Liberadio(!) Podcast: April 14, 2008 Episode

Summary: Guests include Jose Garcia, senior research and policy associate at Dēmos and author of Up to Our Eyeballs: How Shady Lenders and Failed Economic Policies Are Drowning Americans in Debt and Media Matters for America Research Fellow, Elbert Ventura and the MMFA Smackdown!

  • Part 1 – It’s the day before tax day and both Liberadio(!) and The Onion’s Weekly Radio Address weigh in. Plus, can all our tax dollars go towards creating a revolutionary approach to public education instead of a stagnating and misdirected “war on terror?” (22:31 37.7MB)
  • Part 2 The education discussion continues with a local focus – Nashville’s Full Moon Film Festival. Plus, the Petraeus and Crocker Show, with a little help from their minions, take us on an all too familiar tour Afghanistan Iraq Iran.(15:47 25.3MB)
  • Part 3 – Hey, here are a couple of questions: 1) At a time when both the integrity of the lottery and the integrity of our elections is up for discussion in the state legislature, which do you think is more or a priority And 2) How does the Bush administration spell “top down directive?” T-O-R-T-U-R-E. (09:19 15MB)
  • Part 4 John McCain has a problem differentiating between a strong and weak economy AND the Sunni and Shia. Remember when we said things couldn’t get any worse after a GWB presidency? Yikes. (13:25 21.5MB)
  • Interview with Jose Garcia We are joined by Jose Garcia, senior research and policy associate at DÄ“mos (a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization) and author of Up to Our Eyeballs: How Shady Lenders and Failed Economic Policies Are Drowning Americans in Debt. (15:44 25.2MB)
  • Media Matters for America Smackdown – Media Matters research fellow Elbert Ventura takes us along as he wallows in the seriously freakish world of Chris Matthews. Be afraid. (21:57 35.2MB)

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Liberadio(!) Podcast: That Guy’s Insane

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)

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