Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 12.10.2008
This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman
December 10th, 2008
Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Total Running Time: 51:56
This Week’s Topics:
–Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church calls in to give her thoughts on the election, God hating homosexuals and Jews, and the usual routine.
–Caleb Dean, Director of Generation Sustain, is in studio to talk about his sustainable shared office space project.
–Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is arrested and charged with a bunch of corruption, including trying to sell Barack Obama’s vacated Senate Seat.
–Obama calls for Blagojevich’s resignation, and says more.
–We hear from the prosecuting State’s Attorney on the case, Patrick Fitzgerald.
–An auto industry bailout update, including the latest from the CEOs of the Big Three, as well as the head of the UAW union, and a few policitians too.
–Obama says the economy will get worse before it gets better, and George W. Bush calls it a recession for the first time.
–A strange Joe the Plumber update, it turns out he actually did not like Senator John McCain, and felt dirty after being on the campaign trail with him.
–Condi Rice gives Hillary Clinton some advice about her upcoming role as Secretary of State.
–Barack Obama chooses General Eric Shinseki to be his Secretary of Veterans Affairs, a man who is a favorite to critics of the Bush administration.
–Rick Warren continues to say insane things, and actually had his church give George W. Bush a medal of peace.
–False claims, including the the Bush administration created 10 million new jobs.
–Strange comments about poor people.
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