Posted by Mary Mancini on February 29, 2008 under Liberate Your Radio from The Right | 
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Posted by Mary Mancini on February 27, 2008 under Uncategorized |
“Embarrassed Diebold officials apologized after one of their electronic voting machines prematurely revealed the winner of our upcoming sham election.”
To you, funny. To me, less.
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
(Hat Tip: Mark Crispin Miller)
Posted by Liberadio(!) on February 24, 2008 under Uncategorized |
Summary: The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and the Director of the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center at Vanderbilt University, Linda Manning.
Part 1 - Second Amendment zealots should try living in Britain, water boarding zealots should try living at Guantanamo, and corporate protectionists should try looking out for the American people. Plus, WeeklyRadioAddress.com sends you love letters and pink champagne.
Part 2 - In celebration of President’s Day we interview with Abraham Lincoln. No, really! And then we interview Dennis Boggs.
Part 3 - We discuss Super Delegates, Governor Bredesen, and Huck. Hijinks ensue.
Part 4 - Interview with the Director of the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center at Vanderbilt University, Linda Manning.
Part 5 - John McCain sings (like hope, but different), Rep. Stacey Campfield suppresses, and we consider an alternative reproductive rights conversation. Plus, Hey! Where you going with those FEMA trailers?!?!?
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R. Neal is doing a bang up job of gathering weekly gems from Tennessee’s liberal blogs. Take a gander at this week’s edition.
Posted by Mary Mancini on February 21, 2008 under Liberate Your Radio from The Right |
First, Knoxville Republican Rep. Stacy Campfield’s ridiculous bill to “ban elementary and middle schools from teaching about anything other than heterosexuality was angrily derided in a legislative committee.” Big surprise, he fabricated the issue. Bigger surprise, Democrats stood up and said, “No More.” Then, the Tennessean woke up and smelled election integrity with a front page article about Tennessee’s lack of a paper ballot. Who cares that it only took them 3 years? And now, West Wing addicts everywhere can stop bemoaning the loss of their favorite TV show and start living it. Remember when Matt Santos wasn’t given a snowball’s chance in hell of winning against moderate-Republican Arnie Vinick?
Year of the Rat, nothing. This is the year of the underdog.
UPDATE: Interesting discussion going on at AC’s house, a.k.a WKRN’s Volunteer Voters, as to whether Stacy Campfield wields any kind of influence up there on the hill. All evidence points to no. However, it is nice (and rare) to see someone try to use the “homosexual agenda” wedge issue to their advantage and fail so quickly and so spectacularly.
Posted by Mary Mancini on February 20, 2008 under Liberate Your Radio from The Right |
What should be a huge nationwide news story is finally hitting a few other of the, er, mainstream papers: Barack Obama was robbed in New York.
Barack Obama’s primary-night results were strikingly underrecorded in several districts around the city - in some cases leaving him with zero votes when, in fact, he had pulled in hundreds, the Board of Elections said yesterday.
Unofficial primary results gave Obama no votes in nearly 80 districts, including Harlem’s 94th and other historically black areas - but many of those initial tallies proved to be wildly off the mark, the board said….
Initial results in the 94th, for example, showed a 141-0 sweep for Hillary Clinton, but the recount changed the tally to 261-136.
Even Obama’s future running mate is getting into the act:
Mayor Bloomberg charged yesterday that “fraud” was behind the unofficial results in the New York Democratic presidential primary that produced zero votes for Barack Obama in some districts.
“If you want to call it significant undercounting, I guess that’s a euphemism for fraud,” said the mayor.
Oh my stars, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg used the “F” word! The mayor needs to have a long talk with his buddy to make sure that if he does get the nomination he has eyes and ears in every state fighting for the integrity of the November election. If there was fraud in 2000, 2004, 2006 and even the 2008 primary, we’re kidding ourselves if we don’t think there’s going to be fraud in November’s general election.
Posted by Freddie on February 17, 2008 under Liberate Your Radio from The Right |
As 2007 drew to a close, I was making unverifiable assertions to friends and associates not to discount Mike Huckabee as a dark horse among the Republican presidential nominees. As 2008 opened, I declared on air (free bumper sticker to the careful listener who can help me figure out which podcast it’s in) that John McCain would be the Republican nominee. Now, I don’t have the public track record of a Sarcastro, and I haven’t been willing to put my money where my mouth is on Intrade, but I am willing to offer my predictions for the general election.
