Midweek Politics 08.23.2006 - Deval Patrick, gay marriage, 2006 & 2008 elections

[dpakman91]

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:

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

Total Running Time: 58:28

This Week's Topics:

--Deval Patrick, Democratic candidate for Massachusetts governor in 2006 joins us from his campaign headquarters.

--Andrew Varnon from the Valley Advocate sits in on the show.

--What is so pro-family about being anti-gay-marriage? Also, why do the states with the most same-sex couples have the least divorces?

--George W. Bush says, in plain English, that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the events of 9/11.

--Rush Limbaugh believes we should question the patriotism of those who questions George W. Bush.

--Citing no one, Joe Scarborough claims that "[s]ome Democrats" have suggested British terror plot "was just some ploy by the Republicans ... to justify their actions in the war on terror."

--Pat Buchanan on his new anti-Mexican, pro-white book tour...and for some reason, he's all of a sudden defending Jews, which is a marked change from the past, but why?

--Tucker Carlson claims that Hillary Clinton "bulldozes everybody" because there are "so few men" in the Democratic party.

--We discuss the 2006 and 2008 elections, including who we already know can and can't win, whether John Kerry and Al Gore should run again, and more.

Note: We apologize for somewhat distorted audio this week. We are working to fix the problem in time for next week's show.

Download Link: Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 08.23.2006 - Midweek Politics Radio with David Pakman

[dpakman91]

Patrick was a pretty good interview, he's very quick on his feet. I also did record the Perez Hilton interview today, but we are saving it for another show. Honestly, it wasn't that great...

[motivez]

Doin homework ATM, will probably listen to it tommorow since it's pretty late

[6SpeedTA95]

I'll try to hit this up tomorrow throughout the day

[motivez]

Listening now!

[motivez]

Highest divorce rates = red states
Lowest divorce rates = blue states

That's an interesting statistic, especially when you combine what you said about the states with the most same sex couples are blue states.

[motivez]

So true about them trying to use the one divorce from MA as some sort of proof that gay marriage can't work.. when the majority of marriages end in divorce and failure.

[motivez]

suiciders

[motivez]

That was such a great clip, nice to see reporters standing up and asking questions and rebutting his assertions..

[motivez]

Oh, god.. Rush called him Ned Lament. And here I was thinking b2w came up with that

[motivez]

Rush wants to link disagreement with a lack of patriotism. And that guy is completely right. When you have to resort to things like that, it's because you have no argument to refute the other position.

[motivez]

I like how they just go along with the accusation that's not based up with any facts..

[dpakman91]

thoughts on Deval Patrick?

[motivez]

Had to take a break to eat and watch a little tv

Finishing up now

[motivez]

I agree with this guys assessment of Buchannan though. Immigration is a convenient issue to help make him relevant again.

[motivez]

This Deval guy seems pretty straight forward guy, I like what he's talking about.

He's saying what I think a lot of people are thinking, they might have some decent ideas, but they can't execute them very well.

[motivez]

"We cannot Govern by soundbyte and slogan and photo-op. We've gotta be about the long lasting, meaningful reform that is implemented over time and that sticks."



I'd vote for that man.

[motivez]

You make an excellent point. They're choosing someone else. Lieberman doesn't have some right to be re-elected.

[motivez]

I dont like Tucker Carlson. He got rid of his bow tie too, wtf.

[motivez]

Good show this week man. The audio was way better than last week, dunno what you're talking about as far as problems

I'm looking forward to the other interviews you hinted at though