>How America's wonkiest anchor cut through the chaos of the Trump administration and became the most trusted name in news
When did you realize that despite all of her idiosyncrasies, Rachel is a very sharp, well-spoken individual that cares about reporting on TRUTH. Yes, I said "truth". Something drumpf supporters know nothing about!
>Launched nearly a decade ago, The Rachel Maddow Show, hosted by an openly-gay Rhodes scholar who came to TV news by way of progressive Air America Radio, is now the number-one prime-time news program on cable television. It's a significant though not totally improbable achievement for a show whose mantra, "Increase the amount of useful information in the world," has taken on new resonance in the Trump era, when a single presidential tweet can receive breathless coverage by the mainstream press, and journalism itself is denounced as "fake news." Though Trump's so-far chaotic presidency has helped boost cable ratings across the board, no program has benefited as much as Maddow's, whose audience has almost tripled, from 849,000 nightly viewers in 2014 to more than 2.3 million today, and growing. In mid-May, The Rachel Maddow Show was second only to the NBA playoffs as the most-watched program on cable, period.
Blake Foster
>the most trusted name in news
Even lefties were left puzzled and embarrassed by the Trump tax return fiasco.
Easton Rodriguez
>In person, Maddow is taller than she appears on TV – a lanky five feet eleven – and also less feminine, her contact lenses replaced by chunky black glasses, mascara wiped off. Maddow's one concession to the female norms of TV news is agreeing to wear makeup, which she does for precisely one hour and 15 minutes per day. Off camera, she dresses in grungy attire, which on an afternoon before Memorial Day means Levi's, a beige T-shirt, a hole-ridden thrift-shop denim shirt, and camouflage Adidas Shell Toes. "They're invisible," she says about her sneakers, though she could be talking about herself. At 44, Maddow is naturally, neutrally pretty, which is a positive if one's aim is to let the words, not the image, make the point. "I have no visual-presentation goals for myself," she says in her office at 30 Rock. A long rack of near-identical dark suit jackets hangs on one wall. "It's on purpose. You line me up with Lawrence O'Donnell and Chris Hayes and Brian Williams, and we've all got a very similar shade of the same haircut."
Joseph Bennett
>As is true for many journalists, Maddow's office is sort of a mess, with manila file folders stacked on the floor, and printouts of various stories she's keeping track of piled on her desk and along the windowsill. "This is how I'm going to die one day – crushed under a pile of paper," she says, giving me a quickie tour of her various tchotchkes: the Trout of North America wall calendar that she quickly flips to May (it was still on March); her Vladimir Putin nesting dolls; a G.I. Joe, still in its box; a metal Tabasco tub housing her Emmy, which is lying sideways, a tiny bit of gold orb emerging from the top. On the whiteboard behind Maddow's desk is a running, if haphazardly diagrammed, list of the stories she's thinking about, with the most important circled in blue marker. Perpetual favorites like Flynn and Trump's ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort hold a prominent place. Another name floating in its own blue circle: Viktor Medvedchuk, "a superclose-to-Putin oligarch" whose name recently turned up in intercepts for having had contact with the Trump campaign. "But we haven't talked about the fact that he was [also] one of the first individuals sanctioned by the U.S. government after the Crimea thing," says Maddow. "And so what is that guy doing talking to the Trump campaign during the campaign when he is one of the sanctioned individuals?"
Christian Evans
>Maddow goes on like this, describing the other stories she finds fascinating, or more specifically, pinpointing the most under-reported, yet possibly important, facet of the stories that interest her, and then drilling down, which can be riveting, as well as exhausting. But that's just how Maddow's brain works. "What's remarkable about Rachel is that she actually is that brilliant," says her senior producer Laura Conaway, who has worked for Maddow since 2009. "The thing about this show is it starts with digesting an enormous amount of information every day, and then basically throwing it all out and saying, 'OK, that's what everybody already knows.' It requires attention, and Rachel is supremely gifted at paying attention."
Jonathan Edwards
The most trusted name in Fake News, sure.
Asher Russell
She was just trying to hold people accountable. I respect her tenacity.
Alexander Russell
Please delete that racist meme. We're trying to have a big boy discussion here...
Joshua Richardson
>white people.
Samuel Evans
How does Rolling Stone exist as a journalism outlet when they published a fake rape hoax.
Evan Fisher
Barf
Charles Gomez
>She
Owen Anderson
I am a person of colour, and of Asian descent. It's not racist if I meme it.
