All posts tagged "Rachel Maddow Show"

In a segment Thursday night, MSNBC's liberal host Rachel Maddow used a bit of improv to analogize the defense being employed by Republican presidential candidate Hermcan Cain, whose history of grappling with sexual harassment allegations has become a national story in recent weeks.

In this clip from Wednesday's Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel plays back video from the House floor of Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) criticizing the GOP for holding meaningless votes when the U.S. economy is in a state of emergency. Maddow then played a clip of the president making the same observation and went on to discuss the fact that the Democratic caucus is looking significantly less splintered lately, both on jobs and on the proliferation of laws across the country designed to make it harder for poor people and minorities to vote.

MIT economics professor Simon Johnson said on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show on Wednesday night that Wall Street "blew itself up," which lead to the "most severe recession since World War II." The former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund added that the enormous economic damage was "a direct consequence of what the biggest banks did and were allowed to get away with."

Comedian Bill Maher said Tuesday night on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show that the "Occupy Wall Street" movement could be "the wind at the back" of Barack Obama and other Democrats, who tend to lapse into "centrism."

Vermont governor Peter Shumlin (D) appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show Friday evening to express his concern over the possible government shutdown over FEMA funds.

With the impending execution of Georgia death-row inmate Troy Davis dominating headlines in the U.S., sadly few have noticed that not one, but two executions in Texas have been put on hold by the U.S. Supreme Court in the last seven days.