Political Strategist David Bender is filling in for Steph and the Mooks all week. Today’s show is chock full of guests! Joining David today are Thom Hartmann, Karl Frisch of Bullfight Strategies, Jon Sinton of the Progressive Voices Smartphone App, Former and Future Congressman Alan Grayson, and radio host Cary Harrison. And David will be taking your calls at 1-800-STEPH-1-2!
Just thought I would throw out Racist Judge Richard Cebull in Montana's direct phone line is 406-247-7766.
Please call and let him know what you think about his take on "neutrality".
Pass it on!
See you tomorrow . . . have a great day!
Cheers, everyone!
Good day everybody.Be kind to your two and four-footed friends.
No, it was Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose from "To Kill a Mockingbird". Luckily the Confederate pistol under her shawl wasn't loaded.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_is_Mrs._Dubose_in_'To_Kill_a_Mockingbird'
Was that Art's wife?
Klassie LOL, by cracky!
The facts have a well-known liberal bias, as Jim Ward likes to say. Love how the caller doesn't respond to David's points, just rolls onto the next talking point.
By the way, as to black kids running around shooting people, the tragic shooting in Ohio involved in a white kid who shot three white boys, a white girl and a black kid. Of course, that was in the school cafeteria, not "the streets"...
Current caller is like the big-piehole Obama-hating racist woman I ran into at the movies a few months ago . . . .
Oh, dear, caller....
juliet bravo bless her heart
@juliet bravo Oh, puhlesse, David, hang up on this beyotch!
Dannybob juliet lol.
Monkees react to Davy Jones' death
http://www.eonline.com/news/monkees_react_davy_jones_death_mike/297814
Klassie Very gracious
I loved this song - Carole King's "Pleasant Valley Sunday". Growing up in the 'burbs, it was easy to scorn the conformist Levittown version of the American Dream., but as I got older I felt more empathy for those people who had grown up in the tenements and/or often unhappy multigenerational homes during the Depression (the anti-Waltons) and served their time in WWII and Korea. Mowing their very own strip of grass probably seemed like a slice of Paradise. That said, the criticisms of the younger generation were well-founded as well.
Klassie Well said.
@juliet bravo @Klassie Lee's brilliant, as usual!
RIP Davy Jones. You made us happy with your music.
I miss Mama. I mean, the soda stream, p90x, and carbonite are great, but I miss the farts. If anyone sees me french-kissing Fluffy the poodle, please pull me away.
Exactly, Bendy. We have the numbers.
True that - your number could be up any day. You have to live every day like it's your last without getting so carpe diem you ignore longterm goals. Easier said than done.
Good morning. Wow about Breitbart.Condolences. Maybe a lesson like Bendy said, you never know how long you have so you may want to think about your legacy.
Breaking News!!! Breitbart is DEAD!!! http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73493.html
ramko My condolences go to his family.
Now, how quickly will someone suggest this was an "assassination" by Barack Obama? My guess is 12:13 on Rush's show.
ramko Wow, that's unbelievable - I didn't realize he was only 43. Condolences to his family.
@juliet bravo @ramko Another instance of weird things happening when Momma goes on vaca . . . OMG . . . you don't think . . .
Dannybob juliet ramko Breitbart used to get into Twitter wars with people, including Sam Seder - looks like he was squaring off with David Schuster over the past week - but that seem to have been his raison d'être.
Still, weird things DO happen when Steph goes on vacation - we'll just have to keep her in the studio.
lol. look for empty wine boxes at the scene.
Trying to cram Hal Sparks into 1 minute is like trying to cram a plastic snake in a can :-D
David Bender does a good job of balancing the adamant defenders of President Obama like Hal, and supporters who nonetheless feel it's important to criticize the president to improve his policies, like Cliff Schecter. I initially winced when Cliff called in yesterday, fearing the worst, but Bendy steered the conversation onto the safer topic of John McCain.
@juliet bravo Not your day to be on, Hal. I think you had plenty of time to plug yourself yesterday. Poor Breibart's family. The man always acted like Dennis Miller if he'd been hit on the head with something blunt. Funniest thing was when he was on TV with Momma, and she pretends to be reading his book when the camera goes on her and then she throws it away.
Silly meetings - who schedules those things during the Stephanie Miller Show, anyway?
Thom's wicked smart.
I am, unfortunately, only here until 10:00, as I have back-to-back-to-back meetings starting at 10 today. Maybe I'll be able to sneak back for a bit.
Love listening to Thom Hartmann.
Gooooooood morning, Mike T. Liberal and Livefyrebloggers at large!
Davey Jones was just a good guy, and those were great songs, many written by Neil Diamond and Carole King. The writing for "The Monkees" actually holds up, which is more than you can say for a lot of '60s TV - goofy and lighthearted, but some sly social commentary as well. "Pleasant Valley Sunday" is more overt, but as a wee kid I didn't appreciate that "Last Train to Clarksville" was actually a mild anti-war song, very brave for mainstream TV in 1966.
juliet bravo It was? I never knew that. Hmph.
@MikeTheLiberal @juliet bravo Both Carole King and Peter Tork turned 70 this year. Where's the time going? Also Sir Paul McCartney, Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Martin Scorsese.
MikeTheLiberal Neither did I, although looking back, it makes perfect sense, per James Percone's book "Music of the Counterculture" p. 46 (Livefyre does not like my link to Google Books).
MikeTheLiberal
The whole "scandal" about them not playing on the records (they were musicians and performers, but were replaced by studio ringers) looks silly by today's standards - they went on to write and record more than today's autotuned boy bands (no offense to Steph's neighbors).
Their tour last fall was interrupted by some sort of squabble amongst the record companies vs. the "Threekees" (Monkees sans Mike Nesmith).
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/peter-tork-monkees-canceled-tour-due-to-a-glitch-20111011
Dang; forgot that the live stream had a Steph repeat.
Good morning, Frye-bloggers!
I hope there's a lot of Monkees bumper music today. Hard to believe that Davey Jones was a mere two years older than my wife.
@MikeTheLiberal Mike Malloy had a few Monkee's bumps yesterday. Remember a big argument the fifth grade girls and boys were having over who was better - Beatles vs. Monkees. For some reason the guys liked the Monkees more, and one kid retorted "At least the Monkees never said they were more popular than Christ!"
Dannybob MikeTheLiberal Good times - remember the Great Brady Bunch vs. Partridge Family Debate?
@juliet bravo @MikeTheLiberal Simple - the humor on Partridge Family was at least a little witty and smartass, while Brady Bunch was saccharine and lame.
Dannybob juliet MikeTheLiberal And bland - I agree
