new red wagon. But then, something happened. “Someone” told her to give a ride to Pat Buchanan in her brand new wagon. She said Ok and then Chuck Todd wanted to jump in and then Tucker Carlson and she found she had no more room for Margaret Carlson, Andrea Mitchell, Kent James, Dr. Goodwin and other friends she wanted to play with and give rides in her new wagon. "Oh, my!" she said.

“Boo-hoo, hoo” she cried and mean old “somebody” said “No, no, no you signed a contract and you must ride them in your new red wagon”. “But I wanted to ride my friends” she pleads and begs. “No, no, no” was the reply, “You have to ride more of my friends than your friends.” Rachel continues, “But you gave the wagon to me, boo-hoo-hoo” she cries and the tears continue and mean old “somebody” stands rigid, arms tightly folded and face fiercely contorted up-ward!

Suddenly, Rachel spies the contract she signed sticking out of the pocket of “Somebody”, snatches it, tears it up right in front of his now stunned face, running out of the door, jumping onto and sliding down the banisters, knocking over a few chairs and plants in the lobby, flying out the front door racing down the street followed with what looked like a tail wind, recall mesmerized observers, thus leaving behind on the set her brand new shiny red wagon with Pat Buchanan, Chuck Todd and Tucker Carlson sitting in it, waiting for Rachel to pull them; Pat with his Halloween Einstein wig on, Chuck with his large spiral lollipop and Tucker adorned in his favorite beanie cap; the one with the propeller on top.

When word of what happened filtered into the down stairs lounge on the premise, Kate O’Brien and Christopher Hitchens, who were Rachel's next scheduled guest, were stunned trying to make sense of it all.
As always,
BB
P.S.
I never heard of Rachel Maddow before the folks at Dkos started talking about her and when I first saw her on the Olbermann show….
Clang, clang, clang
went the trolley
ding, ding, ding
went the bell
zing, zing, zing
went my heartstrings….
In a movie version and with some minor changes to the lyrics, I could be Denzel Washington singing the song about Lena Horn. (Smile)