Rachel Maddow criticized Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown for falsely claiming she has been tapped as the state's Democratic candidate for the 2012 senate race.
According to CBS News, in a full-page ad in the Boston Globe Friday, Maddow issued a letter letting people know what she thinks of the senator's motives for the lie.
"I'm not running against Scott Brown. I never said I was running against Scott Brown. The Massachusetts Democratic Party never asked me to run against Scott Brown. It's just not true. Honestly. I swear. No, really," Maddow wrote in the open letter.
The letter came in response to Brown's fundraising e-mail earlier this week.
"Some like Rachel Maddow. I'm sure she's a nice person -- I just don't think America can afford her liberal politics. Rachel Maddow has a nightly platform to push her far-left agenda," Brown wrote.
Maddow said the rumor had no merit and that Brown "never even tried to find out if it was true."
"Senator Brown never even tried to find out if it was true, before using the made-up threat of me running against him, to try to scare donors into giving him more money," Maddow wrote. "Senator Brown's only been in DC seven weeks, but he already seems to be fitting right in with how conservatives operate there."
Maddow also suggests Brown thinks twice before he tries to raise money using a phony threat "to try to scare donors into giving him more money."
She writes: "Do you remember when Mitt Romney ran for President after being our Governor and he went around the country insulting Massachusetts, talking about what an awful state we are? To have our new Senator raising money around the country by saying how 'terrible' one of his Massachusetts constituents is, kind of feels the same way to me."
Maddow called out the senator for being another Washington conservative who invents "scary fake threats to run against."
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