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rachel-maddow1.jpgI dig the hell out of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who claimed her fame as a sidekick on Keith Olbermann’s “Countdown.” The truth is, she was often the best part of the show. And for those who like to get your liberal claptrap without a heavy dose of smug, Rachel Maddow is smart, high-minded, quick-witted, and mild-mannered. Better still, when she gets a conservative guest on her show, she’s respectful. She’s the kind of liberal I love: One who can trumpet her politics without denigrating the other side. She’s also a motherfucking decent person, one of the few — it seems — in the bias news business, where ego seems to dominate.

Apparently, there are lots of others who feel the same. In its first week, her new show is killing. In fact, she was not only second in her time slot among the cable newsers (Fox’s “Hannity and Colmes,” inexplicably remained on top), but she out-rated her lead-in, Keith Olberman.

I suspect there are a lot of people who have wanted a female on the presidential ticket for a long time, but aren’t happy that it’s Sarah Palin. I feel the same about network news anchors: I’d love to see a woman anchoring the nightly news — just not Katie Couric. Maybe in 15 years, when Charlie Gibson and Brian Williams finally leave their chairs, Rachel Maddow (and everyone’s favorite gay anchor, Anderson Cooper) can take their places.


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Comments

Here's a clue for the networks:

Next time you want to put some chick on the top anchor spot, DON'T use some creepy looking midget.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at September 19, 2008 8:31 AM

Oh Thank God. Something other than fucking illiterate cats to comment on, finally.
Maddow so far impresses me but not half as much as the validation I get from acknowledging that Katie Couric is the Sarah Palin of prime time news. There's a nasty pattern developing where women are selected for premium jobs based on cuteness (Janet Reno being the exception that proves the rule). It's so insulting. I'm in the camp that does not believe women should ever be selected on the basis of "having a woman in the job". It's a logically bankrupt strategy and also insulting to the true concept of equality.

Posted by: PaddyDog at September 19, 2008 8:34 AM

...or at least she should have a huge rack.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at September 19, 2008 8:38 AM

Agreed, Paddy. Rachel earned her position not by looks or gender, but because she is one taltented mahfucker. Good to see her succeed. WOOOOOO! FEMINISM!

And for the record, Anderson Cooper? Dreamy. I would ride that man like a mechanical bull. Mmmmmm, Anderson Cooper... Wonder if the carpet matches the drapes?

Posted by: Jeremy at September 19, 2008 8:55 AM

A Maddow/Cooper show would probably result in dangerous levels of awesome. I would watch it, even though it would likely burn out my retinas, like looking at the sun.

Posted by: TK at September 19, 2008 9:00 AM

Maddow recently replaced the dreamy Anderson Cooper as the news anchor love of my life. Possibly because I've actually got a shot with her. I want to somehow have her tiny, supergenius babies.

I would also like to see a Maddow/Cooper showdown just to see what the maximum level of awesome looks like.

Posted by: Alice at September 19, 2008 9:16 AM

I like Rachel Maddow just fine, but as my husband pointed out last night - her show is basically an imitation of Keith's. Maybe this is a guy/girl thing, but I definitely prefer the original.

Posted by: Cindy at September 19, 2008 9:47 AM

...Katie Couric is the Sarah Palin of prime time news.

I've never seen the appeal of Katie. Never been a fan of morning faux news shows either, so perhaps I missed her when she was good? That said, she's just too much of a peppy cheerleader personality for me to take seriously.

Posted by: Cindy at September 19, 2008 9:51 AM

I am so glad to see Rachel Maddow's show succeeding. I wish all the blowhards who "make their point" by interrupting and talking louder than their guest would take a cue from her. Ask the right question, sit back and listen to the answer, then ask the right follow-up. It is possible to expose lies and misconceptions with civil discourse.

That said, I can see echoes of Olbermann in her delivery, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Posted by: ErinM at September 19, 2008 10:29 AM

Cindy , I don't think it's Olberman imitation so much as it's network input (do some pop culture, put some makeup on, etc). I admit to being a huge, slobbery fan of Rachel Maddow - but I think she's a lot less strident, a lot more genuine and knows a lot more than Olberman. I think she'd do a much better job interviewing Obama than Olberman did.

