Rachel Maddow

[[File:Rachel Maddow in Seattle cropped.png|thumb|right|165px|Rachel Maddow not on television]]{{pundits}}
'''Rachel Maddow''' {{lived|1973}} is a 
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<ref>[http://www.rawstory.com/2010/09/maddow-outs-lesbian-vampire/ Maddow ‘outs’ herself as a ‘lesbian vampire | Rawstory.com]</ref> political pundit with a television show (creatively named ''The Rachel Maddow Show'') featuring her commentary on [[MSNBC]]. Her show debuted in September of 2008. She is generally known for reasoned examination of issues from a [[liberal]] perspective (with a more than occasional dose of mockery).

After getting a bachelor's degree in public policy from Stanford, she went on to Oxford (''outside'' the [[United States]]!) to get her doctorate in political science on a Rhodes Scholarship (just like [[Bill Clinton]]). ''And'' she's a [[lesbian]]. So she's clearly out to destroy American civilization and decency. Just by existing. And ''boy'' does that [[Bradlee Dean|piss off the conservatives]].

==Positions==
While she is a self-described [[Rockefeller Republican|Eisenhower Era Republican]],<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=11725 | title = Wonk and Circumstance | last = Sturm | first = Tom | work = The Valley Advocate | date = March 28, 2014 | accessdate = 2010-06-18}}</ref> today her policies might seem much closer to Hillary Clinton. Her pet issues seem to be LGBT equality (file this one under duh), women's reproductive rights, veterans' issues and most importantly the [[Military-industrial complex]] which she wrote a book about that became a best seller and nominated her for a Grammy.<ref>{{cite book| last = Maddow| first = Rachel| title = Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power| publisher = Crown | year = 2012| isbn = 978-0-307-46098-1}}</ref> Her style of journalism and interviewing can be described as passive and calm with an infusion of geeky.<ref>Likes: Charts, graphs, airborne pictures, cars (she calls herself a "car dork").</ref> She is not one to be combative in her interviews, instead preferring to use the [[Rand Paul|interviewee's words against them]] and use the segment right afterwards to do an [[Koch Industries|impromptu fact-check]]. She has been shown to get emotional on air where after being told a story about a [[Sandy Hook massacre|school shooting victim]] she broke down in tears and control had to cut to commercial at her behest.

After the presidency of [[Donald Trump]] took off, coupled with Fox News scandals involving the 9PM slot, her viewership had begun to surge causing her for at least one quarter to have the highest ratings.<ref>http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/q2-2017-ratings-rachel-maddow-has-the-no-1-cable-news-show-among-adults-25-54/333372</ref>

By mid 2021, the news cycle was much calmer, with [[Joe Biden]] replacing the tumultuous [[Donald Trump]] as president, and the [[COVID-19]] pandemic under control in the United States due to a widespread [[vaccination]] rollout. This helped to cause viewership declines across all cable news network channels. Despite this, Maddow was duking it out for the "most watched program on cable news" category with [[Fox News]] heavyweights like [[Tucker Carlson]] and [[Sean Hannity]], sometimes even taking the top spot in some reports.<ref>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/cable-news-ratings-first-quarter-2021-4158389/ "Cable News Wave Crests in First Quarter as All 3 Networks Claim Victory"] by Rick Porter, Hollywood Reporter, 2021 March 30</ref><ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2021/04/27/tucker-carlson-leads-fox-news-to-big-win-in-april-prime-time-ratings/?sh=463fcb876cb2 "Tucker Carlson Leads Fox News To Big Win In April Prime Time Ratings"] by Mark Joyella, Forbes, 2021 April 27</ref> It was later announced that as part of her contract renewal for MSNBC, ''The Rachel Maddow Show'' would air on Mondays only, while Maddow focused on other creative ventures, like the film adaptation of her ''Bag Man'' podcast.

==External links==
*[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26318771/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/ MSNBC: Rachel Maddow]
*[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908 The Rachel Maddow Show], video archive at MSNBC's website
*[http://www.rachelmaddow.com/ Website]

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