[Now updated with audio archives…]
Malloy is still down with a virus, so I’m in again tonight as Guest Host on the The Mike Malloy Show. I’ll be ‘Bradcasting’ LIVE from L.A.’s KTLK am1150 from 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT). Hope you’ll listen in, since I’ve decided it’s “Accountability Friday”!
Since it’s “Accountability Friday,” whom do you hold most accountable for the unending mess we’re in right now? Repubs, Dems, Media, Corporate America, American people who aren’t doing enough about it, Teabagging Birthers, anyone else, all of the above? Give us a call tonight to name names at 877-520-1150, and/or speak up in comments on this Open Thread item!
Scheduled guests so far tonight…
- GLENN GREENWALD, master blogger, attorney and accountability expert from Salon’s daily must-read Unclaimed Territory, and author of Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics
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- GREG PALAST, muckraking investigative BBC journalist, author of Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans–Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild
and star of the new documentary video Greg Palast Investigates.
- DESI DOYEN, Co-host and managing editor of The BRAD BLOG’s Green News Report, running on radio stations and websites around the country (and if it’s not running on your station, call and write and ask them to add it! It’s free!)
Malloy’s show is nationally syndicated on a number of air affiliates around the country, also on Sirius Ch. 146 & XM Ch. 167, or listen to the free online stream here or here!
Use this item for tonight’s Open Show Thread, hosted, as always, by the ever-affable “Agent 99.” See ya tonight!
POST-SHOW UPDATE, AUDIO ARCHIVES: Sorry for the delay…Our good man Ben Burch at WhiteRoseSociety.org is working overtime, and was forced to wrestle with some technical demons today to boot! But we’ve now got the audio archives, all three “hours” (about :36 mins each with commercials removed, thanks to Ben) available below. Great guests, great calls on “Accountability Friday”. Enjoy!…
HOUR 1: Glenn Greenwald on Obama’s inexcusable “preventative detention” policy for Gitmo prisoners and the MSM’s inexcusable position on torture investigations. Plus your calls on accountability. Download MP3 or listen online below…
The BRAD BLOG on the Air 7/24/2009Guest Hosting (Friday) for Mike Malloy! | Scheduled Guests for 'Accountability Friday': Glenn Greenwald, Greg Palast, Desi Doyen... | LIVE! 6-9p PT (9p-Mid. ET), Call-in#: 877-520-1150 · · · · · Guest Hosting (Friday) for Mike Malloy! | Scheduled Guests for 'Accountability Friday': Glenn Greenwald, Greg Palast, Desi Doyen... | LIVE! 6-9p PT (9p-Mid. ET), Call-in#: 877-520-11500:00 0:00HOUR 2: Greg Palast on the forgotten economy and inexcusable banker bailouts. More calls on accountability. Download MP3 or listen online below…
The BRAD BLOG on the Air 7/24/2009Guest Hosting (Friday) for Mike Malloy! | Scheduled Guests for 'Accountability Friday': Glenn Greenwald, Greg Palast, Desi Doyen... | LIVE! 6-9p PT (9p-Mid. ET), Call-in#: 877-520-1150 · · · · · Guest Hosting (Friday) for Mike Malloy! | Scheduled Guests for 'Accountability Friday': Glenn Greenwald, Greg Palast, Desi Doyen... | LIVE! 6-9p PT (9p-Mid. ET), Call-in#: 877-520-11500:00 0:00HOUR 3: Accountability, accountability, accountability…plus Desi Doyen with the Green News Report. Download MP3 or listen online below…
The BRAD BLOG on the Air 7/24/2009Guest Hosting (Friday) for Mike Malloy! | Scheduled Guests for 'Accountability Friday': Glenn Greenwald, Greg Palast, Desi Doyen... | LIVE! 6-9p PT (9p-Mid. ET), Call-in#: 877-520-1150 · · · · · Guest Hosting (Friday) for Mike Malloy! | Scheduled Guests for 'Accountability Friday': Glenn Greenwald, Greg Palast, Desi Doyen... | LIVE! 6-9p PT (9p-Mid. ET), Call-in#: 877-520-11500:00 0:00
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.
Damn, they’re going to have the right winger on the show again
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!
