So there's some sort of rumor flying about in Washington that President Bush is considering appointing Senator Joe "I lost Florida" Lieberman to be Secretary of Defense (or at least, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) treated it as a serious possibility in his appearance on Air America today.
If Lieberman would even consider this appointment, I consider him a traitor to his party. We have no reason to think he'd be a good Sec'y of Defense and it would just hand the Republicans an opportunity to have a high profile Democrat to receive populist anger against the war.
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Air America & Mark Maron
Air America has grown in the year and a half it's been on from airing on 15 stations to some 84 stations across the country. Its shows are beating right-wing talk shows in many many markets.
Here in Sacramento, Air America started out on Talk City am1240 and then grew so popular that it outgrew its bandwith and moved to am 1320, now christened "Sacramento's left station." But Talk City did so well with leftwing talk that it stayed "Sacramento's progressive station" so now we have two progressive talk radio stations in Sacramento instead of none--great stuff.
The growth of progressive talk radio is easy to explain. The real appeal of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly is populist. But how can you get a good populist rant against a federal government run by people you totally supported and helped elect? Answer: you can't.
What's gonna be your rant? It's like John Stewart said when covering last year's Republican convention, "after 4 years of controlling the white house, the Congress and the federal judiciary, we're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it any more!" It doesn't work.
If Kerry had been elected, Air America might not be sitting so pretty, but no conspiracy theories here.
My one beef against Air America is that they've apparently fired "Morning Sedition" (weekdays from 6-9am) host Mark Maron. He is in his last days on the air. In my opinion, that show is fantastic--very funny and informative. Mostly funny. It has a lot in common with the daily show, only more like classic drive-time radio buddy stuff. I enjoy interviews with their reporter from "Planet Bush," and the daily faxed "Marching orders from the Streisand Compound" especially.
If you too will miss Mark Maron, or if you just want to make me happy. Call or write Air America at the email and numbers below and urge them to reconsider this decision.
1-866-303-2270 sedition@airamericaradio.com
Here in Sacramento, Air America started out on Talk City am1240 and then grew so popular that it outgrew its bandwith and moved to am 1320, now christened "Sacramento's left station." But Talk City did so well with leftwing talk that it stayed "Sacramento's progressive station" so now we have two progressive talk radio stations in Sacramento instead of none--great stuff.
The growth of progressive talk radio is easy to explain. The real appeal of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly is populist. But how can you get a good populist rant against a federal government run by people you totally supported and helped elect? Answer: you can't.
What's gonna be your rant? It's like John Stewart said when covering last year's Republican convention, "after 4 years of controlling the white house, the Congress and the federal judiciary, we're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it any more!" It doesn't work.
If Kerry had been elected, Air America might not be sitting so pretty, but no conspiracy theories here.
My one beef against Air America is that they've apparently fired "Morning Sedition" (weekdays from 6-9am) host Mark Maron. He is in his last days on the air. In my opinion, that show is fantastic--very funny and informative. Mostly funny. It has a lot in common with the daily show, only more like classic drive-time radio buddy stuff. I enjoy interviews with their reporter from "Planet Bush," and the daily faxed "Marching orders from the Streisand Compound" especially.
If you too will miss Mark Maron, or if you just want to make me happy. Call or write Air America at the email and numbers below and urge them to reconsider this decision.
1-866-303-2270 sedition@airamericaradio.com
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
The Trial Lawyers Get Smart
The Consumer Attorneys of California, as they are known to me, or "trial lawyers" as they are known to the world, finally got smart enough to start doing some affirmative public relations for the civil justice system.
And they enlisted two of my favorite people in the world to get the job done: my husband, Bill Magavern, and my close friend, Anne Bloom.
If you go to their website Protect Civil Justice, you can click on these wonderful 30 second spots that have running across the state and see Bill and Anne speaking from the heart about the importance of our civil justice system.
Too late for some of us, the trial lawyers in California have woken up to realize that the organized campaign against our civil justice system has worked. People across the country have gone to the polls and voted to abridge or give up their Seventh Amendment constitutional right to a jury trial.
This ad campaign shows the folly of that kind of thinking and how the civil justice system protects us all. Plus Bill and Anne look really cute on screen...
And they enlisted two of my favorite people in the world to get the job done: my husband, Bill Magavern, and my close friend, Anne Bloom.
If you go to their website Protect Civil Justice, you can click on these wonderful 30 second spots that have running across the state and see Bill and Anne speaking from the heart about the importance of our civil justice system.
Too late for some of us, the trial lawyers in California have woken up to realize that the organized campaign against our civil justice system has worked. People across the country have gone to the polls and voted to abridge or give up their Seventh Amendment constitutional right to a jury trial.
This ad campaign shows the folly of that kind of thinking and how the civil justice system protects us all. Plus Bill and Anne look really cute on screen...
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