Majority Report Radio: hour two

April 29, 2004

hour two

Check out Prof. Juan Cole's site!

Prof. Yoshi Tsurumi-- GWB's biz school prof. and surpirse! gwb was a crappy student!

Brockley's alamanc

Mike Papantonio--- AAR's ring of fire

TELL SINCLAIR THAT THEY CAN'T HIDE THE TRUTH FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!

The following Sinclair TV stations are up for renewal in October and are thus in play for public comment RIGHT NOW.
WBFF FOX 45 Baltimore MD
WNUV WB 54 Baltimore MD
WTVZ WB 33 Norfolk VA
WRLH Fox 35 Richmond VA
WCHS ABC 8 Charleston/Huntington WV
WVAH Fox 11 Charlestown/Huntington WV
These Sinclair stations are up for renewal in December and will thus be in play for public comment on the 23rd of May:
WMMP UPN 36 Charleston SC
WTAT FOX 24 Charleston SC
Other states are up for renewal each three months after that, so making life hard for the stations above is the best way to get to Sinclair.
(source: http://www.fcc.gov/localism/tv-dates.pdf)
To make public comment against Sinclair getting their licenses renewed, see the instructions here:
http://www.fcc.gov/localism/renew_process_handout.doc
"During the license renewal process, viewers and listeners of the stations whose licenses are up for renewal may participate in the process either by filing a petition to deny or informal objections against a renewal or by filing positive comments about a broadcaster’s service.... The last day for filing petitions to deny is ONE MONTH PRIOR to the license expiration date. EG: The petition to deny deadline date for radio stations licensed to communities in North and South Carolina is November 1, 2003."
Petitions to deny broadcast station license renewals (a signed original and two copies) must be mailed or delivered to:
Office of the Secretary
Federal Communications Commission
ATTN: Video Division, License Renewal Processing Team, Room 2-A665
445 12th Street SW
Washington, D.C. 20554
There you have it, folks. Go nuts.

Posted by majority at April 29, 2004 09:03 PM

Comments

Present!

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:04 PM

Not for nothing but will someone other than me look at this photo, from the Bush website, and tell me if it looks as fake as I think it does...please just to ease my mind.
I posted the photo HERE

Posted by: minitruth at April 29, 2004 09:04 PM

Stop by the Thursday night chat
at the Firesign Theatre website:
http://firesigntheater.com/chat

Remember,
Everything You Know Is Wrong!

Posted by: Brian Westley at April 29, 2004 09:04 PM

NYC Denies Permit for Huge Anti-War Rally

By SARA KUGLER, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - An anti-war group planning a massive demonstration at the start of the Republican National Convention has been denied a permit to use Central Park because the crowd would be too large.

United for Peace and Justice said it planned to appeal.

The city parks department denied the group's request to rally on the park's Great Lawn after marching from 23rd Street and Eighth Avenue. A permit request for the march, submitted separately to the police department, is pending.

In denying the permit, city officials said the Aug. 29 event would exceed the 13-acre lawn's capacity of 80,000 people and "cause enormous damage to the lawn." The group said on its application that it expected 250,000 demonstrators.

"Now we just have to do another piece of organizing, to put pressure on the city to change their mind," said group leader Leslie Cagan.

In its appeal, the group plans to state that numerous events with more than 80,000 people have taken place on the lawn, including a 1981 Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel concert that drew at least 400,000 fans and a 1982 anti-nuclear demonstration attended by more than 750,000 people, considered the largest protest in city history.

The Department of Parks and Recreation maintains that no gatherings of that magnitude have been held on the Great Lawn since the area was restored in 1996.

Parks department spokeswoman Megan Sheekey said the city has offered to help the group find another location.

United for Peace and Justice, which organized a February 2003 anti-war rally that drew tens of thousands of people to a 20-block stretch of First Avenue, said it hadn't ruled out pursuing the matter in court.

Another group denied a parks permit during the convention also is considering legal action.

Led by activist Aron Kay, who made a name for himself by throwing pies at public officials, the group last month sought permission to set up a 20,000-person camp for various activities in Tompkins Square Park from Aug. 27 to Sept. 12.

Sheekey said the request was denied because parks close at 1 a.m. and "a neighborhood park can't accommodate an event of that size."

Separately, a coalition of unions representing police officers and firefighters has requested permits to demonstrate during the four-day convention, beginning Aug. 30. Union members claim they are underpaid compared to their counterparts in other cities and are underfunded for fighting terrorism — complaints they plan to voice when Republican come to town.

Posted by: cali at April 29, 2004 09:05 PM

third?

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:05 PM

Why did Lee Hamilton and Senator Kerry walk out on Bush? Maybe he wasn’t all that candid.

Here’s Senator Lautenberg’s speech on “chickenhawks”.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/politics/trail/29TRAIL-CHICKENHAWK.html?pagewanted=print

Posted by: Alan Mc at April 29, 2004 09:05 PM

sorry it is located here
http://www.ebloggy.com/minitruth

Posted by: minitruth at April 29, 2004 09:05 PM

WOW KERRY NEEDS TO LISTEN TO DENNIS KUCINICH --- THE REAL PEACE DEMOCRAT,.

WWW.DEMOCRACYNOW.ORG

WWW.UNITEDFORPEACE.ORG

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:06 PM

Each evening from December to December,
Before you drift to sleep upon your cot,
Think back on this 2004 election,
When Dean kicked butt...

Posted by: The Subway Serenade at April 29, 2004 09:06 PM

Texas Souffle'!!!!
Texas Souffle'!!!!
Texas Souffle'!!!!
Texas Souffle'!!!!
Texas Souffle'!!!!

Sam, I dare you to call George Bush the Texas Souffle'!!! That would be soooo cooool!

Gremlin

Posted by: Gremlin at April 29, 2004 09:06 PM

Pull over mr opoloupa boychick
THIS HAIKU POLICE!!

u guilty bring legal ina illegal zone!

gotta cough up three haiku
to get yr brain back

Posted by: Officer Smudd at April 29, 2004 09:06 PM

hey Minitruth, looks good to me!

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:07 PM

CUNY Baruch.

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 09:07 PM

Mike's blog @ http://www.pretentiousblowhard.org/mike/

is saying that we should just go from country to country in the middle east and "blow them to hell and back"

Please help me tell him how stupid he is. Go to his site and leave some comments.

Posted by: Jake Carson at April 29, 2004 09:08 PM

Just so it doesn't get lost in the back-blog, here, as requested by Sam, is the info on Sinclair TV license renewal periods:

The following Sinclair TV stations are up for renewal in October and are thus in play for public comment RIGHT NOW.

WBFF FOX 45 Baltimore MD
WNUV WB 54 Baltimore MD
WTVZ WB 33 Norfolk VA
WRLH Fox 35 Richmond VA
WCHS ABC 8 Charleston/Huntington WV
WVAH Fox 11 Charlestown/Huntington WV

These Sinclair stations are up for renewal in December and will thus be in play for public comment on the 23rd of May:

WMMP UPN 36 Charleston SC
WTAT FOX 24 Charleston SC

Other states are up for renewal each three months after that, so making life hard for the stations above is the best way to get to Sinclair.
(source: http://www.fcc.gov/localism/tv-dates.pdf)

To make public comment against Sinclair getting their licenses renewed, see the instructions here:

http://www.fcc.gov/localism/renew_process_handout.doc

"During the license renewal process, viewers and listeners of the stations whose licenses are up for renewal may participate in the process either by filing a petition to deny or informal objections against a renewal or by filing positive comments about a broadcaster’s service.... The last day for filing petitions to deny is ONE MONTH PRIOR to the license expiration date. EG: The petition to deny deadline date for radio stations licensed to communities in North and South Carolina is November 1, 2003."

Petitions to deny broadcast station license renewals (a signed original and two copies) must be mailed or delivered to:

Office of the Secretary
Federal Communications Commission
ATTN: Video Division, License Renewal Processing Team, Room 2-A665
445 12th Street SW
Washington, D.C. 20554

Further to the above, if you want to make a general comment about Sinclair Communications online, you can do so at this FCC page:
http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/ecfs/Upload?hot_docket=1008200813%7CRM-10803%7CLocalism+Task+Force&Send=Continue

Posted by: OzInVancouver at April 29, 2004 09:08 PM

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Join the live chat with other Majority Reporters at
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http://www.undernet.org/webchat.php
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Posted by: MajorityChatter at April 29, 2004 09:08 PM

.....HOLY cow..

This Bush boy has serious problem.

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 09:08 PM

And he should listen to Ted I flee drowning woman Kennedy...hicccc-cupp added...And Robert KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK Byrd...You are too funny

Posted by: Too Funny at April 29, 2004 09:09 PM

Did you guys hear about the GI's that are abusing Iraqi POW's on "60 Minutes II"? These kids are going crazy, and they need to come now.

Here's the link: watch the video

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/27/60II/main614063.shtml

Posted by: Lisa at April 29, 2004 09:09 PM

Is this guy for real???

Isn't he from Firesign Theater or something??

This has to be a put on.

Posted by: The Subway Serenade at April 29, 2004 09:09 PM

lol......

How did you guys, find Bush professor.
THis is hilarious.

ASK him about BUsh homework, and academic performance.

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 09:10 PM

--
Were PNAC planners just lucky they got their desired "new Pearl Harbor"? Or premeditated?

No one ignores what they are not sure is coming. Human nature ignores what's coming they know won't reach them.
First time since Cent.Intel.Agency began that Republinazis held White House AND Congress, 911 happens.
How conve-e-e-eeeenient. How accidental?

Some see Muslim (atypical) terrorist / mercenaries "attacked" WTC.etc 'for hire' 'on-spec' paid and abetted by an inside job.
(Insiders are the ones who know there's anything to hide -- and try to, after the crime.)

http://0911.site.voila.fr/index2.htm

It IS NOT just an issue of patriotism or not based on war support or not.
It IS that solving IRAQWAR?(R U QWER) does not cure and make go away the gut twisting sense from an earlier injustice.

--> They didn't do it (911, alone). So spread the word-of-mouth.
( Anti-anti-anti-Bush/fascist/secrecy politics and politicians might support a computer browser in every home.
( 100 million units times $100 each is only $10 billion -- a computer for everyone for less taxpayer cost than a month in Iraq.
( It was cheaper to give everyone a computer last summer instead of a tax kickback bribe buying war support.
( New Media talking points: Should spy satellite photos be on the internet, universal access?
( What "national security" is in their secrecy? It would have stopped WMD lies -- anyone could check up.
( "Democracy is what comes out the end of the internet ... uh, and cell phones." -- President Wm. Clinton

Broadcasting and newspaper privileged-access Old Media is poisoned.
It tastes gut-wrong like invading and occupying Cuba and killing Cubans because JFK was killed. "They" didn't do it.

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/GoD.html

Some argued for invasion then and could have would have if Cuba had oil.

Posted by: Meremark at April 29, 2004 09:10 PM

Saturday is May Day. See you on the street.

Posted by: Slugicide at April 29, 2004 09:10 PM

What's the book about Bush in school that Janeane was reading from? I didn't catch the title.

Posted by: Valerie at April 29, 2004 09:10 PM

Please watch "Making the Band" on MTV. Choppa, Ness and Die-Lawn are whuppin' it up!

Posted by: p.diddy at April 29, 2004 09:10 PM

>NYC Denies Permit for Huge Anti-War Rally<

Like I wrote last night, they can't arrest everyone.

I marched and protested duting the WTO in Seattle. Believe me, permits DON'T ensure you won't get attacked by the police, so why worry about it.

Hint: Make sure you stay close to the legal folks who are documenting the event.

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:11 PM

This is the GREATEST interview EVER!!!!!! I love this guy!!!!!

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:11 PM

What is May Day?

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:11 PM

Not that gullible?

Number 1 cable "news" program: O'Reilly Factor

Not that gullible?

Trump' recent television series

Not that gullible?

Penis enlargement pills!

Posted by: Fishgrease at April 29, 2004 09:12 PM

bottom 5% in business school?

yikes..

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 09:12 PM

Bush is a good fundraiser, campaigner and figurehead. So what? Find someone who can tell you about Cheney.

That guy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation knows Cheney from Wyoming politics. His name is John Perry Barlow, and he wrote about knowing Cheney. You should interview him.

Here's the article:

http://www.calpundit.com/archives/002606.html

Posted by: Howard Beale at April 29, 2004 09:12 PM

wonderful ol teacher
calls him out.Straight shooter
so calm, casual gutsy

Posted by: Officer Smudd at April 29, 2004 09:13 PM

Bush's intellectual shortcomings would be acceptable, even as president, IF he was honest. but he is a liar, a crook and belongs in jail.

Posted by: Dr. Paul Armstrong at April 29, 2004 09:13 PM

Shut up, Sam and let this guy tell his story.

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:13 PM

Why does Sam sound like he's in a box?

Posted by: Robert at April 29, 2004 09:13 PM

Yeah celebrate MAY DAY in the streets..that will get the swing vote..I couldnt write this shit

Posted by: Too Funny at April 29, 2004 09:13 PM

This is too funny. Bush the dunce!

Posted by: HeavenHelpUs at April 29, 2004 09:13 PM

bush had priveledge action vs affirmative action.

Posted by: theresa at April 29, 2004 09:14 PM

OMG!!! Bush is as big a moron as I always thought! and now he's leader of the free world...scary!

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:14 PM

Goerge Bush Hates You!

Grem-

Posted by: Gremlin at April 29, 2004 09:14 PM

Anyone else think this guy will get a visit from Secret Service or suddenly be exposed as a terrorist sympathizer?

