Posted by Liberadio(!) on September 8, 2006 under Uncategorized | 
We’ve just posted our latest show (in the archives and as a podcast) featuring our interview with Andrew Gumbel, award-winning US correspondent for the Independent (London) and an author Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America
. The informative interview about our country’s electoral history and current problems with our electoral process (everybody cheats!) is in the first half hour of part 2.
Listen to Part 1
Listen to Part 2
Also, Andrew will be signing his book tonight at 6pm at Davis Kidd in Green Hills. See you there!
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Posted by Mary Mancini on September 7, 2006 under Uncategorized |
You betcha. Move over Stephen Colbert.
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann: Mr. Bush, you are accomplishing in part what Osama Bin Laden and others seek—a fearful American populace, easily manipulated, and willing to throw away any measure of restraint, any loyalty to our own ideals and freedoms, for the comforting illusion of safety.
There’s so much good stuff that you must see it for yourselves. Watch him go.
“Now, Mr. Bush has signaled that his unparalleled and unprincipled attack on reporting has a new and venomous side angle: The attempt to link, by the simple expediency of one word—“media”—the honest, patriotic, and indeed vital questions and questioning from American reporters, with the evil of Al-Qaeda propaganda.
That linkage is more than just indefensible. It is un-American.”
Posted by Mary Mancini on under Uncategorized |
The Tennessean reports that there’s a new website in town - FaithfulDemocrats.com. Spearheaded by State Senator Roy Herron, a Democrat, the site is “intended to create an ‘online Christian community’ with ongoing dialogue about faith and politics — a conversation some Democrats say they have conceded to Republicans for too long.”
Amen.
I’ve read about Christian Democrats who are afraid of revealing their political affiliation to other christians for fear of being ridiculed and shunned. I’ve also had conversations with Christian Democrats who have been reluctant to reveal their religious affiliation to secular Democrats for fear of being ridiculed and shunned. Although my preference is to keep one’s religious affiliation to oneself especially if you are a politician, perhaps this new website will be good for both the christian and secular Democratic community. That is, of course, unless the discussion devolves into this.
Posted by Mary Mancini on September 6, 2006 under Uncategorized |
Be wary if you watch the “historic broadcast” of the six-hour miniseries, “The Path to 9/11,” on ABC this coming Sunday and Monday. This “docudrama” is being by criticized by “bloggers, terrorism experts and a member of the Sept. 11 commission, whose report makes up much of the film’s source material” as “deeply flawed.”
Written by Cyrus Nowrasteh, the material is both inaccurate and partisan.
On Tuesday, several liberal blogs were questioning whether ABC’s version was overly critical of the Clinton administration while letting the Bush administration off easy.
In particular, some critics — including Richard A. Clarke, the former counterterrorism czar — questioned a scene that depicts several American military officers on the ground in Afghanistan. In it, the officers, working with leaders of the Northern Alliance, the Afghan rebel group, move in to capture Osama bin Laden, only to allow him to escape after the mission is canceled by Clinton officials in Washington.
In a posting on ThinkProgress.org, and in a phone interview, Mr. Clarke said no military personnel or C.I.A. agents were ever in position to capture Mr. bin Laden in Afghanistan, nor did the leader of the Northern Alliance get that near to his camp.
“It didn’t happen,” Mr. Clarke said. “There were no troops in Afghanistan about to snatch bin Laden. There were no C.I.A. personnel about to snatch bin Laden. It’s utterly invented.”
Mr. Clarke, an on-air consultant to ABC News, said he was particularly shocked by a scene in which it seemed Clinton officials simply hung up the phone on an agent awaiting orders in the field. “It’s 180 degrees from what happened,” he said. “So, yeah, I think you would have to describe that as deeply flawed.”
Will Attorney General Ashcroft or National Security Director Rice be in it? And why did only right-wing bloggers get advanced copies of the program?
Posted by Liberadio(!) on September 5, 2006 under Uncategorized |
Very interesting poll and results this morning at Nashville Is Talking. Go weigh in.
Tennessee doesn’t have to be one of “those” states that cements bigotry into its constitution.
Posted by Liberadio(!) on under Uncategorized |
Property Tax Referendum (link to specific wording coming soon)
Vote No on 1 - Tennessee already has a law on its books that makes gay marriage illegal so why do we need to write it into our constitution? No matter what you think about gay marriage there is no need to write bigotry into a document that has traditionally expanded and protected our rights as Tennesseans. Vote NO on referendum #1 this November!
Only 43 days until early voting begins!
Only 31 days to register to vote!
And while you’re thinking about voting, please vote for Liberadio(!) hosts Mary Mancini and Freddie O’Connell for “Best Radio Personality” in the Nashville Scene’s Best of Nashville 2006 Readers’ Poll.
Taxpayers Pay for Bush’s Campaign Travel
More GOP Districts Counted as Vulnerable Number Doubled Over the Summer
Andrew Gumbel, author of “Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America” and our guest yesterday morning, will be in Nashville this Friday, September 8 at 6:00 pm at Davis Kidd Booksellers to sign copies of his book.
Posted by Liberadio(!) on September 4, 2006 under Uncategorized |
New podcast posted from our show on Monday, August 28, 2006
It’s go time, Beardy Parts 1 & 2
It’s a classic election season argument, do we vote for the candidate we want or for the candidate who we think can win? Do progressives in Tennessee have a candidate that’s both in Harold Ford, Jr.? Why don’t we have more of a choice than the candidates our two-party system gives us? Guest co-host Lonnie Atkinson asks Mary these questions and more. Our guest in part 2 is Professor john a. powell, the executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University who explains to us how greater access to opportunity in the hurricane-ravaged gulf region can ensure that Katrina survivors can take part in the rebuilding of their city and their lives.
Listen to Part 1 (52:54 48 MB)
Listen to Part 2 (59:07 54 MB)
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