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19 June 2013, 12:30 pm by: David Waldman
It's the run-up to Netroots Nation, and that figures promiently in today's show. Greg Dworkin offered his own observations and remembrances of NN in this morning's roundup, as well as stories on Rick Perry's job poaching junket to Connecticut, new polling from…
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18 June 2013, 12:43 pm by: David Waldman
A Republican back-bencher (not a euphemism) broke into the headlines today with his eyebrow-raising claim that fetuses masturbate at 15 weeks. So... that's nice. Greg Dworkin discusses his latest for Politix, his pundit round-up of both-sides-ism, Republican…
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17 June 2013, 12:57 pm by: David Waldman
NSA remains at the top of the charts this week, with things only becoming more confused the more articles are written on the subject. A CNET story relying on reactions from Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) to a Congressional briefing stirred the hornet's nest over the…
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14 June 2013, 12:52 pm by: David Waldman
The six month anniversary of the 12/14 Newtown shootings brings us to a new and particularly intriguing episode of #GunFAIL, the recent killing of a 10-year-old Virginia girl by her 13-year-old brother, who was cleaning and repairing his shotgun at home. No…
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13 June 2013, 12:21 pm by: David Waldman
Greg Dworkin catches us up on non-NSA stories like the MA Senate race, confidence in Congress falling to an all-time low, Bloomberg's plan to hold gun safety policy holdouts to account, and a preview of his planned Sunday Kos essays. Then a discussion about…
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12 June 2013, 1:00 pm by: David Waldman
The kitchen appliance saga continues. But of slightly more importantance, so does the NSA story. Greg Dworkin first brings us a few non-NSA happenings, including the continued collapse of Darrell Issa's IRS narrative, the move by NYC Mayor and head of Mayors…
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11 June 2013, 12:20 pm by: David Waldman
Guess what? It's all about the NSA story again. And once again, Greg Dworkin and Armando pitch in on the discussion. Greg did bring us the top non-NSA story of the day, though, that being the Justice Department's Plan B reversal, plus some new and longer-term…
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10 June 2013, 11:58 am by: David Waldman
Total media dominance by a single, giant story has its advantages. One, it makes it easy to decide what to discuss that day on the show, and; two, it makes writing the episode synopsis relatively simple. Greg Dworkin and Armando both joined in the early…
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7 June 2013, 1:41 pm by: David Waldman
Our second show sponsored by Audible, which you can use to find audio books on the national security programs of domestic surveillance to catch up on the subject of the day! Greg Dworkin joined us for his regular abbreviated pundit roundup, including a…
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6 June 2013, 11:53 am by: David Waldman
The NSA phone data collection story dominated the headlines and discussion today. Extended appearances from Greg Dworkin and Armando helped carry the show again. Monte Frank of Team 26 and the Newtown Action Alliance joined the show as well, for an update on…
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5 June 2013, 12:28 pm by: David Waldman
Thanks to Greg Dworkin and Armando for carrying the show today! An extended pundit and polling roundup covered a wide range of topics: flu versus corona virus, patent trolls, NJ Gov. Chris Christie's call for an early special election, NBC/WSJ polling that…
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4 June 2013, 1:13 pm by: David Waldman
New roof going in at the World Broadcasting Headquarters, so pardon the background thumping. Josh Barro and Erick Erickson get in a slapfight and we get to watch. Greg Dworkin rounds the day's news up, beginning with a strange exemplar of the Freedom vs.…
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3 June 2013, 12:14 pm by: David Waldman
Congress returns to DC to begin the appropriations season, so we talk a bit about the different moving parts of the budget process and where appropriations fit in, as well as why certain appropriations bills always seem to move first. Greg Dworkin brings us…
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31 May 2013, 12:50 pm by: David Waldman
We started off this morning with a look at the startling National Journal article, "Gun Deaths Since Newtown Now Surpass Number of Americans Killed in Iraq." But as startling as that is, it's based on Slate's crowd-sourced and "necessarily incomplete"…
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30 May 2013, 12:12 pm by: David Waldman
Fox sees doom in female breadwinners. #GunFAIL update. Armando's roundup, including: 1Q GDP revisions; comments on takes from Garance Franke-Ruta and E.J. Dionne on Clinton versus Obama "scandals"; the latest in the IRS & AP stories; the nomination of James…
