Rachel Maddow Gets Bigger Than News As She Is The Most Watched Cable Show In August

[Stellar]

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/31/rachel-maddow-bigger-news-watched-cable-show-august.html

MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow show was not only the most watched program on cable news for August. It was also the most watched show on all of basic cable, which means that more people are watching Maddow than are watching sports and entertainment on basic cable.

TV Newser reported, “Rachel Maddow hosted the No. 1 cable news program for the month of August, and was one of the most-watched shows across all of basic cable. Not only is Maddow No. 1 this month, but she posted significant year-over-year audience growth in total viewers (+73 percent) and among adults 25-54 (+72 percent).”

Maddow has nearly doubled her audience from a presidential election year...

More at the link.

[mucifer]

1. As Rachel has said before, even the most popular cable news show doesn't get many viewers.

I wish the tv networks would be reporting on Mueller every day and connecting the dots.

We have no Murrow. We have no Cronkite.

[FakeNoose]

2. She's not just on cable network news

Rachel's show is shared on the bit-torrent websites that go around the world.

Her show is getting heavy downloads in Europe, Asia, Australia, and probably other areas. As far as I know she's not being translated into other languages. But you know, that's mostly unimportant, almost everyone (on the internet) speaks english as a 2nd language now.

[Raster]

9. Rachel is currently the defacto voice of tRump* Free America...

...I freakin' love her! Her reporting on all things tRump* has been on point and amazing!

[workinclasszero]

10. Rachel is the voice of Dump Free America!

I likey!

GO Rachel!!

[Laf.La.Dem.]

3. Love Rachel!

[shenmue]

4. Me too

[jrthin]

5. I am grateful for this. Rachel tries to educate her viewers,

she prevents her show from turning into a moral equivalency, and wrestling match show. There is no screaming involved, so the viewer can listen.

[Control-Z]

16. And she's just not into

useless gossip.

[Mrs. Overall]

6. Rachel's show is a rare example of actual investigative journalism.

I watch her every night, and I always learn something new and valuable.

[longship]

7. Her narrative is always interesting.

She draws one into the story by providing background, often deeply historic background. She is so educated that these contexts just naturally bubble up to the top of her brain. She has a PhD from Oxford!

And she always corrects her mistakes!!!

People trust her. With good reason!

Love her!

[annabanana]

8. She is acting as a Clearing House for everything Trump/Russia. People are hungry

for reporting that makes sense of it, what with all the muddying of the water that Republicans are still doing to it.

When she lays out the points of information and connects the dots, you say "Of course! Why isn't everyone else all over this?"

[VigilantG]

11. Love Rachel!

I watch on jail-broke Firestick as well as news from around the world. I love having access to so many viewpoints.

Keep on keeping on, Rachel!

[BigmanPigman]

12. 50% of the fake prez voters do not even know who Mueller is.

How can we get those willfully ignorant people to wake up an listen to Rachel or someone else who tells the facts? That is a problem. Any solutions?

[lunatica]

13. I saw that!

The interviewer asked the Trump voters how to describe Mueller in one word. 2 responded with "It's about time", to "Hurry up!". I think those two had voted for Trump just to vote against Hillary.

Almost all the rest (I think there were 7 or 8 people) said they didn't know who Mueller is.

It explains a whole hell of a lot. Ignorance keeps them supporting Trump, because if they knew what we know they would probably stop supporting him.

Not knowing who Mueller is sure shows a huge gap in knowledge!

[ancianita]

15. My solution? READ. In this great book, Mueller, Comey and others are at the heart of the FBI's

collective oath to defend the Constitution. The FBI (trying to make up for its Hoover days) is now this country's best defense against enemies, foreign and domestic. I highly recommend it to DU.

Rachel's does her reading homework in giving us the history of FBI work headed up by Mueller.

[askyagerz]

14. I remember watching her and old Pat Buchanan

Spar on MSNBC back in the days of Dubya. Now that was some quality entertainment... I had a feeling she was going places

[Hieronymus]

17. Randi Rhodes belittled Rachel when ..

Rachel started at Air America. Randi was so jealous, obviously.
I've loved Rachel since those days.