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iTunesPosted by Mary Mancini on September 30, 2007 under Uncategorized | 
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Not anymore, I don’t. Bruce Barry over at the Scene’s Pith in the Wind recaps the excruciating last few games of a season that was a brutal shock to the system of Mets fans everywhere. And we’re used to that kind of thing.
Posted by Mary Mancini on September 28, 2007 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment
USA Today is circulating satellite photos gathered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science that illustrate human rights abuses in Burma, also know as Myanmar. The scientists say they will continue to buy satellite imagery of Burma’s cities “in hopes of tracking the impact of the government’s crackdown on protesters who have been demonstrating for more than a week.” MoveOn.org is circulating a petition created by their international sister organization, Avaaz.org, “demanding Burmese generals negotiate rather than crush the demonstrators.” The Telegraph UK’s Graeme Jenkins gives us an eyewitness account from the streets. China and Russia block a bid to condemn actions in Myanmar. In Truthout.org, J. Sri Raman writes of the need for sanctions. Despite an internet ban, words and pictures are still trickling out. Is the Myanmar government losing the information battle to Facebook?
Watch the Washington Post video from December 2006, “Nightmare in Eastern Burma”:
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Libe(internet)radio(!) is on the air! During this morning’s broadcast we gave our first Phony award to Rush Limbaugh who, while consistently accusing the opposition of not supporting the troops, accused the troops who disagree with him of being phony. Our second Phony goes to Congressman Marsha Blackburn who has her priorities way out of whack. The third to Bill O’Racist who refused to admit that his depiction of a family restaurant in Harlem was offensive. Plus, the SCHIP, Cowboy Diplomacy, and oh, Blackwater, please stop rolling.
Listen to: The Phonies (55:08 50MB)
Posted by Mary Mancini on September 26, 2007 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment
Supporters of master 9/11 exploiter Rudy Giuliani have taken their cue and have launched a morbid fund raiser in his name. That’s right, tonight’s your night to donate “$9.11 for Rudy” at house parties all across the country.
In poor taste, to be sure, but it also makes this Daily Show clip even funnier.
Posted by Mary Mancini on September 25, 2007 under Uncategorized | 6 Comments to Read
This morning, Steve Gill interviewed Star Parker, a most unpleasant woman who blamed secular humanists, liberals and Democrats for, well, all of our societal ills. Not surprisingly, Parker will be in Franklin, TN Saturday night as the featured speaker for a fund raising banquet for Tennessee Right to Life, who also like to place blame instead of emphasizing education.
First, I’d like to personally thank Steve Gill for elevating the debate. It’s not every day that he ignores the nuance of complex social issues to focus on the sensational. Oh wait, yes it is.
Parker, founder and president of Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education, is a conservative pundits dream. She’s their “welfare queen” in the flesh - but repentant and saved from her life of “fraud” by the good grace of the Lord. With Christ now firmly in her heart, Parker has turned her back on her life as a former single welfare mother in Los Angeles and, through her organization, has promised to “fight poverty and restore dignity through faith, freedom and personal responsibility.”
I’m happy for her. Really. If she wasn’t such a fraud. Tell me, are Parker’s claims of fighting poverty evident in her essays about Tavis Smiley’s lack of knowledge about the presidential primary process, the Democrats use of the Iraq war for political gain, or PETA’s association with Jenna Jameson? And which part of “Fred Thompson’s rope-a-dope,” “Barack Obama’s strange ethnic politics,” “Democrats revive liberalism,” or “Let the Fairness Doctrine rest in peace,” restores “dignity through faith, freedom and personal responsibility?”
Please, Ms. Parker, don’t come on my radio pretending to provide answers, outreach, education, and opportunity for the least among us when you’re so obviously a shill for the Republican party.
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From Crooks and Liars: “Tucker substitute host David Shuster confronts Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN, [The Fightin' 7th! - Ed.]) about the blatant hypocrisy of the Republican party when he asks about Rush Limbaugh’s Senator Betrayus smear against Senator Chuck Hagel and all Blackburn wants to do is rehash tired slams against the New York Times over the MoveOn ad.
As Blackburn prattles on about the NYT betraying the public trust and making sweetheart deals, Shuster turns the tables on her and asks her to name the last soldier from her district who was killed in Iraq — and what do you know? She had no idea what his name was, or even why she didn’t know. Watch Blackburn stutter and get backed into a corner, with Shuster proving she cared more about making partisan hits than she did about the dead soldiers from her own district.”
Shuster: “Let’s talk about the public trust. You represent, of course, a district in western Tennessee. What was the name of the last solider from your district who was killed in Iraq?”
Blackburn: “The name of the last soldier killed in Iraq uh - from my district I - I do not know his name -”
Shuster: “Ok, his name was Jeremy Bohannon, he was killed August the 9th, 2007. How come you didn’t know the name?”
