By:
Nicole Belle on Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 at 1:29 PM - PST
I can’t say I’ve been happier at programming news since the debut of The Colbert Report. TVNewser posted that a pilot for MSNBC has been taped, with Air America’s Rachel Maddow and MSNBC’s VP Bill Wolff (who frequently appears on Tucker) as hosts.
Be still my heart…could it be that the Bow Tie Boy is soon to be no more??? Oh happy day!
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good for her, good for us, bad for Tucker, and effin frist????
One can only hope Tucker is a gonner.
But if you want TV news without any bias, there is only one…..BBC
YES! I just love her. Now if they could just get somebody decent between Tucker and Keith we’d be set!
Yes a very happy day indeed. It seems the tides are turning both in Washington DC and in the pundit arena.
The drinks are on me. Time to celebrate!
This will be so good.
See ya, tucker, and don’t bother to let us know how you’re doing, cause we just don’t care. Maybe Fox can fix you up.
I’d love to see Al Franken get a show too.
YIPPEEEE!
Rachel is devastatingly(to rwnuts) acuurate and funny and I have never seen her do a bad show.
This is great news…and it’s about time!
That’s awesome! No more Tucker! (I hope)
I love Rachel Maddow! Here’s to her success!
You know the great thing about her and the same for Keith is that they don’t just rant and rave, they have facts to back up what they say.
YAY!!!! I’ve been waiting for this!!
Yeah, you go Rachel! Nobody is more deserving of a News show then Rachel Maddow! She’ great on AAR and she’ll be even better on her own TV News Show!
I’m looking forward to it…I just hope that doesn’t jinx it!
As much as I am not a big Tucker fan, I’d be even happier with a dozen or so less repeats a week of those damn prison shows.
saif -
Al Franken is running in Minnesota to become a US Senator.
Anyone interested in helping him can visit AlFranken.com.
Yay! =)
I can just picture that big honkin’ vein on o’lieley’s forehead bulging like an over-stuffed sausage casing.
Awesome…..
Speaking of awsome, Weirauch ground game is on big time in Ohio’s 5th Special TODAY!
Show some love
Hooray for my girl-crush, Dr. Rachel Maddow!
She must bring Kent Jones with her!
I may just reactive my overpriced cable service.
chuck @ 13:
I agree completely; Tucker is just an obnoxious bore, those prison shows are truly disgraceful, subtly racist exploitation. But to tell the truth, I don’t care where they put Rachel (except not at in Olbermann’s slot, of course,) as long as they put her on somewhere. She is FAB!
She is so smart but doesn’t throw it in your face. She has a great memory and so when she is on air against some Right wing pundint, she can catch the rightwinger telling a lie right to their face.
I’m really happy for her.
MSNBC tapes pilot for new show…starring Rachel Maddow!
As the Beaver?
She is going to take the media by storm! I just love her sensibility and humor!
I was hoping for this!
She is everything the rightwinger loath, smart, sexy, prefer the same sex, and still sharper than a knife. She has been the one person that been able to cut up all the right winger talking point to shred. She does it so with a nice smile on her face.
Woohoo! This is great news!! Rachel will be a great addition to the dialog and spreading the word and facts!
I have noticed her on the air and knew something was up. Yeaaa.
No more Fucker Carlson I hope
peachkfc @ 20:
Hey folks, the ability to make a shank out of coffee lids and some flaming toilet paper cannot be unlearned. I feel prepared for anything now!
:P
MSNBC will now be “fair and balanced” too?
:) :) :)
Finally, some good news in the world of news! Good for Rachel! Smart, Funny and Personable and she can hang in there with the best (the worst?) of the other side of the aisle.
{Perhaps, C & L was just the tiniest bit influential in this decision? I seem to remember an earlier post about Rosie O’Donnell getting a gig on MSNBC, and most of the comments on that thread wanted Rachel instead of Rosie…}
Why doesn’t our society produce any exceptional weirdos?
All we seem to get are religious freaks, mental midgets, psychiatric misfits, and demented boobs. And those are just the politicians!
Then we have the conniving capitalists, the thieving theologists, the avaricious attorneys, the rapacious religious, the perverted pious, the pedophilic priests, the intellectually indolent, the literary licentious, the pornographic producers, the sexually sadistic, the marital mastubators, the journalistic jerk-offs, and the prognosticating putzes.
Where’s the wise? Where’s the kind? Where’s the love?
