Rachel Maddow was Made for Television

“Her brainpower is just unreal,” says executive producer Bill Wolff, edgily relaxing in his office before all hell breaks loose. “She’s running around you while you’re just going forward.”

They’re talking about Rachel Maddow, host of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” which launched in September and airs weeknights on MSNBC. She’s also the host (since 2004) of the radio show with the same name that’s on Air America. She also blogs for the Huffington Post.

Maddow, 35, is a Rhodes Scholar with a doctorate in political science from Oxford; she wrote her dissertation on AIDS activism in prisons. She’s now writing a book on American militarism since 1989.

Maddow (MAD-oh, rhymes with “dough”) is the latest of a crop of talk-radio hosts — like Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck — who have roosted at cable news. Her show, like theirs, is part monologue, part guest chat, part news analysis, part production number, part puncture-the-enemy’s-thought-balloons.

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You can also read a very interesting AP article about what inspired Maddow from an early age by clicking here.