LIBERADIO(!)

Summary: Guests include Rep. Mike Turner, (D-The Fightin’ 51st!), author Clay Risen, and Elbert Ventura, research fellow for Media Matters for America.

Part 1 – We’re Done Now – MLK, Jr. day of service? Check. Inauguration of a Democratic President? Check. English Only defeated? Check. New TNDP chair elected? Check. Alright, we’re done here! Turn out the lights and the last one out lock the door! Oh wait….it seems that Freddie wants to do something about education. And we were SO CLOSE to margaritas and a beach. [41.8 MB 26:05 download MP3]

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Part 2 – Interview with Rep. Mike Turner – Rep. Turner (D-The Fightin’ 51st!) was recently elected Democratic House Caucus chair. Despite facing many obstacles – sexual harassment charges against the Republican Speaker he helped elect, a vengeful majority leader, rabid State Republican Party operatives, a potentially fractured State Democratic Party, candidate recruitment, a looming and potentially disastrous redistricting scenario, and a Governor’s race that’s already starting to heat up – Mr. Turner assures us that the House Dems are more united then ever and are ready to move forward with the people’s business. Now, if we can only keep him from commenting on the blogs. Oh, and Rep. Campfield’s girlfriend? Call me! [39.1 MB 24:22 download MP3]

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Part 3 – A Birdseye View from the Vote for TNDP Chair. We’ve heard the stories of all the political arm-twisting surrounding the election of the TNDP chair over the weekend, but what did it look like on the ground? [18.9 MB 11:48 download MP3]

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Part 4 – Interview with Clay Risen – Clay is the founding managing editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and the author of the fascinating new book, A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination. The book studies in detail the week following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and discusses both the immediate and long-range impact of the events, including a persuasive argument that those events were the catalyst for the urban decay that followed in many of America’s large cities. [40.4MB 25:11 download MP3]

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Part 5 – The Media Matters for America Smackdown – Media Matters research fellow Elbert Ventura thought he was done too but then he realized that although the administration has changed, the media has most definitely not. So, it’s back to airing out the misrepresentations – he does the lies about President Obama’s economic stimulus plan and we squeeze in the lies about closing Guantanamo Bay. [26.2MB 25:11 download MP3]

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