More on How Rachel Maddow Kicks A$$

Alrighty, as time goes by, I am more and more impressed with my new favorite news personality, Rachel Maddow (my former one being Stephen Colbert, even though it's fake news).

Not only is she a chick, she's a chick who's a lesbian. Talk about odds against. Yet she's thriving on the teevee. And you know why? It's cause she's smart, funny and honest. She does have a left bias, but not in a vitriolic, "cool it now, Keithy" sort of way, like her colleague Keith Olberman does. She makes salient point about the absurdity that is in front of us and speaks oftent o real issues and concerns, instead of the tit for tat name calling that both wings of poltics often fall into.

My favorite thing is the comeraderie she shares with her "fake Uncle Pat", Pat Buchanan. It's like that, "Some of my best friends are Republicans" joke I always pull, spinning the "some of my best friends are [insert minority here]" that Republicans (like Sarah Palin) pull out. Pat Buchanan is kinda nutty, in a clueless sort of way. I heard this crazy story about him and the production staff at ABC Portland pretending to be "hair and makeup" people because he thought the Portland ABC had a hair and make up staff and would use them before going on Larry King via satellite from the Portland studio. Something about a makeup sponge rinsed off in a cup of water, foundation, and Pat drinking from the cup...I don't know. Anyway, clueless.

Rumor has it that Rachel Maddow is not just a great personality & genuinely nice but a true scholar as well. Rumors I found on the internet, so I haven't had a chance to confirm the wiki entry and other blogs. But it makes sense. Also, she is good friends with Chuck D, of Public Enemy. They used to have a show on Air America.

Fight the power.

One last thing: she has a great sense of humor, especially about her sexuality. She interviewed a congressman and at the end of the interview, after thanking him, he said, "Thank you sir--I mean ma'am." And she said, without missing a beat, "No problem. Happens all the time."

Effin funny, I tell yah.