Posted by: FlamingBuddha at April 29, 2004 09:14 PM

cool howard!

Posted by: Officer Smudd at April 29, 2004 09:14 PM

Man, this guy should be on Sixty Minutes!

Posted by: OzInVancouver at April 29, 2004 09:14 PM

Make sure you read Dr. Tsurumi's article.

http://www.glocom.org/opinions/essays/20040301_tsurumi_president/

At Harvard Business School, thirty years ago, George Bush was a student of mine. I still vividly remember him. In my class, he declared that "people are poor because they are lazy." He was opposed to labor unions, social security, environmental protection, Medicare, and public schools. To him, the antitrust watch dog, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities Exchange Commission were unnecessary hindrances to "free market competition." To him, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was "socialism." Recently, President Bush's Federal Appeals Court Nominee, California's Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown, repeated the same broadside at her Senate hearing.

Posted by: Darryl Roy at April 29, 2004 09:14 PM

.....lack compassion...

eeeck. He is a total Bully?

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 09:14 PM

Make sure you read Dr. Tsurumi's article.

http://www.glocom.org/opinions/essays/20040301_tsurumi_president/

Posted by: Darryl Roy at April 29, 2004 09:15 PM

This guy is great!!! Excellent guest! Where did you find him?

Posted by: Catharine at April 29, 2004 09:15 PM

Can people change as they grow older?

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:15 PM

This is too funny. Bush the dunce!

Posted by: HeavenHelpUs at April 29, 2004 09:15 PM

Here's a nod to the newly founded REGRESSIVE PARTY, and their chairman's view on such important topics such as abortion, civil disobedience, and ... um.. vampires.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.com/c.cgi?u=regressive

-discuss.
its like butter
so vah-clempt

Posted by: me me me at April 29, 2004 09:16 PM

Bush really is just an overindulged frat boy. Sounds like he wasn't very nice either, especially when he didn't do his "homework" and wasn't prepared.

Sounds just like the way he is in the White House now.

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:16 PM

May Day is the Worker's Solidarity Day....early union 1880's.

Originally, MAy day was Beltane, the night before you'd go off into the woods and come back the next morning (May 1) either pregnant, happy, or both. Pre-Christian, it got co-opted by the Catholics and turned into a day to drape a statue of Mary with flower wreaths.

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:16 PM

Is the opposite of affirmative action (i.e., "legacy" admissions) "negative action"? :)

Posted by: Eric at April 29, 2004 09:16 PM

The professor says that the Pretzel-Dunce had no compassion for the weak and helpless? That's obviously because he's a card-carrying member himself!

Posted by: rocknation at April 29, 2004 09:16 PM

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/Conover120502/conover120502.html

Bush isn't a moron, he's a cunning sociopath

By Bev Conover
Online Journal Editor & Publisher

December 5, 2002-If any of us are to have a future worth having, the world's leaders, the members of Congress, the US corporate media and people of all political persuasions who value freedom and democracy had better start seeing George W. Bush for what he is: a sociopath and a passive serial killer.

Psychiatrists tell us that all serial killers lack the emotions that make us human; that they have to learn to emulate those emotions in order to get by in society. Hence, a charming, well educated fellow like Ted Bundy who is known to have murdered 15 women and may have killed 36 before he was caught.

While Bush is no Bundy, when it comes Bundy's education and acquired charm, and to our knowledge has never personally murdered anyone, it has been evident to us that there is something missing in George W. in terms of his lack of compassion and empathy. As governor of Texas, he set a record in signing death warrants-154 in five years. He even made fun of the way convicted killer Karla Faye Tucker begged for her life.

If we believe the psychiatrists, a sign of a future serial killer is a child who delights in torturing and killing animals. George W., as a child, did exactly that. In a May 21, 2000, New York Times' puff piece about the values Bush gained growing up in Midland, Texas, Nicholas D. Kristoff quoted Bush's childhood friend Terry Throckmorton: "'We were terrible to animals,' recalled Mr. Throckmorton, laughing. A dip behind the Bush home turned into a small lake after a good rain, and thousands of frogs would come out. 'Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them,' Mr. Throckmorton said. 'Or we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up.'"

On Sept. 12, 2000, Baltimore Sun reporter Miriam Miedzian wrote, "So when he was a kid, George W. enjoyed putting firecrackers into frogs, throwing them in the air, and then watching them blow up. Should this be cause for alarm? How relevant is a man's childhood behavior to what he is like as an adult? And in this case, to what he would be like as president of the United States."

We're finding out, aren't we? While we, in two articles before the 2000 election-Sept. 21 and Oct. 23- noted Bush's penchant for blowing up frogs, the corporate media blew it off, just as it had no interest in what he was trying to hide by obtaining a new Texas driver license and his 1976 drunk driving conviction, or the fact he was AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard. Instead, they bought into his nonsensical claim of being a "compassionate conservative" and "a uniter not a divider" who was going to "restore honor and dignity to the White House."

All through the 2000 campaign and up to Sept. 11, 2001, the corporate media depicted Bush as an affable, tongue-tied bumbler-the kind of guy Joe Six-pack would like to have a beer with-turning a blind eye to his dark underside. It mattered not that he stocked his illicit administration with the worst of the worst: John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, Gale Norton, Paul O'Neill, Harvey Pitt, Thomas White, John Negroponte, Otto Reich and convicted Iran-contra felon Elliot Abrams who received a 1992 Christmas Eve pardon from George W.'s father.

Then, despite his peculiar behavior on Sept. 11, the corporate media and his handlers transformed him into a leader extraordinaire in the mold of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rolled into one.

Posted by: Officer Smudd at April 29, 2004 09:16 PM

of course people can change with age. but it is so very clear that he HAS NOT CHANGED.

Posted by: FlamingBuddha at April 29, 2004 09:17 PM

Really, are you guys pulling my leg?

Would someone please tell me.

This guy actually taught Bush at Harvard?

Posted by: The Subway Serenade at April 29, 2004 09:17 PM

...... This totally scarry.....
Bush was a college bully.

whoa...!

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 09:17 PM

This guy is great!
This is gold
good job!

Ask him about Kerry's BCCI paper
and what he thinks of the carlyle group!

Posted by: Darlenenbc at April 29, 2004 09:17 PM

The "compassionate conservative" lacks compassion? I'm so shocked!!

Posted by: Eric at April 29, 2004 09:18 PM

Kerry should replace Greenspan with this guy.

Posted by: The Subway Serenade at April 29, 2004 09:18 PM

'gentleman's C' ??!!

Posted by: AlKanadi at April 29, 2004 09:18 PM

I hope someone can take some of the most damning clips of this professor slamming on bush, and set it to some catchy music.

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:18 PM

I'm absolutely sick of Republican politicians using the "elite" label on intellectuals. Can we get some traction using this term on the wealthy and privileged? Bush is the quintessential eliteist!

Posted by: Liberel at April 29, 2004 09:18 PM

This interview should be a skit on SNL. cant you just see it? Bush's professor putting him down and criticizing him for not doing his work and Bush saying "someday i'll be president of the US, just wait" it writes itself!

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:18 PM

Clinton may be a sociopath too.

Posted by: Howard Beale at April 29, 2004 09:18 PM

Yes, people really do change--are you suggesting that you see any actual signs that Bush has done any postive change? Please get off the Kool-Aid.

Grem

Posted by: Gremlin at April 29, 2004 09:19 PM

Janeane is turning me on again!!!

Posted by: binFranklin at April 29, 2004 09:19 PM

Bush as a Junior at Andover..."For his first assignment-an essay on emotional experience-Bush looked up the word "tears" in a thesaurus his mother had given him, hoping to find an impressive synonym. He wrote, "Lacerates ran down my cheeks." prompting his professor to give him "a big fat zero' for his grade and call the Junior's paper "disgraceful."

Posted by: minitruth at April 29, 2004 09:19 PM

May Day Disarmament Rally and Concert: Saturday, May 1st 1:00 - 4:00 pm in Bryant Park (behind the NY Public Library) at 5th Ave and 42nd Street.

Speakers include: Leslie Cagan from United for Peace and Justice, Mayor Itoh of Nagasaki, Dr. Ronald McCoy, President of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Bruce Gagnon from the Global Network Against Nuclear Power & Weapons in Space, Ibrahim Ramey from the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Bill Harturg from the World Policy Insitute, Kate Hudson, Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Britain, Heesook Kim from Young Koreans United, and a Japanese A-bomb survivor. Entertainment will include musical performances by BINARI, a Korean American Traditional Cultural Activist Troup and Tatsumaki, a rock band from Japan.

Sponsors include: Abolition 2000, United for Peace and Justice, and many others.

