Where is Bill and what have you done with him ?

Get rid of the siren in the background. I can't listen to anything you have to say with that annoying thing going off.

I wish self deportation meant that illegal immigrants were going home because conditions in their homeland were improving. It's a disgrace that governments don't work towards improving living conditions.

MSNBC, and Rachel's show, had a real opportunity to be the responsible and thoughtful view from the left wing in a center-right country. As a conservative I search for a reasoned liberal perspective so that I can hear the other side's viewpoint in a serious way. Instead, your network offers no such reasoned perspective....instead you are all about hyper-bias, invective, and downright bigotry against any viewpoint from the conservative perspective or its spokespersons. On 1/31 you again played the race card against Gingrich, as you predictably do when you have no other basis to attack a conservative voice.

I have assumed that you consider yourselves journalists. Sadly, you have failed at measuring up to even that now tattered standard in the mainstream media. You had an opportunity to play an important role in the national political conversation.... you have failed miserably, as is clearly reflected in your ratings. People know when they are watching a fraud.

I come to the US on business a number of times a year from the UK, and only just discovered the Rachel Maddow show. Rachel.... you are great. You've no idea how refreshing it is to have such a well researched and insightful political analysis available at the touch of a button. Our requirement for "balance" means we never get the opportunity for such insightful, amusing, and heart-felt commentary. I'm going to be glued to MSNBC ... to Ed and Rachel. Thank you!

Self-deportation must be real. Otherwise Crackhead's theory of the recession and housing collapse being caused by reverse-immigration holds no water.

Was he fooled too?

When I think of Bob McDonnell I think of this. And now I hate myself thanks a lot...

Rachael, I love your show and you rarely miss something, but self deportation is not just a joke. look into the new immigration law in Alabama and the man behind it

Mitt Romney say's he's 'not concerned about the very poor' because 'they have a safety net', but 'if the net has holes in it he will repair them'.

Anyone ever seen a net that isn't mostly holes?

Loved your segment on my state- IN. However, residents of Indiana are not "Indianans." We are Hoosiers.

I get the satire of HALTO, but although Romney et al may have heard of self-deportation from Daniel D. Portado, I can tell you (from my 20+ years as an immigration court Spanish interpreter) that I have heard the term 'self-deport' or 'self-deportation' quite a few times. When a person is in immigration court proceedings and the INS or now ICE is trying to deport them (currently called 'removal' rather than 'deportation'), if the immigrant leaves the country without asking for voluntary departure or some other special permission, that person has self-deported, perhaps knowingly, perhaps unknowingly.

Right to work is what built the South. The business sector was looking for cheap labor, so they began moving their workforce to States like Tennessee who said it was a criminal offense to join a union. By doing this, the business sector could increase their profit margin and pay their executives and shareholders more money.

This worked for awhile, but with Corporate America holding billions of dollars of shareholder debt, they are now improving their profit margins by "OUTSOURCING" the jobs to foreign countries for the same reason they once "FLEW" to the South.

Does anyone have any suggestions how we can improve "Consumer Spending" when Executive Salaries and Wall Street Profits hold precedent over workers wages?

Cancervative Republicans are out to destroy America, America's labor unions, and cancervative Republicans like Mitt Romney really just don't give damn about the poor, since the poor aren't big donors to the cancervative Republican Party.

Or should that be Republicancervative, one word?

Hmm, I think I'll tweet this from now on in describing Republican Cancervatives.

Rachel, and staff...thank you so much for covering Indiana's struggle to fight the so-called RTW law but I would like to add my vote to Love IU's comment. We really do prefer to be called Hoosiers. I'm pretty sure I can vouch for this.

Sorry, I meant "IU Fan's" comment. I love IU too.

(Comment previously posted. Learning to use the system.)

Thank you for the podcast. I love it. And the blog. Really the whole package is just exceptional. Was momentarily sad the podcast came through without sound. But a moment later, a new one was available. I'm sure this one will be fixed. I've come to expect and mostly always get quality from this program. Thank you.

Clean up on Isle 9, Rachel. It's Hoosier not Indianian. Long time watcher, first time chatter. Thanks for being honest.

So confusing -- this week's This American Life is in fact ALL ABOUT self-deportation in Alabama. It is occurring in huge numbers, and with devastating effect.

Why did TRMS treat this solely as a matter of satire, while referencing the very program that aired an expose this week? Self-deportation is real. It is no joke.

This is a distinct product of an emerging, ruthless republican legislative strategy - now being carefully refined in Alabama, soon to be brought to a state near you. It is a topic that needs serious consideration, not a jokey ha-ha fly-over.

It's pretty obvious that Mitt believes self-deportation will work because they're perfecting the art of psychological warfare through every hacked media available. Once you've been Beastly marked, and you can no longer buy and sell here, you'll want to leave..

FYI - People from Indiana are called Hoosiers. It is commonly used by all local news stations. Don't say Indianans. It sounds strange and incorrect.

p.s. Love love love you and your show!

Will Maddow report how the Union protestors were screamed at by the people in the streets of Indy.The ENTIRE state wants right to work>It has a 70% approval rating.Typical left wing goof balls.The right to choose, just not the right to choose to have your money stolen by union thugs.