Rachel Maddow and Her Girlfriend Give Up TV on Weekends

People Magazine ^ | 4-6-10

[Justaham]

Rachel Maddow doesn't bring her work home with her.

The MSNBC host, 37, and her artist girlfriend Susan Mikula spend each weekend at their quaint home three hours north of New York in Western Massachusetts, and it doesn't have cable – or even a television.

"We realized that the two of us have the TV Disease," explains Mikula, 52. "Rachel can't have one because she'd watch it all the time!" Instead, they enjoy the solitude and home-cooked meals Mikula prepares.

Maddow does have a small TV in their tiny New York City apartment, but Mikula only uses it "so that I can watch her on Friday nights before I come pick her up."

The couple met in 1999, when Maddow, who then worked odd jobs, was hired to do yard work on Mikula's property in the Berkshires.

"It was very Desperate Housewives," jokes Maddow of how their relationship began.

[JohnBrowdie]

I thought it looked a bit like . . .

[Dengar01]

She doesn't even look like a women, /shudder.

Thanks OP I'm going to suffer from some awful nightmares now.

[GUNGAGALUNGA]

Doubtful, since it would be impossible for her to see or hear. Think about it. Better yet......don't.

Kinda hard to hear with ear muffs on.

[Justaham]

Whoooops! Sorry to make your day miserable.

[Charles Henrickson]

Isn’t that sweet?

[alice_in_bubbaland]

eeegawds.....one’s a cow and the other is a bulldyke.....yuck.

[Justaham]

ROTFLMAO!

[Mark319]

This is right in line with ABC “Family” Channel’s “new kind of family”...Any Freepers with small children watch out for that channel. It is all the type of programming you likely hope to avoid but it is sold as “family programming”. Luckily, I noticed before my daughter ever viewed it...

Some other Freeper here said, “Hollywood’s idea of free speech is them waving their crotch in your child’s face and daring you to stop them”...Indeed...

[tumblindice]

Odd Job
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7802/hs006ig6dx8.jpg

[nolongerademocrat]

Looks like it, and needs new glasses too!

[pissant]

Mikula must be eskimo for whale

[Charles Henrickson]

Desperate Homos.

[JenB987]

“The couple met in 1999, when Maddow, who then worked odd jobs, was hired to do yard work on Mikula’s property...”

Mikula was quite impressed with how well Rachel trimmed her bush.

[cld51860]

LOL You people are on a roll today!!! Of course, this is a target-rich environment...

[Mark319]

You’re bad.

[scoobysnak71]

On a recent night out, Rachel Maddow and her "significant other" pose for the camera.

[elhombrelibre]

By doing odd jobs perhaps.

[AU72]

Who is pitching and who is catching?

[scoobysnak71]

>"Mikula was quite impressed with how well Rachel trimmed her bush."

[struggle]

Looks like Tom Cruise and the woman Michael Jackson had kids with.