woohooo! yeha!

So - the only think I think that you m-u-s-t MUST keep is the "news from Iraq & life during wartime" segment. America needs to know.

and, Good Job!! You Rock!!!

ok, now I'll go finish listening to the show& maybe watch the link. hugs, Z

I strongly agree that the opening Iraq segment needs to be reworked into a suitable format for TV. But how to do that? Artist renditions of the fighting? Journalists are not permitted to publish photos of the war, right?

If the experts at MSNBC (including Rachel, of course) can bring the war segment through the transition to TV in a way that keeps viewers interested, it could have a big impact on the new viewers.

I'm so thrilled to hear about your new show. As others have mentioned, please have a podcast available. I listen to Keith Olbermann everyday this way as we do not have cable or a dish.

Quick suggestion. Would you consider having radio personality Erin Hart (www.erinhartshow.com) as a contributer now and then? She is brilliant and delightful.

As far as names. Hmmm....

~ Maddow's Muse You Can Use
~ Views and News with Rachel Maddow

Best of luck!

Elaine B
Colorado

Rachet It Up with Rachel

or

The Reality Based Community

Congratulations to all of us! Another hour of Rachel and on the TV machine, yet, too. Can't wait.

I agree with others - News from Iraq (or where ever) - Life During Wartime is essential.

Please, please, keep the interviews with knowledgeable guests! Outside of your wonderful wit & LDW, that's the most valuable for me.

Name - Truth Out

Oh, wait...

Nothing's wrong with TRMS as far as I'm concerned. Just no stupid name like Hardball or Countdown or Race for the White House.

PT

ah, sweetie, I like to think i had some small part in this, bugging MSNfreakinBC with all those emails, even sent one to Abrams (oops) under mistaken impression he was still in charge....

anyway:

encourage: LIVE TV: Kent Jones!! Make 'em pay him a decent salary, he will spark the show on television, he will burst off the screen. Do naked guy news with pixels, do weird panda stories, *show* stuff. Use that ol' television machine, stuff like Oddball and World's Worst leaven Keith's show and pulled in my 10 yr old, who never watched news until Countdown; after six months he was making Scooter Libby jokes. Draw in that next wave of news consumers.

encourage: Nerd Culture. Not sure what this means right now but I think this is the first time that One Of Us has gotten a news show. Bring on odd, kooky people (loved the Sasquatch Patrol on CwKO). See if the FCC will let you mix drinks on Friday night's show.

encourage: Face to Face interviews. Agree with guy who said faces-in-boxes-shouting shows are overrepresented on the news networks (although I am reassured when I see you and Gene Robinson on that Gregory kid's show, believe me; but I guess you are leaving boxdom behind now...).

discourage: Too much makeup. I know, I know, just saying.

Again, congratulations, you have worked hard for this. Our love to Susan.

Joe and the gang, including the cats,
Brooklyn

Congratulations!, It was bound to happen. How about "Rachel Maddow with The Final Word" or "What's Left with Rachel Maddow." I am anxiously awaiting the start of your show, even more anxiously than I'm awaiting the VP announcements!

FULL CIRCLE with RACHEL MADDOW

congrats-u deserve it! will u still sit in for keith / ur the only one who do it oh so well. i'll be watchin:

I can't watch Olbermann or Rachel's new show, because Comcast took MSNBC out of my expanded basic cable package a while back. Is this a local thing? I'm in Oregon.

I'm also wondering if Rachel's radio show is going to include one hour of the audio of the TV show, like the first hour is now. Is she leaving that TV show? I'd be interested in having the audio of the new show as part of the radio show, but I've lost interest in the TV show audio that is currently on in the first hour. I was interested at first to hear how a smart progressive would interact with TV bozos, but I found it unhelpful in my quest to deal with bozos (they are deaf to new ideas on TV as well), and all the time when Rachel is not talking is a waste of my time.

My suggestion for a title for the new show: "that other show on MSNBC that's not a total waste of time."

