After a week of serious grownup news, what we all really needed was a little comic relief and thank goodness for the self-absorbed rantings of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow for supplying it.

In an apparent attempt to reverse slumping ratings, Maddow’s bosses even took out an ad so she could vent uncensored about how Sen. Scott Brown “smeared” her by indicating in a fund-raising letter that Democrats were trying to recruit her.

Now we’re a little unclear how a run for Senate - however improbable - constitutes a “smear.” But that aside Maddow’s petulance seems, well, just a little contrived.

Brown, of course, has been inundated with interview requests since his January election victory. He’s just as popular on the Republican fund-raising circuit.

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