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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 03.17.2010

David Pakman — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:15:53 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / March 17th, 2010

Total Running Time: 60:00

This Week’s Topics:

–Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA) joins us live to discuss his campaign to replace Senator Arlen Specter as Senator from Pennsylvania, healthcare, his job offer from the Obama administration to get him off the campaign trail, and more.

–Mike McHugh, Christian homeschooling advocate and marketing director for Homeschools.org joins us live to discuss why a Christian homeschooling education is his preferred method, and it gets heated with David Pakman when discussing whether an education based around Jesus is a good idea.

–The hilarious but creepy Vatican gay sex scandal continues, this time with gay prostitution transcripts, and it becomes clear that the Catholic Church is morally bankrupt and irresponsible.

–The Chief Exorcist of the Catholic Church explains that the devil getting into the Vatican is a contributing factor to the incessant pedophilia and immoral practices of church members.

–Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and his history of off-color remarks.

–The Eric Massa scandal, including Massa massages, groping and tickling male staffers, refusing to address his sexual orientation, and more.

–Glenn Beck thinks the government is trying to increase slavery through the 2010 census.

–JD Hayworth compares gay marriage to bestiality, but cannot seem to understand that animals are unable to sign marriage contracts.

–Republicans are drumming up support to put Ronald Reagan’s face on the 50 dollar bill, an example of conservative obsession with idolizing Ronald Reagan in much the same way they criticize the perception of Barack Obama in the same light.

–A GOP fundraising guide is found, and it includes funny suggestions about raising money through the use of fear, tchochkes, and ego-driven appeals, as well as much more.

–Rush Limbaugh says that if the proposed healthcare reform is passed, he would go to Costa Rica for medical procedures, a country that has the same nationalized healthcare that Limbaugh is so strongly against.

–Congressman Patrick Kennedy gets himself all wound up in on the floor of the House with regard to media coverage of politics.

–Audience emails, including angry and positive emails about the recent interview with Shirley Phelps-Roper of the God Hates Fags Westboro Baptist Church.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 03.10.2010

David Pakman — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:45 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / March 10th, 2010

Total Running Time: 60:00

This Week’s Topics:

–Shirley Phelps-Roper from the Westboro Baptist Church joins us live to discuss her church’s God Hates Fags slogan, and the Supreme Court case involving the church, and we play under over with the words “wrath” and “fag” during her interview.

–New stations in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Massachusetts airing Midweek Politics.

–Conservative media misinterprets the Oscar win by The Hurt Locker as a victory for conservative values.

–Democrats should be angry with the current White House and Congress, and we look at why.

–New York Governor David Patterson runs for re-election for a few days, then quits due to a violence against women scandal.

–Charlie Rangel steps down as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

–After Harold Ford Jr changes his position on gay marriage yet again for political convenience, a New York crowd does not buy it and heckles him in and out of the venue.

–Discussing whether or not having extremists on a program validates them, or serves to discredit their views.

–The incredible story of California State Representative Roy Ashburn, a long-time anti-gay politician, revealing that he is gay after being caught drunk driving when leaving a gay nightclub.

–The Vatican faces another sex scandal, this time an organized male prostitution ring, the same week that they spoke out against gay marriage in Washington DC.

–Dylan Ratigan kicks a teabagger of his show in an actual example of critical journalism.

–Do we need term limits for House and Senate members? The arguments on both sides.

–Palin cracks the ultimate joke on Jay Leno, who has not had an edgy segment on his show for years, criticizing the mainstream media, and citing it as a reason she joined Fox News. Also, she says she will continue to write notes on her hands.

–Sarah Palin admits to having crossed into Canada when she was a child for healthcare.

–Emails about Orly Taitz, health insurance, Glenn Beck, and more.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 02.24.2010

David Pakman — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:03:07 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / February 24th, 2010

Total Running Time: 60:00

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This Week’s Topics:

–Former Massachusetts Governor and presidential candidate Michael Dukakis joins us live.

–Glenn Beck’s show runs without advertisements in the UK due to everyone bailing out.

–Steve Doocey suggests all plane crashers/bombers look the same, quickly forgetting about the underwear bomber and the Austin plane crash.

–Fox News’ troubles continue, mislabeling JD Hayworth as Former CongressWOMAN, and using the word Presiddent’s, and fawn over Lou Dobbs.

–A Michael Savage clip triggers a google alert for David Pakman, and it is an internet troll with which we are familiar.

–UK journalist Kay Burley does not understand the ash on Joe Biden’s forehead on Ash Wednesday.

–8 of 10 kidnappers for Jesus are release from a Haitian prison, and we wonder why the Pope is so offensive and far-fetched to evangelicals that already believe in virgin births, resurrection, the planting of dinosaur fossils by God to test their faith, and more.

–An overwhelming majority of Americans, regardless of political party, oppose the corporate personhood ruling by the Supreme Court.

