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...Well, in the early stages of Limbaugh's eminence, folks mangled his surname too. Not that Maddow is guaranteed to achieve Rush's power or notoriety - the 20 million weekly listeners, the zillion-dollar contract - but starting Sept. 8, she has at least a shot at correct-name recognition. That's when the 35-year-old assumes MSNBC's 9 p.m. hour, right after Keith Olbermann's popular Countdown. Radio's whip-smart, button-cute leftie (and utterly uncloseted lesbian) will have the sustained opportunity to sell her sophisticated views and perky personality to the political junkies of cable news...
...that the mood in the boys' locker room has sharpened from towel-snapping to punch-throwing, Maddow might be just the sweet sister the place needs. Aside from having articulate, exhaustively researched opinions on everything from al-Qaeda to AIDS, she's cheerful, careful and civil. She has strong opinions but doesn't like forcing her interview subjects, or her listeners and viewers, to reach for the heart medication. As an MSNBC guest, she's often been paired with - or, as she says, "chained at the ankle to" - right-winger Pat Buchanan; yet they get along fine in their adversarial...
...Raised in Castro Valley, Calif., Rachel Anne Maddow took a bachelor's degree in public policy at Stanford, then won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, where she earned a doctorate in political science. Settling in western Massachusetts, she worked as an activist for prisoners with HIV and AIDS, and as a "yard boy." That's how she met Susan Mikula, an artist who has been her partner for the past eight years. On a dare, Maddow auditioned as an on-air personality for an Amherst radio station and got the job. She served as morning host on Northampton's WRSI...
...Maddow is the one AAR host who's had a continuous daily gig since the network began on March 31, 2004 (her 31st birthday). Air America originally hoped to lure audiences with brand names from other media: Saturday Night Live's Al Franken, rapper Chuck D., comedian-actress Janeane Garofalo. But radio talk is an acquired skill, and the two Air Americans best at it were both radio veterans: Randi Rhodes and Maddow. Rhodes, a hard-line humorist who mixed Michael-Savage-of-the-left analysis with Belle Barth earthiness, was AAR's top-rated host when she lost...
...Maddow is holding on to her radio show for now, saying that if Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity can do it, why can't she? At the moment she's deciding how much of her audio self can be transferred to video. The radio show has the tightest format around. It begins with "news from Iraq and life during wartime," has several five-minute sermons on topics of the day, allows only two segments for interviews with newsmakers and journalists. As a break from the gargle of grim death, she answers nonpolitical questions from listeners ("Ask Dr. Maddow...