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"Guest Hosting (Friday) for Mike Malloy!"

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COMMENT #1 [Permalink]

... Orangutan. said on 7/24/2009 @ 3:32 pm PT...





Damn I wish you'd discuss the issues of election fraud, anthrax attacks, 9/11 facts and contradictions, the federal reserve banking system and its history of privacy. Richard Gage would make for an excellent guest.

COMMENT #2 [Permalink]

... Floridiot said on 7/24/2009 @ 3:45 pm PT...





Damn, they're going to have the right winger on the show again

COMMENT #3 [Permalink]

... Brad Friedman said on 7/24/2009 @ 4:07 pm PT...





Whose that, Flo? Me? Orangutan - We hit election reform last night, but can't cover everything when I only get a few hours, every now and again, on the air at all. Nonetheless, trying to leave LOTS of room for calls tonight, so feel free to call in!

COMMENT #4 [Permalink]

... Floridiot said on 7/24/2009 @ 5:13 pm PT...





I heard that. Sum dood called you a wingnut, I LMAO

COMMENT #5 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 5:32 pm PT...





News Flash: Mullen tells al-Jazeera that we don't go into sovereign countries: http://www.dailytimes.co...%5Cstory_24-7-2009_pg1_4 That's a relief, now isn't it?

COMMENT #6 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 5:40 pm PT...





And, how about the status of Obama's first successful coup? http://english.aljazeera...2009724201243433147.html

COMMENT #7 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 5:45 pm PT...





Or his having turned Bagram in to the latest black hole of brutalization for detainees? http://www.washingtonpos.../15/AR2009071503156.html

COMMENT #8 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 5:48 pm PT...





Or putting a Monsanto exec in charge of food safety at FDA: http://www.grist.org/art...-08-monsanto-FDA-taylor/

COMMENT #9 [Permalink]

... Brad Friedman said on 7/24/2009 @ 5:52 pm PT...





Flo said: I heard that. Sum dood called you a wingnut, I LMAO Hope he calls in tonight! I wants to hear from the wingnuts of all wings tonight!

COMMENT #10 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 5:58 pm PT...





And we don't want these stinking wars, but, pfeh, since when did that matter? http://news.antiwar.com/...-in-us-oppose-both-wars/

COMMENT #11 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:06 pm PT...





Who is "Glenn Greenwald"?

COMMENT #12 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:07 pm PT...





Is that with one "N" or two? I'm googling him, to see who he is.

COMMENT #13 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:08 pm PT...





Greg Palast - who's that? I'm "googling" him right now...

COMMENT #14 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:08 pm PT...





Gos! Did you hear that? Call in and hold Brad accountable!

COMMENT #15 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:08 pm PT...





What does "accountable" mean? I'm googling that word...

COMMENT #16 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:12 pm PT...





It says Greg Palast plays centerfield for the Dodgers. Ask Glenn Greenwald if he's ever seen this: The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlyb1Bx9Ic

COMMENT #17 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:13 pm PT...





Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the "liberal media." Instead, utilizing a systematic model based on massive empirical research, they reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be described as that of "elite propaganda."

COMMENT #18 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:18 pm PT...





I love this picture, "Mike Malloy - see ya in HELL!" http://3.bp.blogspot.com...MjQ/s320/mike-malloy.gif

COMMENT #19 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:20 pm PT...





Glenn Greenwald ROCKS AND ROCKS AND ROCKS!

COMMENT #20 [Permalink]

... Jeannie Dean said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:22 pm PT...





...oh I can't wait! GREAT debate last week between Glenn and the one who shall not be named. I think it was Soul Rebel who commented that it should be a career ending exchange for T*dd, and I whole-heartedly agree.

COMMENT #21 [Permalink]

... Jeannie Dean said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:25 pm PT...





On second thought - since Dobbs went crazy-bat-sticks on CNN and he's still got a job, it'll probably take more than just a complete lack of a moral center and journalistic integrity to remove that ass-clown from the airwaves.