Blackburn: “I - I, you know, I - I do not know why I did not know the name…” [Snip]
Shuster: “But you weren’t appreciative enough to know the name of this young man, he was 18 years old who was killed, and yet you can say chapter and verse about what’s going on with the New York Times and Move On.org.” [Snip]
Shuster: “But don’t you understand, the problems that a lot of people would have, that you’re so focused on an ad — when was the last time a New York Times ad ever killed somebody? I mean, here we have a war that took the life of an 18 year old kid, Jeremy Bohannon from your district, and you didn’t even know his name.”
Smackdown. Watch it at Crooks and Liars and Republican Shills.
UPDATE: See also Enclave Mike.
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Yesterday was a day that should have made us all proud. Standing on the podium across from Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President Lee Bollinger of Columbia University celebrated traditional American freedoms - not Ahmadinejad’s leadership.
In his opening remarks Bollinger reminded us that to listen to ideas does not in any way imply “our endorsement of those ideas, or the weakness of our resolve to resist those ideas or our naiveté about the very real dangers inherent in such ideas,” and that the debate about whether or not to have Mr. Ahmadinejad appear at the university itself was understood and respected. He apologized to those who may be hurt by the invitation and stressed the rights of Americans - to question, to debate, to confront ideas, to listen - over the rights of the invited guest:
We do it in the great tradition of openness that has defined this nation for many decades now. We need to understand the world we live in, neither neglecting its glories nor shrinking from its threats and dangers. It is consistent with the idea that one should know thine enemies, to have the intellectual and emotional courage to confront the mind of evil and to prepare ourselves to act with the right temperament. In the moment, the arguments for free speech will never seem to match the power of the arguments against, but what we must remember is that this is precisely because free speech asks us to exercise extraordinary self- restraint against the very natural but often counter-productive impulses that lead us to retreat from engagement with ideas we dislike and fear. In this lies the genius of the American idea of free speech.
My question to those of you who so vigorously protested Columbia’s invitation is this, which has done more damage to our country’s national security and standing in the world community - inviting Ahmadinejad to speak for two hours at a university or preemptively invading a sovereign nation and causing a humanitarian crisis for that nation and the region? Which is more pro-American?
Posted by Liberadio(!) on September 24, 2007 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment
Summary: On September 6, after conferring with the Bush Administration, Israel bombed a suspected nuclear missile site in Syria set up with apparent collaboration from North Korea. Israel won’t allow their press to report it, our President refuses to answer questions about it, and barely a squeak has been heard from the target. Also in news you never heard, active nuclear missiles were “mistakenly” loaded onto a fighter jet and flown half way across the country to a Louisiana air base that had no idea nuclear warheads were coming.* Gross (and by now expected) incompetence, or something else entirely? Are the two events related? And what about Vice President Cheney allegedly asking Israel to bomb Iran to provoke an attack? Also unrelated? Plus, you better keep that copy of Anarchist Weekly tucked inside a copy of People because, guess what? The government has a file on what you like to read on the plane! Plus, the Senate can’t seem to concentrate on what’s really important and Keith Olbermann, who already had Freddie’s heart, finally steals Mary’s.
Listen to: The Nuclear Warheads are Coming! The Nuclear Warheads are Coming! (51:11 46.9MB)
*This afternoon, Freddie asked Joby Warrick of the Washington Post what will happen to the nuclear warheads that have been unintentionally/unreliably transferred. He responded: “Excellent question… we’re trying to get an answer to that one.” Indeed.
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Summary: Joining us for a Liberadio(!) Round Table discussion are newly elected councilman-at-large, Jerry Maynard, co-host of Beyond Reason, Karlen Evins, and the executive director of the Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing, Stacy Rector. With two Reverends and a divinity school graduate, you can bet that our discussion about the Jena 6, the Little Rock 9, race relations, and the death penalty was lofty, spiritual, and above all, full of hope.
Listen to: A Liberadio(!) Round Table with Karlen Evins, Stacy Rector, and Jerry Maynard (40:18 37MB)
UPDATE: We received an email while on the air about the Diversity in Dialogue program sponsored by Vanderbilt University. For the next six weeks, they will host study circles to discuss racism in the community. It’s free but space is limited.
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Summary: We’ve got two - count’em, two! - Screaming Tightie Rightie segments. In the first, Bill O’Reilly proclaims black people to be just like everybody else. Thanks for clearing that up, Bill. In the second, Manhattan prep school and Harvard-educated Project for a New American Century hack, Bill Kristol, angrily denounces those darned “liberal universities.” Sucks to think critically, doesn’t it, Bill?
Listen to: The O’Racist Factor (13.47 12.6MB)
