The Creme de la creme of Leftist Ideologues

Rachel Maddow

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Maddow is so partisan and outspoken she makes Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews look like reasonable individuals, she is, without a doubt, the creme de la creme of leftist ideologues at MSNBC.

Maddow was born in Castro Valley, California. Her father, Robert B. “Bob” Maddow, was a Captain in the United States Air Force . Maddow has stated that her family is “very, very Catholic,” and she grew up in a community that her mother described as “very conservative.”

Maddow was a competitive athlete and participated in three sports in high school: volleyball, basketball, and swimming. A graduate of Castro Valley High School in Castro Valley, California, she attended Stanford University. Maddow earned a degree in public policy at Stanford in 1994.

In April 2005, Maddow’s weekday two-hour radio program, The Rachel Maddow Show, began airing; in March 2008 it gained an hour. In June 2005, Maddow became a regular panelist on the MSNBC show Tucker. During and after the November 2006 election, she was a frequent guest on CNN’s Paula Zahn Now; she was also a correspondent for The Advocate Newsmagazine, an LGBT-oriented short-form news magazine for Logo deriving its content from news items published by The Advocate. In January 2008, Maddow became an MSNBC political analyst and was a regular panelist on MSNBC’s Race for the White House with David Gregory and MSNBC’s election coverage, as well as a frequent contributor on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.


While she hosts a variety of radio and television shows, Rachel is most known for her show, The Rachel Maddow Show. After being on the air for more than a month, Maddow’s program doubled the audience in the time slot (which is not too difficult when you work at MSNBC).

Anchoring her own show made Maddow the first openly gay or lesbian host of a prime-time news program in the United States. Asked about her political views by the Valley Advocate, Maddow replied, “I’m undoubtedly a liberal…” Maddow lives in Manhattan and western Massachusetts with her partner, artist Susan Mikula.

Susan Mikula and Rachel Maddow