Summary: The vast right-wing conspiracy turned off the WRVU-FM transmitter during our show on Monday morning so we’re posting the first half hour for those of you who may have missed it. In this episode, we recap the Nashville mayoral and metro council races and play some awesome Chuck “Norris” Hagel audio. Senator Hagel took […]

Turn on C-span. Tennesee’s own Steve Cohen is currently presiding over the House of Representatives. He looks good with a gavel.

The Nashville Scene’s Pith in the Wind blog and AC’s Volunteer Voters both link to stories reporting that former Republican State Senator and sponsor of the constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages in Tennessee, Jeff Miller, solicited lobbying busines from the Tennessee Equality Project.
Incongruity rocks.

The story about Barack Obama’s early schooling has been thoroughly debunked. Why is still on the front page of Sean Hannity’s website?

Turning on conservative talk radio never fails to get my blood pumping but this morning it was even worse - a full on blood boil.
Apparently the March on Washington Iraq war protest held in Washington this weekend is being spun by right wing media echo chamber as the place to be for the “blame […]

In a NY Times article last friday John Wilder, in reponse to questions about what he was going to do now that the was no longer leading the Tennessee state senate, said, “I’m going to Disney Land!”
OK, no he didn’t. What he really said was that he was going to be the best state senator […]

Apparently, my pres-dar was malfunctioning, as I missed former Ark. governor Mike Huckabee’s announcement that he was running for president after all. In the same way I admire John Edwards for campaigning with poverty as a core plank in his policy platform, I admire Gov. Huckabee’s attention to personal health and fitness, especially with regard […]

Distinguishing agenda-driven coverage from fact-driven coverage begins with statement of intent. I will hereby clearly state point blank that Mary and I have a specific political agenda with Liberadio(!). We are operating from a political perspective that largely runs counter to that espoused by the right-wing radio hosts that have created local and national names for themselves: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Steve Gill, Phil Valentine. As I covered in my recent FCC testimony, there are 170 hours of conservative talk radio where a similar agenda-driven bias is apparent, being broadcast in Middle Tennessee. There are 0 corresponding hours of liberal or progressive talk radio being broadcast as a counterpoint. And those agenda-driven right-wingers often assert that the mainstream media and NPR are biased. Again, a vicious cycle. There is no legitimate foil to the right-wing echo chamber, so they are free to go after the people who have no agenda asserting time and again that, in fact, there is an agenda. This puts Bob Mueller and others like him in the awkward position of having to defend journalistic integrity at every turn. Bob is a sturdy enough journalist with enough decades of experience that I doubt if he second-guesses himself when it’s time for tough questions; but a new reporter on the political beat might not have as much resolve.

We learn from ABC News that Joe Biden has picked a date to let everyone know whether he would be running for president. What a surprise! I had no idea he was thinking about getting into the race! And having hired Kerry’s 2004 political director to run his campaign, I wonder if he really is […]

Summary: Is it possible that the Bush administration could finagle a White House coup for women and minorities before the Democrats? Does their Rice trump our Obama and Clinton? If so, does it mean that Vice President Cheney is outtie? Also, on Tuesday we suffered the annual State of the Union address. Figuring that misery […]