Rachel Maddow actually

[complain jane]

made Brian Williams seem like a charismatic guy tonight.

Love Rachel

[Raine]

1. I thought so too

they seemed to both be having a good time with each other.

[complain jane]

2. Yes!

It was nice to see him kind of warm up for a change. I like the guy but she just seems to have a knack for making people feel comfortable letting their guard down.

[UTUSN]

3. She's great, lives & breathes the politics. I like her more all the time, rocky start for me

The LOooooong talking-in-paragraphs, detail by gory detail used to irk me a lot more, but she was always the real deal for me, and the tolerance and grace she has shown to the vilest wingnut a-holes (lots of redundant words here) makes her shine.

As for WILLIAMS, I never watched him more than in infrequent snips for years, but I was taken in by him as being authentic in his news reading, while also being puzzled by the mannequin dress-up he favored and I started calling him "The Wedding Cake Dude" way back when. His crashing seemed to verify that his plastic exterior was symbolic of the inner emptiness. I never thought he'd be back on the air. But he has been performing gracefully on a performance level, and he seems looser, like the ordeal gave him a fatalistic swinging-on-the-vine.

And Rachel and whassername, the Repuke that got herself kicked off The View, have been supporting him with all the yuk-yukking and bon mots. I don't think he deserves it.

[Paladin]

4. The usual Rachel trashing by DU's Bernie contingent, incoming. (nt)

[Erose999]

5. If she had any integrity she'd have quit when they put Lyin Brian on at MSMBS.