Yes, SciFi Friday returns with all-new episodes of the two Stargates, and Battlestar Erecti… um, I mean, Galactica. I did mention I’m a geek, right?
Unfortunately, Bill Maher won’t be back until February. Now, let’s hurry up with Marc’s new show already (we want at least 2 hours, damnit)!
I’ll grit my teeth and try to listen the rest of the today’s show but I swear there is NOT ONE ORIGINAL IDEA on riley’s show.:mad::mad: EVERYTHING has been borrowed from npr, msnbc, cnn or (god help us) faux news.:fustrate::fustrate:
What generic mediocre bland oatmeal we’re being offered.:40:
I miss marc soooo much:cry::cry:
Ok DUDE…how many times did Wayne just say the phrase “medical unduced coma”…..like 4 times? We GET it. Sheesh. :fustrate:
And not for something completely different:
While searching on iTunes Japan I found a band that I think Bruce Cherry wants to join. It’s the Bonobos. 🙂 They’re song is “Thank you for the music” but I keep hearing that “wawawawawawawa” noise in my head!
:rofl2:
Hey….did you know, Sharon’s BACK ON THE OPERATING TABLE. Mark’s his own freakin’ echo! Ugh.
BACK ON THE OPERATING TABLE
BACK ON THE OPERATING TABLE
BACK ON THE OPERATING TABLE
BACK ON THE OPERATING TABLE
I come from a long line of “it getters.” (Ok-what show people?)
did I mention espn too:!::!::!::mad::mad::mad::?::?::?:
Morning / Evening, boat people!
SiFi Friday ?? who ? what ? where ?? hey… if you can’t stream it did it really happen ??
If I wanted the news and the sports I would listen to the local Riech wing station. They don’t go off the deep end until Limprick comes on at 10:00
In Battle Star Galactcia’s last episodes they arrive at earth just in time to prevent WWIII.. they better hurry up.
Lame filler music. 😡
I have not been a blogger on the MS web site, but since it’s demise, I have been lurking to keep informed as best I can about Marc Maron’s future on the radio. I have tried listening to Mark and Rachel, but it hasn’t captured my interest, so it has been back to NPR, which I actually find more entertaining than AAM, even if it isn’t progressive. I wanted to share the following letter that I just sent to Daniel Goldberg, Gary Krantz, Rob Glaser, Anita Drobny, Mike Papantonio, Doug Kreeger, and Mike Malloy.
I am writing to you as a board member of Air America Radio to express how very, very sad my husband and I are over the demise of Morning Sedition and the leaving of Marc Maron. We had never heard of Marc Maron or Mark Riley before we started listening to Morning Sedition, shortly after Air American Radio went on the air. No show has ever before captured our attention and dedication. We listened, and laughed, every day, while we worked out, took our showers, ate breakfast, drove our daughter to school, and drove to work. Sometimes I would sit in my car at work listening to the end of a piece. It was such a delight!
Let me tell you about the kind of listeners you are losing. My husband and I are both in our late forties. We both have advanced degrees and work as full time professionals, with a good income. We feel very strongly about our politics and made a point to patronize stores and products that advertised on AAR. However, now you will be losing my husband and me, as well as many other Morning Sedition fans, as regular listeners to AAR. Mark Riley alone and Rachel Maddow, (who we listened to occasionally in her previous 5:00 a.m. slot) are okay, but don’t hold our interest and attention. Sure, we may tune in occasionally when we are in the car, but all the other AAR shows, with the traditional talk radio format, get boring pretty quickly and NPR and music beckon. We no longer have the radio on from the moment we get up.
We were passionate about Morning Sedition and Marc Maron. The humor and the banter along with the progressive politics got us going every day. I have not laughed so much as I have in the past 1½ years, listening to Marc Maron. Marc spoke to us; his self-effacing humor, his ability to poke fun at the left as well as the right, and his irreverence, were fantastic. We cried when it ended. Now, the mornings are dreary. It has been like losing a loved one.
We know that Morning Sedition will not be coming back, but we urge you to think about the many dedicated fans you have lost, many of them like us, well educated and well paid. We urge you to find another way to use Marc Maron, preferably in the morning to get us going. In the meantime, you have lost two formerly dedicated listeners of Air America Radio.
Battlestar Galactica? Did I wander onto the wrong blog by mistake?
And just when I had decided to stop posting about sports. Soooo…
TAMPA BAY 27, WASHINGTON 14
Take that, wonks. :billcat:
Quietgirl, thanks for the invite. Hopefully Maron will be back by the time your birthday comes around, and we’ll have two things to celebrate. :cake:
ejp- great letter. It expresses some very common feelings among those who loved MS. Thank you.
DG :fustrate:
Mornin’ seditionists…..yeah this filler music blows!
I put up an old dream diary here: The Era
Check it out….
So, I wasn’t here to listen to Riley’s Sports show..
how was it?
So, when do you think we’ll hear the next word on Marc’s new show? Any takers on this? I say next Monday…any takers c’mon c’mon….
There’s another emoticon there for ya’ pj, something for Johnny K Street….
:tongue:
Marc wrote KTLK 1150 in LA. I keep checking there. Show news might not be ’til the end of the month.
Wow! Did I have a weird experience just now or what?
I must have fallen into a parallel universe. Battlestar Bonanza had sex change operations. Someone actually picks the Buck-an-ears to win a football game – John McKay and George Allen are spinning in their graves. And John Kerry just called this collection of republithugs “corrupt.”
Open the pod bay doors, please Hal. Or is it only a model, dear Patsy.
Nc Blue! Kong! Yeah I check out the KTLK site everyday but not much changes over there….:rant1:
NC Blue- glad to see you are still about. Was that Kerry on Rachel’s show?
