On Monday’s Radio Show…
July 13th, 2009, 6:00 PM EDT
• Does Judge Sonia Sotomayor have what it takes to sit on the nation’s highest court? Alan shares his take on today’s Senate confirmation hearings.
• Alan speaks with the soldier who became the face of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, Lynndie England, whose experiences in Iraq are detailed in the new book Tortured.
• Cecilia Rouse of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers explains how the White House expects the job market to grow.
I will be listening to what Ms. England has to say.
Thanks Alan and Joel
July 13th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
I see “Joel” traded his “Andrew Dice Clay” photo for his Mr. CleanCut version.
Don’t the young ladies like the Dice Man look better than the Ted Baxter look!!??
http://www.andrewdiceclay.com/
Generally, your typical conservative caller is someone alone at home. Life has passed him by.
The kids are gone and they won’t talk to him anymore. His wife left him long ago. His only remaining contact with other people is to step out into the yard some afternoons and yell, “Hey, you stoopid kids – get OFF MY GRASS!!” Even the only attention his dog will give him is to p** on his living room carpet.
Calling talk radio is their only remaining link with the rest of humanity and calling in to trash the “terrorist lovin’, panty-waist, sissy libruls” their only entertainment.
Progressives have better things to do than wait on hold for hours for only a few seconds of “fame”. For instance, I’m about to take the trash out.
The England book is already drawing an interesting collection of Amazon customer reviews. I’ll have to bookmark it and come back for more “reviews”.
Bush/Cheney have done so much harm to so many people and England is only one more for the pile.
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July 13th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Is the psychotherapy working well for ya?
July 13th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Some of these Obama people are sounding a whole lot like some of those Bush people sounded.
Rouse (an economist) sounds a whole lot like Alan Greenspan.
Her devotion to “economic models” is the most obvious likeness to Greenspan. At some point she, like Greenspan, will finally have to realize the national economy is failing to live up to the behavior her economic models predicted at which point she’ll declare, “what is WRONG with YOU PEOPLE?!”
To most economists, people are only performing rats in a maze. Variables, to plug into an equation.
July 13th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Technically, Palin went to four different colleges five times. Not, five colleges.
Wiki: After graduating from high school in 1982, she enrolled at Hawaii Pacific College in Honolulu. She left after one semester and in 1983 transferred to North Idaho College, a community college in Coeur d’Alene.
In 1984, after attending North Idaho College for two semesters majoring in general studies, Palin competed in and won the Miss Wasilla Pageant, then finished third in the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant receiving a college scholarship and the “Miss Congeniality” award.
In August 1984, Palin transferred to the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, where her older brother, Charles Heath, was majoring in education. After two semesters at UI, Palin returned to Alaska and attended Matanuska-Susitna College, a community college in Palmer, for one term in the fall of 1985. She returned to the University of Idaho in January 1986, where she spent three semesters completing her bachelor’s degree in communications with an emphasis in journalism, graduating in May, 1987.
Hey, we can’t all go to Harvard.
July 13th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
I could also go on for a long, long time about why there are not that many liberals on the talk medium.
It has nothing to do with whatever those ditto-heads came up with … it that’s crazy word … demographics … I hear you people in “the bizz” call it ‘demo’ …
That’s only part of it, too.
Bumper sticker mentalities and mindless chest thumping — that’s another element. And so on.
If I we to take out my crystal ball, which is usually RIGHT … I’d say liberal-talk radio will soon come to challenging conservative-talk with the constantly expanding mediums.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:45 am