Rachel Maddow!

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?

Ha I thought x months pass was a cute thing for the Rachel thread BUT it looks like an awesome new board-wide thing

It's not hard to pretend Rachel has nothing on under that suit jacket.

hell, i have a thing for her.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah

I prefer her bemusement to everyone else's explosive rooster-chested name-calling gambits. She's a smart, polite lady and I just think she's great.

Ha I thought x months pass was a cute thing for the Rachel thread BUT it looks like an awesome new board-wide thing

I thought the same!

hey is she back? last week it was some other lady, on her show

She's not back yet. The substitute lady isn't too bad, tho.

i didn't watch last week, but i think the sub was alison stewart (who used to be on mtv news).

Alison Stewart's been kicking around MSNBC for years, and is married to Bill Wolff (the veep of news programming)...not saying that's the reason they keep her around, because she's awesome in her own right.

oh i know, i just always think of her mtv days when i see her.

I think Maddow could cut out the mugging a little. (We already have a Daily Show.) And she could break from the blogpack a little more than she does.

I mean, she is great, obviously, but her show doesn't quite feel indispensable yet.

what do you think of her drink mixing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sebfwBVEVKE

what a gen-x'er.

I like what a hard-ass she is about her mixing rules!

I don't know why I'm surprised that she dresses that way, but I am.

i like how insistent she is on wearing her glasses everywhere but in her msnbc gig. like, she's willing to cute it up for the day job, but that's it. she dresses way more butch in all other settings than on her show, which i'm guessing is just how she likes to dress.

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/3716/19910932.jpg

Freshman yearbook. Scan sucks but the picture was pretty tiny.

LOL

ws

she looks like every volleyball player ever

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?

― Emotivism, aka the yay/boo theory (get bent), Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:58 PM

btw if this is true she owns me

2 minutes pass...

MADDOW: And thank you for leading your book with a quote from the late great Chris Whitley which made me very happy.

PIERCE: And a terrific album it is - “Dislocation Blues.” People should go to their independent record dealers and buy it.

it's official <3 <3 <3

She was talking about 'disambiguation' and read an example of a wikipedia disambiguation page. When she said 'Mr. Bungle song,' she made an aside that the song was 'not one of their better efforts.' I wish I remembered what one it was.

it's official <3 <3 <3

i thumbed through pierce's book last time i was in borders and the quote was indeed in there.

god would so hang with R.M.

She reminds me a little too much of annoying girls I knew in college.

John Ensign’s parents dished 96 grand to his girl friend and her family. Yes, that’s a real news story. But how big a news story should it be? Consider three separate news judgments:

Washington Post: In this morning’s Post, it gets 576 words, a banner headline across the top of page A6 and a small photo. (“Ensign’s Parents Made Payments to Mistress, Her Family.” Click here.)

New York Times: In this morning’s Times, it gets 448 words at the bottom of page A15. (“Senator’s Parents Gave Mistress Thousands.” Click here.)

That’s how it played in the Post and the Times.

And on last night’s Rachel Maddow Show, it swallowed the whole first half-hour. The previous evening, Rachel read Ensign’s love letter aloud.

Taking just a small step back, this helps explain why you (probably) won’t get real health reform this year. This helps explain why corporate interests will be happy -- again -- with this year's outcome.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh071009.shtml

Rachel Maddow reminds me of pretty much everybody I went to college with, sans the men and actresses.

At 8 PM, 3.3 million watched O’Reilly’s live broadcast. At that same hour, 1.3 million watched Harris-Lacewell [on the Maddow Show] evaluate Jenny Sanford’s moves--and discuss why she herself is able to endorse her own current love interest.

Do those numbers help explain why Maddow talked sexy-time sex all last night? We don’t know, but one thing is clear:

You’ll hear about health care reform on her program as soon as some big Republican player gets involved in a sex scandal. Chuck Grassley! Please! Get it on!

based on my experience, she is archetypically rhodes scholar.

sexy-time sex

Maddow's up against Hannity, so what's the point of comparing her show to O'Reilly's wrt ratings?

Woops sorry I screwed up that quote. He was comparing O Riles and Olbermann, not Maddow. He is a bit confusing in that graf and my interjection completed the misdirection.

On Wednesday night, as Maddow talked sex, 2.5 million were watching Sean Hannity--and 1.1 million were watching her.

Can't decide what I think of Daily Howler's criticisms from the left of Maddow. He used to be just obsessed with blaming all the media for not teling the truth about Al Gore, and now he's obsessed with saying that left-leaning folks like Maddow (and Slate.com's legal news analyst) are as sloppy with the facts as Hannity. Sometimes I think he loses sight of the big picture, other times he seems on target.

the daily howler guy lost me when he started ranting about Josh Marshall being no better than Fox News.

Ha - dudes it's his job to say these things. His site's called "The Daily Howler". But it's true that there's a different edge to what he's saying now about Maddow (and Olbermann) - it's not so much that she bungles facts but that she leans on gossip and scandal instead of reporting news that matters to people's lives. I think it's a good criticism.

Anybody see Pat Buchanan on RM last night? What is he smoking?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnx603I42MA&feature=player_embedded

I can't keep track of the number of ostensibly straight women I know who profess to have a "crush" on Rachel Maddow.

Thank god for the .xls

that video was pretty good. "yay white folks!"

the rachel maddow going ham program tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkKTIDNJ4k8

lol. "It's very subtle and very complicated."

this was almost as wince-worthy as the buchanan interview (although i actually had a modicum of sympathy for buchanan just cuz he's so old and clueless):

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/07/maddow-afp/

what the hell is a morbsist

i'm so glad rachel is talking about this stuff as thoroughly as she is because i get the sense that most americans have no idea about astroturfing and view such fake-movements uncritically. i think a lot of people want to be involved politically but they don't think to dig deeper into the organizations behind the flyers they read; they just go "yeah! boy, that's for me!" and fall headfirst into the traps the astroturfers set for naive yokels like that. i want people to be angrier.

xpost haha, ask the person who wrote that.

rm on the astroturfers is pretty lol, she might as well tell the audience to listen very carefully while she's talking because its like a complete news story that seems to just tar so many ppl

woo pig sooie

http://i36.tinypic.com/23sc6qf.jpg