Checkmate, faggot.
Andrew Reed
Who?
Luke Reed
Rachel Maddow is a goon of the neoliberals. Fuck her.
Jose Miller
Someone infinitely smarter than you.
bigot.
people make mistakes sometimes!
Jeremiah Perez
you're the bigot for using gendered pronouns, fuck off cis scum
Henry Morgan
From the people who brought you the UVA Rape scandal, comes an exclusive interview with the person who brought you Trump's tax return!
Ian Evans
Why would they interview a CIS WHITE MALE
Easton Sanchez
Try talking to bigots more often and maybe we would not be seeing the problems we see these days. You fuckers always preach to the choir, and never to those who's hearts you are supposedly trying to change. Grow up.
Austin Allen
I have the same faggy glasses. I got them for about $50. God damn why are the poor folks glasses fashionable now.
Juan Mitchell
One of the ugliest human beings.
Christian Kelly
Robert maddow can always be counted on to deliver the goods. Election night 2016, I frequently tuned in to watch her shock and awe meltdowns. Her shows that followed in the week were comedy gold. "This is your country now" comedy with her twitching head and facial ticks. So funny.
I'm sure some of her audience numbers are those tuning in for the comedy.
And she's dumber than a sack of hammers when it comes to arguing a point. So the learning on her show is next to nothing.
By all means she belongs on rolling stone next to the fake rape story and al gore expose....All fraudulent in their own way.
Isaac Jackson
>JUST fake news my shit up
Jacob Perry
Being this retarded
Lucas Reed
She looks like low T bieber, he was on their too, who the fuck pays attention to (((RS))) anymore? It's obviously been taken over by (((jewfags)))
Carter Anderson
That kikebeast isn't human, user.
Levi Collins
If 'she' cares so much about the truth, why does she lie so much?
Dylan Flores
That's Elvis Costello
Aaron Collins
The fallacy that is your gif shows your retardation.
Jaxson Morgan
Is that Noah Wyle?
Benjamin Hill
>corporate media invents phrase to libel alternative media >alternative media makes it their own and turns it back on the corporate media >corporate media cries "RACIST!" in response
JUST
Evan Moore
...
Ian Roberts
>dumber than a sack of hammers when it comes to arguing a point
I'll never forget her reaction when a guest call bullshit on the gender pay gap, something to the effect of:
"Wait.. You don't believe me? You're... different um... That's like an important difference between us"
Lucas Price
Who's this dude?
Jack Martin
So bourgeoisie champagne socialist can larp as prolitariate. Have you seen the $450 jeans with simulated dirt?
Jayden Gray
Did sean hannity dye his hair???
David Wood
They can't handle it
Chase Cruz
This fuckin dude is so annoying
Nathan Edwards
You spelled sneering and sniveling wrong.
Brody Green
Ralph Macchio looks great these days.
Joshua Fisher
The arrogant look of supposed intelligence is fucking laughable. Nothing would make me happier than to stomp on her larynx.
Angel Butler
I'd let Rachel Maddow gargle my balls.
Gavin Flores
Looks like a low T man. One of the "vlogbrothers" comes to mind.
Hunter Reyes
Rolling Stone has been absolute shit for as long as I've been alive. Does anyone but retard boomers even think it relevant?
Alexander Foster
...
Carson Price
now you're making a homophobic remark? man... being a bigot must suck.
Cooper Miller
Does anyone on Sup Forums even watch The Rachel Maddow show?
It's nice to see that Jarvis Cocker finally had a decent shave but there was no need to change his name.
Alexander Gonzalez
she's a rhodes scholar... how about you?
let me guess, you have a degree in eating cheetos?
Jack White
>wonkiest
Lucas Rodriguez
How one of the 20 approved talking heads got one of her ((friends)) to talk to ((friend)) to get her an interview in one of the five official Talking Head Interview Magazines implying she's the best talking head: and no one cared
Pathetic nepotistic Jew industry. Maddow is a nobody on a dying network no one watches. Political commentary channels on Youtube get 10x her viewers.
Landon Kelly
>How America's wonkiest anchor cut through the chaos of the Trump administration and became the most trusted name in news Someday she'll find those tax returns that prove Trump is a Russian puppet
Until then, I'll be counting the number of times she says Russia in every show.
Angel Foster
>rhodes scholar user everyone in harvard basically gets it.
