The Rachel Maddow Showpremiered on Sept. 8, 2008. It was the Monday after the Republican National Convention introduced Palin and her “you betcha” brand of populism to an electorate already in full swoon overBarack Obama. It was an auspicious beginning for Maddow. On her very first night ...
"Oregon is better than everyone else right now when it comes to weird news," Maddow said on her Tuesday show. And when it comes to getting ratings, anything goes -- even if it means her mockery occasionally must cross political boundaries. Her examples of recent Oregon news weirdness: theK...
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When the time comes, Maddow will start to host specials for MSNBC; one of the sources described it as a weekly format while another pegged the number of specials at around 35 a year. Maddow and MSNBC management have not commented. It is a sensitive subject because “The Rachel Maddow Sho...
MSNBC has been hard hit by the ratings plunge that has befallen the cable networks in the months following Trump’s exit from the White House. But Maddow is coming off some of the best years of her career in terms of viewership. Her ratingsskyrocketedfollowing Trump’s 2016 electoral victory...
” he replied. “If you acknowledge the degree to which you are beholden to others, you are somehow seen as weak. The Rachel Maddow story was that after I left, she was mad at me for leaving because it meant that she could not pass me in the ratings at MSNBC and prove bette...
BySteve Benen,Steve Benen Looking closer, we can also examine new presidents' net approval ratings -- approval minus disapproval -- and find that Trump trails each of his modern predecessors by more than 30 percentage points.But what I found especially notable were thedisapprovalnumbers...
but he bowed out of running for a full term after struggling with low approval ratings and accusations of corruption. Obama's replacement in the U.S. Senate, former Illinois lawmaker Roland Burris, operated under a cloud of scandal and didn't even attempt to win the seat in his own right...
"Even the media. The media will absolutely support me sometime prior to the election. All those horrible people are going to support me. You know why? Because if somebody else won, the ratings would go down and they would all be out of business." ...
And in case that weren't quite enough, the same article also notes instances in which Issa appears to have lied about his background. The congressman, for example, claimed to receive the "highest possible" ratings during his Army career, despite the fact that at one point he "received unsa...