2011-01-29-samantha-clemens.Mp3

Guest:

2011-01-22-samantha-clemens.Mp3

Guest: Jim Champy, co-author of Reengineering Health Care

Topics:

• Keith Olberman leaving MSNBC – why? Comcast? ratings? egos? What’s next for MSNBC? for Olberman? Your thoughts?
• What else can we do about healthcare – well – we do know there are a million things that can be done to make it more efficient and cost less – we’ll talk with Jim Champy who has worked with hospitals to reengineer their processes and SAVE money. Is this something we can all agree on?
• Healthcare bill – ok, ok; they did the vote to repeal healthcare which meant nothing. But, they’re really going to defund it. Tie it up in courts. Is this really what the public wants??

2011-01-15-samantha-clemens.Mp3

Guest: David Bernstein, Boston Phoenix

So, why did liberals so quickly conclude that Loughner was a right-wing nut and the shooting was a political assassination?

Was it, perhaps, because there has been a series of such events in the last two years?

Is it because the right-wing media has grown ever more inflammatory?

Is it because the line between the right-wing media and right-wing politicians has blurred?

Is it because death threats against the President of the United States have significantly increased since Obama took office?

Is it because the metaphors used in political speech, especially by the right-wing, has evolved from sports to military and hunting?

Consider this (from Crooks and Liars):

…what’s equally undeniable is that it comes amid a gradually mounting litany of violence directed against “liberal” and government targets, effectively suggesting a fresh onset of domestic terrorism from the extremist American Right.

They go on to list a series of events, beginning with these:

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2011-01-08-samantha-clemens.Mp3

Guests:
Tony Schinella, Politizine.com
Richard Kazimer, media veteran
Steve Meacham, City Life/VidaUrbana

Tony and Richard join us to talk about:

– Republican strategy with the new congress re debt ceiling, spending cuts,

– reading of the constitution and leaving out the slavery unpleasantness,

– Daley nomination and what it means for banking regulation,

– should Dems get on board with Obama or not? What should the Dem strategy be for next two years…

Steve Meacham joins us to talk about City Life/Vida Urbana street action next week to keep people in their houses when the banks are foreclosing.