[UPDATED] Brad Friedman Guest Hosting Peter B. Collins Show Live Tonight!

With Guests: Journalist Steven Rosenfeld, Conservative Icon Richard Viguerie

*** UPDATED POST SHOW With Audio Archives and Several Great Voting Rights Victories Late Today!!!

By Brad Friedman on 5/16/2008, 10:35pm PT

[Updated post show with audio archives below, and moving this item up to the top so you're sure to catch the great news, lots of it, that came in late today, as covered live on the show!]

I'll be jumping in for my friend Peter B. Collins to host the last hour of his syndicated radio show tonight at 5pm PT (8pm ET), as he'll be broadcasting from Missoula, Montana, but will be unable to do the final hour of the show, when I'm usually his weekly guest.

So...as my guests this week, splitting the hour, we'll have...

Journalist STEVEN ROSENFELD from AlterNet, to discuss his excellent reporting of late from the front lines of the "Republican War on Voting" battlefield and the outlook for November 2008.
Conservative icon RICHARD VIGUERIE to discuss his blistering op-ed yesterday calling for the "immediate resignation" of the GOP leadership in light of what he describes as the "looming disaster" he sees his party facing this fall as "the conservative movement has been set back 10-20 years – possibly even permanently," by George W. Bush, Karl Rove and friends.

We'll also have an update on the latest news from the MO Senate, on its final legislative day, as Republicans there try to push through a disenfranchising Photo ID/Voter-Suppression Constitutional amendment before the November election!

I'll be BradCasting live from the studios of KTLK AM1150 in Los Angeles. Though they don't carry the PBC Show (but should!), I'm much obliged for their assist. If lucky, we'll be coming atcha out of Stephanie Miller's studio, and thus plan to leave behind the wonderful smell of democracy to greet her on Monday morning.

Listen live on air, or via the Internets, and call in with your questions at 888-5-PeterB (888-573-8372)! Or post your questions here in an Open Show Thread and I'll try to notice them while on air!

POST-SHOW UPDATE: Wow...Great news all around! We'll call it Voting Rights Victories Friday! Here's the audio archives from tonight's 3rd hour of the PBC Show!

First up, Mindy Mazur of AmericaVotes.org reports the attempt by the MO GOP Senate to pass a state Constitutional amendment to allow voter disenfranchisement through new, draconian Photo ID and citizenship requirements goes down in flames, as the final day of the MO Senate legislative session ends without a vote on it, due to the outcry against the measure! Great work, guys!

Then Steven Rosenfeld of Alternet.org joins us to break the news that GOP voter fraud zealot Hans von Spakovsky has finally withdrawn his nomination to the FEC, and as if that's not enough, Arizona finally agrees to allow for voter registration at welfare clinics as they are supposed to, under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993!

Finally, the legendary and iconoclastic Richard Viguerie of ConservativeHq.com joins me, as I try to hold his feet to the fire a bit, on conservatism, Rush Limbaugh and even Ronald Reagan. He also says he's "honored and thrilled" to accept the BRAD BLOG "Intellectually Honest Conservative Award" we bestowed him with earlier this week. Feel free to hold my feet to the fire, and let me know how I did.

Broken into two parts, commercials removed for your listening pleasure...

Mazur & Rosenfeld (appx 19 mins) MP3 download or listen online here...

Viguerie (appx 23 mins) MP3 download or listen online here...

(Apologies for the late archive posting, but I was so pleased by the good news, I went straight out from the studio to celebrate by checking out my old hero's new film.)

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"[UPDATED] Brad Friedman Guest Hosting Peter B. Collins Show Live Tonight!"
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COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
... Agent 99 said on 5/16/2008 @ 4:25 pm PT...

Okay. I'd say I was warming up for this, but it's warm enough already. So, I'm rubbing my hands together.

COMMENT #2 [Permalink]
... Phil said on 5/16/2008 @ 4:37 pm PT...

Peter B Collins Show, is on http://dopey.mediaserv1.com:8102/
540 KXRA

for those without a progressive station, like us in Sacramento.

(I won't run Windows Media Player this is a Winamp style stream -FYI )

COMMENT #3 [Permalink]
... Brad Friedman said on 5/16/2008 @ 4:56 pm PT...

Hey guys! Ready to rock?

COMMENT #4 [Permalink]
... Agent 99 said on 5/16/2008 @ 5:14 pm PT...

I'm listening as fast as I can!

That bit about Larissa of Clovis dissolving her husband in a vat of acid kind of tugged on my attention span....

Just a jot....

COMMENT #5 [Permalink]
... Brad Friedman said on 5/16/2008 @ 5:17 pm PT...

U listening to the same show as me, 99?

COMMENT #6 [Permalink]
... Agent 99 said on 5/16/2008 @ 5:19 pm PT...

It was on the news just before you came on. Distracted me a little!

COMMENT #7 [Permalink]
... Agent 99 said on 5/16/2008 @ 5:21 pm PT...

I think it flummoxed Phil....

COMMENT #8 [Permalink]
... Brad Friedman said on 5/16/2008 @ 5:32 pm PT...

(Phil is easily flummoxed )

COMMENT #9 [Permalink]
... Dredd said on 5/16/2008 @ 5:48 pm PT...

Obama kicked some McBush ass today. How could anyone be fooled by McFeign?

I think McFeign is getting the best propaganda available from the military oil complex, his surrogate mom and dad, but it is bogus info.

They just threw "curve ball" under the bus, you know the Iranian agent (Chalabi) who tricked these "wise" "conservatives" into knocking off Iran's #1 rival (Iraq).

So now that Iran is 10 times more powerful, McBush don't need no stinkin' talks with em. Why, what the fuck does McBush have to trade? Oil stock?

Yep, McBush is not quite as smart as a 5th grader.

Talk about that on the show Brad.

COMMENT #10 [Permalink]
... Phil said on 5/16/2008 @ 5:49 pm PT...

No flummox0ring.

But sure glad to hear the Voter ID thing go down in flames! Makes me wonder what is going to be the next nasty tricks they pull out to disenfranchise voters. Will it be electronic poll books? Will it be broken chains of custody? Will it be electronic scanner failures?

The Title of my next show is going to be
"The Republican War On Voting"

COMMENT #11 [Permalink]
... Agent 99 said on 5/16/2008 @ 5:49 pm PT...

A heck of a lot of people must be logging on... the stream is awfully shaky and crackly....

COMMENT #12 [Permalink]
... DES said on 5/16/2008 @ 5:51 pm PT...

Vigeurie's website: ConservativeHQ.com.

COMMENT #13 [Permalink]
... Dredd said on 5/16/2008 @ 5:51 pm PT...

flummox mcbush ...

COMMENT #14 [Permalink]
... Phil said on 5/16/2008 @ 5:51 pm PT...

Na 99, I listen to it every day all day. 24/7 unless I am doing music. DIY - Nova-M Radio In Sacramento - Screw the Fascist Media - Build your own Station

COMMENT #15 [Permalink]
... Dredd said on 5/16/2008 @ 5:53 pm PT...

Conyers on Karl Rove:

'Someone's got to kick his ass'

(Ditto for his child McBush).

COMMENT #16 [Permalink]
... Agent 99 said on 5/16/2008 @ 5:53 pm PT...

Phil, you mean Larissa of Clovis dissolving her husband in a vat of acid is old news? Yikes. It made my hair stand on end....

COMMENT #17 [Permalink]
... Agent 99 said on 5/16/2008 @ 5:56 pm PT...

#15

Yeah, maybe VIGUERIE will actually do it....

COMMENT #18 [Permalink]
... Phil said on 5/16/2008 @ 5:56 pm PT...

Dredd, my thoughts exactly, when will he face the piper and will Bush pardon him from his crimes?

