Guest: Author Stephen Elliot

Sam dives into this Tuesday with more news from Egypt. Wael Ghonim, the Google executive that has been missing since January 28th, has been released by the Egyptian government. Juan Cole at Informed Comment has video of an interview with Ghonim on Egyptian TV with English subtitles. Very powerful and reflects how much influence he believes the internet and social media had on the revolution.

Sam was on The Dylan Ratigan Show yesterday to talk about President Obama’s speech to the Chamber of Commerce and the implications of BP, the Lockerbie bomber and WikiLeaks. Sam promises he will give us notice the next time he has a TV appearance.

Who is Frank Wisner?

The DLC is about to close its doors and Sam says it’s a good thing. The DLC was a corporatist entity developed for the purposes for bringing more money into the Democratic party by becoming more corporate-friendly and by that measure it succeeded. Alex Pareene has a great piece on Salon about it.

Representative Jane Harman is leaving Congress to become president of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars think tank.

Rand Paul is going to fix Social Security… by destroying it.

Vacancy levels for federal judges are at critical level. Why? Because of Republican obstruction

Stephen Elliott joins Sam to talk about his upcoming “high-wire allegory” about former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld entitled Donald that comes out today, the same day as Donald Rumsfeld’s memoir Known and Unknown. It is a story of what would happen if Donald Rumsfeld was pushed into his own system by getting abducted by the government without knowing why and then sent to Guantanamo.

You can check out some of Stephen Elliott’s other books at The Majority Report Book and Movie Shop and find more writing from him (and long-time MR listener Kevinsemicolon) on his website The Rumpus.

Listen to the interview.

It seems that Sam is warming up to ‘The B-Side’ as the name of the soon-to-be member’s only post show. So, on today’s B-side Sam has some excellent commentary on the topic of earmarks, talks about Keith Olbermann’s move to Current TV with Dorsey, discusses the insanity of a Georgia state lawmaker’s desire to call rape victims “accusers,” and of course reads listener IM’s.

Bonus: Watch Sam tear into the moronic earmarks ban!

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