On Friday night, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was feeling so confident about reaction to her testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi that she ventured into the lion’s den — of Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show.

Of course it was only her spin team and her allies in the mainstream media that were exalting over her “performance” before the committee, and doing so despite the fact that much of the most damning testimony (and facial reactions, ill-timed laughter and head-in-hand moping) had in fact not gone her way.