COMMENT #22 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:29 pm PT...





BRAD! YOU BETTER NOT DROP HIM AGAIN OR I'M GOING POSTAL!

COMMENT #23 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:34 pm PT...





The only guys as sexy as environmentalist loggers are lawyers with morals..... Yeah!

COMMENT #24 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:42 pm PT...





Dobbs: I can't figure him out. He talked about outsourcing and e-vote machines...and then, well, I don't know...

COMMENT #25 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:43 pm PT...





YES! Ninth year of the * administration. Just so.

COMMENT #26 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:43 pm PT...





George Bush "kept us safe": 9/11, 3,000 people dead! That's "safe"???

COMMENT #27 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:44 pm PT...





Just don't tell them what you plan to do!

COMMENT #28 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:47 pm PT...





What about the Rabbi's arrested in New Jersey? That's a huge story.

COMMENT #29 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:50 pm PT...





I feel so much better about using certified and screened psychics....

COMMENT #30 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:51 pm PT...





Were they money-laundering, Danny? What were they doing?

COMMENT #31 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:52 pm PT...





Frickin' CAR SALESMAN now... sheesh....

COMMENT #32 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:54 pm PT...





Human organ trafficking: The case began with bank fraud charges against a member of an insular Syrian Jewish enclave centered in a seaside town. But when that man became a federal informant and posed as a crooked real estate developer offering cash bribes to obtain government approvals, it mushroomed into a political scandal that could rival any of the most explosive and sleazy episodes in New Jersey’s recent past. It was replete with tales of the illegal sales of human organs; of furtive negotiations in diners and parking lots; of nervous jokes about “patting down’’ a man who turned out to indeed be an informant; and, again and again, of the passing of cash - once in a box of Apple Jacks cereal stuffed with $97,000. http://www.boston.com/ne...sted_in_corruption_case/

COMMENT #33 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:56 pm PT...





"Three New Jersey mayors and several rabbis were arrested on Thursday in a sweeping federal investigation into political corruption that also uncovered human kidney sales and money laundering from Brooklyn to Israel"

COMMENT #34 [Permalink]

... PJBurke said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:57 pm PT...





The lawyer for the goat (he --- the lawyer, not the goat --- lives down the hall) says his client wants flowers, chocolates, and dinner... same time, same place next Wednesday?

COMMENT #35 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 6:57 pm PT...





Israel has a high demand and low donor rate for human organs.

COMMENT #36 [Permalink]

... Jeannie Dean said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:02 pm PT...





Big Dan (#24)~ I know! I'm confounded, too. But I have noticed that Lou's odd behavior does seem to fit a bewildering pattern I've noticed from a lot of libertarian-like folks since Ron Paul sort of "disavowed" his own presidential prospects. Like Lou, RP folks were all over how easy it was to manipulate elections, 'member? Astute, hyper-aware people who knew when they were being lied to, understood how to wrangle the forces of internet and organize for the greater good. Then suddenly they seemed to go all "birther-borderline-racist-whacko' overnight. I've had to remove myself from a LOT of their mailing lists. Weird - we used to share a strong, common desire to see the Bill of Rights preserved and upheld, and the rest we could agree to disagree on. Now they tend to watch, and AGREE with Blechy Glenn. I'm mortified.

COMMENT #37 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:03 pm PT...





Okay. Right. I read about the organ trafficking, but thought the rabbi thing was separate. This world is turning into one of those post-apocalypse movies, isn't it?

COMMENT #38 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:07 pm PT...





His Bradness --- quoth Peter B --- is bradcasting....

COMMENT #39 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:13 pm PT...





The official numbers for unemployment are seriously low: Click on the graph for explanation of stats.

COMMENT #40 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:20 pm PT...





I like Greg Palast's piece on the Exxon Valdez. http://www.gregpalast.co...of-the-exxon-valdez-lie/

COMMENT #41 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:21 pm PT...





