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Conservatives: how do you feel about Rachel Maddow?
Just wondering. I know the channel MSNBC and Olbermann are not looked highly upon and I can see why, but what about Maddow?
Re: Conservatives: how do you feel about Rachel Maddow?
I was listening to her on NPR yesterday. I liked her but that is the only time I have heard her speak. She was talking about her new book, Drift, and how she had a blurb from ROGER AILES on her book. (sorry chrome bolding.)
I was more annoyed that the interviewer was focusing on what she looks like and wears on her show. Ugg.
I was listening to this interview with her today. That's what made me think of the question.
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/27/148611615/rachel-maddow-the-fresh-air-interview?sc=emaf
Yup. She seemed really interesting.
not a conservative - but after seeing her show few times, something about the style of her show and her voice makes me tune her out. I don't wanna call her outright boring, but her show is on pretty late and if I'm going have my attention held I need a bit more liveliness. I like her though, in general.
I am a moderate who tends to lean conservative, though on social issues I am as liberal as they come.
I respect her. She seems very intelligent and never seems uninformed. Oh, and I hate Bill O'Reily. She is nothing like him.
I admire her intelligence, but disagree quite often with her point of view and her politics in general. She does not seem to understand nor fully research the opposing view nor take those points into consideration. (She once spoke about an issue that was occuring in my town and she did not have all the facts and took the standard Dem. lib. line as if it was the only view- a bit arrogant )
Her personality can be a bit irritating. We purposely to not get MSNBC anymnore.
For conservatives, Maddowis one to listen to for getting the liberal viewpoint without ner being too hateful in the process.
Ditto Sisu, kind of. I love me some smart, sassy women, although MSNBC runs a print ad in some of my magazines with her photo and the claim that SS is not a Ponzi scheme. I want to yell at the page every time I see it. However, I enjoy watching her when she's a guest on shows. She is funny and smart without being an @sshole, which seems to be a rare combination of qualities for a pundit these days.
I find her a little irritating, but I think she is the best spokesperson for the left, because she researches, is unafraid to state her point of view, but most importantly she is polite about it. She doesn't give anyone an opportunity to be rude to her, becaue if they do, they look terrible.
Which means they have to fight facts with facts.
So even though I find her annoying at times, I have the utmost respect for her. She is one of the best in the media IMO.
Let's get to the important stuff: Who are the top 2?
Please don't say Ellen and Rosie
nope, my ex-GF and her wife.
I will say that I find her to be very intellegent, thought provoking, and articulate. Obviously I disagree with her point of view, but I don't care for her because I find her to be rather passive aggressive - sort of like a liberal version of Ann Coulter personality-wise, who also gets on my last nerve. On Meet the Press, she sometime looks like she might explode or vomit, desperately holding back huge eye-rolls, whenever a conservative is on the panel trying to make a point. It's painful looking but amusing to me, actually makes me enjoy my Sunday morning coffee just a little more.
I'm a liberal so I love her. but even if I was a conservative, I'd love that she taught me how to make a mean Old Fashioned.
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Not a conservative, but I do watch her regularly and think her show and material have the best research of all of them. I'm sure she doesn't get every fact for local news, but she will give information I don't get on other shows.
I also like that she is polite to her guests, even if they have an opposing view, but will call out distortions and will back it up with facts. She will frequently ask the guest if she has made any mistakes and gives him/her a chance to give his/her side. Still, most conservatives refuse to appear on her show and she actively tries to get them to come for interviews. During the 2008 election, Joe Scarborough and she appeared on a show together (not hers) and he walked off the set because she got the better of him, but not in a rude way. He couldn't take it.
Damn, I thought you were going to say Cat Cora. I love her. But whether I love her more than Maddow? Tough call.
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I don't think she is GOP hating at all. She is suprisingly cordial to EVERYONE. When we saw her speak, the person interviewing her was much more militant-left, and would say things like "R's are bad people", and she would stop her, and state that she in know way believes that Rs are bad people, and that some of her closest friends are Rs, but that she just disagrees with conservative policy. Just like conservatives disagree with liberal policy. After hearing her speak, I have even more love for her - she is witty and SO intellegent and quick on her feet.
She also said that she really dislikes interviewing people with the same beliefs as her, because there is no challenge in that.
Also, she HATES Vodka.
I am a dem and she is the only one I will watch. She just doesn't get caught up in sensationalizing a topic like others do. I couldn't handle Keith O back in the day for this reason.
And she is just so damn smart so it is hard not to respect her.
I'd hump her leg.
You couldn't watch her because you are dead. Oh well.
She's sharp. So sharp that no one realizes when she's misleading viewers. I've watched her paraphrase documents or comments I know and change their tone, and she makes heavy use of pronouns to avoid having to explain exactly who she's talking about. I admire her for her sneakiness, but I can't stand it because as someone who spends more time on the other side, she's blatantly obvious to me and then I get angry at the TV for her not telling the story right and knowing the blind liberals just believing her. Shoddy journalism at it's very very best. I mean, I get angry at the Fox News guys too, but it's more of a "well, everyone knows how stupid that comment is."
That said, I can laugh along with her, like I can with Bill Maher, when they make fun of the social conservatives. Libertarians love making fun of social conservatives.