Rachel Maddow!

He is a man who speaks surprisingly softly, until he doesn't anymore, and he becomes a fabulous booming tuba

dope sentence

haha

his descent into caricature seemed pretty willful! i'm surprised at his surprise over how he's perceived

"Eight days," he says to me. "I talked about it on TV for eight days. In nearly thirty years' worth of broadcasting. That makes me a birther? Give me a break.

http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sfhorror/eyeroll.gifhttp://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sfhorror/eyeroll.gif tbh

no i think he believes that *calculus*, probably, but that also means like no one on earth has done more birther television than you stfu

knowing lou those 8 days were consecutive. And uh, didn't they end because the network explicitly told him to stop covering it?

i am so confused at how at the end of maddow she tossed to larry and then at the end of his show larry tossed to keith and keith just mentioned that he's gonna be followed by rachel IS IT SOME KIND OF INFINITE LOOP

AN INFINITE LOOP OF CHEERLEADING FOR THE WAROCRATS

has any ilxor braved the world of parker/spitzer yet?

max has been gawking at it

mention of max & gawker w/o link??

we talked about parkerspitzer on the cable news thread

omg on larry they just ran an ad chrstine o'donnell's ppl are running

it concludes

HIDE YOUR WILLS
HIDE YOUR LIGHTS
CAUSE HE IS TAXING EVERYTHING OUT HERE

larry and koons are both either ignorant of or deliberately avoiding the bedroom intruder ref/equivocation b/w taxation & rape

did anyone watch the Very Special Episode last night?

maddow Yes! Yes! Yes! Finally got an interview with Senate candidate Joe Miller. They. Said. It. Couldn't. Be. DONE! 9PM ET MSNBC.

I ate at a place that had ParkerSpitzer on. Their GOP interviewees were Richard Viguerie (still alive!) and George "Macaca" Allen.

Fuck all these whores with a chainsaw.

maddow talks to stewart -

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh111710.shtml#PART

This speech to Harvard students is very, very good. Much more serious and less showman-y than her TV show.

http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Multimedia-Center/All-Videos/2010-Theodore-H.-White-Lecture-by-Rachel-Maddow

does she do any Bam-bashing in it? litmus test

Not a bit.

A day spent watching FOX and MSNBC. Grisly.

Still more interesting is this: While each adds a few extra individual original bits, all three shows on FOX essentially cover the same four stories, in different orders. (Those stories are the Wisconsin recall, birtherism, planned parenthood promotes gender-based abortion, and the obligatory anti-Obama story.) There is some variation in the Obama smack-downs, but all of the others hammer home the exact same arguments using the exact same verbiage; each is pretty much interchangeable with the other, and might well have been penned by a single source. (Which is not to say that it was.). On the other hand, MSNBC has only one story covered by all three programs: the obligatory anti-Romney segments, which do not have the uniformity in commentary that FOX has with its anti-Obama segments. (And the truth is that grouping Maddow’s commentary with Shultz’s or O’Donnell’s is a huge stretch. Shultz and O’Donnell’s Romney rants seem more akin to the FOX anti-Obama screeds, politics aside.) Past that there is very little overlap at MSNBC. Whereas FOX’s shows have the appearance of a concerted and strategized effort, the hosts of MSNBC are all over the map.

Similarly, there is a consistency in production quality in the FOX shows that MSNBC lacks. While I have to say that Maddow is intellectually superior to anything I saw on FOX, her two compatriots are just as vile as their cross-channel rivals without being nearly as entertaining or engaging. MSNBC was a tale of two sides of the spectrum, while all the FOX shows seemed to be one long, amorphous hack job.

There were other differences. One that I noted on my MSNBC post is the way each deals with dissenting voices. FOX likes having “opposing views” – or, to be more precise, FOX likes having the illusion of opposing views. The people they choose to “debate” the host are terrible; whether they are really poor debaters of are simply under contract to not point out the huge flaws in the host’s reasoning I can’t say. They are also picked, as I have noted, because they are young, attractive women who have that car-show model look, which helps feed the white, male misogynist stereotype of a FOX viewer that many liberals have. Having the jowly, elderly male host “win” and then chuckle over how “cute” the failed efforts of the pretty young lady were is really quite nauseating. MSNBC, on the other hand, goes a different and equally bad route – they only have guests on that tell the hosts how clever and awesome they are. The result is something that comes off as being tremendously sad to watch, and is the very definition of “the echo chamber” its hosts are so willing to call FOX.

Yep.

That Daily Howler blogger grumbles that even Maddow is not very good.

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/320953_10152382303105066_1908882337_n.jpg

Hahaha.

As much as watching her show stresses me out, I love that they obviously employ a bunch of giant nerds.

She has a long history with Bob Mould from her bartender days, I think. He wrote about it in his book. Jon Stewart pops up too, naturally.

classic when she mentioned her high school love for "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" - much to her parents chagrin at the time.

she should talk about obama's drones more.

Well, no reason to watch MSNBC anymore.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/19/after-msnbc-axes-ronan-farrow-and-joy-reid-s-shows-is-chris-hayes-next.html

sounds like they're keeping Maddow, and she's the only thing I watch on MSNBC so...

is she still good

i saw someone the other day say matter-of-factly 'of course she's terrible', like when did the worm turn

wearing her rictus smile on the street in DC the night bin Laden was offed? but i was never a fan

Chris Hayes >>> Maddow. Maddow is still so damn awkward: those pauses and nervous chuckles, like she's looking for cue cards or punch lines.

She's also not the reporter and analyst that Hayes is.

I liked Up with Chris. He didn't seem a good fit for a nighttime show. I'd rather hear him do a podcast again.

he was fine on Saturday mornings. Get rid of Kornacki and return him to reporting.

Ailes' mixed legacy: On the one hand, he abused numerous women. On the other, he offered me useful career advice. https://t.co/Q8qqUan9wA

— Jim Naureckas (@JNaureckas) May 20, 2017

ugh what an absolute fraud. give her time slot to Joy Reid.

faints

I wish she would stop using the word "granular."

she kicks ass and kicks ass some more

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/maddow-untangles-trumps-russia-web-all-the-way-back-to-the-unsexy-rnc-convention/

lol she's nuts or shameless

Glenn Beck 2009 + Maddow 2019 is the greatest crossover event in history pic.twitter.com/D1NElGBq3U

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) January 31, 2019

lol I posted this clip earlier today to the poll thread she won