–Analysis of the Austin plane crash, and Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown’s bizarre connecting of the crash to his election.

–Stimulus hypocrites: A handful of members of Congress that publicly opposed the stimulus, and then asked for a ton of money from it.

–The hijinks at CPAC, including the crowd going nuts for Newt Gingrich as he is introduced to the sound of Eye of the Tiger, and his statement about the secular, Socialist machine that is the Democrats.

–Bob Barr is shouted down at CPAC for mentioning a legal fact, that waterboarding is torture.

–Ron Paul wins a straw poll at CPAC for the 2012 presidential race.

–Colin Powell comments on Obama’s first year in office, and disagrees with Dick Cheney that Obama has made the country less safe.

–Tony Kornheiser is suspended from ESPN for his comments about reporter Hannah Storm.

–Audience emails about Evan Bayh, insulting Midweek Politics, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and the Westboro Baptist Church.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 02.17.2010

David Pakman — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:14 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / February 17th, 2010

Total Running Time: 57:57

This Week’s Topics:

–Sit-down interview with Congressman Barney Frank about financial reform, Iraq, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and more.

–New radio and television stations airing Midweek Politics in Hartford and Massachusetts.

–An incredible story about a group of evangelical churchgoers who decided to steal children from Haiti to convert them away from Catholicism and to Baptists, and who fortunately were arrested before leaving the country with any kids.

–Peter Sprigg from the Family Research Council believes that homosexuality should be outlawed and punishable by law.

–Sprigg’s colleague, Tony Perkins, also subscribes to bizarre and extreme ideology when it comes to homosexuality.

–During a hearing in New Hampshire related to repealing same-sex marriage, Representative Nancy Elliott gives some strange and entertaining thoughts about homosexual activity.

–The new national security distraction of Arabic language students from the US, highlighted by the aggressive detention and interrogation of Nick George from Pomona College who was caught with English/Arabic flashcards for words such as funny and to smile.

–We discuss whether going after students studying Arabic for 4 hours with 7 different law enforcement officials keeps us more safe, or takes resources away from actual potential terrorists.

–In explaining the difference in reactions from trying shoebomber Robert Reid in the US during the Bush administration and the underwear bomber in the US now, Newt Gingrich resorts to lying that Richard Reid was an American citizen, and Monica Crowley that there simply were no military tribunals in 2001.

–In what can only be described as a fantasy world, Dick Cheney criticizes Barack Obama and Joe Biden for trying to take credit from Bush and Cheney for the miraculous, incredible success that is the war in Iraq.

–Senator Evan Bayh says he will not seek re-election to the US Senate, and while he says the decision was not motivated by being down in the polls, which he is not, he did take a few shots at Congress, and we discuss whether it will hurt or help him in a potential run for the presidency, which some are predicting.

–Director Kevin Smith is thrown off of a Southwest Airlines flight for being too fat, and it has create a frenzy on Twitter between Smith and the airline.

–Michelle Obama will appear on Fox News with Mike Huckabee in what seems like a carefully crafted non-political appearance related to childhood obesity.

–A deluge of emails after last week’s interview with anti-gay Paul Cameron goes viral.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 02.10.2010

David Pakman — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:06:27 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / February 10th, 2010

Total Running Time: 57:29

This Week’s Topics:

–Notorious anti-gay Paul Cameron joins us live to discuss his claim that homosexuals in the military are significantly more likely to rape of sexually assault fellow soldiers in the military.

–Ervin Staub, Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts and Abu Ghraib expert witness, joins us live in studio.

–Viewer emails about Tim Tebow and Midweek Politics.

–The Super Bowl and the Focus on the Family Tim Tebow anti-abortion advertisement, which many could not tell was anti-abortion.

–A gay dating site who tried to purchase an ad on the Super Bowl was rejected by CBS, while the anti-abortion ad was allowed.

–President Obama makes what might be his first major gaffe during a speech.

–The Tea Party Conference, whether the possible success of the Tea Party would help liberals or conservatives more, and Tom Tancredo’s incredible comments during his turn at the podium.

–Sarah Palin has crib notes written on her hands during her speech at the Tea Party Conference, and refers to them during a very friendly and tame question and answer session after her speech.

–Sarah Palin’s hypocrisy over the use of the term “retard” by Rush Limbaugh and Rahm Emmanuel.

–The same Republicans criticizing and condemning the Obama administration for its decision to try the underwear bomber in US federal court said nothing when the Bush administration tried shoe bomber Richard Reid in a US federal court, which led to a guilty verdict and a life sentence without parole in a super maximum security prison.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 02.03.2010

David Pakman — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:42:44 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / February 3rd, 2010

Total Running Time: 58:37

This Week’s Topics:

–Victor Ostrovsky, ex-Mossad case officer, former member of the Israeli Defense Force, and former Lieutenant Commander of the Israeli Navy, joins us live.

