MSNBC Remembers Getting Teary Eyed Over ‘Brilliant’ Obama: ‘The One’

Scott Whitlock | August 19, 2020
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[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s journalists will never forget their first love. On Wednesday, Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and Nicolle Wallace reminisced over getting teary-eyed about the “brilliant” Barack Obama, hailing the Democrat as “the one.” After playing video of then-state Senator Obama’s keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Maddow almost got emotional, remembering that the next day on her radio show, “We couldn’t play any of it.” She blubbered, “We're all softies. None of us could play a couple lines without saying, ‘Yeah, man.’... It slayed you.”