Guest: Reporter Guy Lawson
May flew right by. Happy June, all! Sam just flew in from upstate NY on the MR helicopter to make it to the show on time.
Guy Lawson from Rolling Stone magazine joins us on the Stoner Arms Dealers, two Florida kids who armed Afghanistan.
In the Member’s Only Show Sam covers some stories he was unable to get to on the main show, talks about his call to Tom Scharpling’s “The Best Show on WFMU” (the birthplace of the Majority Report) to annoy Marc Maron, reminisces about the stories he reported on during the first ever MR, and responds to listener phone calls and IMs.
Topics Discussed on Today’s Show:
- NJ Gov Chris Christie makes sure that the middle class and poor in NJ shares in cuts across the board but he can take a $12 million state helicopter to his son’s baseball game.
- The middle class mass market is dead
- You can’t live on minimum wage. Duh. What happened to a living wage?
- Hidden budget cuts in the clean debt bill. It fails to pass.
11:26 am
mornin gang !
love y’all!
11:32 am
I would like a little assistance if I could get it from the MR listeners –
@JudgeCarter (R, TX-31) is doing an online townhall and is soliciting questions via Twitter that he says he will answer.
I’ve asked my question – http://twitter.com/#!/politicallyme/status/75947010393505793
Could you retweet my question to give it more visibility? Thanks!
11:33 am
Morning, Jim. Love you, too!!
Happy June!
11:55 am
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11:33 am
Back at ya,SJ..
Where’s my chopper,Damn it !
11:56 am
i’d settle for an “air car”.
11:38 am
Morning to you all!
11:40 am
I would like a little assistance if I could get it from the MR listeners –
@JudgeCarter (R, TX-31) is doing an online townhall and is soliciting questions via Twitter that he says he will answer.
I’ve asked my question – http://twitter.com/#!/politicallyme/status/75947010393505793
Could you retweet my question to give it more visibility? Thanks!
11:49 am
Done!
11:50 am
Thanks!
12:04 pm
Thanks CatChew and Reefercake for the RT!
2:29 pm
A big, huge thanks for the RTs. As expected (as is typical for him), Congressman Carter only read “questions” that reaffirmed his own beliefs, and ignored everyone else. Coward.
11:46 am
Only in America..
11:49 am
Dem pollster: Dems agree to Medicare benefits cuts at their peril
By Greg Sargent
If Democrats in deficit negotiations agree to a compromise that cuts Medicare benefits to seniors, they risk squandering the advantage they’ve built up over Republicans on the issue since 2010 and risk losing their more general edge as defenders of the middle class, a top Dem pollster who just completed an extensive health care poll tells me.
I followed up with Liszt to ask whether his polling indicated that Dems could lose those advantages if they agree to a deficit reduction deal that cuts Medicare benefits and shifts costs to seniors. His answer was unequivocal.
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3:20 pm
well ToniD, if you want a quick song about medicare this week, why didn’t you just say so?!?
11:52 am
lots of love, i read this story in the rolling stone – un friggin real!
12:37 pm
That will be so cool to get the podcast of Sam on Thom’s show. He airs here on local radio, but I never can catch it when it airs. I hope Sam promotes the heck out of majority.fm to all Thom’s listeners.
12:48 pm
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1:02 pm
Give Progressive, Vote Progressive!!
3:22 pm
Really great show today.
I thought I didn’t need another reason to hate Christie. I was wrong.
Read the article about the Ad Age study. Passing it on to others along with a link to your show.
Leave the air conditioning on.
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