David Pakman

Midweek Politics with David Pakman 7-1-09 - The "freedom fries" Congressman, MJ, Sanford, gay exorcism, more

2009-07-02T09:09:00.000-04:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

July 1st, 2009

Produced by:

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

Total Running Time: 56:13

This Week's Topics:

--Former Republican Congressman from Ohio Bob Ney joins us live to discuss his creation of freedom fries, his time in prison, and his new talk radio show.

--Shane Hankins, Executive Director of Grassroots.org, joins us live to talk about the free technology services they give away to non-profits, why non-profits fall way behind in technology, and more.

--Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton's bizarre involvement and statements around Michael Jackson's death.

--Followup on the Governor Mark Sanford Argentina scandal, including comments from other Republicans about whether or not the Republican Party just has a problem with morality.

--Fox News once again mislables a Republican in trouble, this time Mark Sanford, as a Democrat.

--Some recordings of Richard Nixon are uncovered and it turns out he was in favor of having abortions available in some cases, specifically interracial pregnancies.

--Al Franken is finally going to the US Senate as the Senator from Minnesota replacing Norm Coleman.

--Ann Coulter compares the killing of Dr George Tiller to a very late term abortion.

--A gay exorcism at a Connecticut church.

--Discuss this show on the Midweek Politics Liberty Lounge Discussion Forum

--Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dpakman

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman 6-24-09 -- Ethical investing, black conservative Republican lawyer, health care, Iran, more

2009-06-24T21:35:00.000-04:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

June 24th, 2009

Produced by:

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

Total Running Time: 56:54

This Week's Topics:

--Terry Mollner and Susan Wennemyr from Skateholders Capital join us live to discuss socially responsible investing, ethical companies and mutual funds, and much more.

--Horace Cooper, conservative legal commentator and writer joins us live to talk about Sotomayor, empathy and the rule of law, and more.

--South Carolina Republican Governor Mark Sanford returns from his mysterious absence and announces he has been cheating on his wife with a woman from none other than David Pakman's home country, Argentina, where he dissappeared to in recent days.

--The latest from Iran, including President Obama's comments on the situation at a recent press conference, which included a question for him direct from Iran.

--Controversy continues over whether Obama has done enough, said enough, and meddled enough when it comes to Iran.

--An unbelievable story from Iran in which a man is asked for money as a bullet fee before his dead son's remains will be returned to him after being shot while protesting.

--Health care, including the recent comments by President Obama on the subject, and his statement that doing nothing is not an option.

--Bill Scher's recent article with actual facts and numbers about the various health care proposals.

--A discussion about whether the cost of uninsureds, prescription drugs, or other factors are the biggest reason for price increases in health insurance, and recent polls showing that an overwhelming majority of Americans support government run health care.

--The 2010 census will count same sex couples as a result of a reversal of Bush administration policy by the Obama administration.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman 06-17-2009

2009-06-17T21:17:00.001-04:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

June 17th, 2009

Produced by:

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

Total Running Time: 57:02

This Week's Topics:

--Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dpakman, ask questions live during the show, all that good stuff.

--Shel Horowitz, author of Principled Profit, joins us live to talk about ethical marketing and more.

--Michael Koolidge, of The Michael Koolidge Show, joins us live to talk about right-wing terrorism and meeting David Pakman at the Talkers Magazine New Media Seminar in New York.

--The Holocaust museum shooting in detail, inluding eyewitness accounts and media coverage.

--The same conservatives who implied that the Army recruiting center shooting was a result of general anti-war coverage by the media claim that James Von Brunn was acting completely alone, was a lone wolf, and was not at all influenced by outside sources in his actions, although he has numerous ties to right wing hate groups, white supremacy organizations, and has written books along those lines.

--New right wing terror threats continue, including a threatening violent voicemail left at another abortion clinic.

--Health care talk continues to ramp up, with President Obama proposing a change to the system that would include a public insurance option, additional private options, and the option to keep the same insurance, plan, and doctor that you have now.

--Congressman Barney Frank walks off the CNBC set after what he says was not being allowed to answer the multiple questions being asked of him at the same time.

--Gay marriage and a discussion of whether the Constitutional right to equal protection supercedes any state or other decisions on the issue.

--The David Letterman Sarah Palin controversy, including an apology from Letterman he probably didn't need to give. We also look at whether Sarah Palin is just in an attention-seeking moment, given that a similar Jay Leno joke around election time received no reaction from the Palin side, and John McCain's poor taste joke about Chelsea Clinton.

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman 06-10-2009

2009-06-10T21:25:00.001-04:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

June 10th, 2009

Produced by:

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

Total Running Time: 56:24

This Week's Topics:

--Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dpakman, ask questions live during the show, all that good stuff.

--Shirley Phelps-Roper from the God Hates Fags Westboro Baptist Church joins us live to talk about gay marriage, how she hates homosexuals and Jews, and plenty more.

--David Pakman's trip to the New Media Seminar, including run-ins with Sean Hannity, Governor Mike Huckabee, Ed Schultz, Montel Williams, Laura Ingraham, Lou Dobbs, and plenty of others, as well as Rush Limbaugh.

--CNN and Lou Dobbs insist on polling people on the premise of whether President Obama apologizes too much during his speeches.

--Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Mitt Romney also jump in on the apologist bandwagon.

--Barack Obama's Cairo speech, reaction to it, and criticism about not using the word terrorists enough.

--President Obama's continued strong approval ratings, and what might drop them soon.

--Two journalists sentenced to prison in North Korea after a meaningless show trial, why it's absurd, and what might be done about it.

--Fox News is feigning anger at Sacha Baron-Cohen's stunt during the MTV news awards because his buttocks were showing.

--More news about Sonia Sotomayor, including that Rush Limbaugh may support her, Pat Buchanan is simply race-baiting, and Newt Gringrich says she is not racist, but racialist.

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 06.03.2009

2009-06-03T15:22:00.001-04:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

June 3rd, 2009

Produced by:

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

Total Running Time: 54:30

This Week's Topics:

--The murder of Doctor George Tiller, the physician who performed late term abortions in Kansas, but an anti-abortion radical.

--While some blamed Bill O'Reilly for inciting violence against Tiller by covering him specifically, O'Reilly has responded that general anti-war coverage by MSNBC could just as easily be blamed for the shooting of an Army recruiter in the southern US this week.

--Previous attacks on Doctor Tiller, including when he was shot in both arms, and a discussion about the security measures he had to take on a daily basis.

--Conservative Randall Terry's response to the killing, including his comments that while this type of murder is bad, Tiller was a mass murderer and deserved to die.

--More on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, including questioning why, if she makes decisions based on her ethnicity, she ruled AGAINST a fellow Hispanic in the firefighter reverse discrimination case.

--Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, the first Hispanic to hold that position, comments on Sotomayor's nomination.

--The General Motors bankruptcy, including bogus claims from Michelle Malkin that Republican-owned car dealerships were being unfairly targetted to be closed down.

--Are electric hand dryers always more envrionmentally friendly than paper towels, as many public bathroom signs say?

--David Petraeus, in an interview with Fox News Channel's Martha McCallum, declines to agree with her GOP talking points, saying closing GITMO is a good idea, and that the US did make mistakes after 9/11.

--Griff Jenkins bugs Barney Frank for an answer about ACORN and funding, and ignores Frank's answer in giving his wrap up of the situation.

--One Republican Congressman wants to legislate this year as the year of the bible, and at the same time mentions that government has too much control.

--Dick Cheney makes the closest thing to a pro gay marriage statement we've heard from him.

--Much more

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman 5.27.09

2009-05-27T21:23:00.000-04:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

May 27th, 2009

Produced by:

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

Total Running Time: 57:02

This Week's Topics:

--Ron Miller, technology writer and social networking expert is live in studio.

--Sonia Sotomayor is nominated to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court by President Obama.

--Sotomayor's controversial cases, her experience, her qualifications, and her controversial statement that policy is made in courts.

--Mike Huckabee was so quick to put out his criticism of the Sotomayor nomination that he released a statement with her first name incorrect.

--Rush Limbaugh no only still wants President Obama to fail, he wants Sonia Sotomayor to fail, while Karl Rove says she may not be strong intellectually.

--Sotomayor's positions on abortion, free speech, the right to bear arms, and more.

--Barack Obama forgets Defense Secretary Robert Gates' first name, calling him William.

--More on waterboarding and torture.

--Will there be a live waterboarding on the show?

--The Minority Report and pre-crime are discussed in relation to Barack Obama's recent support for indefinite holding of detainees without charges.

