Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 12.24.2008
This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman
December 24th, 2008
Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Total Running Time: 56:44
This Week’s Topics:
–British science fiction author Richard K. Morgan joins us to talk about the ideas and politics in his book, and he also discusses the election of Barack Obama and a bunch of other stuff.
–Tons of snow, and many in the media say there must not be global warming since we had so many snowstorms last week.
–Politics and Facebook.
–Barack Obama wants Rick Warren to pray at his inauguration, and it seems like a horrible idea, especially to anybody concerned with gay rights, as Obama claims to be.
–The US refuses to back a measure to decriminalize being gay.
–Obama is the increasingly irrelevant Time Magazine Man of the Year, but the more interesting thing is that conservatives claim it’s because of liberal bias, even though many president-elects have won in the past.
–We hear some comments from George W. Bush about what he will miss the most once he is no longer President.
–Governor Rod Blagojevich says he’s completely innocent of all charges, even though so much concerte evidence points the other way.
–The media frenzy about Rahm Emmanuel’s supposed contact with Barack Obama, even though the news originally came from a gossip column.
–Will Obama get a new health care proposal through the House and Senate, and will Tom Daschle have anything to do with it?
–Joe Biden talks about wanting to be more like Al Gore than Dick Cheney.
–Strange comments about Barack Obama planning to use his middle name during the January inauguration.
–John McCain refuses to pledge support for Sarah Palin for President in 2012.
–Is the War on Christmas back again?
–Much more…
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