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...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...
...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 for two years until the Air America start-up in March 2004. For a year she co-hosted the mid-morning Unfiltered, then filled the milkman's 5 to 6 a.m. slot, got promoted...
...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 her job after making ultra-rude...
...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...
...exclusively on MSNBC - Maddow at first showed jitters. She didn't look comfortable with the ludicrous compression of arguments, the need to drown out other guests to get a point across. The casual-garbed Maddow also felt awkward having to "dress like a Senator" on TV. But as her radio work proved, Maddow's a quick study. She got on top of the medium quickly. Certainly the MSNBC brass thinks so. Otherwise they wouldn't have dumped Dan Abrams' The Verdict to make room...