THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 
COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN 
TUCKER 
I didn’t think I could love and admire Rachel Maddow any more than I already did. That is, until last Thursday night.At the top of her cable-news hour, the MSNBC star anchor took the highly unusual step of getting extremely personal with her viewers as she revealed the hell that she had been living through these past weeks when her partner, Susan Mikula, became so ill from COVID-19 that the couple initially feared for her life.While Maddow was exposed to...
Rachel
Maddow
Journalist / TV Host
Maddow has had a busy year covering COVID-19, systemic racism and the presidential election, but it’s paid off: “The Rachel Maddow Show” continues to average high ratings and has beat CNN’s “AC 360” in its time slot. Her interviews with indicted Trump associate Lev Parnas and the president’s niece Mary Trump also broke ratings records in 2020, with the latter averaging 5.2 million viewers — the most ever for her show or any regularly scheduled MSNBC show. An admitted politics wonk, Maddow is also a successful author, with “Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth,” debuting atop the New York Times bestseller list in 2019, and, more recently, “Bag Man,” which released in December 2020 and is based on her podcast with the same name. Among her many honors are a GLAAD Media Award for outstanding TV journalism.
