Resurrection Sunday Brick TeeVee
Submitted by richsezclark4prez on March 22, 2008 - 10:59pm.
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Brick TeeVee is a preview of the Sunday Talking Head Shows beamed across America by Corporate Media, plus some good progressive radio and who will be on which show. Blog about what you see and hear on the Sunday Gab-fests. And post stories about the outrageous claims made on Sunday. Post anything you find to debunk the CRAP you hear on Sunday Talkie CorporoMedia!
So, with no further ado, I present to you This Week's Brick TeeVee entry!
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ALL LINKS OPEN A NEW WINDOW!!!
Front and center this week will be The Economy (stupid) as The Fed passes out chits to JPMC to BAIL OUT Bear Stearns for $2/share and cuts its OVERNIGHT rate by 75 basis points to 2.25% but if you're being foreclosed on you're CHIT out of luck! And Veep DARTH CHENEY said "SO?" To figure out how we got here, Brick TeeVee recommends "The Bubble Economy" at the American Prospect from LAST FALL. So-called experts include JON KYL & CHUCK SHUMER on This George and CNBC's MARIA BARTIROMO & ERIN BURNETT on Meet the Timeh. Fire yer bricks at GROVER "drown government in the bathtub" NORQUIST on Wolfie. As we creep toward 4,000 US deaths in the War on Terra, Face the Bob invites Sen. LINDSEY GRAHAM (fresh off his carpet buying trip to Baghdad with JOHN "Crazy Train" MCCAIN) & Sen. Jack Reed from Armed Services Committee to find out if domestic carpet prices will be heading lower. Being Easter Weekend, Brick TeeVee expects much talk about OBAMA's "The Speech" on all the roundtables but nary a mention of the THOUSANDS that protested the 5th Anniversary of the ILLEGAL INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF IRAQ. The significance is not lost on our antiwar friends in Europe as Over 100 anti-war protesters are arrested at NATO HQ in Brussels. For yer Campaign Surrogate Update you'll have to cross over to Fake News for ED RENDELL and BILL RICHARDSON or U-Boat Captain Blitzer and JANET NEPALITANO & EVAN BAYH. And Good Luck figuring out the Dem Delegate Equation. Brick TeeVee predicts a BROKERED CONVENTION, but the "brokering" will NOT happen on Denver's Convention Floor. Can you say "smoke-filled back room"? Watch the 60 Minutes segment on saving the world's biological fauna seed footprint in "The DOOMSDAY VAULT" and rely on Reality Radio with Massa, Seder and Ring of Fire.The Brick TeeVee crew is glued to the NCAA Tourney to get away from the political and economic craziness and get into March Madness, going 24-8 in the first round! Our WEST Bracket got smoked when Duke lost to WVA so we hold out for the Miami 'Canes to make it to the Finals.
BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!
NCAA BRACKETOLOGY The famed NCCA College Tournament continues as we push toward the Sweet Sixteen. On CBS all day
MLB SPRING TRAINING Check your local listings for Spring Training games from the Grapefruit League and Cactus League - OPENING DAY IN 7 DAYS!
B R I C K T E E V E E
image ©2006 arkysue
302 days until our national nightmare is over
3996 Military Dead as of Mar 22, 2008
1,797 days since "Mission Accomplished"
- This Week (ABC)
Sens. Schumer and Kyl on the Economy & Sen. Hagel on the Future of the GOP
• Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
• Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.
• Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.
• Roundtable: Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Time Magazine's Jay Carney, and ABC News' Claire Shipman and George Will - Face The Nation (CBS)
• Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC - Armed Services Committee
• Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island - Armed Services Committee
• ROUNDTABLE: Ana Marie Cox Washington Editor, Time.com, Doyle McManus Washington Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times & Roger Simon Chief Political Columnist, Politico - 60 Minutes (CBS)
• The Doomsday Vault - Scientists are collecting a billion and a half seeds from all the world’s crops to keep in safe storage deep inside a mountain near the North Pole. Scott Pelley reports.