In other words, in the real world, unemployment is OVER 20%. I think it was Clinton who figured out a new way to report the unemployment figures... just report the people collecting and those who have fallen off without a job and those who are of age and wanting jobs are not counted.

COMMENT #42 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:21 pm PT...





I like all Greg's reporting.

COMMENT #43 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:22 pm PT...





But I have noticed that Lou's odd behavior does seem to fit a bewildering pattern Yes, "odd" and "bewildering". Exactly. I actually used to like him, and watched him a lot years ago.

COMMENT #44 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:23 pm PT...





Oh, Dire Straits, I want my Mark Knopfler....

COMMENT #45 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:23 pm PT...





Palast's other stuff stinks, besides the Exxon Valdez piece. (just kidding)

COMMENT #46 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:24 pm PT...





I like Dobbs... but... yes... he appears to be getting a little dotty. This "birther" bit is really bad, because Kitty Pilgrim was the one, ON HIS SHOW, who debunked it completely.

COMMENT #47 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:41 pm PT...





I'm so relieved Greg is talking about this stuff on the air. Now when people whine about how pissed off I am, I can just link them to the archive of this show.....

COMMENT #48 [Permalink]

... Bluebear2 said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:43 pm PT...





Hi, wish I was here, can't stay - things going on elsewhere tonight - all weekend for that matter.

COMMENT #49 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:46 pm PT...





Hey! This IS the ninth year of the * Administration. Remember?

COMMENT #50 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:47 pm PT...





Dammit, BB2!

COMMENT #51 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:53 pm PT...





Yes, nail Holder's pansy ass!

COMMENT #52 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:54 pm PT...





They're not even TRYING to do healthcare!!!!

COMMENT #53 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:58 pm PT...





I've actually thought about moving to Canada. I'll come back, when/if everyone's covered with health care. If I move, give me a buzz when they get it.

COMMENT #54 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 7:59 pm PT...





I just got an email from Barbara Boxer saying she needs my help on the healthcare thing. I just replied with "SINGLE PAYER!!!!!!" in giant font boldface. Fucking venal blockheads....

COMMENT #55 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 8:00 pm PT...





Dannnnnnnnnny! Take me with you.

COMMENT #56 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 8:06 pm PT...





You guys just really don't have the knack for outrage! This is "accountability Friday" and you have been invited to bitch your heads off! Complain about Brad's breath!

COMMENT #57 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 8:09 pm PT...





The "liberal media" plays an important role in no accountability for the torturers and the Bush administration. Look who's on the "liberal" TV: Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, more Republicans than Democrats. The media is NOT liberal!

COMMENT #58 [Permalink]

... Big Dan said on 7/24/2009 @ 8:11 pm PT...





And the people on TV are apologists for them, like Chuck Todd. Where's the liberals on the liberal TV? Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, Dennis Kucinich, Bernie Sanders... Who's on the "liberal TV" more: UNELECTED Liz Cheney or elected Senator Bernie Sanders?

COMMENT #59 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 8:20 pm PT...





Why is anyone in the Fudd family on tv at all? That so totally creeps me out!

COMMENT #60 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 8:23 pm PT...





Little known fact: Darth Fudd has been clinically dead for ten years.

COMMENT #61 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/24/2009 @ 8:28 pm PT...





Damn it! Finally a revolutionary! And Brad cuts him off! I'M HOLDING YOU ACCOUNTABLE FOR THAT, BRAD!

COMMENT #62 [Permalink]

... Brad Friedman said on 7/24/2009 @ 8:59 pm PT...





Yeah, where are all the hotheads, 99?! I tried to give 'em air time Oh, well. Thanks for all guys. Must vacate studio. Hope I *don't* see ya on Monday (cuz that means Mike is feeling better). Thanks Niners et al! Night!

COMMENT #63 [Permalink]

... The Food Fascist said on 7/24/2009 @ 9:12 pm PT...