Where’s the competent? Where’s the capable? Where’s even the adequate?
Everyone in this country is below average, and normal is unacceptable.
pissed off patricia @ 5:
Don’t laugh, that’s probably where he’ll end up…
Who’s Rachel Maddow?
Sweeeeeeeeet! Cheers to Rachel!
HereinDC @ 21:
She really is unflappable, isn’t she? She doesn’t get emotional (to the point of losing track of her thoughts) and just eviscerates those dopes. And with a smile. Man, it must make those freaks burrrrnn!
LibertyLover @ 28:
Yeah, that thread was very pro-Maddow!
I can see Tucker fretting over a beer, by himself, in a near dark room.” damn, I got replaced by a girl, damn!”
And in the opposite corner, the Palm Beach Post gave all its readers a present today when it had an article about the eight people who should be banished from cable tv
Guess who was number one? You are gonna love this.
Preacher Boob @ 29:
It’s out there, my friend. And you really don’t have to look very far. Check your own backyard, there are people everywhere that are kind and decent and doing wonderful things for lots of people. You usually find what you are looking for. You look for the bad, you’ll find it. You look for the good, you’ll find that, too. Catch people doing good, you’ll get more of that.
YESSSS!!
I just love her. Marry me Rachel!!
She’s smart and witty but doesn’t have the gravitas to hold a show.
Plus she likes to bash Democrats who don’t follow her hard liberal line.
I vote yes as a commentator, but NO for a show.
pissed off patricia @ 36:
They forgot Robert Novak.
LibertyLover @ 37:
I was attempting a light satire on the MSM’s view of the US. I guess I failed, Wasn’t the first time, won’t be the last.
Rachel Maddow is my favorite talk show host. She is smart, she is funny, she is very sharp. She’s also a girl after my own heart when it comes to clothes. She’s gonna have to get a new wardrobe.
I love it.
It’s about time Ms. Maddow got her own TV show. She’s head and shoulders above anyone on TV who covers politics. She’s actually smart. She’s funny. She’s good looking. What the hell else would it take to get a show? It’s about time.
ongre08 @ 35:
Turnabout is fair play. Tucker’s replacing a girl, a high school sophomore, who was part-timing as the weather chick on a Boise cable station. Tucker snatched the gig for himself.
pissed off patricia @ 36:
PoP.
Great link, thanks. but Mark Schwed must be from another planet, since he calls Tweety Bird a liberal!
saif @ 6:
I’d like to see Al win his Senate election.
Yeah, yeah, but TV is an audio/VISUAL medium.
Does this Rachel broad have any boobs?
AMAZING. This woman is one smart cookie. She totally deserves this…and so do we.
GO Rachel!!!!!!
Please put some heat to all these “god-candidates”. I can’t beleive what the MSM is letting them get away with.
YEA!!!!!! Reason and Reality…to accompany Keith Olbermann’s Sanity and Integrity.
P.S. Escort Tucker Carlson to the nearest exit….
I’d like to see Cenk get an hour each night after KO.
IdahoMoe @ 46:
After Al wins his Senate seat, he’s gonna start his own show, ‘Franken Live, from the Senate floor, cloakroom, caucus room, and toilet. The Inside Scoop on where your money goes, and the boobs who throw it away’.
I love Rachel Maddow - she is smart, insightful and able to distill an issue to its very essence. Importantly, she makes her points with humor and without being mean. Example, when the ONLY study that a proponent of abstinence could point to was a study done by, you guessed it, an abstinence program, Maddow quiped “hey, when I take a look at myself, I think I’m doing pretty well.” There is a reason Maddow has been getting lots of face time on Countdown and other shows.
Right on!
Paul @ 45:
The right-wing talk shows are a humanitarian thing. Otherwise, all the demented we threw out of the asylums without their meds a few years ago would be walking the streets, rummaging through dumpsters for dinner. Now, they babble into mics for food.
I was somewhat suspecting this with Rachel coming on Keith’s show regularly, and the deal with Rosie falling through. And I have to agree with MC about Cenk getting a show.
Jumping for joy, jumping for joy!!!!! Now, everybody needs to tell their friends who complain about no alternative to MSM, and to write to MSNBC thanking them for being so….hmmm, what do they want to hear?….Cutting edge! Playing to the demographic of choice! You know, breathing, thinking, reading, critically analyzing, and buying, too.
The thing about Rachel is she’s not just