• The Stone Box - Did the box once contain the bones of the brother of Jesus, as its inscription said? Or was it a forgery? Bob Simon investigates.
• David Beckham - Soccer superstar David Beckham came from England to try to jumpstart professional soccer in America. He talks to CNN's Anderson Cooper about his triumphs, his troubles, the challenge ahead of him and demonstrates how he bends a soccer ball around or over his opponents. - Meet the Press (NBC) Decision 2008
“It’s a TV show. If you can’t handle TV questions, how are you going to stand up to Iran, and North Korea, and the rest of the world?”
• MARIA BARTIROMO Anchor, CNBC's "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo" Host & Managing Editor, "Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo"
• ERIN BURNETT Anchor, CNBC's "Street Signs" Co-anchor, CNBC's "Squawk on the Street"
• ROUNDTABLE: JON MEACHAM Editor, Newsweek magazine, PEGGY NOONAN Wall Street Journal Columnist,EUGENE ROBINSON Washington Post Columnist, and CHUCK TODD Political Director, NBC News - Late Edition (CNN) Guest anchor: Gloria Borger.
• Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.)
• Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
• Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Iraq National Security Adviser
• Gov. Janet Napolitano (D-Ariz.).
• Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform
• Former Clinton administration economic advisor Laura Tyson.
• Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.)
• ROUNDTABLE: Panel: Mark Halperin, Time magazine; Bill Schneider; Jessica Yellin - Seder on Sunday! (Air America Radio 2.0)
Seder on Sunday! airs LIVE at 4 pm et - 1 pm pt on many Air America affiliates, including
• KPHX www.1480kphx.com in Phoenix
• KPTK www.am1090seattle.com in Seattle (archives there, too)
For more affiliates check out Sam Seder blogger Fernando's Open Mic for
SAM SEDER RADIO OUTLETS.
• Spencer Ackerman on the week's news
• Eddie Glaude on Obama's speech on race politics
• Washington Post op-ed columnist Harold Meyerson on the messy mess that is our economy
• Weekend Watchdog with Bill Scher
• Live Blogging, SammyCam and YOUR CALLS at 866-303-2270! - Ring of Fire Radio
Find us at http://www.ringoffireradio.com/ and http://goleft.tv/
David Bender will be filling in for Mike Papantonio this week.
• Journalist and author David Kirby will be joining us to talk about the ongoing debate about whether or not childhood vaccinations are contributing to an increased risk of autism.
• Joseph Romm, author of “Hell and High Water,” stops by to tell us about how the global warming deniers are ruining efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
• Staff writer for The Politico Ben Adler will be here to talk about the emerging generation of progressive voters.
• Author Juan Cole joins us to talk about the similarities between Napoleon’s efforts in Egypt and George Bush’s war in Iraq.
• And Vanity Fair correspondent David Rose joins us to give us the inside scoop on the Bush administration’s plot to overthrow the democratically elected Hamas government.
Ring of Fire Radio hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern - "Massa In The Morning"
"Massa In The Morning" is quick, topical, smart, sometimes hilarious, and ALWAYS kind.
With co-host Bill Berry, EVERY Sunday morning from 10am til noon Eastern time!
WHHO-AM 1320 Streaming ON-LINE at http://www.hornellradio.com
(you do have to register, so go register now if you want to listen tomorrow.)
CALL IN! 607-324-2000 (yer cell phone minutes are FREE on the weekends!) - fauxnews
• Gov. Edward Rendell, D-Pa.
• Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M.
• Lawrence Summers, former Treasury secretary
• Glenn Hubbard, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors
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"HAD ENOUGH?"
but somehow 'upstart' doesn't sound right! Mebbe if Belmont had beaten them first, but the Mountaineers an UPSTART?
Who do we play next, when????
I like #12 'Nova but they'll get whacked by the Jay Hawks in Detroit in the next round. But ya never know!
Two Big Ten teams are still alive, Mich St & Wisconsin.
