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Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher: proposed Ryan budget is ‘laughable’

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow joined Bill Maher on Real Time Friday night to discuss the two conflicting budgets released by Republicans and Democrats earlier this week. Maddow and Maher both took issue with Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) “laughable” budget proposal, saying he’s offering the same measures he and Mitt Romney introduced…

Maddow: New details of Newtown shooting prove assault weapons ban is needed

On her show Thursday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow explained why new details of the tragic mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut showed an assault weapons ban was necessary. The Hartford Courant reported Wednesday that the shooter, Adam Lanza, fired a total of 152 bullets in less than 5 minutes, killing…

Maddow: It’s ‘Groundhog Day’ in Republican politics

Wednesday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow discussed the fact that Republicans in Washington are recycling the same lies and smears that they’ve used to try and discredit President Barack Obama before. “In Washington,” she said, “it was Groundhog Day, today.” Not, she said, the day when…

Rachel Maddow mocks Paul Ryan’s budget: ‘Republicans have seen how this movie ends’

On her show Tuesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan was acting as if he hadn’t lost the 2012 election. The former Republican vice presidential candidate unveiled a budget plan earlier in the day that was strikingly similar to the one he had previously…

Maddow: Screaming man at conservative conference got ‘spit all over my face’

On Monday night, Rachel Maddow, host of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” stopped by “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and discussed the decision by the organizers of the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) not to invite New Jersey’s Gov. Chris Christie to this year’s conference, but rather to include…

MSNBC: Maddow didn’t duck questions in Reddit appearance

MSNBC released a statement Monday defending host Rachel Maddow against accusations she ignored tough questions during a one-hour appearance in an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) thread. According to Talking Points Memo, network spokesperson Lauren Skowronski said Maddow “addressed a variety of topics from the Reddit community – including the war…

Maddow tries to calm Republican ‘freakout’ over civilian trial for bin Laden son-in-law

Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow attempted to calm Republican fears that trying a terrorist in a civilian court on U.S. soil will prove to be more than domestic security forces can handle. She reminded them of the U.S. District Court’s long history of convicting terror…

Maddow: Republicans now blaming MSNBC for 2012 election losses

On Thursday night’s edition of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow welcomed former senior adviser to President Barack Obama David Axelrod, who joined her in a discussion of election 2012 and how some Republicans are now trying to blame the loss on Maddow’s network MSNBC. She began by discussing…

Maddow: Republicans more loyal to NRA than to their constituents

Wednesday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow discussed new polling by the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which shows that despite the fact that a majority of Americans are in favor of background checks for firearms purchases, the politicians representing those Americans are more concerned with their…

Maddow: GOP same sex marriage supporters all ‘retirees’ and has-beens

Tuesday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow discussed the ongoing effort by the Republican Party to re-brand itself by showing support for same sex marriage, and yet, however noble their intentions, state-level anti-abortion measures indicate that nothing has changed on a policy level for the GOP. Meanwhile,…