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Good morning! Start your morning right -- by laughing at Glenn Beck.
Anthony Weiner wants the federal government to reimburse New York City for its war costs. Here's the deal: If city employees are called up for active duty but earn less from the military than from the city, the city "tops off" the military salary. Weiner thinks New York should be reimbursed.
Atrios of the blog Eschaton coming up at 9:45.
Paul Cruickshank, coming up at 10:45!
President Bush is not a baller.
Oh, that whole North Korea thing? Never mind. Bad intel.
Yes, Sam, "puerility" is a word.
Ron Pollack of Families USA, comin up at 11:30. We'll talk to him about children and health care, in light of the death of Deamonte Driver.
Why doesn't Maureen Dowd write more often about Rudy Giuliani? She's writing about Al Gore, but he's not a candidate for president. (Yet.) A Nexis search of "Maureen Dowd" and "Giuliani" in the New York Times yields few results. Here are Dowd's references to Giuliani over the past five years:
May 20, 2006: "The Arizona senator did not depart from his text and engage the students, as Bill Clinton might have done, with a passionate exegesis of his stance. And, still trying to show that his temper is under control, he did not push back, as Rudy Giuliani might have."Dec. 17, 2005: "In 2004, the G.O.P. convention was staged like ''The Magnificent Seven,'' with a gunslinging posse -- including Rudy Giuliani, Arnold Schwarzenegger and John McCain -- riding in with W. and Vice to save the town from the black hats. Poor John Kerry had to fall back on sailor imagery, skippering a boat into Boston and saluting the crowd with ''I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty.'' At least he managed not to use the Village People's ''In the Navy'' as his theme song."
Sept. 21, 2005: "[Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency head] Julie Myers makes Brownie look like Giuliani. I'll sleep better tonight, knowing that when she gets back from her honeymoon, Julie will be patrolling the frontier."
Sept. 12, 2004: "Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney jumped in the polls because they cast their convention as a Western. They were the ''Magnificent Seven,'' steely-eyed, gun-slinging samurai riding in to save the frightened town: Rudolph Giuliani, John McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Zell Miller, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and Poppy Bush, who was on ''Imus'' comparing Mr. Kerry with Jane Fonda."
July 18, 2004: "...the Bushes always stick to their bad but deferential vice-presidential choices. John McCain, Colin Powell or Rudy Giuliani would be way too threatening for W."
March 11, 2004: "[Talking to Sen. John Kerry] I tell him that after Rudy Giuliani joked at the Gridiron that the one thing he and Hillary had in common was that they were both voting for George W. Bush, Hillary grinned and playfully high-fived him."
Nov. 3, 2003: "There are those who say Mr. Bush should have emulated Rudy Giuliani's empathetic leadership after 9/11, or Dad's in the first gulf war, and attended some of the funerals of the 379 Americans killed in Iraq."
Jan. 8, 2003: "Even centrist Democrats were leery of a Batman-less and, even scarier, Giuliani-less Gotham. ... The TV cameras will catch only the trompe l'oeil tableau of Republican regular folk: Rudy Giuliani and a stage full of Rockettes and firemen"
Dec. 22, 2002: "This White House does not like to have any other stars besides Mr. Bush, or independent spirits, or anyone who ever supported a rival. That is why they never recruited Rudy Giuliani to run homeland security, or Warren Rudman for the 9/11 commission, or John McCain for the cabinet."
Oct. 23, 2002: "As police commissioner of New York City in the mid-90's, Mr. Bratton made the cover of Time for helping Mayor Rudy Giuliani tame the untamable New York, from squeegee guys to wilding thugs. But Rudy, loath to share top billing, forced his brassy chief out."
Oct. 16, 2002: "We know that Virginia's governor, Mark Warner, is bucking to be the Rudy Giuliani of the crisis"
June 9, 2002: "Maybe if Mr. Bush brings Rudy Giuliani in as the new cabinet officer, he can work magic."
