Guests: Journalists Dan Froomkin and Glenn Greenwald
Happy Valentine’s Day! Sam’s present to the listeners is a show jam-packed with so many guests and so much information that is almost inappropriate to squeeze it all into one day.
Labor unrest continues in Egypt, though the Egyptian Army urges the strikes to end. The Egyptian military council calls on workers to play their role in reviving the economy after almost three weeks of turmoil.
Today’s first guest is Senior Washington Correspondent for The Huffington Post Dan Froomkin. He discussed the dueling budgets that were just released from the White House and Republicans; budgets that could only be labeled “bad” and “worse.” Items in the cross-hairs are Social Security, heating oil assistance, and poor people in general.
Next Sam welcomes Salon’s Glenn Greenwald to talk about “ChamberLeak” where the Chamber of Commerce is spying on liberals and how he got into the middle of it all.
Notice! The Flip Side will be switching to Member’s Only mode in the next few days. When that happens (approximately Wednesday 2/16) all members will be sent an email about how to log in to see all the new features on tap. Sam uses a shortened post show to try not to spill the beans on what he bought his wife Nikki for her birthday today and takes IMs.
Please become a “member with benefits“ so you don’t miss the fun and frivolity of the post show!
Tomorrow Sam will talk to national affairs correspondent from The Nation William Greider and some comedian named Marc Maron.
11:09 am
Governor Goodhair Runs for President (and other wishful thinking)
http://politicallyme.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/governor-goodhair-runs-for-president-and-other-wishful-thinking/
11:29 am
Greenwald should be good.
Ask if there is going to be a criminal investigation?
11:32 am
mornin gang!
love y’all
11:59 am
if they were cutting militay BS i’d give em some slack.
12:18 pm
hinkprogress ThinkProgress
2012 Department of Defense budget request is the largest EVER http://thkpr.gs/f011jq
12:18 pm
Lots of bull crap going on! Time to do what Egypt did!
12:35 pm
Happy B’day Nickie!
12:42 pm
Trivial note… Greenwald’s first name has 2 “n”s… Glenn.
12:48 pm
Current listing of protests in Wisconsin over the next 3 days…
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439×413675
12:55 pm
More re: Wisconsin… search Twitter hashtags… #solidarityWI & #Madison
1:00 pm
Facebook page listing WI events…
WI Public Employees Against Walker’s Attack on Workers Rights
1:17 pm
good post, thanks!
2:08 pm
I think the reaction to Walker’s attack on worker’s in Wisconsin is far too limited. Think BIG. An attack on workers in Wisconsin is an attack on workers everywhere and we should not allow ourselves to be divided and conquered one state at a time. I am sure there are those who would do sympathy demonstrations and even generalized strikes through out the US and perhaps even elsewhere to nip this kind of attack in the bud. Please think BIG, organize BIG even while acting locally. Walk like an Egyptian!
3:00 pm
Sam, I love you dearly and I love when Pap goes on a rant.
But I loathe Ed Schlitz. Frankly, after his rant about Sam (even so many years ago), I’m sort of stunned he okayed the mighty Seder on those airwaves.
I’m listening to Pap and Sam right now, but I want to gag every time Pap gushes about Schlitz and how it takes three people to fill in for him.
Sam used to run a three hour show without a sidekick. If Pap thinks it’s so hard, maybe Sam should have done the fill-in on his own.
3:39 pm
You gotta get Kennedy to stop talking about the Anti-vaxxer stuff.
I turn the radio off if he even gets close to talking about it.
5:19 pm
Yes, please Sam. Kennedy sounds so earnest, but some of the things he said were actual lies, not just distortions and cherry-picking.
7:45 pm
can you be more specific?- I am skeptical of RFK’s position but he has done a lot of homework on this topic and I haven’t found sources that are too specific…
5:29 pm
Ditto. Why are smart people falling for this anti-science hokum?
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5:26 pm
Greenwald is one of my heroes and I’ve been a Froomkin fan since his amazing work for WaPo during Bush. Keep it up, Sam. You’re doing a great job.
6:55 pm
The word you where looking for (at about 10 mins) was Bayesian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference