Majority Report, audio (1:12:28):Year in Review Show: “Katherine Harris” Garofalo joins Sam to recap 2011. Plus segments from Sam’s take on the Republican Clown Car from throughout the year!Howie P.S.: The highlight for me was being able to enjoy the uplifting melody from Herman Cain's campaign song.
Appearing on Countdown Wednesday evening with guest host David Shuster, actress-comedienne Janeane Garofalo criticized the Republican’s 2012 political strategy of labeling President Obama as elitist — or “uppity” as Rush Limbaugh has on his program. “It always works on a certain segment of the population. If you are trying to appeal to the worst in us,” Garofalo observed. “Quite literally, the worst in us and you’re trying to go to the limbic brain of anxiety, fear, intolerance, hatred, bitterness, ignorance, you have to just use these very simple, as they say, dog whistle words.” MORE...
Sam Seder (majorityfm):Today's show, w/ @chrislhayes & Janeane "Katherine Harris" Garofalo from our 12 Hour Anniversary Show, is now up!Howie P.S.: This is what you call a "podcast." Hayes is the 'serious' one and Janeane is the 'funny.' If you're like me, listening to Janeane is the treat you get after hearing Chris Hayes being very intellectual and analytical.
From the Majority Report, M-F 11:30am EST at http://Majority.FM:Howie P.S.: Love my Janeane.
Katherine Harris (Janeane Garofalo) surprises the Majority Report with a call! She talks tonight's GOP debate, 'austerity celebrations', what she's been up to + more!
Matt,Howie P.S.: Ya gotta scroll way down to find my little gem.
Have you responded to Janeane's request to have your hand in marriage?
Howard Martin
Howard,
I actually had sort of a crush on Janeane after The Truth About Cats and Dogs and quietly disliked Ben Chaplin for years afterward. How could she like a guy with that voice? I am, of course, happily married now. MORE...
Where other mainstream news sources fail, Matt Taibbi madly embraces his role as an honest political observer/writer/citizen in a democracy. I would also like to take this opportunity to ask for Matt's hand in marriage."Matt Taibbi, from his post "Teabagging Michelle Malkin":
Anyway this teabag thing has really gotten out of control. It’s amazing, literally amazing to me, that it wasn’t until Obama pushed through a package containing a massive public works package and significant homeowner aid that conservatives took to the streets. In other words, it wasn’t until taxes turned into construction jobs and mortgage relief that working and middle-class Americans decided to protest. I didn’t see anyone on the street when we forked over billions of dollars to help JP Morgan Chase buy Bear Stearns. And I didn’t see anyone on the street when Hank Paulson forked over $45 more billion to help Bank of America buy Merrill Lynch, a company run at the time by one of the world’s biggest assholes, John Thain. Moreover I didn’t see any street protests when the government agreed to soak up hundreds of billions in “troubled assets” from Citigroup, a company that just months later would lend out a jet furnished with pillows upholstered with Hermes scarves to former chief Sandy Weill so that he could vacation in Mexico over Christmas.
Fox news, not surprisingly, continues to spout misinformation about the Employee Free Choice Act. As that key issue approaches a certain battle in Congress we look at the media coverage so far. Also, the Republican Party makeover. Has it worked? And Jim Cramer versus Jon Stewart. Have we learned anything about the way the media cover business?Howie P.S.: The Media Roundtable runs (26:00), stay tuned for the rest of the show.Nation contributor Ari Melber, Isabel Macdonald, Communications Director of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, comedian Lee Camp, and comic and actor Janeane Garofalo on today’s media roundtable.
And we talk to Barbara Ehrenreich about the other bete noire of the American media establishment: socialism. Finally, this week's Got Docs?, The Corporal's Diary, video self portraits of soldiers in Iraq.
Thanks to Carlan Tapp and for video in tonight’s show.
Janeane Garofalo running circles around Brian Kilmeade. What Janeane had to say afterward: "The only time I've ever lost my cool is on Fox and Friends -- this alleged morning news show on Fox. One of the first things one of the morning crew said to me was, "Boy, Saddam must love you." I'm not going to put up with that shit. I don't need to take that on a television program. You booked me, and you have a choice: You can either respect the guests you book, or book a guest you can respect. But I'm not going to come on there and have you make such an inflammatory statement. So I lost my cool. And then, of course, Fox News has run that clip ad nauseum as if it doesn't embarrass them."Howie P.S.: Janeane will appear Sat, Sep 13, 2008 - 07:00 PM @ the Showbox at the Market, Seattle, WA (tickets here).
From February 2003, about a month before the Iraq War began and just after the worldwide protests of the impending U.S.-led invasion.