Good morning, fellow bloggerilluminati!
hi kingkong, NCBlue,jwk, kevM, fred, atrnorton.
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Is it just me or are Riley and Maddow trying to add ‘funny’ bits to their shows? This does not work for me at all!
Yeah, bascombe, it seems a little forced.
Kerry, slightly less dysfunctional than Lieberman, but equally as delusional. Still too much of a loser to really fight anymore. Pathetic man and even more pathetic politician.
BASCOMBE! 😎 Kong: yeah that was Kerry. I still like Kerry, I just wish he hadn’t said that he would vote the same way for the war with what he knows now during the election scene. That was a real let down…:no:
My stream is on an NPR local station.
maddow is very, very informative. they should never have taken away ‘unfiltered’.
jason-how do you find the time to keep The Era so current?
I agree Bascombe, that was their first big mistake. Then they made a fatal mistake with the cancellation of MS! :doh: I just don’t see Riley gettin any ratings in the spot he’s in. Oh, maybe he will. I hope so. I like Riley, but his show just isn’t my bread and butter…
Comment by jasonwkinney — January 6, 2006 @ 7:39 am —————————————
the cranial density :doh: of the president is stunning! forty minutes! what a bunch of maroons! :billcat:
Kong: I put way too much time into it…kinda silly…but I like it…:fire:
God help me, I can’t tune out the “music” between segments on the stream as easily as I could tune out the commercials!
I can’t beleive I miss those snotty Ovaltine brats.
Then again the guy on the “Mega” life insurance spot gives me the creeps. The way he says “MEGA” (as part of the phone number) makes him sounds like someone with an “affective disorder” (like a “rain man” kind of thing).
So I’m back to Morning Edition on NPR. I just yell at the radio when I don’t like what I hear (though they are reflecting somewhat more of the county’s anti-Bush sentiment these days than they would before Thomlinson got the boot)
Message to D. Golberg:
How come you aint got no Brothers on your network at hours when people actually listen to the radio??
Why do you keep them in the broadcast “Ghetto” of the “wee-hours”? (not that I care for the particular shows you’ve got – K. Jason & Chuck D’ shows bite- then again so does your boy Steve Earle’s – cause THEY DONT [hardly ever] TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES! And while Riley’s smart enough, and gosh darn it I like him- He ‘s NOT worth waking up 2 hours before 7 am to get to my computer and stream. Plus his format’s nothing special)
I seriously fear for AirAmerica.
I honestly wonder if D.Goldberg hasn’t beeen placed there by the suits at ClearChannel (music Industy/broadcasting’s 500 lb gorilla) to castrate what was STARTING to look like an effective voice for the opposition.
:fire: At Last- MY SIGNATURE IS COMPLETE AGAIN!:fire:
i had to smile at the timing when i saw that pj mentioned bill maher in the opening of this thread. earlier today, in a desperate attempt to find something (besides rachel) to listen to on my (now virtually unused) iPod shuffle, i went to iTunes top 100 podcasts. the last time i did that was months ago to check out how well morning sedition was doing in the top 100. if i remember correctly, we got as close as #19 for a day or two.
anyway – while there, i noticed that there’s a podcast available on iTunes of bill maher’s show (only 3 episodes, unfortunatly). it was so nice to have something to laugh to.
aside from that, today it was the 1/5/05 archive of MS for me: mark just back from england and marc obviously so happy to be part of a duo again.
(was planning to babble on here a bit about listening to mark and marc together again but suddenly realized that i was at a total loss for words)
Comment by jasonwkinney — January 6, 2006 @ 7:44 am ————
How much DLC is going to be carried by AAR? What’s next, Hillary defending her Flag burning amendment? I wonder if they’ll ever have the DNC chair on again on any show.
I gotta go shower!
Boat Bloggers, may I remind you that we go to war with the radio programs we have, maybe not with the radio programs we want. We play the hand we are dealt, and make the best of it. We also tune into Keith Olbermann and Jon Stewart for the news. And we listen to Letterman slap the crap outa a Faux News propagandist.
Good Morning Seditionists. I really miss MS. I think Morning Sedition has spoiled us. Nothing sounds good. I’m listening to Harry SHearer, Le Show, and it’s kinda slow. 🙁 I don’t know if I’m gonna get used to this.
yeah, NCBlue, but we don’t wake up to those people. I can’t shake the morning malaise. This precious time slot has been sabotaged. I am still hurting pretty bad.
good morning, Kristapea!
😎
A 50-State Party
by kos
Thu Jan 05, 2006 at 03:31:23 PM PDT
I’m really stoked about that Hotline piece on Dean, his focus on rebuilding state parties, and the rave reviews he’s getting from the locals.
We wrote in Crashing the Gate, in the chapter titled “Inside the Gate”:
The Democratic Party is in the upswing in the Mountain West and the South, in places like Montana and Virginia, because Democrats there have made a serious effort to compete for votes everywhere, rather than make a nominal effort to be an “also-ran” outside the Democratic-density areas. As [Virginia Gov. Mark] Warner asks, how many more times will the Democrats run presidential campaigns where they abandon thirty-something southern and western states and “launch a national campaign that goes after sixteen states and then hope that we can hit a triple bank shot to get to that seventeenth state?”
In the 1992 and the 1996 presidential elections, with three candidates in the race, as many as thirty states were viewed as competitive battleground contests up through election day. In 2000, that number dropped to just seventeen by election day. In 2004, the number of contested states early in the presidential contest stood at eighteen, and was whittled down to about eight by election day.
