Poll: You Can Only Choose One
El Somnambulo is glad that, in reality, he can watch both.
But, if you could only watch one one, would it be Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow?
And please explain why you made the selection you did.
In the immortal words of the Radiants, Voice Your Choice.
Rachel. Less ego mixed with the presentation.
Rachel Maddow, for brains and a bit more humility. She seems excited to do her job.
I have to go with Keith, in that Rachel, IMHO, still hasn’t found her “show” yet. It’s too Countdown-esque right now.
Watch one do what?
I can’t pick! Love Keith’s style – and, yes, I do have a bit of a crush. But I love Rachel’s intellect.
Rachael. Her delivery is great and getting better all the time.
Keith.
Rachel Maddow, I can’t stand Olbermann. She is fun to watch. She is witty, sensible, and makes me smile even when I disagree with her (which is 95% of the time). She treats her guests with respect and doesn’t go into hate rants like Olbermann.
She saved MsNBC almost single-handedly.
Looks like we found something to fight about.
Everyone that prefers Rachel also like goats. 😉
She saved MsNBC almost single-handedly.
da steps in with a swing and a miss.
Rachel – because she is so much more HOT then Keith and because I need to support my lesbian sisters.
Honestly though, Keith as a huge ego and that gets on my nerves at times. She still seems more “normal” and more entertaining.
Neverthtless, she can come over to my house any time (wink)
I have a hard time choosing. Rachel seems much more focused on trying to provide real information, while Keith likes more drama and like to show how smart he is. And he really is that smart. And his sense of humor sometimes seems more suited to a teenaged guy.
Maybe that is why I like him. LOL
You’d get more acuracy watching SpongeBob. But at least Rachel Maddow is good looking.
Who let the party pooper in?
No one mocks teh stoopid from the Right like Keith (except Stewart and Colbert, of course!)….and he’ll call-out himself on occasion as well.
Here’s something that many don’t notice – do the blowhards on the Right use Olbermann’s (or Stewart and Colbert too) words against him, like he does on a nightly basis? I wonder why they don’t? 😉 All the attacks against him are based on style or guilt by associations, hardly ever on content. Again, I wonder why?
Maddow’s very good, but just a very close second….IMHO.
And to Mr. Anderson….HAHAHAHAHA! Your reliance on hyperbole precedes you! “She saved MsNBC almost single-handedly”
If that truly is your judgment of the channel, its increasing ratings and revenue over the past couple years, etc, man, do your assessment skills SUCK! LOL! I take it you’re rollin’ wit da posse de GOP! LOL!!!!
Good points, VC.
Perhaps because reality and facts have a liberal bias.
And KO was the one that saved MSNBC, and his success convinced TPTB to hire Rachel.
Rachel is find with me but my wife can’t stand her. But then again I always did get along well with Lesbian’s very intelligent and lots of fun.
Keith, just because he was there when things seemed bleakest!
And I hear that MSNBC is looking to fill the 10PM slot with someone like Sam Seder.
I gather they are all doing really well.
“You’d get more acuracy watching SpongeBob. But at least Rachel Maddow is good looking.” she would be pleased you think that… provided you aren’t an ug-o.
my vote however is for Keith. even though i might get a sex change for the chance to date Rachel, Keith got me through Bush’s second term.
I’m going to award it on technical points to Keith, although Rachel probably “wears” better.
Whether one agrees fully, partially, or not at all with Keith’s politics… or whether or not he has a huge ego… I give it to Keith because of his incredible sense of timing (in contrast to Chris Matthews… that MAY be one of the reasons they don’t get along!) and, most importantly, the sharp WRITING. Keith – or whomever writes for Keith – delivers a writing clinic each night… by far the best of the prime-time cable news shows.
Allan Loudell
WDEL Radio
I was about to vote Maddow – but now I’m not sure.
If Keith Olberman and Rachel are our fav’s which they are….we must also recognize they are not progressive. They do not address many issues that take guts! Lets be real.
Amy Goodman tells the truth bad as it all is. Her guests truly challenge both parties.
Damn, good question.
Rachel seems to get better guests, but Kieth has more “flair” and takes it Fox all the time….
Gotta go with Kieth
Rachel. Her even-handed delivery charms a lot of good guests onto the show. She nailed Siegelman tonight for instance. No one can take away KO’s comments, though. He was the very first to really call out Bushco and will be forever the hero of rational Americans everywhere.
After reading the comments, El Somnambulo chooses Keith. He agrees mostly w/Allan Loudell (and, no, it’s not b/c ‘Bulo has a ‘face for radio’) that the writing and the show itself are more fully-realized at present.
The segments fit together, they’re very well-written, and Keith never fails to deliver the punchline effectively. And the Beast Who Slumbers is a sucker for ‘Oddball’.
Some of the segments on Rachel’s show, like “Talk Me Down”, for example, still feel like they’re being test-driven.
For now, Keith remains ‘El Supremo’, but check back next year.
I guess now we’re about to her how Fox is dominated by evil conservatives, but there’s no liberal; bias in the media elsewhere, right?
The ‘pseudo polls’ featured in this blog barely reach the level of the sophomoric and are throwbacks to a brand of vulgar ‘funny questions’ that most found tiresome even in adolescence. Such jests were obscene variants on the theme of ‘Have you stopped beating your wife’. Since there are some children participating in this forum I can only allude to the real thing.
Perhaps this ‘pseudo polling’ is a form of appetizer (or anesthesia) for blogging where ‘hotness’ is sometime attempted through gratuitous vulgarity.
A more intellectually honest approach might be to allow write-in entries that would be posted and made available for response. This may be asking a bit too much.
A more intellectually honest approach might be to allow write-in entries that would be posted and made available for response.
If only there were some kind of technology that would allow you to post a comment and then other people could respond to it…
LOL anon — and let us also note Art Downs adding his usual sophomoric wackiness to the mix. It isn’t like you have to be here Art.