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Maddow tells ‘Daily Show’: Sotomayor and Scalia brawled over Voting Rights Act
Appearing on Thursday night’s episode of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” MSNBC progressive news host Rachel Maddow recounted her trip to the Supreme Court earlier in the week to watch the justices debate the Voting Rights Act, on the same day that a statue of Rosa Parks was being…
Rachel Maddow on the sequester: This goose is cooked
On her show Thursday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow doubted that President Barack Obama and Republicans would be able to reach a last-minute deal to avert across-the-board budget cuts. The $85 billion worth of indiscriminate spending cuts was implemented as a part of a political deal to raise the federal…
Maddow: Republicans now so obstructionist they block their own nominees
On Tuesday night’s edition of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow informed viewers that Republicans in Congress are being so obstructionist that they are now blocking and filibustering the nominations of their own candidates for federal position as well as members of their own party. She began by discussing…
Maddow pushes ex-White House spokesperson on drones: ‘How can the law be classified?’
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow pressed former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on Monday regarding President Barack Obama’s administration’s use of unmanned drones to kill terrorism suspects, which Gibbs said would become more transparent in the wake of the nomination of John Brennan to lead the Central Investigation Agency. “The…
Maddow blasts Indiana’s mandated double trans-vaginal probe bill
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Thursday night ripped into a bill in Indiana that would require women to undergo to trans-vaginal ultrasounds twice if they wished to terminate their pregnancy. The bill, approved by the state Senate Health and Provider Services Committee on Wednesday, would require clinics to conduct trans-vaginal…
Maddow chronicles self-destruction of the headless Republican Party
On her show Wednesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow detailed how poor of a shape the Republican Party was in, pointing out the various ways the GOP was at battle with itself. “What is going on with the Republican Party right now?” she wondered. “I mean, who is in charge?…
Maddow: Regular Americans routinely ask tougher questions than whiny Beltway media
On Tuesday night’s edition of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow examined the gap between what average Americans are concerned about and what the Beltway press corps is concerned about, and how these concerns are reflected in the kinds of questions they ask when given access to politicians. Parents…
Maddow on GOP blocking Hagel: ‘This is a fresh hell in American politics’
Thursday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow turned her sights on the unprecedented move by the Republicans to block the nomination of Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) as Secretary of Defense. The level of obstructionism as most recently signified by the act of blocking every move that President…
Maddow: Rand Paul and other whack-job conservatives eroding U.S. standing in the world
Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow discussed how the clownish antics of conservatives on Capitol Hill are beginning to affect the standing of the U.S. in the world. She touched on recent conspiracy theories from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) about the raid on the U.S. consulate…
Maddow: Republicans wish we were still in ‘factually wrong’ Iraq war
On her show Thursday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow reviewed the Senate’s fierce confirmation hearing for Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel. She noted that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Hagel, a former Republican senator from Nebraska, were once close colleagues. Hagel served as McCain’s national co-chair during the 2000 Republican…
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