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Focusing on issues, not tweets, Raw Story and AlterNet's Joshua Holland and Liz Preza talk politics with academics, newsmakers and progressive journalists.
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Sunday Dec 28, 2014
Sunday Dec 28, 2014
This week, we'll talk about the NYPD's temper-tantrum over some rather ubiquitous comments made by Mayor Bill de Blasio. Then we're going back to the archives.
First, Ben Dimiero of Media Matters joins us to discuss the gifts you can get at your favorite right-wing media site.
Then we speak with Mallory Ortberg about The Citadel, and other planned communities for paranoid gun-humpers.
And finally, we'll talk BENGHAZI!! with Wonkette's Kaili Joy Gray. It's a best-of show!
Playlist:
Missy Elliott: "Get Ur Freak On"
Me First and the Gimmes: "Rocketman"
Lou Reed: "Dirty Boulevard"
Southern Culture on the Skids: "Wheels"
Sunday Dec 28, 2014
Sunday Dec 28, 2014
This week, we'll talk about the NYPD's temper-tantrum over some rather ubiquitous comments made by Mayor Bill de Blasio. Then we're going back to the archives.
First, Ben Dimiero of Media Matters joins us to discuss the gifts you can get at your favorite right-wing media site.
Then we speak with Mallory Ortberg about The Citadel, and other planned communities for paranoid gun-humpers.
And finally, we'll talk BENGHAZI!! with Wonkette's Kaili Joy Gray. It's a best-of show!
Playlist:
Missy Elliott: "Get Ur Freak On"
Me First and the Gimmes: "Rocketman"
Lou Reed: "Dirty Boulevard"
Southern Culture on the Skids: "Wheels"
Saturday Dec 13, 2014
Saturday Dec 13, 2014
This week, we'll speak with Paul Waldman about the "CRomnibus" bill barreling through Congress. Paul is a contributor to The Washington Post and The American Prospect.
Then we'll be joined by Rory McVeigh, a sociologist at Notre Dame University who was the lead researcher on a study that found that KKK activism had a significant impact on the immigration of whites in the deep South from the Dems to the GOP.
Finally, we'll talk about the Senate torture report with Ryan Cooper from The Week.
Playlist:
The White Stripes: "I think I Smell a Rat"
The Bee Gees: "Gotta Get a Message to You"
Bob Dylan: "The Man in Me"
Saturday Dec 06, 2014
Saturday Dec 06, 2014
This week, after an extended rant about how grand juries aren't designed to uncover the truth, we'll speak with Heather "Digby" Parton about the public outcry after a spate of police killings of black men, the factual problems in a high-impact Rolling Stone story about rape on the UVA campus, and a staff exodus from the venerable New Republic magazine.
Then we'll speak with budget guru Stan Collender about the GOP's plan to put a thumb on the scale of future regulation by requiring the Congressional Budget Office to use some fuzzy math that advances their trickle-down economics.
Playlist:
Rolling Stones: "Shake Your Hips"
The Clash: "Rudy Can't Fail"
The Beatles: "Hello Little Girl"