A TRIO of PHENOMENAL segments on (liberal) Talk Radio today: Franken, Schultz, and Randi Rhodes.....
Today we saw a trio of phenomenal segments on the airwaves, two on Air-America radio, and one by Big Ed Schultz (www.WeGotEd.com) of the Jones Radio network.
Al Franken had Dem consigliere LAWRENCE O'DONNELL on his show today, O'Donnell a rare Democrat who has mastered the arcane worlds of BOTH Capital Hill back offices and hallways, AND Hollywood/TV production & shooting lots. (O'Donnell was the senior staff member of the Senate Finance Committee, and the producer of the TV series "West Wing.") In short, not only is O'Donnell conversant in show business, but O'Donnell could give Bill Clinton a run for the money in policy wonkishness and budget arcana, if not beat him in one or both. Elsewhere, O'Donnell has written (in HuffingtonPost.com) that the Democrats cold gain a twenty-year majority starting with this term, but NOT if they select John Murtha to be the House (Majority) Whip, a selection that would give right-wing talk show hosts (O'Donnell specifically mentions Sean Hannity) the opportunity to portray Democrats as cravenly corrupt as the DeLay Congress at its worst, i.e. Jack Abramoff's bribery "donations" (which was enforced by the threat of DeLay congressional extortion) or Duke Cunningham's bribery menu. ANYWAYS, Today O'Donnell repeated his strident call for the Democrats to reject Congressman Murtha for such a senior leadership post, but what is even more important is what O'Donnell CHALLENGED Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party to do: to REJECT _ALL_ CORPORATE DONATIONS, DEMAND PUBLIC FINANCING of elections, and COMPELL media outlets (networks, cable, radio) to provide FREE AIR TIME in election season to fulfill their civic duty as gatekeepers of America's democracy. WE HEARTILY SECOND Mr. O'Donnell's challenge, and SHARE his peeve that Democratic voters, activsts, and candidates MUST ENRICH the corporate media barons (or lose elections) EVERY ELECTION CYCLE, by spending MILLIONS on campaign advertisements. Not only MUST Democratic candidates and donors ENRICH the media corporations every election, BUT to CHALLENGE this status-quo is to INVITE AN AVALANCHE OF NEGATIVE MEDIA COVERAGE to BURY YOU, as for example the shameless, wanton, and corrupt coverage of the so-called "White House Trashing Scandal" WITHOUT A SINGLE PHOTOGRAPH of EVIDENCE by the media (led by the Washington Post and New York Times, and followed by all the networks, cable outlets, and other papers across the nation) - a virtual TIDAL WAVE of negative 'news' coverage that tens of millions of dollars could not undo.
From the time of the founding fathers and up to the Civil War, ANYONE could start up a printing press and reach (through the enlistment of at most a few hundred or so volunteers) almost the total population, at least in the towns and cities. Today, because the population is so much larger, candiates MUST use the 'mass media' to reach citizens and voters... and this need has become a CASH COW for the media barons, who used LEVEREGED BUY OUT techniques to GOBBLE UP ALL COMPETITION. (The compettion of the Hearst and Pulitzer papers marked the beginning of the dominance of "major media" outlets.) American business schools teach that, in all cases, PROFIT is the first and sole mission of any business. But this shortsighted and superficial outlook is not always the case, as for example those businesses set up to combat a given disease, organizations that would happily go out of business were that disease to be eradicated. A more "here and now" refutation of "profit uber alles" school of business citizenship would be the US automakers, who for decades enjoyed selling cars with 5 year loan terms, and three year (36 month) warranties. We personally know of THREE women who have been driven into debt by their American auto purchases, cars less than five years old that have required thousand-dollar services. GM chairman ____ is the posterboy of this nearshighted and mercenary outlook, he still hasn't figured out that American auto buyers pick up on this predatory cynicism, and are turning to foreign built cars with 5 year, 100,000 mile warranties.
GM and American automakers are going the way of the dodo, while Toyota and other companies are building factories.. right here in America! And American democracy is also going the way of the dodo, IF Democratic voters and candidates MUST enrich Rupert Murdoch and General Electric Co. (And never, ever say anything that would raise the ire of these companies, such as pointing out that Murdoch makes MILLIONS PROPOGATING Chinese Communist Party PROPAGANDA to China's TV viewers, and that GE has just signed a deal to supply FIVE_BILLION_DOLLARS worth of the MOST UP TO DATE NUCLEAR_PROCESSING_TECHNOLOGY TO INDIA, with the "understanding" that India WILL BE ALLOWED to operate her _SEVENTEEN_ "secret military reactors FOR WEAPONS ENRICHMENT and PRODUCTION!!