–New stations airing Midweek Politics in Atlanta, Winnipeg, and New York.

–Do Louis’ tattoos have to be covered for the TV version of Midweek Politics?

–Barack Obama’s first official State of the Union address, including standing ovations, applause, Samuel Alito’s eye-rolling and head-shaking, pivoting to the economy and away from healthcare, and much more.

–Sarah Palin’s insightful analysis before and after the SOTU speech.

–Chris Matthews with another strange race-related comment, saying he forgot Barack Obama was black for an hour during the SOTU.

–Obama asks for a full repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell during the SOTU, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates agrees, yet a task force needs to research DADT for one year before anything will be done.

–11000 troops have been discharged for being gay, and countless more never joined or were not allowed to, and we ask whether we will have a net gain by allowing homosexuals and letting the homophobes leave the military.

–Barack Obama meets with the GOP and scolds them, and Fox News cuts away from coverage when it starts getting contentious.

–The Steven Anderson controversy continues, this time with an email from another Baptist preacher.

–Tim Tebow and his Super Bowl anti-abortion ad, with news from attorney Gloria Allred that she thinks Tebow’s mother’s story is made up, given that abortions have been against the law and strongly penalized in the Philippines since 1930.

–Keith Olbermann’s rant about newly elected Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown was incredibly accurate, especially considering that Olbermann was forced to apologize for it.

–Abortion Doctor George Tiller’s murdered, Scott Roeder, is convicted on all counts, including murder.

–Roger Ailes defends Glenn Beck’s comments in a rare TV appearance with Barbara Walters and Ariana Huffington.

–John Edwards tried to get his aide, Andrew Young, to claim fatherhood of Edwards’ baby with Rielle Hunter.

–Mel Gibson reacts negatively to questions about his past drinking and anti-Semitic rants during an interview about his latest movie.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 01.27.2010

David Pakman — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:48:47 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / January 27th, 2010

Total Running Time: 57:49

This Week’s Topics:

–Eric Weaver, CEO of Opportunity Fund, joins us to discuss microlending, economic recovery, and much more.

–New stations in Massachusetts, Georgia, and Maine.

–Emails pour in about co- producer Louis’ claim that he does not vote in local elections, and no evidence exists that he ever donated to the Barack Obama campaign.

–The Supreme Court ruling that corporations have the same first amendment rights as individuals and may spend freely to support or oppose candidates for President and Congress, and analysis of which Justices voted which way, and the effect this could have.

–Do second amendment rights, by extension, also flow to corporations?

–The Hope for Haiti Now Telethon is television on CBS, ABC, NBC, CW, FOX, TNT, Weather Channel, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, HBO, Showtime, Major League Baseball Network, Style Network, E! Entertainment Network, ReelzChannel, TNT, Comedy Central, Oxygen, Soap Opera channel ,Bravo, National Geographic Channel, Sleuth, G4, CMT, TV1, BET, MTV, MTV2, VH1, GMC, FUSE, Current, PBS, even streaming live on IMDb, Hulu and YouTube, but NOT on Fox News Channel, and we look at why, including whether its racism, anger that CNN’s Anderson Cooper was involved, or some other reason.

–Instead of showing embarrassment that his network alone chose not to air the Haiti Telethon, Bill O’Reilly expresses concern about whether donated funds will make it to the right people.

–Irate anger on the Midweek Politics YouTube channel from violently anti-gay listeners in response to criticism of anti-gay pastor Steven Anderson.

–New song parodies and press releases from the Westboro Baptist Church, which recently announced the God hates Haiti, and that Haiti has been punished by God with earthquakes and a high population with AIDS.

–Super Bowl advertising hypocrisy, with a possible anti-abortion ad featuring football player Tim Tebow and Focus on the Family on CBS, after CBS rejected a pro-gay rights ad for the Super Bowl in 2004.

–Fox News fawns over Scott Brown, running non-journalism fluff biography pieces about the recently elected Senator from Massachusetts.

–The Lieutenant Governor and possible Governor-to-be of South Carolina suggests that people should not provide food to the poor because they will breed.

–Airport hijinks, including one man trying to open the front door of a flight to Las Vegas while in flight, and a man caught with 44 endangered lizards in his underwear in New Zealand.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 01.20.2010

David Pakman — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:48:55 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / January 20th, 2010

Total Running Time: 57:30

This Week’s Topics:

–Ray Drewnowski, Political Director for Pioneer Valley Young Democrats, joins us live in studio to discuss the results and ins-and-outs of the recent Massachusetts special Senatorial election that saw Republican Scott Brown elected to replace Ted Kennedy in the US Senate.

–Email reaction to Jordan Sekulow’s recent appearance on Midweek Politics.

–The Haitian earthquake, including Barack Obama’s quick response, and why it was too quick for Rush Limbaugh, after saying the response to the underwear bomber was too slow.

