Maddow on Fire: Free Speech

"Rachel Maddow is on fire!" a friend of mine said via a Facebook status update last night. And, indeed, she is: on last night's show she continued her coverage of the protests in Libya, Yemen and Egypt within the context of lingering Al Qaeda militancy. She also elaborated upon Mitt's decision to ignorantly speak out against our Embassy before the attacks had even happened:

More signficantly, she tackled conceptions and misconceptions of "free speech" at home and abroad, which clealry underlie the rage behind the belief that the US government endorses the mysterious, inflammatory anti-Islam film that catalyzed the protests: