Rachel Maddow (Photo by Robin Platzer/FilmMagic)
Kyle Jason, Rachel Maddow and Al Franken during Al Franken CD Release Party for 'The O'Franken Factor Factor: The Very Best of the O'Franken Factor' at City Bakery in New York, New York, United States. (Photo by Robin Platzer/FilmMagic)
DECISION 2008 -- IOWA CAUCUS -- Air Date 1/3/08 -- Pictured: Air America's Rachel Maddow reports live coverage of Decision 2008 from the MSNBC newsroom in New York, New York on January 3, 2008 -- Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC NewsWire
DECISION 2008 -- IOWA CAUCUS -- Air Date 1/3/08 -- Pictured: (l-r) Newsweek's Howard Fineman and Air America's Rachel Maddow report live coverage of Decision 2008 from the MSNBC newsroom in New York, New York on January 3, 2008 -- Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC NewsWire
MEET THE PRESS -- Airdate 08/16/09 --Pictured: Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC's 'The Rachel Maddow Show' appears on 'Meet the Press' with moderator David Gregory in Washington, D.C., Sunday August 16, 2009. (Photo by William B. Plowman/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH CONAN O'BRIEN -- Air Date 07/29/2009 -- Episode 38 -- Pictured: (l-r) Talk show host Rachel Maddow during an interview with host Conan O'Brien on July 29, 2009 -- Photo by: Margaret Norton/NBCU Photo Bank
MEET THE PRESS -- Pictured: Rachel Maddow, Host, MSNBC's 'The Rachel Maddow Show' appears on 'Meet the Press' in Washington, D.C., Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010. (Photo by William B. Plowman/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO -- Episode 3841 -- Pictured: TV host Rachel Maddow on June 9, 2010 -- Photo by: Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW -- Pictured: (l-r) -- MSNBC's Rachel Maddow anchors live from Will McDonogh Memorial Park in New Orleans on August 26, 2010 to address the progress and struggles of the city, five years after Hurricane Katrina (Photo by Brian Lawdermilk/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
MSNBC SPECIALS -- The Day of Destruction, Decade of War -- Pictured: (l-r) Richard Engel, Rachel Maddow (Photo by Heidi Gutman/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW -- The Jon Stewart Interview -- Pictured: (l-r) Rachel Maddow, Jon Stewart (Photo by Virginia Sherwood/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
MSNBC Live -- Decision 2010 -- Pictured: Rachel Maddow, host é-·The Rachel Maddow Showé-· during 'Decision 2010' on November 2, 2010 (Photo by Virginia Sherwood/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 15: Host Rachel Maddow of the television show 'The Rachel Maddow Show' attends the NBC Universal portion of the 2009 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at the Universal Hilton Hotel on January 15, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - OCTOBER 17: TV Personality Rachel Maddow attends The 2009 New Yorker Festival: Rachel Maddow Interview at Stage 37 on October 17, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Joe Kohen/Getty Images for The New Yorker)
WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 19: MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow (L) and Keith Olberman (2L) talk with White House Communications Director Anita Dunn (2R) and Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton (R) on the Circle Drive on the north side of the White House October 19, 2009 in Washington, DC. Dunn accepted the position of communications director on an interim basis only and plans to leave the White House at the end of the year, according to the Washington Post. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
ANCHORAGE - OCTOBER 26: Television and radio personality Rachel Maddow (R) speaks with supporters of Republican candidate Joe Miller prior to his debate with write-in candidate Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Democratic candidate Scott McAdams hosted by The Alaska World Affairs Council and Rotary Clubs of Anchorage at the Dena'ina Convention Center October 26, 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska. Voters will go to the polls on November 2, 2010. (Photo by Clark James Mishler/Getty Images)
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - AUGUST 02: Rachel Maddow host of 'The Rachel Maddow Show' speaks during the 'MSNBC' panel during the NBC Universal portion of the 2011 Summer TCA Tour held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on August 2, 2011 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
MUNCIE, IN - DECEMBER 02: Rachel Maddow discusses the headlines of the day in Emens Auditorium at Ball State University, David Letterman's alma mater, on December 2, 2011 in Muncie, Indiana. (Photo by Ron Hoskins/Getty Images)
Rachel Maddow, host of "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC, shares a stage with pundits during a panel discussion, "2012: The Path to the Presidency", at the University of Chicago in Chicago on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Jo Ann Wright, of Southfield, left, gets her photo taken with political commentator Rachel Maddow who was the recipient of the Ida B. Wells Freedom and Justice Award at the 57th annual NAACP Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner at Cobo Hall in Detroit Sunday May 6, 2012. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was the keynote speaker. (AP Photos/David Guralnick / The Detroit News)
LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON -- Episode 415 -- Pictured: (l-r) Rachel Maddow and Jimmy Fallon mix drinks on March 24, 2011 (Photo by Lloyd Bishop/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 29: MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow promotes the new book 'Drift The Unmooring of American Military Power' at the Barnes & Noble Union Square on March 29, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/WireImage)
TODAY -- Pictured: (l-r) Hoda Kotb, Kathie Lee Gifford and Rachel Maddow appear on NBC News' 'Today' show -- (Photo by: Peter Kramer/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images)
NBC NEWS - EVENTS -- 2012 NBC News Upfront -- Pictured: (l-r) Savannah Guthrie, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow -- (Photo by: Charles Sykes/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
MEET THE PRESS -- Pictured: (l-r) – Rachel Maddow, Host, MSNBC's 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' left, and moderator David Gregory, right, appear on 'Meet the Press' in Washington D.C., Sunday, March 25, 2012. (Photo by: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images)
THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO -- Episode 4233 -- Pictured: (l-r) Political Commentator Rachel Maddow during an interview with host Jay Leno on April 10, 2012 -- (Photo by: Paul Drinkwater/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
TODAY -- Pictured: (l-r) Matt Lauer and Rachel Maddow appear on NBC News' 'Today' show (Photo by Peter Kramer/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)