Friday, April 13, 2007
Friday: The Last Casual Friday
Stay tuned for a blog message directly from Sam after the show, but in the mean time, this will have to suffice. We're going out with a bang today, as we welcome friends of the show all day long. We'll have Marc Maron and Joe Conason, plus a helping of surprise callers and wellwishers. And most importantly, we're welcoming YOU. So give us a call, at 866-303-2270. It's Casual Friday!
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«Oldest ‹Older 801 – 1000 of 1017 Newer› Newest»mmr, it's Hobbes's description of the natural state of man (from "The Leviathan," I think). I'll dispell the whiff of pretention by admitting that I actually didn't know who coined it until you asked.
Chronic depression, huh? Dude, I'm with ya. I went the psychopharmaceutical route for a while, and it worked okay, but our current political situation has been my magical cure-all. Thirty seconds of a Bush press conference and I'm like, "why would I waste my precious loathing by turning it inward?"
WaitingForCicero said...
'k. Can't stick around much longer.
Someone shoot me an email with Sam's super secret special message, if you get a chance.
Thanks, and many blessings.
April 13, 2007 1:33 PM
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...must...resist...satirical...prank...opportunity...
Crank Bait said...
...must...resist...satirical...prank...opportunity...
April 13, 2007 2:34 PM
Oh man...that would be pretty funny, Crank... :)
Julie: "It's been a crazy week - lots of changes in my life and I'm a creature of habit, so losing my favorite radio show was a big blow on top of the other stuff."
April 13, 2007 1:46 PM
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What a coincidence! Two peas in a pod. I'm a creature and I have habits. A few of them are not disgusting.
(Most of the fun ones are.)
Depression comes with Chronic pain alot of the time.The way AAR is going down the tubes I'm going to have to up my MEDS!Just kidding.But man,Lionel??That's a bad joke there.
No, wait, it's Hobbes's description of the LIFE of man in his natural state.
Seems like a subtle distinction, but it actually changes the meaning 180 degrees.
I was just trying to be funny, damn it. Now thanks to marcmaronrules I had to friggin' learn something. And on my day off, yet.
Hey Sam,
How about blogging about the Gonzales hearing next week!
Please
Sorry Dude!I've just got too much coffee in me.Ask too many ?
maybe the delay is because - the management has reconcidered? 2 1/2 hours after the show. I did find quite a few comments interesting today.
alice,
Cicero would never buy it. I wouldn't be able to resist going over the top.
First choice: Sam's "woman trapped in a man's body" announcement.
Naw, man, it's actually very cool that you prompted me into looking into this guy. I've actually used the word "Hobbesian" in casual conversation, so it's probably a good idea to find out what the hell it means.
Betcha anything it's like "Machiavellian," where the author's assessment gets mistaken for an endorsement.
(I subscribe to the Brit humor theory that states, "Men in drag are always funny.")
Forced falsettos are a plus.
He's a Lumberjack,and He's ok.......
Fiore animation
MC Rove
Have a Sederrific weekend, psycho fans--and pat yourselves on the collective back for snatching a minor, pyrrhic victory from the jaws of defeat. Green's only giving Sam that Sunday slot because he knows we'll go full-metal flying monkey on his ass if he doesn't throw us a bone.
See ya.Thanks again
Its hard to tell sometimes whether I am Sam's biggest fan or my own.
Lyrics for "sammy seder"
Jerry Springer, you are a putz.
You say that you're a progressive, but you got no guts.
I called you up one day, and I tried to set you straight,
About impeaching Bush and Rathergate. (you didn't listen)
You regurgitated and you mentally masturbated.
The same old media spin that I so hate.
Sammy Seder, you are my leader.
Your ratings must have broke the Neilson meter.
The media brigade, I know you've all been paid.
Unbought, unbossed was something you made up.
But Sammy told the truth, and made it funny too.
I laughed so hard I thought I would throw up.
In my coffee cup.
Crank Bait said...
April 13, 2007 2:55 PM
Yes, I suppose your Crank-ness couldn' help but shine through... :)
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Catch up with you guys later.
ok - this is a stupid question for all of you very hip computer people but here goes:
Can I listen to podcasts if I have a PC or do I need a mac?
Also, where can I go on the web to hear or download sam's show todaY?
Thanks,
Doris
i'm still cracking up john negropante being called a one trick pony for setting up death squads in iraq.
I think you need a iPod.Which I don't have.But,I would like to find out where you can "Download"(not a podcast) Sammy's show today too.
Doris-I was giving this link earlier here,but I thought it was only a Podcast.I'm not too Computer savy myself.But,I just checked out the link again and you can "download"Sammy's show today.Try http://am1090seattle.com/pages/13408.php
try this
http://www.am1090seattle.com/pages/podcast/594.rss..
should be able to play it in Windows media player
marcmaronrules,
Thanks for the info. I'll check it out.
Doris
thanks to rosemary too!
Doris
you're welcome ..hope it works!
Fossil shows that chickens are descended from T Rex
By John von Radowitz
Published: 13 April 2007
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(Place your War Dog joke here.)
Later Seder fans!
Preteen dance at the PD tonight.
Your welcome Doris.You don't need a ipod.I'm a moron.......You learn something new everyday.
Crank Bait said...
Julie: "It's been a crazy week - lots of changes in my life and I'm a creature of habit, so losing my favorite radio show was a big blow on top of the other stuff."
April 13, 2007 1:46 PM
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also WHAT A WEEK
plumbing fell apart under kitchen sink -washing machine overflowed- cat got ina fight (and had a hurt foot)-dryer almost started a fire- i had to pay taxes
i had a terrible stomach flu
and missed four days of work-
son and his girlfriend fighting horribly thought they were gonna break up-
over worked in the yard last week and now my muscles are still hurting so bad i can barely move (maybe it s part of that horrible flu)
and to top it off Sammy's show gets sent to Sundays.... sheet!
Lionel will replace Sam Seder on Air America
When I heard that "Lionel" will replace Sam Seder on Air America, it was completely unexpected. But according to Wikipedia it's true:
On April 9, 2007, it was announced that Lionel will be doing a morning show on Air America Radio. Commencing May 14, his program will air in the 9 am-noon (ET) slot previously occupied by Sam Seder.
And if Wikipedia says it's true it must be true. ;)
I stopped listening to Lionel on WOR 710 Radio in New York City some months back. While I think he is funny sometimes I began to feel that he wasn't well prepared for his show every night. I felt he would assume a point of view that he really hadn't thought through.
I found the most annoying thing about Lionel was his use of "big" words, I think to intimidate his audience. I'm sure he's never heard the first rule of creative writing, "Don't use a complicated word when a simple one will do." Using words to impress readers or listeners shows that your content has no significance or importance. I could have said "heft" but it's not necessary.
I hope Lionel spends time revamping his show and doing the research necessary to support a really good liberal and progressive talk show.
Oh, and BTW, he's GOT to get someone to work on his website...
theteach Smileys
Posted by the teach
http://workofthepoet.blogspot.com/2007/04/lionel-will-replace-sam-seder-on-air.html
Socialist Consciousness Growing In The Green Party
Here's an article taken from this weeks edition of 'The Socialist' that asks interesting questions, both of the Green Party, and of the 'green left' within that party.