Rach,
I forgot to mention that I constantly tell my wife (we're breeders)that you are my most favorite lesbian. She's not jealous. Congrats on the new gig. You will blaze incredible new trails. Ddoonn'tt ddrriinnkk tthheeiirr Kkooooll-Aaiidd. It'll make you see double.
Love ya, girl

I can't think of the last time that two consecutive hours of worthwhile television on the same network. Perhaps I'm biased because I'm liberal and young, but I think the two most interesting people on cable news today are Olbermann and Maddow. Honestly, this is the best thing to happen to my TV watching habits in a long time.

Anyways, my suggestions are as follows:

-Maddow's Medicine
-Public Policy, Piffling Politics and Our Crazy World
-Reason with Rachel Maddow
-Rational Thought with Rachel Maddow

I don't really know. I'm sure others can come up with something better.

I would like to politely request that you do EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER to make msnbc do a full podcast of the TV show. Sometimes your podcasts are the only things that get me through a long graveyard shift and it would be so sad to miss your show because of not having... TV.

otherwise.. YAY! and I agree with other posts, you should keep the life during war time bit. Its important now more than ever with political coverage dominating the news cycle.

I have to admit . I expected this for you. In a years time, since I 've first heard your broadcast I knew you were going to soar to great heights. First with Oberman and now,on your own. I feel I now have a voice. Yours and mine are the same voice of reason. I am so happy for you. Muchos Grasias, Philip from New Mexico

Stephen Burnett 

I watched Keith and you live with this announcement and you guys just walked up to my suggestion for this new show's name and it didn't seem to dawn on you as a possibility.

"Next with Rachel Maddow" or even "Next with Dr. Rachel Maddow" seems to me a perfect fit, as well as an internal pun if you use the "Dr." in the title.

Why does this seem to me to fit so well?

1) You have been the perfect substitute host for Keith right along, this is the "Next" step.

2) You are following Keith directly; in which case "Next" is self-explanatory.

3) You really ARE a Doctor (Ph.D.), and you have a razor sharp sense-of-humor, the "Doctor's Office" internal pun will play into that very neatly; this should give all of the "Mad-Men" working around MSNBC plenty with which to promote you.

4) The idea of "Next" is based on the principle of what is new, or coming on following the status quo; NOW THAT'S MY RACHEL!!!!

Given time, I could certainly put more reasons down for this as a show title, but I also know you will almost certainly not see this posting. You have way too much to be doing rather than field suggestions from "the peanut gallery", but I think this is a solid idea, and has the grace of being SIMPLE [see: "The KISS Principle"]. It is easy to remember, and ties in very neatly with who and what you are.

Thank you (or your staff) for the consideration of reading this. It was the best I could think conceive. Best of luck, but luck will not have anything to do with your expanding success, Rachel. Just walk in there and give 'em what for!

YOU GO, GIRL!!!

Stephen Burnett

# # #

According to Olbermann's "Worst Persons in the World" segment tonight, The Comedian went on some tear that managed to slam Rachel's politics, her appearance and her sexual preferences in short order.

Boy, Rush - your ass must be really burnin' right about now.... >:)

Fans are really coming up with some great ideas here. I don't envy having to decide on this one, Dr. Maddow...

And now, a few more thoughts...

Rachel Maddow with Just the Facts

Facts not Fiction with (from) RM

Get(ting) the Facts First with/from Rachel Maddow This is from a quote of Mark Twain's: "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." (minus the distortion, of course)

Dr. Rachel Maddow Speaking Truth to Power (and the power is you, the viewers)

True News with RM

News not Agenda with RM

And, the obvious title from this quote may be too long, but I love the quote: "Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong." - Dr. Thomas Fuller

And, as a fellow member of the proud G&L family clan, oh, I can't help myself...

