Tag Archives: Rachel Maddow

Rachel Maddow: Westboro Baptist Church Brought Out The Best In Americans

RELATED: As an underscore to Maddow’s point, counter-protesters displayed the below banners at Westboro’s first post-Fred Phelps picket, which was held outside a concert for teenage pop star Lorde.

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Maddow Rips Wingnut Claims About Presidents Appearing On Comedy Shows

Clip recap via Noah Rothman: On Thursday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow took aim at ABC News reporter Jim Avila, CNN political analyst David Gergen, and a number of conservative political commentators who asserted that President Barack Obama’s appearance on a Funny or Die web video debased the office of the presidency. Maddow took the opportunity to play clips of …

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Rachel Maddow Vs. Rep. Tim Huelskamp

If you didn’t catch this craziness last night: A question over the inclusion of Army Sgt. 1st Class Cory Remsburg at Tuesday’s State of the Union address spiraled into a policy-spanning battle between MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), who accused her of hiding from what his party calls the truth about the Benghazi attack. “This administration …

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Maddow & Letterman Talk Sochi

Rachel Maddow appeared on Late Night With David Letterman last night to talk about Chris Christie and the Sochi Olympics. Towleroad quotes Letterman lamenting the lack of a Sochi boycott: “I was hoping that everybody would pull out and everybody would say ‘This is not right. This is medieval times. We’re not going.’ Vladimir Putin said they would not be …

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Fox News Defends Chris Christie

Josh Feldman recaps: Bill O’Reilly finally tackled the Chris Christie “Bridgegate” scandal on Thursday night, and he mostly defended Christie against the criticisms lobbed against him, especially the “bully” label. Laura Ingraham joined O’Reilly and pointed out that Republicans will also be gunning for Christie too, because for years now conservatives have been unhappy with the moderate Christie and his …

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Rachel Maddow On Utah’s Marriage Battle

“It turns out, Utah screwed it up.” Great recap.

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Another Anti-Gay Slur From Alex Baldwin, Wingnuts Pounce On Social Media

GLAAD’s Ross Murray reacts: “I don’t know what he’s thinking when he says what he says. I know he’s someone who has worked with us in the past. That’s why it gets hard when he comes back and does the same thing over and over again. We will have to take some time and think about how to respond.” TMZ …

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Maddow BUSTS E.W. Jackson

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Maddow: The GOP Got Exactly Nothing

Josh Feldman recaps: Maddow explained how “the Republicans thought for sure the Democrats would cave” on Obamacare, and the fact that they didn’t threw them for a loop and so they had “no idea what to do next.” She went down the list of all their “weird, specific demands” about Obamacare and a list of other issues, from birth control …

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Rachel Maddow Calls Out Religious Right For Supporting Russia’s Anti-Gay Pogrom

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Maddow Plays Politician Or Porn-ititian

Rachel Maddow and Michael Strahan appeared on Andy Cohen’s show last night for a round of Politician Or Porn-itician, during which Maddow appeared to identify Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims as NOM president Brian Brown. Oopsie.

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Petition Of The Day

The petition has been launched by Truth Wins Out: NBC’s Olympic coverage has long featured myriad human interest pieces, about the athletes competing, and about all aspects of life in the home nation. There is more than enough time in prime time Olympic coverage for hard-hitting pieces exposing the reality of what LGBT people, political dissidents and other minorities face …

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Rick Wiles: Viewers Of MSNBC Are Demon-Possessed Fans Of The Anti-Christ

“I discovered that MSNBC’s socialist news commentator Rachel Maddow played a soundbite of me on her program last night. Thank you, Rachel. I appreciate the publicity even though there aren’t that many people watching MSNBC, but I’ll take all the publicity I can get. The people who do watch it, however, have a visceral hate for Jesus Christ and Christians. …

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Maddow On Gays & The GOP

Mediaite has a recap of Rachel Maddow’s Friday night piece on gays and the GOP: “In Republican world, it is a very different world than the rest of us are living, when it comes to The Gay,” Rachel Maddow said in a blistering segment taking the mainstream GOP to task for their ossified position on homosexuality. Whereas the country is …

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Alex Jones Is Attracted To “Mr. Maddow”

Earlier this week crackpot conspiracy nut Alex Jones announced that the Oklahoma tornadoes were a result of a secret Obama administration weather control machine. Because IRS. Or something. Rachel Maddow then had a lot of fun at Jones’ expense and this is his response.

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Rachel Maddow On David Letterman

This time it’s Letterman that scores the point. (Tipped by JMG reader Nick)

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Rachel Maddow On “Skim-Milk Marriage”

Great recap of yesterday.

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Chris Hayes Replaces Ed Schultz At MSNBC

Next month Chris Hayes will take over the 8PM weekday slot at MSNBC as the network moves Ed Schultz to the weekends.  The New York Times reports: Mr. Hayes, a liberal intellectual who has hosted a well-regarded weekend morning program on MSNBC for the past 18 months, is a protege of Rachel Maddow, the highest-rated host on the channel. He …

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Rachel Maddow On Jeanne Manford

You’ll need a tissue for this.

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Maddow: Goodbye 112th Congress

Last night Rachel Maddow opened her show with a lengthy goodbye to all the scoundrels (plus the few good guys) of the 112th Congress.

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