Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 04.16.2008
This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman
April 16th, 2008
Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Total Running Time: 55:07
This Week’s Topics:
–Leave us voicemail for the show at 1-877-363-0947, 24 hours a day!
–More follow up on General David Petraeus’ testimony before Congress, including President Bush’s speech following the event.
–Colin Powell says that regardless of who the next president is, there will be 140,000 troops in Iraq well beyond January of 2009.
–Wolf Blitzer casually says Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker are not political appointees, but it seems they are.
–Talk of air-striking Iran within the next six months.
–The Pentagon’s latest anti-terror device, a portable lie detector.
–Senator Barack Obama’s statements that led to a week of talk about whether he is elitist.
–A news segment about Pennsylvania voters disgruntled by Obama’s comments shows just one man saying he thinks Obama was right on.
–The man who brought us the War on Christmas starts telling callers to his radio show that they are voting for Obama simply because they are black.
–During an Obama event, a man reading questions refers of Osama bin Laden as Obama bin Laden.
–Talk of Michelle Obama being a cross between Kim Jong-Il and Oprah, while others say Hillary Clinton is being called a bitch simply because she acts like one.
–Another accusation that various terrorists are campaigning for Democrats to win in 2008.
–One pundit lets John McCain off the hook for his Sunni-Shiite confusion, while another tells him he’s a maverick and prefaces a softball question with “we’ve had enough softball.”
–Pat Robertson’s latest comments about Islam being a political system bent on world domination.
–More funny talk about a possible global cooling problem.
–Much more.
Links:
Show Website: http://www.midweekpolitics.com
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