This strategy–or more accurately this obsession–that the Democratic establishment in D.C. has with narrowing electoral campaigns to ever shrinking “swing states” is self-defeating. It doesn’t build any new converts to the party, it makes it easier for the Republicans to walk away with huge chunks of the country unchallenged, and it starves the Democratic Parties in those “red” states.
But don’t tell that to Bob Shrum, the über-consultant who lost eight presidential campaigns so far and won zero. Asked by writer Ben Smith in the November 21, 2005, issue of the New York Observer whether he had any regrets about his work on Kerry’s campaign, Shrum responded that had he believed Florida would go for Bush so strongly, “the campaign would have sent more resources–including Mr. Kerry–to Ohio.” One can only hope that Bob Shrum won’t be back in 2008 to run one more Democratic candidate into the ground with his overpriced expertise and a three-state strategy.
Of course, the fruits of this strategy aren’t concentrated on presidential elections. In the book we spend time looking at the House picture as well. But the DNC exists for presidential races. We have the DSCC for the Senate, the DCCC for the House, and the state parties for state offices.
But for too long, these organizations have worked in their silos to the exclusion of the bigger picture. That’s what allowed the DNC to focus primarily on the ever-shrinking number of battleground states to the detriment of House and Senate races elsewhere, in places like Oklahoma and Alaska.
Dean, for the first time, has decided on a more holistic approach. He’s no longer focused on just bolstering the presidential ticket in 2008. Rather, he will go down to the precinct level and build locally. And, over time, this will have effect not just at the local or state level, or at the House or Senate level, but also all the way up the ticket to the top dog him- or herself.
This is exactly the sort of thing we argue for in our book. It’s good to see Dean gets it. The states definitely get it. What’s left is the old rotting establishment — the consultants and party hacks who wish things would go back to the way they were.
What good is Dean if the money the DNC raises ends up back in the states, far from their grubby, greedy palms?
(from dailyKos)
I totally agree, Kristapea. I can’t believe I used to keep NY1 (the local Time Warner newschannel) on all morning before MS. How on earth did I listen to the same “news” every half hour?!?
I briefly (very briefly) listened to Morning Edition the other morning, cuz that’s what hubby had the radio tuned to in the bathroom. At first they were talking about the credit card industry, but next thing you know they were running some “human uninterest” story and I had to turn it off. Who wants to hear that kind of bland crap while getting ready for work?
I once worked with a woman who pined over the end of her relationship with a coworker because he was such a good lover that he’d spoiled her for other men. (She really said that, and more than once.) MS was like that; it raised our standards–and lowered our tolerance for mediocrity. Such a loss!
🙁
Thanks for the comment there Krista…:peace:
I’m gonna try to get some more editing done this weekend…:fire:
Ha!
Take that, Jeb!
:banana:
Republicans! republicans! Killer Corporations! Grover Whorquist! Nuke Gingrich :omg: Has anyone out there read “What’s the Matter with Kansas?’?
I see we got the wonks posting this morning. How did you like Kerry on in Real Time with Rachel this morning?:wink:
Yeah, Citizenkahn, I also had a boyfriend like that. I got GOOD massages just about every night. Pampered like a poodle in a penthouse. How many men LOVE to give massages? Morning Sedition massaged my intellect and my funny bone all at the same time.
Maybe we should start pestering our local radio stations to pick up Marc’s new show.Will that be possible? Or will we just have to catch it online?
John Kerry is dead to me. He wussed out. He’s got a lot of nerve to consider running again in 2008. Maybe the rethugs were right about him. He couldn’t stand up for the democratic process or himself, how can you expect him to stand up to anything else??
Hell with thar War Criminal Sharon!:mad:
Howdy Boat People!
NC, you are SUCH a realist! 😉
Every day I wake up disappointed by the news. NPR is on here. Then Rachael.Nothing captures me. Oh, the inhumanity.
good letter -> Comment by ejp — January 6, 2006 @ 6:57 am
did you see the daily kos piece on the “msm”? I thought it was quite good.
John Kerry,
Show us your balls! Stand up to the bastards! At least Harry Reid will, why not you? If this is the most corrupt government in American History then be a true American. Tell them like it is FROM THE SENATE FLOOR! Accuse the rethugs of their crimes TO THEIR FACES! Demand an investigation into rethug campaign financing. Investigate EVERYTHING! Including the dysfunctional media. Investigate every single incompetent political appointee from the last five years. Investigate the activist conservative judges across the country NOT ruling by law but by ideology.
These people have all but destroyed the greatest democracy on the face of the planet. READ THE CONSTITUTION! This is the most LIBERAL document ever written. Tell the rethugs that and watch them wriggle in pain!
“Time to retire “MSM”
by kos
Thu Jan 05, 2006 at 10:27:52 AM PDT
I’ve recently been on a crusade against the term “mainstream media” or MSM. The fact that it’s a right-wing construct doesn’t help. But the chief reason is that interactive media is now mainstream. In fact, there are tons of blogs and wikis and email lists that have larger readerships than most of the so-called “MSM”. If Daily Kos was a newspaper, it would rank #5 in circulation (it would’ve been #3 last October, in the runup to the election). The top blogs have more readers than most cable news channel shows have viewers. And while their circulation numbers and ratings fall, our numbers continue to grow.”
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more at Daily Kos
Bush is the Real Enemy!:omg:
Shearer does a real one-man radio show — all the voices are his — so I think it can get slow because he doesn’t have anyone else to pace him.
Max Cleland on TRMS now
Great letter, ejp. I think perhaps we all ought to send similar letters. I plan to compose one today, and I’ll post the content when I do.
The Constitution is “the most LIBERAL document ever written”? Boy have you drank the koolaid. Now, the Bill of Rights…:fire:
Shut up, you war pig! Yeah, you Cleland. Wipe out the enemy. Stop being so mainstream, Rachel. This guy is a butt.
