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LiveBlog for Thursday, September 2, 1010
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
• Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT for another edition of “Face The Grayson
• Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about her recent trip to New Orleans for the 5th anniversary of Katrina
• Will Bunch, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 11:05am ET / 8:05am PT to talk about his new book, “The Backlash: Right Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama”
• Officers scoured the Discovery Communications building in suburban DC overnight after a hostage-taker claiming to have “several bombs” was shot dead, but did not find any “active devices” at the scene, NBC News reported Thursday.
• Much of the East Coast is under warnings and watches as the Labor Day weekend approaches, including hurricane warnings for parts of North Carolina. Category four Hurricane Earl, which has maximum sustained winds near 145 mph, is located about 410 miles south of Cape Hatteras, N.C.
• The U.S. marked on Wednesday the transition to the final phase of the Iraq war, shifting the focus of the remaining 50,000 American troops from combat operations to preparing Iraqi security forces to protect the country on their own.
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LiveBlog for Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
• Hal Sparks calls in from London today for a telephone version of “Humpdays With Hal”
• Karl Frisch, contributor to Media Matters for America, calls in at 10:05am ET / 7:05am PT to co-host Right Wing World
• Labor Secretary Hilda Solis calls in at 11:20am ET / 8:20am PT to talk about Labor Day and what the Obama administration is doing to put people back to work
• President Obama made it official Tuesday: Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the nation’s No. 1 priority is fixing the economy. “The end of our combat mission in Iraq” comes at “a time of great uncertainty for many Americans,” Obama said in a nationally televised address from the Oval Office.
• Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski conceded the election in the Alaska Republican primary Tuesday to a little-known conservative lawyer backed by former governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
• President Obama is opening a new round of Mideast peacemaking, bringing Israeli and Palestinian leaders together Wednesday for talks aimed at forging an agreement within one year on a two-state solution: a sovereign Palestine and a secure Israel.
• Thousands of people were told to evacuate a North Carolina island and a hurricane watch was issued for Virginia Wednesday morning as Earl weakened but still threatened to sideswipe the East Coast.
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LiveBlog for Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
• Rev. Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners, calls in at 8:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about what he’s doing to counter the heightened rhetoric of hate against President Obama
• Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe writer and author of “Idiot America,” calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about the news of the day
• Actress and comedian Aisha Tyler joins us in studio at 11:05am ET / 8:05am PT for another edition of “Tuesdays With Tyler”
• As President Obama prepares to officially end the lengthy and divisive U.S. combat operation in Iraq, he’ll personally thank some of the soldiers who fought there for their service to a mission he forcefully opposed from the start.
• President Obama acknowledged Monday that the economy continues to struggle and too many Americans are still struggling to find jobs. He also took Republicans to task for what he said was partisan politics that are standing in the way of passing a bill aimed at helping small businesses.
• Hurricane Earl, now a powerful Category 4 storm, barreled toward the U.S. coast today after battering tiny islands across the Caribbean with heavy rain and winds that damaged homes and toppled power lines. Earl is forecast to potentially brush the U.S. East Coast late Thursday.
• Consumer spending rose 0.4% in July after three lackluster months, the Commerce Department said Monday. Spending fell 0.1% in April, rose a tiny 0.1% in May and was flat in June.
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LiveBlog for Monday, August 30, 2010
Monday, August 30th, 2010
• The Rude Pundit calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to give us his rude impressions of Glenn Beck’s rally over the weekend
• Ari Rabin-Havt of Media Matters for America calls in at 10:05am ET / 7:05am PT to co-host Right Wing World
• Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about the economic roundtable she participated in this past Friday
• Edie McClurg joins us in studio at 11:05am ET / 8:05am PT for another edition of “Mondays With McClurg”
• GOP commentator Glenn Beck and tea party champion Sarah Palin appealed Saturday to a vast, predominantly white crowd on the National Mall to help restore traditional American. Civil rights leaders who accused the group of hijacking Martin Luther King’s legacy held their own rally and march.
• President Barack Obama said Saturday the end of combat operations in Iraq doesn’t just reaffirm the country’s sovereignty, but also makes good on one of his principle campaign pledges.
• The darkly intimate 1960s-era drama “Mad Men” and the comedy romp “Modern Family” were the top honorees at Sunday’s Emmy Awards as American life past and present proved a winning formula.
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LiveBlog for Friday, August 27, 2010
Friday, August 27th, 2010
• Actor, director, and activist Rob Reiner calls in at 11:05AM ET / 8:05AM PT to talk about his new movie “Flipped,” and to tell us his role in the fight against Prop. 8
• John Fugelsang calls in from the Florida Bureau at 11:30am ET / 8:30am PT for another edition of “Fridays With Fugelsang”
• An American freed after nearly seven months jailed in North Korea left Pyongyang on Friday in the company of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Carter had flown to the North Korean capital three days earlier on a rare private mission to negotiate Gomes’ release
• Food and Drug Administration officials say they have found positive samples of salmonella in chicken feed that link two Iowa farms to a massive egg recall.
• The first video released of the 33 workers trapped deep in a Chilean mine shows the men stripped to the waist and appearing slim but healthy, arm-in-arm, singing the national anthem and yelling “long live Chile, and long live the miners!” The men made the video with a small camera sent down to them through a small emergency shaft drilled to their emergency shelter.
