This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman
May 20th, 2009
Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Total Running Time: 58:55
This Week's Topics:
--Tom Rossmassler from HAPHousing and Sagecoach Enterprises joins us live to discuss green building, green jobs, alternative energy, and more.
--A strange trip to Chicago and the suburbs, including sinners and more.
--The controversy with Barack Obama, abortion, and the Notre Dame commencement speech, and the always necessary comaprison to Nazis.
--John Boehner's orange color.
--We discuss the decision not to release torture photographs.
--Dick Cheney is no longer at undisclosed secure locations as his press tour continues, and he continues to say President Obama is making the US less safe.
--Some say that not only were waterboarding and other techniques not authorizes, but that they were not even necessary or effective.
--The confusion over what Nancy Pelosi knew, when she knew it, and whether she lied about it.
--Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has one of the most entertaining media tours in a while, arguing with Sean Hannity, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and the Fox and Friends crew about torture and waterboarding.
--New fuel efficiency standards by 2016 will require over 35 miles per gallon for cars and light trucks. We talk about how this will affect automakers, the economy, and more.
--From conflict diamonds to conflict cell phones, including a recent campaign about conflict minerals from the Congo being used in cell phones to make them vibrate.
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