Watch What Happens Live!, hosted by Bravo all-purpose mogul Andy Cohen, is a unique talk show– cocktail drinks, impromptu game shows, and, as Saturday Night Live perfectly captured, often featuring one extremely accomplished guest and one Bravo reality TV character. Tonight the latter position fell to Jenni Pulos of Interior Therapy, who got to rap Sarah Palin speech texts at Rachel Maddow.

Rachel Maddow thinks there is a political struggle against women, but Ann Romney‘s employment status has little to do with it. On her program last night, Maddow explained that the debate over who loves their moms more seemed to her something of a smokescreen to the actual problems with Republican policies on women, and not just on abortion– Republican Congressmen calling the Lily Ledbetter Equal Pay Act a “nuisance” can’t be helping much, either.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow stopped The Tonight Show Tuesday night to promote her new book, Drift, but not before tackling some of the big talking points of the day.

Earlier this week, Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus tried to compare the “War on Women” narrative to caterpillars, confusing many. To Rachel Maddow, it was yet another sign that the men of the Republican Party really seem to lack an understanding of the objections to the way they discuss women’s health, but this she didn’t see as a blight on the whole party, but an error in branding: why have Priebus out on the fore of this issue when Sen. Lisa Murkowski has such a proven ability to connect with the women of her party?

On her show Thursday night, Rachel Maddow took on Reince Priebus‘ remark comparing the notion of a “war on women” to a “war on caterpillars.” Democrats and the media aren’t just accusing Republicans without reason she said — but because they’re actually attacking women’s rights. Her advice? Own it and run on your record, or simply stop doing it.

On Wednesday, Inside Cable News released an in-depth, multi-part report on MSNBC’s failed rebranding effort to a news and information destination in the dayside and the cable network’s subsequent rebirth into one dominated by progressive opinion and analysis.

Brent Bozell, founder and president of the Media Research Center, published an editorial in NewsBusters Tuesday night taking National Public Radio to task for the appearance of an alliance between its hosts and the liberal cable news network MSNBC.

On MSNBC’s Now With Alex Wagner, fellow MSNBC host Rachel Maddow discussed her new book, the power of the presidency and how the Reagan administration was particularly adept at leveraging patriotic aggression for partisan gain.

In case you haven’t heard yet, Rachel Maddow has a new book out, called Drift. Well, MSNBC really wants you to know about it. So much so, they’ve taken out a full-page ad in the Week in Review section of today’s New York Times to specifically congratulate its own host for her literary achievement. The ad basically goes out of its way to praise Maddow for the book, not just from the network, but from journalists and authors who loved it as well. Because guess what? Their quotes of praise are in the ad!

Rachel Maddow‘s new book, Drift, recently hit stores and has her out and about describing the process of writing her book and how she came to the conclusions she did. Maddow spoke to Jon Stewart on Thursday night, explaining how she didn’t think she was a particularly good writer and didn’t want to peddle conspiracies, but had a passion for the topic and found it amazing how a series of “understandable frustrations” led to such a large expansion of military power.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow stopped by The Daily Show to promote her new book Drift: The Unmooring Of The American Military. It covers a serious subject, for sure, but little did Jon Stewart know she came wielding the performance of a lifetime — a hilarious impersonation of a a dog scurrying on its hind legs.

The progressive Brave New Foundation has just finished their Koch Brothers: Exposed documentary, which takes aim at the energy billionaires who have pledged to spend $100 million to defeat President Obama. In an odd move, Koch industries is doing a bit of guerilla marketing for the film, posting a YouTube clip of a BNF activist leaving a voicemail inviting the bros to view the film, then forgetting to hang up, and bantering to a co-worker that the Kochs “eat babies,” later clarifying it to “soft-boiled babies.”

Earlier this morning, Rachel Maddow appeared on NBC’s Today to discuss the possible outcome of the ObamaCARE Supreme Court ruling. She implied that the court’s decision would rely heavily on the partisanship of the Justices, and went so far as to say that it would come down to political biases, not legal precedent. She mentioned a Bloomberg poll that calculated, “that 75% of people think that the Supreme Court will decide based on their political beliefs, not on the law.” Maddow’s distaste arose from the fact that the Republican Judges out number the Democrats 5:4

Rachel Maddow appeared on Meet the Press today to promote her new book Drift, arguing that the United States has entered a state of perpetual war. She heaped a lot of praise on U.S. troops as a very “impressive group of people,” but added that many Americans do not tend to feel the effects of war on a regular basis, which she finds disconcerting because of the constant government focus on keeping war going.

