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Maddow "On The Media"

By Rachel Maddow

An interview with me on NPR's "On The Media" is posted on their very fancy website here.

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Pennsylvania Rep. Chris Carney (5/9)
TX Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (5/9)
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Chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party, Jerry Meek (5/7)
California DNC, Inola Henry (5/7)
North Carolina DNC Member, Jeanette Council (5/7)
Former Clinton Supporter from VA, Jennifer McClellan (5/7)
NC Rep. Brad Miller (5/8)
WA Rep. Rick Larsen (5/8)
New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne (5/9)
Oregon super Rep. DeFazio. (5/9)
AFGE President John Gage (5/9)
California DNC Member Ed Espinoza (5/9)
California DNC Member Vernon Watkins (5/9)
NM Add On Laura Weahkee (5/9)
SC Democratic Party Vice Chair, Wilber Lee Jeffcoat (5/9)
HI Congresswoman Mazie Hirono (5/9)
Virginia DNC member Joe Johnson (5/9)
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Sorry to burden you....

....Olkainflri, but it would be great if in addition to your AWESOME numbers if you could also include the total number of super delegates each has along with you daily tally. Could you pretty pleeeeeeeasee?!?!?! (imagine my eyelashes batting at you as I say that). :)

I'm going to be grossly annoying and uninformed.

How do things look as far as you getting your own show?

I love Olbermann and find Matthews to be adorable but I would really like to see you have your own show with more exposure.

"You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one."
-John Lennon

I think R2TWH was supposed to be hers

Not sure, but that is the gossip I heard. But after watching the show a number of times I can see why she didn't get it. MSNBC wants her debating, not moderating. At least that's been my conclusion. If she were to have gotten that particular show, I think that she would have less opportunity to voice her opinion because she would be in the role of making sure everyone spoke. At least this is how I see it.

Looking forward to listening

Looking forward to listening to the On The Media 'cast - I subscribe to that 1 = )

& isn't Nazanin a Rachel Maddow show alumna?

Matthews...adorable??? Wha???

it's the lisp

For some reason the lisp makes him adorable and hard to take seriously. That and he can be thoroughly doddering.

That's not to say his style and politics and general Chris-ness doesn't drive me up the wall but in very small doses he is cute.
"You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one."
-John Lennon

Great!

I look forward to hearing this!

Goodness!!!

Couldn't NPR have used a nicer photo?!?!?! With all do respect Rachel, it looks like you are on the pooper getting busy!

And she's sitting down...

...and wearing makeup!

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not by the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists"--Abbie Hoffman

And a senator's outfit.

And a senator's outfit.

Hey!

At least the interview-goober pronounced your name correctly.

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not by the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists"--Abbie Hoffman

What?

You're saying its not Maaaaaaaadow (as in cow)??????????

Trying...

...not to.

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not by the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists"--Abbie Hoffman

rhymes with shadow

rhymes with shadow

I didn't need to ask Dr. Maddow!

For all you Dr. Maddow fans, there is a segment on her show called "burying the ...." I saw some posts using the word "lede" and that caught my attention because I thought the term was "lead." I still remember from my journalism classes that "if it bleeds it leads," not "ledes."

So I was not too lazy to google this one myself, and if you are as much of a geek on this one as I am, take a look at:

http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20001128

They explain the origins of lede. VERY interesting. But then again, one of my hobbies is to amass information on a bunch of useless stuff...... so things like this are indeed fascinating to me.

Altizer, Hagee & Death of God Theology

Hi Rachel !

I dont know where else to post this and I know you are student of history etc. and I thought you might find these interesting. Note Part II has Hagee all in a blather, at least I think it is Hagee. These are, I believe, from 1966. BZ.

Part One: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3696525433308712680

Part Two: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6058681729651258126

McCain's hand-picked chair of the GOP convention resigns...

...after it was revealed that the consulting firm he heads represented, among other scum (such as Exxon/Mobile), the military junta in Myanmar.

http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/05/10/mccain-con...

Not as bad as having the middle name "Hussein", but still.

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not by the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists"--Abbie Hoffman

17 comments posted so far

17 comments posted so far and only one is about the interview!

Rachel, it was a good interview. Good, probing questions and good answers. You came off very well, I thought.

But if the inane off-topic comments in this thread are typical of your radio audience, it is clear why liberal talk radio is in trouble. Apparently being on public radio was a rare opportunity for you to reach a thinking audience.

Actually, several were about the interview

Even if they didn't meet your high standards, or equally your own probing depth.

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not by the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists"--Abbie Hoffman

Thank God you've arrived

>>>emacee1701 wrote:

>>>But if the inane off-topic comments in this thread are typical of your radio audience, it is clear why liberal talk radio is in trouble. Apparently being on public radio was a rare opportunity for you to reach a thinking audience.

