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Popular where? I think I've heard her name once over the last year and I live in the SF bay area.

MSNBC, left-wing of fox's right-wing talking heads, approximately

except nobody watches MSNBC... Old people and conservatives watch TV, young people and liberals read the internet, leaving MSNBC a ghost town, in my estimation

I'm not in the US, don't ever watch MSNBC or Fox and I know who Maddow is just from political blog/story mentions.

I think the original commenter's point was that the project was mentioned to a large audience. Seems fairly accurate.

Yes, I didn't mean literally nobody, I just meant that compared to other markets MSNBC is fairly small so I can understand missing who Rachel Maddow is if you don't watch MSNBC or follow political blogs, shes not O'reilly or Jon Stewart, but yes it is a mainstream cable TV channel so that necessitates some minimum audience size lest the channel go off the air

Her show is also distributed as a podcast, which is relatively popular.

this is a generalization. there are old liberals.

To paraphrase one Jack Sparrow: "At least you've heard of her."

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