February 2010
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October 2009
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WatchMore evidence that as long as there is capitalism, democracy is a sham.
Go Howard Dean
Rachel Maddow: You and I have talked in the past about the strategy for the final vote, and who's going to be put on the spot. If it's a very progressive bill, then conservative Democrats will be facing the choice of whether or not to vote 'no' on health reform in order to seem conservative. If it's a conservative bill, then liberal Democrats will have to decide whether or not they're going to vote 'no' on health reform in order to seem liberal. Which do you think is a better strategic bet for [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid?
Howard Dean: You know, I think we should just stop talking about liberal and conservative. What this is about is whether the American people get to make choices or whether politicians and bureaucrats and insurance companies are going to make the choices.
--The Rachel Maddow Show, 10/22/09
April 2009
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March 2009
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Some other very satisfying thoughts from that excellent article:
“There is a certain butch attitude that reaches across the divides of sexual orientation and tends to snare women who might otherwise not be interested in lesbianism. The character of Shane on The L Word, though she resisted the idea of being butch, was entirely based on this attitude.
It’s not about being a Lothario, although...
FYI - Maddow's on Letterman tonight.
(via fuckyeahrachelmaddow)
WatchRachel Maddow video: Shepard Fairey: interview with the artist
Pretty much everything he says totally butters my muffin and I’m too lazy to transcribe. (Check out his web site.)
EDIT: Ok ok:
“It is about really showing an individual who doesn‘t have a power of a corporation or any other means than a Xerox machine can make something that affects people that makes them think about...
FYI
fuckyeahrachelmaddow:
Rachel Maddow is on the View on Thursday/tomorrow.
via MaddowFans.com
“Today, the most important thing in Maddow’s life is Mikula, 50, her...”
– Julia Baird, When Left Is Right: Rachel Maddow always thought she was an outsider. How did she become a star? Newsweek, 1-Dec-2008
“LESLEY: Excellent. Rachel, thank you so much. Will you come back again?
RACHEL:...”
– Lesley Stahl interview with Rachel Maddow, 26-Jan-2009, wherein we find out that Rachel went to the prom with a Marine, and that she’s an overachiever.
[ETA: It really is an interesting interview, and Lesley’s questions have a really easy, not quite tongue-in-cheek tone to them....
February 2009
28 posts
“If home runs were a web site, Barry Bonds would be Google.”
– Rachel Maddow, 2/27/09
Watch“George Bush in a Snuggie, mehhh.”
(“Just Enough” should really be its own show. 10 Cocktail Moments! 10!)
Rachel Maddow video: Bush goes to (an) elementary school
me: so the maddow tribute page is rocking out
Hannah: fuck you rachel? or yeah? it's yeah, isn't it? lots of fans?
me: hahaha. fuck you...
Hannah: yeah that sounds wrong. although, you would enjoy sexing RM
me: then it would be fuck me rachel maddow
Hannah: truth
WatchA little late, but: “Milk” Oscars and Cleve Jones on the show. I am speechlessly filled with something like bittersweet almost-hope.
Rachel Maddow video: The winner is…
“Lesbianism has finally come into a glamour of its own, an appeal that goes...”
– Daphne Merkin, Butch Fatale (via girlfriendisahomo)
FUCK YEAH.
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“Concession to vanity: I’ve had to get contact lenses. I only put them in while...”
– NY Times Magazine Interview, “Rachel Maddow: A Pundit In The Country” (20 Questions for Rachel Maddow) (10/19/2008) - if unavailable, try here
WatchLike the last post—too many good things to bother trying to tempt you into viewing. Just view!
(He mentions my Uncle Benny!)
Rachel on the Colbert Report, 11/6/08
WatchFrom the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, January 7, 2009. So many good quotes in this one it’s hard to know where to start!
“Someone being a total geek about their subject matter is a good thing!”
WatchRachel Maddow, “our very own Gay Bomb”
WatchMichael Steele (RNC chair) says: “We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-suburban hip-hop settings…. [The makeover] will be avant garde*, technically… it will come to [the] table with things that will surprise everyone—off the hook.”
*Ok, what? How is this...
“I had a Saturn once. It had a really, *really* loud turn signal.”
– Rachel Maddow’s response to GM’s phasing out of Saturn cars by 2012 (2/18/09)
WatchRachel gets politically-self-referential? “I am all for the Constitution. I am all for us being protected by the tyranny of the majority. I dig it. I like arcane rules that protect minority rights. (Gestures to self.) Duh.”
Rachel Maddow video: Grand Obstructionist Party
“Not all slumber parties are created equal.”
– Rachel Maddow (2/16/09)
Watchmaps! metaphors! mmm!
Rachel Maddow video: Lost
WatchI disagree with both of them. I think there are 4137490709823 Americas.
(Note to urlgirl: You don’t have to catch up, I’ll just make sure you get the best bits! ;))
Rachel Maddow video: The party of ‘no’
WatchCheers to the Consortium Of Pub-going, Loose And Forward Women!
Rachel Maddow video: Panty-warfare
December 2008
2 posts
“Another candidate, the former Tennessee party chairman, has sent out as a...”
– Rachel Maddow, 12/29/08
WatchOn the latest Rick Warren bullshit. It’s almost worth it to have Katha Pollitt on the Rachel Maddow Show.
There’s a disturbing scene in the Canadian TV show “Slings & Arrows”, in which a preacher gay-bashes at a gay man’s funeral, basically blaming him for his own death and screaming “hellfire”. That scene is now not so much less funny but certainly...
September 2008
1 post
Watchmsnbc.com - The Rachel Maddow Show - How did Obama do?
“Senator Obama [is] a leader who will point out where there are areas of common ground with somebody with whom he disagrees fundamentally on every fundamental issue. This is exactly what’s wrong with Washington, is that somebody who seeks to acknowledge that there are areas of agreement, areas where we can work together, areas of...