Maddow Mocks GOP Rep’s Warning of ISIS Infiltrating U.S., Ignores Dem Rep’s Warning

Maddow Mocks GOP Rep's Warning of ISIS Infiltrating US, Ignores Dem Rep's Warning (NewsBusters)

ISIS ... in America? ... that's just crazy talk! At least if claimed by a Republican in Congress and heard at MSNBC -- while a House Democrat making a comparably ominous warning is ignored by the same network.

It was all Rachel Maddow could do last night to contain her mirth at the apparently preposterous possibility that suspected ISIS terrorists have been caught at the US-Mexican border, as claimed by Congressman Duncan Hunter, Republican of California.

Maddow reacted as if Hunter suggested that a deranged man armed with a knife could somehow slip through several layers of security at the White House put in place by our mercilessly efficient Secret Service, until he was belatedly tackled well inside by an off-duty agent. Yeah, right, like that could ever happen! Next we'll be hearing wild-eyed claims that Ebola might make the leap from Africa to Europe, and possibly to the United States.