–The status of illegal Haitian immigrants in the US and deportation, over 30 aftershocks following the magnitude 7 earthquake, and Fox News coverage of the event.

–Pat Robertson suggests that the Haitian earthquake is a result of Haiti’s signing of a pact with the devil to free them from France’s rule, and even Imus disagrees.

–Harold Ford Jr, sounding more and more like a Republican, says it was good to hear George W Bush’s voice on Haiti.

–It turns out Wyclef Jean’s charity is under scrutiny for strange practices, including paying Wyclef himself for performing to raise money for his OWN charity, among many other problems.

–The Massachusetts special election results in a win for Republican Scott Brown 52 to 47 percent, and the big question is what will happen with healthcare, including the several options to get healthcare reform passed in spite of Scott Brown’s intentions to prevent it.

–Whether robocalls, political TV ads, and political text messages can actually change minds, or just try to keep up with the competition.

–California healthcare reformers want to put a limit on the waiting time to see primary care providers at 10 days, and the maximum wait time to be called back by their office to 30 minutes.

–Barack Obama’s first year in office, including 66 percent less vacation time than George W Bush, as well as many press conference, meetings, and trips. We look at Obama’s trouble spots, including GITMO, healthcare, low enthusiasm from Democrats for 2010, Afghanistan, and more.

–Abortion doctor George Tiller’s murdered, Scott Roeder, will attempt a defense arguing that he was saving lives by killing Tiller, and his charge should be manslaughter, and Judge Warren Wilbert will actually consider this.

–Virginia license plate money can be directed to anti-abortion groups.

–Sarah Palin insists on the existence death panels as a Fox News contributor, and hurt her public perception with the release of her book.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 01.13.2010

David Pakman — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:49:23 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / January 13th, 2010

Total Running Time: 54:19

This Week’s Topics:

-Jordan Sekulow, conservative talk radio host, human right attorney, and Director of International Operations for the American Center for Law and Justice joins us live to discuss travel security, his work as an attorney, and more.

–New stations airing Midweek Politics in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Massachusetts.

–Harry Reid’s Obama Negro comments and the subsequent apology, and why the analysis was accurate while Reid still used racist terms.

–We discuss why Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have become de facto apology-takers when it comes to African-Americans, particularly when they themselves have hugely racist pasts.

–Comments on the Harry Reid Negro statement from Governor Tim Kaine, RNC Chairman Michael Steele, and Rod Blagojevich’s own bizarre racist comments.

–The book Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin and the fascinating stories it tell.

–Bill Clinton’s comments that upset Ted Kennedy, referring to Barack Obama as someone who would have been getting them coffee a few years ago, and Hillary’s desire to push Obama cocaine stories as much as possible, even at the warning of her aides.

–More information indicating Sarah Palin was completely uninformed about a plethora of topics, including basic national security and foreign affairs issues, and the fear that the McCain campaign had that the VP debate would be an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions.

–The revelation that Palin’s request to call Senator Biden Joe during the debate was actually a strategy to prevent her from repeatedly calling him Senator O’Biden, which she still did do once during the debate.

–John McCain claims to have absolutely no idea how or if Sarah Palin was vetted prior to her selection in lieu of Joe Lieberman.

–Barack Obama clearly states that the buck stops with him, and sadly that is not working too well.

–The Jay Leno Conan O’Brien shakeup at NBC, and why television networks make the decisions they do.

–The upcoming Massachusetts election to replace Ted Kennedy in the Senate was a foregone conclusion for some, although many Republicans are saying Scott Brown has a chance to defeat Democrat Martha Coakley. We look at whether this is true, and why anyone would vote for either of these candidates.

–More Fox News errors, this time mislabeling Connecticut Democratic Congressman first as a Republican, and later as a Senator.

–Gay marriage update, with Portugal putting in motion legalization, and a review of where things stand in Europe and the US.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 01.06.2010

David Pakman — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:59:17 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / January 6th, 2010

Total Running Time: 56:15

This Week’s Topics:

–Chris Martenson from ChrisMartenson.com joins us live to discuss the economy, alternative energy development, green jobs, his transition out of corporate America, and more.

–All airline passengers from 14 specific countries will now be screened in detail when flying.

–Newark Airport Terminal C gets locked down as a result of one man skipping security through the exit lane while cameras were not recording and a TSA agent reportedly was on his cell phone not paying attention, and thousands of passengers have to get rescreened as a result.

–Joe Lieberman, not surprisingly, says that AbdulMutallab should not be tried in the US court system, and on top of it, GITMO should stay open and is the most humane place anyone could be held as a detainee.

–Barack Obama restates that there were security problems leading to AbdulMutallab’s underwear bombing attempt, and that GITMO should still be closed.

–Fox News shows another bizarre Rasmussen poll, this one suggesting that almost two thirds of Americans want illegal waterboarding techniques used on the underwear bomber AbdulMutallab.

