Apparently, Ms. Stanley decided to get revenge for all the times Keith has criticized her TV column by using her VERY faint praise of Rachel's show to rag on Keith while she insults Rachel:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/arts/television/25watc.htmlMSNBC calls it “The Rachel Maddow Show,” but it’s less a show than an annex; Ms. Maddow’s new program is “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” for viewers who are down on Keith Olbermann...
...Her program adds a good-humored female face to a cable news channel whose prime time is dominated by unruly, often squabbling schoolboys; Ms. Maddow’s deep, modulated voice is reassuringly calm after so much shrill emotionalism and catfights among the channel’s aging, white male divas...
...Mr. Olbermann’s program is the highest-rated talk show on MSNBC, though his audience is nowhere near as large as Bill O’Reilly’s on the Fox News Channel.
What Ms. Maddow doesn’t do is add a fresh or contrarian perspective to a cable news channel that increasingly positions itself as the Anti-Fox, a liberal alternative to the high-octane Fox News...Like Mr. Olbermann, Ms. Maddow provides viewers who are appalled by the likes of Mr. O’Reilly and Sean Hannity with a reassuring mirror of their own views. Like Mr. O’Reilly and Mr. Olbermann, Ms. Maddow prefers to confront guests she already agrees with...And that kind of echo chamber doesn’t make for very interesting television...
Mostly she does what everybody else does: she interviews reporters affiliated with NBC and MSNBC for analysis and the like-minded for comfort.
...Good debate isn’t just dueling talking points, it’s a clash of personalities and ideology in the same room.
Ms. Maddow has the character and political passion; what she doesn’t have is a worthy opponent.
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