In the wake of the Romney campaign’s Etch A Sketch gaffe, Rachel Maddow tore into Mitt Romney in a segment Wednesday night, chronicling his long history of constant lying. Noting “this is not a normal amount of politician lying,” Maddow scathingly attacked him as a candidate running on “utterly unashamed, unprecedented deceit.”

In a continuation of the right wing’s newfound fetish for the early nineties and microfiche, the conservative Hate-O(bama)-sphere has cooked up another half-baked “smoking gun” to destroy President Obama’s presidency. This time, it’s a quote from a 1990 interview that they say demonstrates that President Obama hates America. MSNBC mainstay Rachel Maddow tracked down similar (maybe even worser) quotes from Presidents George H.W. and George W. Bush that have yet to make the wingnuts spin.

Comedian Lewis Black had a few things to get off his chest about the Republican Party last night on Rachel Maddow‘s show, before unwinding on her semi-regular cocktail segment. For one, he hates the “toe the line” mentality of the Republicans, considering it “as if it were the Communist Party.” He also has some unsavory words for Rep. Eric Cantor, and concludes with a libertarian-sounding call to just leave everyone alone.

Anyone familiar with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow likely won’t be surprised to hear that she chose to “come out of the closet in a very confrontational way.” Her method of choice? Her college newspaper. Oh, and that’s how her parents found out, too.

On Thursday, Rachel Maddow invited Senator Jim Inhofe onto her show to discuss The Great Hoax, his new book on climate change.

The lengthy interview took a particularly tense turn during its second half, when Maddow confronted Inhofe over something he’d written about her in his book. “In a couple sections,” she told him, “you talk about me mentioning you on the show. You specifically called me out on a show I did December 3, 2009. Did you actually watch that show?”

Did you click over onto MSNBC tonight hoping for some election statistics in analysis as the news rolled in that Alabama and Mississippi would both be official Santorum states? You might’ve gotten a bit more than you bargained for on The Last Word, where the Election Night coverage involved Lawrence O’Donnell inability to resist “three-way” jokes and a debate on whether Mitt Romney was, in fact, hotter than Newt Gingrich.

On the tail of Game Change‘s premiere on HBO, former McCain/Palin adviser Nicolle Wallace, prominently featured in the film, visited Rachel Maddow tonight to expand upon the lessons of the 2008 campaign, and made clear that she felt fairly guilty about working to make someone “fundamentally unprepared and unsuited for the job” the Vice President of the United States.

During his victory speech in Georgia last night, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told the crowd that President Obama, in his Tuesday press conference, “said, ‘You know, I’m really worried about higher gas prices because it will make it harder for me to get re-elected.’ I did not make this up.”

Within minutes, MSNBC’s Al Sharpton blasted Gingrich’s claim, calling it an “outright lie,” while co-host Rachel Maddow shared the panel’s comical reaction to Gingrich’s claim before playing a clip of what the President actually said at that press conference.

The political media has been quick to assess the damage that Rush Limbaugh‘s “slut-gate” has done to the Republican Party, particularly given their presidential candidates’ bewildering failure to denounce the conservative radio giant’s attacks on Sandra Fluke, and all women. But they have so far failed to highlight the fact that one of those candidates, Mitt Romney, actually profits from Limbaugh’s inflammatory rhetoric, and probably owes voters a better answer than “That’s not the language I would have used.”

The Young Turks‘ Cenk Uygur took a shot at remedying that on Monday night.

Talk about strange bedfellows. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has a new book coming out called Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, with a release date of March 27th. Tom Brokaw and Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi have contributed blurbs to the book, but some surprising words of praise for the tome are coming from none other than Fox News president Roger Ailes. Whatever you think his motives might be, Ailes is certainly the last person you would expect giving any sort of credit to the liberal host.

A few weeks ago, Senator Marco Rubio‘s remark that majority of Americans are conservatives got a “Mostly True” stamp of approval from PolitiFact. Now — not long after MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow attacked the fact-checking organization for inaccuracy — PolitiFact has changed “Mostly True” to “Half True.”