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Just when you thought that NBC’s cable news network MSNBC could not move further to the left, it did so this week — announcing that Rachel Maddow will replace Dan Abrams as host of its 9 p.m. EDT hour.

Maddow, who has hosted shows on the ultra-liberal Air America Radio network since its 2004 founding, has become the fresh young voice of a senile leftist ideology whose other spokespeople are graying hippies or wrinkled power-craving vampires. She is what the godless Left used to pray for: socialism with a human face.

Her national radio show can scarcely be called a great success. It airs on only 35 stations, compared with Fox’s centrist Bill O’Reilly on more than 400, Fox’s conservative Sean Hannity on more than 500, and Republiconservative Rush Limbaugh on 600 stations.

But Maddow has skillfully parlayed her position as the most successful host on a failed liberal radio network into left-wing stardom.

“We will never be normal,” Maddow reportedly yelled during her keynote speech at a 2006 banquet of the Massachusetts Gay & Lesbian Bar Association.

Maddow has long been a proud lesbian activist and, as one gay blogger described her, “is queer, very queer.” Her bio on the Web site of Air America Radio describes her as living “with her partner, artist Susan Mikula.”

“Does she think America is ready for an openly gay host on cable news at night?” asked New York Times reporter Steinberg. “Well, I think Ellen DeGeneres has shown people are ready for her,” replied Maddow. “But I will not dance the way Ellen does.”

MSNBC Moves Further Left With Rachel Maddow
Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:01 AM By: Lowell Ponte
http://www.newsmax.com/lowell_ponte/msnbc_rachel_maddow/2008/08/21/123989.html

MADDOW: Well, it's -- it's good news for people who want the Republican Party to fail at its efforts to get back into power. Because now with Rush Limbaugh saying that, every republican politician in the country, you can ask them, "Do you agree with Rush Limbaugh that you want the president to fail, or do you disagree?" Imagine being a Republican right now in that position. [Adopting silly voice] "No, I think Rush is wrong --"

Rachel Maddow on Leno: Limbaugh Should Back Socialism Once It's Enacted
By Tim Graham (Bio | Archive) March 5, 2009 - 17:47 ET
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/03/05/rachel-maddow-leno-limbaugh-should-back-socialism-once-its-enacted

RACHEL: Well, if you think about the way that Fox was founded, though – Fox was founded by Roger Ailes. It was created from his perspective as a political operative. His background was as a Republican activist of the highest order. There’s no equivalent on MSNBC. I think MSNBC is trying to find hit shows.

RACHEL: Chris Matthews – well, you could interview him about it and find out. If Chris Matthews had an Air America radio show, he’d get torn apart by our listeners.

RACHEL: No. I wouldn’t put Chris and my politics in the same canoe. I think that MSNBC is trying to find hit shows and is trying to be smart and it just seems like a different project than the reason that Fox was built.

Rachel Maddow Says Chris Matthews Isn't Liberal, 'He'd Get Torn Apart' by Air America Fans
By Tim Graham (Bio | Archive) January 30, 2009 - 10:13 ET
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/01/30/rachel-maddow-says-chris-matthews-isnt-liberal-hed-get-torn-apart-air-am

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