Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 06.04.2008
This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman
Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, M
Total Running Time:
This Week’s Topics:
–Leave us voicemail for the show at our new number, 1-877-363-0947, open 24 hours a day!
–Barack Obama gets the delegates he needs to secure the Democratic nomination for President, but Hillary Clinton still won’t concede.
–The recent iCap bill proposed by Massachusetts congressman Ed Markey, as well as the Climate Security Act from the Senator, and reaction to it.
–More on the controversial Scott McClellan book, including a bunch of stuff Scott himself said, including that Karl Rove should have been fired for his involvement in the Valerie Plame case.
–One journalist calls McClellan naive for believing the President Bush would be a uniter.
–A CNN correspondent says there was pressure from news executives to make George W. Bush look good during the leadup to the war.
–Bill O’Reilly’s interview with McClellan about the book.
–Dick Cheney’s bad joke about incest in West Virginia, and of course the apology that always follows it up.
–Obama’s statement about being the nominee, and comments about whether the Democratic Party is divided.
–Harold Ford’s comments about Cindy McCain’s wealth, and the recent McCain speech, which he thought was simply great. Then we actually listen to some of the McCain speech.
–More typical talk of Hillary being a bitch and Obama only doing well because he’s black.
–Accusations that it’s the Democratic Party that is racist and sexist.
–John McCain gets caught off guard about his ties to lobbyists by Chris Wallace.
–Much more…
Show Website: http://www.midweekpolitics.com
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