COMMENT #19 [Permalink]
... Phil said on 5/16/2008 @ 6:00 pm PT...

That was too quick!

COMMENT #20 [Permalink]
... Agent 99 said on 5/16/2008 @ 6:01 pm PT...

Of course, I think my ideas about "real conservatives" and conservatives' ideas about real conservatives may differ....

Rush Limbaugh is a real jerk. Period.

COMMENT #21 [Permalink]
... Nunyabiz said on 5/16/2008 @ 6:01 pm PT...

Brad

LOL "Play an evil tune" my wife and I cracked up at that quote.

Great job Brad.

COMMENT #22 [Permalink]
... Agent 99 said on 5/16/2008 @ 6:03 pm PT...

Really! Fwoosht! Bap. Done....

COMMENT #23 [Permalink]
... Brad Friedman said on 5/16/2008 @ 6:05 pm PT...

WAY too fast. Urgh. I believe I'll be sitting in for PBC for the full three hours for a few days in early June, so we'll have some more time, to not have enough time

COMMENT #24 [Permalink]
... Brad Friedman said on 5/16/2008 @ 6:07 pm PT...

Thanks guys for all! More time next time. I'll try to get the archives up as an UPDATE here, later tonight after I'm back home.

Gotta clear out of the studio. Will leave a note for Stephanie Miller here (anything u want me to tell her?

COMMENT #25 [Permalink]
... Agent 99 said on 5/16/2008 @ 6:08 pm PT...

Standing marriage proposals from the guys, of course.... You could mention that.....

COMMENT #26 [Permalink]
... Brad Friedman said on 5/16/2008 @ 6:19 pm PT...

Okay. Will do 99!

Gotta get out here. Love ya guys! Thanks!

COMMENT #27 [Permalink]
... Dredd said on 5/16/2008 @ 6:31 pm PT...

Tell her we got her number ...

COMMENT #28 [Permalink]
... 72dawg said on 5/16/2008 @ 11:41 pm PT...

Is this available for listening pleasure after the fact? If so, could you please add a link?

COMMENT #29 [Permalink]
... Brad Friedman said on 5/17/2008 @ 12:40 am PT...

Audio archives now added, Dawg! Enjoy!

COMMENT #30 [Permalink]
... boogie belv said on 5/17/2008 @ 11:05 pm PT...

Ive been a fan of your blog for a while now and i listened to the whole interview and im noticing a certain pattern that im finding with most people in alt. media these days and that is the DELIBERATE AVOIDANCE OF MENTIONING THE NAME RON PAUL AS THE TRUE AND ONLY CONSERVATIVE LEFT IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE.WHY ARE YOU ASKING HIM ABOUT BOB BARR? ARE YOU SERIOUS? WHATS REALLY GOING ON HERE? AND WHY ARE YOU SO AFRAID TO COVER RON PAUL OR EVEN MENTION HIS NAME? ITS SO OBVIOUS WHO SHOULD BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT! YOU SEEM LIKE A SMART FELLOW SO WHY DONT YOU JOIN THE MOVEMENT WE COULD REALLY USE SOMEONE LIKE YOU.Please wake up!

COMMENT #31 [Permalink]
... Brad Friedman said on 5/18/2008 @ 9:28 pm PT...

Boogie B -

I've certainly covered Ron Paul at this blog, and would have asked Viguerie about him (since I believe he had previous created the UltimateRonPaul.com website, as I recall) but ran short of time as you may have noticed.

Why ask about Bob Barr? Because Barr has made clear that he is considering a run as an independent, or on the Libertarian ticket, where Ron Paul seems to have made clear he will not be doing any such thing.

Am I wrong? Will Paul be running on a 3rd party ticket? Sounds great to me. But as it is now, the only story re: Paul for the moment, is whether they'll let him speak at the convention and/or whether the Ron Paul folks are gonna raise any hell there!

For the record, I'm in favor of both!

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