LIBERADIO(!)

Summary: Guests include Gray Sasser, John McFadden, Chris Ford, and Elbert Ventura.

Part 1 – You Have 60 Seconds to Celebrate…Good! Now Back to Work. – What’s an election day wrap-up without a call from Remo, Mary’s Independent Dad. Plus, confusion and disenfranchisement on Election Day for Vanderbilt Students, a healthy and appropriate response from the media to voter problems, and Nell Levin from the Tennessee Alliance for Progress calls in to ask, “What’s next?” (19:09 30.7MB)

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Part 2 – Interview with Gray Sasser – The Chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party breaks Election Day down for us – the good, the bad, and the ugly. What does it mean for Tennesseans? For Nashvillians? Who’s to blame? Where do we go from here? And although Gray’s “blame me and let’s move on” attitude is honorable, a solid understanding of what happened is absolutely necessary – lest we be condemned to repeat history. (33:46 54.1MB)

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Part 3 – Media Matters for America Smackdown – Media Matters Research Fellow Elbert Ventura smacks down the advancing narrative that “America is a center-right nation” while explaining how certain media folk can label President-elect Barack Obama a Socialist one week and a Reagan Democrat the next. Was it something he won? (09:25 15MB)

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Part 4 – Tennessee Lives in Infamy – Tennesseans, get ready to spend the next two years fighting the last remaining gasps of the culture war on both a state and local level. First up, defeating Councilman Eric Crafton’s out of state funded “English Only” bill. (05:53 9.4MB)

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Part 5 – Interview with John McFadden and Chris Ford – John McFadden, Executive Director of the Tennessee Environmental Council, and Chris Ford, Executive Director of Tennessee Conservation Voters,, give us the scoop on the Second Annual Summit for a Sustainable Tennessee, happening this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. What is sustainability and what does it mean for all Tennesseans? Plus, what can we do to move a sustainable agenda forward. (19:42 31.6MB)

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