straitshooter says:

Homie, allow me to retort. (And I’ll remind you the trouble Rachel got into when she sourced Wikipedia.)

She just might be the next Glenn Beck, minus the success. She is already following his professional path.

Beck: Wildly successful radio host
Maddow: Allegedly on the radio somewhere.

Beck: Uses props, calls himself a clown.
Maddow: Uses props, smug and smirking mannerisms reminiscent of the clown from “It”.

Beck: Looks like a man, weeps like a woman.
Maddow: Looks like a man, has never cried, not even at the end of “Brian’s Song”.

Beck: “Obama is a racist.” Unprovable, but not technically a lie
Maddow: “Limbaugh wanted medal of honor for Martin Luther King’s killer.” False quote, humiliated host forced to make petulant retraction.

Now all Maddow has to do to emulate her idol is double her audience, and then convince an additional half-million people to tune in.

straitshooter says:

I don’t watch Beck or Hannity because I too can’t stomach the hate on the right. Similarly, Olbermann’s hate from the left is equally appalling. Whenever Maddow gets a GOP guest, I do enjoy watching the spirited back and forth. However, she lost a lot of credibility because she took so long to own up to the Limbaugh mistake. This is not perceived, it’s confirmed. Everyone else in print and on TV has admitted they screwed up big time. Rachel? Well, we were wrong, but we were wrong about an a-hole, so I’m still smug and delightful!