Dec. 12, 2001: Post-attacks interview with Giuliani. Long interview.
Next chance for a slow dance. Leave a comment here.
Today's edition of Casual Friday has been dubbed "Casual Friday Extreme!" by the Sam Seder Juggernaut. Because, we'll, we're not in the studio today. It's that casual. But not this casual:
So, the Drudge Report is linking to an Evening Standard story about an ancient picture of Tony Blair making an "obscene gesture." Maybe he's pretending to grab his "Wee Prime Minister." But maybe, just maybe, he's playing that sadistic game that junior-high boys tend to play. You know, the one where I make a circle with my thumb and forefinger below my waist, and if you look at it I get to punch you twice in the shoulder. Anyone? Anyone?
Comments, anyone?
And the nutjobs wrapped up their convention.
Will Ann Coulter still be invited onto "mainstream" news outlets?
Will Rudy's kids sabotage him?
Will privatization ever work as the cons say it will?
Look for Bill Scher's post on Huffingtonpost Here it is!
And Chris Hedges!
All this and more, on Monday.
Want to COMMENT?
Hearings on the Bush Administration firings of U.S. Attorneys begins.
Mark Winston Griffith from the Drum Major Institute on sub prime mortgages. Kudos Alan Greenspan.
then
Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist and author joins us to discuss her latest piece in The Nation, A Trial for Thousands Denied Trial.
and it's tuesday... Markos joins us.
wanna COMMENT? Post here!
Libby's not the only Bush Administration scandal that may land folks in the clink.
Today:
Rep. Maurice Hinchey
"Investigate Cheney Now!"
Paul Kiel on the huge breaking scandal surrounding US Attorneys Massacre
Christy Hardin Smith from Firedoglake- the home of the Plameologists
Want to COMMENT?
How about some folks at the NSA?
Today:
Ex-CIA bin Laden expert and WH critic
Michael Scheuer
Atrios
Premier Plameologist
Marcy Wheeler, author of
Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq
War and Out a Spy
Want to COMMENT ?
...who seem confused about how and why Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed, and what his mandate was: the actual appointment letters from the Attorney General's office.
And we quote:
"...delegation to you [Fitzgerald] of 'all the authority of the Attorney General
with respect to the Department's investigation into the alleged unauthorized
disclosure of a CIA employee's identity' is plenary and includes the authority
to investigate and prosecute violations of any federal criminal laws related to
the underlying alleged unauthorized disclosure, as well as federal crimes
committed in the course of, and with intent to interfere with, your
investigation, such as perjury, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence,
and intimidation of witnesses."
Loosen up, you uptighties!
Gay porn star + Hannity + O'riely = Sammy needs do no prep for today's show.
Max Blumenthal gives me the
rub run down.
Your Calls!!!!!!!!!
Your casual comments- on the secret back up blog.
Max's unauthorized doc from the CPAC halls of lunacy
Let the great casual wave wash you toward an uber-casual weekend. Meet us back here for the normal, ultra-strict Monday show.
In the meantime, may you be pure as a Mayan temple.
Submit your comments- on the secret back up blog.
if you are Alberto Gonzalez and you admit this:
Gonzales, Mueller admit FBI broke law(AP)
The nation's top two law enforcement
officials acknowledged Friday the FBI broke
the law to secretly pry out personal
information about Americans.
Do you really believe you can end it with this?:
They apologized and vowed to prevent further illegal intrusions.
This hour, show regular Bill Scher talks about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plan for Iraq. Here's Scher's take on the plan, from his Liberal Oasis blog. (Psst. It's Monday. You should be reading Scher's rundown of the Sunday talk shows.)
Streaming problems? Check out the Liberal Talk Radio blog's compilation of audio stream links for The Sam Seder Show and other Air America shows.
CARE TO COMMENT?
Must Reads:
Glenn Greenwald on the real story inside the National Security Letter abuse story
Who's on the new House committee on global warming?