At last! We've been waiting for someone like you to come along and teach us how to think. Heaven forbid there should be anything off-topic on TRMS blog, or anything funny, or anything ... wait, I forgot what I was going to say next. Dang it, I am too stoopid to post here. Why, if you hadn't come along, you sweet-talking charmer you, I might have lived my whole life without noticing how inane I am. Thank you, thank you.

Quick everybody -- resign from the blog immediately, and make room for thinking people. Take a bold stand against levity and irrelevance. Demand that all silliness be removed from the blog and from the RMS broadcast, itself. (Really, it's the only decent thing to do.)

Why, if I didn't know you better, essic...

...I'd think I was detecting a slight tinge of sarcasm in your post.

Insert :cheese: emoti

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not by the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists"--Abbie Hoffman

we don't have a formal forum

Therefore we use the blog as a forum. I think they're used to it in TRMS offices.

And yes, Rachel rocked the socks off of NPR but I'm pretty sure we all knew she would.

"You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one."
-John Lennon

Thank you emacee!!

you hit it right on the head!! And don't forget about them peeps who don't know no grammar nor don't kno how to spell! Did you see that post about Rachel sitting on the pooper (my computer tells me that is not a word either), and the idiot wrote "do" instead of "due"? What is it with these people who don't spell chick?!

I'm telling you. It is definitely a stoopid and unlearned crowd that hangs out at the blog of one of the most brilliant political minds in our midst. I wonder what is the appeal???

I think it's speled...

..."grammur". Or mebbe "grammer". Down here on the Hawg Farm we just calls it "talkin' good". Kaws we's dum.

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not by the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists"--Abbie Hoffman

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Off-Topic (because I'm stoopid)

Somebody has posted all 85 minutes of Reggio's film, "Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance" on Google video.

I think this is a must-see.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5539613947839465921

(And for the typical non-thinking TRMS blogger, it's perfect, because there's not one word of dialogue in the whole thing. Them wurds are awful hard thangs to make sense of, so I just look at the piktures.)

Seriously, I love this film. If you're not familiar with it, here's a little background about the piece from Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi

Wikipedia says the film is out of print, so if you've not seen it, here's your chance. Music by Phillip Glass (you either love him or hate him, and I love him, especially in this film).

The film is about three Hopi prophecies:

1. "If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster."
2. "Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky."
3. "A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans."

Just for the record...

...count me in the stoopid category that hates Philip Glass.

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not by the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists"--Abbie Hoffman

Philip Glass

To clarify, I like a few things by Philip Glass:

1. A few cuts from Koyaanisqatsi are profoundly beautiful, even taken out of the context of the film
2. On the album, "Glassworks," the cuts "Opening" and "Closing" are wonderful
3. Most everything without the Roches in it from "Songs from Liquid Days" is great, even the quasi-operatic cuts like "Changing Opinion"

But I understand why a lot of people hate Glass's music. Along the same lines, I like Brian Eno's ambient stuff and his glam rock stuff. And I listen to a lot of experimental stuff. I know it's not for everybody. Chemgirl gagged over CocoRosie, but I still like it. Say what you will, but these gals are very obviously classically trained -- how else do you get gender-bending quasi-techno music that's both modal and made entirely with children's toys?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaarYY62_BQ&feature=related

Then again, I like plainchant. But you have to be in the right frame of mind for any of that.

I also love outsider art, and I collect excrutiatingly bad music, poetry, and literature, as a hobby. Let me introduce you to the Shaggs. Their best song is "My Pal Foot Foot." Click on Foot Foot to listen:

http://www.shaggs.com/

I'll give 'em a listen a bit later on

Mommy's Day, you know.

But if you wanna hint about what Ye Cap'n likes (other than stoopid sea-chanties and rollicking pub ditties), try Eugene's own "Mist-covered Mountain", ie, Celtic music.

http://www.klcc.org/Page.asp?NavID=92

Then of course, there's always HENDRIX.

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not by the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists"--Abbie Hoffman

Celtic music

Thanks for the link to Mist-Covered Mountain. I am, myself, a Celt. Have you heard Fiona Ritchie's public radio program, Thistle and Shamrock?

http://thistleradio.com/

See also, http://www.virginiaramblers.com/ (one of my friend's bands)

And I love Emmylou Harris. And Cowboy Junkies. And lots of back porch music that makes me homesick.

BTW, check your email. I sent you a link to the WUNC radio program from 1976 that captures the diverse accents of North Carolina, including the disappearing accents and usages from the extremely remote regions such as the Outer Banks and the mountains. At one time, National Geographic and various sociologists declared these accents to be the purest existing remnants of Elizabethan English. I don't know how they'd possibly prove that when it comes to the accents, but they've proven to my satisfaction that the usages are the English of Shakespeare and the last of the Tudors up through the Glorious Rebellion. This audio may -- may -- be one of your best opportunities to hear something very close to English as spoken in the 1600s. Some of the accents still sound much, much more Scottish than American. You can hear things like this in Maine, too.

