Prime Time Thread

Open thread for Wednesday night blogotubers.

Tonight! Me and Lee on the radio with special guest Dave Neiwert, author of The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right.

We’re moving the showtime to 8PM Eastern starting tonight, so I’m combining the open thread with the radio show thread. Listen live here. Call the show: (347) 945-5235.

UPDATE: We’re on!

UPDATE 2: Live show’s over. Continuing in the podcast with the gun guy from Kansas.

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  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    Good Evening all.

  • El Mystico

    Hi Annette! Good call with the combined radio/ptt… all the moving back and forth, you’re bound to lose jerks like me who…y’know are morons. Moron + jerk = Merkin? You decide.

  • Skippy

    Evening, Annette. And everyone else.I wonder what the record lowest attendance for a protest is.

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    I don’t know.. I have seen estimates of anywhere from 15 to several dozen for the one against Dave.. from what I could see if there were 2 dozen it was high…lol

  • http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/bird/flamingo/honolulu/flamingo01.jpg veralynn

    evening all

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    Hey Vera.. How did things go?

  • http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/bird/flamingo/honolulu/flamingo01.jpg veralynn

    the usual Annette, yadda yadda, we’ll call youthanks for asking

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    Well, hopefully things will work out. Were there many people there?

  • Skippy

    There were more reporters there than protesters. That is an epic fail by any standard.

  • http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/bird/flamingo/honolulu/flamingo01.jpg veralynn

    thanks AnnetteI was the only one that I saw lolYay! Bob is clear

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    Sounds good here.Well, that’s a good things Vera..

  • http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/bird/flamingo/honolulu/flamingo01.jpg veralynn

    love crooks and liars

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    Yes, I do too. I read them all the time, several times a day…lol

  • Skippy

    Someone call a Waahmbulance for the Republicans.

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    Someone certainly needs to…lol

  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    The ex foreign minister of Iran was arrested and thrown in prison today for labeling the election fraud as a ‘coup’.

  • Skippy

    Unfortunately, I think the situation in Iran is going to get worse before it gets better. And he’s quite right – it is a coup.Some of the neocons have been unbelievable – they hate Ahmadinejad, but they want the uprising to fail to keep their sad, sick dream of bombing and invading Iran alive.

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    Didn’t they say the Supreme Leader was supposed to finally address it Friday?

  • Skippy

    LOL – Evita Palin!

  • Skippy

    Not sure, Annette. He’s already gone from affirming the results as a ‘divine assessment’ to effectively being forced into investigating vote-rigging. I wonder where Khameini goes from here? The Iranians are starting to turn on him now too.

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    I just read that Ash.. they drug him out of the hospital to do it too..

  • http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/bird/flamingo/honolulu/flamingo01.jpg veralynn

    that is because they want to win political points, not make the country better

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    Yes, and from what Ed was showing with the poll numbers it is paying off for them.Pres. Obama’s numbers are still holding pretty good, but closing GitMo is not popular with the population, and some of the other stuff, I can’t remember.

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    MATT, How cool…

  • http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/bird/flamingo/honolulu/flamingo01.jpg veralynn

    matt!!!

  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    Yes, the Supreme Leader is suppose to make a statement on friday. Theres only so many choices for him on what to say though. Recount? Revote? No-compromise? A recount will basically be pointless if most of the votes were fraudulant anyway. A revote will probably spur violence by the ruling party. No-compromise will spur violence by Mousavi supporters. Its lose, lose, and lose.For the right wing however, it wont matter what the ultimate outcome is. They will demonize Iran no matter what happens.

  • Skippy

    Of course. Their ‘exporting democracy and freedom’ spiel is being exposed for the crap it’s always been by their reaction to events in Iran.Obama’s reaction’s been perfect so far. Can you imagine what John ‘Bomb Bomb Iran’ McCain’s reaction to this would’ve been if he were president? *shudders*

  • http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/bird/flamingo/honolulu/flamingo01.jpg veralynn

    or shrub skippy…

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    I think Fox News Corp must own the gold buying company or the other way around.. I went to the web site because the FB page of Beck wanted you to write to them about pulling the advertising, and all you saw was all the Fox News anchors on the site.. every one of them.

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Yes, that was me. Nervous as all heck, but I HAD to call in!

  • http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/bird/flamingo/honolulu/flamingo01.jpg veralynn

    you did great Matt!

  • http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/bird/flamingo/honolulu/flamingo01.jpg veralynn

    you didn’t sound nervous at all

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    Great job Matt.. you sounded wonderful.

  • http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/bird/flamingo/honolulu/flamingo01.jpg veralynn

    how did limpdick even get a show in he first place? what credentials did he have?

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    I don’t get stage fright but something about “radio” makes my heart rate climb.IMHO Bob is right about Hannity. He’s Teh Wacky™, not Teh Crazy™.

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne
  • http://arkytek.blogspot.com/ SillyGit

    Can’t have a coup without a nice cheese and some claret.

  • Skippy

    Totally agree. All the right wing pundits look like they’d be awful people outside their shows as well.

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    Matt, here is some information for you:Goldline International, Inc. became the exclusive precious metals sponsor of the Glenn Beck show in 2008. It also appears that they are the exclusive sponsor of Glenn Beck’s comedy show. So, they’ve been added to the list of Fox News sponsors.