–After barely hearing from Dick Cheney for eight years, he is again in the news criticizing Barack Obama and suggesting that Obama does not take American security seriously.

–Wabasha County Republican Allan Quist says liberals are more of a threat to the US than terrorist like AbdulMutallab.

–3 high-level Democrats, including Senator Chris Dodd, will not be running for re-election in 2010, creating more problems for Democrats.

–Sarah Palin’s audiobook of Going Rogue includes some bizarre statements.

–Looking at 50 things we learned during 2009, a whole bunch simply do not make sense to those that interpret the Bible literally.

–Rush Limbaugh’s healthcare scare, and his press conference stating that the best healthcare is in the US, which it certainly is, for billionaires like Rush.

–College football coach Mike Leach is in trouble for allegedly putting one of his players into small confined spaces after a concussion diagnosis, and two NBA players from the Washington Wizards pulled guns on each other.

–An arraignment in the Northampton, Massachusetts serial arson case that made national news over the last ten days.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman 12.23.2009

David Pakman — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:32:58 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / December 23rd, 2009

Total Running Time: 57:07

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This Week’s Topics:

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–The healthcare non-reform bill passes, with controversy, at one in the morning on the Senate floor.

–Senator Tom Coburn asks others to pray some do not make it to the healthcare vote, then afterward explains he was referring to an alarm clock simply not going off.

–Senator Bernie Sanders withdraws his single-payer amendment to the health insurance bill after Senator Coburn makes a Senate clerk read all 767 pages out loud.

–Al Franken denies Joe Lieberman additional speaking time on the floor of the Senate, and all hell breaks loose.

–John McCain says he does not remember another instance of a Senator objecting to another Senator receiving a few additional moments to speak, but it turns out McCain himself did so a few years back, although the tape was temporarily misplaced by CSPAN.

–Fox and Friends and Bill O’Reilly take the opportunity to criticize both Al Franken and other liberals as a result of this incident.

–Michael Steele equates the healthcare bill to flipping the bird to Americans.

–We look at what exactly is still in the healthcare bill, and whether there is any chance at all of a public option.

–Guantanamo Bay’s closing is delayed by at least one year.

–Barack Obama’s appearance at the Copenhagen climate talks doesn’t quite go as planned, but you would not know it from reading the majority of American newspapers.

–Leading global warming denier Senator Jim Inhofe flies to Copenhagen with no plans or schedule, and makes a fool out of himself.

–Fox News presents a fair and balanced special called Global Warming, or a Lot of Hot Air, and we discuss the differences between that and a special on the Discovery Channel.

–More math trouble for Fox News as they fudge the numbers on an already-biased poll to show that 120% of Americans believe research was falsified relating to global warming.

–Obama approval in trouble, and we look at the various ups and down thus far.

–Congressman Parker Griffith defects to the Republican Party.

–Sarah Palin attempts an incognito vacation to Hawaii by wearing a John McCain baseball hate with the name blocked off, and then quits yet more things by leaving her vacation early.

–It turns out that the man recently arrested for bringing guns near Obama is a former George W. Bush employee.

–Pregnancy ban in the military.

–Rudy Giuliani will not run for anything in 2010.

–New rules for planes and a disaster on a train.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 12.16.2009

David Pakman — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:53:17 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / December 16th, 2009

Total Running Time: 57:28

This Week’s Topics:

–Maggie Bergin, government affairs consultant/lobbyist from The Art of Politics, joins us live in studio.

–New stations airing Midweek Politics in Nashville, Olympia, Wisconsin, and Charlotte.

–Getting into the Christmas spirit with new song parodies from both the left and right.

–Barack Obama’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize in Copenhagen, although many question it even more after his decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.

–Sarah Palin says that she wrote something very similar to what Barack Obama said at his acceptance speech in her book, maybe looking for some credit.

–More non-reality based fake debate on MSNBC, with a conservative bringing back the favorite talking point of freeing millions of people in Iraq.

–Healthcare reform moves closer to non-reform, with even the Medicare buy-in basically removed, and Joe Lieberman becoming the public face of the latest bill. We look at what is actually still part of the bill, whether insurance companies actually conceded anything, and whether there is any reform in the bill.

–Howard Dean says the best option is at this point to kill the Senate healthcare bill altogether.

–Radiation from CT scans done in 2007 will cause 29,000 cancers and lead to 15,000 deaths, a CDC report states.

–Children of parents on Medicaid are being prescribed anti-psychotic drugs at four times the rate of those with private insurance.

–Alan Greenspan’s recent comments about unemployment, and what we can expect from each side of the political spectrum whether unemployment goes up or down.

–Now that banks are starting to pay back their bailout funds, Barack Obama says we need them to start lending and help get the economy going again, but that’s exactly what he said they needed to do when they were first given the money.

