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Maddow, Set for MSNBC Debut, Aims to Avoid 'Homogenized'

Posted Sep 8, 08 2:05 PM CDT in Arts & Living,  Politics 

(Newser) – Rachel Maddow’s own show debuts at 9 EDT tonight on MSNBC, but the liberal pundit doesn’t sound so much excited as worried. TV has “homogenizing tendencies,” she tells the Boston Globe. “It’s like being put through a meat grinder.” But worried or not, the Air America host is making the leap, bringing another lefty to the brink of mainstream pundit stardom.

Maddow brings an unusual mix—the daughter of an Air Force officer, she came out as a lesbian as a teen, has been a Rhodes scholar, and is working on a book about military politics—to her show, and promises to hit topics off the beaten path as well as on. "Where's the left and right on that?" she says of troop levels in Afghanistan. "Let's hash it out."

Source Boston Globe

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With 'The Rachel Maddow Show' set to debut on MSNBC tonight, "the strategy is to make it as much as possible reflective of who I am, and avoid the homogenizing tendencies of TV production," she says.   (AP Photo)
Rachel Maddow appears as a guest on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" in this YouTube screenshot.
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It's like being put through a meat grinder and coming out as a pasteurized and homogenized meat product.
I want to remain a veal chop. - Rachel Maddow, on appearing on television

When Pat is saying something outrageous, you know when you yell at the TV? I get to yell at him in person. I get to yell at the TV and it hears me. - Rachel Maddow, on debating Pat Buchanan

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