Is Maddow's show becoming overly goofy?

[Unsane]

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[MadBadger]

1. No

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[Unsane]

5. Are you mad as in crazy or mad as in angry?

[MadBadger]

6. Depends on my mood.

[LakeSamish706]

2. She stays on point.... Goofy? Maybe, but at least she has a point.... And she is a great Democrat.

[FrenchieCat]

3. Less goofy than Halperin, Anderson Cooper, Matthews, and the rest of the cable

babbling public manipulating talking fools. :shrug:

[avaistheone1]

4. Nope.

The show is still great and keeps getting better.

:kick:

[cyclezealot]

34. Very true.

Her sense of humor really pierces through the bull sh*t we call news. The best way to make a point is with sarcasm and humor . And she masters that. She Can't help it; if brilliant people ( she's a Rhodes scholar) report on the bizarreness of our system need show our contempt.

[rocktivity]

7. No--it's what she has to cover.

A Commerce Secretary who once said the department of Commerce should be abolished, for instance. Reminds me too much of Bush choosing Josh Bolton as UN rep though he said that no one would notice if 10 floors of a UN building were to disappear--goofy!

:crazy:
rocktivity

[Kalyke]

47. John Bolton

Josh Bolton was the director of the Office of Management and Budget.

[grassfed]

8. she's glib and smug

[ShortnFiery]

41. she's intelligent, irreverent and fun

Rachel Maddow :loveya:

[Hieronymus]

44. Thanks, Tom Cruise.

[ronnykmarshall]

53. Glad I wasn't drinking water when I read that.

:spray:

[HughMoran]

54. ...at least that's what the right-wingers think

:)

[Hamlette]

9. Yes, and bless you for saying it

it isn't what she has to cover, its wearing goofy hats and using megaphones then whispering in the megaphone. What was that about? Stop with the props, report the news that no one else is reporting.

Schuster is back to being my fav.

[Occam Bandage]

10. She's becoming a female, liberal Hannity. All smarmy, glib sarcasm.

Thank God for Tweety. His show at least usually treats me like an intelligent viewer and not a Democratic dittohead.

[mucifer]

14. maybe, but tweety is nuts.

[Unsane]

18. Maybe so, but Hardball is probably the most substantive debate show on television.

[ShortnFiery]

42. Substantive?!? WTF Over? Yes, it was enlightening to listen to Tweety's ...

man crush seemingly endless drivel on Chimpy's "substantive" package. :eyes:

[Occam Bandage]

19. Sure he is, but he throws out good questions, hammers his guests to answer them,

and seems to attract pretty decent guests.

[MadBadger]

21. I think he attracts the best guests of all the cable shows.

[MadBadger]

20. Hannity is extremely rude to guests he doesnt agree with, often belittling or talking over them

So I wouldnt call her a liberal Hannity really.

[Occam Bandage]

23. I suppose that's true. She isn't at all a bully to people who disagree with her,

but then again, I've picked up on what is, to me, a disappointing run of non-substantive interview segments, in which the guest offers little or nothing that she doesn't seem to be prompting the guest to say.

[Dr. Strange]

49. At least she has people with different viewpoints on.

That's one thing I don't like about Olbermann--he only has people on who agree with him.

[w4rma]

29. Tweety treats you like an easily conned fool, instead. (nt)

[Reterr]

30. How is she like a liberal Hanitty?

For that, she would have to get behind Obama and the Dems unquestioningly and mindlessly support everything they suggest/do. She would also have to scream and rant at any guests whose opinions diverge from hers by an iota?

She does neither....a liberal Hannitty should be someone who supports the Democratic party's position (note: I am not saying the liberal position) on EVERYTHING without question, at the very least.

She is also highly educated and informed-another thing distinguishing her a lot from the Limbaughs and the Hannittys of the world...

[Bryan]

11. I think so

The whole slangy inverted rhetorical question thingy is tired, maybe?

Then again, I happily give Olbermann a pass for dressing like a 1940s pimp and making Monty Python references, so I'm not necessarily the best judge.

[Unsane]

17. I do love Keith's zoot suits.

[Berry Cool]

35. I got news for ya...those aren't zoot suits.

Those are his REAL shoulders.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

61. I LOVE Those Gangster Suits!!

He needs a Tommy Gun.

Note:I have pictures from my parents' wedding in 1947 and they look very gangster. Mom has a 2 piece suit on with big shoulders and pleated patch pockets with flaps, and a big hat. Dad has on a double breasted suit and is smoking a cigarette (outside).

Lookin' SHARP!!!

(Cue Joe Jackson song)

[jillan]

12. I think Rachel has been amazing lately.

She is covering alot of what is going on in depth.

