This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / October 21st, 2009
Total Running Time: 58:30
This Week's Topics:
--New television affiliates in Easthampton, MA, Goffstown, NH, and Newport, VT.
--Dr Joseph Chambers, author of The Masterpiece - God's Unfolding Revelation joins us live to talk about how we are getting close to the end of time, whether Jews are going to hell, and much more.
--The balloon stunt, Heene Hoax, Balloon Boy Hoax, etc in Fort Collins, Colorado, including media coverage, whether the Heene's are fit to be parents, when it became obvious it was a hoax, and more.
--Clips of the Heene mom from a previous reality TV show saying her family came from aliens.
--The current healthcare reform plan eliminates restriction on pre-existing conditions, except obesity, and we look at why that may, in effect, be the same as a pre-existing condition clause.
--Senator Kyl doubts that anyone in the US dies from lack of health insurance, even with a recently released poll saying about 45,000 people year do.
--New Democrat Arlen Specter is upset that Republicans simply are not cooperating on healthcare.
--Looking at continued public support for a public option, most recently at 57 percent and higher.
--Recent Fox News specials, one involving Glenn Beck and a hand-picked audience of anti-public option doctors, and a recent segment promoting a global warming movie that suggests it would be nice if the Earth warmed by a few degrees.
--Following up on the White House criticism of Fox News, including with Obama advisor David Axelrod.
--Rush Limbaugh is gone from the group of people interested in buying the St Louis NFL team, while Ann Coulter says players would rather play for Rush than for a Nazi collaborator, whom she says was also in the buying group.
--Numerous racist incidents, including an Illinois high school teacher warning his students that tax money may go to what he called black fags in New York City.
--Another racist incident where Louisiana justice of the peace Keith Bardwell refused to marry an interracial couple, something he says is par for the course for him.
--South Carolina Republicans refer to penny-pinching Jews in what they thought was a compliment to Jews and a defense of Senator Jim DeMint's comments.
--Liz Cheney's Keep America Safe ad, which alleges that MSNBC hosts are afraid to have her on, even though she has been on their programs countless times.
--One and two years ago today on Midweek Politics.
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Midweek Politics with David Pakman 10-21-2009
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