The Army is ordering injured troops to Iraq
At 10:45, we'll talk to journalist and author Karen Houppert about the controversial HPV vaccine and her article in The Nation, "Who's Afraid of Gardasil?"
Today's comment thread.
At 11:06: Glenn Greenwald! Check out his must-read article about the abuse of National Security Letters. Hint: "signing statement" should now be a part of your vocabulary.
Coming up at 11:45 -- International Association of Fire Fighters General President Harold A. Schaitberger on the union's upcoming presidential forum. Rudy Giuliani, "America's Mayor," won't be there.
Streaming problems? Check out the Liberal Talk Radio blog's compilation of audio stream links for The Sam Seder Show and other Air America shows.
In case you missed it, Sean Hannity's "Enemy of the Week" was Hugo Chavez. (The segment, which airs on Fox News' Hannity's America, used to be called "Enemy of the State," but it was changed a week after the show debuted. Too Stalinish.)
Hannities enemies are always strongmen or Hollywood celebs. Except the time
he picked the mayor of Philadelphia.
Comment thread
Say, could this really be what it claims to be?
Post your comments here.
On his show last Friday, Bill O'Reilly linked a tragic fire that killed 10 people, including nine children, to illegal immigration. That's right: lax enforcement of immigration laws killed members of the Magassa and Soumare family. Watch the clip on Media Matters -- and listen to the voice of reason: Geraldo Rivera. Seriously: Geraldo Rivera.
O'REILLY: I'm basically saying that we must get this situation of illegal immigration under control. The chaos is killing children. Go.RIVERA: I think to draw -- to make the connection between illegal immigration and that horrific fire in the Bronx two days ago is an injustice to the victims of that fire. Why did they die?
There's no code violations that they found. There were no required, you know -- everything in the building so far --
O'REILLY: Twenty-two people in the house.
RIVERA: There were two batteries missing in the fire alarm.
O'REILLY: Twenty-two people in a house.
RIVERA: But, Bill, the status of the immigration is not relevant.
My legal nanny has children in school with three of those victims. It is the human cause. And if you --
O'REILLY: This is what you missed. I'm going to give you the last word. But this is what you missed. This is a sanctuary city. That means the authorities do not ask any questions about anybody's status or anybody's condition.
Author and oil analyst Antonia Juhasz is our guest today in the second hour. Make sure to read her op-ed in the New York Times today, "Whose Oil Is It Anyway?"
In March 2001, the National Energy Policy Development Group (better known as Vice President Dick Cheney’s energy task force), which included executives of America’s largest energy companies, recommended that the United States government support initiatives by Middle Eastern countries “to open up areas of their energy sectors to foreign investment.” One invasion and a great deal of political engineering by the Bush administration later, this is exactly what the proposed Iraq oil law would achieve. It does so to the benefit of the companies, but to the great detriment of Iraq’s economy, democracy and sovereignty.
Does the following blurb read like the White House might be circling its wagons around the president ... and only the president?
The president did not call for the removal of any specific United States attorneys, said Dana Perino, a White House spokeswoman. She said she had “no indication” that the president had been personally aware that a process was already under way to identify prosecutors who would be fired.But Ms Perino disclosed that White House officials had consulted with the Justice Department in preparing the list of United States attorneys who would be removed.
Within a few weeks of the president’s comments to the attorney general, the Justice Department forced out seven prosecutors.
Gen. Peter Pace says "homosexual acts are immoral"
Paintball: Not just for office team-building anymore
Comments here.
Comin' up at 10:30 -- Author Antonia Juhasz returns to the show to discuss her op-ed in today's New York Times, "Whose Oil Is It Anyway?"
Seder listeners have a lot to say about immigration this morning, thanks to this story and Bill O'Reilly's ignorant, hateful statements on his show on Friday.
