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January 1, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
January 2, 2007
Welcome Back
open show thread!
January 3, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Tuesday Show Thread
Early.
sign a petition to restore progressive talk in Boston.
Jeff Kisseloff author of Generation On Fire an oral history of the sixties
update: comments sponsored by ToniD today
Post show Post
January 4, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Thursday's Show
It's on.
in DC? check out this protest of the neo cons Lieberman and McCave
Casual Friday's show
Casual FRIDAY is here!
First sign this petition and help Tom Tomorrow.
Then listen to todays show:
Lt. Watada won't be doing press until his
trial is complete, but we will talk to his
attorney Eric Seitz.
and
Marc Maron
and
your calls.
UPDATE: SAMMY CAM LINK
Concientious Objector links
Stop the War Brigade -
Vietnam Veterans Against War
January 5, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Maybe they're resigning in protest?
More reports of massive personell changes in
the military command and White House, but in
light of reports like
this:
Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said yesterday that he believes top officials in the Bush administration have privately concluded they have lost Iraq and are simply trying to postpone disaster so the next president will "be the guy landing helicopters inside the Green Zone, taking people off the roof," in a chaotic withdrawal reminiscent of Vietnam.
why is no one asking if we aren't seeing a massive wave of "quiet" protest resignations?
Jon McCaiv finds his new, impossible to implement plan for Iraq
Jon McCain thought he was being clever in advocating a 20,000 troop escalation. He never thought it would happen and then could whine in 08... "we woulda won but they never listened to me". Now faced with the prospect of Bush actually following the McCaiv doctrine of escalation, McCaiv is twisting and turning his proposal again...
"It has to be significant and sustained. Otherwise do not do it," said Sen. John McCain , a Republican presidential hopeful and Vietnam veteran who has been advocating a troop increase.
oh and Lieberman is singing back up:
Sen. Joe Lieberman, meanwhile, agreed with McCain that a small, temporary force boost would not be enough. Neither of the senators, appearing together at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, would put a precise number on how many more troops might be necessary.
January 8, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Jam Packed Monday
Bill Scher from Liberal Oasis
Greg Anrig:
Excess Baggage
The conservative attack on government has
left a major mess for Democrats to clean up.
Spocko a blogger shut down by an
intimidation campaign by Disney because he was taking rightwing nuts to task.
check it out
Update: They still don't get it in Kansas.
this is the same article
No. 2 U.S. commander favors more troops, jobs
Replacement officer suggests the same tactic as his predecessor.
see if you can find a statement from the new U.S. No.2 commander saying he's in favor of more US troops.
No Panic please
A gas smell has caused some buildings to evacuate in NYC. Our fire alarm went off but it turns out it was a coincidence. All is well and we are back on.
overnight
Markos Moulitsas in studio tomorrow.
January 9, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Good Morning Nobel Nominated Bloggers
the show is on! (soon)
Have at it
UPDATE
GET YOUR WAR ON the amazing strip by David Rees is
now on stage! If you are in NYC- you gotta see this.
America versus Bush and Republicans
Kennedy will launch the first preemption of escalation
Sweet lord, How is this show free?
Hump day? I'll say:
Paul Rieckhoff, ED and founder Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and author of Chasing Ghosts.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor of The Nation, on her Top 10 for a More Perfect Union.
Senator Katherine Harris will launch her Christian Morning Zoo show
Aaron Chatterji and Siona Listokin On Corporate Social Irresponsibility
BONUS Sammy Cam will be up!
Wondering how to get involved in preventing the "surge"?
Here are your first 2 steps from MoveOn:
1. Promote our petition--this
is how MoveOn builds a base of supporters on an issue. This base does most of
the work in the campaign so if people are looking for a way to get involved this
is a first step.
2. Talk about tomorrow's rallies.
Find one near you.
January 10, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Bar set pretty low
Bush rerun tonight
Even if our new strategy works exactly as
planned, deadly acts of violence will
continue - and we must expect more Iraqi and
American casualties.
What happens if our "new strategy" does not work exactly as planned.
January 11, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Today
We'll talk about the sad joke that is Bush and the Republican war.
New plan, same as the old plan.
We'll talk to Atrios
Chris Hedges,
author of the new book
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
oh and Dahr Jamail
on how the U.S. has
actively fomented sectarianism in Iraq
and your calls!
Post Post Show Post
Open.
January 12, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Blog Hinky But up
today
Tyler Drumheller, former chief of CIA
covert operations in Europe and author of
On the Brink: An Insider's Account of How
the White House Compromised American
Intelligence.
