1, as in Bill Clinton’s one misleading statement about his personal relationship with Monica Lewinski
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935, as in nine hundred and thirty five false statements made by President George W. Bush and seven of his administration’s top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, about the national […]
April 1967. Martin Luther King decides to turn it up to eleven and gets vilified and/or ignored.
In 1995, Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon wrote about King’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech in the essay, “The Martin Luther King You Don’t See on TV.” They’ve re-released it every year since hoping that more people will come to understand […]
Summary: No, not Elbert Ventura, Research Fellow for Media Matters for America who joins us each week to discuss what matters in the Media. It’s that other guy - Chris Matthews - who’s finally being held accountable for his inflammatory and misogynistic statements. What a maroon.
Listen to: That Guy’s Insane (:23:20 37.4MB)
Summary: Last week was the 6th Anniversary of the opening of Guatanamo Bay so we’re joined by The Center for American Progress’s Ali Frick for an update. Plus, Dr. Stephen Zunes, a Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco and Middle East editor for Foreign Policy in Focus, talks to us about George […]
Summary: Meet Addison Pate, President of the Davidson County Young Democrats, and Aaron Dorn, Chairman of the Davidson County Young Republicans. These two very nice young men are under the impression that all this partisan bickering does nothing to move our country forward. Kids today. Sheesh.
Listen to: The Ambigously Partisan Duo (:23:37 38MB)
Summary: It’s a cold day in hell on Liberadio(!) when we read a certain right-wing talk radio hosts’ Sunday column and our heads don’t explode. Plus, the integrity of our elections are still suspect, Rep. Rob Briley’s balancing act, Fred Thompson as Dick Gephardt, and isn’t “lozenge” a fun word to say?
Listen to: We Need […]
Tomorrow, Thursday, January 17, at 9:30 a.m., the legislature’s Voter Confidence Act Legislative Study Committee will meet to discuss SB 1363 (Senator Haynes), HB 1256 (Representative Moore) - legislation that will mandate that all voting equipment in Tennessee use or produce a voter-verified paper ballot and that statewide random post-election manual audits be conducted to […]
After realizing that the biggest fraud of an entitlement program–marrying her way to the presidency–was in jeopardy, Hillary Clinton has demonstrated just how poisonous Clintonism will be if we allow it to return for a sequel. She has finally distilled the Democratic primary contest to the basest type of identity politics.
Until immediately after Iowa, Barack […]
The Moody Credit Rating company issued a warning this week that the U.S. is “at risk of losing its top-notch triple-A credit rating within a decade unless it takes radical action to curb soaring healthcare and social security spending.” U.S. Congressman Jim Cooper (D-TN, The Fightin’ 5th!) is all, “Tell me something I don’t know, […]
Summary: It’s time for Elbert Ventura of Media Matters to de-spinify (It’s a word. Look it up.) what we hear on the radio and the TV. Despite what we may have heard from Chris Matthews, John McCain did not win the Iowa Caucus. Plus, Phil Valentine wants to find out just how low he can […]