–A new poll shows that members of Congress are considered as unethical and dishonest as car salesmen, at the very bottom of the list.

–Gay marriage has been voted in by the Washington DC City Council, Annise Parker voted as the first openly gay marriage of Houston, and we look at the state of gay marriage in the US today.

–An update on H1N1 Swine Flu.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 12.09.2009

David Pakman — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:37:28 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / December 9th, 2009

Total Running Time: 58:33

This Week’s Topics:

–Walid Shoebat, former Palestinian terrorist, joins us to discuss his past and his agreement with Switzerland’s decision to ban the building of minarets.

–Barack Obama’s Afghanistan speech, including sending more troops, liberal and conservative reaction, and why he sounded much like George W. Bush.

–Bill O’Reilly forgets that he’s ‘doing it live’ after the Obama Afghanistan speech.

–Chris Matthews refers to West Point as enemy camp for President Obama, and then gives the standard apology.

–40 percent of Democrats are not likely to or will not vote in 2010, showing a large enthusiasm gap between parties.

–Healthcare news, with the gang of 10 deciding to remove the opt-out public option, instead offering a trigger possibility and a Medicare buy-in for people aged 55 to 64. Is healthcare turning into an embarrassing debacle for the Obama administration?

–An ex-con who claimed he had homosexual sex with Barack Obama is running for office.

–Comcast announces it will take a 51 percent stake in NBC, and we look at the consequences of this, including Comcast controlling 20 percent of all television programming, and what it means for shows like Midweek Politics.

–Congressman Patrick Kennedy is banned from receiving communion by Bishop Thomas Tobin over his position on abortion.

–In escalating California’s Prop 8, John Marcotte suggests banning divorce altogether.

–The Copenhagen Climate Conference.

–Amy Goodman denied at the Canadian border.-

–Pie charts apparently don’t have to add up to 100 percent, as Fox News shows us.

–Today in Palin, where Sarah Palin tries to quote John Wooden Legs, but instead quotes UCLA basketball coaching legend John Wooden, and then separately states that the birther questions of Obama are valid.

–More bad beef from Cargill.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 12.02.2009

David Pakman — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:37:42 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / December 2nd, 2009

Total Running Time: 55:44

This Week’s Topics:

–David Pakman lost his voice, and it’s a best of 2009 show, with some of the most popular interviews from this year.

–Ray Comfort, author of the book You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence But You Can’t Make Him Think, Christian minister and evangelist, calls in live.

–The infamous Shirley Phelps-Roper from the Westboro Baptist Church goes head to head on the show, blaming almost everything on homosexuals and Jews, talks live with David Pakman.

–Bob Ney, former Republican Congressman from Ohio, calls in to discuss his time in prison and much more.

–Joseph Chambers, Pastor and author of The Masterpiece: God’s Unfolding Revelation calls in to talk about the end of the world being near and whether David Pakman is going to hell for being Jewish.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 11.25.2009

David Pakman — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:37:42 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / November 25th, 2009

Total Running Time: 56:19

This Week’s Topics:

–Critical emails about Ralph Nader’s appearance last week on Midweek Politics.

–Do Midweek Politics listeners listen to conservative talk radio, too?

–Sarah Palin floats Glenn Beck as a possible 2012 running mate, and has long been considered a communist liberal by some in Alaska.

–Sarah Palin’s comments about Israel suggest she may have only recently heard about the country’s existence.

–NBC shows clearly photoshopped pictures of Sarah Palin on one of their networks, and then says that it took them days to sort it out and to prevent it from happening again.

–Interesting Palin book tour interviews with Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly, including Palin claiming that she is more experienced than both Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

–Tucker Carlson says Palin is more experienced than Obama and smarter than Al Gore.

–Size matters for Fox News and conservatives, as we can clearly see from their obsession with the number of pages in the healthcare reform bill.

–Barack Obama’s approval ratings are lower than ever, and negative on all issues other than energy policy and global warming.

–Fearmongering increases related to an Obama one world government and new world order.

–In addition to Chuck Norris, Elisabeth Hasselbeck is being asked for political commentary on Fox News.

–The Khalid Sheikh-Mohamed trial, including comments from AG Eric Holder, and Senators Dianne Feinstein and Linsday Graham.

–Isn’t it time that the media stop referring to Senate Democrats when they are actually talking about Joe Lieberman?

–Gay marriage news, including violently anti-gay Pastor Harry Jackson.

–Rudy Giuliani is rumored to be running for US Senate in 2010 as a precursor to President in 2012, although his people have denied the allegations.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 11.18.2009

David Pakman — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:55:46 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / November 18th, 2009

Total Running Time: 56:40

This Week’s Topics:

–Ralph Nader joins us live to discuss his latest book, “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us,” as well as the proposed healthcare reform, American politics, and more.

–New TV stations airing Midweek Politics in Michigan and Iowa.

