Rachel Maddow Gets MSNBC Show
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Just in time for the closing rush of the presidential election, MSNBC is shaking up its prime-time programming lineup, removing the long-time host –- and one-time general manager of the network — Dan Abrams from his 9 p.m. program and replacing him with Rachel Maddow, who has emerged as a favored political commentator for the all-news cable channel.
The moves, which were confirmed by MSNBC executives Tuesday, are expected to be finalized by Wednesday, with Mr. Abrams’s last program on Thursday. After MSNBC’s extensive coverage of the two political conventions during the next two weeks, Ms. Maddow will begin her program on Sept. 8.
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Rachel will be immensely popular. No telling yet what the format will be, but bet on intelligent. Now I will stay on MSNBC AFTER Keith.
Yay!!!!! I really needed some good news today!
I guess it’s time to institute a windfall profits tax on former AirAmerica hosts.
On the bright side, it serves an an auto-rebuttal the next time Oliver goes on one of his “Right Wing Media” jags.
Yes, 1 liberal host counteracts an entire channel and a media echo chamber filled with cons.
Maddow is the only liberal host on MS/NBC? Really?!?
No, she’s the only one who is unabashedly liberal. But your statement read as if her getting her job means there’s no con glut in the media. Which there is.
Lemme give you a tip, my friend: try watching MSNBC @ 8pm EST. I have a feeling you’ll find the host amenable to your political stance.
There are conservatives in the media, no doubt. But more often than not, they are hired as commentators and are expressly identified as such. (Scarborough and (thankfully short-lived) Savage are the only exceptions I can think of). Meanwhile, liberals and/or Democratic operatives get placed in the “objective” host positions: Olbermann, Abrams, Maddow, Matthews, Russert, Steph…
If NBC were to hire someone like Rove, Fred Thompson, or Hannity (sans Colmes) to replace Russert on MTP, THEN you’d have a legitimate argument.
SaveFerris has no idea what a liberal is if he thinks anyone on that list besides Olbermann is a liberal. That said, I’m gay for Rachel!
SaveFerris has no idea what a liberal is if he thinks anyone on that list besides Olbermann is a liberal.
Well, there’s liberal as in progressive, and then there’s liberal as in somewhere to the left of Ghengis Khan, you see.
That being said, Maddow is smart and funny and talented. I hope she kicks some butt.
Slag,
I’m gay for Rachael too!!!!!
Just having one more smart person in the media that won’t lie on purpose is great, regardless of politics.
Three straight hours of liberals on MSNBC. Matthews, Olbermann, and now Maddow. And they have the nerve to insult peoples intelligence and consider Matthews and Olby objective “analysts.”
In.
The.
Tank.
For.
Obama.
Matthews a liberal? Sure, Goebbels was a moderate.
mccann, Aug 20th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Three straight hours of liberals on MSNBC. Matthews, Olbermann, and now Maddow. And they have the nerve to insult peoples intelligence and consider Matthews and Olby objective “analysts.”
In.
The.
Tank.
For.
Obama.
Twenty-four straight hours of conservatives on Fox “News”. Hannity, O’Reilly, Neil Cavuto, Greta van sustern, Brit Hume, Bill Hemmer, Megyn Kelly, and Shepherd Smith. For starters. And they have the nerve to insult peoples intelligence and consider themselves ”Fair and Balanced:.
In.
The.
Tank.
For.
Republican’ts.
Funny, how you seem to be much more concerned with three straight hours – as much as the Oxycontin Kid gets across the country every weekday – of liberal media! And somehow fail to notice the exponentially more prevalent conservative media all over the place all the time. Will you ever be free of commie pinko fag junkie liberals invading every single bit of your personal space?
Yeah, Chris Matthews is just a far left radical. That’s why he couldn’t contain himself when Bush did his flight suit stunt or when John McCain does… anything.
Did you just try to claim that Mr. “Thrill up my Leg” doesn’t hang Left?
And McCain WAS Matthew’s crush … when he was criticizing Bush and/or Conservatives. So to use that as an example of Matthews skewing Right is beyond silly.
Greta? A conservative? The woman’s show is hardly about politics. Forget about Alan Colmes or something? And Brit Hume…..uh…..he does hard news. You forgot about Geraldo Rivera, a known liberal, as well as many contributors that are on FNC – Susan Estrich, Geraldine Ferraro, etc…Not that FNC doesn’t tilt right, I’d be stupid to think otherwise, but acting like MSNBC doesn’t tilt WAY left is just one of two things, incredibly stupid, or intellectually dishonest.