• Stocks fell Thursday after early gains from a better report on jobless claims faded. The Dow Jones industrial average closed below 10,000 for the first time since early July.
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LiveBlog for Thursday, August 26, 2010
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
• Joan Rivers calls in at 9:05am ET / 6:05am PT to talk about her show, “E! Fashion Police” for the upcoming Emmy awards
• Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) calls in at 9:35am ET / 6:35am PT for another edition of “Face The Grayson”
• Jennifer Palmieri of The Center for American Progress, calls in at 11:05am ET / 6:05am PT to talk about who is funding the Tea Party Movement
• Ken Mehlman, President Bush’s campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay and now wants to be an advocate for gay marriage.
• Fresh eggs being produced by farms at the heart of a massive recall are making their way to consumers via facilities that pasteurize the eggs, process them and rid them of any possible salmonella, the FDA said yesterday.
• President Barack Obama will deliver a major address on Iraq from the Oval Office next Tuesday night, according to the White House. Obama’s remarks also will touch on Afghanistan and the broader war against terrorism, the White House said.
• Stocks were set to advance for a second straight session Thursday, as investors awaited a weekly report on jobless claims. Dow Jones industrial average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq futures slightly edged up.
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LiveBlog for Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
• Hal Sparks joins us in studio for another edition of “Humpdays With Hal”
• NY Times columnist Frank Rich calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about his columns, “Angels In America” and “How Fox Betrayed Petraeus”
• Karl Frisch, contributor to Media Matters for America, calls in at 10:05am ET / 7:05am PT to co-host Right Wing World
• On a night where most of the incumbents held serve in the political arena, Alaska GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski is trailing a political unknown. In AZ, Sen. John McCain won the GOP Senate primary after a bitter campaign against former U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth. In Florida, Rick Scott, a millionaire political newcomer, defeated the state’s Attorney General Bill McCollum on Tuesday in the GOP primary for governor.
• Former Agriculture employee Shirley Sherrod has rejected an offer from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to come back to the Department of Agriculture. She has not ruled out helping the department in the future on a consultant basis after it completes its own investigation into discrimination in the department.
• Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) called on Tuesday for President Barack Obama to fire his economic team in a campaign-style speech meant to focus voters on the weak American economy.
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LiveBlog for Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
• Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe writer and blogger for Esquire.com, calls in at 10:30a, ET / 7:30am PT to talk about the news of the day
Actress and comedian Aisha Tyler joins us in studio at 11:05am ET / 8:05am PT for another edition of “Tuesdays With Tyler”
• The number of U.S. troops in Iraq has fallen below 50,000 for the first time since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and ahead of the end-of-the-month deadline mandated by President Barack Obama, the American military said in a statement Tuesday.
• Vice President Joe Biden said on Monday he is pressing Iraq’s leaders to settle their differences and form a government, almost six months after the country’s election and a week before the scheduled end of the U.S. combat mission.
• Food and Drug Administration officials said Monday that there is no evidence a massive outbreak of salmonella in eggs has spread beyond two Iowa farms, though a team of investigators is still trying to figure out what caused it. FDA officials said they do not expect the number of eggs recalled — 550 million — to grow.
• Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican who has broken ranks in the past with the GOP, gave Democrat Joe Sestak his second major endorsement from moderates in a week in his bid for a hotly contested Senate seat in Pennsylvania.
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LiveBlog for Monday, August 23, 2010
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
• The Rude Pundit calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk to us about the news of the day in the rudest way possible
• Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 10:05am ET / 7:05am PT to co-host another edition of Right Wing World
• Jim McLaughlin, UFCW International Vice President and President of UFCW Local 99, calls in at 11:30am ET / 8:30am PT to tell us how the UFCW fights for working families
• The proposed Islamic community center near ground zero drew hundreds of fever-pitch demonstrators Sunday, with opponents carrying signs associating Islam with blood, supporters shouting, “Say no to racist fear!” and American flags waving on both sides.
• The companies that have recalled more than half a billion eggs following a salmonella outbreak fell short of safety standards at their farms, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said Sunday.
• Shirley Sherrod, who received an apology after being forced to resign from the Agriculture Department, will meet Tuesday with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to discuss a job offer, a department official confirmed Saturday.
• If all goes as planned, the “bottom kill” operation to permanently plug the ruptured underwater well in the Gulf of Mexico should be completed by the week after Labor Day, Thad Allen said Thursday.
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LiveBlog for Friday, August 20, 2010
Friday, August 20th, 2010
• John Fugelsang joins us from the San Francisco Bureau of Stephanie Miller International for another 3-hour edition of “Fridays With Fugelsang”
• Christian Weller, Economist with the Center for American Progress, calls in at 10:05am ET / 7:05am PT to update us on the economy
• Scientists on Thursday reported results from the first detailed study of a giant plume of oily water near the blown-out BP well — stating that it measured at least 22 miles long, more than a mile wide and 650 feet tall.
• The Obama administration has assured Israel that Iran’s process of converting nuclear material into a working weapon would take at least a year, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
• Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani joined a growing number of politicians Thursday supporting a move of a proposed Islamic center and mosque away from the ground zero area to state-owned land farther from the Sept. 11 attack site.
• The Labor Department said claims for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly last week and the Federal Reserve of Philadelphia said manufacturing activity in the mid-Atlantic region has dropped during August.
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