Let’s classify this as an eclipse story, bringing the raw elements of prejudice and fear out of the mists of night where these factors have been lurking. Thanks to Jill and Americablog for this piece of video that was censored by MSNBC from last night’s “Race to the White House” program: This clip captures an exchange between Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan over whether Obama exhibits too much “hubris,” which I think we can safely read to mean “is too uppity.”
If you don’t know Rachel Maddow yet, do a YouTube search and watch some clips. She is the smartest human on television, and one of the few good remnants of Air America radio.
If the birth data given for Rachel is correct (4/1/1973), she has the Sun in Aries conjunct Venus, giving her a strong will (Aries) that comes in an attractive and people-pleasing package (Venus). The power of her will is more strongly shown by the conjunction of Jupiter (expansion) to her Mars (assertiveness) which are both in Aquarius, the sign of invention and revolution. Mars and Jupiter are trined by Pluto (transformation), and all of this adds to her exceptionally focused energy that is able to get right to the point of an issue and debate it brilliantly. That Aquarian energy, when filtered through the Will of Mars and the faith and belief of Jupiter is extremely rational and tends not to become overly emotional or distressed.
The rumor is that Rachel will soon be given her own show. It’s hard to imagine that Rachel would take sitting down the kind of censorship that MSNBC demonstrated by eliminating this five minute exchange from the footage on their website.
posted July 31, 2008 at 7:53 pm
LOL! Rachel is great!! Saw her speaking on another news show and was very impressed with her intelligence and clarity. This piece may have been cut because she make Pat Buchanan look like an a**! Thanks for sharing this, Lynn.
posted July 31, 2008 at 11:35 pm
I love Rachel too, she is the greatest on TV
posted August 1, 2008 at 2:51 am
Thanks for the clip. I heard about it. I look forward to her having her own show that will feed the need for adult intelligent content.
posted August 1, 2008 at 5:59 am
We watch Countdown fairly regularly and she’s now the guest host there. Some pundits don’t wear well over an hour, but she just gets better.
posted August 1, 2008 at 11:31 am
Rachel is like a breath of fresh air on TV. Not having watched much “political” TV before this presidential campaign, I started tuning in regularly to MSNBC because she was so great on some panel there. Then she got to guest host for Keith Olberman, and she was so funny she had me falling out of my chair laughing! I hope we see more and more of her—and less and less of Pat Buchanan, Mike Barnicle, etc.
posted August 1, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Thanks for that clip. I posted about Maddow as well. I’m looking forward to her getting her own tv show.
posted August 1, 2008 at 7:20 pm
I saw the whole thing with Rachael and Pat. She is great. Rachael, Keith Olberman and Jack Cafferty are the only “talking heads” on TV who are not bias and always give logical responses. Recently Andrea with NBC & MSNBC is doing a fine job of unbiased reporting and opinion. Maybe Keith and Jack cut up a bit, but all four you can watch without listening to hype.
After the show I emailed the director, the host, Rachael and Olberman with rave reviews for her.
posted August 1, 2008 at 7:40 pm
By the time I was able to look at this (8/1/08 at 6:37PM CT) it was unavailable:(. I watch Rachel on Keith Olbermann all the time and am very sorry to have missed this. Thanks Lynn for trying to pass it on!
posted August 1, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Rebecca, I just tried the link and it’s still working. Try it again!
posted August 2, 2008 at 1:33 pm
I guess I see this a little differently…I’ve been a political and news junkie for a very long time and am familiar with all of these players. Rachel is very intelligent and it was right for her to point out that the quote by Dana Milbank was inaccurately framed. It was over the top, in my opinion for her to make the crack about Pat’s perspective saying more about him than it did about his opinion–suggesting that he alone has bias. So does Rachel. Rachel has a very high IQ and is now a bona fide member of the punditocracy. As such she has been sounding more than sure of herself as she needles her panel members. And I think that’s what Aries sometimes ends up doing–that fiery impulse that renders other’s opinions to cinders. Transformation and revolution are great, but do they need to take someone else out or down in order to transform? I’m appreciating her, but with a grain of salt.
Sheila
posted August 2, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Funny….They don’t let you put a web site address in your comment, but the system Beliefnet uses doesn’t screen out spammers. My comment spam at my place is usually in Chinese, though. *grin*
posted August 3, 2008 at 10:11 am
Jill and all, I’m trying to get this changed so people can put in their web addresses. I miss that!
posted September 9, 2008 at 12:34 am
Rachel Maddox is one the best talking-heads in Washington. She is smart, intuitive, and efficient. Most of the other analysts just love to hear themselves talk. She has real things to say.