By SueN
- Guests:
- Greg Mello, Executive Director, The Los Alamos Study Group.
- Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi
- Rich Benjamin, Senior Fellow at Demos, journalist, best selling author of "Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America".
- Dennis Mediyi and retired bishop Samuel Wabulakha.
- Topics:
- New nuclear arms treaty...is some change better than no change?
- Think the country of Greece is so far away that what happens there doesn't matter here?
- VA Governor Bob McDonnell...slavery wasn't "significant enough" to be mentioned in his proclamation of "Confederate History Month".
- The Salem Uganda project.
- Bumper Music:
- Waiting On The World To Change, John Mayer.
- Follow Through, Gavin DeGraw.
- Better Than I Ought To Be, Randy Rogers Band.
- Mainstreet, Bob Seger.
- Better Days (And the Bottoms Drops Out), Citizen King.
- For The Love of Money, The O'Jays.
- One Day, Matisyahu.
- Drive, Incubus.
- 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: "Any who act as if freedom's defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America." -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- Thom was broadcasting from Stadtsteinach, Germany today.
- Article: Glenn Beck Inc by Lacey Rose.
Glenn Beck Inc., formally known as Mercury Radio Arts (after Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air), pulled in $32 million in revenue during the 12 months ended Mar.
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With a deadpan, Beck insists that he is not political: "I could give a flying crap about the political process." Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. "We're an entertainment company," Beck says.
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"I don't necessarily believe that [what Beck says] is reflective of his own personal politics--I don't even know if he has personal politics," says Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers, a trade magazine devoted to talk radio. "I see him as a performer." - Madison Square Garden Speech, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936.
"We have not come this far without a struggle and I assure you we cannot go further without a struggle.
"For twelve years this Nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing Government. The Nation looked to Government but the Government looked away. Nine mocking years with the golden calf and three long years of the scourge! Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the breadlines! Nine mad years of mirage and three long years of despair! Powerful influences strive today to restore that kind of government with its doctrine that that Government is best which is most indifferent.
"For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up.
"We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
"They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
"Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred.
"I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master."
