"Has Anybody Ever Heard Of Rachel Maddow?"

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I used to live in, as my grandfather always liked to call it, 'The Excited States'.

And I go back pretty often.

And what scares the bejeebuz out of me most when I do is not the wanton crime and soup sluicing down the streets, the willful ignorance, the crumbling infrastructure, the electronic voting machines, or even the 'Cult of the Family Cyrus'.

Instead, it is Cable TV.

Which is like all the most grotesque fears and worst paranoias of George Orwell wrapped up in a single, monstrous 4,328 kilo Frisco Speedball.

Except that, as reported in yesterday's NY Times, it looks like there may be some sanity coming soon:

Just in time for the closing rush of the presidential election, MSNBC is shaking up its prime-time programming lineup, removing the longtime host Dan Abrams — its onetime general manager — from his 9 p.m. program and replacing him with Rachel Maddow, who has emerged as a favored political commentator for the all-news cable network.....

So, just who is this Ms. Maddow?

Well, as the header to this post says, Rush Limbaugh has, apparently, never heard of her.

But she is good.

And she is smart.

And she is perceptive.

And she is not a screamer.

And she never, ever entertains either false equivalencies or demonstrable falsehoods.

Gosh.

Looks like I just may have something to look forward in airport lounges in the very near future.


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