In short, these people crossed the ocean (like my family, which fled while the first Stuarts were mucking about, Cromwell was getting geared up, and Jacobites were sharpening their swords), holed up on remote islands and in the remote hills, and stayed separate until the Floridians and New Jerseyites discovered Asheville, Manteo, Ocracoke, and Kill Devil Hills in the 1970s. Swear to God -- in the late 1960s, sociologists interviewed children in the Outer Banks and were shocked to learn that these kids did not know the name of the President of the United States or who Walter Cronkite was. That's remote.

The audio also records voices of several descendants of pirates who took the amnesty. Bonus for you. Ayrrrh.

Hope you like it.

"My Pal Foot Foot"

Interesting. Might not make it into the next Tarantino soundtrack, unlike my favorite song from "The Briefs":

(Can't find a good URL for it, so I'll just sum up the lyrics)

Dalai Lama!
Dalai Lama!
Dalai Lama!
DOLLY PARTON!

(etc.)

The Briefs (apostrophe?) song "I Got a New Case of Crabs" is also interesting, in so far as the first few times I heard it live I thought they were singing "I've Got a New Case of Pabst."

Misheard Lyrics

I was hanging out with my cousin, who was singing along to the Doobie Brothers' "Blackwater." When it got to the chorus, she sang "We're going to do the funky chicken now, pretty mama come take me by the hand." (The real lyric, of course, was "I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland, pretty mama,...etc. etc.")

Here's a whole website devoted to misheard lyrics:

http://www.kissthisguy.com/

The site is named for a misheard Jimi Hendrix lyric: "Excuse me while I kiss this guy."

My god...

I might like this film and Philip Glass, I might not like this film and Philip Glass... But by including those three Hopi statements, yours is one of those reviews that belongs in an art category of its own. Like the Seattle Stranger's movie reviews, which you start reading regularly while you slowly stop going to the movies. Now I'm going to tear myself away from this computer and go into the kitchen to make pork-flavored soup.

Actually, didn't Philip Glass compose a choral piece that features a chorus singing "Wibbelty-wobbelty" over and over? That's not bad. They use an excerpt from it on Australian radio's "Science Show" podcast.

Glass and Koyaanisqatsi

The problem with the online version of Koyaanisqatsi is the poor resolution. You really need to see a quality, high-resolution version, because the power of the film is the photography, which is breathtaking. I have a DVD of the film -- willing to lend it if you promise to send it back. Or (I just checked) Netflix has it.

Never heard the wibbelty-wobbelty thing, but it sure sounds like something Philip Glass would do.

Koyaanisqatsi is one part of a trilogy. It's the best of the three.

Thank you

Thank you! That's very kind of you. I'm afraid I won't have time to watch movies until, oh, June at the earliest. Paper clips flying here in the home office...

Rachel on "On the Media" brilliant!

Rachel, what a treat to hear you on "On the Media." I've emailed all my friends with the link to your interview. I want everyone who is truly interested in politics to know who you are and to find ways to listen to you on "the TV machine" or AAR.

Mickey the librarian

Wow...I was driving home from the gym...

...and who should be on the NPR...but Dr Maddow!!!
Couldn't get out of the car till the interview was over.
I agree Rachel!
If someone is paid to share their opinions, they have a responsibility to keep it relevant.
You and Keith are the only ones I see who try!
The rest seem to simply be in it for the money.
Great interview!!!

*Completely* off the topic

But I couldn't get to a computer with blog access before this...

I've been weighing what I think about the simulcasts, and starting to decide that I'm glad about them, if only because I would never in a million years go out of my way to listen to lots of those other people and I feel sorta guilty about not being brave enough to expose myself to Scarborough, etc. And yes, programming decisions *are* all about my psychic comfort -- didn't you know?

As of Friday, though, I LOVE IT! Seriously, I would never in a million years want to have missed Pat Buchanan talking (without a single hint of how *he* might have expertise in the matter) on how a Republican presidential candidate could try to win Jewish votes in Broward and Palm Beach counties ...

Thanks, Rachel. Thanks for all the psychic pain you endure to bring me that moment.

Oh, and I love the photo OTM picked -- it doesn't say constipation to me; it says sardonic skepticism.

When you get to a certain age...

..."constipation" and "sardonic skepticism" begin to dovetail.

Insert :codger: emoti

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not by the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists"--Abbie Hoffman

Funny you mention that

I listen to TRMS via podcast, so I never hear her live. Usually I get to hear her the next day on my way to and from work. On Mondays I usually listen to Friday's show... unless I have some major yard project over the weekend.