Brad Blog meister! Sign the petition to keep senate in session to pass a health care bill. Tanks Don't give up! Tell people to watch 'Sick around the world' at pbs.org http://action.firedoglak...dlemail&subsource=ns

COMMENT #64 [Permalink]

... Disillusioned said on 7/26/2009 @ 10:36 am PT...





I kinda like it when McCain's daughter is on. But of course she usually makes sense, calling Joe the not-a-plumber an idiot. That's probably why she's not on anymore, as opposed to wingnut liz cheney.

COMMENT #65 [Permalink]

... Damail said on 7/26/2009 @ 10:43 pm PT...





"...teabagging birthers..." Unbelievably clumsy and stupid attempt to tie tea party protestors with birthers. That's not going to work. And count on this: With these deficits remaining in the trillion-dollar range, the tea party protests will keep growing. Next April 15th they will be phenomenal.

COMMENT #66 [Permalink]

... Brad Friedman said on 7/27/2009 @ 10:12 am PT...





Damail - Just curious --- where were the teabaggers over the last eight years when Bush was running up the largest deficit in the history of civilization? Any coincidence that they've only decided to start protesting that now? (Also, coincidentally, just after 95% of the American tax-paying public has just been given a tax cut?)

COMMENT #67 [Permalink]

... Damail said on 7/27/2009 @ 12:02 pm PT...





Uh, Brad...The deficit that President Obama is running IN HIS FIRST YEAR is dwarfing what President Bush ran up during his 8 years in office. Obama is on track to add 10 TRILLION dollars to the deficit. The tea party protestors will continue to grow. bank on it.

COMMENT #68 [Permalink]

... Damail said on 7/27/2009 @ 4:54 pm PT...





Oops. I meant to say 10 trillion dollars to the National Debt.

COMMENT #69 [Permalink]

... Brad Friedman said on 7/27/2009 @ 8:58 pm PT...





That wasn't my question, Damail. I asked where you teabaggers were when George W. Bush spent 8 years running up the largest deficit in the history of civilization. Why not protests? And why only protests against taxation now that 95% of America has gotten a tax cut from Barack Obama? Care to answer the actual question, chief?

COMMENT #70 [Permalink]

... Damail said on 7/27/2009 @ 10:40 pm PT...





It's amazing that this has to be explained at all, but I can tell you don't pay close attention to conservatives. There were plenty of rumblings from people - including full-fledged Bush supporters - that he was spending to much money. That was one of several reasons that conservative support began to melt away. Protests? Yeah, there was a big one - on Election Day. A lot of people who previously favored Republicans either switched their vote to Obama and the Democrats, or they stayed home. But once again, you refuse to discuss the difference in magnitude. President Bush's deficits were in the $200 billion to $400 billion range. Horrendous. But "horrendous" doesn't even begin to describe the possibility that President Obama's deficits may flirt with $2 trillion. This could wreck us. And lefties are fine with this?? Huh??? Furthermore, a whole bunch of tax proposals are beginning to surface that could undercut your 95% claim. The latest: Tax soda pop to pay for health care. Burp. No matter how many times your crowd tries to dismiss these protests with testicle-licking comments, and no matter how many times Janeane Garofalo crawls out of her Shrek swamp to slander us, we will continue to speak out. And our voices will grow.

COMMENT #71 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/27/2009 @ 11:05 pm PT...





Face it, Damail, anyone we put in there would have run up this big a tag, and screwed us at least this badly. 43 would have done it if he could have stayed in office longer, or the plutocrats' house of cards had fallen sooner. The wars shouldn't have been started. Wall Street should have been regulated. The taxes shouldn't have been cut. All of it was criminal, and done to make the 1% comfortable while the rest of us scramble and starve and pay and pay and pay. And, both of you, this partisan crap is SUICIDAL. We are in big trouble.

COMMENT #72 [Permalink]

... Brad Friedman said on 7/28/2009 @ 2:25 pm PT...





