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Rachel Maddow: Corporations Are "Child Labor-Endorsing, Pro-Slavery Freaks" for Trying to Skirt Trad

Does our demand for cheap goods make us guilty of endorsing child labor?

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Rachel Maddow interviews Al Gore

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Outfoxing Obama

So much for post-partisan politics. Team Obama's attacks on Fox News are petty and... more

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George H.W. Bush: Olbermann And Maddow Are "Sick Puppies"

Former President George H.W. Bush feels that the tone of the national discourse lacks... more

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Maddow: Republicans vow to protect Medicare despite being against it from the start

Interesting how the GOP now makes it a point of pride to protect Medicare, even though... more

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Obama announces he will take Bush's "indefinite detention" one step further

Rachel Maddow on Obama's "preemptive detention" policy.

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The Official Death Panel News and Information Resource

This site rocks. Learn the origin and history of Death Panels and use it to Truth the... more

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Health Care In The South Fails Miserably

On last night's Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow took viewers through what she called a... more

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Rachel Maddow on the Value Voters Summit

Should politicians value 'Values Voters' Sept. 18: Rachel Maddow reviews the... more

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Rachel Maddow: "Billionaires For Wealthcare" At Washington Protest

Rachel Maddow's take on the satirical group that mucks the opponents of healthcare.

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Maddow: Public Option Dying Because Of Dems' Political Collapse

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow went hard after President Obama Monday night for his willingness... more

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Rachel Maddow's chilling interview with Frank Schaeffer about the violent town hall meetings

Rachel Maddow Show where Rachel interviews Frank Schaeffer, reformed co-founder of the... more

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Anti-Healthcare Movement lays down astroturf

Just like the oh-so-spontaneous tea bagging movement, Rachel Maddow exposes the... more

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Maddow Tells Conan: Obama Complimented My Pants!

Rachel Maddow appeared on the "Tonight Show" Wednesday night, where she revealed that... more

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Rachel Maddow: GOP Sex Scandal Exposes Secretive Conservative Religious 'Group The Family'

The following is a transcript from The Rachel Maddow Show on Washington D.C.'s "C Street House," which is now at the center of a media firestorm. Now GOP Senator Tom Coburn, sex-scandal embroiled GOP leaders Senator John Ensign and South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford have been tied to the C Street House, which is registered as a church and provides substantially lower than market rate rent. Coburn and Ensign have lived at the C Street house, while Sanford has participated in its Bible study group.

We start with a mystery -- a mystery that's unfolding alongside the two major political scandals of the summer. It's a mystery that concerns this house at 133 C Street Southeast in Washington, D.C. I'm calling it a house because that's what it looks like to me and people do live there.

But if you consult this building's financial paper trail, you will find that it's actually considered to be a church. That designation makes C Street a convenient tax-free haven for the secretive organization that runs it, an organization known as the Family. It also makes for some awkward tax and income questions for the at least five, probably seven members of Congress who live at the house, in exchange for what appears to be substantially below market rent.

As explained by our guest last night, Jeff Sharlet, who secretly infiltrated the family to write a book about them, the C Street house is a former convent. It's used as a sort of subsidized, really upscale dorm for members of Congress who are associated with this powerful, poorly understood religious group.

The Family and the house at C Street have ended up reluctantly in the headlines now because of the two major politicians' sex scandals that are embroiling the Republican Party this summer and that have taken two of their reported 2012 presidential hopefuls out of political contention.

Embattled Nevada Senator John Ensign lives at the C Street house. The husband of Senator Ensign's mistress says that prominent members of the Family -- this religious group -- including the sons of the group's founder, as well as other members of Congress who live at C Street -- were both aware of Ensign's secret affair and were involved in his efforts to pay off the mistress and her family as the affair was on again-off again ending.

Republican Senator Tom Coburn lives at C Street with Ensign. He has said he encouraged Ensign to end the affair but he has denied the allegation that he specifically encouraged Senator Ensign to pay the mistress off to the tune of millions of dollars.

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford mentioned C Street by name in his long public statement of regret about his affair with a woman in Argentina.
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