?Come on down to my boat, baby,
Come on down where we can… ?
NickiRose, the Bill of Rights is not a single document. It is a series of appendages hung onto the Constitution.
Thanks Farmerkat, I have never paid much mind to the msm. But when I catch the evening news on occasion, I am amazed at the difference in the kinds of stories they cover. They rarely cover any stories you see on news sites and blogs. You’d think you were in 2 different realities. One being a fantasy land of super stars and celebrities, the other being Nazi Germany.
You said that the Constitution is the most liberal document ever written. Bullshit!
Shutup, Cleland. What a fucking idiot!
Nicki,
If you have a more liberal document than the Constitution then trot it out. “The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test” isn’t a document; its a manifesto.
been thinking of writing a letter, too, and will do. Anyone still have the email addresses for the AAR Bored members?
:fire:
:fustrate:
I tried listening to Riley again this morning… half of his show seems to be playing things Rachel is going to talk about later. The soundbites section really falls flat (I wonder what Maron nwould have done with it) and there is no humor or excitement. I found myself turning to CSPAN radio of all things to hear real people.
I hope Maron’s new show starts soon. The waitinf is sooo frustrating!
Bthakir
Under The Lobsterscope.
I don’t think of the US Constitution as liberal or conservative. Just a wonderfully rich dense document expressing all that is good.
Re: John Kerry, Show us your balls!
John Kerry showed us who he was the day he said he would have voted for the resolution to give the president the power to go to war even if he knew there were no WMD. I remember vividly the day Kerry said that. I could feel the air go out of his campaign. I continued to support him and work for him. But, I knew it was over that day.
He thinks he can just pick up and count on us to support him in 2008. As long as he remains tepid in response to the criminal acts of the Bush Regime I don’t want him as our nominee in 2008.
EJP: Thanks for sharing your wonderful letter regarding Morning Sedition. It’s important AAR know how we feel post MS.
I just heard the Dream Diary from March 31,05 and Marc goes through the whole AAR/MS history up til then in it. That might be a good one to archive Jason, anyone.
that’s how it ends, on a movie review…wtf! Wouldn’t you rather end the show with the Liberal Agenda!! :fire:
:rant1:
NC! By koolaid, I was referring to Jim Jones, not Ken Kesey.
I’ll have a look at it Krista, still many shows to go through…..:razz:
John Kerry was on Rachel this morning, was he? Damn, and I missed it. I’d have liked to call in and tell him I want my fucking shoe back.
Plus the hundred bucks I sent him.
I’d like to ask him where the guy in “Going Upriver” went, too. The guy who spoke so eloquently and passionately before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee? The guy who kicked the crap out of John O’Neil on the Dick Cavett show? Now there’s a guy I’d be proud to vote for.
As for my personal relationship with AAR, they made a couple of mistakes. There was a time when I considered AAR to be an absolutely indispensable part of my life. I streamed it at work and at home until it got picked up by XM (I wrote many an e-mail to them). Then when they carried the full monty on Sirius, I made the switch (which cost me some bucks in antennas and other equipment). Got an FM transmitter, and AAR was on every radio in the house – every room – 24/7. I woke up at “six past the hour” to MS, and fell asleep to Malloy at night. When the XM exclusive deal was announced (it wasn’t really announced though – at least not very loudly; another DG’ism, I guess), I went into a panic. I didn’t feel I could get up in the morning without my MS, but I was determined not to switch back to XM. I bought a fairly expensive AM radio and an even more expensive AM antenna in hopes of picking up AAR from either WLIB or from the station in Ithaca. I can get them both at times, but mostly not – and never very well.
When AAR left Sirius, I had some big-time withdrawal. I tried listening to the Sirius Left channel, but they just did not cut it. So, I coped. After a short time, and with the help of the MS podcasts, I got used to it. I found I could live without AAR – at least without it live in the background all day and all night. I’d stream here and there, and do some of the podcasts. The one thing I never, never missed was MS. If it wasn’t up at ten, I’d get the shakes.
Well, now MS is gone. I’ve put the stream on once or twice, but I haven’t downloaded a show in a long time – not since December 16, 2005.
What’s happened is, thanks to DG, AAR is no longer indispensable to me. And that’s the saddest part of it of all.
Well, John Kerry approved enough of Rachel to go on her show. Hmmm… Remember how Marc and Mark did everything possible to get Kerry to come on their show before the election. They even had some of Kerry’s staff on and begged them to convince him to call in to MS. To no avail. This really pisses me off! It makes me wonder who was involved in the decision to sack MS. (BTW Kerry appeared on Franken’s show before the election). Forget Air America Mornings! I have long ago forgotten Al Franken.
I am still extremely pissed off that John Kerry would appear on the first week of Rachel’s Show after refusing to appear on MS for 22 months! I guess the intelligent progressive duo of Marc and Mark wasn’t good enough for John Kerry but he would bust his ass to talk to the racist and sexist Imus at the drop of a hat. Oh, I am angry!
Re: John Kerry
I think that he is much less in demand now then he was during the final pushes of the presidential election. Based on how he could get the maximum exposure on radio, I think Imus would get many more listeners than MS. And while I acknowledge that he watered down his rhetoric and did far too much to appease those that would never vote for him anyway, at some point we have to get over it.
USC should have ran a play-action pass on 4th and 2 and they should haved blitzed from the right on the 4th and 5 play that Texas scored on with 19 seconds left.
As a new year’s resolution, shouldn’t we be talking about what we should do rather than what Kerry should have done in the election?
That is one area that the christo-fascists seem to beat us hands down; they strategize about what to do next while we lament about what we should have done differently.
