The Rachel Maddow Show Guest List

Friday, September 18, 2009

For Subscribers

FOR SUBSCRIBERSAbdul El-Sayed tries to woo MAHA voters as Democrats seek inroads with RFK’s supporters

FOR SUBSCRIBERSKratom-like substances are popping up in a typically benign supplement

FOR SUBSCRIBERSGOP super PAC increases its spending for Sen. Jon Husted in tough Ohio race

FOR SUBSCRIBERSRecords reveal tumultuous marriage between slain New York Times executive and wife

FOR SUBSCRIBERSFrom clean energy warrior to ‘wall of shame,’ James Talarico reverses on a fossil fuel money pledge

FOR SUBSCRIBERSCongressional staff planned official trip with luxury stops in Italy and France weeks before election

FOR SUBSCRIBERSA harrowing ordeal aboard an Israel-bound plane

FOR SUBSCRIBERSOpenAI CEO Sam Altman to skip congressional hearing on rogue AI agents

FOR SUBSCRIBERSKey DOJ lawyers departed Trump ‘grand conspiracy’ probe amid pressure to produce, source says

FOR SUBSCRIBERSTrump’s new AI chatbot often links to a site launched under Clinton 26 years ago

FOR SUBSCRIBERSAt MAHA summit, industry CEOs the movement once vilified take the stage

FOR SUBSCRIBERSThis Paralympian has two goals: Win medals and give away $500,000 to her teammates

FOR SUBSCRIBERSCornell rape allegation spotlights stringent New York state laws that have long drawn criticism

FOR SUBSCRIBERSThe debate over AI’s future rages on both coasts

FOR SUBSCRIBERSDecades-old march dispute reignites in Northern Ireland, threatening political crisis

For Subscribers

FOR SUBSCRIBERSAbdul El-Sayed tries to woo MAHA voters as Democrats seek inroads with RFK’s supporters

FOR SUBSCRIBERSKratom-like substances are popping up in a typically benign supplement

FOR SUBSCRIBERSGOP super PAC increases its spending for Sen. Jon Husted in tough Ohio race

FOR SUBSCRIBERSRecords reveal tumultuous marriage between slain New York Times executive and wife

FOR SUBSCRIBERSFrom clean energy warrior to ‘wall of shame,’ James Talarico reverses on a fossil fuel money pledge

FOR SUBSCRIBERSCongressional staff planned official trip with luxury stops in Italy and France weeks before election

FOR SUBSCRIBERSA harrowing ordeal aboard an Israel-bound plane

FOR SUBSCRIBERSOpenAI CEO Sam Altman to skip congressional hearing on rogue AI agents

FOR SUBSCRIBERSKey DOJ lawyers departed Trump ‘grand conspiracy’ probe amid pressure to produce, source says

FOR SUBSCRIBERSTrump’s new AI chatbot often links to a site launched under Clinton 26 years ago

FOR SUBSCRIBERSAt MAHA summit, industry CEOs the movement once vilified take the stage

FOR SUBSCRIBERSThis Paralympian has two goals: Win medals and give away $500,000 to her teammates

FOR SUBSCRIBERSCornell rape allegation spotlights stringent New York state laws that have long drawn criticism

FOR SUBSCRIBERSThe debate over AI’s future rages on both coasts

FOR SUBSCRIBERSDecades-old march dispute reignites in Northern Ireland, threatening political crisis

• Mark McKinnon, a former advisor to President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain. He's currently a contributor to the Daily Beast and Vice Chairman of the public relations group "Public Strategies."
• Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and associate editor for The Washington Post.
• Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake.com
• Bill Wolff, Sports Savant of the Rachel Maddow Show, executive producer and and the vice president of msnbc primetime

