Guest: Journalist and blogger David Dayen
It’s the Monday after the Oscars and Sam mentioned that there was very little vocal support for what was going on in Wisconsin even though everyone on stage or behind the scenes last night were union members.
Judith Regan said in a document related to a lawsuit that Fox News head Roger Ailes asked her to lie about her affair with Bernie Kerik in order to save face for Rudy Giuliani. Good thing Fox News only reports the facts and lets us decide.
The US is getting more aggressive with Libya. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is urging Muammar Gaddafi to step down and said that a no-fly zone was “an option we are actively considering”
David Dayen of Firedoglake spent the last 5 days in Madison WI and joined Sam to give us an idea of what is like on the ground. Just this weekend 100,000 people went out in a snowstorm to protest and unlike the weakening of the Democrats nationally, the Wisconsin state Democrats are standing firm and not buckling.
Who really contributes to Wisconsin’s public employees’ pension funds?
A Gallup Poll finds that, no surprise, only the wealthy support Scott Walker. Stop the press.
A new entity has injected itself into the Wisconsin labor battle – Anonymous. The “hacktivists” are now targeting Koch brothers. This is from their press release:
Koch Industries, and oligarchs like them, have most recently started to manipulate the political agenda in Wisconsin. Governor Walker’s union-busting budget plan contains a clause that went nearly un-noticed. This clause would allow the sale of publicly owned utility plants in Wisconsin to private parties (specifically, Koch Industries) at any price, no matter how low, without a public bidding process. The Koch’s have helped to fuel the unrest in Wisconsin and the drive behind the bill to eliminate the collective bargaining power of unions in a bid to gain a monopoly over the state’s power supplies.
Last night they took down the Koch brother’s website for their PAC Americans For Prosperity. Sam can’t help but be a little giddy about their involvement and how they represent the 21st century version of “sit-ins”.
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If you are not a Majority Report member you miss out on the Members Only Show podcast where Sam talked about that anti-war machine hippie Dwight Eisenhower, wondered why the Sunday Shows hate organized labor so much, took us back for more “bad old days” stories from the halls of Air America Radio, and squeezed in a few more news stories that did not fit in the free show all while taking listener’s IMs.
11:03 am
Another example of authoritarian government, Arizona state legislators are exempt from arrest while legislature is in session.
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/arizona-sen-bundgaard-avoids-arrest-pos
11:26 am
Time for Sam and Obama is speaking again!
11:34 am
whats the best way to listen to the whole show (both halves)? do you have to use the player on the web site after logging in, or does the itunes stream still work:
http://live.majority.fm:8000/live
11:56 am
There are two i-Tunes feeds. One for members and one for non-members. If you’re a member, you received a link to the members’ i-Tunes feed which has the flip side.
11:37 am
if you’re listening live you will hear the whole show for free…
11:39 am
Obama is talking to Governors. Of course Walker isn’t there.
Obama proposed 5 year spending Freeze
Obama: Need to attract Best & Brightest to Public Service
Obama: Can’t Sacrifice Investments in Technologies
Medicare Cost biggest driver of Debt. Needs Reform. Much covered in the HCR bill.
11:43 am
like the best and brightest will be attracted by the lack of collective bargaining…
12:08 pm
coldhardtruth Trine Day
by Proudlib
Koch Industries, second largest privately-held company in US, proud owner of an especially poor environmental record. http://tiny.cc/gm71j
12:25 pm
What happened to the SammyCam?
12:35 pm
Hey Sammie….I heard that “12 cookie’s” analogy joke on Stephanie Miller this morning. I LOVE it…but someone else may have already said it in the media.
12:51 pm
Re O’Donnell,
He comes on at 6PM my time – mtn time, and it’s still called Last Word.
1:06 pm
Does anyone know what shipping charges are at JustCoffee? You have to order and put in your address to find out. They should have shipping listed. It should be the same in the U.S.
1:16 pm
Sam, you don’t have to have money to make your studio look nice. Get creative! The SammyCam depresses me. I wish I was there to fix it up for you.
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6:30 pm
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