Wake up :sheep::sheep::sheep:le
Well, Kerry was a crappy candidate that would have been a big improvement over what we have now, but he’d have been hounded by the traditional media and the wingnuts, and probably would never have gotten a chance to do much of anything.
It’s really a damn shame that Al Gore had the 2000 election stolen away. This country would really have taken a much better direction.
Certainly, on technology and the environment, things would be much better now. I think he’d have mitigated the tech and stock market slumps by pushing green technology and development, and he wouldn’t have let Enron write the energy policy. He doesn’t fear science, and from what I hear, his Global Warming presentation is astounding (even impressing Grover Norquist’s bunch).
It’s very arguable that he’d have been paying attention in August, 2001, and he would’ve had Richard Clarke and the FBI “shaking the trees” instead of launching a war on porn. I can pretty much guarantee he wouldn’t have sat for six minutes with a vacant, deer-in-the-headlights look on 11-Sept, at the very least..
Plus he’s smart. When the hell did being smart disqualify you for the presidency?
I misspoke (mistyped) earlier. The Bill of Rights is a single document, the second most liberal document ever written. Without the Constitution – the MOST liberal document ever written – the Bill of Rights would not exist. The Amendments, however, are separate documents but refered to iwht the single appellation. I will try to do better in the future. I owe it to my fellow boat people here on the SS Morning Sedition.
? A three hour tour… ??
The first ten amendments to the US constitution are known collectively as the Bill of Rights. Whether one chooses to call that one document or not is moot. Actually, the US Constitution – as amended – is one document.
Many of the United States’ founders (with the memory of British civil rights abuses still fresh in their minds) believed that, as originally written and ratified, the US Constitution would open the door to tyranny by a strong federal government (sound familiar?). Those who opposed the Constitution as drafted deemed it vital to codify and guarantee a set of basic human rights. This was done when the Bill of Rights was ratified on December 15, 1791
While the U.S. Constitution was a remarkable document for its time (quite arguable the most “liberal” document ever written to that point – really, an attempt to mimic the system of governance that the Haudenosaunee people had – and still have – but of course, they didn’t have a written language; they don’t write it down, and live by it, while we write it down, and then try and figure out a way get around it), it should be noted that Blacks were considered property (counted as 3/5 of a human being for the purpose of representation), and the institution of slavery remained in effect for over a century and a half after the ratification of the Bill of Rights, women did not have the right to vote, and the founder’s didn’t trust the people to elect the president, which is how we wound up with this goofy electoral college nonsense.
Shakespeare’s Sister posts today:
Click on the link above and put in your vote for Marc Maron. If Stewart DOES jump the Daily Show, can you imagine anyone better to host? :nod:
re: john kerry
My negative comments were in response to the news that John Kerry was on the Rachel Maddow Show this morning. I believe it is fair game to criticize John Kerry and evaluate whether we want him to be our nominee in 2008. Because, he sure wants to be.
Authenticity is important in a candidate. Although, I wholeheartedly supported him in 2004, his lack of conviction, I believe, cost him the election. My Bush supporting sister said, “well, at least Bush believes in something.” People can spot a phony. And, I’m sorry to say Kerry has shown us he is a phony. He’s not going to change.
We need to speak up for what we want in a 2008 presidential candidage. Kerry is not who I want.
BTW: Bush is an authentic criminal.
Brilliant: I just went to http://www.shakespearessister.blogspot.com under Thursday’s Question of the Day and suggested Marc as the new host of The Daily Show. Thanks for the tip.
Farmerkat’s two cents on the “three hour tour”:
pj, you have some great ideas penned here today. I’ll add that abortion was a legal practice (albeit not discussed) at the time our Constitution was written.
No. He quit before the votes were counted. I don’t want a quitter. I don’t want Hillary, Sen. MBNA, or any of the other DLC bunch. I want somebody who will stand up and just tell me what they believe in. I don’t have to agree with everything you have to say, just show some guts and take a stand. I’m so sick of this saying what you think 53% of the people want to hear.
Frickin’ Kerry should have attacked the Swift Boat liars, and he should have called out every goddamn chickenhawk who never served. He should have said how disgraceful it was for the Republican delegates to mock the purple hearts of every man and woman who have been wounded in the line of duty.
And he damn well should have said, “no fucking way would I vote to give this madman the power to go to war again.”
me no likes John Kerry. John Kerry took my shoe:!:
:rant1: You know, they took off the :fire: symbol on Maddow’s AAR blog. :no:
I am going through some serious Maron :bow: withdrawal. What the fuck am I going to do? I have been late to work all week! Now AAR makes we want to :barf: I can’t even listen to Randi or Seder anymore. It hurts too much.:-(
When the fuck are we going to hear from Maron again. A one hour show is :crap:. Wake up :sheep::sheep::sheep::sheep::!: We’re in a world of :mad::crap::!: Who’s helping me off the ledge:?::!:
Howard Dean has delivered a FOIA request to the US Department of Justice (signed by me, probably some of you all, and more than 160,000 other Americans) in an attempt to determine just why President Bush believed he had the authority to undermine the Constitution.
Pictures here.
Man, it’s time for me to :tongue: chill.
Dude, got any :bong::?:
Speaking of the allegedly mainstream media, this cartoon (hopefully that link will work…) gives what appears to be the righty view of it. The only thing missing is “truth” saying “Bill Clinton had sex and lied about it.”
