Midweek Politics 11.08.2006 - Elections results, obviously!

[dpakman91]

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

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

Total Running Time: 55:16

This Week's Topics:

--Election results, House, Senate, and Governors.

--The new majority for Democrats in the House, and what we believe will be the Senate as well, and the controversial races coming down to the last minute.

--Nancy Pelosi to become the next speaker of the House, and the first woman to hold the position.

--Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld resigns, and will be replaced by former CIA chief Robert Gates.

--Is phone jamming a legitimate election time technique?

--Was George W. Bush totally forthcoming on the topic of Donald Rumsfeld during an interview with White House reporters one week before the election?

--A 95-year-old woman calls 911 in order to vote.

--Saddam found guilty and sentenced to hanging...did it affect the election?

--New York City makes gender a personal choice.

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[DosEquis]

Greta on fox bothers me as much as that man voice whore on msnbc. I will watch hannity just to get a good chuckle. Occasionally I'll watch Bill Orly.

The only one i really try to catch frequently is Hardball.

[DosEquis]

Have you ever thought of having a section of your show for calls from the public? Like say, the last ten minutes or something and pick a subject to let people call in?

Or are there to many concerns for things like profanity?

[dpakman91]

Originally Posted by DosEquis

Have you ever thought of having a section of your show for calls from the public? Like say, the last ten minutes or something and pick a subject to let people call in?

Or are there to many concerns for things like profanity?

nah not a concern at all, the only trouble is this:

1.) every other week, the show isn't live (as in this week), so those week's, we can't.)

2.) when the show IS live, it's only on my LOCAL affiliate, as the other stations play it later on after it's made available to them.

3.) Given that calls would be limited to my local affiliate, that reduces the call pool. In addition, we seem to have had the problem of people calling but not wanting to be on the air and simply having some kind of comment for us specifically. Kind of a pain to handle as the phone does ring as we do the show.

In any event, I do want to bring in more listener phone calls.

[ballz2wallz]

Bravo to you; I don't see one mention of another radio show host!!! I only see topics which you cover, and it's lovely! If you play the clips or mention the other people in your talk, that's totally fine, but it looks much better the way you have it written out David. Good job.

[dpakman91]

Originally Posted by ballz2wallz

Bravo to you; I don't see one mention of another radio show host!!! I only see topics which you cover, and it's lovely! If you play the clips or mention the other people in your talk, that's totally fine, but it looks much better the way you have it written out David. Good job.

thanks, somewhat intentional, but we also really didn't play much or almost anything from other people this week i think since it was mostly election results, but i agree your idea was good.