Special provides chilling look at homegrown terrorist Tim McVeigh

It's one of the realities of journalism that anniversary stories are often hard to write because you need a fresh angle every year.

MSNBC has come up with quite a creative one for Monday's 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing.

Monday's two-hour special, "The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist," beginning at 9 p.m., uses computer graphics to turn an actor into a Timothy McVeigh look-alike as audiotapes of the Western New York terrorist's bizarre, dangerous thinking are played.

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For those who have forgotten details about McVeigh's plot and his accomplices, MSNBC gives a step-by-step re-creation of the bombing with the use of the actor, computer graphics and the tapes.

The tapes come from 45 hours recorded by Buffalo News reporter Lou Michel while he interviewed McVeigh in prison. Michel subsequently co-wrote a 2001 best-selling book with Buffalo News reporter Dan Herbeck, "American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and The Oklahoma City Bombing."

http://www.buffalonews.com/2010/04/14/1019216/one-of-our-own-msnbc-takes-a-chilling.html

As most of you know Rachel Maddow narrates this special.

She is hanging it out here, putting her name on this.
She's smart enough to know, if it was good, she wouldn't lend her name to this.