Rachel Maddow: It Isn’t a VA Scandal, It’s VA ‘Problems’

Hypocrisy: Maddow Refuses to Label VA Problems a Scandal (NewsBusters)

Call it partisan hypocrisy in progress. Last night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow furiously spun the VA hospital waiting-list scandal as merely a “problem in progress.”

That was radically different from her reaction to the 2007 Walter Reed Army Medical Center scandal, which involved shoddy, run-down accommodations for injured servicemen.