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Jeopardy! Contestants Can’t Identify Rachel Maddow

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On Thursday night’s Jeopardy!, in a category dedicated to Rhodes Scholars, contestants Taylor, Brendan, and Rhonda struck out when a picture of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow popped up on screen, along with the clue:

“This cable TV newswoman received a doctorate in politics from Oxford”

From a group that correctly identified Ret. Gen. Wesley Clark and J. William Fulbright within seconds, the question was followed with silence, the harsh Jeopardy! buzzer sounded, and host Alex Trebek uttered, “…and that is Rachel Maddow…” (who, we should mention, averages over one million viewers each night)

To Maddow’s credit, Newsbusters’ Noel Sheppard noted that, in 2009, Maddow was correctly identified on the show.

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  • Gloves Bugsy Donahue

    Why would they know an obscure TV host on the Lockup Channel ?

    Maybe they were all celebrating with Pat Sajak across the street before the show.

    Alex has the answers and he didn’t know her either.

  • http://twitter.com/Dittopost DittoPost

    This is great. Libs are so unpopular

  • Pablo
  • Moderate

    MSNBC needs to recruit more bloggers to run more puff pieces about their show hosts. When you cater to a niche audience, you lose the average viewer. 

  • Anonymous

    Ouch! More for MSNBC than Maddow. How long has she been on the air there?

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the tiny chuckle.

  • Anonymous

    “Who is Fred Savage…”

  • Anonymous

    Overheard by a Maddow fan –

    “That’s because only stupid, redneck, hillbilly, backwoods, trailer-dwelling, knuckle dragging, racist, homophobic, Fox-watching Republicans are contestants on Jeopardy.

  • Anonymous

    What’s even more shocking is that they called her a “newswoman” !!

  • Anonymous

    “one million viewers per night”

    In a country of about 300 million people how many of those ‘viewers’ are government agency TV’s and administration cronies, maybe 100,000 or so?   Remember how when Obama took office there was a directive to not have Fox News on government TVs?   No surprise their favorite channel is the one that spews their talking points religiously.

  • Anonymous

    Lol

  • Anonymous

    Who is this “Rachel” guy?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    if that had been the answer they would have gotten the question right..

  • Anonymous

    Usually someone at least tries to guess the answer.   You have to be completely obscure for complete silence.   

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_77LDUZTAI2KIDYH7OTJ2MURQ5Y PrinceO

    remember when Jeopardy contestants could not identify the great and holy ronald reagan? 

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Must not have been republican contestants.

    They all know her and ALL their little pet names for her.

  • Anonymous

    How could they?

    About as many watch her “show” (i.e. hate mongering) as people watch the Mongolian camel-milking contest.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    MSNBC host who Republicans hate due to her sexuality –

    Who is Rachel Maddow??

  • Anonymous

    “Remember how when Obama took office there was a directive to not have Fox News on government TVs”

    No. Because only you and the other haters are capable of remembering something that never happened. I don’t like reality either, so please, tell me how folks like you manage to live in this world when your fabrications have you believing you’re really someplace else? It’s fascinating. You haters are giving a whole new deeper meaning to self-delusion.

  • http://twitter.com/kelly396 kelly murphy

    No but nice try.

  • Anonymous

    You are getting her show confused with Fox and Friends.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    There’s HOPE for America yet!

    This current incarnation of Rhodes Scholars, dating back 30 years or so, are more representative of radical-left indoctrination, rather than objective thought and open inquiry.
    - and I like Rach!
    lol

  • Pablo
  • http://twitter.com/ghowells Gerard Howells

     I think he’s Seth Rogen’s brother.

  • Duke Chesnut

    If they can not ID Rachel, who has the Highest ratings at MSDNC, what does that say about Tingles, Dylan, Big ED or Race-baiter who owes $3 million dollars in back taxes?

  • Anonymous

    They were probably thrown off that the question started out as “This Cable TV newswoman” yet they showed a picture of a guy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Valdez/1806887704 Steven Valdez

    ha ha ha

  • Anonymous

    lol, I like it when (presumably old people who didn’t grow up with the internet) use lol inappropriately

  • AliveStillKickin

    Surprisingly…..No one offered up “Sylvester Stallone” as an answer.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KSH52GTU7ATNOTCD52RAL3P6XA Jon

    Where the heck was this question when Wolf Blitzer was on Jeopardy? At least he would have gotten something right.
     

  • Tim Howe

    it happened.

    what a waste of faux outrage.

  • Holistic

    The contestant was confused as to who was George and who was Maddow.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    yeah, because if she was a heterosexual i’d totally be down with her opinions…  kinda like how i’d agree with obama if he wasn’t half black…  log cabin republicans, too, hate her due to her sexuality…

  • Anonymous

    lol, roflmao, and all the other idiotic abbreviations are used by young – or more appropriately – immature dolts who never worked a day in their miserably short lives, and therefore are too lazy to peck out a few more key strokes in order to express their inane and empty emotions, while freeloading in their mothers’ basement.

    I am laughing out loud and rolling on floor laughing my a$$ off in advance of the reaction this post will generate.

  • Anonymous

    What or who is this Radical Madcow thing or person?

  • http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP NewsCorpse

    Well, it should be noted that on March 7 of last year, none of the Jeopardy contestants could identify Sarah Palin either:

    http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=4043

  • AliveStillKickin

    At least they knew she was a female.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    You can say her sexuality doesn’t bother you, I don’t care, but I have never seen you speak up when people here make fun of her for her sexuality or the racist comments made about Obama and his wife!!

    Feel free to let me know when your willing to take a stand against those types of comments!!

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    What…  it – lol - means “tie fighter” doesn’t it?

  • Anonymous

    silence………….. when they showed the picture and said “woman” at the same time the contestant thought for sure he was being asked a trick question…. “stunned”. LOL

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    do any liberals speak up when there fellow liberals insult Ann coulter accuse her of being a man?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    it’s time consuming enough having to take stands against baseless charges of racism at every turn without coming to the defense of someone being made out to be olbermann’s kid bro or fred savage which, btw, is funny…

  • Anonymous

    You are seriously a terrible writer/arguer. 

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