MSNBC Bids Farewell to ‘Excellent,’ ‘Top 10’ Obama

MSNBC Bids Farewell to ‘Excellent,’ ‘Top 10’ Obama (NewsBusters)

The hosts at MSNBC are not ready to say goodbye. Previewing the farewell address of Barack Obama on Tuesday, Rachel Maddow enthused over the “excellent” President. Chris Hayes gushed over the “sheer political talent.” Maddow reminisced, “I think he'll go down in history as both a consequential and excellent president, viewed from the beginning of the country until now.”

She launched Obama into the top ten: “I think that his economic record alone, in terms of saving us from the Great Depression, if that's the only thing you knew, even if he hadn't been the first African-American president doing it, that alone will put him in the top 10 presidents in U.S. history. And nothing else that anybody says about him or nothing else that happens by his successor will ever change that.”