Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - Posts
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Are we allowed to say that here? Watching Rachel Maddow sets my heart aflutter. And not just me, apparently! I hear that she attracts across almost all persuasions--straight and gay, women and men. Especially when she's allowed to appear, as in the photo below, without that silly lip gloss and diminishing eye shadow.
Rachel: Call me any time, day or night.
To be on the show, of course. I'm a smart talker. And I know lotsa stuff.
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And, Dana and Dahlia, even as a non-cable news-watching Luddite, I'm thrilled for Rachel Maddow's new gig. That Nation piece was the first time in months that I read a magazine profile on a major news commentator--and there has been a recent obsession, no?--that didn't make me think for a few moments that I was reading the same article on the same egomaniacal white guy who thinks none of the other egomaniacal white guys on TV take him seriously enough as the cultural force that he surely is. (That last bit might also explain why I don't watch cable news). No one will accuse Rachel Maddow of being Ted Baxter, that's for sure.
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Dahlia, I'm also psyched at Rachel Maddow's ascension to the sweet spot at MSNBC, right after Keith Olbermann's top-rated 8 p.m. show. I love that Maddow is not just a non-Barbie doll; she's a 35-year-old out lesbian, with short-cropped hair and a straightforwardly dykey self-presentation (well, dykey for television; MSNBC does load on the mascara and lip gloss, as if anxious to remind viewers that she's still a woman.) The Nation profile you link to hints at an oddball sense of humor that makes me eager for her show's debut on Sept 8. Will she host a special segment on "the evil child-actor twins that run Poland"?
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Props to Rachel Maddow for scoring her own primetime show. And props to MSNBC for recognizing and rewarding monster talent. Maddow is whip-smart, funny, original, and living proof that women needn't spit and hiss to succeed on TV. May the road rise up to meet her.