I don’t think Marc could do The Daily Show. He’d have to totally change his look. I think he’d be a hell of a correspondent, though, and I could certainly see him subbing for Colbert, but TDS has a whole different feel to it and Marc is far too bohemian in his own delightful way to fit that desk. (I would love to see him with his own “M” shaped desk…he could keep changing which point he sits at…)
Sci Fi Friday, eh? Yup, Battlestar Transgender (I was a fan of the origina…I was young and easily swayed by cute performers then…) is on tonight. Luckily, I have my knitting and my blankie and my puppy and some hot cocoa so I can enjoy it in style. (Yes, I’m serious! :tongue:)
PJ on Kerry: HEAR, HEAR ! Thanks also for the update on Dean’s FOIA request. I signed it, too!
pj, GREAT explanation about the bill of rights and the constitution, a document that I love, but it does have its flaws, as you pointed out so well.
maybe I should have you in for a guest lecture in one my law classes!
fabulous blogging today. thanks to brilliant for the link, where we can vote for marc, which I just did.
pj, my experience with aar was somewhat similar to yours at the beginning, with streaming from the computer and then spending $$$$$ for sirius. after aar went to xm in july i toughed it out a few weeks with streaming and then spent $$$$$ for xm.
i still listen to aar but not with the enthusiasm i once had.
something smells bad at aar. the ownership hired dg and let him get away with what he did to marc and morning sedition.
listen to how riley struggles every morning. i can only last a half hour at most. i try but the show just doesn’t work. riley plus maron was a beautiful thing. riley knew it. he must feel it every morning when he tries to drive the clunky morning show without maron.
i listen to an hour a day of franken, rhodes, seder and malloy. i used to listen to all three hours of all four shows. they all sound as if they’re out singing in the wilderness by themselves to a few listeners who listen to only their shows and nothing else.
i don’t get the feeling of any loyalty or even friendliness among the hosts of the various aar shows. what’s up with that? they don’t even seem to like each other.
i once worked for a big company that laid off 25% of its workforce one friday completely unannounced beforehand. those of us left behind were shell shocked. we were afraid at every moment that it could happen to us. we didn’t trust the management. the team spirit was DEAD.
that’s kinda how aar feels to me now. i listen, yeah, but not very often when compared with a year ago, and not with much enthusiasm.
it feels like dg and a couple of his friends are smiling with all their power while the rest of us are struggling with a ruined landscape, one that dg and his cronies crushed while lol. kinda like what the bushies have done to america.
aar did this to marc. knowingly. just think what kind of ownership/management can do such a thing.
:fustrate:
good post ejp! well said.
sgarcia 70: How are you doing? I know it’s a bummer what has happened at AAR. I thought it was going to be radio for me, but as it turned out it’s heading for more of a mainstream audience. But really, I guess, I don’t know what’s happened. Besides money, it looks like DG is looking to align himself with what he perceives to be the power within the democratic party. I like Seder and Malloy. They seem really honest and straightforward to me. They don’t seem to have an ego thing going on.
OK PJ et.al:
Now that we know who you don’t want and what John Kerry should have done, who do you want to represent the us and what should they do?
I like Wes Clark although I disagree with him on Iraq.
I like Mark Warner’s view on the death penalty.
I like Al Gore but he has stated he won’t run.
P.S. I still think John Kerry would have been a fine president.
Perhaps. But you have to get elected first, and he didn’t have the stomach for it.
For me it’s Feingold or bust.
Comment by isi
Thanks for the concern. I guess many of us express similar feelings. It’s just that Riley is too painful, Maddow is too wonkish, and there’s no one to speak for the commom person now that Maron’s gone. I’ve downloaded $30 worth of Mozart to keep me alive during my morning drive to work. Otherwise, David Lee Roth creeps into my radio, and that is waaaay to painful.
I await the day when I can download Maron’s podcast and listen to him every AM. :fire:
poopy yay i like :fire: poop john kerry stole my shoe ha ha i think im losing my mind i need a fix of ms a fix damn you a fix ok well i guess ill just go do this then
:bow::priest: damn it where is my rapture watch damn it ill keep the light on for ya in hell ha ha ha ha ha i think ive officially lost it i am insane yay ha ha ha ha ha ok well uh later people
im not really insane just big boned
I haven’t picked a candidate, yet. Feingold seems okay. The most exposure I’ve had to him was on Morning Sedition. Harry Reid comes across in a real positive way to me. But, I guess he has no desire to run for president. I did like some points made by Wes Clark during the campaign. I know Howard Dean said he would not run for President in 2008…but? Hillary has been a disappointment. Maybe a leader will emerge soon. I hope. Or maybe I am overlooking someone.
in the vein of grasping for straws for entertaining radio….
i would recommend listening to archives of NPR’s “WAIT WAIT DON’T TELL ME”. Good for a laugh for sure during this dry spell.
It’s a humorous “left of center” quiz show with differing humorists and comedians as contestants.
http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/index.html
Kerry is one of those people who would be a great President but was a shitty candidate. It’s not a good combination for a politician. He’s okay for Massachusetts but not for the nation.
Sean, yeah, I needed a Cartman fix today. 😀
I cannot accept Hillary as a viable candidate. Leaving aside that I’m not sure the “heartland” of America will ever like her, she’s got that “manufactured” feel that Martha Stewart used to have. (These days she feels a lot more commercial, Martha does, but les fake. It’s a weird thing with her…) My more liberal co-workers wish we could see a McCain/Edwards ticket (I still love John Edwards but my hopes for him are fading…actually, I’m more enamored of his wife but that’s another story.) I can’t bring myself to like McCain, but I know what they feel like.
i especially recommend oct.22nd archived show….
Keith Olbermann as a guest was just hilairioushttp://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/archrndwn/2005/oct/051022.waitwait.html!!!
