- Guests:
- Fox TV & Radio host John Gibson
- Gerald Posner of the Daily Beast.
- Phil Kerpen, policy director of Patients First.
- Phil Radford, Executive Director – Greenpeace USA.
- Topics:
- Mr. President, it's time to come clean on the deals you've made with the health insurance gangsters
- "How The Left Swiftboated America: The Liberal Media Conspiracy to Make You Think George Bush Was the Worst President in History"
- Is there a system that celebrities use to conceal bizarre behavior that Tiger Woods is giving us a glimpse into or is this just an aberration?
- Why do oil billionaires oppose America being competitive with other nations that have national health care systems?
- Update from Copenhagen Climate Summit.
- Bumper Music:
- The Gambler, Kenny Rogers (video).
- The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, Ennio Morricone.
- Wreck the Malls, Bob Rivers.
- Because I Got High, Afroman.
- It's The Most Fattening Time Of The Year, Bob Rivers.
- The Revolution Starts Now, Steve Earle (video).
- 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.
- Quote: "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Article: A Voter Rebuke For Bush, the War And the Right. by Peter Baker and Jim VandeHei.
"In private talks before the election, Emanuel and other top Democrats told their members they cannot allow the party's liberal wing to dominate the agenda next year."
- Article: Sanders Yells: GOP Obstruction Of Health Care Debate 'Is An Outrage!' by Jillian Rayfield.
"Sanders said: "Everybody in this country understands that our nation faces a significant number of major crises. Whether it's the disintegration of our health care system, the fact that 1 percent of our people are unemployed, or underemployed, one out of four of our children are living in food stamps, we've got two wars, we've got global warming, we have a $12 trillion national debt.
He continued: "And the best the Republicans can do is try to bring the United States government to a halt by forcing a reading of a 700-page amendment. That is an outrage. People can have honest disagreements. But in this moment of crisis it is wrong to bring the United States government to a halt." "
Thursday 17 December '09 show notes
By SueN