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Maddow: ‘Mr. Romney, you do not always make sense’
The economy appears to be sputtering back to life, showing surprisingly good jobs numbers in January. On Friday, the Dow Jones closed at its highest point since May of 2008. This leaves the Republican candidates — who have largely been building their platform on President Obama’s supposedly disastrous handling of…
Maddow: GOP elite going all out to stop Newt
Recent days have seen an unprecedented push by some of the most powerful lawmakers and opinion-shapers in the Republican party to arrest Newt Gingrich’s rise to the top of the Republican ticket this fall. Friday night on The Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel recounted and provided historical context for some of…
Maddow: PolitiFact is undermining the word ‘fact’
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow tore into the fact-checking website PolitiFact on Wednesday for confirming that President Barack Obama’s job numbers were correct, but rating his comments only “half true.” During the State of the Union address on Tuesday night, Obama stated: “In the last 22 months, businesses have created more…
Maddow: Is the Romney campaign ‘collapsing’?
In a wide-ranging segment on Friday night’s The Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel took a revealing look at the current state of Mitt Romney’s campaign. She questioned whether the campaign’s central ideological underpinnings are still valid and went on to ask whether Romney’s candidacy itself is currently in jeopardy. She pointed…
Maddow: Gov. Daniels ‘embarrassing’ choice for State of the Union response
On her show Thursday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow explained why Republicans should not have picked Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels to deliver the their response to President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday. House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement: “Mitch Daniels is a fierce advocate for smaller,…
Maddow: Wednesday ‘going to be a very different day’ because of blackout
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said that Wednesday would be a strange day for people who spend a lot of time browsing the Internet. In an unprecedented move, an estimated 7,000 websites plan to shut down for the day in protest of the House’s Stop Online Privacy Act and the Senate’s…
Dan Rather: Republicans turning against Citizens United ruling
Dan Rather, host of Dan Rather Reports on HDNet, said Monday that Republicans and conservatives were beginning to re-think their support for the Supreme Court’s controversial ruling in Citizens United v. FEC. “When the decision first came through, I think it was practically unanimous thinking among Republicans and self-described conservatives,…
Maddow to the GOP: ‘Just how anti-gay do you want to be?’
On Friday’s The Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel looked at the aftermath of the New Hampshire Republican primary. Now that the national press have left town and the candidates pushed on to South Carolina, the state party is drafting an initiative to enshrine into their state’s Constitution that marriage should be…
Maddow explains how CNN bent over backwards to let Perry debate
On her show Thursday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow explained how CNN bent its own guidelines to let Texas Gov. Rick Perry appear in the final debate before the South Carolina primary. “Will Rick Perry be allowed into that debate? On the surface it appears he does not quality,” she…
Maddow: Indiana GOP picked bad time to fight unions
On her show Thursday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said that Indiana Republicans had picked a bad time to go to war with unions. Indiana Republicans are pushing for a law that would prohibit union security clauses in union contracts, meaning non-union employees would benefit from collective bargaining agreements without…
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