Midweek Politics 12-03-2008

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 58:08

This Week's Topics:

--Bill Rosen, Massachusetts Democratic State Committeeman and political and government consultant is live in studio.

--Brooks Schuelke, personal injury lawyer from Austin, Texas, talks to us live about the death at Wal-Mart on Black Friday and the repercussions.

--Barack Obama names his national security team, including Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, and we hear both Obama and Hillary's comments.

--Finally word from Joe Biden, who has been mostly silent since the election on November 4th.

--President Bush discusses whether or not this election was a repudiation of him, and says that he was unprepared for war as President.

--The economic crisis, including the latest discussion of the Big 3 automakers, their bailout, and more.

--The recent hearing with the CEOs of US automakers, including the questions about their private jets and whether they would sell them on the spot. Also, the obsession with false claims about the hourly wages of auto workers.

--Michael Reagan changes his tone, saying that Barack Obama is Reagan-esque.

--The Republicans win a Senate race in Georgia, and it is still unclear whether Al Franken will win in Minnesota.

--Ted Stevens gives his last words in the US Senate, and we look at the whole scenario surrounding his departure.

--John McCain said the good lobbyists are okay, but which are those?

--Will there be special interest pork in the upcoming economic recovery plan?

--Might Wal-Mart be liable for the death at their store over the weekend? Could the police have some responsibility?

--Much more.

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Midweek Politics 11.26.2008

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

November 26th, 2008

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 57:22

This Week's Topics:

--Tim Carpenter, National Executive Director of Progressive Democrats for America joins us live in studio to talk about a bunch of political stuff.

--Bill Scher, blogger and author from LiberalOasis.com and Campaign for America's Future joins us live in studio.

--Marcelo Da Luz of the Power of 1 Solar Car Project calls in live about the latest news with his solar electric car, breaking solar car records, and more.

--Would a bailout of the automakers hinder the development of alternative energy cars?

--What will Democrats and liberal groups do now that their side won?

--Are conservative or liberal lobbying groups more effective at what they do?

--We look at what Obama has been criticized for so far, and concerns about his upcoming presidency.

--The economic crisis, including the latest discussion of the Big 3 automakers, their bailout, and more.

--Discussion of Proposition 8 from California, reaction from across the media and blogs, and the popular slippery slope of polygamy argument that Mike Huckabee recently used.

--The recent hearing with the CEOs of US automakers, including the questions about their private jets and whether they would sell them on the spot.

--Ted Stevens gives his last words in the US Senate, and we look at the whole scenario surrounding his departure.

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics 11-19-2008

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, M

Total Running Time: 57:38

This Week's Topics:

--Craig Della Penna, a Realtor who specializes in properties near or on rail trails, greenways, and conservation land joins us live in studio.

--We discuss conservation land and the building up of bike trails, tips for real estate buyers and sellers, real estate disasters, subprime mortgages, and much more.

--Senator Ted Stevens loses his Senate race in Alaska after being found guilty in a court of law, which gives the Democrats 58 seats in the Senate with two more races still pending.

--Hillary Clinton may be the next Secretary of State, but Bill Clinton is being asked to bare all before the position is offered to her.

--4 million people might try to go to Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington DC this January 20th.

--Newt Gingrich says the Republican Party will be fine, even amidst many other Republicans saying otherwise.

--Al-Qaeda insults Barack Obama with racial epithets.

--Many conservatives insist the stock market has been down the days since the election because of Barack Obama, but the markets were actually in a free fall for weeks before the election.

--Circuit City files for bankrtupcty, and David Pakman looks back at his employee file from when he worked during high school.

--Sarah Palin continues the bogus interviews, this time with Wolf Blitzer, and she is still talking about William Ayers.

--Michael Savage finds it suspicious that Barack Obama's grandmother died the night before the election.

--We follow up on Proposition 8, including a whole bunch of wild claims.

--John McCain appears on The Tonight Show and talks about his lost election.

