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Maddow: Republicans keep making big laugh out loud errors

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Tuesday night explained how Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign and national Republicans kept making relatively unnoticed gaffes. “This really is what national Republicans and what the Mitt Romney campaign have been like right now,” she said. “They keep making errors like this.” Maddow noted that the…

Maddow: Democrats could keep Senate thanks to extreme GOP candidates

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said Wednesday night that the Democratic Party could benefit from the ouster of moderate Republican candidates. “Republicans were really, really, really confident heading into the last election cycle in 2010,” she said. “They knew they were going to win big all across the country.” While Republicans…

Maddow blasts Fox News for accusing Obama of ‘political terrorism’

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Tuesday night slammed Fox News over their “hyped up” coverage of Romney campaign national finance committee co-chair Frank VanderSloot. “What they are doing this time is that they are trying to take us on a new national trip, like they’ve done before, but their new…

Maddow: Democrats did not make up the ‘war on women’

On her show Monday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow cataloged a slew of recent Republican bills that aim to roll back women’s access to contraception and abortion. “Slap an anti-abortion label on it and apparently this year’s model of Republican lawmaker will automatically vote for it,” she quipped. Not surprisingly,…

Watch in horror as zombie Ayn Rand eats Rachel Maddow’s brains

In the latest video by progressive comedy troupe The Partisans, zombie Ayn Rand rises from the grave to feed on the brains of American college students, stopping briefly to much on the gray matter of one MSNBC news anchor along the way. While the video doesn’t actually feature Maddow (although…

Maddow: Consumer rebates from the ACA are a big f’ing deal

Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow devoted the show’s opening segment to the concept of “retail politics” and how the Democrats may finally be mastering that art in the form of Affordable Care Act (ACA) rebate checks, one of which could be on its way to…

Barney Frank: I’m not inviting Obama to my wedding

Wednesday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow welcomed Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank (D), who came out to the Boston Globe in 1987, thus becoming the first openly LGBT person to serve in the U.S. Congress. Frank and Maddow welcomed the president’s announcement yesterday afternoon that he supports…

Maddow: Ron Paul supporters infiltrating Republican state leadership

Rachel Maddow discussed Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-TX) continued push to win delegates in the Republican presidential race Tuesday evening, despite that Mitt Romney has the nomination locked up. Paul’s supporters showed up at Republican primary contests in Louisiana, Massachusetts last weekend, allowing him to pick up more delegates. The congressmen’s…

Maddow explains the conservative media model: ‘Everybody else is out to get you’

Conservative media outlets encourage their audiences to keep viewing only their content by demonizing other news sources, according to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. “If I am trying to get across a point of view, I have to persuade and not assert,” she said in April at The Castro Theater in…

The wage gap and the problem of “choice” feminism

I’m guessing most of you have seen the video of Alex Castellanos trying to win an argument on “Meet the Press” with Rachel Maddow by all but saying, “It’s so cute when you ladies have opinions like you were people. Now go make me a sandwich.” No, seriously, he said,…