--Barack Obama and Dick Cheney's dueling speeches on the same day.

--The California Supreme Court upholds the gay marraige ban voted on last November.

--Which states currently allow gay marriage, which will be next, and more.

--Growing food in indoor greenhouses at twenty times the efficiency as outdoors on completely renewable energy.

--Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dpakman

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 05.20.2009

2009-05-20T21:15:00.001-04:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

May 20th, 2009

Produced by:

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

Total Running Time: 58:55

This Week's Topics:

--Tom Rossmassler from HAPHousing and Sagecoach Enterprises joins us live to discuss green building, green jobs, alternative energy, and more.

--A strange trip to Chicago and the suburbs, including sinners and more.

--The controversy with Barack Obama, abortion, and the Notre Dame commencement speech, and the always necessary comaprison to Nazis.

--John Boehner's orange color.

--We discuss the decision not to release torture photographs.

--Dick Cheney is no longer at undisclosed secure locations as his press tour continues, and he continues to say President Obama is making the US less safe.

--Some say that not only were waterboarding and other techniques not authorizes, but that they were not even necessary or effective.

--The confusion over what Nancy Pelosi knew, when she knew it, and whether she lied about it.

--Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has one of the most entertaining media tours in a while, arguing with Sean Hannity, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and the Fox and Friends crew about torture and waterboarding.

--New fuel efficiency standards by 2016 will require over 35 miles per gallon for cars and light trucks. We talk about how this will affect automakers, the economy, and more.

--From conflict diamonds to conflict cell phones, including a recent campaign about conflict minerals from the Congo being used in cell phones to make them vibrate.

--Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dpakman

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 05.13.2009

2009-05-12T17:10:00.001-04:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 57:09

This Week's Topics:

--Scott Keeter, Director of Survey Research at the Pew Research Center, joins us live to talk about President Obama's and past presidential approval ratings, and Arlen Specter's switch to the Republican Party.

--Maine's Governor John Baldacci signs a bill legalizing gay marriage, making Maine the 5th state on that list.

--A recent report says the economic benefit to Maine from legalizing gay marriage would be significant.

--As a result of Don't Ask Don't Tell, Lieutenant Choi, a West Point graduate and Arabic linguist who came out on Rachel Maddow's program a few months ago is fired from the military.

--Miss California Carrie Prejean is now going beyond just having an opinion on gay marriage by actively campaigning against it.

--The Catholic Church's pedophilia problems continue, and some think that allowing priests to marry would help the situation.

--Former Vice President Dick Cheney says that he would rather have Rush Limbaugh in the Republican Party over Colin Powell.

--Bill O'Reilly suggests that the strategy for the GOP to revive itself is to attack Bruce Springsteen over comments related to Pete Seeger, a singer many of today's voters have never heard of.

--The White House Correspondents Dinner, including Wanda Sykes comments about Obama's critics, as well as some funny lines from President Obama.

--Global warming denier John Stossel says the way to protect endangered species is to eat them.

--Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dpakman

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 05.06.2009

2009-05-06T21:12:00.000-04:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

May 6th, 2009

Produced by:

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

Total Running Time: 56:58

This Week's Topics:

--Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dpakman, ask questions live during the show, all that good stuff.

--Bruce Miller, professor of Constitutional Law, Law and Terrorism, and Legal Ethics at Western New England College School of Law in Springfield, Massachusetts, is live in studio to talk about waterboarding and torture, and criminalizing bad legal advice.

--The pitfalls of Twittering political stuff and more on social networking sites.

--Liz Cheney insists that what took place during the Bush administration was not torture.

--Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's argument that cruel and unusual punishment does not apply to waterboarding since an interrogation is not punishment.

--Bill Cunningham makes Sean Hannity seem reasonable during a 30 second soundbyte during which he uses every Obama smear in the book.

--Fox News reports that Michele Obama was portrayed by some as an angry woman, without mentioning it was their network that led the charge on that count.

--Ann Coulter insists on repeating the same flawed statistics about presidential approval ratings.

--More media outlets, including Sheriff Joe Arpaio, currently under investigation for wanton racial profiling, says the cause of Swine Flu is illegal immigration.

--Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano says closing the border will not help the Swine Flu situation.

--Lou Dobbs criticizes opposition to the term swine flu without noting that his own network was involved in the criticism.

--During the GOP Listening Tour, it is suggested that students can learn more from listening to Rush Limbaugh than from high school or college.

--President Barack Obama will get to choose a Supreme Court Justice to replace David Souter.

--Barack Obama, while happy to have Senator Arlen Specter as a Democrat, says it will not give him a blank check.

--Congressman Mike Pence, R-IN, refuses to say he believes in evolution, and dances around the concept of science altogether.

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 04.29.2009

2009-04-29T21:24:00.001-04:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

April 29th, 2009

Produced by:

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

Total Running Time: 56:37

This Week's Topics:

--Rabbi Irwin Kula joins is live to talk about gay marriage and religion, plus much more.

--Swine flu, including what it is, how it's spreading, where it's been, what to do, and more.

--We look at the World Health Organization's pandemic scale.

--How do those who don't have sick time at work or don't have health insurance handle a situation like swine flu?

--A pandemic of paranoia, with a bunch of media outlets suggesting illegal immigrants are the reason that swine flu made it to the United States.

--Senator Arlen Specter from Pennsylvania, one of the most senior Republican Senators, switches to the Democratic Party.

--Most media outlets report Specter's switch as a big story, although Fox News attempts to downplay its significance from the start.

--More on torture and waterboarding, including the question of whether lawyers can or should be prosecuted for giving bad legal advice.

--Senator Joe Lieberman suggests that we shouldn't worry about what Bush administration officlas did relating to torture because a few years have already passed.

--While we know George W. Bush was wrong when he said the US did not torture, we debate whether he was knowingly lying or not.

--Suggestions that by prosecuting former Bush officials the United States would be acting like a banana republic.

--A hate crime bill passes out of committee, and conservatives don't like it one bit.

--Much more..

--Discuss this show on the Midweek Politics Liberty Lounge Discussion Forum.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 04.22.2009

2009-04-22T21:23:00.000-04:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

April 22nd, 2009

Produced by:

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

Total Running Time: 56:41

--Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon from Sea Change Radio are live in studio.

--Recently released memos reveal that it turns out the Bush administration did torture, including waterboard KSM 183 times.

--Many conservatives say the problem is not the torture, but the fact that the memos were released.

--The idea that torture by the US is a recruiting tool for terrorists isn't subscribed to by all.

--John McCain says waterboarding is torture, but also thinks the memos should not have been released.

--Miss USA might have been decided by a question about gay marriage, and we discuss whether Miss California's answer should have affected the results of the contest.

--Barack Obama addresses assault weapons and gun control a few weeks after a man who was very afraid Obama would take his guns killed three police officers.

--The tea-baggers are credited with the jum in the Dow over a few day period.

--Fox News uses a study from Spain to suggest green jobs could hurt more than they help, but they don't mention the study was done by a member of a group that seeks to counter alarm about global warming.

--A very bizarre script for an ad a Republican group wanted to produce that ended up on the cutting room floor.

--Controversy over the Department of Homeland Security report that said right wing extremists might seek to recruit veterans, among others, including reaction from Neil Cavuto and Pat Robertson.

--Much more

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 04.15.2009

2009-04-15T17:41:00.002-04:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

April 15th, 2009

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 54:00

This Week's Topics:

--Dan Viederman, Executive Director of Verité, a nonprofit, training, research, and social auditing organization, is live in studio.

--Tea parties and teabagging on tax day ends up basically as a Fox News event.

--Both commentators and reporters on Fox give their fair and balanced take on the teabagging, although some say it is just another way for Republicans to voice their displeasure with Barack Obama.

--The National Organization for Marriage comes out with an unbelievable ad about gay marriage taking away their freedom, and then pulls it from embarassment. Not to be outdone, they follow it up with a new campaign they are nicknaming 2M4M, a calling card for gay male threesomes in personal ads and on the internet.

--Conservative Dennis Prager says that gay marriage is as important an issue right now as the economy.

--Texas Congresswoman Betty Brown asks the Asian community to change their names so they are easier for Americans to deal with, or maybe just so she doesn't sound so stupid trying to pronounce them.

--Even after the recent shootings, media conservatives continue to fearmonger about Barack Obama taking your guns.

--Dick Morris, in his latest rant, says that President Obama gave away American economic sovereignty to Europe at the G20 summit.

--Leon Panetta bans CIA use of contract workers to interrogations, so we can rest assured that from now on, all interrogation will be done by the actual CIA.

--Ronald Regan's adopted son Michael says that so far, Barack Obama's presidency has been anti-Catholic, anti-Christian, and pro-abortion.

--Just over half of Americans believe that capitalism is better than socialism.

--Much more.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 04.08.2009

2009-04-08T17:44:00.002-04:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

April 8th, 2009

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 54:15

This Week's Topics:

--Gay marriage in Iowa and Vermont, including comments from the Vermont Governor.

--The unbelievable shootout with the Pittsburgh police by a man upset over what he expected to be a ban on guns by President Barack Obama.

--North Korea launches a rocket over Japan, and we look at what it could be used for, how dangerous this is, and hear comments from Newt Gingrich.

--The AIG situation continues, this time with a former CEO previously accused of fraud saying he is not at all responsible.

--Payday loans, including some politicians trying to outlaw them, some trying to legalize them, and information about exactly what they are and the amazing interest rates charged.

--Concerns over the budget from conservatives dissappear when the spending relates to growing the military.

--Insane 911 calls from people from everything to being locked inside their own car to not getting enough shrimp in their fried rice, and whether individuals should have to pay for silly 911 calls.

--Al Franken's lead continues to grow in the Minnesota Senate race, but Norm Coleman and his friends at Fox News continue to push the issue.

--Fox News ambushes Columbia professor Alan Brinkley over a bizarre topic, while Sean Hannity criticizes the Obama administration for facts in their press kit about the United Kingdom, although the same facts were included in the Bush White House's press kit.

--Michael Savage is worried Obama will replace Lincoln with Malcolm X in the White House, although he was sworn in on Lincoln's bible, and Rush Limbaugh says the market went up one day last week because Barack Obama was out of the country.

--Much more.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 04.01.2009

2009-04-01T16:28:00.002-04:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

April 1st, 2009

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 50:54

This Week's Topics:

--Barack Obama's internet press conference where he took questions submitted via the web.

--Media obsession over Barack Obama being power hungry, including comparisons to Roosevelt, and discussion of the removal of Rick Wagoner as CEO of General Motor and Obama's statements about fuel mileage requirements on automobiles.

--Suggestions from Newt Gingrich that the US is moving towards a dictatorship.

--Fox News hosts a former mobster to compare the Democrats with the mafia.

--Barack Obama addresses an internet question about the legalization of marijuana.

--Criticism that Obama's mortgage plan only helps irresponsible homeowners, and Obama's response.

--Suggestions that US businesses pay the second most taxes, although even with a high tax rate, actual taxes paid are quite low due to deductions and loopholes.

--Recent polls about whether this is Obama's recession, as many media outlets have claimed.

--An admission from unlikely suspects that Japanese automakers actually have an advantage against US automakers because Japan has national health care.

--Discussions about stem cell research and Alzheimer's, as well as hearing from Michael J Fox and Paul Begala.

--Dick Armey is scared by Barack Obama.

--Chaos in Mexico, including travel warnings and the fear of a government breakdown.

--Senator Grassley gets crazy in a budget debate, referring to Senator Conrad's wife.

--Bill O'Reilly's biggest enemies are liberal blogs.

--General David Petraeus denies the Bush White House tortured, but half heartedly defends Barack Obama against Dick Cheney's comments.

--Robert Gates says this isn't the right time to change the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy of the military.

--Michael Steele says God will tell him if she should run for President, but will it be the God that told Bush to go into Iraq, the one that told Pat Robertson about Hurricane Katrina months before it happened, or the one that told Osama Bin Laden to attack the World Trade Center?

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 03.25.2009

2009-03-25T17:49:00.002-04:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

March 25th, 2009

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 51:44

This Week's Topics:

--We discuss Barack Obama's latest prime time press conference, including questions from reporters.

--Criticism of Obama and his press conferences, including that he is boring, is doing too many of them, and is too optimistic.

--Obama's confidence in the coming economic recovery.

--Follow-up about AIG and the bonus controversy.

--Obama's responses to Ed Henry's prodding about why his response was slow to the AIG situation, stating that he likes to know what he's talking about before giving his opinion.

--Strange suggestions from Chuck Todd during the press conference that the American people haven't sacrificed nor suffered as a result of the economic crisis.

--The Obama press conference was apparently too boring for much of the media.

--Testimony from AIG CEO Edward Liddy, including comments that he wouldn't have given the bonuses that were previously promised, and that executives should give their bonus money back. He also refuses to give the names of those who received bonuses because he fears for their safety.

--An interesting letter send from an AIG executive to the CEO saying he quits, and explaning why.

--We look at how much the average individual making $300,000 would have to increase his tax payments by if the Bush tax cuts are rolled back.

--Strange comments on Fox News suggesting that the Dow dropped during Obama's speech because investors didn't like what he said, even though the Dow was higher at the end of the speech, not lower.

--Health care reform, including those who are confident it will happen, and those that think it's not the right time to change anything.

--An update on Guantanamo Bay, including a statement from a former Bush official that many of those held there are innocent.

--Pat Buchanan is worried about whether the US can handle an increase in Hispanics or whether the country will collapse.

--One conservative commentator accuses dictionaries of having a liberal bias.

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 03.18.2009

2009-03-18T21:43:00.001-04:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, M

Total Running Time: 51:50

This Week's Topics:

--Sut Jhally, Executive Producer and Adriana Barbaro, Producer, Co-Director, and Co-Writer of Consuming Kids, the latest Media Education Foundation documentary, are live in studio to discuss the film.

--More Obama budget controversies, including hypocrisy on earmarks, stimulating green energy, and more.

--AIG and their bonuses, as well as Senator Chuck Grassley's controversial comments about executives committing suicide.

--Senator John McCain's daughter, Meghan McCain, commenting on stimulus packages and the economy minutes before saying she actually does not understand the economy or how it works.

--More on stem cells, including some bizarre parodies.

--The health care situation, including comments from Bill Clinton.

--Dick Cheney says we are already less safe as a result of Barack Obama's policy decisions.

--Sean Hannity says that torture is compatible with Christianity, while at the same time new reports confirm the Bush administration did torture.

--A German frozen food company comes up with a product idea called Obama friend chicken fingers.

--Fox News calls CNN the Communist News Network.

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 03.11.2009

2009-03-11T17:55:00.002-04:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

March 11th, 2009

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 54:02

This Week's Topics:

--Mike Lux, author of The Progressive Revolution, President of Progressive Strategies, and a regular columnist for The Huffington Post joins us in studio.

--The California Proposition 8 debate over gay marriage, including Kenneth Starr and his anti-gay marriage position.

--The ban is lifted on embryonic stem cell research by President Obama, but what are the details and what does it mean?

--Health care back into the news stronger than ever, including President Obama saying of all the options to consider, the status quo isn't one.

--Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison just says this is not the right time to look at changing health care, while a Tennessee Congressman says health care is a right for some people. but for others it's a privilege.

--Glenn Beck compares liberal health care ideas to eugenics and the idea of creating a master race in the commonplace Hitler comparisons in modern day politics.

--Lou Dobbs is increasingly beligerent over recent polling data.

--Media figures obsessively refer to the current economy as the Obama Bear Market, failing to mention time and time again that stock markets declined significantly during President Bush's last year in office.

--Is the recession harder on men than it is on women?

--Strange comments about the mystery of Joe Biden's appearance with the AFL-CIO, especially given that a transcript is readily available.

--The latest from Rush Limbaugh, including his homeless cell phone comments.

--Senator John McCain redefines the role for the losing Presidential candidate, and comments on President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, and more.

--Newt Gingrich plays coy about running for President in 2012.

--Michael Jackson will perform one more time.

--Much more

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 03.04.2009

2009-03-04T16:35:00.002-05:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

March 4th, 2009

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 53:35

This Week's Topics:

--Kenneth Hahn, Executive Director of Global Routes, joins us live in studio.

--President Obama's plan to end the war, or is it?

--Robert Gates, George W Bush's carryover Defense Secretary to Barack Obama, addresses whether he thinks Obama's plan to leave Iraq is acceptable.

--We hear from Ann Coulter about sending more troops to Afghanistan.

--The CPAC Rush Limbaugh controversy, talk of Rush as the current leader of the Republican Party, and whether stressing that notion is a good plan for Democrats.

--Rush Limbaugh explains his comments about wanting Obama to fail, and says all Republicans want Obama to fail, but most just wont say it.

