NYT: A Pundit in the Country (Rachel Maddow)

[babylonsister]

Domains | Rachel Maddow
A Pundit in the Country

Inteview by EDWARD LEWINE
Published: October 17, 2008


Rachel Maddow, host of left-leaning chat shows on Air America Radio and MSNBC, both named “The Rachel Maddow Show”, spends downtime in an 1865 house in western Massachusetts.



Ben Stechschulte/Redux, for The New York Times


Biggest misconception about pundits: That we all hang out together. I don’t know any of these people. Maybe all the pundits are hanging out and not inviting me.

Worst thing about job: My self-doubt that this is a worthy thing to contribute to the world. It’s fun, but I worry that it is self-indulgent.

Her 190-mile commute: It’s an opportunity for me to turn my brain off. My apartment in New York is only 275 square feet. So just being able to stretch out is great.

Always on her: A handkerchief. One of my liabilities as a broadcaster is that I am little teary. Having a handkerchief is handy. My partner, Susan Mikula, buys me cute ones.

Worst thing about Obama: He’s measured to a fault. He is so calm and cool and collected that sometimes I want to know what he feels.

Best thing about McCain: He’s very funny.

Morning routine: I arrive in Massachusetts around 2 a.m. Saturday. I wake up so that I can put the trash and recycling together and get it to the dump, which closes at 11 a.m. Me and the dog go to the dump. Then we drive to a sheep farm and I let the dog look at the sheep.

Gadget she can live without: We have no television. Susan wants to buy one, but where we live there’s no cable. So we’d have to put up a satellite dish, and we already have one for the Internet. To have two dishes on the roof would be crazy.

Prized possession: I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

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[kaiden]

1. Ahhhhhh. I love Rachel Maddow.

[libnnc]

2. Okay, this is bad...

I could become *dangerously* obsessed with Dr. Maddow.


She so incredibly awesome, she brings out the stalker in me.

:evilgrin:

I want to be her playdate. We'd just get drunk and talk about politics.....honestly.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Very cool

[madaboutharry]

4. I love her for her mind.

She is so smart. I just admire people who think.

[malaise]

5. Ditto

Nice article.

[nemo137]

6. I live with 5 other college-age guys, and we have a big collective crush on her.

Seriously, most weeknights my roommates and I have our newsblock, where we sit on the couch, have a beer, and watch Keith and Rachel. I am fairly certain that this isn't normal behavior for a house of 21-22 year old guys, but none of us are complaining.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

7. Besides the very nice article I was struck by the picture showing the number of books

stacked every which way behind her and the dog. The whole GOP as a group don't own that many books, much less actually have read any of them.

She is one super smart lady and I know the attention from the article will be enough to make Bill O'Lielly and Lush Limpballs implode with jealous.

[4lbs]

9. Be careful of all those books Rachel! You might catch that "knowledge bug" that they contain.

n/t

[libnnc]

10. I am 99.999% positive she has read all of them

The other thing that you take away from grad school (besides a degree) is a HUGE GINORMOUS library that you NEVER. EVER. PART. WITH.

[4lbs]

11. I have nearly all the textbooks that I used in college.

I also still have all my notes and tests.

The vast majority of it is still applicable since it's mostly mathematics and science.

[BrklynLiberal]

13. I noticed all the books too..and I would bet that she has read every single one of them..

[babylonsister]

8. You must go to one of them there librul schools, nemo137.

I think that's very cool that you and your roomies are so well-informed! :thumbsup:

[nemo137]

12. Yes, U of I, that bastion of far left liberalism.

Although, we do have a fairly active College Dems group, we've also got the (largely apolitical) engineering school, and a bunch of fairly douchebaggy conservatives who write for the DI.