Posted by: Joe at April 29, 2004 09:19 PM

~~~ Bush was a college bully. ~~~

He was a cheerleader. A Cheerleader/Bully?

Isn't that like a Gay Redneck?

Posted by: Fishgrease at April 29, 2004 09:19 PM

To what Janeane just said about Bush:

DINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDING!

(BIG GAME SHOW HOST VOICE): Bill, tell her what she's won!!!

Posted by: MDF3530 at April 29, 2004 09:20 PM

This is incredible. It's even scarier than the guy from Diebold yesterday.

Posted by: OzInVancouver at April 29, 2004 09:20 PM

This is incredible testimony. I cannot believe this professor is only coming forward NOW!!! Why wasn't he on 60 minutes 4 years ago?!?!

And why is he not on 60 minutes NOW !

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:20 PM

....I'm absolutely sick of Republican politicians using the "elite" label on intellectuals. Can we get some traction using this term on the wealthy and privileged? Bush is the quintessential eliteist!

exactly, bush and his frat boy buddies/bullies are the ultimate elites.....ultimate irony.

Posted by: theresa at April 29, 2004 09:20 PM

May Day Disarmament Rally and Concert: Saturday, May 1st 1:00 - 4:00 pm in Bryant Park (behind the NY Public Library) at 5th Ave and 42nd Street.

Sponsors include: Abolition 2000, United for Peace and Justice, and many others.

Posted

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:20 PM

His dad was not bright!

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:20 PM

Bush didn't do well in school and so he blamed others? wait....I think... I see...a pattern here!

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:20 PM

I didn't think it was possible, but my opinion of Bush has just dropped EVEN LOWER

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:20 PM

Wow! Amazing! I work at a high school. Guess it is possible for a crappy student to become leader of the free world! YIKES!

Posted by: Liza at April 29, 2004 09:21 PM

holy cow. Bush is a total Sociopath.

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 09:21 PM

he's lazy

Posted by: Dr. Paul Armstrong at April 29, 2004 09:21 PM

As a listener to Pacifica Radio, and a fervent Deaniac, I commend you all on this interview.

Well Done.

Posted by: The Subway Serenade at April 29, 2004 09:21 PM

As a listener to Pacifica Radio, and a fervent Deaniac, I commend you all on this interview.

Well Done.

Posted by: The Subway Serenade at April 29, 2004 09:21 PM

Bush Sr. isn't that bright, and Barbara's crazy and mean.

Posted by: Howard Beale at April 29, 2004 09:22 PM

BEHIND EVERY BUSH IS A TERROIST

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:22 PM

This prof is pure gold.
If you email Koppel to give support mention this guy is a guest. Absolute brilliant paybacks.

"Black sheep of the family." How wonderful!

Posted by: Liberal-at-large at April 29, 2004 09:22 PM

wow! the things you learn while listening to the Majority Report on Air America Radio that you would NEVER learn from the mainstream media.

AAR RULES!

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:22 PM

Clinton may be a sociopath too.

Posted by Howard Beale at April 29, 2004 09:18 PM

If a bl*w J makes you a sociopath
we are in deep trouble!

Posted by: Darlenenbc at April 29, 2004 09:22 PM

Hey! Hitler was no genius!

See... I went and done it. I played the Hitler card.

Posted by: Fishgrease at April 29, 2004 09:22 PM

Fredo...

Absolutly friggin delicious.

Posted by: The Subway Serenade at April 29, 2004 09:22 PM

Yeah, ask this guy if he has been asked for interviews by other media outlets...

Posted by: FlamingBuddha at April 29, 2004 09:22 PM

My question is why did someone as literate and smart as Laura Bush end up with such an idiot?

Posted by: Liza at April 29, 2004 09:22 PM

Wow, why the hell didn't the other students laight him out of te classroom? I'm a Yalie and a legacy, and I've met a lot of others. Even by those standards, Bush's is astounding arrogance and ignorance.

Posted by: Bobby at April 29, 2004 09:22 PM

Guys,
I can't stand watching Frontline. I appologize if any of you are Born Again...I have my own religion. But...this religion is too much for me and I don't think this is what Jesus had in mind either.

I am taping...and listening to your show and the TV but I can't stand to hear it.

Posted by: Toni D at April 29, 2004 09:22 PM

they chose the black dumber sheep to be the puppet boy because nayone with intelligence would question his controling administrations agenda

Posted by: me me me at April 29, 2004 09:22 PM

Bush may be the blacksheep, and that makes him vulnerable to doing what the strong parts of his family want him to do for approval. Imagine the hatred directed towards the weak in that family,

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:22 PM

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Posted by: I'masmadashell... at April 29, 2004 09:22 PM

bully in pom poms
compassionate cheerleader
redneck sissy bush

Posted by: Secret Identity Haiku at April 29, 2004 09:23 PM

May Day Disarmament Rally and Concert: Saturday, May 1st 1:00 - 4:00 pm in Bryant Park (behind the NY Public Library) at 5th Ave and 42nd Street.

Sponsors include: Abolition 2000, United for Peace and Justice, and many others.

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:23 PM

Sam and Janeane, I love you guys. But please stop talking over Professor Tsurumi ... We want to hear him speak, just prompt him -- don't lecture over him.

Posted by: Robert at April 29, 2004 09:23 PM

we need will farrell impersonations of GW

Posted by: Dr. Paul Armstrong at April 29, 2004 09:23 PM

I think you need to get an export on organic brain disorders on your show. I think there is ample evidence that GW Bush is not mentally competant; I think he is suffering from Altzheimers or mad cow disease (which might be poetic justice).

Support:

1) We've been thru this before with Ronald Reagan, and as then Bush's cronies have closed ranks around him so that he rarely appears in public or gives a press conference and such events as do occur are very carefully staged.

2) He is absolutely incoherent whenever he strays from the script or gets caught in an unexpected situation. Certainly his ability to speak coherently is well known.

If the president is incapacitated as I believe, he will never be allowed to apear in a debate with John Kerry, unless, of course, he is way behing in the polls and the format can be jimmied, as it often is, so that he does not need to reacxt to anything as it happens. I believe he can only deliver a pre-rehearsed speech, and not even do that very well.

So watch and wait; there will be no presidential debates this year.

Posted by: Evan at April 29, 2004 09:23 PM

I'm betting Bush Sr. isn't smart.

Posted by: Howard Beale at April 29, 2004 09:23 PM

"not born Handicapped!!! "hell yeah!!!

Posted by: binFranklin at April 29, 2004 09:23 PM

Oh man THAT'S funny!

Posted by: I'masmadashell... at April 29, 2004 09:23 PM

Reposting of Mr. President's Resume

George W. Bush (Dubya)
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20500

Past Work Experience

Ran for congress and lost.
Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.
Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas; company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox.
With father's help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas.
Accomplishments in Previous Positions

Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union.

Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog-ridden city in America. Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money.

Set record for most executions by any governor in American history.

Became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my father's appointments to the Supreme Court.

Accomplishments As President

Attacked and took over two countries.
Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
First president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history.
After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
Set the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any other president in U.S. history.
In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in U.S. history.
Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in U.S. history.
Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in U.S. history.
Presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
Presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
Dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history.
My presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history.
Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history (the 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleezza Rice, has an Exxon oil tanker named after her).
First president in U.S. history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
First president in U.S. history to order a U.S. attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation.
Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in U.S. history.
First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the human rights commission.
First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the elections monitoring board.
Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history.
Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
Refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
First president in U.S. history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections).
All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
My biggest lifetime campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history.
First president in U.S. history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
First president to run and hide when the U.S. came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
First U.S. president to establish a secret shadow government.
Took the biggest world sympathy for the U.S. after 9/11, and in less than a year made the U.S. the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in U.S. and world history).
With a policy of 'disengagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
Fist U.S. president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
First U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive.'
Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capital building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects.
In the 18 months following the 9/11 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.
Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in U.S. history.
In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the U.S. has ever been since the Civil War.
Entered office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.
Records and References

At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available)
AWOL from National Guard and deserted the military during a time of war.
Refuse to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.
All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my father's library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
All minutes of meetings for any public corporation I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.
For personal references please speak to my daddy or uncle James Baker (they can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group for war-profiteering.)

Posted by: Isaiah Micah Shiloh at April 29, 2004 09:23 PM

Oh MY GOD !!! Now I am more TERRIFIED than ever!! AN IDIOT HAS ACCESS TO THE BUTTON !!!

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:23 PM

this prof is funny....keep it up let him tell more embarrassing tales of the bully.
His family are ENABLERS in his stupidiy.

Janeane let the prof speak please.

Posted by: theresa at April 29, 2004 09:24 PM

he was the laughingstock of the class

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:24 PM

seriously guys, it's the Dead Zone.

Posted by: I'masmadashell... at April 29, 2004 09:24 PM

Oh, there it is! She was helping him with his dyslexia! No wonder he married a librarian and reading teacher!

Posted by: Liza at April 29, 2004 09:24 PM

Hello everybody... Just got in.

Posted by: DannySully at April 29, 2004 09:24 PM

Yes he is retarded, but he also pitches temper tantrums that make him look like my three-year-old nephew.

Posted by: MDF3530 at April 29, 2004 09:24 PM

Neil is as dumb as GW
Jeb is a freakin' idiot, too and, yeah, he may be more articulate, but I live in Florida, and I can tell you that he is equally as evil.

They are a family of privileged, evil MORONS!

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:24 PM

I'm not buying that he's not retarded. There's something wrong with that boy. His family dispised him secretly and he'll do anything to please that bitch Babs.

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:24 PM

This guy needs some bodyguards though. He's going to end up in a ditch.

Posted by: Lucky Maria at April 29, 2004 09:25 PM

Smudd: As a sometime student of Psychology I agree that Bush is a sociopath, but he is not cunning in any way! This professor is backing it up that he is certainly not bright and that he seeks the easy way out. I have always surmised that he is very much like a spoiled brat. Being spoiled is not an issue of material goods. It is an issue of not giving appropriate consequences for inappropriate actions. And it is evident today that he acts the same way.

Posted by: Catharine at April 29, 2004 09:25 PM

the media sure did a bad job...yes professor!

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:25 PM

BUSH was BARABARA BUSH's Favorite little child and that is why he was so spoild... AL Frankin said he took right after Barbara who was a "bitch" and thought the world revolved around her, and so it makes sense that Bush would be the same way

Posted by: MikeyNoLikeyBush at April 29, 2004 09:25 PM

........Media again.....

oh boy.. we have same culprit.

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 09:25 PM

Bush is totally borderline retarded.

Posted by: theresa at April 29, 2004 09:25 PM

~~~ I am more TERRIFIED than ever!! AN IDIOT HAS ACCESS TO THE BUTTON !!! ~~~

Don't get too scared until he doesn't GIVE UP the button if Kerry wins in November. Then, be very fucking scared!

Posted by: Fishgrease at April 29, 2004 09:25 PM

Now it's "us and them" against Bush!

Posted by: binFranklin at April 29, 2004 09:26 PM

S&J, I don't think he gets the Fredo jokes and other subtlies. easy does it

Posted by: I'masmadashell... at April 29, 2004 09:26 PM

I hereby petition to give Tsurumi his own radio show where he tells us old stories of GWB's idiocy

Posted by: Runaway Slave at April 29, 2004 09:26 PM

What was the name of the book Jeanane quoted at the beginning of the second hour?

Posted by: Liza at April 29, 2004 09:26 PM

Thanks for that long post shiloh
good one!

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at April 29, 2004 09:26 PM

“The hallmark of aphasia,” explains Dr. Antonio Damasio, a behavioral neurologist at the University of Iowa, “is the use of words that are off-target, words that are related but not quite correct.” Therefore, this condition can often be masked and difficult to diagnose.

This can also be true when treating those with agnosia. Agnosia, while it can present an extremely broad range of symptoms, sometimes causes aphasia-like speech and language problems. Such a person with agnosia may suffer from tonal problems and be unable to recognize the tone, timbre, feeling, or character of a voice, but can understand the words and grammatical constructions perfectly.

From a discussion of Bush: http://www.pressaction.com/pablog/archives/000887.html

Posted by: Darryl Roy at April 29, 2004 09:26 PM

Brother Marvin Bush was connected with security at WTC and his babysitter, Bertha Champagne, was killed in a freak accident at his house last October. No mention in the media except small mention in the WaPost:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A46190-2003Oct5¬Found=true

Posted by: Howard Beale at April 29, 2004 09:26 PM

This guy's perspective is dynamite!

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:26 PM

"Look at me, Mommy, I'm the biggest bully on the playground! Now do you love me?"

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:26 PM

This interview makes up for the Marijuana CRAP last night. Now would you please STAY ON THIS SORT OF TRACK until after the election PLEASE ???? OUR LIVES ARE AT RISK.

We have to time for Marijuana wasted time.

I BEG OF YOU TO REMAIN SERIOUS FROM NOW ON UNTIL NOVEMBER.

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:27 PM

_Please_ don't talk over Professor Tsurumi. We hear you guys all the time, but Professor Tsurumi has new information we can't get elsewhere. Let him say it!

Posted by: Robert at April 29, 2004 09:27 PM

Where was this professor during the last election? These disclosures are incredible! Poor people are poor because they are lazy!? Amazing. Why in the hell didn't this come out before?

Posted by: jdog at April 29, 2004 09:27 PM

this guy tried to talk about Bush in 2000. the media WOULD NOT talk to him! don't EVER tell me that the media did their job in 2000. They did not!

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:27 PM

best guest ever!

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:27 PM

it's like "the dead zone"!!!

if only we had done something to stop him....

Posted by: mike at April 29, 2004 09:27 PM

this guy's great

Posted by: I'masmadashell... at April 29, 2004 09:27 PM

I think the problem with Bush is that he's inflicting all his theocary on us pagans...

Posted by: DannySully at April 29, 2004 09:27 PM

This guy needs to be with Al Franken tomorrow as well and on to Ted Kopel tonight!!

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:27 PM

Imagine George W. Bush attending Kerry's inauguration. Picture it in your mind.

Can't do it?

Neither can I!

THAT'S SCARY!!!!!

Posted by: Fishgrease at April 29, 2004 09:28 PM

Definitely retarded, Definitely retarded, judge wapner, judge wapner.

Posted by: terry wilke at April 29, 2004 09:28 PM

Bring back the Prof!!!!! He's great!

Posted by: Liza at April 29, 2004 09:28 PM

Put him on Hardball with Cris Matthews.

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:28 PM

I'll tell you, this interview convinces me more than ever that Bush may not actually get as many votes as Kerry, but Bush will be President again.

We are becoming Margaret Atwoods' "The Handmaids' Tale"-this WILL be Gilead...

Posted by: Rico at April 29, 2004 09:28 PM

Thank you, Professor. You are AMAZING!!!! Come back SOON!!!!!

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:28 PM

........Stupid sociopath who found God.

Yay.

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 09:28 PM

Well Done.

Congratulations.

Posted by: The Subway Serenade at April 29, 2004 09:28 PM

What does it say about the people that would vote for this chimp?

Posted by: frngy at April 29, 2004 09:28 PM

PLEASE have the prof back !!!! Maybe this is our VP????

Posted by: binFranklin at April 29, 2004 09:28 PM

You know what's odd? Thank God Bush is an idiot, because can you imagine if he was actually intelligent how many of the American people he'd have fooled as he gutted the economy?

If it weren't for the fact that Rove picked an idiot, we'd have no chance to vote him out.

Posted by: OzInVancouver at April 29, 2004 09:28 PM

Why are you cutting him off for a Nebraska FARMER!! Shame on you!!

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:28 PM

As a macroeconomics professor, I think the professor should make it clear that much of the New Deal programs did not in reality do enough to the cyclical aggregate demand aspect of the Depression, at least not enough to return us to potential output. The main fiscal stimulus that returned us to potential output was World War II. New Deal did however, if somewhat inadvertently, address many of the market failures that occurred beforehand, such as the FDIC ending bank runs, or the Glass Steagol Banking Act, as well as social insurance froom Social Security.

Posted by: Bobby at April 29, 2004 09:29 PM

He is Fredo, Jeb is Sonny, Neil is probably Michael, and Marvin is Connie :-D .

Posted by: MDF3530 at April 29, 2004 09:29 PM

This is all completely obvious to anyone who's watched Bush for even a few minutes, but it's sure good to hear someone say it so clearly and bluntly. Nice coup to get him on, guys.

Posted by: Liberel at April 29, 2004 09:29 PM

that was one of the best interviews i've ever heard

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:29 PM

No...please...not Brockley.

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:29 PM

his family is NOT bright. they are a bunch
of inbreds. the only "winning quality" that
this family cultivates is an unbounded rapacity.

they train the bushlets in the art of plundering
and cheating

they traded with the Nazis well after the
atrocities they were committing became known

the book by Kevin Phillips is revealing.

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:29 PM

Tsurumi Rocks!!

Posted by: JasonK at April 29, 2004 09:29 PM

Great interview!!!

Posted by: JerseyRich at April 29, 2004 09:30 PM

I'll never forget watching the Bush-Gore debates and seeing Gore wipe the floor with Bush and then the post-debate analysts talking about how Bush "won" because he exceeded expectations. Unbelievable! I'm so sick of the media lowering the bar for Bush so, so long as he doesn't take a piss or fall during the debate, he "wins".

Posted by: jdog at April 29, 2004 09:30 PM

i want that father to beat that obnoxious, know it all little girl

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:30 PM

Brockley's alamanc? _This_ is a waste of time. At least the marijuana thing talked a bit about the problems of the war on drugs.

Posted by: Charon at April 29, 2004 09:30 PM

Well Done.

Friggin' Well Done.

Posted by: The Subway Serenade at April 29, 2004 09:30 PM

"Dodged the draft,
dyslexia,
laughing stock of the class,
manipulated by anybody,
changed for the worst,
religous fanaticism"

Words for the ages.
Please J&S, have this guy back.

Posted by: Liberal-at-large at April 29, 2004 09:30 PM

He didn't find God. It's a political act.

Posted by: God at April 29, 2004 09:30 PM

Prof. Tsurumi makes an excellent case for George Bush being a rotten student. So how did he manage to get a Harvard MBA? Has anyone in the American you-should-forgive-the-expression press ever looked into the possibility of cheating/payoffs/et al.?

Posted by: Bklynguy at April 29, 2004 09:30 PM

Last night I had a nightmare that Janeane was a lesbian. Not that I have a problem with lesbians at all. It just sort of ticked me off though... Not to mention aroused, and confused me.

