It looks like Rachel Maddow's career is not over. MSNBC has extended her contract well beyond the 2012 election, The Hollywood Reporterreports.
It's likely no one was too worried about Maddow's career. As The Hollywood Reporterpoints 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, claimsMaddow 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."