--Much more

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Midweek Politics 11-12-2008

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

November 12th, 2008

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 56:59

This Week's Topics:

--David Simpson, Founder and Executive Director of the Commonwealth Center for Change & Storefront Art is live in studio.

--Greg Collins, President, and Jay Lincoln, Publicity Director, both from the University of Massachusetts Republican Club are live in studio.

--Was Sarah Palin a mistake?

--Wrapping up Joe the Plumber.

--Exit polls suggest that voters want government to do more, not less.

--Do we still not know of any ways that John McCain would have differed on policy from George W. Bush?

--The Barack Obama meeting with President Bush.

--Statements from President Bush, Condi Rice, and many others about the election of Barack Obama.

--One Republican Congressman is already talking about filibustering Barack Obama's supreme court nominees.

--We discuss Proposition 8 from California, and talk about how the same African-American voters that supported Obama mostly voted against gay marriage.

--The conservative pundits quickly blame the stock market decline over the recent week on the election of Barack Obama, but does that make any sense?

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics 11.5.2008

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:

David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 58:13

This Week's Topics:

--Barack Obama wins the 2008 Presidential Election by a wide margin, becoming the first African-American President-Election in the history of the United States. We look at the results, exit polls, analysis, and so much more.

--Barack Obama's victory speech, John McCain's concession speech, and George W. Bush's congratulatory speech.

--Is this a mandate? Will Republicans who said Bush had a mandate in 2004 agree Obama has one in 2008, given he won by twice as much as Bush.

--Were there riots as many conservative media outlets predicted?

--We touch on local election issues and how the candidates who were on our programs did.

--Proposition 8 to eliminate gay marriage in California passes, and Michael Savage thinks you would only vote for gay marriage in California if you are insane, hate the family, hate your parents, and hate just about everything else.

--The Barack Obama national infomercial.

--The risk of assuming racism is fixed because Obama won.

--The Obama smears only get worse after his historic win.

--Ralph Nader asks if Obama will be an Uncle Tom as President, while Republican supporters start hedging the strength of Obama's victory.

--So much more about the election.

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Midweek Politics 10.29.2008

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 58:20

This Week's Topics:

--Joel Spiro, co-coordinator for canvassing on the Barack Obama campaign is live in studio to discuss campaign strategy and getting out the vote.

--With less than one week to go, we take a close look at all the polls, and what will happen when on election night.

--John McCain does not believe the polls that have him down, but does believe the ones that have him ahead.

--The racism hoax where a McCain campaign worker claimed to have been assaulted and attacked by Obama supporters, and how the McCain campaign fed it to the media.

--Fox News starts scaring voters with talk of riots by Obama supporters on election day.

--Previous statements by John McCain about it being okay for those who make more to pay a little more in taxes, as well as his comments about not being George W. Bush, being a maverick, and being a huge fan of Sarah Palin.

--McCain and Palin talk about elitisits, and McCain addresses the recent Colin Powell endorsement of Barack Obama.

--John McCain's brother, Joe McCain, calls 911 about traffic delays, then swears at the operator and hangs up.

--Joe the Plumber is now doing events for the McCain campaign, even after lying in his initial confrontation with Barack Obama, and the conservative media obsess over him and plumbers in general.

--Alaska Senator Ted Steven is found guilty on all counts in his recent trial.

--Senator John Kerry confronts a Swift Boat funder at a recent hearing.

--Two men are charged with plotting to kill Barack Obama.

--Former George W. Bush White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan endorses Barack Obama.

--Fox News continues to make stuff up, citing that about half of Barack Obama's tax plan would be a handout to people that do not pay taxes to begin with.

--Michael Savage believes people on welfare should not have the right to vote.

--Much more.

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Midweek Politics 10-22-2008

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 56:57

This Week's Topics:

--Bill Dwight, WHMP morning radio shot, and Mike Hannahan, University of Massachusetts political science professor, are live in studio to talk about the upcoming election and a whole bunch of other stuff.

