Guest: Author and columnist Chris Hedges
Anon-Seder
Sam received a ton of feedback on his “Koch Brothers’ Freedom Dildos dipped in garlic” clip from yesterday’s show. If you haven’t heard it yet check out the YouTube clip. I think there may be a new revenue stream for The Majority Report, though the garlic dipping sauce should be optional. Picture unrelated.
Some news from Libya: The Libyan air force has bombed the rebel-run towns of Ajdabiyah and the oil port town of Brega. This is now quickly devolving into a civil war.
The government gets to limp along for another two weeks as Democrats in Congress take the stop gap budget bill that Republicans fed them.
Charles Koch op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.
Wisconsin governor may have violated labor law in Koch call.
Next Sam plays an interview with Chris Hedges, author and columnist with Truthdig. He joins to talk about what is the American liberal class and how he believes that it is dying.
huh?
Read Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges
If you are not a Majority Report member you miss out on the Members Only Show podcast.
On today’s Member’s Only show:
Non-member Bonus!- YouTube clip of Sam’s Members Only rant on George Will moving into Glenn Beck Territory.
Sam stands up for trains! (built with Gault steel?)
Saturday Night Live: George F Wills Sports Machine
Sam is forgiven by the Pope.
And took listener’s IMs!
H. Jon Benjamin or Robert Reich - Separated at Birth
11:36 am
Senate Passes the budget extension bill for 2 weeks. So we go through all this again in 2 weeks!
Per MSNBC
11:38 am
senatus Josh
Senate passes House continuing resolution to keep govt funded through March 18, 91-9. Includes $4B in cuts.
11:54 am
morning gang, good interview so far.
12:01 pm
well…
theres ptobably 3 million of them,
but theres 300 million of us wage slaves.
12:02 pm
Hi Sunny, Sorry to be rude yesterday. I cancelled all my clients and they were calling like crazy….feeling better today.
12:20 pm
i didn’t think you were rude at all!
it was nice to hear your voice.
that was a nasty cough.
12:06 pm
Hedges is getting me very depressed today!
12:19 pm
“douchebaggery” is the word that comes to mind….
12:34 pm
sammy is going to break out his chalkboard…
12:54 pm
daveweigel daveweigel
Atlas Shrugged movie premiere in DC in 84 minutes. Tip: Theater should re-label large-sized beverages “Galt’s Gulps.”
12:57 pm
thinkprogress ThinkProgress
RT @news3jessica: [Wisconsin] Senate to take up resolution to penalize absent Senators $100 a day #wiunion
3:07 pm
No podcast today?
3:10 pm
Refresh.
3:11 pm
I was glad I did. : )
3:12 pm
Of course the first response made no logical sense b/c…but this is not a big surprise, yes? (No?)
3:47 pm
C’mon, Sam. Are German names (of Wisconsinites) really that hard to pronounce? Can’t you just pretend you are speaking Yiddish?
4:53 pm
Hedges is wrong that the US government is dependent on China for financing. The US does not have to borrow to fund spending, for more on this see http://mmt.wikia.com/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory_Wiki
There are solutions to the debt problem, but it requires that the federal government act for the benefit of the American people, and not the finance sector. We could end unemployment right now.