Posted by: DannySully at April 29, 2004 09:30 PM

How do you get this blog to reload automatically? I have to close and reopen to see new posts

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:30 PM

Janeane,

Lose the redneck reference...it is an offensive sterotype that is beneath your intelligence level. While you may not be referring to southerners (I am one and know of what I speak), when you use the term redneck most of people associate it with the south. And rightfully so because the definition in Webster's is "a white member of the rural southern laboring class." For the most part it is the wealthy southerners who support teh caste system that is desired by the republican party... not therural southern laboring class. I'm not allienated (I live in the rural south and am a rabid liberal), but others might be; come up with a replacement for redneck...

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:30 PM

PBS Frontline is doing the Christian angle about Bush tonight at 9 Pacific. Might be on eastern time right now.

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:30 PM

That's great... I just pasted "Brockley's alamanc" from the website, didn't notice that almanac is misspelled :)

Posted by: Charon at April 29, 2004 09:30 PM

His father is as dumb as dirt - His brother Neil barely got out of college. His mother was a collage drop out. Read the book Bush Unauthorized. Its about the father Bush 41 but it tells alot about how George SR got over. No supprise that Geo JR did the same.

Posted by: me at April 29, 2004 09:31 PM

>> ~~~ I am more TERRIFIED than ever!! AN IDIOT HAS ACCESS TO THE BUTTON !!! ~~~

Don't get too scared until he doesn't GIVE UP the button if Kerry wins in November. Then, be very fucking scared!

Holy shit. He seriously can blow the world to smitterin! I am thinking the end of the world when he got re-elected here...

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 09:31 PM

I'm trying to write a paper on the effects of immigration in European Union countries, but I wanted to hop on and say the prof. rocked.

Posted by: columbus_carrie at April 29, 2004 09:31 PM

FACTS ABOUT BUSH SCARY AS HELL --- WAKE UP AMERICA-----

Posted by: JOE at April 29, 2004 09:31 PM

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

Posted by: bham1600 at April 29, 2004 09:31 PM

what's up fellas just getting in from work what did I miss?

Posted by: Michael at April 29, 2004 09:31 PM

If it weren't for the fact that Rove picked an idiot, we'd have no chance to vote him out.

Posted by OzInVancouver at April 29, 2004 09:28 PM

Maybe. I've always wondered, though, if a dumb guy like W wasn't the perfect front man for the death of democracy. The sheeple just can't imagine him meaning them any harm.

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:31 PM

Wow, that Tsurumi interview was incredible. I gotta tell you, I thought it was a "bit" at first, I mean, truth is stranger than fiction... yea, you should give Tsurumi his own show! Not just because he has exposed yet another chick in Ws plastic armor, but because he is incredibly insightful.
KJ Garvey

Posted by: Sunday James at April 29, 2004 09:31 PM

This is the track AAR should be on as a previous poster said.
No more stupid marijuana frat boys like last night ... WE ALREADY HAVE ONE IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!

Posted by: theresa at April 29, 2004 09:31 PM

Janeane and Sam,

Please promise if brockley starts talking about chickens eating their own eggshells you'll change the subject.

Posted by: Lucky Maria at April 29, 2004 09:31 PM

Bring back the professor!

Posted by: Darlenenbc at April 29, 2004 09:31 PM

unwelcomeguests.org

Free downloads of brilliant lectures by Chomsky, Zinn, Parenti, Stan Goff, Michael Albert and others on topics like imperialism, globalization, etc.