As these examples illustrate, IF Democrats CONTINUE to go "business as usual" forcing their own candidates to RAISE MILLIONS each and every election, then Democrats WILL ALWAYS be vulnerable to the NEXT "ABSCAM," "KEATING SEVEN," ABRAMOFF (Abramoff is reported to have mentioned Senator HARRY REID as a "player" in the extended Abramoff pay-to-play scandals), ENRON, & other scandals. (Senator Joe Lieberman may have SABOTAGED the Democratic Senate Majority in 2002, by WET-BLANKET smothering the Senate ENRON investigation in his committe, depriving mid-term Democratic candidates of the opportunity to TIE President Bush to his biggest campaign donors through 4 elections, ENRON Chairman KEN LAY.)
#2. Over on the Big Ed Schultz radio show, host Ed Schultz called in from Washington to discuss the new House and Senate leadership votes, and explained that not only did Senator Trent "We wouldn't have these problems in America if Strom Thurmond has won the presidency in 1948 as leader of the Dixiecrat [segregation] Party" Lott regain a measure of his previous power as the new Republican Senate Whip, but the fact that he could line up those votes meant that Senate Republicans are repudiating President Bush's choice. For some "fly on the wall" background, Schultz explained that Lott and Bush can't stand each other... So much for Mr. Bush's proclaimed desire to "sit on the porch of Lott's Mississippi gulf-coast home, sipping lemonade when they are both in retirement!
AND FINALLY on tonight's show Randi Rhodes bitch-slapped the Bush administration into yesterday. We will confess that at times Randi seems insufferable. Apart from her everpresent tendency to divert into subjects female (in far more intimate detail than Ed Schultz discusses a hunting or fishing trip), Randi has a regretable tendency to make the subject... herself. We can't count the times Randi has had an excellent, informative guest on the show, only for her to rush in and talk all over her guest (about herself being first to an issue), quickly smoothering any extended insight into that particular issue from her guest. But on today's subject, Randi has been so prescient, so clearly vocal, and so solo in her reporting, that we really must forgive her her (at times insufferable) shortcomings. And that subject would be John NEGROPONTE and DEATH SQUADS_in-IRAQ. As Randi points out, the mere selection of Negoponte to be the nations National Security Director means that the Bush-Cheney White House EMBRACE the legacy of DEATH SQUADS from the historical era of when Negroponte was Ambassador to Honduras. Randi explains the history, policy, and consequences far better than we, but what is amazing is that her efforts point out how shallow, ignorant, and biased is the rest of America's media, which are too cowardly and/or stupid to point out that the Bush-Cheney administration has, in the space of one or two years, UNDONE THIRTY YEARS of US policy in Iraq and the Mideast, namely the use of Iraq's Sunni minority (under Saddam's Baathist regime) as a restraint and counterbalance to the Shiite majority... which is now (and this was always the great fear) allied with (synonymous with?) Iran's Shiite theocratic dictatorship.
Randi Rhodes Show today: How Negroponte, Rumsfeld, Gen Miller, and the Bush-Cheney neo-cons have EMPOWERED SHIITE DEATH SQUADS in Iraq, and how every day that we remain in Iraq we ENCOURAGE the fury and savagery of those Shiite death squad leaders, who are now relentlessly exterminating the Sunni minority there.
http://server7.whiterosesociety.org/content/rhodes/RhodesShow-(15-11-2006).mp3
Lawrence O'Donnell on the prospects of a Democratic Permanent Majority.. and HOW IT CAN BE DESTROYED AT INFANCY by the Democrat's abject dependence on CORPORATE campaign donations (the everpresent temptation to CORRUPTION).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-odonnell/a-permanent-majority_b_34114.html
Chicago Tribune's long story on how Rep. Rahm Emanuel relentlessly & mercilessly whipped Democratic candidates to raise the massive campaign funds needed for election 2006....