Posted by: megbon at September 19, 2008 10:40 AM

RACHEL ROCKS! I have a total crush on her and I am a gay man! She is very intelligent, articulate, and doesn't reinforce the gay stereotype that TV seems to be stuck trying to convey to America. I look forward to her show every night and I am glad that she has topped the ratings for MSNBC.

As for Anderson Cooper, HOTTIE.

Posted by: CoryWilson at September 19, 2008 10:49 AM

Nobody reads the news like Veronica Corningstone.

Posted by: Lucas at September 19, 2008 11:25 AM

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Posted by: linas at September 19, 2008 11:34 AM

I unabashedly love both Olbermann and Maddow and I'm glad she's able to greak into her own.

Maddow probably would have interviewed Obama better, but Olbermann knows a lot of shit. I'm pretty sure he went to Cornell when he was 16 and can use his brain to his advantage when advantageous due to the training from the Ivy League school which he attended. So maybe he knows more about sports, but hey, let him ride that political kick for a while, he's pretty awesome.

Posted by: Kash at September 19, 2008 11:50 AM

Am I the only person that is THRILLED that the Spambot has become a regular commentator again? You all are funny, but that Spambot makes me laugh every time.

Plus, the grammer is still better than that fucking cat website.

Posted by: MN_Jen at September 19, 2008 12:18 PM

I'm with TK; a Rachel Maddow/Anderson Cooper anchor team would be unstoppably awesome. Especially if Mr. Cooper wore a really tight t-shirt that showed off his chest and arms. rrrRRRRrrrr.

(also, a nitpick moment: "grammar". "Grammer" is Kelsey's last name.)

Posted by: jeem at September 19, 2008 1:45 PM

I just can't agree megbon. To each her own?

Posted by: CIndy at September 19, 2008 2:58 PM

Say what you will about Olbermann, but

"The bear went over the mountain,
The bear went over the mountain,
The bear went over the mountain,
REPORTEDLY to see what he could see."

a couple days ago was too awesome.

And Rachel Maddow is cool and smart and all that other good stuff.

Posted by: Todd at September 19, 2008 3:50 PM

Jeem - Maybe I was talking about Kelsey Grammer? Frasier was a hell of a lot better than that cat website too.

I seriously need to spell check everything I do. Ah well, back to lurking.

Posted by: MN_Jen at September 19, 2008 4:53 PM

Hmm. I like what I've been hearing about Ms. Maddow, elsewhere and here in these comments, so I went to the Wikipedia to find out a little more.

Wow, that is some C.V., at least education-wise. Why in the hell is she frittering it away as a lowly newsreader/question-asker?

A Rhodes scholar bantering with beltway hacks? Pearls before swine, indeed.

Posted by: icecreamang at September 19, 2008 8:10 PM

So she's a rug muncher, she's going to be the forty seven jillionth left wing news reader and her having worked on Air America gives her the same background she would have gotten at any network. Wake me when the mainstream media hires an actual conservative of whatever sexual predilection, that will be noteworthy. Having an unbroken phalanx of left wingers cover the news and then claim objectivity is liberal version of separate but equal. It's nice to see she has such an impressive CV. Maybe when she fakes something she'll at least have the smarts to get an IBM Selectric off of ebay instead of just running it through Word and some Photoshop filters.

Posted by: OscarTamerz at September 19, 2008 10:13 PM


Fox News is that way sport
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That's were they shovel the fascist propaganda you're looking for.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at September 19, 2008 10:28 PM

Look, it's a cross between Matthew Modine and Jim Jay Bullocks!

Right, Left, they are all equally deserving of derision.

Posted by: Recondite at September 20, 2008 4:04 PM

What really annoyed me is back in the early days JM J would say "No, I'm JM J Bullock! NOT Jim J!" He held firm on this.

Then one day in college I stumble upon "Jim J and Tammy Faye" and I almost vomited in contempt! I believed in demanding respect for the correct way to say your name (and my name's got its fair share of collaborationists and traitors)! I looked up to him!

Posted by: Jay at September 20, 2008 4:17 PM

MSNBC
CBS
ABC
CNN
NBC
NY TIMES
LA TIMES
WASHINGTON POST
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ad infinitum
are this way.

Posted by: OscarTamerz at September 20, 2008 7:54 PM