Posted by: timbermonkey at April 29, 2004 09:31 PM

~~~ How do you get this blog to reload automatically? I have to close and reopen to see new posts ~~~

F5 key

Right Click.... choose "Refresh"

Posted by: Fishgrease at April 29, 2004 09:32 PM

Reload with your reload command.

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:32 PM

What John Kerry needs is a Pit Bull.

Kerry/Dean

It can't lose.

Click.

Posted by: The Subway Serenade at April 29, 2004 09:32 PM

What would you say was Janeane's best movie? I say "Steal This Movie".

Posted by: MDF3530 at April 29, 2004 09:32 PM

Can somebody explain to me how the concept of odd and evan are a philosphical illusion?

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:32 PM

Wow...Love the professor!

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:32 PM

Just a comment: Bush is by no means stupid, he had the names of some 100 odd fraternity members at Yale memorized within his first week there.

And all the silly nicknames are a mnemonic technique for him, perhaps compensating for borderline dyslexia.

Doesn't change the fact that he's incurious, conceited, bigoted, and beholden to an apocalypic worldview. I'd rather have a guy who knew the difference between Shi'ite and Sunni than someone who could memorize the names of the White House press.

Posted by: Darryl Roy at April 29, 2004 09:32 PM

I loved Dogma.

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:32 PM

What John Kerry needs is a Pit Bull.

Kerry/Dean

It can't lose.

Click.

Posted by: The Subway Serenade at April 29, 2004 09:33 PM

A Southern PitBull would be better - Max Cleland.

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:33 PM

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Posted by: AIR AMERICA COMMUNITY at April 29, 2004 09:33 PM

GWB on the subject of use of steriods:

".....it sends the wrong message -- that there are shortcuts to accomplishment, and that performance is more important than character."

From the State of the Union, 2004

First he hijacks the election, then the country and finally irony.

Posted by: Freship at April 29, 2004 09:33 PM

Clearly the media is a very large part of the problem in the United States today. I propose we as the AirAmerica community get organized and start working to change the media. First there is the issue of the FCC and then there is the issue of the $$$ that motivates the media.

We have to hit the media in the pocketbook and we have to barrage the FCC AND media with criticism whenever we hear of something outrageous. For instance, everyone should call the Sinclair Broadcasting Group (?) who gave $45,000 to Republican party and today decalred they will not air Nightline tomorrow because Ted Koppel is going to list all of the names of the soldiers who have died. SBC has the nerve to say Koppel is political. I called today.

What other ideas does anyone have? Let's take back the media from the ignorant bullies!

Posted by: Catharine at April 29, 2004 09:33 PM

Brockley rules.

Posted by: OzInVancouver at April 29, 2004 09:33 PM

"How do you get this blog to reload automatically? I have to close and reopen to see new posts
Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:30 PM"

Hit f5

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at April 29, 2004 09:33 PM

.....Why are you cutting him off for a Nebraska FARMER!! Shame on you!!

Oh for FUCKS SAKE!!!!!!!!

Posted by: theresa at April 29, 2004 09:33 PM

I really hate this Brockley guy. So useless and boring. Maybe I will log off now and come back in 20 minutes...

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:33 PM

Sorry for the double post.

Posted by: The Subway Serenade at April 29, 2004 09:34 PM

Intellectual Analysis of GW Bush is not necessarily a productive use of synaptic resources.

Majority report's time is best used in parsing the slippery downward slope that will be created by the current installation of this idiot.

He's no different than the rest of the folks in Texas that hold no real understanding of the nuances of interpersonal/intercultural/international relationships. He's NO Diplomat, I'm sure he's made that totally apparent.

Deal with what his and the neo-con "hawks" will create as a consequence of their current actions.

Shrub's mind is a waste of time...Ask his mom.

Posted by: Booga at April 29, 2004 09:34 PM

For info on how to hurt Sinclair Broadcasting, see the note at the very top of this blog.

Posted by: OzInVancouver at April 29, 2004 09:34 PM

Concerning the good professor's alarming observations about his former pupil (nearly all of which are obvious from W's very unsubtle facial expressions and voice inflections):

I have long thought that one reason George & Barbara Bush, and all their friends, wanted son George W in the White House is that it's cheaper than daycare. This way, he'll be looked after for the rest of his life at taxpayers' expense.

Posted by: JeannieB at April 29, 2004 09:34 PM

Sam and Janeane-

You have on one of GWB's teachers in Harvard Buisness School who drops all these insights into Dubyas' neuroses and then you kick him out for this stoopid Brockley shit!

Damn, that's insulting to him, your listeners, and the mission of this network!

Posted by: Rico at April 29, 2004 09:34 PM

What a waste. This segment BLOWS. You really should can this segment. I am totally opposed to this segment. It is NOT FUNNY nor does it have any REMOTE relevance to the Network's mission which is NOT HUMOR nor Entertainment - the mission is INFORMATION and TRUTH against the Right LIARS.

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:34 PM

Bobby, I have to disagree with you on a fundamental level. The New Deal did something fantastic: restore consumer confidence and rebuild the crushed consumer sector by putting them back to work.

FDIC, SSI, etc were lubricants for confidence, but the WPA, CCC, etc were tremendous stimulants.

In addition most of the projects were very productive in terms of infrastructure. For instance, TVA provided cheap electrical power across the eastern United States unlike any place on Earth. Without TVA, the Manhattan Project couldn't have taken place in Oak Ridge Tennessee, Alcoa couldn't have produced massive amounts of aluminum, etc etc etc. Cheap and plentiful power is key to economic growth, and FDR rightly saw this opportunity.

Republicans are always trying to diminish the impact of the New Deal, and attribute things to a structural recovery that would have come either way, but was helped along by WWII. This mantra has some how escaped into the general public and people accept it on the surface because it's revisionist.

Posted by: Robert at April 29, 2004 09:34 PM

I'm still partial to Janeane's stint with the Ben Stiller Show.

Posted by: timbermonkey at April 29, 2004 09:34 PM

I say Jesse Jackson Jr. With his dad's pull, it would be a landslide, which is what Kerry'll need. If it's close, the Supreme Court will give it to Bush & I'm moving to Canada.

Posted by: MDF3530 at April 29, 2004 09:35 PM

And you have to wonder, again and again, how could such an IDIOT get the nod, but I think its BECAUSE he is such an idiot... I mean, would anyone with half a brain destroy the economy and send so many of our brothers and sisters to their death? I don't think he's that cruel. There is a limit to cruelty... but, if you are that stupid you'll do just about anything your buddies tell you to do.

Posted by: Sunday James at April 29, 2004 09:35 PM

The engineer is overloading the input on BOTH mics.

Posted by: Darryl Roy at April 29, 2004 09:35 PM

What was the name of the movie where she was a super hero with her dad's skull inside the bowling ball? That and Cat's and Dogs are my favorites.

Posted by: Lucky Maria at April 29, 2004 09:35 PM

Bred just to eat and lay around.

I'm a chicken!

Posted by: Fishgrease at April 29, 2004 09:35 PM

Dude, chicken tractor is cool, but stuffing 90 in there isn't cool at all.

Posted by: Lisa B-K at April 29, 2004 09:35 PM

Thanks, guys, for having the professor on. That was a GREAT segment. Please have him back soon! His insights on Bush were the most illuminating I've ever heard. A lot of things fell into place for me about Bush's character. He's almost a caricature of the spoiled, arrogant, stupid rich kid.

Posted by: maria la place at April 29, 2004 09:36 PM

Broccoli really smells!

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:36 PM

SAm,
dont make fun of this guy

Posted by: Tim the Democrat at April 29, 2004 09:36 PM

Sinclair is a huge donor to Bush and the RNC. Have a look.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1498443#

Posted by: Harry at April 29, 2004 09:36 PM

Reccommend the prof for the Randi Rhodes Show...She can get all the good nuggets about bush from the prof.

I LOVE THE PROF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: theresa at April 29, 2004 09:36 PM

Mystery men

Posted by: DannySully at April 29, 2004 09:36 PM

Kicking out the Harvard Professor after only a few minutes is the DUMBEST THING THIS NETWORK HAS EVER DONE.

FIRE The Producer who made this call.

You Idiot!!

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:36 PM

"Can somebody explain to me how the concept of odd and evan are a philosphical illusion?"

This always irritated me too. It's nonsense. The blue sky thing is okay, though.

Posted by: Charon at April 29, 2004 09:36 PM

For fun, and because all congressional candidates could use the money, Clarkies are trying to help Richard Morrison see his goal of raising $20,000 by the end of the week. So far he's raised $7,000.

Morrison is the Democrat running in Tom Delay's Congressional district. With Delay's current legal troubles, he is looking vulnerable.

http://www.richardmorrisonfordistrict22.com/

So we can all keep track of the fundraising progress tonight, if you make a donation, please post the amount to this blog, or come over to http://www.forclark.com and post the amount to our general (*heh*) discussion thread. You don't have to register to post at forclark.com. Just please help us track the progress.

Posted by: Ksenija at April 29, 2004 09:36 PM

I _LOVE_ Brockley! Shut up! He's hilarious. If you guys get of this segment I'll be sorely disappointed. I want entertainment as well as RIGHT WING BASHING.

Posted by: Robert at April 29, 2004 09:36 PM

there are no worms under my sink

Posted by: emily at April 29, 2004 09:37 PM

I don't know anyone in Australia who has worms under their sink.

Posted by: Adam at April 29, 2004 09:37 PM

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:37 PM

This segment is worthless. What is the point?

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:37 PM

Worms eat garbage is the best

Posted by: Tim the Democrat at April 29, 2004 09:37 PM

>> Doesn't change the fact that he's incurious, conceited, bigoted, and beholden to an apocalypic worldview. I'd rather have a guy who knew the difference between Shi'ite and Sunni than someone who could memorize the names of the White House press.<<

But I think what surprised me the most is the revelation that he is a sociopath. Actually this story is corraborated with another story how he use bibi gun on his brothers.

He is OUR version of Uday and Qusay.

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 09:37 PM

This guy is really wasting the air he is breathing.

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:37 PM

WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? Worms are cool. But not on this network please.

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:37 PM

Vermicompost!

Listen to this guy... at the rate this country's going, we'll all be raising chickens and living off the land.

Seriously... what do you know how to do?

Posted by: Lisa B-K at April 29, 2004 09:37 PM

Easy on the abuse, people. The Prof said his piece. What more did you want him to say? Maybe he should read out some of Dubbya's papers?

"What do you think this is? A Holiday Inn?"

Posted by: OzInVancouver at April 29, 2004 09:37 PM

Get HIM OFF NOW.

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:38 PM

no worms, but this guy is hilarious i'll forgive him for this and the chicken cruelty

Posted by: emily at April 29, 2004 09:38 PM

That Brockley guy is NOT funny! Please, please PLEASE stop subjecting us to this bullshit week after week!!!

Posted by: NightTrain at April 29, 2004 09:38 PM

I've got to second "Taylor" on this one. Letting that guy go early was reallllly lame. Bad call. Bring him back.

Posted by: I'masmadashell... at April 29, 2004 09:38 PM

Really, folks, they really do deliver chick via post office in rural areas.

I'm surprised they all made it.

cramming chickens in cages. Not good.

Guy's lying about breeding chickens to like cruelty.

Mine are free-range. I have no roosters so none of the eggs are fertile. We don't kill anybody's baby. (unfertile eggs are never going to become chicks). We don't eat the layers, either. Anyway, our chicken ladies have lots of fresh air and room to stretch their legs.

Worms are great for compost. Urine is great for compost.

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:38 PM

who cares?
it is cruel I have seen those
poor chickens they are so
fat they can't even walk
this is disgusting

Posted by: Darlenenbc at April 29, 2004 09:38 PM

call it WORM RAIDERS

Posted by: me me me at April 29, 2004 09:38 PM

Oh! You guys have to read the atrios post on W as a plant runner.

http://atrios.blogspot.com/

Posted by: Read this at April 29, 2004 09:38 PM

Tell brokly I wanna raise chickens....

How much profit is there in 90 chikens?

Posted by: Tim the Democrat at April 29, 2004 09:38 PM

"The engineer is overloading the input on BOTH mics."
I'll agree.

Reduce the Preamp to a nominal level (2 o'clock on a rotary pot) or below, then adjust the output gain on the slider to a balanced level...

Posted by: Booga at April 29, 2004 09:38 PM

Hey I'm up for it! Sign me up to have the Worm 's eye for the Straight Guy... But can you throw in a new TV?

Posted by: DannySully at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

Sam and Janeane-

You have on one of GWB's teachers in Harvard Buisness School who drops all these insights into Dubyas' neuroses and then you kick him out for this stoopid Brockley shit!

Damn, that's insulting to him, your listeners, and the mission of this network!

GET RID OF THIS SEGMENT!!!!

Posted by: Rico at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

Sam and Janeane,

Please send this guy packing, broccoli!

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

The biz school professor was probably the most important thing this program has aired to date. How can we get a copy of it??

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Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

"I want entertainment as well as RIGHT WING BASHING."

Me too. But Brockley isn't funny.

Posted by: Charon at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

My friend from New Hampshire, a former prof at Harvard, once admitted to me that the most difficult assignment at Harvard is gaining admitance. No further assignments, homework, essays, tests, exams. All of that is irrelevant.
The keeners of course, do work and stay mentally alert but most just polish their networking skills in order to qualify as old boys after automatic graduation. There are some who live in the library for four years but that's not a requirement. They do it just to alleviate the guilt.

Posted by: CalumM at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

What the hell is this guy talking about?

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

When Are You Guys Going To Start FOLLOWING your LISTENERS?

This segment has no business on this network.

Losing the Professor was GROSS NEGLIGENCE. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

I have a question. . . what is this segment about?

Posted by: Hexagon at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

he does not know what
grassroots level means and he is going
to give us advice?
come on!

Posted by: Darlenenbc at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

Hippies suck.

Posted by: Slugicide at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

We need a punk rock homesteading DIY magazine!

Posted by: Lisa B-K at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

"Bashing" is using lies or hyperbole to demonize someone unfairly, like the media did to Howard Dean.

Pointing out that right-wingers are on the losing side of history and morality is just calling a spade a spade. It only sounds like bashing because it's been so long since we've heard anyone do it.

Posted by: timbermonkey at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

Why do they have this idiot animal abuser on? Very sad to promote animal abuse on a liberal radio. Why not have a nice vegan like Carol Adams?

Posted by: TJ at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

http://www.weblife.org/humanure/default.html

the Humanure Handbook, a 20-year study on the decomposition of human waste through thermophyllic decomposition (at temps >150f) kills all biotoxins and recycles all human waste (without water waste) for 1/10th of our current infrastructure cost

AND you get valuable compost out of it.

Posted by: John Mitchell at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

For those who are just waiting for this silliness to end, perhaps you might to look at the latest developments in Astral Technology.

Click.

Posted by: The Subway Serenade at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

>> This segment is worthless. What is the point?

I think It's Sam & Jeanines version of social experiment. They are testing our listening endurance before our head explode. :D

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

ask him what KIND of worms they are

Posted by: me me me at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

Hey, if you ever set up an archive of old shows, can we compostthis segment?

Posted by: Mister at April 29, 2004 09:39 PM

This segment is about an incompetent Producer who should be FIRED!

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:40 PM

The thing that terrifies me about the Professor's interview is that he said he tried to get this out last election. Media wouldn't listen. How do we get them to listen now?

Between this and the Diebold thing last night, I'm SERIOUSLY worried that it's too late. The corruption and control of the news outlets has gone to far and too deep. What if we really are powerless?

