The secret to Rachel Maddow’s success
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 6th, 2008 5:34 am by HL
The secret to Rachel Maddow’s success
“Ever heard of something called Dada?” Rachel Maddow is trying to make an analogy. It’s mid-October, two weeks before the election, and the MSNBC host is comparing the McCain campaign’s recent fixation on “Joe the Plumber” to the anti-bourgeois cultural movement of the early-twentieth century. But this is prime time, and Maddow first has to define Dadaism in as colloquial a way as possible. This is something of a challenge considering she only has about twelve seconds…