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http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/archrndwn/2005/oct/051022.waitwait.html
Back when McCain had the Straight Talk Express Bus, I thought he was appealing. But, he has been such a disappointment since. Underneath it all he is a Bush person. And, I don’t trust him anymore.
For me it’s Feingold or bust.
Comment by brilliantatbreakfast — January 6, 2006 @ 3:02 pm
Do I have to choose? I like Feingold, but I’m always interested in a nice bust. :rofl2:
I voted for Marc despite not having cable.
Edwards and Feingold are candidates that I could support as well. (There is a whole lot of Hillary bashing going on and some of it is for good reason. I tend to side with Tim Robbins on most issues. On the other hand, both Bill and Hillary are socially left leaning and fiscally conservative.) Although I can find much fault with decisions made during the Clinton presidency, I wouldn’t despair if Bill and Hillary were back in the Whitehouse. There is only one way to get a candidate that agrees with you on every issue and that is to run for office yourself.
Truth be told, I’ll enthusiastically support any candidate that opposes the neocon death cult.
One thing to note is that Bush definitely spoke to the center during the election and has governed from the extreme right. It might not be bad to have a leader that spoke to the center but governed from the progressive end of the spectrum.
Wake up :sheep::sheep::sheep:le, while we lament about the past, the neocons are planning for the future!:fire:
Kevin M, you made me laugh out loud. Thanks.
Keep hope alive:
1. What if everyone here became an AAR Fellow [i.e. donated some bucks] and sent a polite, insistent e- mail to Danny the Boy Wonder like EJP did?
2. Franken’s obviously running, what with his USO tours and tempered remarks, and there’s a possibility he could win election to the senate, which means his noontime show would have to be replaced. Who better than Maron and Earl?
3. There will be a lot of turn over of programming in the next few years anyway, and many more opportunities to bludgeon these useless radio management hacks into doing the right thing.
Plus, I’d buy a satellite radio right now to hear a new MS show, how about you?
Uh-oh. The Dukester wore a wire.
YAY!!! TRAVIS LIVES AGAIN!!!!:banana::alc::banana:
i heard from travis and he says that he’s in recovery from his surgery. but his ear is still killing him and to combat the pain, he’s all hopped up on drugs. as you can imagine, it’s really difficult for him to write and listen to the radio and express his love for MS. but he says he’ll be back soon:nod:
i was so happy to hear from him.:banana::nixon:
you know, everytime i hear Kent Jones in the morning, i keep hoping he’ll spontaneously say, “God loves you…..DEAL WITH IT!!”:priest:
Cresttwo, I had the same thought. A reasonably informed source (who says I can’t name her, nagdabbit!) says that Franken is going to leave the show in late ’07 or early ’08 to campaign full time and she thinks we ought to start nagging for Maron and Earl to replace him sometime next year. I don’t want to wait that long, though.
Well, I guess lunch is over and I have work to do. Later, my blog sibs.
Travis, if you are reading this. I’m sending all kinds of healing energy north to you. Hope it helps, dude…
:fire::fire::fire:
Who would I like to see run for president? Well, setting aside the whole “electability” thing (look how well that worked last time), there are a few names that come to mind.
John Conyers is fantastic, and it would be great to see a person of color (who isn’t a preacher) in the “White” House. Russ Feingold, for sure.
As for ex-senators, I’d give Al Gore a very hard look (especially if it was the Al Gore who came out of hibernation after 2000 to be a passionate voice for what’s right), and I think John Edwards (I keep wanting to write Jonathan Edwards – the “lay around the shanty and put a good buzz on” guy, not the 18th century theologian) has a good heart and a lot of potential (he didn’t want to quit).
Wes Clark has a good resume, and with the experience of 2004, he may be able to run a strong campaign.
Let’s see, Maxine Waters, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Barbara Lee, Cynthia McKinney, Sheila Jackson Lee, Charlie Rangel – hell, I don’t think you can go wrong with anybody in the Congressional Black Congress. Yeah, I know, the Conventional Wisdom would be that they can’t get elected, but fuck it. Look what CW has done for us so far.
Better yet, who would you like to see be president?
I want more :banana: and less:fustrate::doh::mad::rant1:
democrats have to toss out this whole “electability” obsession. it worked once, for bill clinton, and not because of his “electability” but because he’s got unique political instincts and skills.
I would like a candidate who rejects the bob shrums of this world, and,who,like a normal person, has actual beliefs arising from his own gut. someone who will fight –hard– for those beliefs. and for us. I would like a candidate committed to dealing with the death of the manufacturing sector, the assault on health care and pension rights, and the environment. I could go on and on. right now, I don’t know if anyone fits this type of bill. maybe john (“the two americas”) edwards? maybe russ (the only vote against the patriot act) feingold? maybe the newly gutsy al gore? I really don’t know. but we need someone with more than just a good script. we need someone with an actual heart and soul. for a change.
and, as for kerry being ok for mass? this massachusetts resident pines for the kerry who testified against the vietnam war. THAT guy really had heart and soul. wish he could just re-discover his inner john kerry…. until that happens, I won’t support him in 2008.
I should qualify what I meant by Kerry being okay for Massachusetts. I meant that he’s a good man but a shitty campaigner. He doesn’t need to be as good a campaigner to carry Massachusetts. He’s already a known item there. But to carry a race for the White House? He hasn’t got it. He did, true. (When I was in college I had a MASSIVE crush on him from watching his war testimony.) But years of real world crap and being dragged across the coals of publicity has beaten that part of him down and he’s no longer the guy I used to moon over during anti-war rallies…
Yeah, I was a teeny-bopper hippie. I admit it. Now I’m just a hippie. (Too bad we don’t have a tie-dye icon, or a peace sign…hee hee!) :sdavid::bong: :pent::alc:
Oh, some days it IS worth chewing through the leather straps.