I heard that. Sum dood called you a wingnut, I LMAO
News Flash: Mullen tells al-Jazeera that we don’t go into sovereign countries:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/de...4-7-2009_pg1_4
That’s a relief, now isn’t it?
And, how about the status of Obama’s first successful coup?
http://english.aljazeera.net/ne...243433147.html
Or his having turned Bagram in to the latest black hole of brutalization for detainees?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/w...071503156.html
Or putting a Monsanto exec in charge of food safety at FDA:
http://www.grist.org/article/20...to-FDA-taylor/
Flo said:
Hope he calls in tonight! I wants to hear from the wingnuts of all wings tonight! 🙂
And we don’t want these stinking wars, but, pfeh, since when did that matter?
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07...ose-both-wars/
Who is “Glenn Greenwald”?
Is that with one “N” or two? I’m googling him, to see who he is.
Greg Palast – who’s that? I’m “googling” him right now…
Gos! Did you hear that? Call in and hold Brad accountable! 😛
What does “accountable” mean? I’m googling that word…
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
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.”
I love this picture, “Mike Malloy – see ya in HELL!”
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0hijq...ike-malloy.gif
Glenn Greenwald ROCKS AND ROCKS AND ROCKS!
…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.
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.
BRAD! YOU BETTER NOT DROP HIM AGAIN OR I’M GOING POSTAL!
The only guys as sexy as environmentalist loggers are lawyers with morals…..
Yeah!
Dobbs: I can’t figure him out. He talked about outsourcing and e-vote machines…and then, well, I don’t know…
YES! Ninth year of the * administration.
Just so.
George Bush “kept us safe”: 9/11, 3,000 people dead! That’s “safe”???
Just don’t tell them what you plan to do!
What about the Rabbi’s arrested in New Jersey? That’s a huge story.
I feel so much better about using certified and screened psychics….
Were they money-laundering, Danny? What were they doing?
Frickin’ CAR SALESMAN now… sheesh….
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/news/nati...rruption_case/
“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”
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?
Israel has a high demand and low donor rate for human organs.
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.
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?
His Bradness — quoth Peter B — is bradcasting….
The official numbers for unemployment are seriously low:
Click on the graph for explanation of stats.
I like Greg Palast’s piece on the Exxon Valdez.
http://www.gregpalast.com/stick...on-valdez-lie/
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.
I like all Greg’s reporting.
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.
Oh, Dire Straits, I want my Mark Knopfler….
Palast’s other stuff stinks, besides the Exxon Valdez piece. (just kidding)
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.
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…..
Hi, wish I was here, can’t stay – things going on elsewhere tonight – all weekend for that matter. 🙁
Hey! This IS the ninth year of the * Administration. Remember?
Dammit, BB2! 🙁
Yes, nail Holder’s pansy ass!
They’re not even TRYING to do healthcare!!!!
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.
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….
Dannnnnnnnnny! Take me with you.
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!
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!
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?
Why is anyone in the Fudd family on tv at all? That so totally creeps me out!
Little known fact: Darth Fudd has been clinically dead for ten years.
Damn it! Finally a revolutionary! And Brad cuts him off!
I’M HOLDING YOU ACCOUNTABLE FOR THAT, BRAD!
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!
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.firedoglake.com/p...8;subsource=ns
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.
“…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.
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?)
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.
Oops. I meant to say 10 trillion dollars to the National Debt.
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?
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.
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.
Damail foolishly said:
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.
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.
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).
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
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.
The same lie once again coming from you. And I have answered the question already. There were no street protests because $400 billion is nowhere near as big as $1.8 trillion. This is self-explanatory. We genuine conservatives (yes, we are) recognize that with deficits of this magnitude, coupled with a takeover of the health care system, takeover of auto companies, and an upcoming incremental increase of ways to nickel and dime us all into serfdom, we are fully justified in our protests.
Almost forgot to comment on this lame-brained quote: “Republicans run up the credit card, and it’s left to Democrats to pay it off.”
News flash, genius: THEY’RE NOT PAYING IT OFF!! THEY’RE ADDING TO THE CREDIT CARD EVEN FASTER!
I’m not fooling myself. You are.