LiveBlog for Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) calls in at 9:05am ET / 6:05am PT to talk about Obama’s BP speech and extending unemployment benefits.

Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” calls in at 9:20am ET / 6:20am PT to talk about his new special, “The Rise of the New Right.”

David Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent for “The New York Times” and author of “The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power,” calls in at 9:35am ET / 6:35am PT to talk about the BP Oil Spill and the economy

Karl Frisch, contributor to Media Matters for America, calls in at 10:05am ET / 7:05am PT to co-host Right Wing World

Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) calls in at 11:05am ET / 8:05am PT to talk about President Obama’s BP Oil Speech

• Fresh from admonishing BP before the world, President Barack Obama now gets his moment with the oil company’s leaders. It will be on his turf and, he vowed to an angry nation, on his terms.

• Scientists provided a new estimate for the amount of oil gushing from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday that indicates it could be leaking up to 2.52 million gallons of crude a day. The latest numbers reflect an increase in the flow that scientists believe happened after undersea robots earlier this month cut off a kinked pipe.

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I hope someone reads this someday. I got a spot on my lung and I have to get drunk evan to talk. Going to the hospital. chris mathews is a piece of right wing work. Jews are the cause of all these problems GET OUT OF PALASTINE FREAKING JEWS!! Helen Thomas is right they destroyed us and will get theirs in the end!

After listening to the show, I was depressed. Obama got BP to agree to pay 20 billion now and possibly more later. Contact a victim of Exxon Valdez and (if they are still alive) tell them that the President did a crappy job - I don't think they will agree with most of you. The Gulf is ruined because of W, and no amount of money will make it safe. People should use their payments and move.

You can criticize Obama for actual evil doings, but if you cannot give him credit once in a while for the good he has done, you're digging a grave for all of us. Palin 2012 WILL be the reality. The 2010 results will kick-start impeachment proceedings. See how happy you truly are with Obama's replacement.

pay attention to what the astronomers are saying about the sun. We've gone through two virtually nonexistent solar max periods. It's possible that the sun is pregnant.

Far from sending out solar flares and sunspots, the sun has been dormant and unsettlingly quiet--like that neighbor who never says much but one day is discovered to have several bodies buried in his crawlspace. The sun us behaving in a way unseen in the century it has been studied scientifically. The winter of 2012-2013 are supposed to be the height of solar activity and we should be building toward that now (it's an 11-year cycle). Keep your cats indoors. Put on your safety helmet. Alternate side of the street parking will be suspended in the event of a supernova. Things are liable to get dicey.

coming, this summer: alien vs predator vs terminator IN A STEEL CAGE

Never take part in a circular firing squad unless you have a machine gun and you're facing in the opposite direction from everyone else.

I wish het show was on satellite exclusively.
:-(

Well, 'bye eMooks.

Can we all unite tomorrow? Or will it be more circular firing squad?

>> Juliet Hussein Bravo says:
>> The rightwing talking point that Obama is on the payroll of the oil companies because he received some fairly modest contributions is laughable.

Yeah, $77,000 out of a total of $750 MILLION dollars.

Yet Chris, yesterday, repeated the EXACT SAME RIGHT WING TALKING POINT by mentioning the $77,000 dollars without mentioning the total. This is very deceptive.

>> But the basic concern — that even though he is holding BP accountable for the Gulf disaster, he is too deferential to institutions (Wall Street, big oil) as a personality trait — is a valid point.

Fine. But this is the person we elected to office. Candidate Obama never hid the fact that he was a centrist.

What started this whole argument, yesterday, was Chris and Jim agreeing with a caller that Obama had abandoned everything he promised stood for.

That is such an unfair and infuriating charge. ... and it undermines Obama's ability to lead.

it's always group hump time on stephanie miller.

group hump time - whoo hoo!

Bye, All.

"Terminator 2: Judgement Day of the Dead"

Time to do some work...See you tomorrow!

Have a great day, everyone!

"Ice Age of Innocence"

#441 Ron: "'Chris and Jim’s “Obama is bought off by BP' is not valid and well-thought out."

Agreed, but with all the inter-host poo-flinging, the basic point is being missed. The rightwing talking point that Obama is on the payroll of the oil companies because he received some fairly modest contributions is laughable.

But the basic concern -- that even though he is holding BP accountable for the Gulf disaster, he is too deferential to institutions (Wall Street, big oil) as a personality trait -- is a valid point.

The laws of nature and physics don't respond to the two Kyles on this show, either.

LA needs Mama to calm some of those bitches down

Maybe P'Obama understands that if we TOTALLY break BP there will be no one to work to solve it. What would happen if BP goes bankrupt?

"The Blair Witch Project Runway"

335: even still, i hanker for a hunk of, a slab or slice of chunk of, a hanker for a hunk of cheese.
pasta la pizza.

#443 - Touched by Charlie's Angels

#399: makes you think...

Steph's Emo Republican Lizard Brain Attacks!

New York, NY -- Hundreds were terrorized yesterday when the somnolent rightwing lizard brain of popular leftwing radio talk show host Stephanie Miller went on a shoving spree yesterday in Times Square.....

i love lucy addams family.

"Marked for Death Stalker"

scooby do sex in the city.

chico and the man love american style.

Chris and Jim's "Obama is bought off by BP" is not valid and well-thought out.

I'm not upset! I'm not emotional!

>> loganeagle says:
>> I am having trouble distinguishing between liberals and the right…always negative no matter what he says.

You got that right. Callers and even hosts on liberal talk shows are saying "Obama is bought-off. He's abandoned everything he stood for."

The Right Wing are groovin' on this. It's why we liberals can govern -- even with majorities.

From the '50s and '60s: "My Three Sons Meet Millie"

Wanna Be Stephin' Somthin'

“Saving Grace Under Fire”

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"The White Shadow of a Doubt"

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I understand that, shaf.
Will be looking forward to the download.

Hang tough Stephanie. A pattern is emerging and a gang mentality is emerging. It is pack wolf time. It is beginning to remind me of the press "talking points" during 2000 which did as much to defeat Gore as did the Supreme Court. I am having trouble distinguishing between liberals and the right...always negative no matter what he says. I watched the first two minutes of Countdown and Maddow last night and then turned both off. They were negative from the get go. I haven't watched Matthews in five years. And Fineman's snarky face is reminding me more and more of Chris Wallace's permanent smirk. Remember that Fineman was a member of the gang-up-on-Gore club. And what's this attack about ending with the prayer tradition for the fishing season. I am not religious but was not at all bothered by it. You don't understand America if you carp at that part. It connected with America but not the Beltway and pundits. I have sent at least 25 critical emails to the White House...but I remind myself of all he has done. Obama has done more in 18 months than any other president except maybe FDR. Some context, please. Keep it up folks and we will have a republican in the White House in 2012. I found it an excellent speech and am confident that he will follow through on his promises.

“Saving Grace Under Fire”

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"All in the Family Feud"

That last caller made a mistake -- you should NEVER base an opinion on reports of a presidential speech.

The commentary on presidential speeches usually have a completely different agenda than the speech itself.

Harold and Maude, Perfect Strangers

who would ever guess that love canal would be polluted by hooker chemical?

#387 TR, I don't know why. It's Ken's show, I'm just a TUTN-mook.

#419 The Great Pumpkin always visits the Flynt house.

during the rest of the time, on qvc, the dildoes are doing the selling. after midnight, they're for sale.

“Saving Grace Under Fire”

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Gone With The Wind And The Lion

Three Mile Island was not in Love Canal.

#417 I think it's more the story of his patients, but we're on the same page. :smile:

Steph is getting catty-wumpus on her geography again. ;)