–David Pakman at a recent Barney Frank event.

–Swine flu and swine flu shots.

–Barack Obama is in China, and a government official quickly cuts off CNN’s Ed Henry while he asks simple questions to people before an Obama speech.

–The controversy over Barack Obama bowing to the Japanese emperor, including misstatements by both liberals and conservatives.

–Richard Nixon’s 1971 bow to the Japanese emperor, and Dick Cheney’s reaction to Obama’s.

–Comparing Obama’s bow to George W. Bush’s massaging of Angela Merkel’s shoulders, or hand-holding with the Saudi Arabian royal family.

–Sarah Palin’s book tour and recent interviews, including with Oprah, and her comments about the Katie Couric interview.

–Liz Cheney suggests her father would be a good candidate for President in 2012.

–The Khalid Sheikh Mohammed controversy over trying him in the US, including what it says about the US legal system and more.

–A closer look at healthcare reveals that the healthiest states with the best care are blue states, while the opposite is true of red states, but we talk about cause and effect and the place of poverty within the discussion.

–Glenn Beck hosts yet another incredible special on Fox News, this time with hand-picked black conservatives.

–Fox News now considers Chuck Norris a political expert, and asks him to comment on a number of issues, but we aren’t sure why.

–A Fort Hood massacre update, including that Major Hasan had been reporting soldiers to Army officials for possible crimes and atrocities committed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

–Lou Dobbs resigns from CNN.

–An Arkansas 10-year-old will not pledge allegiance until gays gain equality.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 11.11.2009

David Pakman — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:31:52 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / November 11th, 2009

Total Running Time: 58:04

This Week’s Topics:

–The Fort Hood shooting in Texas, where Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan shot 100 rounds, killing 13 people and wounding 30.

–Reviewing the Fort Hood shooting in detail, and discussing speculation over possible motives for the shooting.

–Analysis of early information regarding Hasan’s contact with Al-Qaeda and radical Islamist, and whether or not the shooting could be a terrorist act, which Joe Lieberman believes.

–A warning from General George Casey that diversity would be an unfortunate casualty of the Fort Hood incident.

–Bolder by the day, Nazis and white supremacists have been revitalized by the election of President Obama, and we look at one specific group from Arizona that believes the Jews ruin every country the go to, and that there is no evidence of the Holocaust having taken place.

–The healthcare reform bill passes the house 220-215, a margin that some Republicans are calling too small.

–The Stupak healthcare amendment, which would make it more difficult to have abortions covered by insurance plans offered through the proposed exchange, and would affect the lower income individuals most likely to turn to an unsafe abortion if they cannot afford a legal and safe one.

–John Boehner and Charlie Rangel square off on the House floor about the Stupak amendment.

–Some say everything is bigger in Texas, and the evidence suggests that the failure of their healthcare system is no exception.

–The Red State healthcare problem, and why the states in most dire need of reform have the politicians that most feverishly oppose it.

–Senators Bernie Sanders and Joe Lieberman may both filibuster healthcare reform bills, but for opposite reasons.

–Tom Tancredo walks off of the Ed Schultz TV show after Daily Kos creator Markos Moulitsas refers to his Vietnman War deferment.

–A Harvard study shows that over 2200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of healthcare, while another study says 3 out of 4 young Americans are unfit for military duty due to some combination of obesity, not being able to pass a basic entrance test, and other factors.

–Fox News’ claim that the war against the White House has skyrocketed their ratings seems to be patently false.

–Scott Roeder pleads guilty to murdering abortion Doctor George Tiller.

–Al Gore feels that President Obama did deserve the Nobel Peace Price.

–2 and 3 years ago on Midweek Politics.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 11.04.2009

David Pakman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:30:08 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / November 4th, 2009

Total Running Time: 57:14

This Week’s Topics:

–Scott Keeter, Director of Survey Research at the Pew Research Center, joins us live to talk about the recent White House Fox News war, as well as a recent study indication that Fox News is perceived as the most conservative television network, something many would say is obvious.

–Grant Jeffrey, author of Shadow Government: How the Global Elite Plan to Destroy Democracy and Your Freedom, calls in live to talk about the end of the world and more.

–2009 election results from New Jersey, Virginia, New York, Maine, and more.

–Gay marriage repealed in Maine.

–Estimates say $700 billion is wasted in the healthcare industry annually, including unnecessary care, fraud, inefficiency, errors, preventable conditions, and more.

–Senator Joe Lieberman says that doing NOTHING would be better than a public option for healthcare reform, although reports say he has agreed, behind the scenes, not to filibuster a public option.

–Senator Orrin Hatch inserts a provision into the healthcare bill to provide insurance payments to Christian Science churches for paid prayer service to injured and sick people, and we wonder if Scientology would be next if this provision passes.

–An married, heterosexual Illinois teacher is suspended for assigning an article dealing with homosexuality in the animal kindgom to his English class.

