- Show live from New York.
- Guests:
- Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute.
- Ralph Nader. Consumer advocate, activist, author of numerous books, four time Green Party candidate for President.
- Dr. Anthony Horan, M.D., urologist.
- Topics:
- Will democracy die without Obama's newspaper bail out?
- Only the super-rich can save us!
- Could it be that "everything you know is wrong...about the business of prostate cancer?-
- Bumper Music:
- Shake It Up, The Cars.
- Jai Ho, A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack. (video)
- Crazy, Gnarls Barkley.
- City Of Blinding Lights, U2 (video).
- Ghost Chickens in the Sky, Sean Morey.
- I Still Believe, The Call.
- You can leave your hat on, Randy Newman.
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Article: Sen. Roberts: We Need To Give Health Insurance Lobbyists ‘At Least 72 Hours’ To Read The Bill by Faiz Shakir.
"All the Senator from Kentucky is asking is for 72 hours to determine the cost. Senator Snowe has spoken eloquently about sunshine, and the openness, and the fact that the American people would support this 90 percent, 95 percent. But the thing that I’m trying to point out is we would have at least 72 hours for the people that the providers have hired to keep up with all of the legislation that we pass around here, and the regulations that we pass around here, to say “hey, wait a minute. Have you considered this?” And that’s all I’m asking for — is not only cost, but also the content of a bill. And that 72 hours, I think, is highly, highly important." - Article: Al Franken Reads the 4th Amendment to Justice Department Official by Daphne Eviatar.
"Just in case he wasn’t familiar with it, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) decided to read the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution to David Kris, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, who was testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee today to urge reauthorization of expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act.Franken, who opened by acknowledging that unlike most of his colleagues in the Senate, he’s not a lawyer, but according to his research “most Americans aren’t lawyers” either, said he’d also done research on the Patriot Act and in particular, the “roving wiretap” provision that allows the FBI to get a warrant to wiretap a an unnamed target and his or her various and changing cell phones, computers and other communication devices.
Noting that he received a copy of the Constitution when he was sworn in as a senator, he proceeded to read it to Kris, emphasizing this part: “no Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
“That’s pretty explicit language,” noted Franken, asking Kris how the “roving wiretap” provision of the Patriot Act can meet that requirement if it doesn’t require the government to name its target.
Kris looked flustered and mumbled that “this is surreal,” apparently referring to having to respond to Franken’s question. “I would defer to the other branch of government,” he said, referring to the courts."
- Article: Jack Cafferty: When DeLay Goes To Prison They Can Show His Dancing Video To The Inmates (VIDEO).
"CNN's Jack Cafferty is very disturbed by the idea of Tom DeLay doing the cha cha on "Dancing with the Stars." When Wolf Blitzer told him that it "takes guts" to do something like that, Cafferty did not agree: "It takes something, I'm not sure guts is what it takes."Cafferty then offered this even more disturbing image: "When he goes to prison they can show that, like the dances and stuff, to the general inmate population.""
