re: #6 Killgore Trout

I’ve never watched him before but he seems like a serious guy. Maddow often does a great job but she’s a little too smarmy for me to take too seriously.

Agreed.

Also, it seems at times every reasonable argument Maddow makes is undermined by another outrageous one- as in the US has no debt crisis. That puts her at odds with

MSNBC .
New York Times.
Washington Post .
LA Times .
Reuters.
CNN .
Business Week.
NPR.

Had she stuck to her union talking points, she’d have been a lot more credible, IMO. Why she got on the Michale Moore bandwagon is beyond me.