–Senator David Vitter is confronted by a rape victim after voting against an amendment that would withold contracts from companies that do not allow their employees from taking sexual assault cases to court.

–In a softball interview with Chris Wallace from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh says he thinks Sarah Palin is ready to be President.

–Levi Johnston, the father of Sarah Palin’s grandson, has come out against the family, and recounts when Sarah Palin would ask where her retarded kid is.

–Keith Bardwell, the Louisiana Justice of the Peace who refused to marry interracial couples, has stepped down.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 10.28.2009

David Pakman — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:38:15 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / October 28th, 2009

Total Running Time: 59:29

This Week’s Topics:

–New television affiliate PTV in Youngstown, Ohio

–Horace Cooper, a multi-time Midweek Politics guest, lawyer, and political commentator is indicted for involvement with Jack Abramoff and other corruption charges.

–The US could see $5 billion if the 2018 or 2022 World Cup came to the US, but it is not clear whether conservatives would rally against it, as they did against the Olympics coming to Chicago, if President Obama gets involved.

–Check writing, and why no one should write checks anymore, including that it’s incredibly slow, a top way to have your identity stolen, expensive if you lose your checkbook, and a huge annoyance to anyone waiting in line behind you.

–Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decides to put the public option back into the bill to be voted on, including an opt-out option for states, rather than making states have to opt-in, but is the public option even real reform at this point, given that the insurance companies have gotten everything they want.

–The public option is not the liberal, radical option, but rather a moderate alternative to single-payer healthcare, and Congressman Anthony Weiner makes the media rounds to make exactly that point.

–Joe Lieberman, who many claim is with the Democrats on everything except for the war, says he will not support any healthcare bill with a public option, and will support filibustering such proposals.

–On CSPAN, utter incompetence as callers on Medicare and the VA healthcare program complain that they don’t want the government getting involved in their healthcare.

–It turns out many Republicans in Congress are already on the same type of public option that they oppose.

–Analyzing whether dental insurance even makes sense, similar to many of the available healthcare plans.

–The ongoing Fox News White House war that has continued to escalate, with more bitterness from Fox News anchor Chris Wallace and comparisons between Fox News and Islamic Jihadists.

–A Dallas cop gives a woman a ticket for being a non-English speaking driver, although there are no laws against it, and it turns out it is common in Texas, although it is not a law.

–A Hotel owner who insisted in referring to his Hispanic employees by more Anglo names.

–The Taliban in Afghanistan is trying to get soldiers addicted to heroin to hinder their mission there.

–Sarah Palin’s book royalties are sky high, especially considering she did not write the book.

–Nordic countries, led by Norway, have the most gender equality when it comes to income, wellbeing, education, and more.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 10.21.2009

David Pakman — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:32:06 +0000

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / October 21st, 2009

Total Running Time: 58:30

This Week’s Topics:

–New television affiliates in Easthampton, MA, Goffstown, NH, and Newport, VT.

–Dr Joseph Chambers, author of The Masterpiece – God’s Unfolding Revelation joins us live to talk about how we are getting close to the end of time, whether Jews are going to hell, and much more.

–The balloon stunt, Heene Hoax, Balloon Boy Hoax, etc in Fort Collins, Colorado, including media coverage, whether the Heene’s are fit to be parents, when it became obvious it was a hoax, and more.

–Clips of the Heene mom from a previous reality TV show saying her family came from aliens.

–The current healthcare reform plan eliminates restriction on pre-existing conditions, except obesity, and we look at why that may, in effect, be the same as a pre-existing condition clause.

–Senator Kyl doubts that anyone in the US dies from lack of health insurance, even with a recently released poll saying about 45,000 people year do.

–New Democrat Arlen Specter is upset that Republicans simply are not cooperating on healthcare.

–Looking at continued public support for a public option, most recently at 57 percent and higher.

–Recent Fox News specials, one involving Glenn Beck and a hand-picked audience of anti-public option doctors, and a recent segment promoting a global warming movie that suggests it would be nice if the Earth warmed by a few degrees.

–Following up on the White House criticism of Fox News, including with Obama advisor David Axelrod.

–Rush Limbaugh is gone from the group of people interested in buying the St Louis NFL team, while Ann Coulter says players would rather play for Rush than for a Nazi collaborator, whom she says was also in the buying group.

–Numerous racist incidents, including an Illinois high school teacher warning his students that tax money may go to what he called black fags in New York City.

–Another racist incident where Louisiana justice of the peace Keith Bardwell refused to marry an interracial couple, something he says is par for the course for him.

–South Carolina Republicans refer to penny-pinching Jews in what they thought was a compliment to Jews and a defense of Senator Jim DeMint’s comments.

–Liz Cheney’s Keep America Safe ad, which alleges that MSNBC hosts are afraid to have her on, even though she has been on their programs countless times.

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