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Three years old is this blog today! Broken, battered but still kickin' it!
It looks like the "loyal Bushies" are fleeing this administration like Jews from Egypt. Matthew Dowd didn't even wait for his bread to rise. Tonight begins the Jewish holiday of Passover, but Sam's in the driver's seat for today, before he heads out of town for two days to get in touch with his roots. Today Sam welcomes back Professor Juan Cole, Clintonite Sidney Blumenthal, and Bill Scher from Liberal Oasis. Last stop for yeast!
Well friends, it's an embarassment of riches today. Newt Gingrich says that Spanish is the language of the ghetto, then apologizes...in Spanish. (Check it out.) Rush Limbaugh slams Nancy Pelosi for wearing a headscarf in Syria, even though Laura Bush did the same thing when she went to the Middle East. Then Glenn Beck claims that he "can't win," because he's a white Christian human living in America, and most people hate those. He's sure got our number. In fact, today we're welcoming three guests with established histories of hatred for humanity. Blogger Atrios on the news of the day, writer Eric Alterman on Chris Matthews' man crushes, and columnist Spencer Ackerman on Iraq. Down with humans!
Sam's so casual today, he's strapping a heart monitor to himself to prove that even his heart rate is slowing down. As always, Sam will be taking your calls on all topics at 866-303-2270, and we'll have the SammyCam in full effect starting at 9:30 eastern. And you'll want to connect to that SammyCam, so you can feast your eyes on Janeane Garofalo, who'll come by in the third hour to hang out. Plus, the always dapper Joe Conason makes his regular Friday visit. Enjoy.
Tell CNN to get the facts right on Pelosi's trip to Syria.
It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that this week will be the last week of the Sam Seder Show on Air America. As you know, Air America recently came out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the new management wants to go in a different direction with the 9-Noon (est) time slot. However, as much as I would like to spend more time with Alberto Gonzales’ family, he will be doing so shortly, freeing me up to do a Sunday afternoon show on Air America Radio. The show is tentatively known as Seder on Sundays and I am excited to get it started.
I am very proud of the three years I have broadcast on Air America Radio. I am particularly proud of the Sam Seder Show. We started the show as AAR was entering bankruptcy, when things around here were pretty hectic and insecure. The Sam Seder juggernaut, as no one but me called us, was able to maintain all of our affiliates that stayed with the progressive format through our bankruptcy. While it’s a bit early to judge, (our first full “book” is out in a couple of weeks) our ratings were looking pretty good and we dramatically increased AAR’s streaming numbers during this time slot. Most importantly, though, was the support and response we received from you, our audience. You'll never know just how helpful and motivating your comments, calls, emails and letters have been to me and my family and I greatly appreciate it.
I hope all of you will join me when I begin the Sunday show in the next month and a half or so. Of course, I’ll be maintaining this blog and continuing to promise to fix it. ( I mean it this time, I am serious!) I actually have some rather large plans for this site and its offerings but am not prepared to discuss them at the moment.
Anyway, over the next week I’ll be posting more about my plans, this site, Seder on Sundays and reflecting upon the last three years.
My email address is posted in the left hand column of this blog— drop me an email if you want to receive updates in the future. And tune in this week! I really don’t know how I am going to break this to Dewey.
We're counting down the final days of the Sam Seder Show as you know it, and today we're heating up the studio just a bit. The forecast calls for romance, as Sam welcomes his wife Nicole Cattell, who will talk about her new documentary, REVOLUCION: Five Visions, which airs tonight on PBS. Plus we'll have two attorneys-turned-bloggers, Christy Hardin-Smith from Firedog Lake, and Glenn Greenwald from Unclaimed Territory. So open up a nice bottle of champagne, put on something a little more comfortable, and get ready for the Sam Seder Show.
We're fightin 'em on the air, so you don't have to fight them in person. Today we welcome Italian journalist Carlo Bonini, who's done some great work investigating the forged Niger documents that were instrumental in forging the lies that took us into Iraq. His new book is called, Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror. Plus we'll have Christy Harvey from Mic Check Radio and the Center for American Progress and blogger, author, and activist David Sirota.
Why use only one of your senses to take in the Sam Seder Show, when you can use at least two? (The SammyCam Tasting Device is on backorder.) Watch the SammyCam now.
We welcome a real, genuine U.S. Senator to the show today, in the form of the great Russ Feingold, Democrat from Wisconsin. We'll ask him if he's bummed that he's not the father of Anna Nicole's baby. But we're not stopping with Senator Feingold, we've got an action packed show for you today. We'll have blogger Atrios, John Amato from Crooks and Liars, Katrina vanden Heuvel from The Nation, and "Senator" Katherine Harris. What a freakin' show! Get down on your hands and knees and thank the heavens for this one. And the next one. Cause that's all there is left.