The election of socialist Derek Wall as co-leading speaker of the Green Party and the success of several other green-lefts in internal party elections seems to strengthen the claim of the party that it has genuine left-wing credentials. However, at the same time there is a clear pattern of their councillors forming blocks, officially or informally, with ruling mainstream parties at local level, who all carry out New Labour's cuts agenda.
PETE DICKENSON asks: are socialists like Derek Wall just giving a left cover to what remains a pro-establishment capitalist party, in action if not words? Or is a radical shift taking place that could lead to new possibilities for the left in Britain?
The electoral programme of the Greens calls for the scrapping of nuclear weapons and university tuition fees, and increased taxes for the rich. They oppose the war in Iraq, privatisation and support the right of trade unionists to take 'limited' secondary action. The party supports the TUC Freedom Bill and would make trade union recognition easier, as well as banning 'sweetheart' single union deals.
This all has a distinctly 'old Labour' flavour, although their programme is not as radical as the Labour Party's was, if only on paper, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Labour then called for a wide-scale extension of public ownership and defended all the trade union rights that were subsequently removed by Thatcher.
Ironically, their policies on the environment now sound little different to those of the main establishment parties, as their previously distinctive (although flawed) policies have been adopted, in words at least, by the Tory and Labour leaders. In some respects they have been outflanked by them. For instance, Tory leader David Cameron now calls for a possible extension of legally enforceable pollution targets, something the Greens are vague about.
The centrepieces of the Greens' environmental programme are extensive eco-taxes and the Kyoto system of permit trading, although they acknowledge that the loopholes in this need to be tightened up.
Like the main parties they say that international agreements are essential for effective action against global warming and propose that the UN should be responsible for enforcing them.
This approach, however, flies in the face of reality, since the impotence of the UN in imposing its will independently of the big powers that dominate its structures, and whose rivalry is causing the problem, is crystal clear. Linked to this, Kyoto is a fiasco, partly due to the lack of agreement at international level.
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Martin Sheen Slams Bush Administration's Environmental Record
Martin Sheen has slammed the Bush administration for failing to tackle environmental issues. The West Wing star, who has been arrested 65 times for his political activism, expressed his frustration with the current American political climate at an awards ceremony for green energy projects in Brussels, Belgium, this week.
Sheen, 66, said, "We have enough people who are concerned and active citizens, but we do not have the support of the government. This administration has been lacking; it's very upsetting and very discouraging. We're not anticipating anything from this administration, but maybe the next one. Public opinion in America is starting to wake up, no thanks to this administration, but thanks to the environmentalists in America who are taking the leadership.
"Europeans are far more aware and Europe is doing far more than we are. So I hope we'll catch up with you very soon; but we need a new administration in Washington to do that. My children, my children's children and their children will inherit what we have given them and what we are giving them is not very good."
Anna, it didn't roll off, they're placed in reverse order :/
It's there now :)
Being Zapatista Where You Live: Drawing a Line in the Heartland, By JOHN ROSS
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Melanie notes that the poetry of the eternal Turkish political prisoner Nazim Hikmet informs Rogovin's work. One in particular, the imprisoned communist's last letter to his son, touched bone with me:
"Don't live in the world as if you were renting
Or here only for the summer,
But act as if it were your father's house.
Believe in seeds, earth, the sea
But people above all.
Grieve for the withering branch,
The dying star,
And the hurt animal.
But feel for people above all.
Rejoice in all the earth's blessings -
Darkness and light,
The four seasons,
But people above all."
Everywhere I roam on this purposeful trek, talking up being Zapatistas where we live, I've been riffing about water and corn, the devastated forests, what happens when a language dies and what that means to people above all. How we serve our communities and the spaces where we live now. Above all.
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Where to Protest
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/21228
http://www.theunapologeticmexican.org/elgrito/
Hey Cat Chew, this is the guy whodid that cool graphic of Vonnegut on the Jesus General link you posted this morning... :)
Hey... I just got the following email from Mark Green, from the feedback:
Dear Listener,
Thank you for taking the time to contact us at Air America about the Sam Seder Show. It shows you care and are part of our extended Air America family, even if we can't agree on every lineup judgment.
I, too, think Sam is terrific and was eager to keep him on air. After we discussed various possibilities, I'm very happy that we agreed on a new show that's really unlike anything else on radio (or television). The three hour program, as I wrote in my posted "Message" earlier week, will focus on "networks and netroots" -- that is, a review of the Sunday political talkfests with mostly bloggers as commentators.
Please know that, consistent with my 35 year history as a dedicated progressive advocate and author, I'm devoted to keeping Air America as the leader in progressive talk and to taking it from the red to the black. Both.
I believe when we're done with all our plans for the new Air America 2.0 -- in terms on overall lineup, new platforms, better marketing, important collaborations (like our partnership with MoveOn this week broadcasting the "Virtual Town Hall on Iraq") -- you'll be as optimistic as I am that Air America will both survive and thrive after a roller coaster past year.
Mark Green
President
Air America
Chew Cat: "Anna...they're placed in reverse order :/
April 13, 2007 5:02 PM
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Chew Cat: A skilled dyslexic who butters the bottom of her toast, just in case.
elderta, did you notice the "?" at the end of the subject line ... "I want to thank all of you who took the time to contact us?" i think it was a freudian slip...
rosemary... yes, i found that quite annoying. But at least they finally freaking said something.
anyway. i'm going home. sigh.
You're Fired!
Memo to Imus
By DAVE ZIRIN
In an absolutely mind bending turn of events, Don Imus is now a man without a job. A week after calling the Rutgers women's ...
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"Coach Stringer took it even further in her comments last night to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.
She said, "We've become so desensitized that we've allowed a lot of things to pass, and we've not been happy... Too often politicians, leaders, and religious leaders speak for us, and we sit back and don't realize the power in numbers, and when to say enough is enough....We see [injustice] all the time. A kid that steals something with a plastic cap pistol, and spends 10 years in jail, and yet you see, the white-collar workers, you know, thieves that steal millions of dollars [get off]. And I do think that if people stood up, politicians [wouldn't] wait for a poll but [would be] strong enough to make a decision and stand...You know I happen to be the daughter of a coal miner. My father lost both his legs in a mine. He worked hard each and every day. He only stayed out of the mine six months until he got prosthetics. I know what it is to work hard and this has been a lifelong pursuit and passion. I've coached for 36 years...as a person of conscience, I have seen so much that I would like to see changed, with everything. I would gladly exchange winning a national championship if we, as young ladies, would stand and allow the country to somehow be empowered and that we take back our country..."
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"If you want to understand why Imus is out of work, read Coach Stringer's words again. The fact is that so many of us are sick and tired of being sick and tired. We are sick of the casual racism. We are tired of the smirking, drive-by sexism. We are done with people who make their living by selling the idea that some people are less human than others. We are fed up with the politics of division and hate. We are the majority in this country, but are often entirely without voice. This past week, our voices were heard. It won't--it can't--end with Don Imus."
read on
http://counterpunch.org/zirin04132007.html
elderta: "i'm going home. sigh."
April 13, 2007 5:33 PM
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Dr. F-N-F: On the day I went away
Chorus: Goodbye
Dr. F-N-F: Was all I had to say
Chorus: Now I
Dr. F-N-F: I want to come again and stay
Chorus: Oh my
Dr. F-N-F: Smile, and that will mean I may
'Cause I've seen blue skies
Through the tears in my eyes
And I realize I'm going home
Chorus: I'm going home
Dr. F-N-F: Everywhere, it's been the same
Chorus: Feeling
Dr. F-N-F: Like I'm outside in the rain
Chorus: Wheeling
Dr. F-N-F: Free to try and find a game
Chorus: Dealing
Dr. F-N-F: Cards for sorrow
Cards for pain
'Cause I've seen blue skies
Through the tears in my eyes
And I realize I'm going home
Chorus: I'm going home
I'm going home
I'm going home
MEET THE PRESS WITH TIM RUSSERT
WEEKEND LISTINGS 04/15/07
GEN. ANTHONY ZINNI (RET.)
U.S. Marine Corps
Former Commander, U.S. Central Command
Author, "The Battle for Peace"
DAVID BROOKS
Columnist, New York Times
JOHN HARWOOD
Wall Street Journal
Chief Washington Correspondent, CNBC
GWEN IFILL
Moderator, PBS's "Washington Week"
EUGENE ROBINSON
Columnist, Washington Post
Cheney Delivers Sharp-Edged Speech About Democrats
Vice President Calls Democrats' War Spending Legislation 'Irresponsible'
By Peter Baker and William Branigin
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, April 13, 2007; 4:58 PM
CHICAGO, April 13 -- Vice President Cheney accused congressional Democrats today of reviving the "far-left platform" of George McGovern from the 1970s, an agenda that he said would raise taxes, declare surrender in an overseas war and leave the United States exposed to new dangers...
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Is there any wonder why I refer to War Dog as a Dickhead?
Hey, Dick! No new taxes and escalated war expenditures don't mix on the balance sheet.
Check out your administration's cash flow; lots and lots out, not much more in.
Do we really need to hire an economist to explain how this works? I mean, jeez, I have a fucking checkbook. If the debits exceed the credits, guess what? I need to hit up friends and family and smash my piggy bank for quick cash, that's what.
I may be a little stupid but I'm not War Dog stupid.
wow
im so causual that I missed the entire show this morning
thats loyalty!
but I had a dream about the show, so maybe I heard it
Good Luck Sam! This is not a bad thing, I don't think...
Air America is sinking itself...now your rebound will be quicker
-conbo
Crank Bait:Why hasn't that ass been booted off the blog?Just wondering.
marcmaronrules,
Two reasons.
Sam prefers to maintain a wide open blog unless a poster steps across lines defined by Sam.
WD was reasonably courteous in the early times. Eventually he became a spammer par excellence. Had he acted in the beginning as he did later, he might not have made the cut.
Sam addressed him directly on the blog a few months ago. He said (paraphrasing liberally and inaccurately, as is my wont), "I keep you around so that I can watch you spin silk purses from sows ears while your errant ideological idols come crashing down around you."
"Today, there are new political leaders, social movements, and particularly indigenous movements throughout the region. There are also new economic models and innovative economic redistribution programs. Now ethnicity, gender and culture are part of the formula, again particularly around a sensitivity to indigenous issues. What I believe is that there is not a new Latin American Left, but lefts - many different fronts. This is all happening now, so it is difficult to say where it is going, but we can identify its origins and achievements."
-Jorge Castaneda, Utopia Unarmed
I agree with dr. It is the willful ignorance that drives me nuts.
WD and the Bush administration are cut from the same cloth. Either will claim that the sky is green. Ten different people can be standing next to them, pointing to the sky, screaming "It's blue, fer crissakes! Anyone can see that the fucking sky is blue. See? It's blue!" to which they will respond, "Nope. It's green."
They know that it is blue. Their pride is dependant upon willful ignorance. If they are unwavering (but wrong), they can claim to owning heartfelt convictions.
It's bullshit, of course. If Bush was offered a do-over, he wouldn't even consider invading Iraq.
...or allowing Cheney to plug himself in as the vice-presidential candidate.
But he will forever claim otherwise. "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
Crank Bait said...
(I subscribe to the Brit humor theory that states, "Men in drag are always funny.")
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Food for thought:- )
I just don't find it funny.
Isn't there something, ehem, I'll be v. kind, odd/disturbing ... about Mayor Rudy Giuliani in all those diff. women outfits? Was it Trump who put his head on his womanly chest?
I am off ... maybe I can think of a funny man in drag film clip.
Some like it hot is voted one of the funniest if not funniest film. I don't agree. Saw it again ...no, not THAT funny IMO.
P.S. Those poor married men who rent hotel rooms so they can dress up in drag, try out women's underwear etc. etc. ....v. v. pathetic and sadly confused IMO. No, Not funny.
NEW COMMENTS ON AAR FRONT PAGE - BY MARK GREEN - GO POST
http://www.airamerica.com/node/3565
so did sam ever post his special message?
bridge: "maybe I can think of a funny man in drag film clip."
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Blasphemer! Graham Chapman is rolling over in his grave.
(If you can watch the Python's Drag Race without laughing, check your pulse.)
Crank Bait:Thanks.
Zzzzzz... still Imus on Hardball
Rove's back-up dancer is doing the moralizing dance with ethics expert Armstrong Williams right now.
Its the Rightwinger's turn now.
Turned it off.
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Ah ... the Python's ... yes
very funny
I'll be back and I'll be thinking of more men in drag lol
He's a Lumberjack and he's ok.......
marcmaronrules: "He's a Lumberjack and he's ok......."
April 13, 2007 7:21 PM
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(bridge is one of the extras in the background who quit singing)
Is the goal here to get the blog over 1k on posts?
If so, I'm in!
What can we do for our future generations? It is wonderful that a lot of celebrities are doing charity.
Unfortunately, our political leader is not making a commitment to the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals to change the world to a better place, neither to Kyoto Protocol to stop global warming.
According to The Borgen Project, it only cost $19 billion to save people from global poverty. Comparing to the $522 billion U.S. military budget, this annual cost of improving the world is very little.
It is really not so hard if we are truly willing to make a change and bring peace to the world not by military solution but by humanitarian aid.
I just posted a thank you at ring of fire. I thanked Bobby Kennedy for calling the show this moring
Good idea, Shelaghc....been moons since I've played that game... :)
PLEIADEAN PHYSICS PROSTITUTES
Will trade sex for secrets of Nature."
Alone in your bed on a hot summer night, you're awaked by a deep, humming sound and a ravenous sexual appetite. Then suddenly space itself seems to split open and out of a shimmering green cave in the air oozes the most beautiful creature of the opposite sex you've ever seen in your life. Some of the details may not seem quite right--the number of fingers, the shape of the mouth but she/he's the stuff dreams are made of and you want him/her bad--their visuals are a bit off the mark but their mammalian pheremone package is right on the mark, and with each gasp for breath, molecular sexual messengers are shifting every cell in your body into throbbing erotic overdrive.
