The Rachel Maddow Show Guest List

Oct. 19, 2009, 8:14 PM EDT

Keith Olbermann, Countdown, msnbc
Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author
Eliot Spitzer, Columnist, Slate.com, former governor of New York
Nathan Hodge, reporter, Wired.com's national security blog Danger Room, and co-author, "A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry"

From the Web

Open Letter From Bush 41 to Aggie Family
Elder Bush Decries Lack of Civility in Politics - "While he said he does not believe in personal name-calling, he singled out MSNBC personalities Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow calling them 'sick puppies.'"
Bush Calls Olbermann, Maddow 'Sick Puppies'- "Olbermann tells us, 'Since Rachel and I are indeed both under the weather, we appreciate President Bush's kind concern.' Maddow added, 'Grrr... cough cough... grrrrrr.'"
Video: Americans for Prosperity Speaker Compares HR 3200 to History's Greatest Atrocities
AFP policy director, Phil Kerpen: "The SEIU-created video of a speaker comparing health care reform to genocide played by @Maddow is a FRAUD. Was NOT an AFP event."
AFP bus tour event calendar, August 6, 2009, Pueblo, Colorado
Eliot Spitzer: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce must be stopped. Here's how to do it.
Terrorists: Stop calling us terrorists!
IAVA's Women Warriors Center
"Week of the Women Warriors": Launch of Groundbreaking Report on Female Troops and Veterans
"It was a low-flying poop detector."
Even Rabbit Droppings Count in Nuclear Cleanup

Senator Amy Klobuchar
Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, Washington Post
Tim Phillips, president, Americans for Prosperity
Dexter Filkins, foreign correspondent, New York Times - Joining us from Istanbul, he's the reporter whose lengthy profile of America's top commander in Iraq and the challenges that face him there is the cover story of the New York Times Sunday Magazine this weekend. He's also the author of "The Forever War."

From the Web

Alison Stewart, guest host
Wendell Potter, former head of public relations for Cigna turned health insurance industry whistleblower
Richard Trumka, president, AFL-CIO
Congressman Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee
David Weigel, reporter, The Washington Independent
Sarah Haskins, Target Women, Current TV

From the Web

Alison Stewart, guest host
Dr. Howard Dean, former DNC chair, Vermont governor
Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) Finance Committee
Bill Nemitz, The Portland Press Herald
Wayne Slater, senior political writer, Dallas Morning News, co-author, Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove made George W. Bush presidential
Bill Nye, The Science Guy, scientist, engineer and Emmy-winning television personality. Also, author, "Bill Nye The Science Guy's Big Blue Ocean"

From the Web

Congressman Anthony Weiner
Chris Kofinis, Democratic strategist
Lieutenant Colonel Victor Fehrenbach
Gordon Goldstein, a former intarnational security adviser to the United Nations and author of the book, "Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam."
Jim Tankersley, L.A. Times energy and environment reporter who first reported the Justice Department probe into Gail Norton.
Dave Zirin, The Nation

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