From the Web

• Values Voter Debate: Why Should God Bless America?
• Story of Dumb Woman Not Winning Contest Becomes Tragic Tale of Political Oppression
• Mark McKinnon: Send Joe Wilson Home
• Mark McKinnon: Scarborough for President
• Mark McKinnon: Flunk the Far Right
• Video: Values Voter Summit - not so friendly to the media
• South Carolina: State of denial
• Eugene Robinson: The Favor Jimmy Carter Did Us All
• Eugene Robinson: No Way to Treat a President
• FDL Action: Tell Mike Ross and Blanche Lincoln To Act Like Democrats — Or We’ll Find Someone Who Will
• ChangeCongress.org
• Ezra Klein: What's Wrong With the Finance Bill? An Interview With Sen. Jay Rockefeller
• Former Iraq Security Contractors Say Firm Bought Black Market Weapons, Swapped Booze for Rockets
• OpenSecrets.org: Politicians Score Significant Cash From NFL Owners, Coaches and Players
• Republican disco football fight song! San Diego Super Chargers
• YouTube: awesome 80s video dating pickup lines 1

• Cleve Jones, activist
• Donald Fowler, former national chairman of the DNC
• Joe Cirincione, president, The Ploughshares Fund

From the Web

• Tea Party Protesters Protest D.C. Metro Service
• Call to Action, Health Reform 2009 (a.k.a. the Baccus plan) pdf
• Sex, Drug Use and Graft Cited in Interior Department
• Former Interior Secretary Gale Norton is focus of corruption probe
• Google: gail+norton+meth+toaster+oven+snorting
• Man charged with impersonating Manchin
• "If I don't see this classic West Wing clip on @msnbc today I'll be disappointed. http://bit.ly/2W8Pf1 @tamronhall @maddow"
• YouTube: West WIng Jed and Leo Charlie Brown
• Joe Cirincione: Rachel Maddow: Her Intelligence is Right.
• 2009 Values Voter Summit (and comedy show)
• Video: Obama awards first Medal of Honor
• Um.. he said what about a chicken?
• Reporter flipped by sled

• Frank Schaeffer, author of "Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of it Back" also a contributor to The Huffington Post.
• Chris Hayes, Washington Editor, The Nation
• Congressman Anthony Weiner

From the Web

• Court to Birther: "Unlike in Alice in Wonderland, simply saying something is so does not make it so." (pdf)
• "Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that a lawsuit challenging the constitutional eligibility of Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State (Rodearmel v. Clinton, et al., (D. District of Columbia)) will be heard by a special three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia."
• Public Policy Polling: Obama popularity dropping in New Jersey (the Obama anti-Christ poll) (pdf)
• Frank Schaeffer: Glenn Beck and The 9/12 Marchers: Subversives From Within
• Frank Schaeffer: Remember What Civility Was? A Book to Remind Us
• Frank Schaeffer: Max Blumenthal vs. The Far Right "God" Of Dumb Hate
• (OIG Investigations of MMS Employees) PDF
• FBI Most Wanted Terrorists: ADAM YAHIYE GADAHN
• Jumping robot video
• The robot menagerie of Boston Dynamics
• Iraqi baseball team finally in uniform, thanks to U.S. donors
• from Ebbets Field Flannels

• Jonathan Alter, Newsweek senior editor and MSNBC political analyst
• Governor Ed Rendell, Pennsylvania
• Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor

From the Web

• WorldNetDaily Exclusive: With a rebel yell - 'You Lie!' on fire as it hits bumpers across America
• Jonathan Alter: Obama's Big Test - 5 reasons the president did well with his health-care reform speech.
• Obama on financial regulation (the on-the-record part of John Harwood's interview)
• Film crew opens doors to county jails
• Discuss on Newsvine: Feds Can't Enter County Jails, But Keanu Reeves Can

• Senator Bernie Sanders
• Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel which is responsible for overseeing the execution of the $700 billion in TARP funds -- she is also a law professor at Harvard.
• Terry Pearson, Kabul embassy whistleblower
• Mary Mitchell, Editorial board member and columnist, Chicago Sun Times

From the Web

• Billionaires for Wealthcare (including the song Rachel played on the air)
• Billionaires for Wealthcare photos on Flickr.
• Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
• Commission on Wartime Contracting
• HearTheBill.org - listen to the health care bill
• Decision time for Blago fund-raiser Kelly
• “The mayor's a jackass. You can print that.”
• Creation the movie
• Toronto International Film Festival - Creation