Easy, conservatives. She’s just passing through.
One of the last people anybody would expect at the Conservative Political Action Conference — MSNBC host Rachel Maddow — was spotted Thursday casually perusing the exhibits at the convention.
And by noon, when Yeas & Nays caught up with her, she had only been harassed once.
“There was one guy who was really, like, hostile and got up in my face and screamed that he was a normal person. That was really weird,” Maddow told us. “I think he was just a creepy guy; otherwise it was just standard convention behavior, everyone seemed really nice.”
This is Maddow’s first time at the conference. The liberal talking head is in the District for an event at the Library of Congress and said she stopped by the convention because she planned to discuss it on her show Thursday night.
Overheard near Maddow were young CPAC-ers snickering, “Maddow likes to read, why doesn’t she read this?” waving their pamphlets.
Although this was her first time at the conference, Maddow said she had planned to come a number of times for its radio row.
“They are really inclusive in terms of reaching out in a bipartisan way to talk radio in a way that I always really appreciated as a progressive talk radio person,” she said.
