This is not an April Fools' Day joke, it's her birthday and she really turns the big 4-0 today. Perfect excuse to get some more Maddow knowledge in your life.
As a freshman at Stanford she was outed by the college newspaper in a published interview... before she could tell her parents.
"I did an interview with the student newspaper about being one of the only two gay freshmen on campus. The mistake I made was that I had not come out to my parents."- Rachel Maddow
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Rachel met her girlfriend, Susan Mikula, when she hired Maddow to do yard work at her home.
Maddow was working on her doctoral dissertation at the time.
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Their first date was at an NRA event.
"My first date with Susan was at an NRA 'Ladies Day On The Range' event, and that is as close as I have ever gotten to the NRA" - Rachel Maddow
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She really wants an interview with Dick Cheney:
This is the dedication in her book, Drift.
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