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.

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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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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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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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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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