Maddow on going to dinner with rivals Hannity, Cuomo: ‘I doubt they eat the same things’
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow told CBS “Late Night” host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night that she has “lots of respect” for Sean Hannity and Chris Cuomo, while jokingly adding that she likely wouldn’t go to dinner with her 9 p.m. cable news rivals because she doubts “they eat the same things.”
The sit-down with Colbert is part of Maddow’s media tour for her new book, “Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth,” which currently sits at the top of Amazon’s bestseller list following its release on Tuesday.
{mosads}”I have social anxiety. I don’t go out to dinner, so the answer is probably no just because of me,” Maddow told Colbert. “But I have a lot of respect for both of them. I mean … you know when you have this kind of a job, it’s a small cohort of people who do this work.”
“When you’re up against others who do this work well. Doesn’t matter if they’re competitors, they’re the ones who know what it’s like to do this job every day 52 weeks a year,” she continued.
“I have nothing against them personally,” Maddow underscored before appearing to consider what a meal between the three would look like. “I don’t know what they eat. I doubt they eat the same things. They’re different guys.”
Maddow again finished the third quarter of 2019 as MSNBC’s top-rated host and has seen a ratings bump in the past week after experiencing a sharp decline following the release of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report in April.
The viewer bump occurred directly after Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) announcement on Sept. 24 opening a formal impeachment inquiry against President Trump, who is under intense scrutiny over a July phone call in which he pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading 2020 presidential candidate.
Overall, the top shows in cable news for the past three months ending in September in both total viewers, as well as in the key 25-54 demographic, were Fox’s “Hannity” with 3.28 million viewers, followed by “Tucker Carlson Tonight” with 3.08 million viewers.
“The Ingraham Angle” was third with 2.629 million viewers, followed by “The Rachel Maddow Show” with 2.52 million viewers and Fox’s “The Five” with 2.5 million viewers.
Maddow will host 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on MSNBC on Wednesday night, who is on her own book tour promoting “The Book of Gutsy Women.”
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