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mises · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired

Maddow is articulate (is it racist to call her that?) but I don't see any great mind behind the words.

I'm not a big fan of credentialism. I have a masters in economics and quite frankly I learned complete junk (the great moderation etc). What I learned is taught in virtually every program in the world. If the ideas are wrong then education doesn't mean anything. And we've all known those individuals who are very competent students but incompetent humans.

Hey, Bush went to Harvard and Yale!

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I have trouble with the argument that Beck and Maddow are relatively the same. One is taken seriously enough by her peers to get invited on real news shows and the other isn't.

I think the trick to watching Rachel is to be able to instantly switch back and forth between when she is being serious and when she's being snarky.

The other day the Daily Beast ( Confused

) put out a list of the 25 most influential liberal media types. Maddow came in at #11. Jon Stewart came in (again) at #1. That Jon Stewart--comedian, the most trusted man on TV, the most influential liberal opinion maker, is worrisome. And he agrees.

Blockhead confidence · Joined: 02 Apr 2008

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Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Just a little factoid about the consequences of being articulate:

"Meet the Press" has benefitted from another Maddow Bump.

The NBC Sunday morning program moderated by David Gregory averaged 4.162 million total viewers for first place. That's the show's highest total viewer delivery since March 22, 2009.

Gregory interviewed Vice President Joe Biden and the roundtable included David Brooks, Rep. Aaron Schock, Harold Ford, and Rachel Maddow.

Maddow's first appearance, in August, brought the show its highest numbers since April. She battled Schock in a particularly memorable clip on this Sunday's episode.

"Meet the Press" beat CBS' "Face the Nation" (3.025 million) by the widest margin since May 17, 2009, and it beat ABC's "This Week" (2.508 million) by the widest margin since December 7, 2008. The 2.508 million total viewers represent ABC's lowest total viewer delivery since August 23, 2009.

"FOX News Sunday" averaged 1.208 million total viewers in its FOX broadcast.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/19/meet-the-press-ratings-bu_n_469613.html

Go, Rachel, go!

I wonder if Chet Huntley ever called David Brinkley 'Lambchop'?

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Stanley Crouch likes Rachel, too:

Clearly, Maddow is terribly allergic to conservatives.

She is disturbed by what conservatives think, how they assess what is happening to us all out here, and what the wildest or most cynical of them present as facts, which they often see as nothing more than opposing opinions, even if they come from the scientific world.

Her allergy rises to bumps that do not ache or itch as much as they inspire Maddow to what is easily some of the finest commentary available on cable television. She is largely eloquent and in command of the English language on a level one is not accustomed to in television commentary.

Her statements almost always come from the same place - somewhere between the respectable left and those who intellectually live on the left side of the moon, but the depth of her wit is what makes Maddow special. It can slide from the intelligent dig to the devastating sendup.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/02/22/2010-02-22_mad_about_maddow.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter