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View all ShowsThis Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / February 24th, 2010
Total Running Time: 60:00
MP3 Podcast: Available with entire Midweek Politics Archive for Members
This Week’s Topics:
–Former Massachusetts Governor and presidential candidate Michael Dukakis joins us live.
–Glenn Beck’s show runs without advertisements in the UK due to everyone bailing out.
–Steve Doocey suggests all plane crashers/bombers look the same, quickly forgetting about the underwear bomber and the Austin plane crash.
–Fox News’ troubles continue, mislabeling JD Hayworth as Former CongressWOMAN, and using the word Presiddent’s, and fawn over Lou Dobbs.
–A Michael Savage clip triggers a google alert for David Pakman, and it is an internet troll with which we are familiar.
–UK journalist Kay Burley does not understand the ash on Joe Biden’s forehead on Ash Wednesday.
–8 of 10 kidnappers for Jesus are release from a Haitian prison, and we wonder why the Pope is so offensive and far-fetched to evangelicals that already believe in virgin births, resurrection, the planting of dinosaur fossils by God to test their faith, and more.
–An overwhelming majority of Americans, regardless of political party, oppose the corporate personhood ruling by the Supreme Court.
–Analysis of the Austin plane crash, and Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown’s bizarre connecting of the crash to his election.
–Stimulus hypocrites: A handful of members of Congress that publicly opposed the stimulus, and then asked for a ton of money from it.
–The hijinks at CPAC, including the crowd going nuts for Newt Gingrich as he is introduced to the sound of Eye of the Tiger, and his statement about the secular, Socialist machine that is the Democrats.
–Bob Barr is shouted down at CPAC for mentioning a legal fact, that waterboarding is torture.
–Ron Paul wins a straw poll at CPAC for the 2012 presidential race.
–Colin Powell comments on Obama’s first year in office, and disagrees with Dick Cheney that Obama has made the country less safe.
–Tony Kornheiser is suspended from ESPN for his comments about reporter Hannah Storm.
–Audience emails about Evan Bayh, insulting Midweek Politics, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and the Westboro Baptist Church.
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