Analyst's note:  Rudi holds his own against a nest of progressives and proves instructive in so doing.

After Wednesday night’s presidential debate, the frustration over at MSNBC was at nearly never-before-seen highs. Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, and Chris Matthews all turned on Obama after he offered a poor performance (their words), and so when former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared on the show, the network’s election panel seemed ready to take out that frustration on a token conservative.

But Giuliani wasn’t going to be a punching bag, and he made that quite clear.

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