--Which of the two presidential candidates might be an internet president?

--Is John McCain running too far to the right for the 2008 election, and is he overusing the POW storyline?

--Polling is all over the place, as close as tied and as far apart as Obama ahead by double digits.

--How much of a factor are race and gender playing in this election?

--Scary commentary from people leaving a John McCain rally in Ohio.

--Even scarier religious talk from a PBS special.

--Joe the Plumber, and the lies he told.

--The third and last presidential debate, including McCain saying he's not George W. Bush, talking about the health of the mother in abortions, and finally bringing up William Ayers.

--Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama, and asks why it would be bad even if Obama were a Muslim, even though some do not believe Powell that he is not making his endorsement based on race.

--Much more.

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Midweek Politics 10.15.2008

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, M

Total Running Time: 56:14

This Week's Topics:

--Massachusetts State Senator Stan Rosenberg and his 2008 opponent Keith McCormic go head-to-head in studio over their upcoming election.

--Our run-in with Senator John Kerry and two US Congressmen at a recent event.

--New York state printed Barack Osama on absentee ballots sent to voters recently.

--We discuss the upcoming third presidential debate, and talk about the most recent polls.

--John McCain says he will bring up William Ayers at the third presidential debate, but it wasalso recently revealed that John McCain transition chief previously lobbied for Saddam Hussein.

--Barack Obama responded to questions about McCain and Ayers by saying that McCain was not willing to say it to his face at the second presidential debate.

--Even the typically biased, heavily-Republican Frank Luntz Fox News focus groups thought that Obama won the second debate.

--At recent rallies, John McCain says that he has Obama right where he wants him, and refers to the audience as fellow prisoners.

--Audience members at a McCain-Palin rally talk about how they believe Barack Obama is or may be a terrorist on their way out of the rally

--In defending the vitriol from recent McCain rallies, campaign manager Rick Davis brings up McCain's previous POW experiences.

--At a Sarah Palin speech, some audience members were yelling for her to speak louder, and she scolded them for protesting at her speech.

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics 10-08-2008

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

October 8th, 2008

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 55:21

This Week's Topics:

--Senator John Kerry joins us live to talk about the election, Sarah Palin, Ralph Nader, campaigning, and much more.

--We look at past vice-presidential debates, and the most recent one with Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.

--Sarah Palin's rambling answers on nuclear energy, knowing what the VP does, and of course, her repeated mentions of the word maverick.

--Joe Biden argued that he does not see the differences between Bush and McCain, and talked about his past as a single parent.

--Dick Morris, continuing his obsessions with the Clintons, says the loser of the VP debate was Hillary Clinton.

--The second presidential debate, which was in a town hall format. The candidates' best and worst answers, as well as whether or not McCain hates Obama, which his handshake denial seems to indicate.

--Polling about the debate, whether McCain made a racist comment to a young black man who asked a question, and whether Obama was succinct enough, or too longwinded once again.

--The last pieces of the hilarious Sarah Palin interviews with Katie Couri, including questions about the Supreme Court and the right to privacy.

--An Obama spokesman calls Sean Hannity out as a racist on Fox News, and the back and forth is fascinating.

--More more...

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Midweek Politics 10.01.2008

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, M

Total Running Time: 59:40

This Week's Topics:

--Jesse Adams and Shawn Robinson from Young Democrats of America join us live in studio.

--John McCain insisted all of last week on canceling the debate because of the financial crisis, but did ultimately show up and debate in Mississippi, while Barack Obama insisted that the financial crisis was an important reason to still have the debate.

--Debate problems, including Obama being too nuanced for his own good, McCain getting visibly upset with Obama, and Jim Lehrer begging the two candidates to talk to each other.

--Some of John McCain's debate answers, including his analogy about earmarks as a gateway drug, creating a League of Democracies, and the random spending freeze suggestion.

--Some of Barack Obama's longwinded answers during the debate.

--A few other Republican Senators' comments about the economic crisis and proposed bailout.

--Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi blame the Republicans and are blamed by the Republicans for the original bailout bill not passing.

--The two Sarah Palin interviews with Katie Couric, including her hilarious non-answers about McCain's accomplishments, Alaska being close to Russia, and which newspapers she reads.

--John McCain had to sit next to Palin for the second interview with Katie Couric, and Palin is bewildered at basic questions about global warming and the morning after pill. Lastly, McCain and Palin have a weird definition of gotcha journalistm.

--Palin makes fun of Joe Biden's age, although McCain is even older.

--The controversy over the upcoming Vice-Presidential debate starts with moderator Gwen Ifill's book about African American politicians including Barack Obama.

--A bizarre clip of a deep south woman going off about Barack Obama.

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics 09.24.2008

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

September 24th, 2008

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 57:11

This Week's Topics:

--Bill Scher, from Campaign for America's Future and LiberalOasis, and Isaac Mass, Republican political veteran, are live in studio to talk about their experiences at the DNC and RNC, and the upcoming election.

--Scott Keeter, Director of Survey Research at the Pew Reserach Center joins us live to talk about the latest polls, Palin-mania, and more.

--Will McCain campaign manager Rick Davis' involvement with an advocacy group for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac become a big deal?

--Interesting ballot measures from the upcoming November election, including whether the state income tax should be dropped and whether to decriminalize marijuana.

--Funny moments from past presidential debates, and we discuss the upcoming debates, if they'll still happen.

--John McCain suspends his camapaign to go to Washington and work on the economic crisis, but how much of a political stunt is it?

--Larry Kudlow, Neil Cavuto, and others blame the economic crisis on minorities.

--John McCain plays dumb when asked about adviser Carly Fiorina's golden parachute from HP.

--Sarah Palin, at her first town hall meeting, stumbles badly when asked a simple question about her national security experience.

--On The View, Bill Clinton says that Hillary Clinton did not really want to be Vice President, and that he did not really have an opinion on it either way, but is that really believeable? He also talks about whether there was sexism during the primary campaign.

--More smears that Barack Obama is a Muslim, is misrepresenting his ethnicity, and might be a political Muslim.

--Much more.

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Midweek Politics 09.17.2008

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

September 17th, 2008

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 56:31

This Week's Topics:

--Nathan Bech, Republican candidate for US Senator from Massachussets, 2008, joins us live in studio.

--Midweek Politics will also be heard on Massachusetts talk radio station WHMP as of next week's show.

--Sarah Palin's first interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson, and the controversy over the Bush doctrine question.

--Clips of Sarah Palin saying that the US going into Iraq was God's will.

--The Obama campaign is sticking with the McCain means more Bush idea.

--An alleged media analyst attacks MSNBC for bias, especiall their new lesbian Air America host Rachel Maddow.

--Fox News threatens to shut down the microphones if a guest recites so-called Obama talking points before proceeding directly to reciting McCain talking points.

--KSFO says that Obama's lipstick on a pig comment just might be his Muslim father's DNA talking.

--John McCain is surprisingly grilled by Joy Behar and Barbara Walters on The View.

--Former Midweek Politics guest and former terrorist Walid Shoebat says that Obama is definitely a Muslim.

--Attackers say Obama thinks 9/11 was an inside job, citing no evidence.

--Is Hillary Clinton not campaigning as fervently for Barack Obama as some say she should or could be?

--Much more.

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Midweek Politics 9.10.2008

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time:

This Week's Topics:

--Kenny Gamble, legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member and writer of the new song "I Am an American" joins us live.

--Wrapping up the Republican National Convention, including all the speeches and rhetoric.

--Rudy Giuliani's speech at the RNC, which focused on Obama as a flip-flopper, and making fun of Barack Obama's past role as a community organizer.

--Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's speech, including her bizarre delivery.

--John McCain's RNC speech, and the analysis of it from the media.

--A look at some of the comments made about the various protesting groups at the RNC.