And if you can’t consider Olbermann a liberal, then you have no business calling O’Reilly a conservative. Olby is much farther left than Bill O is right. When was the last time KO had someone on his show with a different view than his own, or better yet, EVER directly confronted ANY of the people he routinely takes cheapshots at???? And Chris “thrill up my leg” Matthews…..that reeks of “in the tank for Obama.” And now they add Rachel “air america” Maddow. And I believe it was Scarborough that outright admitted that he doesn’t have a Republican on his staff on Morning Joe.
OW, your problem is that you for some reason think that media matters is an organization that is actually intending to be fair. It’s a blatently obvious, left-leaning group, so far left that they’ll even jump on other left wingers, but only when they aren’t FAR ENOUGH LEFT for their liking. Objective people know this already. Quoting a media matters profile from MM is like me holding up a bible and saying “see, told you gay people were bad, da bible says so.”
No Credibility at all, just as the notion that MSNBC is anywhere close to non-partisan. At least FNC has SOME liberals on.
http://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/in-depth-abrams-out-maddow-in/
The above link is a good breakdown of the leanings of cable news. It may interest some of you. Have at it if you want.
Shorter jmcann:
Pay no attention to all the conservatives in the media. There’s three full hours of (supposedly) liberal media on TV! In a row!!!!one!l!
Please – Tweety “doesn’t he look manly in that flightsuit” is a liberal! Maybe compared to Goebbels, er, Limbaugh…
Oh – and your good breakdown of the leanings of cable news says this:
From 7-11 pm you have the non partisan Fox Report, the ideologically libertarian/conservative O’Reilly Factor, the Conservative leaning Hannity & Colmes (of course it’s conservative leaning. The show is all about Hannity despite the name. If Hannity left, the show would tank in the ratings. If Colmes left, the show would find another liberal and the ratings would remain steady), and the ideologically neutral On The Record.
CNN has the ideologially Libertarian Lou Dobbs Tonight, followed by the comparatively ideologically neutral CNN Election Center, Larry King Live, and Anderson Cooper 360.
with a stright face. The Faux Report is non partisan? On The Record is idealogically neutral? The comparatively idealogically neutral CNN Election Center? It also sounds like this person is claiming that libertarian and conservative are not two flavors of conservative thought. Funny – the whole liberals = commies = socialists = traitors mindset completely disappears when there’s different conservatives to be lumped together!
Pull the other one…
If you want to balance Bill O’Reily’s right with a left, try Fidel Castro.
LMAO!
Man, if you think Great Van Facelift is a raging conservative, you aren’t worth the time. She spends 3/4 of her shows on missing people and tabloid drama. Is that now conservative???
Honestly….Greta? The Fox Report?
You’re delusional. That’s like me complaining about..uh…I dunno….a neutral like Anderson Cooper or something.
Seek help now. You are paranoid.
Brit Hume does hard news? This cat is too much.
And Matthews isn’t partisan; he’s a hero worshipper. It’s his whole schtick.
And Chris “thrill up my leg” Matthews…..that reeks of “in the tank for Obama.”
Wasn’t he talking about Fred Thompson when he said that? Or was that teh “He smells good” moment?
Mccann, you’re conveniently forgetting Nancy Grace and Glen Beck on CNN.
Clearly, you know the meaning of liberal about as well as you know the meaning of Marxist.
We’ll just have to agree to disagree.
“Thrill up my leg Matthews” is a liberal to many, and has even been rumored to be considering a run for office as a democrat. That seems left to me. Nancy Grace…..again, a stretch on your part. Show isn’t usually about politics. She comes across as a screeching idiot to me most the time to me. Beck, no arguing with you there. But at least he admits it, unlike MSNBC when it comes to Olby and Matthews.
We’ll just have to agree to disagree. You aren’t changing my mind, and I’m not changing yours. But
Vanessa….
O’Reilly is for civil unions, against death penalty, has hammered oil companies, and routinely gives right and left a voice on his show. Yes, he’s conservative on some issues, but calling someone with those views the “right wing version of Castro” sounds rather ignorant.
Get with it.
Just something i searched on matthews running for congres..
bunch of links. read what you want.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=chris matthews run for congress&fr=yfp-t-501-s&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8
calling someone with those views the “right wing version of Castro” sounds rather ignorant.
No, that sounds about right to me. He doesn’t give “teh left” a voice on his show, other than to lamely point and laugh or bluster and yell “Shut up! Pinhead! BLALLLRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!” a lot.
One moderate liberal female gets a one hour cable show.
Wingnut response: WAAAAAAAAA!!!!! WAAAAA!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
fkin babies
Yeah, but Dave, didn’tcha hear? She’s a libyan.
