Maddow: House Candidate Pence Wanted to Cure Gays Instead of AIDS

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow: House Candidate Pence Wanted to Cure Gays Instead of AIDS (NewsBusters)

Ever since Rachel Maddow compared Donald Trump winning the presidency to the Cuban Missile Crisis, I've doubted there is another politician who can provoke her to such hyperbole.

I was wrong, there is. His name is Mike Pence.

Maddow is hardly alone when it comes to this. Ask nearly any liberal for his thoughts on Trump and what follows is likely to involve the veins bulging in his neck and plenty of hand waving. But ask him what he thinks of Pence --that's when you'll see real anger. Keep a fire extinguisher handy in case of self-immolation.

On her MSNBC show last night, Maddow made a claim about Pence that surely went over well with her regular viewers/cultists. Maddow began her rant by praising the Wayback Machine website, created back in 1996 by a San Francisco-based non-profit --