Yeah - maybe she gets a little cutesy at times - but so does Keith.
Just think of his Oddball segment, his last segment and even the way he says "booshed".

I'll take a little silliness from these two because they are providing me with in depth reporting that I don't find on many other news shows.

[snowbear]

13. Not goofy at all..

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I'm not overly crazy about the dude who does the "entertainment fix" towards the end of the show.. but other than that, her show rocks!

[firedupdem]

15. I haven't watched it since campaign time. The night she was

reporting breaking news that Obama was suspending his campaign to visit grandma and going on and on about whether it would hurt him. He never said he was "suspending" his campaign? I don't care for the show. I think she's a smart lady and I hear she has good guests, but I'm done after Keith. I'm on to my regular shows.

[Goat or Panic]

16. Love, Love, Love, Love,

Love,Love, Love, Love me some Maddow, but she is slipping slightly into Colbert territory.

But as long as she keeps telling the truth, she will never approach Hannity territory.

[Lilith Velkor]

22. Maddow is a ginormous doofus.

She's Keef's padawan, so it's not exactly surprising.

[Goat or Panic]

24. HOW DARE YOU SIR!!!!!!

madam actually. :)


Hoping you saw the SNL skit.

[Lilith Velkor]

25. Yup.

I totally got flamed here for saying she dresses like Obama, even though she said that herself on her radio show. (That's the thing: her TV show has the afternoon drive time DJ vibe all over it.)

It's nice to see some good-natured ribbing here in GD:P for a change. :toast:

I SAID GOOD DAY!!!

[ShortnFiery]

43. ginormous doofus = Rhodes Scholar

:crazy:

[Lilith Velkor]

46. Yes, a Rhodes scholar can get on TV and call herself a ginormous doofus.

Imagine that, and try not to let it crack your fragile little eggshell mind.

[MarjorieG]

26. Humor draws people in to address serious topics of bad news to those uninformed.

Think it's working.

[Larkspur]

27. No, Rachel makes boring topics entertaining to watch

I hate hardball because Tweety likes to hear himself talk and he talks, actually yells, over his guests.

My favorites on MSNBC are Olbermann, Maddow and Shuster.

[Reterr]

28. No.eom

[cherish44]

31. She's snarky without being pretentous

That's not easy to pull off..

[Seldona]

32. She is still better than your average bingo caller.

Not my favorite, but in the top three.

[JimboDem]

33. Dr. Maddow...

carry on.:applause:

[bunnies]

36. Becoming?

No. Its been overly goofy since the beginning.

[hileeopnyn8d]

37. I like her a lot,

but I wish she would lose the props.

[realitythink]

38. Maybe she's trying to appeal to the masses

After all the country is filled with "goof balls". And think Rachel's show is brilliant.

[zulchzulu]

39. She's trying some different stuff

I'm not always in agreement with her, but she's trying new stuff... props, weird cutaways... more power to her.

[Neecy]

40. no

I actually appreciate the humor. I loved the megaphone last night and the 'they're going to slaughter us all' line. What better way to show contempt for Cheney than making a huge joke out of him?

[ericgtr]

45. Yeah the megaphone thing was a little over the top

Sometimes she can come off as the crazy liberal. Don't get me wrong, it's turned into my favorite show next to KO.

[ErinBerin84]

48. I love Rachel and think she's an important voice, etc.

But yeah, sometimes the prop stuff passes by cute and into cutesy territory for me too. It's good that she doesn't take herself to seriously, but I don't catch the show every night because of it. No offense to her, just not my style sometimes.

[AtomicKitten]

50. The Rachel even does goofy well. ;) n/t

[HughMoran]

51. Did she have a goofy show or two?

OH NOES!

Same as saying - can't watch MSNBC any more because ONE of their shows is right-wing - at least in my mind. I think we think too much :D

[ronnykmarshall]

52. I like goofy.

[Cleita]

55. There is no point to this post except to bash Maddow.

She's damned if she does and damned if she doesn't. I really get sick of these threads. She's doing a fine job and would hate to see her show derailed or even cancelled because of what seems a campaign to diss her every time she makes a move. Success seems to bring out the jealous every time.

[grassfed]

56. Maddow: "PEP"

"Progressive Except for Palestine"

[Freddie Stubbs]

57. It's entertainment. You want serious, watch The News Hour with Jim Lehrer

[Numba6]

58. She's been a disappointment

She was better as a commentator, she can't seem to hold her own as a host, IMHO

[ClarkUSA]

59. I stopped watching her awhile back when she was a Debbie Downer during the GE.

Haven't missed her since.

[RepublicanElephant]

60. the point is she gets her point across. and more importantly, for her show's survival,

the ratings!