--A bizarre 13-year-old speaks at CPAC.

--Governor Bobby Jindal's made up story from his recent response to Barack Obama's national address.

--More from Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, now recorvered from his TurboTax trouble, about this recession and health care, a topic not much discussed by the Obama administration until this week.

--Energy, including T Boone Pickens' latest, electric golf carts, and more.

--More suggestions that there isn't global warming as evidenced by a snow storm in the northeast this week.

--Much more.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 02.25.2009

2009-02-25T17:56:00.002-05:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

February 25th, 2009

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 56:05

This Week's Topics:

--Barack Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress that was NOT a State of the Union, including early standing ovations from Nancy Pelosi, a weird exchange with Dennis Kucinich, and more.

--Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's Republican response speech to the Obama address.

--The details of the Barack Obama mortgage bailout, including who it will and will not help.

--Rick Santelli's rant on CNBC, and Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' response.

--More false claims about the Obamaa administration and taxes.

--Michael Steele, the new GOP Chairman, is open to punishing the three Republican Senators that voted for the stimulus package.

--Barack Obama's meeting with many Senators, including his first exchange with John McCain, as well as McCain's comments about a new Presidential helicopter, and how Barack Obama turned it into a joke.

--What is happening with health care reform and the Obama administration?

--Barack Obama's trip to Canada, and comments from Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

--We hear from Arnold Schwarzenegger about the California economic crisis, and talk about a report that he recently considered switching to the Democratic party.

--About green jobs and energy dependence with T Boone Pickens and Harry Reid.

--Strange claims from Fox News about auto worker salaries and the new Attorney General.

--Much more.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 02.18.2009

2009-02-18T17:55:00.002-05:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 56:15

This Week's Topics:

--Ray Comfort, author of the book You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence But You Can't Make Him Think, is with us live for an outrageous conversation.

--Barack Obama's recovery bill passes, and the President was selling it until the last second he signed it in Denver, and even afterwards.

--The House and Senate passed the bill, and we look at who voted which way and more.

--The use of multiple pens to sign this and other bills by Presidents, and amazing comments about it on the internet.

--Rush Limbaugh claims the bill's conversion to PDF format by the Democrats was so it would be unsearchable, but apparently he isn't aware of Ctrl-F on computers.

--Congressional hearings about banks and credit card rates, as well as Congressman Ackerman's outburts to those in charge at the SEC.

--Republican Judd Gregg withdraws from consideration as Secretary of Commerce in the Obama administration.

--Leon Panetta CIA Director hearings, including his comments about waterboarding.

--One of Obama's closest advisors says that Dick Cheney is having trouble handling the Republican losses this past election.

--CEO's of the peanut companies involved in the recent scandals refuse to answer any questions, pleading the 5th amendment.

--An unbelievable interview involving Sarah Palin, her daughter, and her daughter's son, made to look unstaged on Fox News.

--Alex Rodriguez and the steroid scandal in baseball.

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 02.11.2009

2009-02-11T17:59:00.002-05:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

February 11th, 2009

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 53:36

This Week's Topics:

--Ira Rubenzahl, President of Springfield Technical Community College in Springfield, Massachusetts joins us live in studio to discuss access to higher education, changes to education under President Obama, and more.

--Last week's rant about a strange stimulus related earmark.

--The stimulus package is basically passed, and President Obama does two town halls and a prime time press conference.

--Analysis of Barack Obama in his town halls and press conference, how he compares to President George W Bush in terms of screening the audience and questions, and more.

--Discussion of the pay scale limits in the stimulus bill for recipients of stimulus money.

--Questions from Helen Thomas, about baseball, and more for President Obama during his first prime time press conference.

--Accusations of fear mongering by President Obama by the same individuals that created fear about a terrorist attack if Obama were to be elected.

--Fox News passes off Republican press releases as their own reporting, even including the typos.

--Comments from incoming CIA Director Leon Panetta about waterboarding and extraordinary rendition.

--Black History Month and Morgan Freeman's interesting comments about it from a few years back.

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 02.04.2009

2009-02-04T16:46:00.002-05:00

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This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

February 4th, 2009

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 53:30

This Week's Topics:

--Tom Daschle is the next to pull out from Obama's cabinet with tax troubles, and the President admits he screwed up, and is then criticized for admitting it.

