THR has Maddow on its cover. Great article.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rachel-maddow-questions-obama-gay-marriage-244494

Issue 36 Rachel Maddow Cover - P 2011
Bill Phelps
In the Hollywood and Politics issue of The Hollywood Reporter, the MSNBC host admits she’s ambivalent about gay marriage and recalls her meeting with Republican kingmaker Sarah Palin.

Rachel Maddow is an anomaly in the rough-and-tumble world of cable news personalities. The first openly gay woman to host her own primetime news show, Maddow spends ten minutes in the makeup chair, shuns ego-building extracurricular activities and has an on-air wardrobe consisting of a monochrome selection of $19 dollar blazers from H&M. She prefers to focus her energies on the substance of her show, which she approaches as an advocate, focusing considerable coverage on causes close to her heart including AIDS health policy and civil rights. And she’s carved out a niche as a reasoned and respectful interlocutor, inviting those with opposing opinions on her show for adult conversation not gotcha moments.

So much more at the link and she's in George Clooney's movie. Great article..

for her wonderful journalistic abilities. I should have taken the time to read it but didn't. You'll love the part about George Clooney...She's a hoot.

really? I always thought of of Winchell as an egotistic gossip. He had a lot of power in a new medium - and misused it as often as not.

Whip-smart, funny, and doesn't take herself too seriously, but takes her work very seriously indeed. I think it would be a blast to go out and have a few drinks with her and shoot the political bull for a while.