"Will trade sex for secrets of Nature" resonates telepathically in whatever's left of your higher cognitive centers. But before you surrender your body and soul to this sex-scented seducer from the lush green hole in space, there are a few things you should know about Pleiadian Physics Prostitutes.
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Otep - Jonestown Tea
Jul 06
Top 10 Power Brokers of the Religious Right
Sam interviews Katherine Harris
Sam Seder gets tossed from the RNC Convention
Oh whatever, shelaghc..I'm not going to play by myself...
:)
Just heard on Rachel's show!Tucker Carlson going to do a Game Show Pilot!Too funny.Hopefully,it will catch on so he will leave msnbc.Move openings maybe for The Sammy.
Check this out http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117963015.html?categoryid=14&cs=1 (sent by Yahoo! Toolbar)
Asking Ed Rosenthal by Jack Winton (Part 1)
On Ed Rosenthal's case and marijuana growing conviction.
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Spoink 931!
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DUMP DEWY
His preformance on the last day of the Sam Seder Show was an insult to Sam and Sam's listeners.
Sir, have you no sense of decency?
frankly, i could've done without the whole imus discussion on his last day. imus is the new anna nicole smith. i don't know why sam went on and on about how what he said was racist, but talked nothing about how sexist the remark was. racism is wrong, but so is sexism, and everyone seems to be ignoring that.
and that whole thing about people really don't know how hard it is for black people-please. not every white person grew up in a life of privelege and a lot have struggled and faced discrimination, believe it or not.
HI
IT WAS MY COMMENT THAT SPURNED HIS COMMENTS. I THINK SAM KNOWS ABOUT HOW SEXIST IT WAS. LISTEN AGIAN TO THE SHOW!
Alice, thanks for the clip from You Tube of Sam Seder being detained by the Secret Service. Hilarious! That was such great radio from Sam and Janeane during the Republican Convention.
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dirtydog said...
The dirtydog always enjoys a little bubbly...since he leads a dog's life.
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dirtydog,
Because you are a starry-eyed dog (and will miss your daily dose of The Sam Seder Show immensely), may you enjoy a little bubbly to celebrate Seder's success!
Then you are in the doghouse, rascal.
I guess Sam never came back to make his comments....
Maybe he couldn't get on the blog...
Hee!
I started to make a comment in response to Mark Green's comment about people being upset over Sam's being "demoted" to Sundays only ...
but then I figured...
eh.
Why bother?
The new management will just have to figure it out themselves how badly Lionel will suck, and what a gem they had with Sam.
Sam will move onto greener pastures, and frankly so will we...
I don't think I even want them to try to bring him back to a full week at this point...
Its casual Friday but i am sad Sam that you will only be on the air on Sundays.
The hell with "Lionel"
Wayne in Elizabeth NJ
No one here will listen to Lionel.
Maybe others will, but I doubt it.
April 13-15, 2007 -- WMR first reported World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz's girlfriend issues last September. Wolfowitz is now under pressure to resign for favoritism he has shown in landing his girlfriend a job in violation of World Bank rules. Wolfowitz's flame landed a job at the State Department at an annual salary of $193.000.
Last September we reported, "Shaha Aliriza, who has managed to antagonize every office in Washington, DC in which she has been specially assigned by her boyfriend and boss [Wolfowitz], is now serving as a World Bank liaison in South America, according to World Bank sources. Aliriza is divorced from Bulent Aliriza, a Turkish Cypriot who she met at the London School of Economics. Wolfowitz is legally separated from his wife, Clare Selgin. After taking over at the World Bank, Wolfowitz met Aliriza, then the acting manager for the Bank's External Relations and Outreach for the Middle East and North Africa Region. After complaints by employees about Wolfowitz's conflict of interest with an employee, Aliriza was transferred to a joint World Bank/US Agency for International Development (USAID) multinational investment project. After similar complaints, Wolfowitz transferred his friend to South America duties. World Bank sources report that although the Tunis-born Aliriza grew up in Saudi Arabia and is a British citizen, she has Tunisian Jewish roots. Aliriza honed her neo-conservative credentials as a veteran of Ronald Reagan's National Endowment for Democracy and she has been pressuring Wolfowitz to use his position to help 'democratize' the Middle East."
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
Hey everyone,
About an hour ago I was reading the listener comments to Mark Green's latest letter on the AAR homepage. There was a bunch of really great, spot on comments. I just went back now and they're gone. Is it just me? There's only 2 comments now.
Did they dump them again? Maybe Rove knows where they are.
Doris
Our sources have reported that Wolfowitz was dining this past week at Phillips Seafood Restaurant in Washington, DC. There was no word whether he was with his girlfriend. However, there was a gaggle of neocons at Phillips when Wolfowitz was there. Also dining at the restaurant were Oliver North, Newt Gingrich, and, surprisingly, Phil Donohue, former TV talk show host. Donohue reportedly picked up the tab. It is not the first time the threesome of Gingrich, North, and Donohue have been together. They reportedly go fishing at Gaston's fishing resort in the Arkansas Ozarks, where some of the world's largest brown trout are found in the White River.
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just trying to do my bit to hit 1000...
MS-NBC talk show host Tucker Carlson (where Donohue once had a TV show) has just been named by CBS to host a game show next season. The show is called "Who Do You Trust?" The answer to that is not Tucker's dad's friends at the neocon contrivance which has largely replaced the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). That would be the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, co-chaired by Tucker's father, former Voice of America and Corporation for Public Broadcasting chief Richard Carlson. FDD has Gingrich, James Woolsey, Joe Lieberman, and Louis Freeh as its "Distinguished Advisers." It is ironic that a day after CBS canned Don Imus it picks up the annoying neocon "Jimmy Olson look-alike" Tucker Carlson to host a game show. Yes, America, the media is controlled by a tightly-knit cabal of corporate gnomes.
Evening all. Back from the preteen dance and the silence here in my little apratement is golden!!
the Green/Rove Conspiracy!
i'd believe it..
eya gang!
i'm taking an MRR archive break.
do you folks realise how
incredibly brilliant
all of you are?
Hmmm, must have been my computer or some weird thing cause now the comments are there.
Doris
post 950
Squeep!
April 13-15, 2007 -- Neo-con alert. DeForest ("Buster") Soaries, the Somerset, NJ preacher of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens, who, as former New Jersey Republican Secretary of State was the Garden State's version of Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell in promoting GOP voter fraud by suppressing the African American vote (Soaries was one of the recipients of Ed Rollins' "walkin' around money" in the 1993 New Jersey gubernatorial race to keep parishioners home on Election Day rather than vote for Democratic Governor Jim Florio), was the intermediary chosen by Rutgers University to host a New Jersey Governors' Mansion meeting between fired radio host Don Imus and the Rutgers Women's Basketball team. Soaries' church is attended by Rutgers Women's Basketball team coach Vivian Stringer.
In 2002, Soaries challenged Democratic Representative Rush Holt for his 12th District congressional seat. Holt has long been a proponent of vote reform while Soaries champions the status quo of voter fraud to the detriment of his own race. Soaries is also a strong promoter of Bush's faith-based initiatives.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
eya Doris!
after 500 or so posts it gets a lil squirrely.
think Le Mans in the rain with a bit of oil in the turns...
