Guests: Arizona Rep. Steve Farley & Energy Politics Blogger Dave Roberts
In which Sam discusses the tragedy over the weekend in Arizona and gives his thoughts on the violent imagery in right-wing politics and the fact that it NOT equal on both sides.
We learn that those “gun sights” in Sarah Palin’s map were really cartography/surveying symbols (and that no one in SarahPacUSA reviews any of the graphics they use on their website).
Sam talks briefly to Arizona Rep. Steve Farley about Saturday’s shooting and the current state of political rhetoric.
Dave Roberts of Grist.org joins Sam to talk about the environment, the EPA, and the 13 deep sea drilling rigs that got a bye on regulations.
Plus some fun in the soon to be sequestered After Show with Hugo the Health Inspector and find out what Sam likes to rub all over himself when he gets home – so be sure to become a Majority Report Member soon so you don’t lose it!
11:33 am
morning crew!
thanks for posting the comment thread.
11:34 am
I’m here…till Iris arrives….
11:38 am
morning everyone
12:05 pm
Sam, manchin shot at the Cap & Trade not HCR bill.don’t want you getting called out as a “lefty liar”
12:08 pm
the confusion/bullshit factor on these murders is extreme.
i feel for that young girl.
what a waste.
12:11 pm
StopBeck Stop Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck laments death of 9yo girl; links honoring her memory to his 9/12 project mission.
12:13 pm
Exclusive: Loughner Friend Explains Alleged Gunman’s Grudge Against Giffords
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/jared-lee-loughner-friend-voicemail-phone-message?page=2#disqus_thread
12:31 pm
from ToniD
DU thread from ’08 re: calls for violence against left
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×3790402
1. Rush Limbaugh: “I tell people don’t kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus – living fossils – so we will never forget what these people stood for.”
2. Senator Phil Gramm: “We’re going to keep building the party until we’re hunting Democrats with dogs.”
3. Rep. James Hansen on Bill Clinton: Get rid of the guy. Impreach him, censure him, assassinate him.”
4. John Derbyshire intimated in the National Review that because Chelsea Clinton had “the taint,” she should “be killed.”
5. Ann Coulter: “We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too.”
6. Ann Coulter: “My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building.”
7. Bill O’Reilly: “ll those clowns over at the liberal radio network, we could incarcerate them immediately. Will you have that done, please? Send over the FBI and just put them in chains.”
8. Clear Channel radio host Glenn Beck said he was “thinking about killing Michael Moore” and pondered whether “I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it,” before concluding: “No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out — is this wrong?”
That’s just SOME of the spewed filth of the hundreds of incidents where they’ve advocated violence towards liberals/Democrats, and these are just SOME of the better known repubs doing it – there’s hundreds smaller swine of the GOP who’ve said the same.
12:36 pm
From the Palin facebook crosshairs map: “We’ll aim for these races and many others. This is just the first salvo in a fight to elect people across the nation who will bring common sense to Washington.” Do they use salvos in surveying?
12:45 pm
eya Sam!
when you run out of IM’s you could read your blogs?
1:05 pm
I wonder if Sam will invite me on the show? I don’t think he knows much about surveying, I’ve got lotsa stuff to teach him.
1:12 pm
when he’s had the blogatics on the show it’s always been good.
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1:22 pm
Comment by Sue P :
Sarah Palin blamed by the US Secret Service over death threats against Barack Obama
“The Republican vice presidential candidate attracted criticism for accusing Mr Obama of “palling around with terrorists”, citing his association with the sixties radical William Ayers.
The attacks provoked a near lynch mob atmosphere at her rallies, with supporters yelling “terrorist” and “kill him” until the McCain campaign ordered her to tone down the rhetoric.
But it has now emerged that her demagogic tone may have unintentionally encouraged white supremacists to go even further.
The Secret Service warned the Obama family in mid October that they had seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats against the Democratic candidate, coinciding with Mrs Palin’s attacks.”
I take issue with the word “unintentionally.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/sarah-palin/3405336/Sarah-Palin-blamed-by-the-US-Secret-Service-for-death-threats-against-Barack-Obama.html?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d2a2a998935ffeb,0
3:07 pm
This synopsis of the violence by anti-government / anti-Obama (democrats) incidents since 2009 is just amazing.
But not only this – the incidents during the campaign with the McCain/Palin Crowds.
http://www.csgv.org/issues-and-campaigns/guns-democracy-and-freedom/insurrection-timeline
3:57 pm
good find, well worth reading.
8:25 pm
Diaspora, the Facebook alternative mentioned around 1:08:00 in today’s podcast, is located here:
http://joindiaspora.com
It has a ways to go before it’s full-featured, but there are functional websites up and running for those who want to check it out. This will become an extremely important tool in the battle for privacy and online individual rights.
8:27 pm
(Actually the Diaspora mention might happen a little earlier, like 1:05:30 or something. My podcast player’s time tracker is a bit flaky.)
10:04 pm
Look at this vitriolic hate directed at Janeane Garofalo starting off a comment thread at the movie/tv site IMDB.com Of course this hate has nothing at all to do with her being a talented actress who is respected by Everyone associated with the new tv show Criminal Minds. If you would like to reply to Dave-988 the link to this imdb comments thread is below:
Board: “Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior” (2011)
Main Boards
Why Janeane Garofalo?
by Dave-988 (Wed Dec 22 2010 19:14:16)
“I was elated to see Forest Whittaker heading the cast of this show. Then I saw this woman’s name attached. Her career now consists of going on liberal talk shows and spewing her hatred. When there are literally thousands of sane actors and actresses looking for an opportunity, why did they have to give it to this trash? I spent the entire season seven of “24″ hoping that her character would be killed in a bizarre post-it note accident. She literally ruined that season’s episodes. The venom and bile that exudes from this woman knows no bounds. I love “Criminal Minds,” I love Forest’s acting. I will never, ever watch this show because of her.”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703874/board/nest/175666532?d=175666532&p=1#175666532
10:22 pm
I was wrong on a earlier post. The tv show Criminal Minds is a production of abc & cbs. It will be aired on CBS.
6:56 am
This inofmraiotn is off the hizool!