Rachel Maddow Drops Big News About New Show
What To Know
- Rachel Maddow will launch a new six-episode podcast series called Burn Order for MS NOW, focusing on the unlawful incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
- The podcast investigates the U.S. government’s decision-making, the use of racial stereotypes, efforts to stop the policy, and the destruction of records to conceal its illegality.
- The first two episodes debut December 1, with early access for MS NOW Premium subscribers.
Rachel Maddow is launching a new series at MS NOW with her first podcast under the new banner since its switch from MSNBC.
On Monday, December 1, the news network will launch Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order, a new six-episode series that “spotlights the unlawful incarceration of immigrants and U.S. citizens during World War II.”
According to the official MS NOW announcement, the series “exposes the extraordinary chain of events behind the U.S. government’s decision to forcibly target and incarcerate Japanese American citizens at the outset of World War II.”
The statement continues, “The series shines a light on the senior government officials who fueled the policy with lies and racial stereotypes, as well as the desperate internal efforts to halt the plan before it went into effect.”
Featuring “first-hand accounts of a community terrorized on the streets,” listeners will learn of how people were “pulled from their homes by the U.S. government and sent to remote, hastily constructed detention camps.”
The series will also touch on “the clandestine destruction of government records, burned to conceal the illegal basis of the policy — and a bombshell discovery in the unlikeliest of places that would ultimately expose it all.”
The first two episodes drop on December 1, with new episodes coming out each subsequent Monday. MS NOW Premium subscribers through Apple will have early access to the ad-free episodes beginning Friday.
Maddow has previously hosted four podcasts with the media company, including last year’s second season of Ultra. This marks her first since the rebrand to MS NOW earlier this month. Other podcasts she has hosted or produced include Bag Man and Déjà News.
MS NOW has put a concerted effort into building its line-up of podcasts, which includes The Best People With Nicolle Wallace, Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast, The Blueprint With Jen Psaki, Main Justice With Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord, Into America With Trymaine Lee, and Velshi Banned Book Club.
Maddow continues to host The Rachel Maddow Show on Monday nights at 9 pm et on MS NOW. She previously hosted the show nightly until 2022, when she switched to Mondays only; however, she returned to a nightly broadcast earlier this year to cover the first 100 days of Donald Trump‘s second term in office. Maddow is now back to Mondays only.
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The usual tripe from folks who lack the courage to deal with the lifelong criminal they installed simply because they were too lazy to check out the long and unbroken illegality of the guy who has never honestly or successfully operated ANY business since his early 20's...and had his daddy bailing him out into his 40's! Never underestimate the appeal of a guy who makes people feel smart for the first time in their entire lives... despite all evidence to the contrary.
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Will Rachel point out that DEMOCRAT FDR was president at the time? Will she remind her viewer that Democrats were responsible for slavery also?
My guess is she will find a way to blame Trump.
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Do yourself a favor, study history before you jump on the RM bandwagon.
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At that time, no one knew who was involved. The Japanese hit the US hard. You better believe it was correct to "round up the enemy" until they could figure out what the hell happened in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. My uncle lies buried in that ship at the memorial, along with 2400+ Americans who died. Thousands more injured. Your comment has no relevance. Japan had massacred Chinese civilians in their desire to expand. Dont think Japan was so innocent. It's amazing how today's democrats lack true knowledge of history, and RM is right up there leading the sheep.
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Indiscriminately rounding up people of Japanese heritage did not achieve anything good for America. You say, “until they could figure out what was going on”. They never even tried to figure it out! They never released anyone because they looked into itand they were innocent and not a threat. They just kept them all until war end. You’re putting a totally false picture out there. People too old and sick to have plotted anything went along with the children. Many old Japanese American citizens died of lacking care in those barbaric camps. Do you think the children were guilty of anything? Nothing was ever proved against any one of those in the camps. In fact, the army let them sign up and many fought for their adopted country. Would the government have done that if they really thought, or knew, that they were spies??? Quit thinking in sound bites and really explore an issue in detail before you spite off that something like the internment camps had any justification at all.
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Your the bobble head lady!
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Sounds kinda like what we did to the people who walked into the people’s house on January 6, 2021. I wouldn’t watch her special on MSNever. She’s an obnoxious left wing TVhost/mouthpiece Karen.
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Wow, are you wrong! We individually tried the January 6th defendants, giving them all the rights this country believes in. We had them on tape shoving pipes in the police’s face, spraying them, etc. how is that at all like rounding up all people who were, or had parents or grandparents who were from Japan??? It’s not. It’s not even close. You should study the camps, and what really happened to the Japanese Americans there and when they got home. Ignorance is a terrible thing.
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Rachel Maddow is A Góoid Journalist and Accurate and I want to report the facts. I trust your judgment and I look like listening to her especially on the things that concern The government and what's going on so I'm always wanted to listen to what she has to say I love CNN and what they have to say so I'm crazy about what she talks about cuz I know what's going to always going to be true and factual!!
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I guess I better get signed up. We know it will be great! Leave it to Rachel to start writing all the best news stories to get people prepared to recognize the tactics being used by Trump and his administration today as they issue more and more illegal orders and expect bobbleheads to follow blindly, just like prior generations did when they rounded up American citizens without legal cause just because they had Japanese heritage.
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Looking forward to watching Rachel Madow show.
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It won't be before the 🍊🐖.
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