Or Lebanese. I forget which.
j mccann, Aug 20th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
but calling someone with those views the “right wing version of Castro” sounds rather ignorant.
Gee, I wonder how ‘arguing’ with someone with witty rejoinders like You’re delusional. and Seek help now. You are paranoid. sounds? Rude, crude, and completely offensive? Is this your sensitive side? Or should liberals be glad that you take the time to spew conservitard insults at them?
Awful funny how you’ve falsely painted about a quarter of the names I tossed out there as possibly being kinda sorta liberal – and tried to make me out to be delusional for it. And the majority of those conservative Republican’t propaganda catapultists escaped your attention completely. Because of course they totally balance out two hours of liberal programming (I’ll take Olbermann and Maddow, but we’ll have to agree to disagree about Matthews) on one cable news station.
Man, those Republican’t goggles are effective – as long as you don’t have to deal wth the real world. Who’s delusional? Who needs help again?
I have it on good authority that Geraldo “Che” Rivera always ties his left shoelace first. That proves it.
O’Reilly has left-wingers on that show all the time. And they get a chance to state their point of view. What angers leftists is when he doesn’t let them dodge questions. He calls them out, and the left doesn’t like it.
But he’ll do the same to right wingers too. That’s why he’s got enemies on both sides, although I’ll admit, more on the left. But the guy is hardly a radical.
As for Maddow, I wouldn’t consider her a radical. And honestly, politics aside, she seems quite likeable on a personal level. She doesn’t come across as a miserable, angry, smug asshole like Olbermann does. But I would however consider her a committed partisan democrat, which in mine and many others’ opinion, makes three leftists in a row during prime time on MSNBC. That was the whole point. Other than Scarborough, you can’t find a conservative on that network…..none…..not one. FNC, as I’ve pointed out, does have left-wing personalities and contributors on a variety of issues. (And yes…geraldo with his amnesty proposal, pro-choice stance, universal health care desire, and in his own words, is a liberal)
And also, to the Olbermann fans…..
Is that man ever going to directly confront anyone that he has all these issues with, or is he going to continue to get lackeys to come on and agree with his every word? Honestly, has he ever had anyone on his show that has a differing point of view? Just once? Ever? He’s truly the least talented and most intellectually dishonest person to ever have a program on cable news, and a spineless sniping smartass to boot. What a chump. Get some balls Keith and have a showdown with all these horrible people you talk smack about on a nightly basis. Sheesh. Either that or go get laid or something.
“Is that man ever going to directly confront anyone that he has all these issues with, or is he going to continue to get lackeys to come on and agree with his every word? Honestly, has he ever had anyone on his show that has a differing point of view? Just once? Ever? He’s truly the least talented and most intellectually dishonest person to ever have a program …”
I agree. Rush Limbaugh should have liberal viewpoints represented on his show.
So it’s safe to say then that KO is a biased, left-wing pundit, right? Seems some have been unwilling to admit that for some reason.
Rush admits he’s a right-winger with an agenda.
“So it’s safe to say then that KO is a biased, left-wing pundit, right?”
No. One doesn’t come from the other.
So…how do you classify Olbermann, in your opinion?
I’m curious.
Other than Scarborough, you can’t find a conservative on that network…..none…..not one.
You’re fucking high. That’s the only explanation.
For Duros to be true, then one of the following would have to be “conservative”:
* Chris Matthews (“Thrill up my Leg”, former Dem staffer and future(?) Dem Senate Candidate
* David Gregory (the guy who almost got into a fist-fight with Tony Snow)
* Keith Olbermann
* Rachel Maddow
Which is it Duros? Which of these “guys” is a conservative?
Found one
Unless he doesn’t count, because he doesn’t think GWB is an actual conservative.
Unless he doesn’t count, because he doesn’t think GWB is an actual conservative.
The No True Republican’t, er, Scotsman mode of Republican’t debate certainly seems to be running constantly these days…
j mccann, Aug 20th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
O’Reilly has left-wingers on that show all the time. And they get a chance to state their point of view. What angers leftists is when he doesn’t let them dodge questions. He calls them out, and the left doesn’t like it.
You mean, he calls them out by saying “Shut up!” over and over again? Or does he call them out by threatening to kick their a$$es from the safety of his seat in the studio? Is it when he sends his ‘investigative reporters’ to their homes for gotcha journalamism with loaded questions? Or is it when he cuts their mike off and talks over them when they’re trying to make a point?
I think it would be relatively safe to say that there is a yawning chasm between the bias perceived in the mainstream media, depending on your political leanings. Funny how a bunch of people all see the exact same thing, and then there’s a bunch of differing reports of what exactly has been shown to each of them…