If you also think Rachel Maddow is a historic talent and have been frustrated at all these blog posts which are too short to offer sufficient evidence for that thesis, you should read Rebecca Traister's profile of Maddow. It occurs to me, however, that all this liberal blog/liberal magazine support for Maddow probably makes it vanishingly unlikely that she'll ever get a television show. Keith Olbermann, after all, had to accidentally turn into a liberal after he had his program. Then it turned out that lots of liberals had televisions and they comprised a large and ignored market and Olbermann became MSNBC's most popular host. Then Maddow came onto the scene and everybody loved her, so they fired unpopular conservative Tucker Carlson and replaced him with...David Gregory. Which made sense. My understanding is that you can't give liberals TV shows and you really can't be bullied by liberal bloggers into giving liberals TV shows. So I should probably shut up about Maddow.