On Friday I was listening to Thursday's show, which I podcast via green 960. The people at green 960 cut off the R2TWH for a commercial break RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF RACHEL'S TALKING!!! Needless to say, I became BEYOND frustrated and decided to boycott the first hour as well. I have supported Rachel's simulcast, but someone at green 960 seems to have forgotten why we listen to that show in the first place, Rachel, and had the wisdom to cut her off.

Anyway, I downloaded Friday's show so I can listen to it tomorrow morning, and deleted the R2TWH hour.... you are making me reconsider that decision.

This too funny not to share with my fellow TRMS bloggers. :-)

Hillary's Downfall

Support the Troops
End the Occupation

Son...

...you best hope Hillary doesn't win...or you vill be kaput!

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not by the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists"--Abbie Hoffman

By capn_crustyMay 11, 2008 - 6:08pm

I don't think I have to worry about that. After all, "The voters have stolen my nomination."

I really hope that she doesn't actually blow herself up at the convention. At least not in a heavily occupied area. :cheese:

Support the Troops
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ur own show

sign me up! who do we have to email to make this happen?

NPR

Great interview and thank you for speaking up about the Jeremiah Wright ridiculousness. Principles seem to be in short supply during these gas tax holidays. Why don't you have your own show on MSNBC? Whose managing that place over there anyway? You have two new major fans in my partner and I.

Rachel on NPR*

Very good interview on NPR*, but the interviewer sounds just like a subtler, softer-toned Rovean tool. He used every chance to bait Rachel and make her out to be some sort of confrontational, radical leftist pundit. Which of course, she kinda is, but he basically just trotted out the same Rev W talking points that the rest of the rightwing media, and seems to have completely missed the point that he's perpetuating the spin that this is THE story of the election.

In a 10-minute interview, he took more than a half-minute to talk about when he met his wife?! WTF?!

Rachel, you handled it superbly. ¡Brava!

*NPR = Not Particularly Relevant

Wow.

You make yourself sound spectacularly ignorant. Go listen to at least three whole shows and critique the guy in context.

That wasn't *baiting* Rachel; that was throwing her incredibly friendly questions to put the conversation exactly where she wanted it to be. (They weren't "softballs" -- those tend to minimize content -- but they were the absolute opposite of confrontational.)

Interview

I really, really enjoyed the interview.

Good interview; can AA repair the blog page ad 'blockage'???

Great interview, Rachel. I always enjoy how you get the point out whether they want it or not.

The only reason I would listen to NPR. I remember when they fired those guys for nonconformity with the administration...

One of the things I do enjoy is reading the blog every day when I have some spare time.

The ad of the day runs right down the middle of the page since the website was updated and blocks out most of the first 3 or 4 blog remarks.

There is this big blank area on the right of the page where the ad should (and used to appear).

They pay for the real estate and should be given what they have contracted for--but can we have the AA techies move them over to the right border where they have the space and the advertisement of the day does not block out the first comments of the blog?

Appreciate it.

Good show not letting Joe (Morning) run over you.

And bombs away on Chris Matthews and Uncle Pat!

I emailed Sam about this

I emailed Sam about this since he seems to be the new Webmaster. Haven't heard back. Maybe if a bunch of us send in emails they'll sit up and take notice. Not much sense having blogs you can only half read....

Be careful. You never know who's listening.

http://lifes-a-typo.blogspot.com

Here's a pet story for you,

Here's a pet story for you, from my local paper....

http://www.tampabay.com/news/bizarre/article497304.ece#

Good interview

Interesting to hear your comments on the story selection.

Thought they were spot on about the Wright issue - the discussion of the actual issues disappeared, and that was disappointing to me. Heaven knows we all have crazy pastors, or aunts, ot whatever - not really pertinent to electing a president.

Good luck on getting your own show - hope it happens.

We went from podcasts of

We went from podcasts of TRMS to OTM and there you were again. I'd been wondering when that might happen given that your former producer NAZANIN RAFSANJANI is now working on OTM. We don't do TV either, but we like to know why the General Public is so in the Dark.

I must say we can't handle the craziness of the simulcast portion-glad yoo're young and don't have to worry about your blood pressure. - After listening once, I sighed deeply when those bass chords(?) of your theme came on- Never before have I appreciated Chris' excellent bumper music---does he slip in the Cures when you're not there, or is that allowed? I noticed they're touring. The KISS ME, KISS ME, KISS... was Mother's Day gift, the year it came out.

Rachel on the Public Radio Thing

I heard the programme. It was a very good interview that asked the right questions.

What I am not sure I liked is that Rachel said she wants her own show on the TV machine.

This would only work if she kept a radio show look her FOX "friends" do.

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