Getting it Straight with Rachel Maddow

Straight From the Hip with RM, or maybe even

Whatever Happened to Straight News? with RM

I've been listening to you on the radio for a few years and I was glad to see you participate in the political discussions on MSNBC with Keith Olberman, Chris Matthews, Chuck Todd, Joe Scarborogh, Pat Buchanan, and others. You fit right in and you represented Air America well! Congratulations on getting your own television program, too, now! I am happy for you and many of my progressive friends are looking forward to your show. Can you integrate some of your Air America friends into the show too? Maybe Randi Rhodes (a respected matriarch) can be a regular guest once a week or so, or Stephanie Miller and/or her Mooks can make special appearances on occasions. Stephanie's morning show's producer, Chris, is assigned to monitor the right wing talking points on FOX so we (her audience) don't have to. Sometimes it appears as if he has fallen for some of their logic and Stephanie and Jim have to watch him closely. Maybe sometime Chris and Joe Scarborogh can debate to separate right wing facts from right wing propaganda, lol. I would like Jim to remain unseen. He should always be interviewed on a telephone to keep up a mystyc. And finally, what about Kent Jones?! I think Jim Ward and Kent Jones have some of the most brilliant comedic minds and they could probably work well together.
Honestly, Rachel, you are the one that matters. You will be a pleasure to watch nightly and the country will learn a lot on your TV show and thats important

Congrats Rachel, I was dancing around the kitchen in joy when I heard!
You have a zillion comments, so I'll be brief:
Name of show, suggested by my husband: Maddow About You

Contents:Debunking the horrible Emails of the Week/Day/Month etc.
a la Snopes. (Invite Barbara from Snopes? She's wonderful. She has personally answered every email I've ever sent her.)

Your research staff can debunk the myth and rants that the right wing has been sending along and tell truth to power. Whether it starts with Rush or Rove or even Cheney, these emails get a power and 'truth' of their own and we need more facts to dispel them.

PS hire me

Vicki

plz wear your dorky glasses!!! you look much more normal in them.

.bradley from tn

YAY!

Got a great name for the new show...
Is there a place where you are taking suggestions?
Congratulations
You Rock....

Congratulations on getting your on show own MSNBC.

I have been listening to your show over the past couple of years and like what I have heard.

Go get'em.

Dr. Rachel,

I'm been a fan of yours for years and can't wait fo 9/08/08.

How's this for a title:

THE RACHEL MADDOW RETORT

Well, I like it (and not only because I thought of it).

Congratulations - well deserved,
Kat
lunakat2001@yahoo.com

Hi Rachel,

How about "NEWS LIFTOFF" for your show title, right after COUNTDOWN?

Just as Keith starts his program with "WHICH OF THESE STORIES..."

Start the wording of your show with modified "NASA Speak", when a rocket is launched, by saying...

"LIFTOFF, WE HAVE A LIFTOFF, ON TODAY'S NEWS"

Listen to the way NASA says it at Liftoff
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11/index1.html

Tom

hey, Rachel,

My husband Chad and I couldn't be happier for you! We've been big fans for a long time, and have been anxiously awaiting this...although we'll have to watch on YouTube, as we are those liberal dorks with no television.

Please keep the news from Iraq and Life During Wartime segment front and center on your show. I find it horrifying how cavalier we are about these wars that we're in, and the media's complicity in letting us pretend that we're NOT in them. Isn't anyone else outraged, for example, by Tropic Thunder? Would a movie where we mock the phenomena of wartime torture and deadly battle have really been embraced by the public during WWII? Is our nation so soulless that not only do we not honor our vets when they return from service by providing them with meaningful physical and mental health care and by training them to find gainful employ, but that we can actually go to the theater and mock and trivialize the reality of their sacrifice while they are still sacrificing?

We need strong voices like yours (and mine, and all of ours) to keep these issues as front and center as possible until the roar of our voices is finally so loud that not even the Bush/McCain cone of silence can prevent them from hearing us and bowing to the sensible will of the people. We love and respect you immensely, and will help in any way that we can! We're all behind you, and fighting side-by-side with you on the local front! Gambate, as they say in Japanese! Hope to see you here in St. Paul in a few weeks!

Rachel:

Congratulations. I knew you would be a star from the first time I heard you on "Unfiltered" while driving to my office.

My suggestion: Call it "The Best Damned Political Show" with Rachel Maddow.
And because NBC has deeper pockets than AAR, try to find a place for Kent there.
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