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-0611120215nov12,1,1560300,print.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Big Ed reports from Washington on Republican Senators spurning Bush-Rove's leadership nominees...
http://audio.wegoted.com/podcasting/111506SchultzEd.mp3
Big Ed's guest host, attorney Norman Goldstein, on the case for impeachment, (or) the case for JUSTICE...
http://audio.wegoted.com/podcasting/111506ShowOpen.mp3
Al Franken had Dem consigliere LAWRENCE O'DONNELL on his show today, O'Donnell a rare Democrat who has mastered the arcane worlds of BOTH Capital Hill back offices and hallways, AND Hollywood/TV production & shooting lots. (O'Donnell was the senior staff member of the Senate Finance Committee, and the producer of the TV series "West Wing.") In short, not only is O'Donnell conversant in show business, but O'Donnell could give Bill Clinton a run for the money in policy wonkishness and budget arcana, if not beat him in one or both. Elsewhere, O'Donnell has written (in HuffingtonPost.com) that the Democrats cold gain a twenty-year majority starting with this term, but NOT if they select John Murtha to be the House (Majority) Whip, a selection that would give right-wing talk show hosts (O'Donnell specifically mentions Sean Hannity) the opportunity to portray Democrats as cravenly corrupt as the DeLay Congress at its worst, i.e. Jack Abramoff's bribery "donations" (which was enforced by the threat of DeLay congressional extortion) or Duke Cunningham's bribery menu. ANYWAYS, Today O'Donnell repeated his strident call for the Democrats to reject Congressman Murtha for such a senior leadership post, but what is even more important is what O'Donnell CHALLENGED Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party to do: to REJECT _ALL_ CORPORATE DONATIONS, DEMAND PUBLIC FINANCING of elections, and COMPELL media outlets (networks, cable, radio) to provide FREE AIR TIME in election season to fulfill their civic duty as gatekeepers of America's democracy. WE HEARTILY SECOND Mr. O'Donnell's challenge, and SHARE his peeve that Democratic voters, activsts, and candidates MUST ENRICH the corporate media barons (or lose elections) EVERY ELECTION CYCLE, by spending MILLIONS on campaign advertisements. Not only MUST Democratic candidates and donors ENRICH the media corporations every election, BUT to CHALLENGE this status-quo is to INVITE AN AVALANCHE OF NEGATIVE MEDIA COVERAGE to BURY YOU, as for example the shameless, wanton, and corrupt coverage of the so-called "White House Trashing Scandal" WITHOUT A SINGLE PHOTOGRAPH of EVIDENCE by the media (led by the Washington Post and New York Times, and followed by all the networks, cable outlets, and other papers across the nation) - a virtual TIDAL WAVE of negative 'news' coverage that tens of millions of dollars could not undo.
From the time of the founding fathers and up to the Civil War, ANYONE could start up a printing press and reach (through the enlistment of at most a few hundred or so volunteers) almost the total population, at least in the towns and cities. Today, because the population is so much larger, candiates MUST use the 'mass media' to reach citizens and voters... and this need has become a CASH COW for the media barons, who used LEVEREGED BUY OUT techniques to GOBBLE UP ALL COMPETITION. (The compettion of the Hearst and Pulitzer papers marked the beginning of the dominance of "major media" outlets.) American business schools teach that, in all cases, PROFIT is the first and sole mission of any business. But this shortsighted and superficial outlook is not always the case, as for example those businesses set up to combat a given disease, organizations that would happily go out of business were that disease to be eradicated. A more "here and now" refutation of "profit uber alles" school of business citizenship would be the US automakers, who for decades enjoyed selling cars with 5 year loan terms, and three year (36 month) warranties. We personally know of THREE women who have been driven into debt by their American auto purchases, cars less than five years old that have required thousand-dollar services. GM chairman ____ is the posterboy of this nearshighted and mercenary outlook, he still hasn't figured out that American auto buyers pick up on this predatory cynicism, and are turning to foreign built cars with 5 year, 100,000 mile warranties.
GM and American automakers are going the way of the dodo, while Toyota and other companies are building factories.. right here in America! And American democracy is also going the way of the dodo, IF Democratic voters and candidates MUST enrich Rupert Murdoch and General Electric Co. (And never, ever say anything that would raise the ire of these companies, such as pointing out that Murdoch makes MILLIONS PROPOGATING Chinese Communist Party PROPAGANDA to China's TV viewers, and that GE has just signed a deal to supply FIVE_BILLION_DOLLARS worth of the MOST UP TO DATE NUCLEAR_PROCESSING_TECHNOLOGY TO INDIA, with the "understanding" that India WILL BE ALLOWED to operate her _SEVENTEEN_ "secret military reactors FOR WEAPONS ENRICHMENT and PRODUCTION!!