House GOP Calls for DeLay Replacement
i heard from travis and he says that he’s in recovery from his surgery. but his ear is still killing him and to combat the pain, he’s all hopped up on drugs.
Comment by quietgirl — January 6, 2006 @ 4:13 pm
Travis on DRUGS??? Say it ain’t so! :bong: 😆
But seriously, dude, if you’re reading this, get well soon and enjoy the buzz in the meantime. :peace:
Thanks, quietgirl, for keeping us posted. 🙂
Who for president in 2008?
I’ll say anyone named in pj’s post, especially Feingold and Conyers. Especially Conyers. Would he want to run, though? He seems to have maybe found his niche as a senior member of the House.
Last time, I campaigned for Dennis Kucinich, and I still think he’d make a hell of a president. Unfortunately, unless he magically becomes about six inches taller, the MSM won’t take him seriously, and such a growth spurt at his age seems unlikely.
How about some female candidates? Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi come to mind immediately. Maria Cantwell is less visible and more centrist, but has shown some encouraging signs lately.
I’m going to stop now before I name every Democrat to the left of Lieberman. Feingold seems to be showing the most ambition at this point, though.
Grover WhorQuist! Frogmarch that weaselly con!:omg:
Hang the last bureaucrat with the guts of the last predatory capitalist.:banana:
Maria Cantwell is awesome. I worked on her first campaign (then I moved to Oregon. Go figure…) But she’s still an unknown in many ways. I’ve been thinking Obama would be a good VP candidate because everyone knows who he is so even though he’s a first term senator he’d be a good choice. Cantwell needs to get her face out there a little more before she’d be a viable candidate. But, yeah, she’d be wonderful.
Truce on the Constitution, NC.
Good summary on Constitution, pj.
Has anyone out there read Charles Beard’s critique of the Constitution?
While in college, I had a professor who wrote a book which was highly critical of the Founding Fathers. Jerry Fresia: Toward an American Revolution. Fresia made connections with the “rights of property” which the Constitution guarantees, with activities of the CIA to expand markets overseas. (The CIA ” economic hitman” book [and author] also gives examples of the sort of activity that the Constitution protects.) Philip Agee, ex-CIA agent, read Fresia’s book, and then started bringing it on speaking tours because it supported his anti-CIA schtick.:peace:
i don’t think the democrats can win a presidential election because the republicans have perfected the art of stealing 10% of the vote in selected precincts. it’s all they need. 👿
we’re screwed, friends. 😡
Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers
Somebody’s idea of a joke? Or is this just one of those unintentional looks into the heart of the Wal-Mart corporation?
:mad::omg::no::doh::eek::barf::crap::fustrate::-(
When is Maron coming back:?::!::?::!::?:
:fire:
:billcat:
http://savethisdemocracy.blogspot.com/
Man! Busy blog today. I think I’ll order a pizza while i catch up!
“republicans [sic] have perfected the art of stealing 510 of the vote….
We’re screwed as long as the Dems allow them to get away with stealing votes. :40:
Think thousands of people in the streets demanding “Smash the machines …count all of the votes in Florida… Ohio. Visualize genuine Democrat candidates.
I could go for Feingold.I really love Barbara Boxer and i will be super disappointed if I am forced to choose Sen. Hillary Clinton. Although it would be great to have Bill’s influence back in the WH. But the corporate thing really bothers me. I wish Kucinich had a better chance. Maybe, though. It seems like people are pretty disgruntled with the whole system at this point and maybe if some independant came across well enough then maybe they’d win. That would be interesting!:nod:
Yes! Smash the machines!!! Marc Crispin Miller was on Charles Goyette’s show and informed us here in Phoenix that our Secretary of State, Jan Brewer, has approved of Diebold touch screen machines in a last minute, sneaky, underhanded manuever. If I didn’t have to work I would have gone to the capitol to protest at her announcing her candidacy yesterday.:blech:
Yeah, Marc is too bohemian to do the daily show, he’d have to get clean cut again and I think he looks better scruffy 😉
I’m with ya on the jammy thing Gypsy! I got into them as soon as I got home.
So, I need some help with an idea I have. I scored this huge hunk of styrofome from my job today(and I should be able to get more)And it’s in the shape of a triangle and I wanna make a gigantic protest hat or head that I would wear to future protests. I was, of course think a Bush head or a cowboy hat but maybe I should be more topical. Any ideas you creative Seditionists?
:sheep::sheep::priest::sheep::sheep:
Fuck Sharon! He is one gangstering bastard!:omg:
Fuckers.
Yeah I just heard that PJ. Unbelievable.
:omg::omg:Shutup, George!:sheep::sheep:
I’d rather have commercials–or something–Mike. “Rip your eyeballs out” elevator music.:omg:
:fustrate::fustrate:
I need to go to work. Much art to do. Circulate those tapes!:nixon:
I just went to the ERA site and downloaded a copy of the Constitution.:bow:
(Is Maureen Dowd really that foxy?) :jesus:Tapes!
Al Franken Show. Christy Harvey is on. A repeat. Go to work, fool!:billcat::billcat::40::omg::fire::fire: George Bush doesn’t understand! Ellen S…
“Weekends With Maury and Connie”, the new MSNBC show that Lizz Winstead is executive-producing and writing, will debut Saturday, Jan. 7. It will air at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Eastern.
I will listen on my XM. Can Lizz make the pair funny?
Maury and Connie are already funny–in spite of themselves:yawn::omg:
:razz::wink: I thought there was a Johnny K Street icon.
Circulate those tapes:jesus:
Damn! I am the only one on the blog:omg::sdavid::peace: