FWIW- I can get WLIB 1580 from Santa Monica in my truck. The last 10 mins of Liz Winstead-I think- and ChuckD was good-thats all I caught, but the O'Franken hour was the exact same format as Rush-just the polar opposite. What I mean is that I only listened to the first 1/2 hour but it was all; attack Bush, Iraq's body count, R. Clark was Right, Why didn't C. Rice testify before this?, O'Reilly Parody, Clinton lied about sex and no one was killed, Bush lied about WMD, Rush Parody, etc., etc., etc. AND Al has a female co-host as well, (Kathern something?). The guest later today is *Drum Roll* Hillary Clinton. Garofolo comes on later tonight they said.:flush:
I'll tune in again some a.m. to hear Liz & ChuckD, but the I'd even take Tom Leykis over the rest.
Janeane Garofolo:
"Our country is founded on a sham: our forefathers were slave-owning rich white guys who wanted it their way. So when I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.' That you can have a gay parade on Christopher Street in New York, with naked men and women on a float cheering, 'We're here, we're queer!' -- that's what makes my heart swell. Not the flag, but a gay naked man or woman burning the flag. I get choked up with pride."
?If I am uninformed, which I'd like to think I work very hard not to be, uninformed, it is the fault of the White House and the mainstream media. We don't get enough information. We don't get enough news with our news. And how can we function as a democracy without information? We are given disinformation and White House propaganda all the time. We have no history to our news, no context to our news, no global perspective. We don't see people outside our borders as humans. And if I am uninformed, which I'd like to think I work very hard not to be, uninformed, it is the fault of the White House and the mainstream media.?
"The world would be better off with multiple superpowers."
"Sure [our enemies should be more powerful], when Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement."
AND Last but not Least...
"The Republican Party, their message and their policies of exclusion and the tilted playing field appeals to the dumb and the mean. There is no shortage of dumb and mean people in this culture. So, therefore, their message, the dumb and the mean find a nice home in the GOP.
"This dumbing down and this pseudo patriotism, which is very conveniently partisan, because the dumb and the mean love patriotism. Now the dumb believe unto patriotism because it?s really-when it?s as unexamined as it is for the dumb, it?s merely narcissism. Yeah, it?s my country right or wrong. Well what of these colors don?t run? What do you mean? I don?t know. They use the word evildoer with a straight face, knee jerk reactionary phrases that go down well from the Republican Party with the dumb and the mean and then the mean pretend that it?s unpatriotic to be critical of your government.
"You don?t let the facts get in the way of your arrogance and belligerence. You just keep saying no, it doesn?t or you just lie about everything. What you have now is people that are closet racists, misogamists, homophobes and people who love tilted playing fields and the politics of exclusion identifying as conservative. They have hijacked that name and somehow they are proud of it. I don?t understand that, why they?re proud of being conservative but that is-seems to be the case. There is no liberal media.
"If there was a liberal media that would be good and our culture would reflect it. We can no longer tolerate anti-intellectualism. We can no longer tolerate liberal bashing and we can no longer tolerate the politics of the dumb and the mean. Thank you."
