MSNBC host Rachel Maddow complained Friday that her show ran for an extra 30 minutes and claimed the coronavirus had reduced the network to “anarchy.”
“Nothing is the same,” she said. “Time has no meaning. All days of the week are just days that end in Y now. I haven’t tied my shoes in weeks. So, why not spread The Rachel Maddow Show out into 90 minutes instead of an hour on Friday night? Who are you going to complain to? The boss?”
Maddow isn’t the first left-wing host to sound exhausted by the coronavirus lockdowns. On April 18, CNN host Brian Stelter announced he had “crawled into bed and cried for our pre-pandemic lives” after feeling overwrought from the crisis.
“The boss, at this point, is just like any of us,” Maddow said. “The boss is just another inch-and-a-half tall head in a tiny Zoom box that sometimes cuts out in the middle of a meeting, especially when he’s talking. I mean, it’s anarchy at this point.”
Maddow has attacked President Trump repeatedly during the coronavirus pandemic and was a leading voice calling for Trump’s briefings to be pulled from TV because he was “lying” to viewers.
The cable host has struggled to compete with Fox News rival Sean Hannity, who has bested her in viewership ratings for 52 consecutive weeks.
