Rachel Maddow on Air America
10PM-12AM

The Rachel Maddow show is two fast-paced, hard-driven hours packed with more information and analysis than you’d get from most radio networks in a whole day. TRMS staffers rise well, welllll, welllllllll before dawn to assemble what we believe is the best news show on the radio, anywhere in America – left, right or center.

Regular features include:

- the acclaimed “Underbelly” feature, in which Rachel identifies a rightwing political tactic at work in the day’s news

- The Rachel Maddow Show front page –news that ought to be on newspaper front pages everywhere, but that usually gets buried in the lukewarm mainstream

- Hollywood, pop, and human interest news with award-winning comedy writer Kent Jones

- Dedicated coverage of the Iraq war every day

- Interviews with newsmakers like Senators John Kerry and Russ Feingold, as well as the occasional brave rightwinger – past conservative guests have included Tucker Carlson and the President of the Family Research Council, Tony Perkins.

- Ask Doctor Maddow listener call-in segment

- Air America Mornings daily sports round-up with Larry Hardisty, as well as weekly “zen sports” with former Boston Globe sports editor Jeff Wagenheim

TRMS offers news junkies, wide-awake citizens with a desperate need to know, and liberal insomniacs an edgy hour of hot-off-the-presses headlines and subterranean-buried ledes. It’s a personalized, politicized, exorcized version of the mainstream media’s excuse for news.

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