Rachel Maddow on "Hardball" right now.

[Kool Kitty]

Discussing SCHIP veto with Pat Buchanan.

[Kool Kitty]

1. Why can't Buchanan discuss anything without

screaming or whining?

[flordehinojos]

20. he gets anxious and doesn't want people to make points against him or his agenda.

[KatyaR]

30. Amen to that--

what a jackass--he is a fucking idiot. 'They're getting free healthcare!' It's not free, you moron, WE are paying for it already. He thinks the louder he yells, the more right he is. Someone needs to slap him onto another continent.

And if he thinks they're going to take my social security away, he's got another thing coming.

Now I know why I don't watch news shows. Thank god Rachel NEVER backs down.

[DemKR]

2. tweety is more annoying than pat is n/t

[Kool Kitty]

3. Yeah, what's with him?

Why is he talking right over her and letting Pat shriek?

[thereismore]

7. did you see Daily Show last night? That's what happened. nt

[Jacobin]

27. He got called out for the shallow soul less idiot he is

It was a thing of beauty

:bounce:

[Captain Hilts]

4. I don't dislike her, but how'd she become a pundit? What's her background? nt

[Kool Kitty]

5. She's smart, engaging, and well-informed.

[annabanana]

8. Wiki:

A graduate of Castro Valley High School in Castro Valley, California, Maddow later obtained a degree in public policy from Stanford University in 1994. She then received a Rhodes Scholarship in 1995 and used it to obtain a Ph.D. in political science from Lincoln College, Oxford University. Maddow is believed to be the first openly gay American to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.<3><4>

Her political activism has focused on AIDS and prisoners' rights, especially the prevention of the spread of HIV and AIDS in prisons. She is also an outspoken advocate for gay and lesbian issues, including same-sex marriage.


Radio career
Maddow got her first radio hosting job at WRNX when the station held a contest for a new on-air personality. She was hired on the spot. She later went on to host Big Breakfast on WRSI, in Northampton, Massachusetts, for two years. She left the show to join the newly created Air America in March 2004. There she hosted Unfiltered along with Chuck D and Lizz Winstead until its cancellation on March 31, 2005. Two weeks later (April 14), her own hour-long program, The Rachel Maddow Show, began airing; it was expanded to two hours on January 2, 2006. It now airs from New York from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Maddow


Television career
Maddow was a regular panelist on MSNBC's Tucker. Since the November 2006 election, she has been a frequent guest on CNN's Paula Zahn Now and is regularly on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

[tularetom]

10. What qualifies Buchanan to be a pundit? Or Tweety?

Rachel Maddow is a Rhodes Scholar. That doesn't mean she is qualified to do everything but she is at least as qualified to comment on political events as Tweety or *ucker Carlson for chrissakes.

[Captain Hilts]

28. Buchanan was a speechwriter, Tweety a Cong aide with Moynihan...

I have a phd too, and I'm a good speaker, funny too, but I'm not sure I belong on the air. I'll look at the Wiki thing.

[Cleita]

12. She has her own show to begin with on the radio. She appears

regularly on Keith Olberman's show as a pundit. She has a Phd in something, which is more than I think many of the pundits have including Coultergeist.

[eleny]

6. She's demonstrating that Buchanan's ilk are not long for the tv

She's making so much sense. Fast talking, logical and passionate about the S-CHIP. Meantime, Buchanan is acting like nothing short of a hyena.

[Kool Kitty]

11. Fuck Tweety and Pat.

I love it when guys like this argue that they can't fund help for the poor, especially poor children. They never had to struggle for one thing in their lives. I'd pay more for cigs to give more kids health care. And I smoke approx. 2 packs a day.

[Mojorabbit]

26. I don't mind paying

either but I can afford it. I am pissed off on how they funded it nevertheless. I just got back from feeding homeless with food not bombs and I looked at the people who were smoking after their meal and thought about how fucked up it was that they and a lot of low income people were going to be funding this because congress was too cowardly to fund it fairly.

[Kool Kitty]

31. You have a point there.

Why don't we spend less on killing people and more on helping people?

[eleny]

9. The Republican health care plan could be written on the back of an envelope...

...in invisible ink and still nobody would miss it.

Go Rachel! :kick:

[Kingshakabobo]

13. "George bush air-lifted 12 billion dollars to Iraq in shrink-wrapped packages....

.....and didn't care that half of it walked off"

:applause:

[eleny]

14. That's our girl!

[rurallib]

16. Once yer born Your on Your Own (YOYO) =

republican plan for anything.
Unless you've got oil or war materiale then the gummint wants to help you.

[Cameron27]

15. She's got Buchanan

squealing like a stuck pig. gobblygook gobblygook, blah blah blah socialism ---> BOO!

[Kingshakabobo]

17. Am I a bad person for wishing an on-air stroke on him?

[Cameron27]

18. ROFL

He looks like he's ripe for one, wishes or not.

[eleny]

21. No, you're not. I was wondering if it was going to happen

I really don't want to see it, though. Even Falwell had the courtesy to check out in private. }(

[tishaLA]

23. "GobblygooK" is apparently the new RW word

Frank Gaffney used it repeatedly against Robert Greenwald yesterday on Tweety's show.

[eleny]

25. Yup

Gaffney was practicing it over and over last night. It wasn't believable.

[spanone]

29. yea, i saw that. a real intelligent comeback.

a child's way of not confronting the issue at hand.

gafney is an asshole imo

[spanone]

19. not fair, it's two against one.

[Kingshakabobo]

Please.. she wiped the floor with those clowns...

Buchanan's probably going changing his depends about right now.

[riverdeep]

22. She's been on various MSNBC shows a lot, lately.

She's been on Olbermann, Dan Abrahms, and now Matthews. A regular talking head spot. I wonder if this is a kind of test for my fondest wish of her getting her own show.

[Kingshakabobo]

24. They could do a LOT worse. She's one of the smartest, most articulate, and fast...

...on her feet people we have.

[me b zola]

32. Here's a link for those w/o cable

http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&brand=msnbc&tab=m5&rf=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697&fg=&from=00&vid=547e7e93-0851-479b-8fcf-129da5afc32e&playlist=videoByTag:mk:us:vs:0:tag:Source_Hardball:ns:MSNVideo_Top_Cat:ps:10:sd:-1:ind:1:ff:8A