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“Rachel Maddow is an incredible talent — she’s funny, and smart, obviously well researched on subjects. I’m just not interested as a viewer in listening to anchors’ opinions. It seems like there’s an awful lot of yelling, and this year yelling’s been replaced by sarcasm and snarkiness.” Anderson Cooper, taking a swipe at Rachel Maddow in an interview by Choire …

Last night Rachel Maddow made the correct observation that inviting Rick Warren to give the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration was not mere reciprocity for having been invited to speak at Warren’s Saddleback Church. As Maddow notes, Obama invited Warren to our inauguration, to the nation’s stage.

Friday night on Conan O’Brien, Rachel Maddow said she gets a lot of nice fan mail, but lots of not-so-nice messages too: “You also get the hate mail where people write in specifically to tell me that I’m gay. As if I didn’t know. Oh my God I had no idea. I’ll get off television. That is the single best …

Rachel Maddow and Melissa Harris-Lacewell discuss whether Prop 8 was properly explained to African-Americans.

Rachel Maddow says that long lines at polling places are a de facto poll tax – a very effective way to block out people who cannot afford to miss several hours of work.

The bigshots at MSNBC are doing backflips over the ratings that Rachel Maddow has been pulling in over her first few weeks on the job. Rachel Maddow, a woman who does not own a television set, has done something that is virtually unheard of: she has doubled the audience for a cable news channel’s 9 p.m. hour in a matter …

BAM! Rachel Maddow calls Sarah Palin a liar from an alternate universe. Maddow freekin’ ROOOLZ!

Yesterday Page 6 leaked a rumor that the powers that be at MSNBC are unhappy with new anchor Rachel Maddow’s mannish appearance. MSNBC loves the chatter of liberal pundit Rachel Maddow, but not her look. Maddow, who’s getting her own show, is being subjected to a network makeover. A source says an entire “glam squad” has been hired for the …

Openly lesbian journalist Rachel Maddow has gotten her own show from MSNBC. Rachel Maddow has been sounding off about politics on MSNBC so often she might as well have her own show. And now she does. The liberal commentator and Air America host, who has become a breakout star for the cable channel during this campaign, is taking over the …