Soaries was the person named by George W. Bush to enforce the Help Americans Vote Act (HAVA) as chairman of the US Election Assistance Commission. HAVA was enacted after the debacle of the 2000 election to prevent vote fraud. Instead, under Soaries, HAVA was used to perpetuate voter fraud into the 2004 election. Soaries misused his position to line the pockets of Blackwell with federal money never spent to help Ohioans, particularly African Americans, vote in 2004 and it was Soaries who put pressure on California's Democratic Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, which ultimately resulted in Shelley's resignation and replacement by a Republican appointed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Soaries never interfered when Blackwell moved Ohio's 2004 streaming election results web site from control of the Secretary of State of Ohio to Smartechcorp of Chattanooga, Tennessee, the same service provider that handles web site services for the Republican National Committee and Georgewbush.com, the president's campaign web site. Smartechcorp is now at the center of the controversy about White House and Justice Department use of parallel and illegal e-mail accounts used for political chicanery, including the firing of US Attorneys. (see below article).
Hi Toni ...
Are your ears ringing?
After the loud preteen music, that is...
Hey Jim!
A "loyal Bushie," Soaries was also named by George W. Bush as public director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York. The interesting part of Soaries background is that he was a national coordinator for Operation PUSH, the organization founded by Jesse Jackson. Jackson was at the forefront in demanding MS-NBC and CBS fire Imus. Jackson is a divisive figure among a number of African Americans, particularly the Martin Luther King family, many of whom believe Jackson unduly profited from his relationship with the slain civil rights icon.
eya Catharina!
we need to have a bloggie feast sometime.
mmmmmm!
The relationship of Soaries and Stringer in the demise of Imus point to yet another possible dirty trick by the GOP. Imus, like Howard Stern, is off the public airwaves, maybe permanently, while Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael (Weiner) Savage, and other right-wing shills continue to use the public airwaves to spout neo-con imbued hate talk -- material that makes Imus' insensitive comedy bits appear lame in comparison. The neocons are already demanding that Rosie O'Donnell follow Imus and Stern off the public airwaves. This entire matter is beginning to look like another Karl Rove dirty trick - paid for with "good ole GOP walkin' around money." While the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons are demanding accountability from Imus, perhaps they would demand the same from Soaries and Blackwell. Or perhaps that may bring things a bit too close to home.
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Hmm...
I'm not so convinced this was totally cooked up by someone like Rove. I think there are lot of cooks in the kitchen, and no one is ever as clever as you give them credit for.
Imus still deserved it, but... yes, let's go after bigger fish... like Limbaugh.
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we need to have a bloggie feast sometime.
mmmmmm!
April 13, 2007 10:07 PM
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Yup!
Mmm mmm good! [as long as I'm not cooking]
MRR Bloggie!
(the off broadway musical!)
i want to do the sets.
i have a few scenes
ready to go.
"Bloggin in my underwear." will be killer!
April 13-15, 2007 -- More on E-mailgate. Once Congressional investigators, with subpoenas in hand secure, the servers located at all the elements involved with White House e-mails, including Smartechcorp, the process of un-deleting files can begin. The files are marked for deletion but are not removed until the space is required for a new file, which then overwrites the old information. The sooner the devices are impounded the more information will be retrieved (i.e., a race against writing to the disk). Also the e-mails are stored locally on the recipient's computer. These can be scrutinized with the same un-delete method. If it's a UNIX (the most likely, by far) system then there will be a set of user histories which will identify all user activity which can incriminate anyone tampering with the data. That will be a handy record for future indictments for obstruction of justice. [Thanks to WP in Florida for the aforementioned].
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
u get to do the Orrdurbs...
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"Bloggin in my underwear." will be killer!
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Uh ... yeah.. you can say that again ...
"Bloggin in my underwear." will be killer!
thanks!
oops ... gotta run ...
Catharine, it's not so much the music, that wan't bad! It's the squealing girls and the boys yelled and hit each other.
And the "F' word was flying. Don't know how many times I said watch your language and cool it with the F bomb! Heh! That last one got them.
Anyway the peace and quiet is good.
I see Sam didn't say anything yet.
Maybe he was too emotional to get his thoughts together yet.
See! I'm good with the set up ...
i think it likely
the last thing the greens would do is level with us about their reasons.
they sent me a typical 'Air Email' bout it.
yer hired.
cool it with the F bomb!""
effin A T!
"Maybe he was too emotional to get his thoughts together yet."
ya...
i'd factor stoned to the max and drunker than a father should get into that appraisal.
Crap. I only just thought of "Casualty Friday".
I didn't get any emails from Green!
And I was polite. Hmmmm!
More Rove fingerprints. NPR reports, “According to someone who’s had conversations with White House officials, the plan to fire all 93 U.S. attorneys originated with political adviser Karl Rove. It was seen as a way to get political cover for firing the small number of U.S. attorneys the White House actually wanted to get rid of. Documents show the plan was eventually dismissed as impractical.”
LINK
ya.
you know when a decision does'nt make sense theres a ulterior motive.
my guess is movin to the right and sucking up to the DNC for future favors.
i'm so impressed with the brilliant suggestions people made in these last three months regarding programming and events.
i feel like a teacher stuck in a shitty school system.
sigh...
Catharine said...
The relationship of Soaries and Stringer in the demise of Imus point to yet another possible dirty trick by the GOP.
Imus still deserved it, but... yes, let's go after bigger fish... like Limbaugh.
April 13, 2007 10:09 PM
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Add this to the list of things that make say hmmmmmmmmmm. Rove is diabolic enough to conceive and implement this. And add to this who benefits most from this story, but Mr. "Tidiness" himself. But hey, I'm for fishing and bringing home a cooler full.
Well if I have to choose between Stephanie and Lionel, It will be Stephanie. I won't have to stream then. I can listen to her on the local radio channel WCPT.
Then I can go to Thom Hatmann's web site to stream his show. And I can listen to Randi on my own radio.
So I can avoid AAR stream and it will drop the numbers.
eya cee cee!
good to have you here!
Steph is great sometimes, her crew is really good.
but then she drops into "fluffy the girl broadcaster mode" and i hit the off button.
What's Mark Green's email addy? Anyone have it?
mgreen@airamericaradio.com
blessing to all the sederites.....
give thanks ~~ heartlove ~~ in lake'ch
eya 13ben!
u still in SA?
138 kb.
pretty fat for a bloggie thread.
take about a half hour on dial up to load...
toniD said...
Well if I have to choose between Stephanie and Lionel, It will be Stephanie. I won't have to stream then. I can listen to her on the local radio channel WCPT.
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Sunshine said...
Steph is great sometimes, her crew is really good.
but then she drops into "fluffy the girl broadcaster mode" and i hit the off button.
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I will probably tune in to make sure that this wasn't some sort of bad dream, and hope to hear Sam say "good morning" with the shower going. But if it doesn't happen, since I am at work, Stephanie is a little more racy for the office, so I'll try Stacy Taylor of KLSD-San Diego. He sounded reasonable when he subbed for Randi. If that doesn't work out, I'll go back to NPR for Diane Rehm.
