Rachel is smart, sometimes funny (although not quite as amusing as she seems to find herself), wise on many issues, and often nicely provocative. It is her consistently didactic style that is much in need of change. Without making that kind of professional adjustment, she will continue to wear out her welcome, as polls over time have suggested has happened. If a point can be made once, Rachel seems to feel compelled to make it twice. And then, having repeated the point, Rachel apparently is convinced that folks probably won't understand unless she says it again -- perhaps this time in a little different form. And on and on, until we've heard the same observation made 15 times. And then, well...maybe she'll add a 16th. Her program on Tuesday, August 4, 2015, on the Fox choices for the 10 top Republican Presidential candidate contenders invited on stage for the 8/6/15 televised debate illustrates my point well. The entire first half of the show -- all of 30 minutes -- was spent making, emphasizing, and repeating one point. It was, in one sentence: Fox used polling selectively, in an attempt to aid the Republican party, by adding John Kasich as the 10th invitee rather than Rick Perry. An interesting observation -- at least the first 5 times Rachel (and one guest) made it. By the time she was making it -- using slightly altered language -- the 20th time, a viewer like me was ready to scream, or, more effectively, change channels. Nothing else in the news worthy for discussion on August 4th, Rachel? Do you believe your viewers are dim-witted stooges who likely flunked kindergarten and need pedantic, schoolmarm-delivered screeds each evening? If so, you're wrong. If you are as smart as people claim, Rachel, learn how to adjust your style to better appeal to those of us who are capable of understanding political observations the first time they are made.
Review of The Rachel Maddow Show