Posted by: Lucky Maria at April 29, 2004 09:40 PM

BOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNGGGGG....

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P[23=04=23\0230AEOJGFAAAGVKH[PAK43T34I=4IGV0IA
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(oops, sorry, I fell asleep and my head hit the keyboard...sorry)

Posted by: MDF3530 at April 29, 2004 09:40 PM

Yes, folks, that's where your chicken breasts come from... And this dude's operation is nothing compared on the true horror outfits like Perdue.

Posted by: Kathryn at April 29, 2004 09:40 PM

Do they eat cigarette butts?

Posted by: DannySully at April 29, 2004 09:40 PM

Martha talks (talked) a lot about compost.

I'm a master gardener and master composter for King County, WA. Ask YOUR local MG or MC and you can have all the free advice for composting (worm bins) and organic gardening you can handle.

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:40 PM

The worm deal sounds like something Bush would go for.

He'd better hurry.

Posted by: Fishgrease at April 29, 2004 09:40 PM

Right on WANDA!! KILL This segment before My Stomach EXPLODES!

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:41 PM

Thos bucket of worms thing really works--my Sister in law does this: she dumps in old eggshells, newspaper, cardboard, coffe grounds, all that stuff. You lose sight of the worms (if that makes you feel icky) after a few days and you never really see them again. The compost they produce is incredibly rich, it doesn't smell, and it's the richest soil short of guano.

Posted by: Britisher at April 29, 2004 09:41 PM

I love love love Brokly

Bring him back weekly

Bring back Professor again too

Posted by: Tim the Democrat at April 29, 2004 09:41 PM

thank you john mitchel for that great link
dont bash this guy people.. hes got some REALLY important ideas

Posted by: me me me at April 29, 2004 09:41 PM

worm excrement is called worm castings

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:41 PM

They don't say Umm or Ahhh anymore... How am I supposed to get drunk now?

Posted by: DannySully at April 29, 2004 09:41 PM

poop!

Posted by: Dr. Paul Armstrong at April 29, 2004 09:41 PM

Hey Taylor, shut it!
For crying out loud, for all you know the prof only had half an hour to spare. Quit bitching about something that you should be enjoying.

Posted by: OzInVancouver at April 29, 2004 09:41 PM

Professional operation: it is a removal of human fecal matter over the air waves.

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:42 PM

JANEANE - YOUR MIC SOUNDS HORRIBLE. WORSE THAN SAM'S. BROCKLEY'S CONNECTION SOUNDS BETTER THAN YOURS.

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:42 PM

hey we should ask Brockley if he saw any UFOs
or aliens. that will get this segment moving.

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:42 PM

Those CHickies are adorable!!

Posted by: Tim the Democrat at April 29, 2004 09:42 PM

I like Brockoly, but I can't help but feeling that you all are kinda making fun of him and other farmers. But I still think AAR and MR rocks!

Posted by: Liza at April 29, 2004 09:42 PM

This guy is funny, but I protest his treatment of the chickens... I like the worm idea too.

Posted by: Rooster at April 29, 2004 09:42 PM

I love Brockklee

Posted by: Tim the Democrat at April 29, 2004 09:43 PM

people please, the show cannot be all things to all people all the time.

Posted by: FlamingBuddha at April 29, 2004 09:43 PM

I've never criticized the show before, but you guys DO gotta lose this segment. Have somebody from the blog call in.

Meet the Blog.

Posted by: Fishgrease at April 29, 2004 09:43 PM

Brokerly (besides having a lame schtick) is a real moron. His assertion that chickens are born to like being crammed into tiny cages where they can't move is and do nothing but lay eggs is an absolute lie. The truth is that chickens are very social animals, recognize each other, are able to show emotion, etc. And the way they are victimized by humans is tragic. Visit http://www.peta.org for many stories of the atrocities chickens must endure.
And one last thing, get rid of this idiot...he is a show killer. I don't know how you continue to carry him after all the negative reaction he gets every week. Does he have compromising photos of Garafalo or what?

Posted by: Isaiah Micah Shiloh at April 29, 2004 09:43 PM

it has nothing to do with maturity!!!
go see those chickens for real
you'll never eat chicken again!
they are so full of chemicals
their legs can't even support their weight!

Posted by: Darlenenbc at April 29, 2004 09:43 PM

>> The thing that terrifies me about the Professor's interview is that he said he tried to get this out last election. Media wouldn't listen. How do we get them to listen now?

Between this and the Diebold thing last night, I'm SERIOUSLY worried that it's too late. The corruption and control of the news outlets has gone to far and too deep. What if we really are powerless?
<<

What amazes me is how efficient the right wing can control the media. Their grip is absolute.

This will be the study of generations of scolars.

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 09:43 PM

too long with this guy...a little humor is good, but...

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Posted by: AIR AMERICA COMMUNITY at April 29, 2004 09:43 PM

Thanks for keeping Brockley short.

hey, suddenly Janeane sounds different, new mic?

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:43 PM

I've never posted on the blog before or even read it, but I just had to say: Please stop doing the Ross segment!! Please!!

Posted by: Mike at April 29, 2004 09:44 PM

Janeane, you're the only ones who love Brockley...

Posted by: MDF3530 at April 29, 2004 09:44 PM

Now that you're off the phone, J sounds much better.

Posted by: Mister at April 29, 2004 09:44 PM

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Posted by: AIR AMERICA COMMUNITY at April 29, 2004 09:44 PM

Everyone's a critic.

Posted by: OzInVancouver at April 29, 2004 09:44 PM

Hey folks,
I lived in Stockholm a little more than 10 years ago, and I don't remember there being two bathrooms. Maybe it is something new, but I am sure they haven't retrofitted all of the johns in Stockholm. I would love to see where this is published.
Worms on the other hand are a great idea. Everyone should invest in worms. They are the new eco hot button.
Easy to raise. don't need to walk them and you can feed them anything.
the perfect pet!!!

Posted by: gal in ohio at April 29, 2004 09:44 PM

Janeane, love your laugh!!!

Posted by: terry wilke at April 29, 2004 09:44 PM

Hi,

I really miss Dr Dean. I miss his speeches and his fire.

sigh

Posted by: deaniac08 at April 29, 2004 09:45 PM

Rico and all the Brokalee bashers need to chill. And bring the Professor back soon.

Posted by: Tim the Democrat at April 29, 2004 09:45 PM

'nuther commercial!

Ten more soldiers! Why are both Democrats and Republicans still saying we can't just get out of Iraq? Lots of silly, meaningless semantics. We're holding out to create the illusion of a democracy in a place where Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani IS the government now, and will be... no matter what we do. Read THE FISHGREASE MANIFESTO (or... What's so bad about Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani?), a plan to exit Iraq now, with honor and with a chance of retaining good relations with a al-Sistani government.

www.fishmanifesto.com

Posted by: Fishgrease at April 29, 2004 09:45 PM

Whitesnake???? Please, no!

Posted by: millennui at April 29, 2004 09:45 PM

.......I have this theory that Broccley is really Sam's voice trick.

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 09:45 PM

if we have Brockley back lets discuss aliens
and UFOs with him. that wil get this segment
going.

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:45 PM

brockley = unfunny
pretaped segments with brockley = really unfunny

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:46 PM

Ben franklins here an he's buying a round!

(ships bell rings out like freedom!)

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at April 29, 2004 09:46 PM

You guys are amazing. Brockley is brilliant and sublimely entertaining. The Blog stuff is OK, but I think Majority Report is a little too weighted in that direction.

Prof was awesome, Brockley was great as usual, keep it up guys.

Posted by: Robert at April 29, 2004 09:46 PM

I'm putting my voice in to support the Brockley Almanac. There's a lot of time before the election, people, so quit harping on ten minutes per week of stuff that doesn't make your boat float.

Personally, I think AAR could ditch three hours of Al Franken a day and be better off, but am I going to go yell about it?

Posted by: OzInVancouver at April 29, 2004 09:46 PM

Dean for VP i'm tell'in you, it's a slam dunk!

Posted by: terry wilke at April 29, 2004 09:46 PM

Right - major factory farms are horrors. But to the individual chickens being abused and murdered it is all the same. I'm gonna have to head out next time this animal abuse is mocked and glorified on liberal radio. Shame on you for promoting this crap.

Posted by: TJ at April 29, 2004 09:46 PM

I did not know what the Professor told us tonight. But thanks for the head's up Janeane.

Mike PAPANTONIO is AAR's Pit BULL. He is the BEST voice/brain AAR has. Whoopie!!

OK Now I'm on track. Sorry OZ in Vancouver. Didn't mean to bum you.

Mike Papantonio is GOD. I am totally into this guy. I hope he sticks around for the rest of the show.

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:46 PM

Yeah, J's mic sounded right after Ross hung up. Does that tell ya anything?

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:46 PM

f**king blood sucking wh*re, this Coulter
b*tch

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:47 PM

too long with this guy...a little humor is good, but...

Posted by: Catharine at April 29, 2004 09:47 PM

Wanda - companies love to complain that their news divisions lose money. They have to be valuable to these mega corporations somehow.

I would love to see legislation that limited who could own a news outlet, like any company that gives any money to any politician should not be able to.

Posted by: Lucky Maria at April 29, 2004 09:47 PM

Yeah, J's mic sounded right after Ross hung up. Does that tell ya anything?

Posted by: goody at April 29, 2004 09:47 PM

f**king blood sucking wh*re, this Coulter
b*tch

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:47 PM

Okay, back to more Republican bashing! Please.

Posted by: JerseyRich at April 29, 2004 09:47 PM

Taylor: It's cool. We just have to avoid looking a gift horse in the mouth. It's neat that we can contribute to the show through this thing, but it isn't our show to start placing orders.

Posted by: OzInVancouver at April 29, 2004 09:48 PM

Is that the YIKES lady?

Posted by: terry wilke at April 29, 2004 09:48 PM

God, you guys shure know how to turn a coup into a screwup. You had a guy with insights and new information and you take him off to talk to some dumbass about chickens?

You guys are an embarrasment.

Posted by: Evan at April 29, 2004 09:48 PM

my guess is the almanac was a pre-taped segment? that's why it sounded odd

Posted by: FlamingBuddha at April 29, 2004 09:48 PM

TO : Isaiah Shiloh

That was a perfect summary, Thanks......tell me more about that B rated movie.

All anti Bush voters should print it, carry it in our pockets and everytime a wing nut opens his/her mouth we should pull it out and start talking..

seriously every dem. needs that list for our talking points

Posted by: Digdin at April 29, 2004 09:48 PM

ross runs a farm with battery cages? sam and janeane as progressives you should be calling him on this crap!!

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:48 PM

NOT JJJJJJJJUKE AGAIN!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at April 29, 2004 09:48 PM

OZ rocks!

Posted by: Lucky Maria at April 29, 2004 09:49 PM

Woohoo!

Posted by: OzInVancouver at April 29, 2004 09:49 PM

Matt won??? OMG!!!

Posted by: MDF3530 at April 29, 2004 09:49 PM

Sorry.. gotta say I don't like the cruciferous vegetable spot either. Gotta agree with "Mister": compost Brockley soon.

Posted by: Sisyphus2 at April 29, 2004 09:49 PM

Whoops, sorry!!!

Posted by: MDF3530 at April 29, 2004 09:49 PM

7-8 AM Pacific Saturday Morning - A MUST HOUR.

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:50 PM

Please, do not let Brockoly get away with that horrible lie about chickens, who are smart and social animals. When treated in this manner these poor animals will actually pluck out their own feathers and injure themselves just to get some type of stimulation. They basically go crazy.

Posted by: Janet at April 29, 2004 09:50 PM

WTG Ozzy!

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Thanks Sam and Janeane. Anything I can do to help.

Oh, and HollywoodBitchslap.com is faaaaaar from right wing. Click my name to see!

Posted by: OzInVancouver at April 29, 2004 09:50 PM

http://www.bartleby.com/61/69/J0076950.html

juke

PRONUNCIATION: jk, jk
VARIANT FORMS: also jook
NOUN: Southeastern U.S. A roadside or rural establishment offering liquor, dancing, and often gambling and prostitution. Also called juke house, juke joint.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: juked also jooked, juk·ing, jook·ing, jukes, jooks
1. To play dance music, especially in a juke. 2. To dance, especially in a juke or to the music of a jukebox.
ETYMOLOGY: Probably from Gullah juke, joog, disorderly, wicked, of West African origin; akin to Wolof dzug, to live wickedly, and Bambara dzugu, wicked.
REGIONAL NOTE: Gullah, the English-based Creole language spoken by people of African ancestry off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, retains a number of words from the West African languages brought over by slaves. One such word is juke, “bad, wicked, disorderly,” the probable source of the English word juke. Used originally in Florida and then chiefly in the Southeastern states, juke (also appearing in the compound juke joint) was an African-American word meaning a roadside drinking establishment that offers cheap drinks, food, and music for dancing and often doubles as a brothel. “To juke” is to dance, particularly at a juke joint or to the music of a jukebox whose name, no longer regional and having lost the connotation of sleaziness, contains the same word.

Posted by: Nancy Richardson at April 29, 2004 09:51 PM

>>Wanda - companies love to complain that their news divisions lose money. They have to be valuable to these mega corporations somehow.

I would love to see legislation that limited who could own a news outlet, like any company that gives any money to any politician should not be able to. <<

yes but by the end of the day, it's not possible to sustain News outlet without 'reliable news'.

Audiance will run away and viewership plummet and profit gone...
I don't see Fox news can survive another 2 years without changing their quality for eg...

but who knows.

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 09:51 PM

Please spell check your posts. I'm liberal, and I think we need to show the right that we're intelligent. A typo could easily get them to dismiss us out of hand.

More pics please!!

Posted by: Spence at April 29, 2004 09:51 PM

seriously, i'm willfully obscure, but how DO we get ABC/ NBC/ CBS to listen to us? and PBS for that matter with their Old White Guys News Hour!! Real ideas everyone!!

Posted by: binFranklin at April 29, 2004 09:51 PM

I love Mike P! Another voice of reason!

Posted by: Liza at April 29, 2004 09:51 PM

Get rid of the Bayer Weed & Feed ads. Those guys are earth-poisoners.

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:51 PM

Hi,
There is an important point that I would like to bring up while the 9/11 commission is still questioning members of the Bush Administration. General Mahoud Ahmad (head of the Pakistani I.S.I. during 9/11) authorized a $100,000 wire transfer to Mohamed Atta (the alleged ringleader of the terrorist hijackers). This same man, Mahmoud Ahmad, was on an official visit to Washington from Sept. 4-13, 2001 where he met with Colin Powell, Richard Armitage, and George Tenet. I believe that the 9/11 commission should at least ask what they were doing with a man who helped fund the 9/11 attacks. It certainly seems relevant.
Thanks for your time,
Sean from New Hampshire

Posted by: Sean at April 29, 2004 09:51 PM

...can board op bring the phone caller's level up... thanks..

Posted by: antiradio at April 29, 2004 09:51 PM

How did they determine who was first with that jukebox thing? I was the first one to give the etymology (which I stole word-for-word from Merriam-Webster, but still). Not that I wanted the tickets, being almost in Vancouver myself...

Posted by: Charon at April 29, 2004 09:51 PM

I like Mike's voice. I can't wait to hear Ring of Fire this Saturday.

Posted by: Hexagon at April 29, 2004 09:51 PM

OK, I'm back. Glad to hear that Brockley's gone.

Also, I had the chance to set my VCR for the Jesus and his pal, GW, special on PBS.

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:52 PM

Natural gas pipeline, not oil.

Unocal WAS negotiating with the Taliban, but Cheney wasn't directly involved. Still....

Posted by: timbermonkey at April 29, 2004 09:52 PM

Watching Frontline - still haven't mentioned evolution or rapture. I think that's a terrible ommission. Wait! Ralph Reed is Bush's southeastern US campaign chairman!

Posted by: Tim at April 29, 2004 09:52 PM

Most browsers don't have spell checking for form filling. It's called proofreading.

Posted by: MDF3530 at April 29, 2004 09:52 PM

I'd rather listen to Brockley than another Bayer Poison ad.

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:52 PM

don't like worms? farmers?
middle america crazies?
or chirping chickens?

Posted by: Secret Identity Haiku at April 29, 2004 09:53 PM

Mike Papantonio is modulating his voice. heh..

so he is practicing for his show. Good move.

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 09:53 PM

ask him about the prisoners

whoever was negotiotating threatened to carpet bomb them if they did not go along with their plans Right before 911

Posted by: Digdin at April 29, 2004 09:53 PM

