1.0 link 132145 <![CDATA[Rachel Maddow, Pat Buchanan TV's New Odd Couple]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/rachel-maddow-pat-buchana_n_132145.html NEW YORK &mdash; At 19, Rachel Maddow shared a house with friends in Philadelphia and wasn't paying much attention to the 1992 Republican National Convention on television until Pat Buchanan took to the podium.

She was transfixed. Buchanan's combative conservative speech, which denounced gay rights, was a milestone for people on two sides of a political divide. Either a call to arms or intolerant, depending on your point of view, it couldn't be ignored.

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