Name: Rachel Maddow, 45
Who She Is: MSNBC news anchor and commentator
What She Did: As host of The Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow has taken on the falsehoods of the Trump White House with a rare combination of humor, sarcasm, and seriousness. Along with queer anchors Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, Robin Roberts and Shepard Smith she’s leading the resistance to Trump’s more than 3,000 documented lies since he took office.
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Why We’re Proud: What more can we say about the courage, wit, and wisdom of Rachel Maddow?
When The Rachel Maddow Show debuted in 2008, nobody predicted that the feisty host would start a revolution in television journalism. As opposed to the bellicose, angry anchors of the time (Bill O’Riley, Keith Olberman), Maddow approached her stories and guests with a conversational warmth combined with a lacerating wit. She also injects dry humor into her commentaries, notably discussing “tea baggers” during the rise of the GOP Tea Party, and golden showers when discussing Donald Trump. Maddow even allows herself to get emotional, tearing up as the New York State Assembly became the first state legislature to vote in favor of marriage equality.
With Donald Trump continuing his attacks on the media, and with much of cable news often given over to hysterical shouting matches, it brings us great relief (and pride) to know that one of our own has maintained her poise, and continued to act as a voice of reason in crazy time when the future of democracy and the rule of law is at stake.
DCguy
She now has the number one most watched show on Cable. Congrats to Rachel and thanks for the work you do.
Now it will be interesting to see the list of screenames that come in here to freak out and attack her. The problem is, unlike Hannity or Ingraham, she doesn’t continually and purposefully lie so their only attacks will most likely be about her looks, vague attacks because she is a woman etc…
Or, since I said that, they might either give up, or try to deflect from the post’s topic by screaming about Hillary’s e-mail.
Harley
I never watch Rachel until tRump was elected. Now I never miss an episode. I wish her show was 3 hours long. I’ld be on that from 7-10 everyday if so. Rachel had a masters in journalism from Princeton and Mannity Hannity is a college dropout. That says a lot right there.
daveku
I find her quite annoying and am thankful she does not speak for me.
RIGay
When she is on point, she is on point, but frequently, she comes off as a pit bull on a bone – she just does not let go of a topic and repeats the narrative over and over again.
So… I DVR her.
Every night. I give her 10 minutes to tell me there is breaking news from the day and to weave the news stories into her “A” block. Give me the new news. Give me the facts. Or if the story is fascinating, like her Oraville Spillway near disaster, I will give her the time.
No new news – another historical essay – another pundit with an opinion – thank you, catch you tomorrow night.
Heywood Jablowme
I really like her historical essays. Not always obvious at first where she’s going with it, and suddenly I’ll think oh fits neatly with [current scandal X]. Sometimes it’s more obvious like the other night with Herb Kalmbach (Nixon’s Michael Cohen): eerie parallels.
QueerTruth
I love Rachel Maddow’s work. She is long-winded but she reports like no one else. And she also does not give the world the same canned story every other news commentator gives. The story may be the same subject, but she digs in giving you a background and perspective that you find nowhere else.
And the fact that she’s a proud and out makes me proud too.
Hussain-TheCanadian
I use to love watching Rachel’s show, now I cringe every time I tune in – I’m not happy how she’s handing Trump’s summit with Kim Jung Un; I dont like Trump either but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t applaud any peace efforts he might do.
Rachel’s integrity is compromised when she behaves like Shawn Hannity.
Hussain-TheCanadian
**Handling
dgsea06
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Kangol
With the North Korea summit, the US has gotten nothing but the same promises it already had received. There’s detailed information out there about how North Korea has made similar promises in the past. Did the US get a firm agreement on dismantlement? Inspections? NK not sharing nuclear bomb technology with our enemies? Anything?
But what did North Korea’s horrible dictator get? Legitimation from the most powerful country on earth. A public statement suggesting Trumpkin and the US are willing to move away from protecting and standing with democratic South Korea (which could easily then be invaded by North Korea!), using 1) the language of North Korea 2) prompted by Vladimir Putin.
Also, tRump continues to praise North Korea’s brutal dictator–if you don’t believe things are bad there and the Otto Warmbier situation was bad enough for you, read Suki Kim’s undercover reportage about how extreme the mind control and brutality is there–while slamming allies, like the leader of the country you live in. It’s beyond nuts. So maybe holding off on applauding a peace effort that is really just a bit of theatrics isn’t such a bad idea, at least until there’s tangible proof.
Kangol
When she’s on target, she’s great. Sometimes she meanders a bit, and occasionally it’s a total fail, like when she trumpeted Trumpkin’s tax returns, but ended up making almost the opposite case. But she, Chris Hayes, and Lawrence O’Donnell do hold the pathologically lying, racist, narcissistic misogynist Orange Menace’s feet to the fire, which is more than can be said for many of the compliant media who just repeat Drumpf’s lies nonstop and never challenge any of them. And that includes his propaganda outfit, FoxNews (save Shepard Smith and 1-2 others).
dgsea06
Thanks QUEERTY for highlighting not only one of our “own”, but the brilliant Rachel Maddow. She is an American National Treasure and she deserves the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism. Dr. Maddow’s show tells us more than we could get from, well, anywhere else. She’s smarter than most of us put together and she does what she does with those bright eyes and that flashing smile. She is a handsome woman and that, my dears, is a compliment.
To the naysayers: Do Not watch TRMS-You might learn something! I know it hurts to learn something even when it hurts to watch and listen to the evidence and facts and, hopefully the ultimate truth of the particular topic. Life, Death and everything in between.
Boring? Well then, crawl back into your faux-hole and feast upon your current orange grub (It’s an insect by the way) and it will eat you before you can eat it. Also known as Republicans.
Let’s celebrate the fact that we get to get Rachel Maddow! And she gets to get us! With her, alongside her and full support for her world class endeavor to report , inform and enlighten us.
Oh, where did we lose our human , our HomoSapienSapien love and comity for one another?
Ask Rachel!
Pride and the Solstice and G’Bye.
Hussain-TheCanadian
@ Kangol –
Yes you are right, non of those details have been discussed, not yet but im sure its coming, this is only the beginning, and I guarantee you its going to follow the same exact steps as the Iran Nuclear agreement that Trump hates so much – It’s a start, and it should be applauded – This move is good for the peoples of North and South Korean jointly (not to mention the whole South East Asia region); this has nothing to do with you or your country, and if it wasn’t for your country’s imperialism you wouldn’t even be part of this conversation.
Yes North Korea is a brutal and a disgusting dictatorship, but so are the majority of American “Allies” – Its a Nuclear armed power, me thinks its a good idea to avoid a nuclear war.
Stilinski26
Her investigation coverage on Trumps tax returns was so embarrassing lol