--The latest with the economy and the proposed stimulus package, including the stipulation that TARP money only go to companies where executives earn under 500,000 dollars per year.

--Obama on job cuts, Senators on executive compensation, having tried tax cuts with George W. Bush, and more.

--The strange fixation on Philipino veterans related to the stimulus package, and why it makes no sense.

--Rod Blagojevich goes on the David Letterman show and is made a fool of.

--Ted Haggard's unbelievable appearance on Oprah, where he says he is straight with gay attachments, and has a complex sexuality.

--Actor Christian Bale's tirade on the set of a movie.

--The ongoing supposed irony if it snowing in Washington DC on a day Al Gore testifies about global warming and climate change.

--Condi Rice discusses what attracted her to Bush, who she voted for, and more.

--The Pope's brother defends his decision to bring back a Holocaust-denying bishop.

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 01.28.2009

2009-01-28T17:24:00.002-05:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

January 28th, 2009

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 53:22

This Week's Topics:

--Kirsten Gillibrand is appointed by New York Governor David Paterson as the US Senator from New York replacing Hillary Clinton, but some say she's more of a Republican than a Democrat.

--The controversy over Caroline Kennedy, why she wasn't chosen as US Senator from New York, and more.

--The Rod Blagojevich situation gets even more outrageous, with him making all sorts of claims and statements on a number of television programs, and citing Ghandi among numerous other obscure poems and writings, and admits to having considered Oprah to replace Barack Obama in the US Senate.

--Tim Geithner is confirmed as Treasury Secretary after having to explain a lot about his unpaid taxes and plenty of scrutiny.

--Fox News invites Dick Morris, a former tax delinquent himself, to criticize the nomination of Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary.

--One mans kills himself and his family as a result of stress and depression from economic problems.

--Media outlets continue to advance the claims that Barack Obama's tax program would give tax refunds to people who already do not pay taxes.

--Follow up on closing Guantanamo Bay, where the detainees would go, and a number of comments about the executive order, including from John McCain and Vice-President Joe Biden.

--What is next in Iraq with Barack Obama as President? VP Joe Biden says the tough part is only starting.

--Faulty hindsight on the Bush administration, including the suggestion that Bush was extremely well liked by members of the military.

--Pope Benedict reaches out to anti-Semites by lifting an excommunication on a well-known bishop that believes there were no gas chambers use in the Holocaust, and that only about 250,000 Jews died.

--Much more

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 01.21.2009

2009-01-21T17:49:00.002-05:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

January 21st, 2009

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 50:50

This Week's Topics:

--Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th President of the United States.

--Obama's oath of office and inaugural speech, plus all the criticism of it circuilating within minutes.

--Past inaugural Presidential speeches.

--The invocation by Lowery and the unbelievable criticism of it.

--Polls showing amazing optimism across America about the Obama presidency, but will he live up to it?

--What Barack Obama did during his first full day as President, including ordering a pause to Guantanamo Bay trials, freezing the salaries of top earning White House staff, and asking for a plan to get out of Iraq.

--George W. Bush's final press conference as President of the US.

--Hillary Clinton's confirmation hearings and confirmation as Secretary of State.

--Eric Holder's confirmation hearings for Attorney General.

--Martin Luther King Day.

--Environmental talk, including about the recent cold spell in the US.

--Stories from Cancun, Mexico.

--Much more.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 01.14.2009

2009-01-13T19:21:00.001-05:00

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

January 14th, 2009

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 51:46

This Week's Topics:

--David Pakman's appearance on the Liberal Oasis Radio Show as the CONSERVATIVE, not liberal, guest.

--Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is impeached, but it still looks like his Senate pick Roland Burris will be seated.

--President Bush's outgoing media tour, including interviews and press conferences.

--What will President Bush miss about being President, and what does he consider to be his mistakes?

--Will President Bush issue pre-emptive pardons to people that have not even been charged with anything yet?

--The upcoming Barack Obama inauguration.

--Pre-emptive criticism of Barack Obama's plan to spend his way out of a recession, and analysis of the right and wrong parts of that criticism.

--Misleading accusations that Barack Obama's tax plan will give money to people who already don't pay taxes.

--More claims that Al Franken is cheating to win the US Senate race in Minnesota.

--Ann Coulter on The View, including her confrontations with Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg.

--Much more

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