She is the biggest conspiracy theory whackjob on TV, and yet the left tries to claim she is an intellectual.
She is just another lefty nutbag.
Again We Ask: Why Isn’t Rachel Maddow Treated Like Other Crazy Conspiracy Theorists?
Some conspiracy fear-mongers are more equal than others.
OK. I did not answer your question of "why she isn't treated like other crazy conspiracy theorist".
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Rachel Maddow - Wikipedia
She has a certain amount of intellectual cred.
She earned a degree in
public policy at Stanford in 1994.
[20] At graduation, she was awarded the
John Gardner Fellowship.
[21] She was the recipient of a
Rhodes Scholarship and began her postgraduate study in 1995 at
Lincoln College, Oxford. She had also been awarded a
Marshall Scholarship the same year but turned it down in favour of the Rhodes.
[22] This made her the first open lesbian to win an international Rhodes Scholarship.
[a][24] In 2001, she earned a
Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in politics at the University of Oxford.
[25] Her thesis is titled
HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons, and her supervisor was
Lucia Zedner.
[26]
She has numerous popular awards for her work.
- 2017 Emmy Award in the Outstanding Live Interview category for The Rachel Maddow Show segment "One-on-One with Kellyanne Conway".[78]
- 2017 Emmy Award in the Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis category for The Rachel Maddow Show story "An American Disaster: The Crisis in Flint".[79]
- 2011 Emmy Award in the Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis category for The Rachel Maddow Show segments "Good Morning Landlocked Central Asia!".[80]
- Maddow was named in Out magazine's "Out 100" list of the "gay men and women who moved culture" in 2008.[81]
- Maddow was voted "Lesbian/Bi Woman of the Year (American)" in AfterEllen's 2008 Visibility Awards.[82]
- Maddow won a Gracie Award in 2009, presented by the American Women in Radio and Television.[83]
- In 2009, Maddow was nominated for GLAAD's 20th Annual Media Awards for a segment of her MSNBC show, "Rick Warren, Change To Believe In?", in the Outstanding TV Journalism Segment category.[84]
- On March 28, 2009, Maddow received a Proclamation of Honor from the California State Senate, presented in San Francisco by California State Senator Mark Leno.[85]
- In April 2009, she was listed at No. 4 in Out magazine's Annual Power 50 List.[86]
- Maddow placed sixth in the "2009 AfterEllen.com Hot 100" list (May 11, 2009)[87] and third in its "2009 Hot 100: Out Women" version.[88]
- Maddow was included on a list of openly gay media professionals in The Advocate's "Forty under 40" issue of June/July 2009.[89]
- In 1994, Maddow received an Honorable Mention in the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity Prize in Ethics.[90]
- In June 2009, Maddow's MSNBC show was the only cable news show nominated for a Television Critics Association award in the Outstanding Achievement in News and Information category.[91]
- In March 2010, Maddow won at the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in the category of Outstanding TV Journalism- Newsmagazine for her segment, "Uganda Be Kidding Me".[92]
- In May 2010, Maddow was the 2010 commencement speaker and was given an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.[93]
- In July 2010, Maddow was presented with a Maggie Award for her ongoing reporting of healthcare reform, the murder of Dr. George Tiller, and the anti-abortion movement.[94]
- In August 2010, Maddow won the Walter Cronkite Faith & Freedom Award, which was presented by the Interfaith Alliance.[60] Past honorees included Larry King, Tom Brokaw, and the late Peter Jennings.[60]
- In February 2012, Maddow was presented the John Steinbeck Award by the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University.[95]
- Maddow was named Outstanding Host at the 2012 Gracie Allen Awards[96]
- In December 2012, the audio book version of Maddow's Drift was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.
- On October 5, 2017, her MSNBC show won two Emmy Awards, for coverage of the tainted water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and for Maddow's interview with White House counselor Kellyanne Conway.[97]
- In December 2017 The Advocate named her as a finalist for its "Person of the Year".[98]
A 2011 Hollywood Reporter profile of Maddow said she was able to deliver news "with agenda, but not hysteria".[57] A Newsweek profile said, "At her best, Maddow debates ideological opponents with civility and persistence ... but for all her eloquence, she can get so wound up ripping Republicans that she sounds like another smug cable partisan."