Julian Perez
so your saying that guy who looks like bill nyes cousin is smart? well i can believe that after all he is wearing glasses. though he never use to
Hudson Williams
*Lick me. Lick me now*
James Rivera
>prime-time news program on cable television. 5 qualifiers before you hit television
Anthony Hill
She was very accurate in determining trump couldn't win, right?
Benjamin Carter
That uni shit is meaningless, faggot. Nobody cares about it, especially when they can simply talk to you and discern your idiot status for themselves on the spot.
Charles Powell
She's #17. Tucker is #21 in target demo.
Anyone notice The Five's and esp. Hannity's ratings are sinking like a rock?
Hannity (#51) isn't even top 50 in target demo. Yikes! The Five is #42.
Gabriel Hall
You do a pretty good job of portraying a stupid leftist.
Kudos, may you receive many (you)s.
Jace Long
She had a good run back when she could monopolize the flow information. Times changed. She has failed to adapt, along with the rest of her dinosaur buddies.
I think perhaps she hesitated to gloat the demise of Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly because with that came the realization that she was not immune from the asteroid.
Luke Fisher
>rolling stone >Rachel maddow
go neck yourself
William Carter
crap b8 is crap b8
KYS
Brayden Bailey
She is a low skill journalist, her ideology fits the job requirement. And shes a dyke. Having a mental disability is a huge plus for liberals
Wyatt Wood
Obvious shill And probably a leaf Go back to tumblr or Reddit or wherever you came from No one wants you here
Jaxon Cooper
>Rachel Maddow >reporting the truth
pick one, & only one
Justin Gutierrez
>DRUMPFT >BLUMPFT >DROOMPFT >BLOMPFNXTN ok kid
Grayson Williams
>College education is meaningless >Says every non-college educated wage-salve
I weep for thee.
Parker Long
My cheeto eating degree is worth more in the job market than a degree in African American studied. Stay mad cunt.
Hudson Evans
Ron Reagan is looking good these days
Adrian Ross
That's normal retard. When you have a Democrat president Republican viewership goes up because they're butthurt. When you have a Republican president, democrat viewership goes up because they're butthurt. A lot of Republicans are tuning out of the news atm because they're fine with whatever Trump is doing.
Brody Garcia
Fail She's number 1 on cable news TV right now retard see
Brody Rogers
Funny, where was this bitch when Obama was bombing 5 additional countries? Licking his asshole like he was the true son of Kek.
Justin Carter
"shill"
>someone who disagrees with me
Andrew Ramirez
I expect you'll rest easier with the knowledge that you have CNN to remind us plebs we're neither qualified nor legally permitted to read/interpret leaked emails.
Andrew Edwards
I'm assuming your undergrad is in mountain dew economics?
Evan Sanchez
>Rolling Stone
Literally fake news.
Mason Ortiz
>SO
>MUCH
>SALT
LET IT FLOW!
Wyatt Martinez
nobody gives a single fuck ugly jew dyke
Josiah Sanders
This dyke makes me homophobic.
Colton Morales
Rolling Stone magazine gave The Jonas Brothers higher scores then the gave some Radiohead albums. They can't be trusted in any capacity.
Elijah Robinson
They also like to fabricate rape stories and then vehemently deny they did it up until the situation reaches critical mass after which they only apologize begrudgingly and with sincerity whatsoever.
Can someone give me a quick run down about this strange little man?
Xavier Young
The only reason why her ratings and views are up is because you have a republican president. Republican president=Angry Democrats Democratic president=Angry Republicans Angry Democrats=More views for liberal shows (Someone like Maddow) and less veiws and lower ratings for conservative shows (Someone like Hannity) Angry Republicans=Just like having angry democrats except opposite >Just wait for a democrat to get elected (Probably in 2024) and her ratings will sink like a rock along with other liberal shows. Conservative shows will then soar back up.
Cooper Taylor
>#1 in cable news >Trusted
Still waiting on Hillary's landslide.. WMDs too if you could find the time.
Nathaniel Gray
Better than gender studies
Brody Ortiz
Men are terrible. That's why I'm transmissioning into one now.
t. Madcow
Easton Gonzalez
He's a shill who like dick and Rachel maddow He also is blue pilled by the Jews and probably cucks for muslims and terrorists
Hudson Brooks
Rachel Maddow proved that you CAN make $30,000/day spewing conspiracy theories. She should inspire some hope on this board.