The SammyCam is on. I'll tell Sam to put his shirt back on.
Stay tuned for a blog message directly from Sam after the show, but in the mean time, this will have to suffice. We're going out with a bang today, as we welcome friends of the show all day long. We'll have Marc Maron and Joe Conason, plus a helping of surprise callers and wellwishers. And most importantly, we're welcoming YOU. So give us a call, at 866-303-2270. It's Casual Friday!
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They're performing this weekend in New York and later in April in Los Angeles. Get tickets here.
Media Matters has a great list here.
Stay in touch with Sam as he moves onward and upward. Email samsedershow (use the @ symbol here- trying to avoid spam) gmail.com to get on the mailing list!
I planned to write more here by now, but I'm a bit tired and I am taking myla to swim classes! I'll have more soon and will announce some blog news I think you'll like.
Thank you all for the emails, snail mails and comments of support, I am truly blown away.
The Majority Report Circle of life is now complete. !3 hours after the end of our last M-F show on AAR, Jessica, our segment producer gave birth to Annabelle Jordan Woods!
Oh and based on the results of this study, Jessica could have conceived as a result of taking an abstinence pledge.
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But we probably did host Charles Savage more than any other national radio. Stephen Sherrill, producer emiritus, would have you beleive, we shoudl get a cut. WHile I couldn't disagree more, I would accept it.
Read some of the most important stories of 2006 here.
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Glenn Greenwald, who has most definitively commented on Savage's work comments here..... On the pulitzer, not the cash.
Well, why not delight them with an outgoing voicemail message from me? NOW more exclusive than ever.
Benefits yearly kos!
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Still not back in the swing of things. I'm on quasi- Hiatus. But wanted to update you all.
1. The new blog will roll out within three weeks, maybe earlier. It will allow for sub blogs or diaries.
2. Seder on Sundays will debut in about a month.
3. I am starting to look real good in the Gonzo is GONZO pool. My favorite moment from the hearings yesterday was watching Lindsey Graham (sam gets up closes the closet door) offer Gonzo an incredibly lame alibi (paraphrasing)..."US Atty's got put on this firing list becasue they were having personality conflicts, isn't that the case?"
4. Abramoff continues to sing and now Renzi is reducing his workload.
While it's not criminal to be Republican, it's clear Republicanism is a gateway activity to crime.
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We were told this was a crisis!
A couple of things to remember about these social security projections.
1. The social security trustees are appointed by Bush and the CBO numbers project trust solvency into the 2050's
2. Accepting the SSTrustees #'s, if we do nothing, 2041 is the year that social security will be able to only pay out 80% of current benefits well into the 22nd century.
3. Raising the cap on ss taxes from 90k (presently) to about 140k, eliminates the trust shortfalls totally.
4. Bob Dole, in 2000, said one of his greatest achievements when he was in the Senate was pushing the solvency of the trust until 2034.
In other words, there is/was no "crisis" with Social Security. So why did the Republicans and Bush pretend like there was?
5. Republican leaders don't want to return the money they raided from the Social Security trust fund to pay for tax cuts for the rich. And they hate the most succesful Government plan ever... insurance that you won't eat cat food when you retire.
And the new blog is coming. You are going to love it.
These people are nuts and astoundingly unfunny.
This is Michelle Malkin, a great modern conservative thinker.
Somebody tell me this was a hidden camera and not something she planned to have seen by grownups.
If you missed it, watch Bill Moyer's show on PBS last night on how war is sold. Then listen to a Q&A with Moyers sponsered by the FreePress
Watch Olbermann dismember Rudy.
Enjoy the company. Approving of the President has never been so marginal.
Folks, look at the top of this page, not at Janeane, but at me. You are probably looking at the winner of the Gonzo is Gonzo pool. The question is .... will this be Gonzo for Roveso too. All roads lead to the White House on this one.
U.S. surge fails to stem Baghdad violence, general says By Nancy A. Youssef McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON - Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top commander in Iraq, said Thursday that the surge of U.S. and Iraqi troops into Baghdad hadn't reduced overall violence in the country and that the situation was "exceedingly complex."
"Exceedingly complex" as in "what am I supposed to do, Bush wants us to stay".
This is what happens to a political party that is bereft of ideas and embraces a governing philosophy that explicitly hates government functions.
Fans of the Majority Report will remember that Carmine, Janeane's Dad, was a Buckley conservative... I wonder if he's also abandoning the GOP.
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