Tim in Freeport, Maine:
Question for your audience: How did an Immigrant come to be seen as synonymous with an Illegal Alien? In the case of the Bronx fire (a building built primarily of wood in 1901 might have had something to do with the heat and speed of the fire) that is how many will see the portrayal of this tragedy. Good write-up in the Times this morning about the funeral. I defy anyone with a heart (guess that leaves out Big Bill) to read that without tearing up.
Bruce in New Jersey:
I hope this reaches you -- I never emailed you before. Another cost to workers of that illegal immigrant falling off the roof in Nevada... not only does the employer benefit from the worker not being insured and for labor costs being lowered, but when our tax money pays for the uninsured worker's medical care, we taxpayers are subsidizing the destruction of our own wage rate.
Justin writes:
There is too much anti immigrant sentiment for a country where no one is from here. This subject angers me, because I am in New York City and here we have sort of popular sign out front that says "bring us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses." This is the greatest country in the world!
Here's the web site that Antonia Juhasz mentioned during her interview today.
OK. OK. Due to overwhelming demand, here's the Random Kitten Generator web site that Lauren mentioned this hour. This is what she looks at while she screens your phone calls:
Wednesday is hump day! Leave a comment.
Coming up this hour: Christy Harvey of the Center for American Progress. Her site, Mic Check Radio, has a timeline and "fast facts" breakdown of the U.S. attorney firings.
Also, at 9:45 a.m., Melanie Sloan of Citizens for Reposibility and Ethics in Washington, on her watchdog group's demand for a special prosecutor to investigate the dismissal of U.S. attorneys
A must-stop on your journey through the Gonzo story
Mortgage delinquency isn't just for high-risk borrowers anymore...
No Child Left Behind to
leave children behind?
"There is a zero percent chance that we will ever reach a 100 percent target," said Robert L. Linn, co-director of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing at UCLA. "But because the title of the law is so rhetorically brilliant, politicians are afraid to change this completely unrealistic standard. They don't want to be accused of leaving some children behind."
Gonzo Watch! Send an email to samsedershow at gmail.com with your prediction on the date -- approximate or exact -- Alberto Gonzales (pictured below with Karl Rove) will resign.
WATCH THE SAM
CAM
Pull back the curtain and find out what happens at The Sam Seder Show
during commercial breaks. HINT: Lots of gunplay!
COMMENT THREAD
This hour, Sam will talk to Ari Berman of The Nation on the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) annual conference.
Here's the timeline of the Carol Lam situation that Sam mentioned this hour [props to Talking Points Memo]
Gonzo Watch! Dark days ahead for Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez? When will Gonzo be gone-zo?
Coming up in the third hour: David Sirota! What will our favorite Montana-based uber-wonk talk about? Corruption? Iraq? Scooter? Perhaps all three in the same breath? Don't miss it!
Uh, oh. Dewey's on the phone.
Sen. John McCain couldn't make today's vote on implementing the remainder of the 9/11 Commission's recommendations. He chose to attend fundraisers in California instead. Check out the screenshot Bob Geiger grabbed:
It's time for this picture again:
In this hour, former CIA official Larry Johnson on the upcoming hearings on the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame.
Gonzo Watch, what, day four?
This hour: Matt Stoller of MyDD on the Nevada Democrats' change of heart on airing a debate on Fox News.
Stay tuned. During the third hour of the show, we'll air the winning the "one-minute rant" auctioned off on eBay to benefit YearlyKos.
This hour, we'll air the one-minute Sam Seder Show rant that YearlyKos auctioned off on eBay last month. What's our winning bidder going to say? Will it be worth $720?
Find out more about the YearlyKos Convention! (Better yet ... go!)
UPDATE: Here's the transcript of the rant that we just aired.
In August of 2006, 9/11 family members released a statement questioning the "entire veracity" of the 9/11 Commission report. [1]In September of 2006, a documentary entitled "9/11: Press For Truth" was released, and family members at the National Press Club called for a new investigation into the events of 9/11. [2]
In October of 2006 a New York Times poll found that only 16 percent of Americans believe the Bush administration is telling the truth about 9/11. [3]
NONE of these stories were covered by the so called 'progressive media'.
