It looks like Rachel Maddow’s career is not over. MSNBC has extended her contract well beyond the 2012 election, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
It’s likely no one was too worried about Maddow’s career. As The Hollywood Reporter points out, Maddow’s ratings continue to grow. And she is MSNBC’s highest rated anchor, the Huffington Post reports. But there remains one small — well, maybe tiny — thorn in her side: a $50 million lawsuit for slander and false light.
The lawsuit, filed by controversial anti-gay preacher Bradlee Dean and his ministry, claims Maddow took Dean’s fiery comments on homosexuality and spun them to suggest he endorsed killing gays. Larry Klayman, Dean’s lawyer and the founder of Freedom Watch, said last week that the lawsuit will end Maddow’s career. “You can’t just say whatever you want,” he told the Michele Tafoya Show on CBS radio.
MSNBC dismisses the lawsuit, saying “the suit is baseless and we stand by our reporting.”
MSNBC did not immediately respond to TPM’s request for comment.