Damail foolishly said: I can tell you don't pay close attention to conservatives. There were plenty of rumblings from people You can't tell anything apparently. Because you're little more than a partisan and a phony "conservative". "Rumblings"? Really? Where were you in 2002 when Cheney said "deficits don't matter"? When Paul O'Neill was pleading that the $158 billion defecit at the time would end up careening towards disaster? Are you saying the 2008 election was a protest against that? Against the trillion dollar price tag for Iraq? (Yes, if you're gonna use that sort of 10 year or more math with Obama's numbers, than same applies to Bush/Cheney). There were no protests, no objections from "conservatives". Only justifications and rationalizations for it. Who did you vote for in 2004, Damail? Your phony "conservative" friends and their phony, Fox "News" hyped protests are a joke. Not to mention, they paled in comparison to the protests against Bush which Fox and Friends (including CNN, MSNBC, and all the rest) refused to run on air. You and your buddies wouldn't know real conservatism if it bit you in the ass. And, oh, by the way, it did. Save your phony concerns about the deficit --- and your "beginning to surface" phony math --- for someone who hasn't been paying close attention to "conservatives" over the last 8 years. Your bullshit doesn't work here. Even if you've managed to trick yourself into believe it. Agent 99 - 43 did "run up this big a tag". The bank bailout was his. And every penny Obama has had to spend since then was also Bush's. As usual, Republicans run up the credit card, and it's left to Democrats to pay it off. And, you should know, my responses to Damail have nothing to do with "partisan" anything. So if you want to hand him his ass, feel free. But you needn't use moral equivalence to make your point. Because there is none here. And, of course, I believe you know that. If you don't, you do now.

COMMENT #73 [Permalink]

... Agent 99 said on 7/28/2009 @ 2:41 pm PT...





Obama voted for that bailout and encouraged all in opposition to it to do the same. Damail is complaining about the stimulus package and the shit Obama has been doing, and has not been doing, that exacerbates the cost of the original bailout. Obama is becoming more obviously only less honest --- less transparent --- about his perfidies than that piece of shit * in cowboy boots who went before him.

COMMENT #74 [Permalink]

... Brad Friedman said on 7/28/2009 @ 4:08 pm PT...





Yes, I know what Damail is complaining about. And I know what he's *not* complaining about (eg. Bush's $700 billion bailout which "conservatives" didn't raise much of a stink about, even as it paled in comparison to what came before it, that they also didn't give a damn about).

COMMENT #75 [Permalink]

... Damail said on 7/28/2009 @ 9:32 pm PT...





Friedman, every word that I said was true, and you know it was true. Meanwhile: "Every penny Obama has had to spend since then was also Bush's..." - Absolute, bald-faced stinking lie. Can't say I'm surprised. And there was nothing phony or joke-worthy about the tea party protests. Hundreds of thousands of people came out nation-wide on April 15th. For conservative-based protests, that turnout is simply unprecedented. Yes, true conservatives - that includes me - will continue to speak out and expose the lunacy, the hypocrisy and the insanity that blogs like these belch forth continuosly

COMMENT #76 [Permalink]

... Brad Friedman said on 7/28/2009 @ 10:59 pm PT...





As I figured. You wouldn't answer the questions. You were nowhere to be found protesting during the Bush years because you're a phony conservative. I'm quite sure you actually voted for him in '04 as well, despite his extraordinary record of non-conservatism which was offensive to real conservatives and those who believe in values such as fiscal restraint, Rule of Law, defense of the U.S. Constitution, federalism and all the rest that the *real* conservatives around here have been fighting for for years. Glad you're here. Hopefully you'll learn something. It'll be a shame if all you learn, however, is to continue fooling yourself. You won't be fooling many folks here in the meantime, I promise ya. But good luck trying.

COMMENT #77 [Permalink]

... Damail said on 7/29/2009 @ 12:14 pm PT...

