Watching the Rachel Maddow Show

[ToxMarz]

Before 2016 it would have been UNIMAGINABLE that Nicole Wallace would/could be her fill in host.

My head hurts sometimes.

[mnhtnbb]

1. I turned it on and immediately turned it off.

[madaboutharry]

3. You're missing an excellent show.

[USALiberal]

33. Your loss!! Nt

[Laffy Kat]

52. I'm with you. I don't trust NW as far as I can throw her. nt

[oberliner]

2. Media Matters news director tweeted this out last time she hosted

Link to tweet

[gratuitous]

8. Darn that liberal media!

But I guess America needs to hear the silenced voices of Republicans, who can't get a word in edgewise in today's political climate. The next time you see, say, Van Jones interview William Barber will be first time you'd ever see something like that.

[oberliner]

9. Van Jones used to be on CNN a lot

Haven't seen him much of him on that network over the past year or so.

[HipChick]

10. Really? He's only been on like every sat night, on his own show called The Van Jones show..

Every Sat
And he's on as a frequent guest

[oberliner]

12. Cool

I'll have to check it out.

I'm more of a weekday CNN watcher. Which weekday shows is he a frequent guest on? I feel like I haven't seen him much. He was great during the 2016 campaigns.

[HipChick]

13. I pretty much DVR everything..

and than I can just scan through and FF through the boring bits...I'm not a huge fan of Van Jones, I met him once, and he gave me all kinds of crap about my last name.. I was like Dude, you really going there today?

[oberliner]

17. Who are your favorites on CNN?

[HipChick]

24. ...generally I catch Jake Tapper and Don Lemon, avoid Wolf and warming up to

Chris C...

[oberliner]

25. I concur

I also like Anderson C.

[chillfactor]

37. I watch Cuomo and Lemon now....

Rachel has been gone too much this summer so I have lost interest. Anderson too wishy-washy.....he lets recon guests walk all over him.

[Zorro]

20. David Brock used to be a rabid Republican

before he founded Media Matters.

[oberliner]

22. This is John Whitehouse, not David Brock

[Zorro]

31. Whoosh!

Looks like you didn’t get the point.

[oberliner]

32. What was the point?

[Zorro]

58. Whoosh!

Sorry. Not interested in explaining the obvious to the resolutely perplexed.

[oberliner]

60. OK

Not sure what the point of responding was then.

[vlyons]

4. I like Nicole Wallace and I'm a progressive Dem

She is no one's fool. She has a great sense of humor and is not shy about calling bullshit on republican hypocracy. I tape her afternoon show.

[Funtatlaguy]

5. The enemy of my enemy is my friend

The more that the few sane remaining Repubs join in the effort against Trump the better.

[Blue_true]

18. People seem too happy to ignore that sage ages old saw.

I don't expect Nicole to ever agree totally with us, but if she convince a few republicans to vote Dem in close races, she would have done a great service to the country, same with Steve.

[handmade34]

6. hmmm

Nicole Wallace was an early frequent guest on Rachel's show... I think it would have been imaginable....


Nicole Wallace is a decent show host and has the unique perspective (along with Steve Schmidt) of having managed a presidential campaign

[HipChick]

14. I only watch because she tends to bring Steve Schmidt along..

He has a way with words...I use Malfeasance every chance I get..

[brush]

38. He does have a great way with words which he uses to roast trump regularly.

I like listening to him. Schmidt, Wallace, Richard Painter and Rick Wilson are Republicans who have come out vocally against trump and his cabal.

Good for them as we need as many sensible Republicans or ex-Republicans to help get back at least the House and eventually get rid of trump.

[leftynyc]

56. I'm with you EXCEPT for Rick Wilson

I will NEVER forgive him for that ad that morphed Max Cleland into bin laden. It was so over the top, so fucking ugly (and something he has zero remorse for), I'll never stop thinking about it every time I see his putrid face.

[Blue_true]

19. I think both of them are thinking republicans.

The type that you can have a debate with and if your argument is strongest, they acknowledge that and act accordingly.

[elleng]

7. Watch and learn,

Nicole Wallace is very good, smart, knowledgeable and does a good interview.

Unlike others, it appears, I am HAPPY to see those who formerly were repugs come over to be rational, I applaud them, and I think we ALL should; if we don't, what the heck are we here for?

[Blue_true]

21. I agree. nt

[moondust]

28. +1

Also a good sense of humor and levity in difficult times.

[elleng]

29. Yes, makes her pleasant to watch.

[milestogo]

11. I have no problem with either of them as long as they don't replace Rachel.

[stopbush]

15. I love Nicole. She was kicking ass on her show today.

[chillfactor]

36. her show is fine....

but she is a lousy replacement for Rachel.

[stopbush]

40. Not a Rachel fan. Can't get past her opening monologues - 17 minutes

of repetition and saying the same thing 20 different ways. Yeah, I got it in the first 30 seconds.

[Taraman]

44. I agree. It's like one big teaser.

[womanofthehills]

47. Actually, I love Rachel's openings - I always learn something I did not know

Rachel's opening monologues seem to be getting shorter - she has so much news to squeeze in lately. Rachel has a great personality that comes through while she is reporting. i could listen to her all day.

[DeminPennswoods]

53. She smacked down Bret Stephens yesterday

when he tried to make some lame argument about honey attracting more flies than vinegar arguing against all Trump voters being racists. She snapped back "maybe we don't need those kind of flies".

She is smart, well-prepared and no nonsense. She's a terrific interviewer and her follow-up questions are often pointed.

[stopbush]

59. Yep. Loved it. She's more aggressive than Rachel, as is Steve Schmidt.

What do they say about a spurned lover? She was having none of Stephen’s “we need to communicate with these people (ie: deplorables)” bullshit.

[Awsi Dooger]

16. This is a repetitive thread

I guess that makes it appropriate

[jalan48]

23. Pushing the political spectrum further to the right.

[Enoki33]

26. Tuned in to hear her comment about Republican behavior when she

used to be one. That’s quite an admission.

[Peacetrain]

27. Are you kidding me! She kicked butt and took numbers

She was not letting any excuse for the racism that the current administration is spewing get aired..

[Ilsa]

30. She is another ex-Republican now.

I may disagree with a lot of her conservatism, but I believe she, Schmidt, Wilson, etc, are partriotic Americans.

Rachel needs to do another show on the Kochs, ALEC, and their intent to rewrite the Constitution. Invite that author named McClean or whatever.

[brush]

41. Yes, McClean, was it Nancy, just on the Maher show, is fantastic.

[mulsh]

34. Like Ms. Maddow, Ms Wallace is an Eisenhower Republican. I agree with most of her beliefs on

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the importance of governance and institutional norms. Besides if Rachael wants Nicole to host who am I to disagree?

Those aspects are enough to allow me to overlook the many areas I don't agree with her and enjoy her show.

Also, like Rachael she's a local gal. She grew up in Orinda, just over the hills from where I grew up in Oakland. Also she's a CAL grad with in my book is point above Stanford. Go Bears!

[link:https://hollowverse.com/rachel-maddow/|

[brush]

42. Since when is Maddow a Republican?

I've followed her since her "Air America" days. Never heard her or anyone else say she was a repug.

[Hekate]

45. I'd to know the answer to that rather startling statement myself

[Hekate]

46. Doctor Maddow. She's got a PhD.

[RhodeIslandOne]

62. Whaaaaaaa?

Whatever....

[chillfactor]

35. I stayed until Nicole came on....

then switched to CNN. Rachel has been gone so much this summer I have gotten hooked on Cuomo and Lemon...don't watch Brian any more either.

[pnwmom]

39. Elizabeth Warren was a Republican till she was in her 40's.

Like Elizabeth, Nicolle has seen the light.

[Hekate]

43. You are missing some exceedingly good coverage from several EX-Republicans

I don't know about some of the others, but Nicolle Wallace and Steve Schmidt both worked for John McCain's presidential campaign and ended up not voting for him -- the deal breaker was Sarah Palin.

But what tore it completely for them was Donald Trump. Watching the two of them during the RNC, sitting in the dark of the stadium after Trump's apocalyptic speech, was -- really moving. Those two are patriots -- Country over Party, and in Steve Schmidt's case, a very articulate understanding of and reverence for the US Constitution.

My feelings about them since then have been: they are small-c conservatives. We could talk, and disagree on details while agreeing on the big picture.

One more thing: Nicolle has a nice smile, but she is angry. Really, really angry. Pick a topic, any topic -- say, family separation and the caging of small children -- and by now she is having some difficulty containing herself.

She comes on at 1:00 California time, adjust for your time zone. Recommended.

[Garrett78]

48. What bugs me about the anti-Trump Republicans is their insistence that...

...the Republican Party was just fine before Trump. They can't accept that Trump is the almost inevitable product of Republican rhetoric and policy over the last 50 years.

[mnhtnbb]

51. You have it in a nutshell. They'd all very happily go back to St. Ronnie

and he's the one who started all this crap--besides Nixon--but they mostly stay away from idolizing him.

I expect to see the Repub anti-Trumpers turn right around and support another Repub once Trump is gone. I don't trust them one bit.

[DeminPennswoods]

54. Very true

The race-baiting goes back to Nixon's Southern Strategy of dog-whistling about race to get the votes of southern whites that then allowed the GOP to implement their business-friendly and taxophobic policies.

50+ years of dog-whistling finally brought the rabid dog (Trump) to the door. Anyone who wants to be an ex-Republican needs to admit their acceptance and complicity in this strategy.

[Garrett78]

63. Democrats need to beat that drum over and over again.

We can't let Republicans get away with thinking their party pre-Trump and post-Trump is just fine.

[budkin]

49. This timeline is chaotic AF

Too bad we all can't move to the other one.

[Olafjoy]

50. I like Nicole

She doesn’t let people blow smoke and obfuscate. Also, she was an early adapter of not re-reading ofputin’s tweets out loud on the air.

[Vinca]

55. I think she's surprisingly good. I usually watch her show at 4.

Still can't figure out why she's still a Republican though since the first thing the word brings to mind is ignorant nutjob.

[HAB911]

57. Under current circumstances

The enemy of my enemy..............can be my friend.......until resumption of previous hostilities

[bdamomma]

61. I may be missing

something here, is Rachel still on vacation?