Maddow about the girl

Rachel Maddow is almost becoming as much the face of change in America as Barack Obama himself. Just as a new generation of Americans sees Obama and thinks 'So what if he is black?', it watches Maddow's TV news show and thinks 'So what if she is liberal and lesbian?'

Maddow, 35, has become an overnight phenomenon on US TV, an unanticipated by-product of the marathon presidential election. It is not just that she is an unabashed lesbian with the preppy good looks of an Harvard undergraduate; she is as smart as a whip, unashamedly international, and drips with arched-eyebrow irony as she leads viewers through the latest details of economic collapse or foreign policy debacle.

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