Guest: Heather Hurlburt
It’s Two-For Tuesday which means nothing on The Majority Report (unless Sam wants to spin two Led Zep songs in a row). Sam starts the show with more updates on Egypt:
Google helping Egyptians to speak out
More voices from Egypt – on Twiturn
It may be spreading – Jordan’s King dismisses cabinet
The ghost of Reagan strikes again – Florida judge rules all of the health care reform bill – THE WHOLE THING – unconstitutional
Next, Sam welcomes Heather Hurlburt, Executive Director of the National Security Network and former Special Assistant and Speechwriter to President Clinton, speechwriter for Secretaries of State Albright and Christopher, and member of the State Department’s Policy Planning staff to talk about developments in Egypt and her piece in The New Republic called Five things you should know about the Egyptian riots.
Finally on today’s Post Show Sam takes listener IMs that leads him to hit topics like how Andrew Breitbart is like Mark Maron, who sabotaged Michelle Bachmann and made her LOOK crazy, Gallagher on WTF, the facts of life, and name-drop Tuesday.
Watch how Sam can push Breitbart’s buttons.
Not sure how to IM Sam? We put together a quick “How To” on setting up Instant Messenger with the AIM Express app.
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On tomorrow’s Majority Report Sam welcomes Chris Hayes to discuss his time at DAVOS (Sam asked for this specific PS Hayes/Tom Friedman mash-up from DAVOS)
11:15 am
Morning all!
Might want to read this from Ari Melber about the ruling from the Reagan appointed Florida Judge Vinson:
Court raises stakes on health care law
“It raises the stakes from tinkering to demolition. For the first time, a lower court has proposed a legal theory that the individual mandate eviscerates the legal foundation of the entire law.
This opens an attractive avenue for a conservative Supreme Court aiming to permanently limit federal power.”
11:26 am
this just illustrates why it’s so important to impeach conservative judges starting with thomas who was hiding financial ties to extreme right groups.
11:24 am
The Patriot Bill Renewal ? No !
11:30 am
Humm..Don’t allow picture posting & no editing of posts..
Now Samuel..That kinda sucks..IMHO..
11:30 am
MSNBC is saying Hundreds of Thousands protest in Egypt. Al Jazeera saying 2 Million.
11:32 am
jeremyscahill jeremy scahill
RT @Henry_Kissinger There’s a pro-Mubarak solidarity march at the Council on Foreign Relations in NYC in 2 hrs. #Egypt #Jan25
11:35 am
peterdaou Peter Daou
Is there a GOP consensus on #Egypt other than Obama screwed it up? Or are they too busy stripping away women’s rights here at home? #jan25
11:38 am
cbellantoni Christina Bellantoni
RT @lizzieohreally: Jordan’s Prime Minister Samir Rifai just resigned.
11:45 am
HuffPostMedia HuffPost Media
Limbaugh: Obama is a ‘pharaoh’ http://huff.to/e5UGmz
11:46 am
tpmmedia Talking Points Memo
Pawlenty: Obama ‘Chicken’ On Social Security http://tpm.ly/fNnfCZ ^@erickleefeld
11:48 am
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11:48 am
sarbanes-oxley is recent precedence…I believe john roberts was pretty clear in his comments on that…
11:50 am
peterdaou Peter Daou
FTW RT @alaa: there are more people in tahrir now than voted for mubarak in last elections (and that’s counting fake votes) @acarvin #Jan25
11:52 am
peterdaou Peter Daou
RT @Oxfam Cries of “bread & freedom” across the Arab world testimony to new #foodcrisis. How will we feed 9b people? http://bit.ly/h1EPlZ
11:56 am
From Vinson’s Healthcare ruling:
The rulings have been surprisingly political, writes Jonathan Cohn:
11:57 am
good news scrounging T, thanks.
12:00 pm
The ruling violates opinions Justices Scalia, Roberts, and Kennedy have written, writes Simon Lazarus:
12:06 pm
wow that simon lazarus guy is a smart fellow…tee hee
12:08 pm
seriously…loved that guest…have her back
12:22 pm
Democracy Now!
@democracynow Democracy Now!
US/UK Companies Help #Egypt Regime Shutdown Telecommunications & Identify Dissident Voices. DN!: http://ow.ly/3O9gO #twitter
12:28 pm
Dems pick North Carolina for their Convention
12:45 pm
hrm…might be a plant story
Muslim Brotherhood Wants War With Israel
Mohamed Ghanem, one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, calls Egypt to stop pumping gas to Israel and prepare the Egyptian army for a war with it’s eastern neighbor.
Speaking with Iranian television station Al-Alam, Mohamed Ghanem blamed Israel for supporting Hosni Mubarak’s regime. Ghanem also said that the Egyptian police and army won’t be able to stop the Muslim Brotherhood movement.
12:54 pm
heh!
Sam forgot the Shultz fans DOS attack?
took down the bloggie for a few days.
12:55 pm
Bring back Peaches !
1:08 pm
pretty good post show.
1:09 pm
Peaches!
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2:59 pm
Good interview… totally agree Suleiman would be a huge mistake… Replacing Mubarak with Suleiman would just insult the masses and exacerbate the situation… and in the end they will probably blame Obama for interfering and it will make our popularity even worse…
sammy set a new stuttering record for a 15 min interview… the stings of ums and uhs were epic…
6:22 pm
Tell your announcer that the new Archer was fucking awesome.
Thanks for the show. I need some more Random Rush, and some podcasts with conservative callers.
8:15 pm
U.S. Resume Controversial File-Sharing Domain Seizures (Updated)
Shit! They just broke in to my movie site and served a seizure warrant.
in the middle of the movie too! BS! heres the story:
http://torrentfreak.com/us-resume-file-sharing-domain-seizures-110201/
“The site has well over a million visitors a day, and is listed among the 100 most popular sites in Spain in terms of traffic. This morning, however, visitors were surprised by a warning from US authorities. Continuing the previous “Operation in Our Sites” actions, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had seized Rojadirecta’s .org domain.
Rojadirecta is an unusual target for several reasons, not least because the site has been declared legal twice by Spanish courts. The site’s owners have previously fought a three year legal battle in Spain, which they won, but a single seizure warrant from US authorities has made this victory pointless.”