AWESOME--CONGRATS RACHEL!!!

It's a great fit for you, and I'll certainly be tuning in. :-)

I am SO glad you will be on the teevee machine even more. You and Mr. Olbermann are the best-educated, funniest people in tv land.
all the best,
Anita
and glad you are keeping the radio show, too.

Save the world!

Please.

I remember about a year or so ago, Rachel talking about her debt what with a new car and a new computer, etc.......so, I hope she makes some BIG BUCKS right away - she deserves them - she has worked her butt off!!!!!!!!! I bet Olbermann is really gonna miss her!

Just heard you say you were keeping the radio show, too...fantastic.

Congratulations on well deserved success.

Hank in Albuquerque

Congratualtions Rachel!!!

I couldn't be happier for you...and for me! I am always telling people they should listen to you on the radio. Now I can tell them to watch you on TV. You are the most refreshing and smartest political person I have ever listend to. I feel smarter after every one of your shows.

Thank you for hanging on to the radio gig. Your core fans love you on the radio and we would be very sad to lose you to TV forever.

Now, make them buy you a whole new wardrobe and easy on the pancake! Your smile, your sense of humor, your passion for civics, and your BIG brain will be a refreshing change among the sea of boring, overblown white men on cable news.

Vigilance!

I can now die happy.

I'm so psyched for your new show!!!
please keep you the way you are and don't let script writers run away and make your show un-you. Keep it Rachel.

keep news from iraq/ldwt (duh).

"You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one."
-John Lennon

The same insightful commentary and incredible preparation that has marked TRMS.

Great guests, one at time.

Burying the Lede.

A segment with Kent would be good.

Hank

Kent Jones!!!

KENT on TV!

One more reason not to change the channel after Countdown

I am in Kansas City, Mo and I stream the show on-line. I know it would be difficult to talk about Communication Policy on a Network channel, however it needs to be discussed in some form or another. Interview Juan Gonzalez and get him talking about it. That is what I suggest. Ownership and the method of client capture within the FCC is critical.

Any idea of what your show will be called? Can you get Kent to come back and work with you? I'm sure I won't be able to get to speak on the phone to Rachel, so here is my advice for your MSNBC Show. Stay just as you are. Your sense of humor, your smart, sober, coherent, intelligence choices of news items and commentary; keep up with the daily Iraq reports, some interviews with authors and news makers, even your "Ask Dr. Maddow!" By the way, I'm a lesbian and you are a fantastic role model. Don't feel you have to "talk about" being a lesbian, but don't hide it either - just like you are now. Also, how about going into more depth with some of the items than is usual on TV. Instead of 4 minutes or 3 minutes for a story, expand it a little to 6 or 7 minutes. One more piece of advice: I really hate the "left, right and center" "talking heads." Don't go there, please. We don't need to hear the Pat Buchanans of our country always ready to spin things to the right. We get enough of these dude and dudettes on all those other cable news shows. Keith is good as a model on this. He doesn't fool with trying to get "all sides" of an issue. No room left for more.... Love ya!
Mickey the Librarian

Rachel - - We all knew you'd get your show. Hopefully, this means we'll not have to listen to *Race,* and just have you again on AAR.

As for an idea for your show... how about a show focused on the Media, critiquing how the Media reports things. We know McCain doesn't get any scrutiny, so a show pointing out Media coverage would be a breath of fresh air. Kind of like Media Matters On-Air.

And yes, a segment with Kent would be great.
Good luck (I have no doubt you'll do great... and you're not only starting on your grandmother's bday, but mine, too!)

Time to program the DVR for that timeslot! :-)

"Ask a Vet", Underbelly, and Kent Jones are critical. All three are simply smart segments.

Don't have more than 2 guests at a time. All those talking heads in boxes is a turn-off and makes actual intelligent discourse impossible.

Congrats! So freakin' awesome! Smart TV news, who would have thought it was possible!

Too many (if not most) of our pundits have NO academic qualifications to be talking about political issues... You do. Suggestion: make it clear that everyone who watches your new show knows that you have a PhD in Political Science...

Best news ever! Congratulations on your new show! Suggestions for the teevee... Underbelly is indispensable. Let Kent Jones do some silly celebutardation on a regular basis. Bring back Ambrosia Sings the News on Fridays! Keep infrastructure stories on the radar and please keep technogeekery as part of the mix. And can there be a bar as part of the show? My partner Eric and I just love you and we are simply thrilled for you! -- Dale Carrico, Oakland, California

Congratulations, Rachel! It's long overdue, and you'll be terrific, I know.

Suggestions: The Buried Lede; and Kent Jones. (Oh, and you might want to see if AAR will stop running that anti-Chris Matthews spot in your time slot!)

But whatever you end up doing, I'll be watching -- go get 'em!

--

Dave

Support Peace

You've been doing a fantastic job on Race and filling in for Keith.

My suggestions:

The public is hungry for truth. This is why Amy Goodman is so successful.

Do the news behind the news, the censored news.

Include people with knowledge and truth instead of speculators, those who don't get invited to CNN and wouldn't want to go to Fox.

Include Bernie Sanders.

Include Harry Shearer. He's hilarious and right on. He does great videos.

Don't be America-centric.

Use someone from the BBC - there's a pretty funny guy on news night, and now I can't remember his name.

Use Larry Bensky, a real political guru: http://www.kpfa.org/bensky/

Keep up the fabulous work. We all need you!!

Congratulations, girl! We are all so proud of you. This has TOTALLY made my day!

I hope MSNBC will podcast your show for those of us who don't have cable. I love being able to watch Olbermann every day, hope to see you, too.

Happy, happy day! :<)

No way I'm getting through on the phone, so here's my 2¢: from the days of your morning show, your catalog of political tactics, the Underbelly, has been like a master's seminar in poly sci; there's just nothing like it for learning how to spot and name the river of bullpucky flowing your way. You've made education joyous, and God knows we need all we can get.

The humor is great, the buried lede is great, hearing Kent would probably make me cry, but most of all, I love the narrative of ignored news. You're going from an upstart, alt. media to a corporate chair, but please keep those ignored, buried stories in the mix.

You know how long I've been waiting for a spin-off like this? Since the first Today show. I always thought J Fred Muggs deserved his own slot.

But this is even bigger.

Guest Suggestion: How about having on some dumb old white guys?

Oh, wait a minute, Buchanan's on CNN most days ...

This is AWESOME NEWS!!! BIG UP, RACHEL. You did it and I am so very happy for you. Good things come to those who work their butts off for it. You've done an amazing job and will continue to do so in the future. God, this is amazing news. Congrats. Dude, it's so your time and we, your fans, been waiting for this moment forever. LOL. Oh, sorry about the dude thing, I wasn't trying to be rude or anything. Ms. Rachel Maddow you Rock! ...so our minds may meet across these pages, in the colorful country of another writer's language, where we can flourish in the knowledge that we are learning how to speak to one another... S. Brownrigg

Will there be a stream or podcast for those of us who don't own a teevee machine?

WOW Congrats, I couldn't be happier.
My ideas for your tv show:
~~ How about a 'snopes' type segement (or actually maybe use the people who do snopes.com, they are wonderful people)... in which viewers/listeners send you the neocon emails they get from people who haven't quite figured out that we dont believe their lies, and you and your research team (hire me!) could find out the truth and you could present the 'evil email of the day' and then counter with the facts..it might go a long way to avoid the passing of the lies on the internet...and might help Obama as well..and after the election, well you know the lies aren't going to simply end there...
What do you think?

Ray Suarez and Maria Hinojosa from PBS and NPR would make great guests. Juan Gonzalez would be great for media, Latino issues, world and NY politics.

congratulations x 100!
and to all the evangelicals out there, one observation: good things happen to atheists too!!

Finally, I get to watch you every night. Let me add to everyone else's congratulations.

Definitely take Kent Jones, Ask a Vet, Burying the Lead, The Underbelly and Ask Dr. Maddow. And, let the facts speak for themselves with no Right-Wing input.

Barbara Craig

My wife and I love listening to you on A.A.

How about a daily segment in your new show called "Another Fox Lie!" You can take one lie from the days Fox Faux News and expose it on your show. Especially pick on O'Reily and Cavuto-they're the easy marks. Ridicule "Fox and Friends" every chance you get.

Once again: Congrats!

One of the many things I like about your radio show is that when you disagree with someone, you become more and more curious about their thinking and assumptions. Which enables all of us listening to learn something, and to think about our own thinking.
Keep doing that!
Anita

Go girl.....intelligence, wit, and grace.

Yay!

Hey, Rachael! I am so delighted that you are going to be able to craft your own show on MSNBC. I always look for your presence and comments and when you do sub for Keith, wish you could use your format rather than his because I think his last 30 minutes are usually lame.

Know you will bring fresh air to the coverage from the left which can get just as stale as the coverage from the right. Bring us some new INTELLIGENT insights about whats a-going on, please as you do in your snippits when a guest.

From a delighted oldfart fan who lives in Texas and needs all the political good thinking she can get!!

I hope Kent Jones is part of the show, too!

Huzzah!!!

Finally one of the good people get what they deserve.

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Cue Imperial Death March!
Impeach Bush!

This is wonderful! I was sure you were going to get your own show after you started appearing on Keith's program regularly. Particularly after you filled in when he was on vacation. You did a great job then and I sure your program will be a great success!

Suggestions:

Kent Jones.....Please, get him on, I can't follow sports without him!!!! I just don't know who did what to whom anymore :{)

I would really like to see a FOX News debunk segment. Similar to Keith's "Worst" segment. Fox gets away with putting out BS on a daily basis with little or no rebuttal, outside of Media Matters.org. I know several people that believe Hannity and O'Reilly. Then I try to steer them to Media Matters, sometimes positive results sometimes not! The TeeVee Machine will have much greater impact!!!

Love ya Rachel,
Rich....Seattle,WA

I agree with people who say you should keep your regular political features, starting with the news from Iraq, w/ Burying the Lead and exposure of Republican (permanent) campaign tricks.

And you should have the same kind of guests - and lots of Scott Horton, Glenn Greenwald, and Christy Harden Smith - and Paul, of course.

AC
More liberal media at The Sideshow.

Go Rachel, this is great!

I am so happy for you and for us!

Not only are you smart as a whip, progressive, witty, and caring, you are a Soft Butch Lesbian role model for so many young lesbians (sorry about the label... but if the comfortable shoes fit).

You are right behind Ellen in helping people know "us" and realize that Lesbians are strong, smart, cute, and Love America too. Thanks... you.

Ha Ha Rush, now look who's heard of "Rachel Maddow"?!

Congratulations, Rachel!

MSNBC is so lucky to have you and so smart to give you your own show. You SO deserve this, and we viewers of political news SO appreciate you!

Sarah,
Denver

I am so happy and proud of you! I have been a very loyal listener and even got XM radio when my local station took you off the air! You are exactly what the TV "mainstream" needs to hear. People can finally learn facts and truth that is conveniently left out of other shows. You have really good advice from others here and I echo them - stay yourself and don't let the producers change your story! GO Rachel!!