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Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:00 AM

The decay of serious journalism and Rachel Maddow's new show

The New Republic -- of all places -- laments the loss of "nuance or intellectual rigor" on television as epitomized by MSNBC's troubling decision to give an actual liberal her own show.

Glenn Greenwald

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Thursday, August 21, 2008 08:33 AM

Spider Mike

Maddow is seriously overrated
This is supposedly a woman of great integrity, according to her fan club. Yet she sat there on Countdown for months agreeing with every utterance that came out of Keith Olbermann's mouth, even during the dark days of his nearly insane rantings about Hillary Clinton, batting her eyes at him (even funnier, she's an out lesbian)flirtatiously.

Amazing that there are still so many people who see the entire world through -- every last square inch of it -- exclusively through the prism of their specific preference in the Obama v. Hillary wars (Hard-core Obama fanatics now think that Chris Matthews and other Hilary-haters are exemplars of great journalism and hard-core Hillary fanatics think that Fox is Fair and Balanced).

OK - so Rachel Maddow is a seriously overrated, vacant shrew who used feminine wiles to get a show -- all because she didn't support Hillary vociferously enough.

So who are the great people on cable news who are better, who should have their own shows? Lanny Davis and Sean Hannity?

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