aThis Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman
Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Total Running Time: 56:24
This Week's Topics:
--Leave us voicemail for the show at our new number, 1-877-363-0947, open 24 hours a day!
--Barack Obama gets the delegates he needs to secure the Democratic nomination for President, but Hillary Clinton still won't concede.
--The recent iCap bill proposed by Massachusetts congressman Ed Markey, as well as the Climate Security Act from the Senator, and reaction to it.
--More on the controversial Scott McClellan book, including a bunch of stuff Scott himself said, including that Karl Rove should have been fired for his involvement in the Valerie Plame case.
--One journalist calls McClellan naive for believing the President Bush would be a uniter.
--A CNN correspondent says there was pressure from news executives to make George W. Bush look good during the leadup to the war.
--Bill O'Reilly's interview with McClellan about the book.
--Dick Cheney's bad joke about incest in West Virginia, and of course the apology that always follows it up.
--Obama's statement about being the nominee, and comments about whether the Democratic Party is divided.
--Harold Ford's comments about Cindy McCain's wealth, and the recent McCain speech, which he thought was simply great. Then we actually listen to some of the McCain speech.
--More typical talk of Hillary being a bitch and Obama only doing well because he's black.
--Accusations that it's the Democratic Party that is racist and sexist.
--John McCain gets caught off guard about his ties to lobbyists by Chris Wallace.
--Much more...
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