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29 May 2013, 12:00 pm by: David Waldman
Greg Dworkin was back with us, but only for today. Busy week for him! But he was on hand to discuss the Bachmann retirement, today's somewhat laughable Tom Friedman article, GMU's Center for Media and Public Affairs' analysis of Politifact, and the quarter to…
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28 May 2013, 12:22 pm by: David Waldman
Seems like the context of the IRS story is changing bit by bit. The White House tees up a filibuster fight over judicial nominations, preparing up to three appointments to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Since that was the court that stood the last century of…
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23 May 2013, 1:09 pm by: David Waldman
Greg Dworkin discusses the lingering controversies, including some interesting variations in polling on the AP phone records. Also: the strange case of Josh Barro. The IRS story moves into a new phase, wherein Republicans insist that President Obama had to…
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22 May 2013, 12:35 pm by: David Waldman
Greg Dworkin joined us to discuss Oklahoma's continuing recovery, and some of the factors that stand in the way of more widespread adoption of protective measures like the construction of "safe rooms" and basements in homes in "Tornado Alley." Then we catch up…
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21 May 2013, 12:07 pm by: David Waldman
The day's news was obviously dominated by the Oklahoma tornado situation. In addition to providing our morning news and punditry roundup, of course, Greg Dworkin's an expert in disaster preparation, so we dove into that as well. And once again, disaster…
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20 May 2013, 12:44 pm by: David Waldman
Greg Dworkin confirmed for us that the weekend political world was pretty much frozen in place in the middle of last week, so we'd have to look elsewhere for political news not involving Republicans making breathless but unfounded comparisons to Watergate.…
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17 May 2013, 12:09 pm by: David Waldman
Wrapping up the week with Greg Dworkin, it seems the embers are dying in the "scandal" fires, one at a time. The Sunday shows always run a few days behind, though, because guests and topics are typically locked in by mid-week. On the radar today: Kevin Drum's…
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16 May 2013, 12:34 pm by: David Waldman
During Greg Dworkin's morning roundup, we wondered whether maybe the biggest casualty of this week's scandalpalooza has really been the Benghazi hoopla. Conservative fire remains concentrated on the IRS story, though that seems to be the one that offers the…
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15 May 2013, 11:45 am by: David Waldman
Greg Dworkin gave us a round-up sampling on the three "scandals" of the week, the 37th attempt of the House Republicans to repeal Obamacare, and Stanley Fish's question, "Is the N.R.A. Un-American?" Meanwhile, what's suddenly missing from the conversation?…
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14 May 2013, 1:05 pm by: David Waldman
Washington's focus on "scandal" continued today, to no one's surprise. Armando called in on the IRS, Benghazi and AP stories, plus the truly astounding Washington Post "fact check" of the "act of terror" versus "terrorist act" flap. We expanded the discussion…
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13 May 2013, 12:35 pm by: David Waldman
Death panels! I mean, Demon Pass! I mean, Benghazi! I mean, IRS! Yeah, we probably shouldn't feed this, but there's so many tangential issues tied up in how we treat charges of politicization of federal agencies, we just had to take a look. Greg Dworkin…
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10 May 2013, 12:03 pm by: David Waldman
Drawing on the information from past #KITM shows, you can convert frustrated WalMart shoppers into anti-WalMart evangelists, one at a time! Jonathan Chait on "Why Left and Right Economics Can't Just Agree." Catholic hospital ditches Catholic doctrine when it…
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9 May 2013, 12:23 pm by: David Waldman
Greg Dworkin joins in the discussion of a proposed open carry gun rights protest in DC on July 4th (because Freedom), the realization that austerity measures are impeding economic recovery, and the persistent belief among some journalists that President Obama…
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8 May 2013, 12:15 pm by: David Waldman
Greg Dworkin gives us the latest on the flu & coronavirus front, notes the results from South Carolina, and the big story on the release of data detailing widely disparate costs at hospitals around the country. We followed that up with a piece from Matthew…
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7 May 2013, 12:19 pm by: David Waldman
The day's hot stories kick off today's show, from Chris Christie to the Cleveland kidnappings. But the bigger picture dominated, as Greg Dworkin filled us in about new studies suggesting enormous savings to come from pretty much exactly what health reformers…