I think AAR having a segment with the midwest and the agrarian sector is a good idea. It shows liberals trying to connect with middle america and not be "elitist." It's just sad that the incredible prof was bumped off. That's really why we're bitching mostly...end of bitch session for me.

Posted by: theresa at April 29, 2004 09:53 PM

"Reduce the Preamp to a nominal level (2 o'clock on a rotary pot) or below, then adjust the output gain on the slider to a balanced level..."

On most radio consoles the preamp trims are inside the board, they have to be preset, and the board operator has no access to them.

distortion comes from the the engineer burying the needles, (most do not make that mistake), 0or the speaker is talking directly into the mike instead of backing off and talking past it.

The the individual mike compressors are set for too much compression.

-scooter
board op and radio producer
KPFT Houston
Pacifica Radio

Posted by: skutre at April 29, 2004 09:53 PM

Cathy: can you suggest a good site for eco-friendly alternatives to pesticides?

Posted by: timbermonkey at April 29, 2004 09:53 PM

ask him about the prisoners

whoever was negotiotating threatened to carpet bomb them if they did not go along with their plans Right before 911

Posted by: Digdin at April 29, 2004 09:53 PM

I really enjoyed the Prof. however his English was so bad I could not understand him that well. Could you guys go over his high points of what a wad of s*it bushie was in school..where he got his grades via a doppelganger... gentleman's c my ass!

Laura Bush should spend more time with George to help him with his big words

chil
PS
Janenne I caught you in that flick where you played the Burger Girl.. it was a cute and harmless film
Loved your burger choices.. hehe

Posted by: Chil at April 29, 2004 09:54 PM

Gotta love the firey Mike Papantonio! Can anyone point me to some factual research regarding the Bush cartel's negotiation with the Taliban on Al Qaeda over oil??? Thanks.

Posted by: Embedded at April 29, 2004 09:54 PM

JG what's the word for these Bush backers that logic just can't Penetrate.

Posted by: terry wilke at April 29, 2004 09:54 PM

>Bayer Poison ad.

What is with the music in that ad? It sounds like incidental music by John Williams.

Posted by: Nancy Richardson at April 29, 2004 09:54 PM

oll sattellite analyst in
florida says they buildin
something in desert.

long rows a lights
that should'nt be there
Interestin eh?

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at April 29, 2004 09:54 PM

Joe is truly one of the world's greatest reporters and it's his HOBBY. He's a fricking Attorney. Amazing. Thank you so much Joe.

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 09:55 PM

Crude Politics. By John Vidal
READ IT

Posted by: Dennis at April 29, 2004 09:55 PM

I use Roundup myself. From what I've heard, it is the most Earth-friendly weed spray.

Posted by: MDF3530 at April 29, 2004 09:55 PM

'nother great guest

Posted by: Sunshine Jim at April 29, 2004 09:55 PM

james baker is president

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:55 PM

Whoops, sorry!!!

Posted by: MDF3530 at April 29, 2004 09:56 PM

>> Laura Bush should spend more time with George to help him with his big words

She is an airhead too. Ever watch her interview? very scary.

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 09:56 PM

Amen brother. I love you smoooooooooch

Posted by: Digdin at April 29, 2004 09:56 PM

>>>Bayer Poison ad.

Y'know Bayer also made Zyklon B...

Posted by: Kathryn at April 29, 2004 09:57 PM

RoundUp is made by Monsanto, some TRULY evil bastards. They're trying to force farmers to stop saving seeds and buy their own RoundUp-resistant seeds.

Posted by: timbermonkey at April 29, 2004 09:57 PM

HEY TAYLOR IN SANTA CRUZ,

are you a FRSC fan?

-scooter

Posted by: skutre at April 29, 2004 09:57 PM

Baker was Bush Sr.'s puppeteer. Rove & Cheney are GWB's.

Posted by: MDF3530 at April 29, 2004 09:57 PM

What time is this guy's program on AAR?

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:58 PM

f**king blood sucking wh*re, this Coulter
b*tch

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:58 PM

The name of the book is "Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy, Saudi Arabia and the Failed Search for bin Laden." YOu can get it on Amazon.

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:58 PM

Just to clarify: Enron had a money losing HUGE natural gas fired electricity plant at Dabhol, India. Another company, Unocal, was responsible for building a natural gas pipeline across Afghanistan & Pakistan to supply India.

Posted by: Darryl Roy at April 29, 2004 09:58 PM

This gangster administration needs to be brought up on treason charges!

Posted by: frngy at April 29, 2004 09:58 PM

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Posted by: AIR AMERICA COMMUNITY at April 29, 2004 09:58 PM

Mike Papantonio has all the goods. He's amazing.

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:58 PM

ARGH, although the Frontline episode could be interepeted differenlty depending on your religous views and attitudes [evangelicals will be proud of bush, evangelicals will be creeped out a litte], however the episode focused WAY too much on Bush supporters. It didn't even bother to but Bush's religous view in social/political context until the last 15 minutes. Then again, I don't think the show was about, "Look at Bush! The crazy born-again christian" it was more biographical and how the religous right helped Bush. I am trying to the perfect agnostic, who tries not to disparage religon. But it would still be nice if they focused half of the show and not a quater of the show on the social/political context.

Posted by: Anonymous Blog Name at April 29, 2004 09:58 PM

Attacking poor old Alan Combes? I love it! :)

Posted by: Eric at April 29, 2004 09:59 PM

ask the lawyer to talk about the
constitutional rights we have
lost with the Patriot Act

Posted by: Darlenenbc at April 29, 2004 09:59 PM

Alan Colmes' real name is Caspar Milquetoast.

Posted by: MDF3530 at April 29, 2004 09:59 PM

Timbermonkey,
first, identify the garden problem (lawn, veges. roses, etc)
second, stay away from Ortho, lily-miller or Monsanto no matter what.
(Monsanto =GMO)
third, see if you can find whitney-farms products.

We (King County, WA Master Gardeners) use the Olkowski's "The Gardener's Guide to Common-Sense Pest Control"

Good luck,

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 09:59 PM

Papantonio for President Kerry's Atty. General, Let him loose on these crooks in Bush administration

Posted by: JerseyRich at April 29, 2004 09:59 PM

Holy sh*t! Can this pipeline stuff really be true?!!

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 09:59 PM

>> Gotta love the firey Mike Papantonio! Can anyone point me to some factual research regarding the Bush cartel's negotiation with the Taliban on Al Qaeda over oil??? Thanks.<<

It's in the book he just mentioned. I glanced it in bookstore the other day.

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 10:00 PM

Oops I forgot to proof read, I was trying to type it and get it out as fast possible I ment non-evangelicals will be creeped out. Apologize for some of typos and bad spelling! :)

Posted by: Anonymous Blog Name at April 29, 2004 10:00 PM

It was the August 6th (not the 7th) memo.

More importantly: what's this about John O'Neil quitting because of Dick Cheney?? According to Frontline, the reason was because of a leak to the NY Times about an investigation over him misplacing a briefcase.

Please correct your guest.

Posted by: Martin Stone Davis at April 29, 2004 10:00 PM

If you want balanced coverage of world events in the context of religion, I recommend "Religion & Ethics Weekly." "The Christian Science Monitor" is pretty good too.

Posted by: Scott Lahteine at April 29, 2004 10:00 PM

Lewis Libby, the leaker, interesting

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 10:01 PM

Of course this pipeline stuff is true. follow the money.

Posted by: terry wilke at April 29, 2004 10:01 PM

Hey Sam & Janenne enjoy the report! let's kick some Goper Ass!!! 2004

first time blogging this is kind of fun!
chil

Posted by: Chil at April 29, 2004 10:01 PM

Round-Up is not nature-friendly. In fact, Monsanto (the company that makes it, which also made DDT and Agent Orange) created a genetically modified brand of soy that they've sold to farmers in the third world on the basis that it's resistant to Round-Up.

The farmers think this is great, so they buy the seeds and spray their crops with weed killer directly. The only problem is that by making this stuff immune to Round-Up, Monsanto's genetic fiddling has taken almost all the nutrients out of the soy itself.

And really, if there are no nutrients in the soy, why would you even eat the stuff?

Oh yeah. The soy has a suicide gene, so it won't breed, leaving the farmers having to buy more seed every time they put down a new field, rather than just collecting it naturally.

Posted by: OzInVancouver at April 29, 2004 10:01 PM

I think I'm in love with Mike Papantonio. :)

Posted by: theresa at April 29, 2004 10:01 PM

Janeane!
What was the name of the book you mentioned before your interview with the Professor? I've got to get it!

Posted by: Liza at April 29, 2004 10:02 PM

>>>If you want balanced coverage of world events in the context of religion, I recommend "Religion & Ethics Weekly." "The Christian Science Monitor" is pretty good too.

Commonweal is also good sometimes.

Posted by: Kathryn at April 29, 2004 10:02 PM

Mike Papantonio is great. can't wait for his show.

Posted by: carly at April 29, 2004 10:02 PM

-Crude Politics (actually by Paul Sperry)
-Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy, Saudi Arabia and the Failed Search for bin Laden

Thanks Dennis and anonymous Majority Reporter.

Posted by: Embedded at April 29, 2004 10:02 PM

>> Lewis Libby, the leaker, interesting

old news. That name has been floated months ago.

Posted by: wanda at April 29, 2004 10:02 PM

The Sellouts in the Fourth Estate

French journalists Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, the book's first French language publication in Europe caused a major furor. But it was not with the French government or its friends in the media. The angst was among members of the Bin Laden family -- the so-called "good bin Ladens" and those who have done business in the past with George W. Bush and his father. Yeslam bin Laden, one of the "good" bin Ladens in Switzerland sued the authors for the information they provided on the bin Laden family's past business dealings. The suit went no where because the authors had absolute proof that not everything the bin Ladens have done in finance and business has been on the up and up.

But now, some self-appointed media spokespeople in Washington have taken up the cause that the bin Ladens wisely decided to drop. They have criticized Forbidden Truth without having read it or only having read snippets from it. It would appear that they have taken their cue from a White House family, who, like the bin Ladens, seem to have an awful lot to hide. The book has also been criticized for being unsourced when, in fact, it has over 500 footnotes. Footnoting and providing references is a practice that some of Washington penultimate journalistic insiders, including Bob Woodward of The Washington Post, should adopt in their own future docu-novels concerning administration cover-ups and malfeasance.
Brisard and Dasquie provide concrete evidence how this same self-serving approach to business permitted the Taliban to negotiate with senior members of the Bush administration on a lucrative pipeline deal just weeks prior to the al Qaeda terrorists slamming commercial jetliners into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. It's the same mind set that in 1990 convinced U.S. ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie to tell Sadaam Hussein that the Bush I administration had no interest in his inter-Arab border dispute involving Kuwait. We now all know why the Bush family had no great interest in that "minor" dispute. They made a fortune from it, along with then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, whose Halliburton company helped rebuild the oil infrastructures of both Kuwait and Iraq.

And now we have some of the same players standing to make a fortune from a trans-Asian CentGas pipeline that will extend from Turkemenistan, through Afghanistan, to Pakistan's Indian Ocean port of Gwadar. Dubya's, Cheney's, and Condoleezza Rice's Big Oil friends at Unocal, Halliburton, Chevron, and Saudi Arabia's Delta Oil all stand to make a handsome profit from the CentGas deal. Enron, in concert with Bush's Special Envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, actually developed the feasibility study for the pipeline. And current Secretary of the Army, Thomas White, who now influences U.S. military policy in Afghanistan, was a Vice President of Enron in charge of such "special deals." So its little wonder we are told in Forbidden Truth that representatives of the Bush administration told the representatives of the Taliban in Berlin in July 2001 that they would be faced with a "carpet of gold or a carpet of bombs." Its so arch-typical Bush.

http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen0722.html

Posted by: cali at April 29, 2004 10:03 PM

hey- when Mike gets back on can you ask him if the recent EPA move to allow more sulpher in gasoline to "reduce prices" (due to the crony tax raising prices) is in any way related to the fact that the Caspian Sea oil reserves being very high in sulpher?

Posted by: preznit giv me turkee at April 29, 2004 10:03 PM

Randi Rhodes has been talking about the pipe line stuff for years. She even had the author of "Forbidden Truth" on her show at one point.

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 10:03 PM

http://www.serendipity.li/wot/bl_tft.htm

3 reviews of U.S. Policy on Taliban Influenced by Oil

Posted by: AIR AMERICA COMMUNITY at April 29, 2004 10:03 PM

The pipeline stuff is definitely true. Check out who Karmid Kharzai, the new leader of Afghanistan, was most recently employed by... Hmm... Unocal.

Posted by: OzInVancouver at April 29, 2004 10:03 PM

You actually are starting to sound like elitists. Mocking Bush because he didnt fit in at a college that over 99% of the country could not get into seems to be a strategy designed to alienate rather than attract an audience.

Posted by: billc at April 29, 2004 10:03 PM

The Christian Science Monitor??? are you nuts?

Posted by: terry wilke at April 29, 2004 10:03 PM

I don't know about everyone else, but I don't read these really long posts. Does anyone? Why do people put them up?

Posted by: Kathryn at April 29, 2004 10:04 PM

Monsanto = Roundup= evil.

I understand that Roundup is considered safe because it breaks down quickly.

HOWEVER, Monsanto has created frankenstein seeds (soybeans immune to roundup, etc) and so, on principle, I won't give them a dime. I'd rather reward truly green companies with my dollar.

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 10:04 PM

Mike Papantonio and Bob Kennedy Jr. 10-11 AM Eastern 7-8 AM Pacific Saturday Morning.

Posted by: Taylor in Santa Cruz CA at April 29, 2004 10:05 PM

geez wolfowitz dosen't even know how many soldiers have been killed in Iraq. The sad fact is they don't give a damn.

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 10:06 PM

thanks for the heads up anonymous I am in CA and it won't be on for another hour. And if spelling counted I could never blog.......I can't get pissed think type and spell at the same time....but hopefully I am a step ahead of Bush

Posted by: digdin at April 29, 2004 10:06 PM

The Christian Science Monitor is actually a good paper. They do actual journalism - a rarity these days, right Bob Novak?

Posted by: OzInVancouver at April 29, 2004 10:06 PM

>You actually are starting to sound like elitists. Mocking Bush because he didnt fit in at a college that over 99% of the country could not get into seems to be a strategy designed to alienate rather than attract an audience.
Posted by: billc at April 29, 2004 10:03 PM <

99% of people didn't get into college because they couldn't afford it. Trust me, the vast majority would do better than Bush jr if they could afford to get in.

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 10:06 PM

I'm all for getting AAR in my neighborhood (DC/Baltimore/VA), but I'd rather not complain about a radio station I know nothing about. What's the story behind Sinclair stations?

Although chances are the station probably sucks, what should we be complaining about?

Posted by: ortsed at April 29, 2004 10:06 PM

Christian Science Monitor is more liberal than you think, you should go to their site and see their editorials and what the feel is top news to be covered on their homepage.

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 10:06 PM

If 9/11 was a response to hard ball tactics from Enron, Cheney's hiding out in his undisclosed location for so long suddenly makes sense (and no other explanation does). He must have thought they were coming for his scalp!

And ENOUGH with calling educated people "elitist." Elites are people with money and power. Snobs, maybe, but not elitist.

Posted by: Liberel at April 29, 2004 10:07 PM

thanks for the heads up anonymous I am in CA and it won't be on for another hour. And if spelling counted I could never blog.......I can't get p***ed, think, type and spell at the same time....but hopefully I am a step ahead of Bush

Posted by: digdin at April 29, 2004 10:07 PM

Christian Science Monitor is very well respected. The Right hasn't bought it out yet because they hate the Christian Scientists.

My "Christian" friend calls them a cult (pot, meet kettle)

Posted by: cathy in seattle at April 29, 2004 10:09 PM

First of all....Janeane, you are the most beautiful woman in hollywood.

I'm so sorry I missed this show the entire first two weeks it was on! Your guests are poignant, inspriational voices in this time of pandemonium!
I was laughing through your entire interview with "W's" old Prof. I was wondering if transcripts of the show are available? You know, like the one's not available from today's 9/11 Commission testimony? The reason I ask is because I was so moved by the words of Dr. Reverand James Forbes the other night that I want to see them again.

Peter in Chicago

P.S. You're pretty nifty, too, Sam

Posted by: Peter De Giglio at April 29, 2004 10:09 PM

