Midweek Politics - 09.13.2006 - 9/11 & Iraq, Larry King loses it, Fred Phelps, more..

dpakman91 · 09-13-2006, 08:47 PM

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 56:13

This Week's Topics:

--Amanda Terkel from the Center for American Progress joins us in a discussion of the "war on terror," the politicizing of 9/11, and related topics.

--Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church and the "God Hates Fags" group attacks, of all people, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

--Listener emails and complaints.

--A listener-requested replay of Willie Wilson's anti-gay tirade.

--Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday Night Football.

--Larry King confuses Andre Agassi and Pancho Gonzalez.

--Local weatherman freaking out over a roach on his shoe...twice.

--A new poll says 43% of Americans still believe Saddam Hussein had a direct role in the events of 9/11.

--The bizarre interview of George W. Bush by Matt Lauer.

--George W. Bush tells Katie Couric that it's difficult for him to "connect Iraq to the war on terror."

--Howard Dean flies through an interview with Chris Wallace, this time without creating any negative sound bytes.

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Scrum · 09-13-2006, 11:52 PM

Listening now.

Scrum · 09-14-2006, 12:05 AM

Originally Posted by dpakman91

--The bizarre interview of George W. Bush by Matt Lauer.

Holy crap, this is the first time I've heard this.

dpakman91 · 09-14-2006, 12:07 AM

Originally Posted by Scrumtralecent

Holy crap, this is the first time I've heard this.

yeah you have to see that video once you get a chance

Scrum · 09-14-2006, 12:09 AM

Originally Posted by dpakman91

yeah you have to see that video once you get a chance

That was the best interview I have heard from Bush. He managed to spit out his rhetoric and dodge questions very quickly.

Not so much in the Couric interview.

dpakman91 · 09-14-2006, 12:24 AM

Originally Posted by Scrumtralecent

That was the best interview I have heard from Bush. He managed to spit out his rhetoric and dodge questions very quickly.

Not so much in the Couric interview.

yeah bush did honestly look and sounds good in that interview, regardless of whether you agree with the content of what he's saying.

Scrum · 09-14-2006, 12:36 AM

Phelps is a piece of shit.

beez · 09-14-2006, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by dpakman91

yeah bush did honestly look and sounds good in that interview, regardless of whether you agree with the content of what he's saying.

I saw it on YouTube yesterday and was impressed with the way Bush handled it.

DosEquis · 09-14-2006, 01:09 PM

Bush's interview was just... ugh. That man just frustrates me.

JaJae · 09-14-2006, 01:48 PM

I think the person who said "How about getting more Republicans" or whatever may have been eluding to the liberal bias of your show morseo than the breakdown of Democrats vs Conservatives who disagree with the Administration.

dpakman91 · 09-14-2006, 02:24 PM

Originally Posted by JaJae

I think the person who said "How about getting more Republicans" or whatever may have been eluding to the liberal bias of your show morseo than the breakdown of Democrats vs Conservatives who disagree with the Administration.

I don't think that was the gist of that email.

JaJae · 09-14-2006, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by dpakman91

I don't think that was the gist of that email.

Well I didn't get the e-mail. But it kinda came off to me as someone writing a letter to Rush and saying "Get more liberal people on your show" aka get more liberal ideaology.

I think the same was what was intended by that e-mail.

Your show is great, but even in your response to him you tried to make it seem like your show is fairly centrist, yet it's pretty far from it. I think his e-mail was in response to the bias of your show and his desire to express you show get a little more "conservative" views on it.

I'm not putting down your show in any way. You're entitled to have a left leaning political talk show. In fact it's quite pretty good. Actually it's pretty damn good. But when you show partisanship to one side you're always gonna get people who are gonna suggest you even out the playing field.

DosEquis · 09-14-2006, 02:36 PM

I see the lady kind of faulted the media coverage when it came to some democrats making idiots of themselves. I guess i dont know a fair way to cover some of the things that they have said. When you say dumb shit like "the hardest part of my presidency is convincing people Iraq and the war on terror are related" ... granted that was the president this time.. but how else do you cover that? I mean they act like its not fair when the media reports on them being idiots.

When the code pink lady is arrested, how can you cover that and remove her foolishness. People like her are tied to the democratic party and it makes reasonable democrats look like morons via guilt by association. It cost the election in 2004 and it is the lone reason why democrats do not have a substantial lead going in to 2006 and 2008.

I think reasonable and smart people can see the difference, but when you have 43% of the population still believing Iraq was behind 9/11.... i dont think we have many reasonable people in our country anymore.

dpakman91 · 09-14-2006, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by DosEquis

I see the lady kind of faulted the media coverage when it came to some democrats making idiots of themselves. I guess i dont know a fair way to cover some of the things that they have said. When you say dumb shit like "the hardest part of my presidency is convincing people Iraq and the war on terror are related" ... granted that was the president this time.. but how else do you cover that? I mean they act like its not fair when the media reports on them being idiots.

When the code pink lady is arrested, how can you cover that and remove her foolishness. People like her are tied to the democratic party and it makes reasonable democrats look like morons via guilt by association. It cost the election in 2004 and it is the lone reason why democrats do not have a substantial lead going in to 2006 and 2008.

I think reasonable and smart people can see the difference, but when you have 43% of the population still believing Iraq was behind 9/11.... i dont think we have many reasonable people in our country anymore.

Right, the assumption of logical conclusions being drawn and analyses being made as a safeguard is no longer something that can be relied upon.

DosEquis · 09-14-2006, 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by dpakman91

Right, the assumption of logical conclusions being drawn and analyses being made as a safeguard is no longer something that can be relied upon.

The problem, and I have yet to figure out why.. is that when liberals act up it has a reaction which is 10x greater in negative affect than when conservatives act up.

Its like... the illegal wire tap thing was covered for the same time as howard dean going yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwh!!!!!

Personally i think there is a substantial difference between yaaawh and unconstitutional spying.