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Yesterday Michelangelo Signorile of Sirius OutQ interviewed my girl Rachel Maddow and took her to task over her recent interview with Mike Huckabee. ( Hear it , along with an interview with Pam Spaulding, who also disagrees with the way Maddow handled Huckabee .) Signorile believes Maddow, an ...
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'The Rachel Maddow Show' for Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - Rachel Maddow show- msnbc.com
msnbc.msn.com — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. Guests: Lawrence O'Donnell, Kent Jones, Diana Henriques, Michael Isikoff, Joe Cirincione RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: Merry Christmas and Kwanzaa and stuff to you, too, ... (more) 'The Rachel Maddow Show' for Wednesday, December 3, 2008 ...
Senator Levin: ‘As far as I’m concerned, Cheney admitted torture’
rawstory.com — On Wednesday evening, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show during the ‘Lame Duck Watch’ segment, spoke with U.S. Senator Carl Levin(MI-D), who is also the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The conversation revolved around Vice ... (more) Senator Levin: ‘As far as I’m concerned, Cheney admitted ...
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Jon Stewart, Rachel Maddow, and media privilege
Feministing — ... her anti-gay views if I had the opportunity to interview her -- it's just not the most interesting or newsworthy (or ridiculous) thing about either of them. (Emphasis Pam's.) Maddow is saying her decision was a journalistic one, and Pam's not buying it. But I disagree with Pam that this is "closeted journalism." In the past, Maddow hasn't shied away from discussing gay rights on her show. For example, she covered the Prop 8 fallout. Tami had a really great take on some of the questions this raises: But that ...

You've Made It! Now What...?
Shakesville — First read Tami. Then read Ann. Now discuss. I've found that the longer I write about politics and culture, here and elsewhere, the more I find it exceedingly easy to be a Feminist Progressive Female Writer Who Writes about Many Things from a Feminist Progressive Female Perspective. Meaning, I don't feel obliged to limit my topics (to, say, "women's issues," or "everything but women's issues"), nor do I ever feel obliged to leave parts of myself behind, e.g. regard myself as a political writer who happens to be a woman, as if that's ...

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