  • Skippy

    So the Census, which has been around for well over a hundred years, suddenly becomes an evil government tool under a black Democratic president.WTF goes on in that crazy woman’s mind?

  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    Maybe there is actually a tiny MenInBlack-esque alien inside Bachmann’s head running the whole show. One would like to think its not actually possible for a reasonable human to believe the garbage that she spews.

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    Because they will give the information to ACORN.. and it will use the info for bad things.

  • jane from hell

    dear fucking GOD that took forever to get signed in. Maybe I should tattoo all my passwords somewhere on my body?

  • Skippy

    Yeah. She probably thinks they’ll pass Republican voters’ addresses on to Bill Ayers who’ll come after them and blow them and their houses up.

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Thanks Annette!Ron Paul… If you look up “paleoconservative” in the dictionary, you will find an 8×10 glossy photo of Ron Paul.

  • http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/bird/flamingo/honolulu/flamingo01.jpg veralynn

    you could work those into a nice piece of art jane

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    jane, just use one password for all commenting. You should only use different passwords for different categories: my banking password is different from my server password and my email password is different from my Blogger password, but all my comment profiles share a single password.

  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    You joke Skippy, but you’re really not far off at all. Infact, what the true wingnuts think is even worse than what you said.The wackos on the tinfoilhat websites were all up in arms about the census beureu using GPS to mark homes a few weeks ago. Some of them claimed that homes of government dissidents would be marked with GPS so that they could easily be targeted with missles….I wish I made that up, but I didn’t.

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    The NRA didn’t support McCain 8 years ago either..

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Lee should see the billboard about a mile from my house. It advertises a gun and knife show:”GET ONE – WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!”

  • Skippy

    It’s scary that some of the world’s most paranoid people are gun owners. Really frickin’ scary.Oh dear techie problems…

  • Skippy

    I know Ashby – a few years ago we’d have sworn you couldn’t make up the thought processes and actions of wingnuts, but now…

  • ceu

    o the Census, which has been around for well over a hundred years,Skippy – the census is mandated by the Constitution (Article 1, section 2).the first census was done in 1790. so, yeah, it’s been around

  • http://www.bobcesca.com Bob_Cesca

    You guys HAVE TO download the podcast when it’s ready. I totally ripped into the gun guy and hung up on him. It was fun and awesome.

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    Good job Bob..

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl™

    Time to extend your show at least an extra 1/2 hour guys. Good one tonight.

  • Skippy

    ceu – I meant to say two hundred but somehow my brain didn’t connect with my fingers, which typed ‘a hundred’. This is what happens when I don’t check what I’ve typed.You go, Bob! Looking forward to hearing the gun nut get a well deserved ass kicking.

  • Stranahan

    Yeah, Bob was great….got totally fed up….plus, he was controlling the switchboard.Boooom

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    Bob, if you are still here.. I think Keith said one night when he was on Bill Maher, that Hannity was only in it for the money. That he really didn’t believe all the stuff he puts out and if someone offered him enough he would switch sides in a heartbeat.

  • ceu

    Been there on the not seeing that you’ve mistyped until it’s too late, skippy. It’s just that a lot of people don’t realize it’s in the Constitution (I’m willing to bet that Bachmann doesn’t)…

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl™

    You can tell that Hannity is just in it for the ratings and money. He thinks it’s all a game. I don’t recall if it was Franken or Garofalo who had said that off-air, Hannity’s smiling and joking with them in a “isn’t this fun?” kind of way. He takes nothing seriously… which I guess makes it worse. At least if you believe the shit you say, there’s something to it – I don’t know, standing by your convictions? – but if you’re saying outrageous stuff just to rile the crowd, that is beyond vile.

  • Skippy

    Annette -It would explain Hannity’s reluctance to fulfil his offer to be waterboarded for charity. He may of course, just be a big mouthed coward, but if he doesn’t genuinely believe it’s not torture, he wouldn’t want to put himself through it.

  • Skippy

    I’m not entirely sure Bachmann’s even aware of the Constitution, ceu…

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    Yes, just thought I would mention it since Bob brought it up, I remember hearing it when KO said it to Bill Maher. I laughed when he said it and thought how funny..and wondered how many of the others the same was true..and then KO said he really believed what he said, his wasn’t an act.

  • alopecia

    Skippy: My guess is that Hannity simply got carried away and made an offer he would never in a million years go through with. And that he was dumb enough to think nobody would remember what he said. Doesn’t mean he’s *not* a loud-mouthed coward, mind you…

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    Another openly gay member of Congress and we still can’t get a bill introduced to repeal DADT or DOMA and they want to yell at the president.. What is wrong with this picture?

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    Tonight is Ghost Hunting Night…lol

  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    hahahahahaKeith : “Too bad they aren’t the party of No when it comes to taking their pants off”lmao

  • http://arkytek.blogspot.com/ SillyGit

    There is little evidence that Michele Bachmann is self-aware let alone aware of the Constitution.

  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    Worst Persons tonight was greathttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T8MMXHY-ogFox News / Virgin Brand condomsBrilliant

  • http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=65905268&ref=profile Mike H.

    The podcast cuts off.

  • kansasdem

    I couldn’t get thru tonight, I really tried.I wish you’d all have spent a few more minutes on “how the USA meddled in Iran’s elections”!Sorry, but I see a huge difference between the parties! Pence and McCain demand we demand something we demand as long as we demand it!Obama reminds us that we Americans don’t get to vote in Iran!