Sharing my Friday/4-13-07 letter to Green, Sam, etc. (and posted on the "comments" page following Mark Green's remarks: "I couldn't say what others have said any better. I'm wondering what others are wondering .... where are we going to hear those experts, that were initiated by Al Franken and carried forward by Sam? As Al said, Sam is Air America Radio. Al needs to visit with Green. :) :) Unless Lionel is going to change his format, he doesn't seem to fit with the caliber/style that has set AAR apart from all other radio stations. Oh, well .... like Mallory has said many times, radio is a mean/dirty/nasty business (althou, he did exclude the Drobny's/NovaMRadio). Maybe we should be glad Sam wanted to stay in such a business. I know I left the business world with it's competitive ugliness for the world of children (public education). I want Sam to be wherever he feels honoured and respected (i.e. NovaMRadio)and if he thinks he's being honoured and respected at AAR by having a show on Sundays (which may work out as the coolest adventure he and us have ever been on), so be it and "so it goes." From ... another sad and disenfranchised AAR fan ..... Peace
democracy now and Saint Amy Goodman
is a nice morning 'tack' too.
what up?
Jim, that email for Green didn't work.
we still love you sam! we are here for u!
eya Deborah from Kansas.
good on ya lass.
can't beat that for gentle and reasonable.
Reason #12 to boycott Lionel
He referred to Randi Rhodes as that shill/shrill/shrew something like that who "rants all afternoon"
Hi Bloggers,
I haven't had a chance to read all 996 comments on this thread... what was Sam's big blog announcement? I'm sure it was good!
sam is the man
well this is the nitty gritty.
i've been going to all the AAR blogs for three years.
watching the hourly log ins doing thread counts per show...
most of the shows get a handfull.
we get 500+ in an hour...
randi does pretty good.
thom has a chat that
zips along real
good always.
my guess is these guys were clueless to internet marketing.
it sure showed in the network in major ways. almost zip presence on the web, little attention to functionality or making contacts and coallitions.
post 1001,
applause!
Did Sam remember to say "Peaches"??
Sunshine what did Sam announce about the blog? Is he getting a new one?
Scott McClellan, Dana Carvey, Fmr. Sen. Bill Bradley on Bill Mahrer.
Sen. Bradley taking it to ole Scottie regarding Iraq and the so-called new strategy, "the surge." Dana Carvey definitely not well-suited for this program.
oh well,
"Peaches!"
Lilith said...
Did Sam remember to say "Peaches"??
April 13, 2007 11:30 PM
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Actually, I IM'd him just at that moment when he was signing off and typed "PEACHES!!!!"
He IM'd back, Sorry, I forgot, I f*ed up!
eya Lilith
think Sam is gonna take a while to post.
he's in the middle of a 'Party zone' with everybody else i'd imagine.
anybody want a Guinness?
This is my post to Green's post on Sam Seder.
Seems like Mr. Green has taken lessons from Bush. Replacing people that do a great job with one that is incompetent (Brownie = Lionel).
And the "my way or the highway" attitude is the same.
It isn't working for Bush and it won't work for you!
Did Sam remember to say "Peaches"??
April 13, 2007 11:30 PM
I IM'd him first thing this morning about it and I swear he took a pencil and made a note to himself to say it, then as time went on more people IM'd him about "peaches" and in the end I think he just decided not to say it. It really was more of a MR thing and I can see why he didn't, I guess. I wanted him to, though.-kalena
Hi ceecee!
Like your comments. From the top of the thread to the bottom.
I agree that Rove is certainly capable and diabolical. It certainly is possible, I just think that maybe he's been preoccupied. He's no political genius, after all he lost the last election. He was so focused on Lieberman, which he barely pulled off, and all of his other problems.
Chomsky said recently something about the fact that a lot of things that may seem like conspiracies, well... basically we're giving them more credit than they deserve. They're mostly incompetents with bad intentions.
blog diaries in the next one from the sammycam interludes.
this one will OCCASSIONALLY get a new thread...
(ahem...)
Actually, I IM'd him just at that moment when he was signing off and typed "PEACHES!!!!"
He IM'd back, Sorry, I forgot, I f*ed up!
April 13, 2007 11:38 PM
He did?! Oh, wow! I thought for sure he just decided not to. Bummer!-kalena
eya kalena
thanks!
you are in the presence of at least 4 of the original "Peaches Conspiracy" members.
Hey sunshine!
I've been around all this time, I just happen to be a terrible blogger so I tend to read it more than anything, but I do feel connected. And my heart is broken. I can't do without Sammy.-kalena
Do we have that show saved somewhere? That was a classic.
Peaches on MRR!
you madame are a welcome lurker.
we once figured that there might be a hundred to a thousand 'lurkists' to every one of us that posted.
network just starting on TCM
just saw the end of andy griffith in
a face in the crowd
on evil character
so glad he became andy of mayberry : )
Has a time slot been determined for the Sunday show? I recorded the sammy cam for the past three days while at work, but haven't had time to listen to it yet. Did he say anything about a time? This is terrible, but I haven't even listened to the second half of the podcast from todays show yet. I don't feel like crying right now, I'm saving it for tomorrow. And ofcourse it's been a cold, rainy day all day today! Whenever my heart is really broken it rains like this.-kalena
i've got three other threads talking about this on other sites.
i had a half dozen up earlier.
LOTS of folks that are Sam fans and have never been here.
sam probably not aware of that,
he'd enjoy the kudo's he's getting on them!
network just starting on TCM""
huh? explain please?
I posted a reply to Mark Green's ridiculous statement on the AAR page. I'm oneundonebird. I hope everyone does it.-kalena
Crank Bait said...
(bridge is one of the extras in the background who quit singing)
April 13, 2007 7:27 PM
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ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz ....
Have to open the Park Dist. tomorrow, so I better get some sleep.
Later!
http://www.texascooking.com/features/texaspeachrecipes.htm
In Texas, cling peaches, meaning peaches whose flesh clings to the pit, generally ripen in May. Semi-freestones, not quite as clingy, ripen in June. Freestones, whose flesh readily seperates from the pit, generally ripens in June and July.
I want the freestone im peaches : )
eya ToniD!!!
try here for the show sound archive.
they just finished putting them up.
http://am1090seattle.com/pages/84914.php?contentType=34&contentId=1199
eya sj
network ...the movie
"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore..."
jbenet
tcm
turner classic movies
?
A message sent to Air America:
What is wrong with Air America? I hated to see Al Franken leave, but understood his higher motives to run for the Senate. But now, once again, I am in mourning because you have taken away my favorite information source, Sam Seder.
In my area, we do not get his show live, but faithfully we listen to podcasts and pay to hear him. We also love Thom Hartman live and Rachel Maddow. I listen to Air America at work all day, but your line up will be that much less by silencing Sam Seder on a daily basis. A Sunday show will partially satisfy my enjoyment of his unique perspective, but leave me longing for the daily show.
We listened to a podcast of Sam's replacement, Lionel, and cannot believe you think he is a better choice than Sam. He is horrible. One question...is this cronyism like we see in the Bush administration? I hope not, but like many people who have expressed in the past few days that Sam's absence will free up my time because I will not waste my time listening to Lionel. I hope you come to your senses, before Sam finds some other full time gig. His informed commentary was something my husband and I looked forward to daily, and he has a guest list quite unlike many others on Air America, and it was still developing. We fell in love with his funny, insightful commentary when he guest hosted shows for Al Franken and Randi Rhodes. Usually the replacements were not the greatest, but Sam was high energy and fun.
