If this is going to be the last Thursday before the Rapture, we mine as well give those of you leaving us one hell of a Thursday show! We’re assuming guest pickings will be slim after May 21st.
Today, we have not one, but TWO guests! First, we have Eddie Glaude (@esglaude). He is the chair of the Center for African-American Studies and the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African-American Studies at Princeton University. If you haven’t read THIS, you should as he’ll be on to discuss Cornel West.
Our second guest is Matt Duss (@mattduss), who will be calling in live from Tel Aviv! Matt is National Security Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress and will be joining us to talk President Obama’s Middle East speech.
Cornel West on The Ed Show:
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11:17 am
Wow, seeing that advertisement before the Ed Show clip about how BP keeps its promises reminds me of someone I’d rather spend my time and money on . . . . wait for it . . . . would now be a good time for . . . .
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11:34 am
We need sound!!! Can’t hear a thing!
11:35 am
I have sound on the SammyCam, toniD.
11:36 am
Linda, how’s the sound on the SammyCAM?
11:38 am
It’s fine for me. I also checked the live stream and it is working.
11:39 am
Thanks!
11:35 am
Where? SammyCAM? Live stream?
Still no sound?
11:39 am
I have sound now but neither was working before.
11:39 am
toniD,
Let me know if everything’s good. I’m here to help!
11:35 am
I guess Obama’s speech will be too long for Sammy to cut to as part of the show. I’ll be tuning out to listen to the speech. Catch up with everybody later.
11:40 am
BOOO!
haha. It’s OK. Understandable. It’s not like the end of the world is near.
11:46 am
Sorry! I’ll tune back in to listen to Matt Duss after the speech.
11:42 am
Pres always seems to preempt Sammy!
This one today is important though so need to listen.
12:03 pm
He sure is late.
12:12 pm
Wonder what is keeping him. It’s not like he’s traveling in. It’s at the White House. Hillary is speaking ahead of him now, and I don’t think that was planned. I think she was sent out because Obama is delayed.
11:41 am
Buzz on the SammyCam sound.
11:52 am
Any better?
12:11 pm
It is better since the break. It wasn’t a buzz to me, but maybe a little hollow tunnely sounding before — although it was not that bad to me. Clearer now.
11:42 am
Wow, what a great interview with Doctor Eddie Glaude. What a good time to remind listeners to become members.
Just go to the button on the majority.fm website that says “BECOME A MEMBER.” It only takes a moment, and you’ll be glad you helped make that interview with Dr. Glaude possible — and many others like it, such as the interviews earlier this week with Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibi as well as Hullabaloo’s Digby. Become a member today! Thanks!
11:52 am
mornin gang.
good show this AM.
12:01 pm
i like eddie. how about the plight of the blacks who get busted for weed….big part of reefer madness is racism. i also like obama…first pres to admit he inhaled. i think obama is honest, just not all powerful….
12:06 pm
“Honest”?
12:21 pm
more honest than bush or clinton
12:29 pm
More honest than Bush is not really saying much though is it Jimmy?
Just teasing.
12:02 pm
ground up the way to go.
12:04 pm
exactly, no need to be so “obama obsessed” as eddie says
12:04 pm
top down sure isn’t!
Obama was compromised in his early career.
12:06 pm
you’ll be surprised at the jackasses in your local town hall.
12:08 pm
no, i won’t.
found that out in the 70′s.
greed and stupidity rule the planet.
12:20 pm
ayup
12:23 pm
yep, aint that the truth.
12:18 pm
we don’t have representative goverment
the “Prez” is a corporate puppet.
12:45 pm
wheres my air car and my rapture hoodie schwag?
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9:27 am
Sammy, that’s a kind of weird definition of a public intellectual, what you said when you applied it to Cornel. To my mind, he has acted much more like one at many, many other times than during that “personal” part of the interview. At the same time, I agree with the IMer that said there was some measure of vicarious catharsis involved.
(But anyhow, wouldn’t your story about Rubin and his complaining about traffic make him kind of a pi too, by that definition.
Wasn’t that Rubin. One of the MOTUs anyhow…)
Eddie Glaude “hit the hammer on the nail” about just about everything. Especially “whatever the truth value” there is or isn’t about West’s “psychobabbling Obama” (h/t Glen Ford) the important thing is the effect on policy and how accusations of engaging in “identity politics” (which has become a slur ) can be used to NOT get things done for real Black people and real people generally, who are suffering. And that, at the same time, there’s nothing wrong with African=Americans acting as a “pressure group” just like everyone else does, but w/o the snipety snipe snipe snipe snipe about who is a “free Black man” and who isn’t (also kind of androcentric, btw. Yes, I know that O is a man etc, so…but still…).
Yes there’s an “emotional connection” to your group but part of being an really responsible public Intellectual (little p capital I on purpose) is working through that and applying it towards a rigorous critique of society/policy that tends to show people ways to improve things. (Easier said than dood, dude.)
He was an amazing interview, Sam.
3:58 pm
Sammy’s second guest said:
small bore…
into the weeds…
vision…
swing for the fences…
Goodness. When I hear analysis like that, I just tune out. LITERALLY! {click}
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