(It is time for the 'progressive media' to start covering these stories.)
It is time to stop pretending that the very basis of the so-called 'war on terror' is the ONLY subject that the Bush administration has NOT lied about.
Please visit 911pressfortruth.com, google video, or netflix.com for more information on 9/11: Press For Truth. And visit patriotsquestion911.com, or wtc7.net to start researching 9/11 today.
This is Michael Woolsey of visibility911.com on behalf of 911blogger.com, thank you for your time.
References:
[1][2] http://www.911podcasts.com/display.php?vid=167
[3] http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/13469
OK. Discuss.
McCain's rolling out the Straight Talk Express again! Woo-hoo! Nothin' pulls in those primary voters like a bus!
Desperate times...CALL FOR COMMENTS!
It's Casual Friday! Break out your official Sam Seder Show...Zubaz!
Surprise! Valerie Plame testifed she WAS a covert operative when she was outed on July 14, 2003.
It's GonzoWatch Day 5! Will Gonzales' resignation (pictured below, with Karl Rove) come today? Friday at 4 p.m. is a great time to dump bad news...
(PSSST ... We've been posting lots of pictures of the muppet Gonzo to, you know, make fun of Alberto Gonzales. Points to whoever can find ... or create .. a picture of Gonzo WEARING ZUBAZ.)
In the meantime, here's who's on the show today: In the 9 o'clock hour, Joe Conason of the New York Observer and Salon.com. Later, in the 11 o'clock hour, we'll raise Marc Maron, who according to the phone number he gave us for today is in Atlanta.
Here's today's comment thread
UPDATE: Ask and ye shall receive ... from Dawn in Ann Arbor, MI. (Bravo, Dawn!) Click for a larger image.
Gonzo Watch! Day 8!
Listener Nancy has been eliminated in the "Gonzo Is Gone-zo" pool. She said Attorney General Alberto Gonzales would resign on St. Patrick's Day. Unless Gonzo's resignation has been sitting on President Bush's desk since Saturday, Nancy did not have the luck of the Irish. Marc Maron could be eliminated as well -- he said Gonzo would be gone-zo today.
On the show today:
BILL SCHER, regular guest and proprietor of Liberal Oasis, author of Wait! Don't Move to Canada: A Stay-and-Fight Strategy to Win Back America on GONZO WATCH!
PAUL KRUGMAN, professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University and op-ed columnist for The New York Times.
ERIC BOEHLERT, senior fellow at Media Matters for America and author of Lapdogs: How The Press Rolled Over for Bush joins us to talk about the imbalance of Sunday talk shows. Report is available online at www.SundayShowReport.com
Boatneck T-shirts ... all the rage!
Here's something Sam talked about with Paul Krugman today: local Pittsburgh TV station KDKA aired this report on U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan and her investigations of local Democrats
No me gusta, Senor Mitt:
''Hugo Chávez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase -- Patria o muerte, venceremos [Fatherland or death, we shall overcome],'' Romney said. ``It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba.''No, it doesn't, said University of Miami Professor Jaime Suchlicki.
''It belongs to Fidel,'' said Suchlicki, an expert on Cuban history. ``I don't know where [Romney] got that.''
[...]
Romney punctuated his speech with ''Libertad, libertad, libertad!'' to show his support for freedom in Cuba. But to some, he was echoing a line from Scarface, a movie notorious for its stereotyped portrayal of Cuban immigrants.
Today: SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL on Karl Rove's central role in the removal of U.S. attorneys. Also, MARKOS of DailyKos
Gonzo Watch has reached a fever pitch!
It's Day 9, and McClatchy reports that the White House is searching for a Gonzo replacement!
Support for Gonzales appeared to be collapsing under the weight of questions about his truthfulness and his management ability. White House spokesman Tony Snow offered a tepid defense when asked if Gonzales would stay on the job until the end of President Bush's term."We hope so," Snow said. "None of us knows what's going to happen to us over the next 21 months."
You may want to complete major projects that you have been working on during the last few months before the solar change takes place.
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It's been an eventful first hour. Joe From Brooklyn called in -- yes, he of the infamous "I want to punch you liberal smokers in the nose" statement. He's still hot under the collar.
Coming up this hour, Sidney Blumenthal on his Salon.com article, All Roves Lead to Rome
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Remember when Ethan in Portland called in and said that Gonzales would be fired shortly after Bush voiced his unequivocal support for his attorney general? From AP today:
WASHINGTON - President Bush sent a powerful message of support Tuesday for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, calling his longtime friend to express unwavering support in the face of calls for his resignation.The White House also denied reports that it was looking for possible successors for Gonzales. "Those rumors are untrue," White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said.
Bush called Gonzales from the Oval Office at 7:15 a.m. EDT and they spoke for several minutes about the political uproar over the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, an issue that has thrust the attorney general into controversy and raised questions about whether he can survive. The White House disclosed Bush's call to bolster Gonzales and attempt to rally Republicans to support him.
"The president reaffirmed his strong backing of the attorney general and his support for him," Perino said. "The president called him to reaffirm his support."
Coming up this hour, Markos of DailyKos!
What the hell,
Glenn Beck? (P.S. Does he sound like
Charles Nelson Reilly or what?)
COMMENT THREAD
Have you seen this? Sam and Markos are talking about it this hour.
Here's the song (click on "Hello Song") that Sam won't stop playing today. It's his 19-month-old daughter's favorite. She likes it. She really really likes it. And if he has to sit through it 20,000 times, so do you.
Coming up in the 9:00 hour: Christy Harvey from the Center for American Progress and MicCheckRadio.org
Christy's talking about Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas)'s "mouth trumpet." Must be heard to be believed.
Gonzo Watch, what, day 10? Celebrate it: WATCH THE SAM CAM
Here's the story about the students who were banned from reading a poem about Emmett Till at their L.A. school's Black History Month celebration.
GonzoWatch ... Day 11. At the moment, Joe Conason is the odds on favorite to win our "Gonzo Is Gonzo." He wagered that Alberto Gonzales would resign this Friday at 4 p.m. Not a bad bet... But for Pete's sake. Alberto, please resign. If only because the Seder Juggernaut is running out of Gonzo pictures.
Today on the show: We'll talk about Al Gore and more wiht Andrew Revkin, environmental reporter for the New York. Later, we'll talk progressive politics with Mike Lux, author of a new six-part series on The Huffington Post.
Sam has thrown down the gauntlet: Contact your elected officials in Washington and tell them that White House officials should testify under oath. If you don't, Sam will continue to sprinkle kids music into the show. He's not kidding. Here's how you can contact your senator or member of Congress. Or, call 202-225-3121
Coming up next! Andrew C. Revkin, reporter for the New York Times and author of The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World. Read his NY Times story about Al Gore's testimony yesterday before the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee and the House Science Committee
Remember Sam's ultimatum for today: Call Congress about under-oath testimony for White House officials ... or Sam will play children's music. He's serious, folks.
UPDATE: Here's Real Climate, the climate-change blog recommended by our guest Andrew Revkin of the New York Times.
It's Casual Friday, and you know what that means: ZUBAZ!
[Thanks again to Dawn from Ann Arbor for this, the most casual of Photoshop jobs.]
On the show today: Joe Conason of Salon.com and New York Observer, and Marc Maron of Marc Maron fame.
Robert Gates, no fan of Gitmo
Is the Sam Seder Juggernaut pokin' the bear?
Bill O'Reilly invents the concept of the "open transcript"
From AP via TPM Muckraker:
Former Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles will plead guilty to one count of obstruction of justice in the Jack Abramoff corruption investigation, The Associated Press has learned.Griles, an oil and gas lobbyist who became an architect of President Bush's energy policies while at the Interior Department between July 2001 and July 2005, is the highest ranking Bush administration official implicated in the Washington lobbying scandal.
