By SueN
- Guests:
- Mark Williams, Conservative talk radio host and spokesperson for the Tea Party Express.
- Mark Potok, Director, Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center
- Paul Blumenthal, Sunlight Foundation.
- Stephanie Taylor, Co-Founder, Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
- Wesley J. Smith, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, an attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and a special consultant for the Center for Bioethics and Culture, author of several books including his latest "A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement".
- Topics:
- When is the tea party movement going to wake up to the fact that they're being used by racists, big corporations and the rich?
- Is the right wing tea party movement being taken over by corporate backed racists?
- "White House Health Proposal May Blow Up PhRMA Deal"
- How can we force the administration to embrace a public option?
- Why do fundamentalists think God loves us more than our cats & dogs?
- Bumper Music:
- Perfect Situation, Weezer.
- One Headlight, The Wallflowers.
- I Will Buy You A New Life, Everclear.
- The Twilight Zone, Marius Constant.
- Ivory Tower, Van Morrison.
- End of the Line, Traveling Wilburys.
- Ghost Chickens in the Sky, Sean Morey.
- Pink Houses, John Mellencamp.
- Heading For The Light, Traveling Wilburys.
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- Catch the Reading Bug, Monty Harper.
- 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 animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men." -- Alice Walker.
- Member of the day was RustyCannon, who won a copy of "Walking Your Blues Away: How to Heal the Mind and Create Emotional Well-Being" for blogging:
Miss Ashley would be right at home in Uganda. Maybe she can get a job as spokesmodel for The Family.