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Frances Pelzman's avatar

I listened to the entire podcast "Ultra". It's outstanding but also exhausting, since it shows how everything Joe McCarthy did is so closely mimicked by this admin. I will miss watching Rachel every night. I like Alex Wagner. She does a good job. But Rachel is something altogether different. Who here remembers listening to Rachel with Lizz Winstead and Chuck D of Public Enemy waaay back in the first days of Air America? It was heavenly. Jeanine Garafalo guesting with Marc Maron, portraying the spacey Supreme Court Justice of Florida, who pushed GWB over the finish line when the Brooks Brothers Riot stopped the recount. Al Franken had a show and it was great. Sam Cedar and Garafolo had a show too. It helped me survive. I actually woke up 40 minutes earlier than I needed to just to listen to Marc Maron every morning. So, yeah. I agree with you about Rachel Maddow. As we sink under this abject, pustulent evisceration of our Democracy, Rachel was a piece of driftwood we could cling to every night. And for that one hour, we could imagine a world where Democracy might not fall down the townhouse stairs and end up buried next to Ivana.

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Anne-Marie Nolin's avatar

Yes!

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Dean Landsman's avatar

Agreed. 100%

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Laurie Lindsay's avatar

I will miss her too.

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