The Rachel Maddow equivalent of the Colbert Bump. When a website is mentioned on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show and the resulting influx of traffic causes the website to crash.
Oh, man, I have to call my hosting company -- I just got maddowed and my site went down.
When a person's or organization's secretive or false representation has been exposed by the MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Showvia investigatory research and reporting.
Those Maddowted are usually fringe right wing people or groups.
The John Birch Society (which in the 1960's stated that dental fluoridation was a communist plot) was recently Maddowted as a sponsor to the Republican C Pack conference.
The Maddowting of the theologically extreme C Street Family which includes several conservative lawmakers gave Americans a look into a secretive world of fringe right wing power and views.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"