--John McCain answers about the lack of diversity in the Republican Party, but by talking about something completely unrelated.

--Jon Voight gets used by thge conservative media as an actor that supports Republicans, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck absolutely loves it.

--Joe Biden explains that to him, it doesn't seem at all surprising that there are strong woman politicians, he just doesn't understand a thing about Sarah Palin.

--A close look at Sarah Palin's positions on a number of issues.

--The fake drama regarding American flags and the Democratic and Republican conventions.

--Fox News criticizes MSNBC for hiring a lesbian to host a show, and also threatens to turn of a guest's microphone if they recite talking points, right before reciting talking points themselves.

--Is Hillary Clinton wholeheartedly campaigning for Barack Obama?

--Republican frenzy over Sarah Palin.

--Much more.

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Midweek Politics 09.03.2008

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, M

Total Running Time: 58:03

This Week's Topics:

--Joseph Farah, editor, founder, and CEO of WorldNetDaily, joins us live.

--A Republican delegate calls in live from the Republican National Convention.

--Hillary Clinton halts the roll call at the Democratic National Convention.

--John Kerry continues to talk about Senator McCain versus Candidate McCain.

--Bill Clinton's DNC speech, as well as Al Gore's, who says recycling's great, but not when we're talking about Bush administration policies.

--Joe Biden officially accepts the Vice-Presidential nomination and gives his speech at the DNC.

--Barack Obama's speech from the DNC.

--Pat Buchanan surprisingly says he absolutely loved Barack Obama's DNC speech.

--Caroline Kennedy tells Wolf Blitzer she simply won't tell him about the vetting process for vice-presidentia picks.

--Sarah Palin is picked by John McCain as his running mate for the election, but isn't she even more unqualified than Republicans have been saying Barack Obama is?

--George W. Bush insists McCain is very independent during his satellite RNC speech.

--Sarah Palin said, as recently as July, that she does not even know what the Vice President does.

--John McCain calls Sarah Palin his soulmate.

--Karl Rove said that Governor Tim Kaine does not have enough experience to be Obama's Vice President, yet he still has much more experience than Sarah Palin.

--Fox News quickly sets up a false contrast between Palin and Biden, BOTH of whom have sons going to Iraq.

--Donald Trump, as critical as he has been of George W. Bush, says that Barack Obama would make everybody pay double and triple the taxes.

--Dick Morris insists there's no difference in the percentage of the time that McCain and Obama vote in agreement with George W. Bush.

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics 08.27.2008

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, M

Total Running Time: 56:39

This Week's Topics:

--The 2008 Democratic National Convention begins and Joe Biden is chosen as Barack Obama's vice presidential running mate.

--Hillary Clinton's speech at the DNC, trying to convince her primary voters to vote for Obama in the November election, and her comments about Joe Biden being chosen as Obama's running mate.

--John McCain says Biden wants to break Iraq into three separate countries.

--Joe Biden jumps right into the McCain housing gaffe during his first campaign appearance.

--Nancy Pelosi comments on the McCain housing gaffe, while the Fox and Friends crew on Fox News covers for McCain.

--On the Tonight Show, McCain responds to the housing controversy by talking about his POW experience, a tactic that strategists are suggesting might not work that well for McCain.

--Conservative radio continue to make comments about Barack Obama's half-brother in Kenya, although George Obama himself has refuted the claims being made.

--Concern over whether John McCain wants to reinstate the draft, and McCain's abortion situation.

--Analysis of Obama and McCain's tax plans, and how they affect people at each income level.

--Jonathan Hoenig makes unbelievable comments about brain aneurysms.

--Michael Savage insists the Democratic Party is made up of mostly minority grups of all kinds, and that each minority group hates white people.

--Dick Morris insists we're in Iraq because they want us there, a story that seems hard to believe for most, especially lately.

--Spike Lee and Ben Stein on the DNC.

--Bill Maher's new documentary Religulous.

--Much more...

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