I hope you dont mind a little fashion advice. I love that you can just make a university! I love that. On the afternoon of Sept. 23, shortly after the Ukraine story broke, a couple of dozen staff members pooled into a corner of the office and waited for Maddow to emerge. She operated with an almost Socratic method, quizzing her staff on the sourcing and suppositions undergirding the days news. Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics Megan: So, like, the new Surge will be like twice the fun even though it's only half the people and doesn't involve anyone that attended the first Surge going to the second Surge. And so the State Department hasn't taken up this room in a long time, so it's a big calling out of the diplomatic corps. How tough would she look in a nicely tailored all white suit? Maddow recounted going to a baseball game with her partner, Susan Mikula, who pointed out that a mole on the news anchor's neck looked different. She has described herself as a geeky, androgynous individual who "was never going to compete on the pretty-girl-on-cable front" and proudly never wanted to (perGlamour). Megan: The whole continent! It's in dire need of a cut!) Her first time hosting a program on MSNBC was when she substituted for Olbermann. HubPages is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. If her show started out as a smart, quirky, kind-of-meandering news program focusing on Republican misdeeds in the Obama years, it has become, since the 2016 election, the gathering place for a congregation of liberals hungering for an antidote to President Trumps nihilism and disregard for civic norms. Rachel Maddow and Susan Mikula are both intelligent, accomplished women with self-admitted weaknesses for binge-watching television, which the artist jokingly called . Girl. Now that I'm officially bald, does that mean I pass the pencil test? ari melber (sp) mixes it up with those HIDEOUS ties.. i think he must be single cuz i mean i'd have to tell my man "not that.." as he walking out the doe! The Daily Beast called it overhyping in the cheesy tradition of reality shows. She has been labeled conspiratorial (in Slate), a partisan hack (by Glenn Greenwald, a former friend), the queen of collusion (in The Washington Post) and much smarter than this (in The Guardian). It was going to be hard to find a question that someone else hadn't already asked her, and I am completely opposed to being unoriginal. "The time when it's hardest is when I have forgotten that this happens to me, and so I don't know what it is, and she will say, 'you are depressed,'" Maddow told "CBS Sunday Morning." But that's just what happened one fine day in 1999 (cue a swell of rom-com music). The TV host has been very public about her mental health battle with "cyclical depression," which she revealed to NPR began around puberty. "If I'm wearing a gray suit, people aren't going to talk about what I'm wearing," Maddow explains, "therefore, I will wear a gray suit every time I go on television. She did not major in journalism in college. Read on: Charlotte Tilbury shares your new favorite way to apply foundation, Deborah Lippmann explains why nail polish shouldn't be serious, and Martha Stewart has a thing for Tom Ford (the . I only caught a glimpse. Don Lemon: Interesting Things About the Political Host Joy Reid: Interesting Things About the Political Host, In 2011, Maddow received an Emmy in the Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis category for, In 2017, she received an Emmy in the Outstanding Live Interview category for, Also in 2017, she received another Emmy in the Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis category for. You do need to get this stuff checked at the doctor. All rights reserved. Rarely does she lead with the news. Do not blow it off. Are we fighting the Pakistan-Afghanistan border war? Rachel: I mean, that was a problem, but Sudan also gave him a safe haven. His hair is perfect, but his eyebrows are like Eliot Abrams style. Theres humor: Thats part of it.