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Published on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 by The Washington Post
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The Verdict at MSNBC: Maddow Gets Own Show

by Howard Kurtz

Rachel Maddow has been sounding off about politics on MSNBC so often she
might as well have her own show.

And now she does.
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The liberal commentator and Air America radio host, who has become a
breakout star for the cable channel during the presidential campaign, is
taking over the 9 p.m. slot following Keith Olbermann, whom she often subs
for on "Countdown." Olbermann broke what he called a "fully authorized leak"
yesterday on the left-wing Web site Daily Kos. Dan Abrams, the former MSNBC
general manager who had been hosting "Verdict" at that hour, will continue
as NBC's chief legal correspondent, become a "Dateline" contributor and
serve as a daytime anchor for MSNBC.

With the promotion - "The Rachel Maddow Show" begins Sept. 8 - the
35-year-old commentator breaks into what has sometimes been derided as a
boys club at the network, led by Olbermann and Chris Matthews. Hillary
Clinton's campaign frequently ripped MSNBC for what it called sexist
coverage during the Democratic primaries. Maddow, who lives with her
girlfriend Susan Mikula in Manhattan and Northampton, Mass., may also be the
first openly gay woman to host a prime-time news program.

Her appointment is certain to draw criticism that MSNBC is moving further
left in an attempt to compete with Fox News from the opposite end of the
spectrum. John McCain's Republican campaign has repeatedly assailed the
network's campaign coverage as biased.

Maddow, who leavens her barbs with humor, is something of a heroine on the
left. New York magazine recently ran an item headlined "Why We're Gay for
Rachel Maddow," and a Nation article said: "Maddow didn't get here by
bluster and bravado but with a combination of crisp thinking and galumphing
good cheer. Remarkably, this season's discovery isn't a glossy matinee idol
or a smooth-talking partisan hack but a PhD Rhodes scholar lesbian policy
wonk who started as a prison AIDS activist."

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