Rachel Maddow!

big fan of malkmus

i like her, i wish she didn't channel olbermann so much. she's way more charismatic and naturally likable than him, she needs to just let her own voice come out. but i expect it will as she goes along.

(i've never heard her radio show, is she any different on there or is the persona about the same?)

Her tv show is sort of the natural extension of her radio persona. As a panelist on other MSNBC shows, she was pretty much limited to soundbytes and retorts. Given the spotlight, she's excellent at following ideas to completion. And they're good ideas.

Pretty impressive:

Rachel Maddow, a woman who does not own a television set, has done something that is virtually unheard of: she has doubled the audience for a cable news channel’s 9 p.m. hour in a matter of days.

More important for her bosses at MSNBC is that “The Rachel Maddow Show,” her left-leaning news and commentary program, has averaged a higher rating among 25- to 54-year-olds than “Larry King Live” on CNN for 13 of the 25 nights she has been host. While the average total audience of her program remains slightly smaller than that of Mr. King’s, Ms. Maddow, 35, has made MSNBC competitive in that time slot for the first time in a decade. The channel at that hour has an average viewership of 1.7 million since she started on Sept. 8, compared with 800,000 before.

cable subscribers are not Real Americans.

the bit about her in the NYT Sunday Zine was great btw

Personal life

Maddow lives in Manhattan and Western Massachusetts with her partner, artist and accountant Susan Mikula.[14][15] The couple met in 1999, when Mikula hired Maddow, who was then working on her doctoral dissertation, for yard work at her home.[14]

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

That's why we call it the Happy Valley.

I almost married my maid/coke dealer. It was a match COKE in heaven!

who would have thought, that tiny slice of the public that doesn't like george bush might respond to a tv show pitched to them.

I think she's the one pundit with a PHD.

Always such a freth of bresh air after Olberman.

<3 her

Has a refreshing amount of monkey-related news on her radio show

I went to high school with her. I didn't recognize her the first time I saw her on MSNBC, she used to have a blond bob the last time I saw her.

hot

she was cute in the nyt fer sure, in that sarah lawrence way :/

she just sang "follow me now"

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

(http://wayneandwax.com/?p=137)

"My friend, Pat Robertson."

"Thank you, Pat."
"Thank you, Rachel."

I've only seen maybe 15 mins of the show. How "left" has she been, ie, does she ever knock the Dems when they are quislings? I heard that she regularly did on Air America.

sometimes the tone of this show is extremely grating. and she smirks more than W.

I just want her to keep grinning that lopsided grin at me forever. In fact, I would probably start juggling things and turning somersaults if that would keep her attention.

"My friend, Pat Robertson."

Don't you mean Buchannan?

A Brit here who's now watching her online regularly.

I'm a fan. Her NYT interview was great. And cute. Like she could be one of my pals.

Rachel looked changed after talking to Obama

He told her she was bruisin for a cruisin for a bruisin

just saw the show for the first tim - v impressed - love the aesthetic n overall cheerful clear vibe

dont have cable, so i only first heard about her in the NYT mag article a couple weeks ago, but watched her wednesday night, and she TOTALLY rules. hope shes around for a long time!

I just discovered that you can get her complete show EVERY DAY as a podcast -- it means I'm always one day behind but I don't care, The Rachel Maddow show is changing my life.

apparently shes doubled the ratings for her time slot in the month or so shes been on

She was rocking Adidas Sambas on the Colbert Report!

She is so freaking cuets. John and I would both marry her. You know, another wedding reception wherein Rachel marries both of us with the power of our Subgenius reverend best buddy who married both of us.

dude why does she look like hell today

she looks like she's sick as a dog and hasn't slept in a couple days, srsly wtf

haha me and my roommate were just talking about this

she looks weird w/ lipstick too

did they ever say why she was out in CA?

secret lover

motherfucker if im on tv ass cmoin 2 me

cmoin DOWN that ladder

She's been sounding sick since her Monday broadcast! Even huskier than usual. I haven't seen the show in a couple of days, I was wondering just HOW sick you have to be to let someone else anchor your show.

Her end-of-2008 awards show was great!

I want her to do a movie: "Pat Buchanan: My Best Fiend." Herzog cld direct, why not.

My GOD, what a hideous moron Barbara Boxer is.

Boxer vs. Feinstein.

Alien vs Predator

getting Ozzie Smith on the phone for her producer tonight was classique

It was SO CUTE!

was i dreaming or did she give props to her guest (charles pierce, author of idiot america) for making a chris whitley reference in his book?

one month passes....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nT1a8ULuB0

is it total projection here to hope Martha's got a thing for Rachel?

Anyone else seeing it?

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