What a shame you did not recognize the gem you have cast aside. I truly hope this is not a sign of future changes of moving rightward to the middle--or even further--rather than promoting progressive voices such as Sam's.
Why don't you listen to the fans of Sam Seder, who are loyal listeners? We need Sam to help us make sense of what is happening to our government and world in this crazy time. We don't have time to do the research that we looked to him to provide. Please come to your senses and realize the mistake you have made. We, his loyal listeners, are the ones who will pay the price. We have lost our voice. We all have learned so much from Sam. Please bring him back.
We already miss him and feel a loss of something that is not easily replaced, especially by your choice.
Susan Pennington and David Poulson, Colorado
Now sadly former but loyal listeners of Sam Seder
We're into day two of the final Sam Seder show blog!
Can we make it to 2k posts? Can we keep it up for another day?
Time will tell!
Catharine said...
April 13, 2007 11:42 PM
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I agree. Just saying it is plausible. While he may not always have total control of a situation, he may have had enough for adequate distraction. But I am hoping, whether or not he did have a hand in it, it takes out more of the hate-mongers aligned with this administration.
eya jbenet
i stopped watching TV sometime in 1969. movies sometine after that.
and i LOVE movies.
most of those movies i've never seen.
30,000 brand new movies to watch
and i can finally figure out all the movie references people make...
Alice said...
Oh whatever, shelaghc..I'm not going to play by myself...
:)
April 13, 2007 7:54 PM
Whoops! Sorry Alice!
I started doing my taxes, got a phone call and things snowballed. I only just got back a few minutes ago!
But I'm definitely up for the 2k!
we had one that went over 3000
ShelaghC said...
We're into day two of the final Sam Seder show blog!
Can we make it to 2k posts? Can we keep it up for another day?
Time will tell!
April 14, 2007 12:17 AM
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We can make it, but I don't think the blog will... unless we get a new thread...
[ahem]
right, jim?
The cool thing about this blog is that, unlike the AAR blogs that the network eventually retires, it'll stay in the internets until Sam himself retires it!
The forever Sammy blog!
we're up around 140 KB's
takes about 10 minutes on a slow dial up to refresh,
about 7 seconds for me and i have a 3.2 meg per min in and out.
it was glitching at about 500 but seems to have steadied now.(partial refreshes)
i like the speed of fresh threads but we can clank along here maybe up to 5000.
ya the blog was always wayyyyy more on top of the news and evidence.
thats what i came to treasure.
i have all of the original thread formatting on the early blogs so theres a complete intact collection in existence.
i figger a new thread around 2 or 3 in the afternoon tomorrow.
I was just having a smoke in the garage
and contemplating...
text is cheep.
Would it be worthwhile or possible
to archive this blog to wikipedia?
aka jbenet
east coast time.
probably should have a hangover cure contest tomorrow.
well lemme take a look and see how big it is.
just the threads for 06 are 200 Megabytes...
i figger they need to be mined to be digestable.
but having em on record would be really a good record of this time in american grass roots activism.
(and humour and about 47000 cat stories, jokes, movies and pix)
this at times is encyclopedic.
and then if you go to the links and go to some of those links...
it has been flat amazing...
peeps here are pretty dam modest and shy but they've collectively done doctoral research and analysis non stop for 3 years...
what's here is 24000+ hours of research and entertainment.
some of these posts represent the notes of days of researching by the way...
like all the water you see when you look at the ocean,
and thats just the top yer looking at...
Imus had to go ...
(warning - v.v. long post - I wrote this v. fast so please forgive the typos :))
Imus in the Morning was a horrible horrible show ... don't fool yourselves thinking that he was not as destructive and nasty than the rest. Without his powerful relationships in press and politics he would have been gone long time ago.
Imus' show was not a comedy show. He is not a comedian. He is not funny unless you enjoy laughing at nasty remarks about a selected group, about selected people.
Imus in the Morning was the In Show in Washington. Every Beltway Pundit, whether Cokie Robert or good old Al Franken, at some time or another may have refused to come on his show again because they were appalled ... but they all came back. All of them.
People who never watched this show just don't seem to get the impact his show had. Just listen to David Gregory how devistated he is about the loss (at least for now)of that wonderful good man of good deeds and charity.
So Has anyone even watched or listened to Imus show? For a period of time at least, listened to every single comment made, every conversation with the punditry, w. the high and mighty guests, every sorry "comedy" schtick by his side kicks?
People are defending him right and left now as if he is some kind of liberal who is not as bad as those rightwing radio hosts. Hello! Imus and his wife are as rightwing as it gets and so is his crew.
So he made racists and sexists comments, but the terrible things he said about poor people ind countries like Haiti, about the abused and tortured at Abu Ghraib - you couldn't make this up what he said about them for months on end unless you have a hole in your soul as well.
Now his fans - white males I bet most of them who enjoyed his stuff - are sending hate mail to the Rutgers women. Are we surprised at all about that? Not me.
But the rightwing talking points dominate the air waves now. And boy, they are good because everbody jumped on them as well.
From Gregory to Scarboro - and as always, once you heard Buchanan you got it. Pundits momentarily in limbo are crawling back into the light. Someone like Craig Crawford, for example, who now yells that Imus was publicly stoned.
So now the subject is bad Rap Music. Imus was just a victim (like a kid) and he just couldn't help it. Its the culture. ... Zzzzz...
Rap Music has always been horrible IMO. But many many years ago, in the last century mind you, Tripper Gore asked for a warning label on the records and was ridiculed for speaking out for years.
And the bashing of Sharpton and Jackson is truly pathetic. Name one national leader who ceased the moment for leadership. Noone had the guts and stepped out, not black, not white.
Btw. before the Imus thing I thought I would give Sen Dodd a chance (who declared his candidacy on Imus btw) but he was so wimpy, so pathetic on TV last night. After every question he wimped out and hid completely behind the Rutgers women.
So On Monday Hillary Clinton will speak at Rutgers. Prepare yourself for the worst bashing from all sides. Right, left and in the middle. Because she couldn't possibly be sincere about the subject now, could she? Mainstream press is already snickering as well as pundits like Gergen. So you can only imagine blogger response from certain sites.
And btw. I never listen to Glenn Beck (and other rightwing radio) but I heard the nasty things he said about Hillary Clinton. I have read every single commment, and worse, on dkos.
Hypocrisy all around.
But Thanks for blogs like digby who gets it, Media Matters who is always right there, the Daily Howler excellent - and always good old James Wolcott who held Imus' feet to the fire for years.
I'm done.
Good Luck, Sam, on your Sunday Show :)
Chavez: Detente With U.S. 'Impossible'
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday that reconciliation with Washington was impossible and threatened again to cut off oil shipments to the United States if it supports any effort to oust him.
He said a thirst for oil motivated both the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and a failed 2002 coup against him. Chavez has often accused the United States of being behind the coup, and Washington has repeatedly denied the allegation.
"There is no possibility of understanding for our revolution with the government of the United States, with U.S. imperialism," Chavez said during a news conference to mark the fifth anniversary of his return to power two days after the coup.