Christian Science Monitor is pretty good, they have great articles dealing with world and national events.

Posted by: Anonymous Blog Name at April 29, 2004 10:09 PM

many countries like japan and england have non lethal guns that instantly tranquilize.

Posted by: jonah at April 29, 2004 10:10 PM

CSM is one of the few that practice actual journalism.

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:10 PM

Mike is awesome. Why does his show only get 1 hour??

Posted by: Hexagon at April 29, 2004 10:11 PM

I don't care about the Christian part
The Monitor writes and reports liberal
stuff. Just look up the site before
being closed minded

Posted by: Darlenenbc at April 29, 2004 10:12 PM

Ah...Richard Cheney...what a DICK

Posted by: BiOGoLY at April 29, 2004 10:12 PM

People vote for candidates they think are a little smarter than they are. They dont vote for the brainy candidates. They dont trust them. At least thats what I learned in poli sci. By having a former Harvard professor say Bush was not Harvard material Airamerica just showed a lot of idiots that Bush is one of them. Cheap shots never really work.

Posted by: billc at April 29, 2004 10:13 PM

Ideas for how to affect the media: the right wing has been doing this for Years and Years. Relentless feedback, boycotts of sponsors etc.

Every time anyone says something you know to be a lie or that has a right-wing slant call your local station's news department IMMEDIATELY and give them a piece of your mind.

When network news do it, call their New York headquarters IMMEDIATELY, ask for the news division and give them a piece of your mind.

If it's really bad, tell them you're organizing a boycott of the station or the network.

Call their sponsors and tell them you are organizing a boycott of their products if they don't stop sponsoring right wing propaganda.

This is how the right wing gained control of the media. Now it's our turn.

Posted by: maria la place at April 29, 2004 10:13 PM

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Posted by: AIR AMERICA COMMUNITY at April 29, 2004 10:13 PM

check out this AAR review...

http://www.all-baseball.com/willcarroll/archives/2004_04.html#013077

Posted by: Lefty Liberal at April 29, 2004 10:13 PM

That's because there are so many many scandals and so little time

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:14 PM

Cheney and the Bushes are related!

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/wreitwiesn/candidates2000/cheney.html

Not only that but GHWB and Barbara Pierce Bush are relatives!

And they have over half a dozen relatives who were/are president.

Posted by: skeewhiff at April 29, 2004 10:15 PM

Kerry should unleash Howard Dean to go for the Jugular on all these issues!

Posted by: JerseyRich at April 29, 2004 10:15 PM

I have no problem with Christian Science Monitor, even as an atheist. The articles I've read have been pretty good and definitely not overtly religiously biased.

Posted by: Hexagon at April 29, 2004 10:15 PM

Cheney and the Bushes are related!

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/wreitwiesn/candidates2000/cheney.html

Not only that but GHWB and Barbara Pierce Bush are relatives!

And they have over half a dozen relatives who were/are president.

Posted by: skeewhiff at April 29, 2004 10:16 PM

A prop to amend the Constitution was proposed so Ahnold could run for president.

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:16 PM

Their oaths of office cover the perjury whether they are "sworn in" or not.

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:17 PM

I agree Opel

Posted by: Darlenenbc at April 29, 2004 10:18 PM

Hopefully at least one of the commissioners secretely bugged themselves.

Posted by: JerseyRich at April 29, 2004 10:18 PM

Stop picking on Karen Hughes. Even hermaphrodites have to make a living.

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:19 PM

Thank you Darlene. And thank you for paying attention.

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:21 PM

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Posted by: AIR AMERICA COMMUNITY at April 29, 2004 10:22 PM

I was able to buy Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy on Amazon.com for like 5 bucks with shipping!!!!

Quentin

Posted by: Quentin Dodd at April 29, 2004 10:24 PM

The problem is that we won't have any independent verification of what they said. If someone says they committed perjury, they could just deny it.

Posted by: Hexagon at April 29, 2004 10:24 PM

mhyman@sbgnet.com, dsmith@sbgnet.com

Siclair top execs emails!!!

Have at them!

Posted by: at April 29, 2004 10:27 PM

I saw the Pants on Fire mobile. Good idea, but it could be a lot better. It needs a better statue and a bullhorn with loud angry voices emanating from its entrails. Any wealthy liberals out there should help fund the building of a new bush statue.

Posted by: Damon at April 29, 2004 10:29 PM

Hey Vancouver friend,

Leave Al alone. You big bully. Al and all the kids at AAR are critical to their success.
He needs to keep the liars in check.

Posted by: gal in ohio at April 29, 2004 10:29 PM

Everybody need to visit Bev Harris' groundbreaking site: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:30 PM

>>Richard Cheney...what a DICK

Big time. :)

Posted by: timbermonkey at April 29, 2004 10:31 PM

Armed monitors

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:32 PM

Is the UN going to watch
our Nov. election?

Posted by: Darlenenbc at April 29, 2004 10:33 PM

Weapons of doom. He got that from his Gameboy

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:35 PM

Someone needs to mention Bev Harris' Black box Voting site.

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:36 PM

Yes, and 10,000,000 people marched to say the war in Iraq was wrong. No one listened to them either.

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:37 PM

They have already stolen several elections with these things

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:38 PM

I wrote to the UN
several months ago and ask
them if they would monitor us
at the time they said they
were looking into it
but I had not heard anything

Posted by: Darlenenbc at April 29, 2004 10:40 PM

Check it out,

A humurous and startlinglook at 911:

http://gnn.tv/redux/

Posted by: skeewhiff at April 29, 2004 10:40 PM

Why isn't there a national holiday for election day?

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:41 PM

opel for President lol
good idea

Posted by: Darlenenbc at April 29, 2004 10:42 PM

I love these AAR commercials. Who is the voice?

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:42 PM

Let's just let the vote go to one roll of the dice in Vegas. That is how silly this whole voting machine business is getting. Why isn't the Democratic party crying FOUL.
Something really smells in DC.

Posted by: gal in ohio at April 29, 2004 10:43 PM

Shoots, Darlene, let's take the whole week off.

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:43 PM

How many of you are considering
leaving the US if (cringe)
Bush cheats his way back in?

Posted by: Darlenenbc at April 29, 2004 10:46 PM

quote:
My question is why did someone as literate and smart as Laura Bush end up with such an idiot?
Posted by Liza at April 29, 2004 09:22 PM
-----
Have you ever been in Texas? And why do you think Laura - who, with her car, ran down and killed her boyfriend at college, who just broke up with her -- is any kind of a bargain?

Posted by: charlie at April 29, 2004 10:46 PM

Yeah. The men with breast cancer thing gave me something new to worry about.

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:48 PM

I don't live in the US. I live in Hawaii.

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:49 PM

The Air America commercials are voiced by Keith David, who narrated Ken Burns' "Jazz" series on PBS, and played Cameron Diaz's dad in "There's Something About Mary." He's great.

Posted by: timbermonkey at April 29, 2004 10:50 PM

Bush B gone. sounds great on all levels.
Please sign me up to beta test it.

Posted by: gal in ohio at April 29, 2004 10:51 PM

Ben Cohen's little film on True Majority on defense spending is wonderful. Even the stupidest person you know would get it.

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:52 PM

Thanks, timbermonkey!

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:52 PM

oh you better watch out! Pants on Fire,
the secret serivce just investigated
a 15 year old from Washington State
that drew a picture of Bush as the devil
and one with his head on a stick
I thought about offering to buy them.

Posted by: Darlenenbc at April 29, 2004 10:54 PM

Thank you Janeane!!!

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:54 PM

This will seem low, but is Dubya checking out his daughter?!

http://www.thefirsttwins.com/images/jenna_inaugural3.jpg

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Ben's great!

Posted by: opeluboy at April 29, 2004 10:58 PM

good show

Posted by: Darlenenbc at April 29, 2004 10:59 PM

I can't believe that Sinclair Broadcasting could suggest that the 'Nightline' segment 'appears to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the United States in Iraq.'

I think their planned blackout appears to be very politically motivated!
Especially after seeing information on their "Officers and Key Executives" political donation history.
[ http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1498443# ]
(thanks Bleachers7!)

Is this Interesting?::
I started looking around online during tonight's 'Majority Report Show' on Air America Radio- because a few of the regions listed in Sinclair Broadcast Group's "no Nightline area" reminded me of a 2004 swing state listing I saw online.

Of the 6 states/areas mentioned by an ABC News spokeswoman in a recent Reuters article as being on Sinclair's media blacklist of "Nightline":
4 states are also listed as "Voting Swing States" on Wikipedia.org...

Of those 4:
3 are considered "Battleground States" on the Wikipedia 2004 swing state list!

Coincidence?

Coincidence or not- these swing states might deserve added attention within current American political issues...

I know that I am gonna be keeping this swing state list close by - for times I hear bizarre news like Sinclair's media blacklist...

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Reuters Article:
[http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=4993863]

"Sinclair said the 'Nightline' segment 'appears to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the United States in Iraq.'"
**
"An ABC News spokeswoman said Sinclair's decision to preempt Friday's 'Nightline' on its stations would remove the program in at least seven markets -- St. Louis, Missouri; Columbus, Ohio; Charleston, West Virginia; Pensacola, Florida; Springfield, Massachusetts and Asheville and Winston-Salem, North Carolina."

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Wikipedia.org Swing State List:
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_state ]

"In the presidential elections of the United States, the U.S. Electoral College system means that only the winner of a state receives any benefits from it (i.e. electoral votes). If a campaign wins a plurality of the popular vote in a state, the candidate receives all of that state's electoral votes; no benefit is gained from receiving additional votes above the margin necessary to win (this is true of 48 of the 50 states and the District of Columbia; the two exceptions, Maine and Nebraska, are explained below). This fact produces a very particular set of circumstances that explains the existence of swing states."

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Posted by: ss at April 30, 2004 12:35 AM

The part of the show with Brockley was appalling. Chickens are not bred to be happy crammed into cages so they can't move, and sitting in their own shit, with no veterinary care. They do pump them full of chemicals so it is difficult for them to walk and so their feet crack under the pressure because they're top heavy.

His are the words of a slaveholder describing slaves too dumb to feel or care over their misery and enslavement. This was shameful. Part of what we're doing in getting Bush out of the White House is attempting to transform the world into a truly more compassionate one. Brockley is as backwards in his thinking and compassion as the Bush gang is.

Go take a look at a factory farmed animal. They are our equals in terms of feelings, if not intelligence. And chickens are not dumb animals, they have a large range of expressions and communications, although we treat them like inanimate objects. All creatures desire the freedom to move, to live, to mate, to enjoy the sun. Brockley can't see that in his selfishness, but I hope that others will.

For a look at farming, please see http://www.veganoutreach.com (how animals are made into food); http://www.cok.net; http://www.upc-online.org/

Posted by: x at April 30, 2004 12:48 AM

Are you going to post a transcript of what Bush's Harvard Professor had to say tonight?

PLEASE, please, please, POST a complete transcript!

This guy should tell his story on every major media outlet!

Eric

Posted by: Eric Abbiss at April 30, 2004 12:59 AM

Are you going to post a transcript of what Kerry's Butler had to say tonight?

PLEASE, please, please, POST a complete transcript!

This guy should tell his story on every major media outlet!

Eric "Dolt" Sheep

Posted by: phungus at April 30, 2004 01:40 AM

sinclair broadcasting are hard core right wing toadies - here is the first part of an article about them:

The Death of Local News

By Paul Schmelzer, AlterNet
April 23, 2003

Tune into the evening news on Madison, Wisconsin's Fox TV affiliate and behold the future of local news. In the program's concluding segment, "The Point," Mark Hyman rants against peace activists ("wack-jobs"), the French ("cheese-eating surrender monkeys"), progressives ("loony left") and the so-called liberal media, usually referred to as the "hate-America crowd" or the "Axis of Drivel." Colorful, if creatively anemic, this is TV's version of talk radio, with the precisely tanned Hyman playing a second-string Limbaugh.

Fox 47's right-wing rants may be the future of hometown news, but – believe it or not – it's not the program's blatant ideological bias that is most worrisome. Here's the real problem: Hyman isn't the station manager, a local crank, or even a journalist. He is the Vice President of Corporate Communications for the station's owner, the Sinclair Broadcast Group. And this segment of the local news isn't exactly local. Hyman's commentary is piped in from the home office in Baltimore, MD, and mixed in with locally-produced news. Sinclair aptly calls its innovative strategy "NewsCentral" - it is very likely to spell the demise of local news as we know it.

Posted by: Matt at April 30, 2004 03:16 AM

About Sinclair's partisan antics:

We should call for a whispering campaing on investor forums and chat rooms about the perils of media companies acting as shills for an administration that could very well be WAY out of power by the time their next piece of business comes before the FCC.

Make the connection between the uncertainty of Bush's election and the uncertainty that spooks investors.

We should start making investors increasingly alergic to companies too closely connected to the Bush Cartel -- an effect that would multiply as Bush slides in the polls.

Posted by: AgitProper at April 30, 2004 10:59 AM

Sinclair exec buys hookers but cant honor our troops...read: email mr smith @ dsmith@sbgnet.com tell him If he can buy a hooker, he can honor a fallen soldier!

from atrios:

David D. Smith, president and chief executive officer of Sinclair Broadcast Group, was arrested this week in his hometown of Baltimore and charged with a misdemeanor sex offense. Sinclair owns WPGH, the Fox affiliate in Pittsburgh, and programs most of WPTT.

The Baltimore Sun reported that Smith, 45, was arrested Tuesday night in an undercover sting at a downtown corner frequented by prostitutes.

On Thursday night, Sinclair issued a statement that Smith's arrest was unrelated to company business and ''The company will continue to operate under the direction of its current management.''

...more

Broadcasting official charged in sex stakeout
Sinclair president, woman arrested in company car

Published on: August 15, 1996
Edition: FINAL
Section: NEWS
Page: 2B
Byline: SUN STAFFPeter Hermann

372

The president of Baltimore-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., which owns the local Fox television affiliate, was arrested Tuesday night and charged with committing a perverted sex act in a company-owned Mercedes, city police said.

David Deniston Smith, 45, of the 800 block of Hillstead Drive in Timonium, who also is Sinclair's chief executive, was arrested in an undercover sting at Read and St. Paul streets, a downtown corner frequented by prostitutes, Baltimore police said yesterday.

Smith and Mary DiPaulo, 31, were charged with committing unnatural and perverted sex act. Smith was held overnight at the Central Booking and Intake Center and released on personal recognizance at 2 p.m. yesterday. DiPaulo's bail status was not available.

Officials at WBFF-TV (Fox 45) and Sinclair, one of the fastest-growing broadcasting companies in the nation with 28 television and 34 radio stations, would not comment yesterday. The company had $126 million in sales in the first half of this year.

Police said undercover Officer Gary Bowman, on a prostitution detail, was talking to DiPaulo about 9: 15 p.m. in a car at St. Paul and Read streets. She left the undercover car after telling Bowman that ``she had just seen her regular date driving in the area,'' according to court documents.

Police said DiPaulo ran across the street to a 1992 Mercedes, registered to Sinclair, and got in on the passenger side. Police followed the car onto the Jones Falls Expressway, where they said they witnessed the two engage in oral sex while Smith drove north.

Police said they followed the car back to Read and St. Paul streets, where they arrested Smith and DiPaulo, who lives in the 700 block of Washington Blvd.

Posted by: at April 30, 2004 05:31 PM

For those of you in some Sinclair markets, some other
stations have stepped in and agreed to carry tonight's
Nightline. Go here for details:

http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=64976

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