Rachel Maddow On Tonight Show: Obama Complimented My Pants! (VIDEO)

Rachel Maddow appeared on the "Tonight Show" Wednesday night, where she revealed that Barack Obama is a fan of her fashion sense.

During their interview last fall, Obama "broke the ice by complimenting my pants," Maddow told Conan. "They're my Obama pants!"

Maddow also poked fun at Obama's beer date with Professor Henry Louis Gates and Sergeant James Crowley — "I don't know whether it's going to be a longneck or a can," the cocktail aficionado told Conan — and explained why she recently copied Sarah Palin by wearing rubber waders on the air.

"It actually was an experiment to see if it's possible, if people can really tell what you're saying and pay attention to what you're saying while you're wearing rubber pants that come up to your armpits," she said, referencing Palin's slate of interviews in her fishing gear. "It's very distracting!"

Maddow, who recently went on a fishing vacation of her own, told Conan that while she isn't very good at fishing she enjoys it because the lures have "really dirty names."

"When I caught a really big fish on vacation, I was fishing two lures that day: one of them was called The Hoochie, one of them was called Mr. Wiggles," she said.

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Maddow is broadcasting from the west coast this week and will appear on "Bill Maher" Friday.