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I love Rachel Maddow: Unmasking the political hype

Thursday July 31, 2008

Categories: Politics
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...
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Neith
July 31, 2008 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.

Reggie Baton
July 31, 2008 11:35 PM

I love Rachel too, she is the greatest on TV

DD
August 1, 2008 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.

Lynn
August 1, 2008 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.

Julie in Boston
August 1, 2008 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.

Elaine of Kalilily
August 1, 2008 6:34 PM

Thanks for that clip. I posted about Maddow as well. I'm looking forward to her getting her own tv show.

Colleen
August 1, 2008 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.

Rebecca
August 1, 2008 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!

Lynn Hayes
August 1, 2008 8:05 PM

Rebecca, I just tried the link and it's still working. Try it again!

Sheila
August 2, 2008 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

Jill
August 2, 2008 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*

Lynn Hayes
August 3, 2008 10:11 AM

Jill and all, I'm trying to get this changed so people can put in their web addresses. I miss that!

Tim Durocher
September 9, 2008 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.

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