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.
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.
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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11:10 am
KO just Tweeted this – Looks interesting!
Keith Olbermann:
Greetings from Keith Olbermann, Chief News Officer of Current Media! And awayyyyyy we go! #FOK
11:41 am
Salon Salon.com
A poll shows most Americans support the protesters in Egypt http://salon.com/a/sAiMfAA
11:51 am
Morning gang!
11:54 am
Yay! I used to use Current all the time – now I plan to do so again!
Shoving food in my mouth while I follow Assange hearing/ listen to Sam!
11:55 am
Juan Cole, at Informed Comment, has a good post up today re. “who could’ve predicted?” the popular uprising in Egypt pointless talk from US mainstream media. Cole’s 2011 list of things to watch included, of course, the desperate, repressive situation in Egypt.
12:05 pm
Rummy becomes a lovable fictional torture victim?
get real. he’s one of the major assholes of the last 50 years.
12:10 pm
DavidShuster David Shuster
@Keitholbermann page at Current TV http://bit.ly/fL0YVl
12:21 pm
Re Amazon box.
Doesn’t appear on my iPad on MR homepage. Just a blank space there.
12:54 pm
You can just use this link and bookmark it if the widget doesn’t work:
http://www.amazon.com/?&camp=212361&linkCode=wsw&tag=majorrepor-20&creative=391873
3:03 pm
Stellar work, Avant, on the Amazon referrals setup and the Recap page. I’d looked into the Amazon Associates setup before Thanksgiving, but failed to go further… and took an extended holiday (just got back), instead.
THANK YOU for helping make the show more sustainable.
4:28 pm
Thanks – Sam set up the Amazon Associates thing – I just created the book/movie page and am doing the upkeep with link that use the URL suffix. It seems like everyone is enjoying the recaps so I am really happy that I can contribute to the show.
12:26 pm
Proudlib James Frye
RT @tpmmedia: Colorado GOP Chairman Quits: ‘I’m Tired Of The Nuts’ http://cot.ag/gCysb7 ^@ericlach
12:37 pm
tvnewser TVNewser
by DavidCornDC
Al Gore says Olbermann’s show will premiere later this Spring.
12:54 pm
pourmecoffee pourmecoffee
New @KeithOlbermann show should be “The Inconvenient News.” #synergy
11:49 am
eya gang!
11:52 am
the stream chopping up for anybody else?