Up-to-date BRACKETOLOGY
http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/mayhem/brackets/viewable_men
Even though I'm Sooner born and Sooner bred, and when I die I'll be Sooner dead, I'm a huge Jayhawk fan in basketball. Those people have been doing it right for decades. I was in humbled awe when I went to the first game in Phogg Allen Fieldhouse, located on Naismith Drive. (I had the same feeling when I went to a game at Pauley Pavillion at UCLA about 20 years ago.)
1988 (I think) was my banner year, when KU and OU made it to the finals. It almost caused my family to explode.
Jan (now my ex) and I were living in Wichita but were thinking of moving to Colorado. We learned that a successful natural fabric dress shop was for sale in Colorado Springs, so, with 15-year-old daughter in tow we headed out to investigate.
Well, we decided that retail wasn't our thing, so I said it was time to check into the hotel so I could watch the finals while they did whatever two women would do. Jan, however, noted that if we headed home, we could get home about midnight.
"Absolutely not," I forcefully said. "We made a deal so I could watch the game, so you two have a ball."
Of course daughter, another female, joined forces with Jan, making the vote 2-1, as were all such votes regarding sports in my house, unless the other daughter then made them 3-1. I had to cash my sports chips carefully, 'cause I didn't have many of them.
Back and forth we went. "We're staying!" I would shout. "No, we're going home!" two musical voices would say in unison.
Well, you know what we did. We started out. I was frantically looking for radio stations that would carry the game in the Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas boonies. No luck. Game time was coming dangerously close as we approached the thriving metropolis of Limon, Colorado.
Where, we saw, that I-70 was closed on account of a blizzard that had come through earlier in the day. We found about the last motel room in the town, bought some beer and pop, ordered a couple of pizzas, and I was happy as a clam, family relationships restored.
The basketball God looked down lovingly on me.
KU won the game under coach Larry Brown and star Danny Manning. OU played valiantly under coach Billy Tubbs and star Waymon Tisdale. It was a good game, the better team won, and all was right with the world.
Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
Wes Clark -- Make America All It Can Be!
Most of the time yer previews are tenfold more entertaining and informative than them shows. Will be informative to see the gab ratio between reverend Wrigth-related stories and other topics. There are other issues, right?
Grinning ear-to-ear, Lindsey Graham proclaimed this moring of Face the Nation, "I love John McCain and I want him to be the next president of the United States."
(click his name for more info - Graham is up for re-election and statements like this one could be damaging.)
I'll look for the transcript for more, including the roundtable calling Senator Clinton "Miss Trainwreck".
The first and dominating topic in their discussion: the reverend, the speech, and the short and long term consequences. At least two of the talkers said in the same breath that the speech may have worked short-term, may have saved his chances for the nomination, but that the issue will resurface in the general. Hello!
Grover Norquist thinks we need LESS regulation of the banking industry!!! He said (paraphrasing), "We're still undoing the government regulations from the 1930's". What a nut! The fact is it was EXACTLY the brakes put on banks and investment firms that stabilized the banking system during the Great Depression. NOW the unregulated banks have no oversight and are their own paid off referees!
I'll look for the transcript later, because Norquist made some absolutely BIZARRE claims.
Sunday should be entertaining, as the four teams playing in Tampa are seeded 12-13 and 12-13. Two the the games were in overtime Friday. The Sweet Sixteen is guaranteed to have to low seeds among the 16. So far, though, all the teams seeded first and second have advanced except for Duke, beaten by upstart West Virginia. Congratulations, Ellen.
This is Holy Season, and it has nothing to do with the religious calendar.
I'll be pulling for the Sooners and Longhorns Sunday, to keep three teams from the Big 12, along with already-victorious Kansas, in the Sweet Sixteen. Texas A&M lost a heartbreaker to UCLA tonight, after leading most of the second half. My sympathies go out to John, Kat, and Clay Oeffinger.
Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
Wes Clark -- Make America All It Can Be!