Archive for June, 2008

Liberadio(!) Podcast: June 23, 2008: Sweet (Crude) Mother of God, Parts 1 & 2

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

After seven years of failed energy policy, tax subsidies to big oil, weak fuel economy standards, and the systematic dismantling of the EPA, President Bush has the nerve to blame the Democrats for, well, everything.
Listen to Sweet (Crude) Mother of God Part 1 (13.72 MB)
Listen to Sweet (Crude) Mother of God Part 2 (46 […]

Progressive Author David Sirota in Nashville Today

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

On Monday we interviewed political journalist, nationally syndicated columnist and bestselling author David Sirota about his latest book, The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington and the good swift kick Democrats like Lincoln Davis of Tennessee need because, despite polls showing more than 2/3 of the American people […]

Kleinheider ‘08

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Prosody + Flow + Speed + Cadence + Public Financing = Kleinheider

A Snake Oil Salesman by Association

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Taibbi of Rolling Stone on John McCain’s favorite author, stated as such at his Nashville Town Hall meeting:
Standing at the meeting, I didn’t write Osteen’s name down in my notebook — apparently because my brain refused on some level to accept that McCain had actually said it. Of all the vile, fake, lying-ass, money-grubbing shyster […]

Escapizm

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

LOLpunditz

No more Iranz…must haf teh funneh.

I Just Threw Up a Little In My Mouth

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Big Oil’s John
(Hat tip: Mark Crispin Miller)

It’s Because They’re Saving Room for Stories About Iran

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

From the New York Times:

According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network evening newscasts, coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.” Almost halfway into 2008, the three newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007. The […]

Bill Kristol and John Bolton: “We are Not Reading This”

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Bill Kristol’s performance yesterday morning on Fox News Sunday was sub-par. His “je ne sais quoi” was missing and his answers were rote. It was almost as if he was reading from a script. Watch as he seems to struggle to remember his “lines”:

Hey, wait a minute! Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, […]

Liberadio(!) Podcast: The State of Media Matters

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

The state of Media Matters is very strong, says research Elbert Ventura, and so is the state of the Obama campaign as they Fight the Smears.
Listen to the Media Matters for American Smackdown for Monday, June 16, 2008.

Liberadio(!) Podcast: Empathy is the New Black - An Interview with George Lakoff

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

It’s all here in our interview with Dr. George Lakoff, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science and the author of Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values, Frame the Debate, and the just released The Political Mind - Why you can’t Understand 21st Century Politics with an 18th Century Brain: […]