The Rachel Maddow Show
The Rachel Maddow Show is a funny, fast-paced, news-based show often described as “the headlines, and the politics behind the headlines”.
Regular features include:
- Top headlines from the worlds of politics, current events, sports, science, health, crime, and the absurd
- Interviews with newsmakers like Al Gore, Robert Redford, Edie Falco, John Kerry, Pat Buchanan, Jane Fonda, Seymour Hersh, Tucker Carlson, Roseanne Cash, Lili Taylor, Ben Harper, and Michael Isikoff
- “Ask Doctor Maddow” listener call-in segment
- The acclaimed “Underbelly” feature, in which Rachel identifies a political tactic at work in the day’s news
- Dedicated coverage of the Iraq war every day
TRMS offers news junkies, wide-awake citizens with a desperate need to know, and liberal stalwarts an edgy hour of hot-off-the-presses headlines and subterranean-buried ledes. It’s a personalized, politicized, exorcized version of the mainstream media’s excuse for news.
Rachel has a doctorate in political science (she was a Rhodes Scholar) and a background in HIV/AIDS activism, prison reform, and other lefty rabblerousing.
She shakes a mean cocktail, drives a bright red pickup, hates Coldplay, loves arguing with conservatives, spends a lot of money on AMTRAK tickets, and dresses like a first-grader.
Maddow makes irregular appearances on MSNBC, CNN, LOGO, and other TV outlets. She’s been with Air America since its inception in Spring 2004 — before AAR she worked for WRNX in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and WRSI in Northampton, Massachusetts. There was also a stint with a jungle-themed company called Expresso Bongo [sic], but she doesn’t want to talk about it.
Rachel is 32 years old and lives in New York City and rural Western Massachusetts with her partner, artist Susan Mikula.
Official website: http://www.maddowonline.com/