The former No. 2 official at the Interior Department has agreed to a felony plea admitting that he lied five times to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and its investigators about his relationship with Abramoff, people involved in the case told the AP....
Gonzo Watch, Day 12. Last week, Joe Conason predicted Gonzo would be gone-zo at 4 p.m. Today on the air, he backed off a bit: It may not happen today. Maybe because this happened today. Remember The Maine?
Maron's on deck this hour.
Make sure you listen to this Bill O'Reilly clip on Media Matters
Joel and Lauren's mics have been cut for three minutes. They will be back on at 11:17. Someone just sent this picture, claiming it is Joel. This is not, I repeat not, funny.
Gonzo is Gonzo watch continues...on deck, Rovzo is Rovzo and Dems take a step in the right direction (out) on Iraq....
Bill Scher from Liberal Oasis
and
Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post on what happens with those funky
mortgages.... Don't understand what funky mortgages means and means to you?
read this
We've just learned that for months leading up to the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York, the NYPD was spying on anyone who might show up at the convention with something negative to say about the president. Sam experienced this iron fist of security firsthand, and all he was doing was making friends on the convention floor. Watch the video.
Last night on 60 Minutes, Katie Couric challenged John and Elizabeth Edwards and helped advance the right wing notion that Edwards is wrong to continue his campaign in spite of his wife's cancer. E-mail Katie Couric to ask her why it's anyone else's business. And while you're at it, ask her why she kept working when HER husband got cancer.
If you have a question about whether your civil liberties were violated by the NYPD or FBI during the 2004 Republican National Convention, contact the New York Civil Liberties Union.
You know things are really coming down when the GOP's OWN talking point is that Alberto Gonzales is just incompetent, not a lying crook. When they're trotting out Robert Novak to write this, you know they're staring down the barrel of eternal damnation. Fortunately your own personal spirit guide, Sam Seder, is here to lead you unharmed through this morass. Today we'll have Air America's own David Bender, law professor Erwin Chemerinsky, and Markos from Daily Kos. Bon Appetit.
Comment here.
Well the Senate Dems took a stand yesterday, setting up a showdown with Bush over Iraq funding and withdrawal. That leads us to the question of the day: If a president vetoes a bill that provides funding for the troops, doesn't that president hate the troops? We thought so. But just to be sure, we'll ask Christy Harvey from the Center for American Progress, and David Sirota from SirotaBlog. And we'll talk to Daniel Levy from the Century Foundation's Prospects for Peace Initiative about Condi Rice's trip to the Middle East.
Comment here.
Tired of experiencing the show without using all your senses? Well feast your eyes on this. The SammyCam is live, even during commercials, all show long.
As Sam made clear today, John McCain's statements about how safe Baghdad has suddenly become are ludicrous. Well now, just after making those statements, McCain is backtracking.
Keep your ears pressed to the radio (or computer) today, folks, cause we'll be keeping our ears pressed to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, where Kyle Sampson will either throw Alberto Gonzales under the proverbial bus, or instantaneously forget everything he's done in his life before today. Actually, early indications are that he'll admit they did it, but say that "it" wasn't anything wrong. We'll break it all down with Atrios. And we'll welcome Dean Baker, author of The Conservative Nanny State, who will explain how conservatives use government to keep getting richer, while screwing everyone else. (Go to his site, get his book for FREE!)
Oh, also, Karl Rove dances and raps. This video is not suitable for small children.
Check this out.
It's casual Friday, and Sam's relaxing so much, he's even letting his back hair down. Give us a call, we're taking all comers, at 866-303-2270. In the first hour we'll welcome Joe Conason in studio, and after that, we'll host our very own Sam Seder Show Purity Ball. Bring the kiddies close to the radio transmitter, and we'll cleanse their souls. Or at least give them a good bath.
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