You all really wished Out had put Rachel Maddow on the cover of their Out 100 issue (and in all fairness, so did editor Aaron Hicklin), but you can catch her every night on her MSNBC show.

When Sarah Palin told Greta Van Susteren that the Eisenstadt hoax was started by "some blogger — probably sitting there in their parent's basement wearing their pajamas blogging some kind of gossip or a lie," a lot of people, myself included, took offense.

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Hey, remember how we were all making fun of Keith Olbermann and his kitten, Ms. Precious Perfect last week? Well, Keith-O pulled out one of his patented "Special Comments" tonight to talk about Prop. 8. and you may want to grab a hankie before watching. "This is about the human heart", he says before asking of Prop 8. supporters, "Why does this matter to you? What is it to you? In a time of impermanence and fly-by-night relationships these people over here want the same chance at permanence and happiness that is your option." He then recounts America's terrible history of marriage rights, comparing slave marriages to gay marriages– and actually pulling it off.

His voice trembling, Keith looks into the camera and says "You are asked now to stand on a question of love. All you need to do is stand and let the tiny ember of love meet its own fate. You don't have to help it. You don't have to applaud it. You don't have to fight for it. Just don't put it out. Just don't extinguish it. Because while at first it may look like that love is between two people you don't know and you don't understand and maybe you don't even want to know, that love is, in fact, the ember of your love for your fellow person. Just because this is the only world we have and the other guy counts too."

I'm emailing this to everyone I know.

So Hopey's off to D.C. today to measure the drapes at the White House and you spent the weekend getting drunk and chanting "Yes We Did". But before you spend your day choosing a talking woodland creature to be your sidekick, here's a sobering reminder that over in joyless Mudville (aka The Family Research Council), they're already planning for 2012. Turns out there is one area that the Christian right did really well last Tuesday, and they think it could be the key to future success, according to MSNBC.

"Conservative politicians lost. Traditional values succeeded," said Tom Minnery, a vice president of Dobson's Focus on the Family. "It ought to tell them to get a clue about the importance of marriage. We were frustrated that Sen. McCain would not speak out about marriage strongly and repeatedly."

While discussion of the future of the G.O.P. is an ongoing one, social conservatives are of the opinion that the key to winning back the White House is by holding fast to social issues like "abortion, gay marriage and judges". Because it's my first day and I don't want to totally depress you off the bat, exit polls seem to indicate that this election is in fact, "a realignment" and unless evangelicals are able to appeal to a broader group than, well pissed off white folks, they'll find themselves increasingly irrelevant in our shiny rainbow-hued tomorrow.

Speaking of Rachel Maddow - the MSNBC newswoman and avowed lesbian interviewed Barack Obama last night.

We've included videos down below…

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Katie Couric has done an ample job of resuscitating her reputation.

Once the piñata of television news — everyone got a turn beating her, and she had to hang there and take it — she's quickly rebranded herself as respected journalist and, before that, got a reprieve from media critics bashing her when Keith Olbermann took some of the heat away.

But as Couric exits the stage, temporarily, it's no longer Olbermann who's filling the void of short-lived attention spans by media critics. It is, actually, another woman.

Her name is Rachel Maddow, and the industry freakin' loves her.

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Tim Graham is the portly Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center, which sounds very Marshall McLuhan but in actuality is a conservative watchdog group. So already you know what station he likes to make guest appearances on (hint: rhymes with "box").

And Tim Graham, like any other red-blooded American male, is fascinated by lesbians, most notably MSNBC's Rachel Maddow…

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Curious about rumors that MSNBC's Chris Matthews will soon run for Senate, Philadelphia Gay News publisher Mark Segal asked the MSNBC news man where he stands on gay marriage.

Matthews sort of skirted the issue. First he declared, "I always start with freedom. That’s where I start on every issue," because that's where the constitution begins. Then Matthews said he has an "open heart" about this "evolving issue" and "will have to live with it." Again, that's confusing.

Hoping to get something relatively coherent, Segal continued pressing for a more robust response, to which Matthews replied, "I can answer it the way I have, which is any fucking way I want. I can answer in my way even if it isn’t your way."

Well, we've heard the just released audio, which we've included below, given it a thorough listen and, well, the Queerty team's torn on what to make of this all!

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