Maddow Gets Prime-Time Show on MSNBC

Air America radio host and television commentator Rachel Maddow will have her own show on MSNBC starting September 8. Her show will air at 9 p.m. following Countdown With Keith Olbermann. Olbermann broke the news Tuesday on the liberal news website Daily Kos.

Dan Abrams, who was hosting Verdict during that time slot, will act as NBC's chief legal correspondent and will be a daytime anchor for MSNBC, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. She may be the first openly gay woman to host a prime-time television show.

Maddow, 35, is a Rhodes scholar with a Ph.D. in political science. She also has a background in activism on such issues as prison reform and the AIDS crisis. She currently hosts The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America radio and has frequently served as Olbermann's guest host. (The Advocate)

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Caught in the political crossfire
An Advocate.com exclusive posted June 16, 2006
After his Democratic opponent appeared on Rachel Maddow’s Air America show in May, Ohio congressman Bob Ney tried to derail his campaign by painting him as a radical for talking to the openly lesbian radio host, whom he deemed a “cross-dressing lesbian” and a “transgender king.” Now Maddow responds.

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Name: Ann Nichols
Date posted: 2009-06-11 4:26 PM
Hometown: Sierra Vista

Comment:

No one ever told me that homosexuality is evil when I was growing up, so it's hard for me to understand why anyone would be homophobic. My comment has to do with Rachel Maddow's reporting on the murder of Dr. James Tiller. I'm wondering how the kind of pseudo-Christian who could imagine that killing a doctor for performing abortions is morally justified would react if there were a genetic marker that made it possibile to identify gay babies in the womb. Don't those kind of people tend to be homophobic, too? (I'm straight, 54 years old, Roman Catholic, & can't believe that God would give me a brain and not expect me to use it.)

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