As these examples illustrate, IF Democrats CONTINUE to go "business as usual" forcing their own candidates to RAISE MILLIONS each and every election, then Democrats WILL ALWAYS be vulnerable to the NEXT "ABSCAM," "KEATING SEVEN," ABRAMOFF (Abramoff is reported to have mentioned Senator HARRY REID as a "player" in the extended Abramoff pay-to-play scandals), ENRON, & other scandals. (Senator Joe Lieberman may have SABOTAGED the Democratic Senate Majority in 2002, by WET-BLANKET smothering the Senate ENRON investigation in his committe, depriving mid-term Democratic candidates of the opportunity to TIE President Bush to his biggest campaign donors through 4 elections, ENRON Chairman KEN LAY.)
#2. Over on the Big Ed Schultz radio show, host Ed Schultz called in from Washington to discuss the new House and Senate leadership votes, and explained that not only did Senator Trent "We wouldn't have these problems in America if Strom Thurmond has won the presidency in 1948 as leader of the Dixiecrat [segregation] Party" Lott regain a measure of his previous power as the new Republican Senate Whip, but the fact that he could line up those votes meant that Senate Republicans are repudiating President Bush's choice. For some "fly on the wall" background, Schultz explained that Lott and Bush can't stand each other... So much for Mr. Bush's proclaimed desire to "sit on the porch of Lott's Mississippi gulf-coast home, sipping lemonade when they are both in retirement!
AND FINALLY on tonight's show Randi Rhodes bitch-slapped the Bush administration into yesterday. We will confess that at times Randi seems insufferable. Apart from her everpresent tendency to divert into subjects female (in far more intimate detail than Ed Schultz discusses a hunting or fishing trip), Randi has a regretable tendency to make the subject... herself. We can't count the times Randi has had an excellent, informative guest on the show, only for her to rush in and talk all over her guest (about herself being first to an issue), quickly smoothering any extended insight into that particular issue from her guest. But on today's subject, Randi has been so prescient, so clearly vocal, and so solo in her reporting, that we really must forgive her her (at times insufferable) shortcomings. And that subject would be John NEGROPONTE and DEATH SQUADS_in-IRAQ. As Randi points out, the mere selection of Negoponte to be the nations National Security Director means that the Bush-Cheney White House EMBRACE the legacy of DEATH SQUADS from the historical era of when Negroponte was Ambassador to Honduras. Randi explains the history, policy, and consequences far better than we, but what is amazing is that her efforts point out how shallow, ignorant, and biased is the rest of America's media, which are too cowardly and/or stupid to point out that the Bush-Cheney administration has, in the space of one or two years, UNDONE THIRTY YEARS of US policy in Iraq and the Mideast, namely the use of Iraq's Sunni minority (under Saddam's Baathist regime) as a restraint and counterbalance to the Shiite majority... which is now (and this was always the great fear) allied with (synonymous with?) Iran's Shiite theocratic dictatorship.
Randi Rhodes Show today: How Negroponte, Rumsfeld, Gen Miller, and the Bush-Cheney neo-cons have EMPOWERED SHIITE DEATH SQUADS in Iraq, and how every day that we remain in Iraq we ENCOURAGE the fury and savagery of those Shiite death squad leaders, who are now relentlessly exterminating the Sunni minority there.
http://server7.whiterosesociety.org/content/rhodes/RhodesShow-(15-11-2006).mp3
Lawrence O'Donnell on the prospects of a Democratic Permanent Majority.. and HOW IT CAN BE DESTROYED AT INFANCY by the Democrat's abject dependence on CORPORATE campaign donations (the everpresent temptation to CORRUPTION).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-odonnell/a-permanent-majority_b_34114.html
Chicago Tribune's long story on how Rep. Rahm Emanuel relentlessly & mercilessly whipped Democratic candidates to raise the massive campaign funds needed for election 2006....
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-0611120215nov12,1,1560300,print.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Big Ed reports from Washington on Republican Senators spurning Bush-Rove's leadership nominees...
http://audio.wegoted.com/podcasting/111506SchultzEd.mp3
Big Ed's guest host, attorney Norman Goldstein, on the case for impeachment, (or) the case for JUSTICE...
http://audio.wegoted.com/podcasting/111506ShowOpen.mp3
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