Democrats
Because the Democrats use a presidential preference system where everybody’s opinion matters a little, and because they have two candidates who are tearing at the seams of a generational gap rather than at the policy soul of the party, Sens. Obama and Clinton will find themselves on the single ticket that Wolf Blitzer dangled in front of cable audiences everywhere during their first head-to-head match-up at a debate in California. Obama, after surprising in Texas, will be at the head of the ticket, but because the Clintons, like political cockroaches, cannot be finished off, the superdelegates will negotiate the equivalent of a plea bargain on Hillary’s behalf. You heard it here: Obama/Clinton ‘08. Dream ticket or nightmare? You make the call.
Republicans
John McCain, per my earlier prediction, is already the presumptive nominee. Now he just needs a running mate. He’ll find it in Tim Pawlenty, the Republican governor of Minnesota. A recent Politico article makes the case nicely, but I’ve had my eye on this “rising star” ever since he received the blessing of Karl Rove a few years back. An old edition of The Note picks up on this tidbit:
“Eibensteiner said that he had invited Rove ‘a long time ago’ to appear at a state party organization fundraiser, but that Rove said he preferred to help Pawlenty’s campaign specifically.”
If you think anything Karl Rove says/does is a coincidence, think again. McCain/Pawlenty ‘08
Inaugural Address 2009
John McCain. Having deftly parried Obama’s Generation Next caché with Pawlenty’s disarming youthful conservatism, McCain stands aside as the Republican attack machine and dominance of terrestrial radio eviscerate Hillary and Clintonism, as well as Obama’s Kennedyesque (read: inexperienced) sheen. Get ready for four more wars!
Decision 2012
At age 75, John McCain decides not to seek a second term, and Tim Pawlenty becomes disturbingly difficult to dislodge from the White House. He’s like a Mike Huckabee who believes in evolution–charming and disarming and a natural political talent. Who said Karl Rove’s vision of a long-term Republican majority was over?
In Conclusion
There’s a chance that Obama is a defter political talent than anyone could’ve foreseen and actually beats back the Clinton machine in the superdelegate mythical backroom. If he does so, look for another woman (maybe Janet Napolitano or Kathleen Sebelius, both of whom come with the benefit of executive experience and important regional constituencies) on the ticket.
There’s also a chance that Clinton’s inevitability turns out to be as strong as McCain’s, and she ekes out an earned delegate win. In which case, you’ll find a Clinton/Obama ticket. The Clintons might stand ready to tear apart the party to get back in the White House (such as if Obama winds up with more earned delegates), but they’re not stupid enough to commit a political homicide/suicide by getting rid of Obama’s next generation political machine when they’re calling the shots.
Right now, the only way I see the Democrats losing in 2008 is if Hillary is on the ticket. And the only way I see Hillary not being on the ticket is if there’s a wholesale rejection of neo-Clintonism as not-self on the part of a cresting wave of superdelegates after the Mar. 4th or maybe May 6th states have had their say.
March madness, indeed.
Posted by Liberadio(!) on February 16, 2008 under Liberate Your Radio from The Right |
Summary: Jeremy Kane, founder and director of Lead Academy and Elbert Ventura, Research Fellow at Media Matters for America.
Part 1 - Super Fat Tornado Tuesday, the Federal Government’s response to disasters, empathy, buh-bye Mitt, and we love us some Dr. Beardy. Usually. Plus, WeeklyRadioAddress.com explains signing statements.
Part 2 - Interview with Jeremy Kane, founder and director of Nashville’s LEAD Academy, and two of his very special students.
Part 3 - We talk about our silver-bullet theory and take your calls about education in Nashville and school choice. Plus, Robin Morgan’s thought-provoking essay, Goodbye To All That (#2). Would some of the overt misogyny we see directed towards Senator Clinton be tolerated if it was overt racism directed towards Senator Obama?
Part 4 - Media Matters for America Smackdown with Elbert Ventura. MSNBC’s Dan Shuster is pissed…and gets himself in trouble. Plus, Mitt Romney is so one dimensional and our listeners love us, they really love us!
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Summary: David Earnhardt, Producer and Director of Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections; Journalist Jennifer Van Bergen who first broke the story about President Bush’s signing statements; Elbert Ventura, Research Fellow at Media Matters for America.
Part 1 - The Super Bowl, the Puppy Bowl, the confusing primary process, what baseballs are made of, and WeeklyRadioAddress.com skewers the State of the Union.
Part 2 - Interview with Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections Filmmaker, David Earnhardt
Part 3 - Interview with Jennifer Van Bergen, a lawyer and journalist who first wrote about President Bush’s signing statements.
Part 4 - Media Matters for America Smackdown with Elbert Ventura. How does the media deal with issues of poverty? One guess.
Part 5 - We find out that the French have a better system of voting then we do. Sacrebleu!
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