Why do so many "love" Rachel Maddow?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

122. Her boundless curiosity, her extraordinary communication skills and her humility.

During her opening block she takes us on a journey from how some event in the past has resulted in current circumstances. Her emphasis on context is laudable in an age of "crisis of the day" news.

I feel like I am being talked to as an adult who is being included in the conversation and not being treated as a student by a dismissive professor who jealously guards his information and doles it out in a way to impress and control his class.

She loves to go trout fishing on her days off.

I learn almost as much from her conversations with Lawrence O'Donnell as I do from the rest of her show.

She always exudes a child-like wonder, 'I can't believe they're paying me to do this." (Note: They pay her a lot!)

She is a human being. At the very end of one show she was handed a story about T***p separating children from their parents at the border. News of the event overwhelmed her emotionally, and she asked Lawrence to report the story on his show as she hurriedly closed her own.

That's why I like Rachel Maddow.