Chavez also said that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were "a gift for (President) Bush" because they enabled him to wage war.
He did say "coexistence" was possible, but warned: "If there were another aggression against us, there wouldn't be another drop of oil for the United States ... We're prepared for it."
Venezuela was the fourth-largest supplier of crude oil to the United States last year despite the antagonism between the former paratroop commander and the Bush administration.
Chavez alleged that Pedro Carmona, who briefly replaced him during the 2002 coup, tried to have him killed in a faked accident.
"There are witnesses that say Pedro Carmona Estanga issued an order from the presidential palace to kill me ... but to make it look like an accident, and he had just received a call from Washington," Chavez said at the news conference. "The order to get rid of me came from Washington."
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we were up to thread number 3000 last year and then they stoped putting consecutive thread numbers on them.
figure this one is close to #4000
heres a complete list by the way.
http://www.majorityreportradio.com/archives.html
most of the links are dead now though but the most recent ones were live.
eya Bridge!
A superb post, don't sweat the typos, it was plenty clear what you were saying.
good rant kiddoo!
evening shell!
thanks for keeping the news from SA on the burner.
night gang!
been up for 18
time for a good snooze
love ya all!
Hi SJ... :)
http://www.global-mindshift.org/memes/journey.swf
http://www.global-mindshift.org/discover/featured.asp
re my long Imus post
P.S. I forgot to mention that I didn't watch Imus in the Morning for enjoyment. It was work. I did a study of Imus in the Morning for months on end. I taped the show on MSNBC and watched every single moment of it.
I then made follow-up visits every now and then - and suffered thru it believe me. Esp. when something important happened I decided to tape - e.g. the King funeral. the comments were horrible. What else.
However,
There were parts of the Imus show I enjoyed very much. I am a big fan of country music and Imus has great taste in music IMO and my fav. country singers played live on his show. Vince Gill was there the day his last dvds came out. That was fabulous.
I also enjoyed all the stories about and the visits to his Ranch. And found the efforts of both, Don and Deirdre Imus, with the sick children with cancer who so loved at the Ranch absolutely admirable. I also do believe they both are excellent parents to their son.
I read the Ranch book w. wonderful pics and health food recipes the moment Deirdre wrote it. I also must give her kudos for her Greening the Cleaning program of children's hospitals and so on. I am also allergic to cleaning products and she did such a great job with it. Truly great. Absolutely.
ok - night everyone - v. tired :)
http://propagandamatrix.com/articles/april2007/130407insidejob.htmFormer
Bush Speechwriter Hints at 9/11 Inside Job
Says Neo-Cons would have created a false flag to justify war had it not been for WTC attack, questions official story
Friday, April 13, 2007
A GOP insider, former Bush 41 speechwriter and close friend of the Bush family writes in his new book that before 9/11, the Neo-Cons in control of the Bush administration were eager to seize upon a manufactured provocation to go to war - just as LBJ had done with the Gulf Of Tonkin in 1965, and questions the official 9/11 story.
Victor Gold is a veteran GOP campaign operative who worked closely with George H.W. Bush on his presidential campaign and also co-wrote his autobiography. He was also tasked with writing the profiles for Dick and Lynn Cheney for the official Inauguration program in 2001.
In his new book, Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Neo-Cons and Holy Rollers Destroyed the GOP, Gold slams the current administration and exposes their zeal for creating a pretext for a war that was planned many years in advance.
Gold confirms that war in Iraq was decided upon from day one, and that a fake pretext was readied and anticipated before 9/11 happened. Though Gold still pins the blame on Al-Qaeda, in acknowledging the fact that the Bush administration would have staged a false flag attack anyway had it not been for 9/11, he is one small step away from intimating that the attacks on the WTC and Pentagon were an inside job.
"There would be regime change in Iraq," writes Gold, "All that the Neo-Con war hawks, in the Bush administration and out, needed to bring it about was an excuse to invade. Looking back a half-decade and knowing what we now know, who could doubt that if al Qaeda hadn't obliged the Neo-Cons with 9/11, the Kristolites would have torn a page out of history and, with Rupert Murdoch playing the role of William Randolph Hearst, given us a reprise of the sinking of the Maine?"
William Randolph Hearst was the founder of Hearst Publishing, which today owns Popular Mechanics, the government's foremost mouthpiece for selling the official 9/11 story. Look in the encyclopedia and Hearst is the very definition of yellow journalism. He colluded with the McKinley government to manufacture and propagate through his chain of newspapers, the hoax that the Spanish had sunk the USS Maine in 1898, an event that provided the catalyst for the Spanish-American war.
http://www.aclu.org/natsec/foia/search.html
Government Files on Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq Released
Since U.S. troops first set foot in Afghanistan in 2001, the Defense Department has gone to unprecedented lengths to control and suppress information about the human costs of war. But documents made public by the ACLU this week provide a vivid window into the lives of innocent Afghans and Iraqis caught in conflict zones.
Hundreds of claims for damages by family members of civilians killed by Coalition Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan were recovered through a Freedom of Information Act request filed in June 2006. The claims and related materials highlight the cost of government efforts to suppress information, through policies including:
Banning photographers on U.S. military bases from covering the arrival of caskets containing the remains of U.S. soldiers killed overseas;
Paying Iraqi journalists to write positive accounts of the U.S. war effort;
Inviting U.S. journalists to “embed” with military units but requiring them to submit their stories to the military for pre-publication review;
Erasing journalists’ footage of civilian deaths in Afghanistan, and
Refusing to disclose statistics on civilian casualties.
In Afghanistan in March 2002, then-head of U.S. Central Command General Tommy Franks said “You know we don’t do body counts.” Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said in November 2003, “We don’t do body counts on other people.”
The ACLU released a total of 496 files: 479 from Iraq and 17 from Afghanistan. Of those claims, 198 were denied based on an exemption for combat situations. The documents released by the ACLU are available online in a searchable database at: www.aclu.org/civiliancasualties.
In one file, a civilian from the Salad Ad Din province in eastern Iraq states that U.S. forces opened fire with over one hundred rounds on his sleeping family, killing his mother, father and brother.
“Although these files are deeply disturbing to read, they allow us to understand the human cost of war in a way that the usual statistics and platitudes do not" said Jameel Jaffer, Deputy Director of the ACLU’s National Security Program.
In a separate effort, the ACLU filed a FOIA request in October 2003 for records concerning the abuse of prisoners held by U.S. forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay. That request has resulted in the release of more than 100,000 pages, all of which are available online at: www.aclu.org/torturefoia. Litigation regarding that request is ongoing.
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From Mat's Blog:
Sam Seder on Olberman last night..
eg_pal_070412_rove_tries_to_bury_s.htm">Rove Tries to Bury Sordid Secrets of a White House Gone Wild, by Greg Palast
The House Judiciary Committee just released two emails, dated February 5 and 7, from inside Karl Rove's office, in which the Rove-bots gloat that no US media have picked up the investigations of "that British reporter Greg Palast" found in my book Armed Madhouse. I couldn't make this up.
http://www.gregpalast.com
Bleh..it messed up...
Good Night Sam Seder Show....
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