Marc Maron --
see him tonight with Janeane Garofalo at Comix in NYC
Marc recommends Lt Col David Kilcullen's Countering Global Insurgency.
Post Show POst
Thanks to Tyler Drumheller and Marc Maron. check out Maron's special on comedy central tonight.
mrs. majority writes a letter
usa today may or may not print it but i
will:
ToUSA Today
SubjectAsk your mother!
MessageI am a mother. War is my worst nightmare. For now, my child is too young to be thrust into the black and bleeding heart of a civil war America can't win. But too many are not too young. President Bush's escalation plan, which would send thousands more of America’s children to Iraq, is unconscionable and immoral because he knows it will fail. We all know it will fail. It is opposed by top military leaders, the Iraq Study Group, foreign policy experts, and the American people. President Bush's plan is shameful because it is nothing more than an effort to salvage lagging poll numbers by s! howing us that he's trying something new. But this is not new. This is just "stay the course" with more of America's children lined up at death's door. We citizens of this democratic nation must urge Congress to exercise its Constitutional authority to hold the president accountable for a change of course that allows for our troops to come home. We must do this for all of America’s children whom he intends to needlessly send to war. And we must do it for the even younger children, so that if, God forbid, they ever find themselves with a President as irresponsible as this one, that future President will remember when American citizens stood up and demanded that their wishes be heeded. President Bush is just rolling over all of us mothers and fathers and all of our children as if we had no power. We must not let him do this. And Congress is our power to stop him.
you can write one too,
here's help.
January 13, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Let's start with stop beating a dead horse...
.....then we could segue into stop sending
good lives and money after bad, then into
give up the ghost, then to stop digging.
Bush supposedly wants alternatives to
wasting the lives of our soldiers and
marines....
Bush needs to recognize his jihad has failed. But he won't and can't. He
realizes his best shot at avoiding history's damnation for this disaster is to
get out of office before withdrawal. It won't work - just like nothing he has
done as President has worked.
January 14, 2007
Good time to short McCain
no pun intended.... Dobson has left the straight hocking express.
January 15, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
MLK day and we are on
show thread
update: support the troops, fight the iraq escalation
post show post
thanks to
Bill Scher
Dean Obeidallah and Max Brooks from The watch list
support the troops, fight the iraq escalation
January 16, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Tuesday on the show
Open
yes, a bit late.
January 17, 2007♫♪♪♫♫
Under the Weather
I am ill this morning (too much Duck on a stick) so expect a "best of" unless we can find a last minute sub.
In the meantime, our hopes and thoughts go out to the great Jane Hamsher of firedoglake.
January 18, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Thursday's show is on!
Update: typo fixed
Jedediah Reed on is latest piece in Radar Mag online, The Iraq Gamble; At the pundits' table, the losing bet still takes the pot
pOST show post
at your pleasure....
January 19, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Casual Friday
Buck Fush
Good for Nancy Pelosi, Buck Fush
January 20, 2007
January 21, 2007
If at first you dont succeed, do the same thing again
January 22, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Monday
clean sheets.....
awaiting your comments
Jeff Sharlet on The Christian right
Sarah Posner on the Christian
Zionist push for us all to die (and float to heaven)
January 23, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Tuesday on the show
Glenn Greenwald on Abu Ganzales and Fisa
Kevin Baker on just how
unpopular Bush is...
Markos Moulitstas on the news of the day
SOTU
What Bush says is thoroughly irrelevant- I'll still watch holding out hope that he has a breakdown in the middle of his speech. I am excited to hear what Webb says.
UPDATE tomorrow on the show... Paul Krugman
also read Bush's SOTU address at the jump-- embargoed until 9pm .... sorry george
Webb steals the night
Check out your comments when he appeared on the majority report april 11 2006- i think it was his first national media as a candidate
January 24, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
WEdnesday
Cheney takes a pill during Bush's speech!
UPDATE
Thank YOU for Letting WWRL they can't mess with this show!
We'll talk abou the sotu and Jim Webb's rebuttal with
and we'll hear from the Drum Major Institute
Does Dick Cheney need drugs to listen to Bush?
Thursday
Check out Hagel
On the Show
Atrios
Sydney Blumenthal
Juan Colehttp://juancole.com/
January 25, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Casual Friday
Support Rep Maurice Hinchey's Media Ownership Reform Act
UPDATE
SAMMY
CAM
Marcy Wheeler -- (aka emptywheel) on the Libby Trial
Congressman Maurice Hinchey (NY-22) on media reform and the fairness doctrine
Marc Maron!
your calls
Marc Maron!
being casual friday... not political
but check out this
video obit of Art Buchwald
January 27, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Protests draw over 100K
Bush doesn't care what Americans say.
