Happy Hour Vid: Rachel Maddow on the Hooters/Chamber of Commerce Alliance

Max Fisher Dec 18, 2009
The Chamber of Commerce is a massive and massively influential group that lobbies on behalf of American business. Hooters is a chain restaurant known for its chicken wings and scantily clad servers. You could be forgiven for thinking the two don't have a thing in common. But if you saw Rachel Maddow's show on Thursday, you would know better. What brought them together? Why, health care reform, of course.

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