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(13,776 posts)I watch her show each and every day. I love it. Around here my entire family refers to her as Rachel because we all know her and love her (though nobody will ever love her as much as I do .
I adore her, always have, always will--but I have to admit that I often find myself wishing she had an editor. (I don't know how much of what she says is written by her, or whether she ad libs off what she reads on the prompter.) She does repeat herself. It's... well, not a fact, I guess, but I think any writing teacher who got hold of a transcript would do a lot of crossing out. Of course, written language is different from spoken language, so there's that caveat.
I do like her being funny--I think you and I differ on that. I absolutely love that combination of razor-sharp intelligence and goofiness. It makes me smile just to think of it. Plus, her goofiness is usually in the service of pointing out right-wing absurdity, and even when it's not, I still love it. When I want 100% serious news, I watch Al Jazeera.
But anyway, yes, I also wish she could trim a little of the fat off her explanations, as historically interesting or fact-checkingly impressive as I always find them.