January 28, 2007
Funny videos
January 29, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Monday
***AIR AMERICA RESCUED!***
- 9:30 ET: Bill Scher of Liberal Oasis on the minimum wage fight.
- 11:30 ET: Director Chris Paine of "Who Killed the Electric Car?" You can buy the movie here or you can Netflix it.
Must-reads for today:
Lt. Gen. William E. Odom's recent testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Any new strategy that does realistically promise to achieve regional stability at a cost we can prudently bear, and does not regain the confidence and support of our allies, is doomed to failure. To date, I have seen no awareness that any political leader in this country has gone beyond tactical proposals to offer a different strategic approach to limiting the damage in a war that is turning out to be the greatest strategic disaster in our history.
"This Marine's Death Came After He Served in Iraq" [Star Tribune]
Disturbing
video.
Anatomy of a smear.
Have you seen The Real McCain? Have you been "Doocy'd"?
Straight Talk Express Hits a Forked Tongue in the Road
January 30, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
TUESDAY
We talked about climate change throughout the show today. Here's the story that started it all: A suburban Seattle parent stopped the screening of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (ClimateCrisis.net) in his daughter's seventh-grade class. Global warming has nothing to do with science -- rather, it's "one of the signs" of Jesus Christ's imminent return for Judgment Day. [WaPo]
Also on today's show:
- 9:20 ET: Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) on his Protect the Troops and Bring Them Home Act- 10:45 ET: The New Republic's Jeffrey Rosen on the four-part PBS documentary The Supreme Court, which airs Jan. 31 and Feb. 7 on PBS (check your local listings). Rosen's most recent book is The Most Democratic Branch.
- 11:30 ET: Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos
Must-reads:
Here's more on Sen. Russ Feingold's upcoming proposal to force the President to safely redeploy U.S. troops out of Iraq within six months of enactment.
Bush's executive order creates gatekeepers in government agencies to carry out his priorities [NY Times]
Slate's John Dickerson: "I was at the Scooter Libby trial to cover it, and
all of a sudden, I found myself in the middle of the case" [Slate]
overnight comedy
Baby Pranks-- Jon Benjamin
January 31, 2007 ♫♪♪♫♫
Quote Chimp: What a Tool
The public radio program Marketplace ran a story yesterday on Air America and the investor who will likely buy the network. (Here's the transcript. Here's the audio.)
The story, "A Funnier Air America on Tap?," quoted Matthew Felling of the Center for Media and Public Affairs.
REPORTER: [Felling] says Al Franken and his colleagues make for tough listening, even if you agree with their views.MATTHEW FELLING: There is a fresh approach that they can take that will be more conversational and, dare I say, be more fun. How can a show featuring a Saturday Night Live performer be so damn unfunny?
REPORTER: He says for Air America to attract listeners and advertisers, it has to lose the classroom vibe — and pick up more of a bar room one.
So Air America needs to be funnier? Really? Here's Felling quoted in the Financial times back on March 25, 2004:
Matthew Felling, of the Center for Media and Public Affairs, a Washington research group, agreed that the time was right to launch a liberal radio network. But he disagreed with Air America's comedy-based approach. "If you never present your message in a straightforward way, people won't be able to determine what part of your message is humour and what is fact," he said. "You won't be taken seriously, or as seriously as you should be."
Wednesday
Did get enough Biden? We'll talk more about this.
On the show today:
- 10:30 ET: Eric Klinenberg, author of “Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media.” He joins us to talk about the fight to push media reform through Congress.
- 11:30 ET: Christopher Hayes, senior editor at In These Times magazine. He blogs at ChrisHayes.org. He joins us today to talk about the piece he wrote for The Nation on tax earmarks.
Must reads:
Here are two links mentioned by a listener: Environment New Jersey and the new documentary film Kilowatt Ours. Check 'em out!
Say it ain't so, Joe. From the NY Observer:
Mr. Biden is equally skeptical—albeit in a slightly more backhanded way—about Mr. Obama. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”Here's the latest article by one of today's guests, Eric Klinenberg. It's about the crucial -- and neglected -- role of this country's radio stations during local and national emergencies.
The Aspens are turning! As Judith Miller resumes her testimony in the Scooter Libby trial today, Salon.com's Tim Grieve attempts to unlock the mystery behind Libby's "aspens" letter to Miller.
Media Matters raises questions about the spitting incident.
Glenn Greenwald on "Republicans and Congress' War Powers -- Then and Now."
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