May 20 2008
Rachel Maddow is awesome and I knew it first
Home Run for Rachel Maddow – Daily Kos
Okay, well maybe not first, but I was listening to her on Air America long before she started popping up all over cable news. It makes me happy that my favorite source of news and commentary on the radio seems to be totally chummy with my favorite source of news and commentary on, as she puts it, “the TV machine.” (That would be Mr. Keith Olbermann, if you hadn’t picked up on that yet.)
Well, Rachel filled in for Keith last minute on Friday, guest-hosting Countdown for the second time. Keith reported last night, listing Maddow in his “Best Persons” segment that Rachel had the highest rated news show that night. Daily Kos is reporting that Maddow pulled in 100,000 more viewers in the much coveted 25-54 demographic than Countdown’s key competitor: The O’Reilly Factor.
Way to go, Rachel! Here’s hoping MSNBC comes to their senses and starts letting you bring some of that TRMS flair to your own TV show. (I personally thought they should’ve let you fill Tucker’s void rather than David Gregory, and now that Air America is simulcasting Gregory’s show, I feel even stronger about it.)
