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LA Times on Maddow: Best Launch Of a New Show on MSNBC
IAmATVJunkie.com. Life's Rich Electronically-Delivered Pageant — ... An animated dissection of political events and offbeat news, punctuated by the host's sardonic humor, “The Rachel Maddow Show” has debuted with a strength that surprised even MSNBC executives. An average of 1.64 million viewers tuned in since the show launched on Sept. 8, more than double the number who watched the same hour in the first eight months of the year. ...

The St James Version
World of Wonder Productions — ... And now one for the ladies… I know I always seem to get lathered up over the prettyboys, but all that has changed. Yes, lately I find myself obsessing over the incredible hotness that is Rachel Maddow of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show. OMG. I LOVE HER! And I can’t help thinking that she must be THE number one sexual fantasy/dream date/ ideal trophy wife for lesbians everywhere. Somebody needs to slap her face on a dildo, or maybe blow-up doll, and watch the money start rolling in. Hell, I’d buy it. But wait. Oh no. Am I in love with her because because ...

Late Friday news dump
Secret Society — ... teevee-mahcine show on MSNBC, you know that all the juiciest news stories are leaked late in the day on Friday. Ordinarily this is done by those trying to bury the story -- but it actually has the opposite effect on the savvy news consumer, who learns to make a Friday evening ritual of scanning the wires for the best dirt. ...

The Ticker: CNN Wire, ABC Girlfriends, MSNBC Maddow...
mediabistro.com: TVNewser — ... fans. rachel.msnbc.com includes clips from the previous night's show, Rachel's Twitter feed, and links to her bio, nightly features and Maddow's Air America site. ...

Fantasy Colbert League Weekly: November 3 - 6
No Fact Zone — ... Thursday, 11/6: Rachel Maddow MSNBC fan alert! Rachel Maddow, host of the The Rachel Maddow Show and protégé of “insane person” Keith Olbermann, has been gleefully reporting on these last crazy days of the presidential race. Maddow, a Rhodes Scholar, hosts a daily radio show of the same name on Air America and is a frequent contributor to other MSNBC political news programs. Fract: Maddow’s six-degrees tie to Stephen Colbert is the radio show ...

Episode 4145 (11/06/2008)
No Fact Zone — ... my guest is MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. I’ll ask her who defrosts Keith Olbermann’s mouth during commercials.” Stephen Colbert’s Fallback Position: Spy — Part 1 The Spy Who Loved Himself: “Then, I find out what it takes to be a spy. Or do I? [beat] I do.” Main guest: Rachel Maddow — host, The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America and MSNBC In closing: “Folks, today my ...

Fantasy Colbert League Weekly: November 10 - 13
No Fact Zone — ... Monday, 11/10: Rachel Maddow (rerun, 11/06/08). MSNBC fan alert! Rachel Maddow, host of the The Rachel Maddow Show and protégé of “insane person” Keith Olbermann, has been gleefully reporting on these last crazy days of the presidential race. Maddow, a Rhodes Scholar, hosts a daily radio show of the same name on Air America and is a frequent contributor to other MSNBC political news programs. Fract: Maddow’s six-degrees tie to Stephen Colbert is ...

Ari Melber: Big Questions for President Obama's Big Press Conference
Huffington Post Entertainment Blog — ... foreign policy," recounted one website devoted to steroids, "and was widely criticized as being inappropriate given the importance of other issues discussed during the prime-time presidential press conference." 2. Will NBC's Chuck Todd ask a question submitted by a regular citizen? He has been collecting questions, asking his own readers and offering to read top questions from our new project, Ask The President. On Monday, Todd told Rachel Maddow about his interest in citizen questions -- will he actually use one? ...

Lars Ulrich Uses Guitar Hero to His Advantage
Celebrity Baby Blog - People.com — ... continue to help into adolescence!” Lars, 45, added that “it’s been a lot of fun” to find a new musical outlet after a near 30-year career. Layne and Myles are his children with ex-wife Skylar Satenstein; He is also dad to Bryce Thadeus, 23 months, with longtime girlfriend Connie Nielsen. Metallica’s ninth album Death Magnetic is in stores now. Source: The Rachel Maddow Show – Missy Posted in Dads, Main, ...

The White House gets crunk up in this joint
CliqueClack TV — ... using my dorkitude to explain politics to people that don’t share my — well, let’s just call it “passion.” Most people, for instance, upon being told that that Brian Williams (who timeshares being my favorite non-fake news anchor with Rachel Maddow) would be ...

More Congressional Christian Cult News: Chip Pickering and His Li'l Chippy
IAmATVJunkie.com. Life's Rich Electronically-Delivered Pageant — Li'l Chippy = My dad's expression for girl on the side. Wow, the Maddow show has really ramped up discussion of The Family, it's made Jeff Sharlet's book on the subject a chart-riser once again (this time in paperback) and Gawker has the details now on the Mississippi Congressman who was actually having sex in the C Street house  that is registered as a church in Washington DC and is a place where members of Congress are indoctrinated into this very scary dogma that includes leader Doug Coe speaking ...

Rachel Maddow Calls a Tie in Our Scotch Cocktail Contest
Gothamist — ... the search for the perfect pre-prohibition Scotch drink. At the time, she told us, "Scotch is used in very few cocktails, but when it is used, it can be very effective. So I'm very interested in trying to figure out what's beyond the Blood and Sand in terms of Scotch in cocktails." So, we called upon some of the city's best mixologists to take this Scotch challenge to task, and this past Tuesday night we all gathered at the Gonzo Room inside Aspen Restaurant after Ms. Maddow was done filming her show for the day, and, well, drank a lot of Scotch (thanks to ...

Rachel Maddow's Favorite Movie
Film Experience Blog — MSNBC's superstar, the smart funny and enlightening Rachel Maddow, is obsessed with all things political... so maybe it's no surprise that she loves ...

Linda Bergthold: Why Don't We Have a Surgeon General?
Huffington Post Entertainment Blog — ... There is something terribly wrong when a political minority can hold up a nomination when it has the potential to affect a nation's health. The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius and Janet Napolitano, the head of Homeland Security, are both overwhelmed with health reform and security issues in the U.S. Rachel Maddow brought this issue up on her show on Monday, October 26, but there has been relatively little other media attention to this problem. ...

James Hoggan: Astroturf King Jack Bonner's Long History of Deceitful "Grassroots" Lobbying
Huffington Post Entertainment Blog — ... from ACCCE as they try to convince the Committee otherwise tomorrow. Last week, I wrote about the 20-year, multi-million dollar campaign the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has waged against clean energy and climate policy. While the Chamber’s advertising and lobbying activities certainly impede honest debate in Washington, the duplicity of Astroturf campaigns such as those run by Jack Bonner pose an even greater threat to participatory democracy in the United States. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was correct when she called the Bonner/ACCCE forgery scandal the ...