August 12, 2009

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman – August 12th, 2009

Produced by

David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 57:09

MP3 Podcast: Available with entire Midweek Politics Archive for Members

This Week’s Topics:

–Health care and the town hall protesters. Were they planned and planted?

–Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama have been dropping the ball on health care related talk.

–A gunman goes to the Barack Obama health care town call in New Hampshire and is grilled by Chris Matthews.

–Arlen Specter, Claire McCaskill, and many others are booed at their respective health care town hall meetings.

–Sarah Palin makes outrageous claims about her son with Down Syndrome would be denied care under the proposed health care plan.

–In a bizarre instance of irony, the conservative activist who claimed he was beaten up by union thugs while protesting against health care reform is asking for donations for his injuries since he does not have health care.

–Glenn Beck again compares Obama and Hitler, says we are in the most dangerous time period he can remember, and loses advertisers due to his comments about Obama hating white people.

–New Hampshire health care protesters say they want illegal immigrants sent home with bullets in their heads, and wear the same shirts Timothy McVeigh did when he was arrested.

–Venture capital in today’s economy.

–Laura Ling and Euna Lee are back from North Korea, and the criticism of Bill Clinton keeps coming.

–Congressman David Scott’s office in George is vandalized with swastikas.

–Hillary Clinton loses her temper in the Congo when a question is mis-translated.

–Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in to the Supreme Court.

–Former Senator Bill First all but confirms he is not running for any public office after rejoining a an all-white, all-male country club that has no Jewish or African-American members.

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