Tag Archives: GOP

4/5 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & Marc Maron

Cliff Schecter explained why Obama’s budget proposal is awful, the utter corporate corruption of modern Washington, how the White House is attempting to frame Chained CPI, what drives Obama’s obsession with a “Grand Bargain” and where gun reform stands. Marc … Continue reading

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2/27 David Dayen: The Age of Austerity

David Dayen, explained how sequester cuts will impact the economy, how long it will take to feel the Sequester, the politics of the sequester, why the local media is doing a better job covering the sequester, the teachable moment the … Continue reading

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2/21 Nick Turse: Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

Nick Turse, author of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam explained the horrifying brutality inflicted on Vietnamese civilians, why the My Lai massacre was not an aberration, how “Kill Anything That Moves” was systemic a policy, the missing … Continue reading

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12/13 Max Blumenthal: Egypt Revolution LIVE From Cairo

Independent journalist Max Blumenthal joined Sam live from Egypt where he explained President Morsi’s power grab, the governments constitutional proposal that limits the rights of women and minorities and empowers the military, the new Egypt opposition, why the traditional Islamic … Continue reading

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12/7 Cliff Schecter & Film Guy Matthew Casual Friday

Cliff and Sam talked about the Senate’s rejection of the UN treaty on the disabled, Bob Costas speaks sanity on guns and right wing media hasa

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12/5 Sam Takes on the Fiscal Cliff and the Still Insane GOP

Sam held it down on his own today, explained what is really happening with the fiscal cliff, praised Obama and Pelosi for holding firm on tax increases for the top two percent, but worried that hacks like Steny Hoyer keep … Continue reading

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10/22 Ari Berman, GOP’s Ongoing Vote Suppression + Debate Preview

Ari Berman talked the GOP’s ongoing vote suppression. How GOP is helping people register, then after seeing who they register for, destroy the registration. How Republicans made a huge deal over ACORN and how different their complains about ACORN were … Continue reading

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6/20 Rick Perlstein on Republican Cheaters

Author, historian and columnist Rick Perlstein on political maneuvering in the mid-west, Republican bullying tactics and the confusion over Democratic

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2/29 Dave Weigel, Ruin of GOP & Michael Hastings, DHS monitors OWS

Dave Weigel from Slate on Mitt’s Michigan victory, the media’s control of the contest message and the fracturing of GOP.  Author Michael Hastings

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2/17 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & Eddie Pepitone

Friday brings Cliff Schecter from Libertas LLC.  Topics this week include the GOP’s onslaught on women’s reproductive rights, Romney’s standing in 

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