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Live tonight after Colorado Rockies game after 11p MT/1a ET 850 KOA
1. Looks like the republican party electorate are good with the candidates in the race after all. Especially after Texas Governor Rick Perry got into the race. That is going to be a blow to people like Chris Matthews of MSNBC who constantly says even republicans do not like the "crowd" in the race.
2. While the east coast is focused on hurricanes, it is interesting to note that MSNBC used former New Orleans Governor Ray Nagin as an expert on hurricane preparedness. Now I've seen everything!
3. Should Governor Perry really tone down the rhetoric? The latest call comes from Wall Street Journal and former Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan. She writes that he has a "Popping off problem." Personally, I find it refreshing for a candidate to say what he thinks and I believe so do the electorate. If you think the Fed chairman is "almost treasonous" for printing more money, why not say so?
4. Douglas County is on a list of the Top 10 counties where there is economic growth.
Those are some of the discussion topics we'll be talking about the show tonight.
Live tonight(Thursday August 25) on 850 KOA/Denver
Former Colorado Congressman Bob Beauprez will be on with me at 10:15p MT/12:15a ET.
http://www.alineofsight.com/
Dr. Robert Greer will be on with me at 11:05p MT/1:05a ET to discuss what is happening in Libya and the Middle East and his concern about Sharia law coming to the US. Author of the new book
Qur'an Revealed.
http://www.drrobertgreer.com/
My good buddy Colorado republican party and tea party activist and talk show host Jimmy Lakey will be on with me at 12mid MT/2am ET. http://www.jimmylakey.com/
Show outline and topics for discussion tonight:
1. $3 million a minute in debt? what can we do to improve the economy? IF Obama changed his direction and moved to more of a supply side economic model would he get re-elected?
2. A college now will put sexual orientation on their entrance forms and if you say yes to being Gay/Lesbian, you get a scholarship?
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Elmhurst-College-to-Ask-About-Sexual-Orientation--128378348.html
3. Senator Inhoffe says Obama is destroying the institutions that made America great. Could this be the Rick Perry factor? RP's courage of speaking out might be giving courage to others?
http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/printerfriendlystory.aspx?articleid=20110824_336_0_BROKEN695237
4. Mayor Bloomberg of NYC doesn't want any clergy at the site of the 911 memorials. Your thoughts? I have one theory that might not be true but could he be assuring that no muslim prayers are said on the site? If clergy allowed, he would certainly have a Christian, Rabbi and Muslim.
5. The new Dick Cheney book is coming out. Drudge has some exclusive excerpts he posted last night. I read these on the show last night as they broke on the Drudge web site.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashdc.htm
He wanted Bush to bomb Syria in 2007.
http://www.alineofsight.com/
Dr. Robert Greer will be on with me at 11:05p MT/1:05a ET to discuss what is happening in Libya and the Middle East and his concern about Sharia law coming to the US. Author of the new book
Qur'an Revealed.
http://www.drrobertgreer.com/
My good buddy Colorado republican party and tea party activist and talk show host Jimmy Lakey will be on with me at 12mid MT/2am ET. http://www.jimmylakey.com/
1. $3 million a minute in debt? what can we do to improve the economy? IF Obama changed his direction and moved to more of a supply side economic model would he get re-elected?
2. A college now will put sexual orientation on their entrance forms and if you say yes to being Gay/Lesbian, you get a scholarship?
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Elmhurst-College-to-Ask-About-Sexual-Orientation--128378348.html
3. Senator Inhoffe says Obama is destroying the institutions that made America great. Could this be the Rick Perry factor? RP's courage of speaking out might be giving courage to others?
http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/printerfriendlystory.aspx?articleid=20110824_336_0_BROKEN695237
4. Mayor Bloomberg of NYC doesn't want any clergy at the site of the 911 memorials. Your thoughts? I have one theory that might not be true but could he be assuring that no muslim prayers are said on the site? If clergy allowed, he would certainly have a Christian, Rabbi and Muslim.
5. The new Dick Cheney book is coming out. Drudge has some exclusive excerpts he posted last night. I read these on the show last night as they broke on the Drudge web site.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashdc.htm
He wanted Bush to bomb Syria in 2007.
Live Tonight(Wed) on 850 KOA the Voice of Rocky Mt. West
Live at 10p MT/12mid ET.
Listen live at http://www.850koa.com/ or
on your phone/IPAD with the I Heart Radio app
Listen live at http://www.850koa.com/ or
on your phone/IPAD with the I Heart Radio app
George from Englewood
George challenged me tonight on 2 points that he called "inaccurate." However, as these links demonstrate, I was correct on both points. Obama has doubled the deficit from the last Bush deficit of around $480 Billion.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/28/bush-leaving-next-preside_n_115335.html
And the second point was how Obama had increased the national debt in the first 19 months more than all the administrations from Washington to Reagan COMBINED.
http://www.cnsnews.com/node/72404
Read it for yourself. It is always easy for callers to say your facts are true while throwing out numbers from thin air.
Any way you work it, this President is a total failure and the numbers are not pretty.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/28/bush-leaving-next-preside_n_115335.html
And the second point was how Obama had increased the national debt in the first 19 months more than all the administrations from Washington to Reagan COMBINED.
http://www.cnsnews.com/node/72404
Read it for yourself. It is always easy for callers to say your facts are true while throwing out numbers from thin air.
Any way you work it, this President is a total failure and the numbers are not pretty.
Live today on WBT/Charlotte and 850 KOA/Denver
9a-12noon ET on WBT/Charlotte http://www.wbt.com/ and
tonight 10p-1am MT on 850 KOA/Denver http://www.850koa.com/
tonight 10p-1am MT on 850 KOA/Denver http://www.850koa.com/
Back on live Tonight on 850 KOA/Denver
Wednesday morning, I'm hosting on News/Talk 1110 WBT from 9a-12noon ET. You can listen live at
http://www.wbt.com/
and then Wednesday night, back on 850 KOA/Denver at 10p MT(12mid ET).
Hosting tonight on 850 KOA--Up late with Doug!
12mid-3am ET/10p-1am MT. Live on your phone/ipad with the I heart radio app or via internet at http://www.850koa.com/
Talking points tonight....
..Dow plunges 500 plus points. We were told that IF the debt ceiling wasn't raised the market would drop. Well, we did the deal and it plunged away...Former Colorado Congressman Bob Beauprez who was on the House banking committee will be on to discuss it...
..Author and commentator Lowell Pontee will be on with me at 12mid MT/2AM ET to discuss the economic "Jihad" by the Obama administration as he calls it...
..73% of voters say the nation is going in the wrong direction. My question is what is going on with the other 27%?....
...Unemployment numbers come out at 8:30am ET tomorrow...(shudder)..the best we can hope for is that it stays the same at a dismal 9.2
Politicians and Media types calling Tea Party Terrorists
(from The Media Research Center)
Now the text of the Monday, August 1 Media Reality Check:
The Liberal Media Empire Strikes Back
During Month-Long Debt Talks, Liberal Media Savaged Tea Party Conservatives as Ignorant, Irrational, Irresponsible and Even Terrorists
For the past month, as the debt talks slogged on in Washington, the so-called mainstream media unleashed increasingly hysterical attacks on the Tea Party and anti-tax hike conservatives — epitomizing the liberal elite’s supreme annoyance at the push to curb federal spending and contain the size of government.
The media’s disdainful language has ranged from the merely condescending (wondering whether the Tea Partiers in Congress actually knew how things worked, or referring to them as children), to outright hostile (likening the Tea Party to al Qaeda or other terrorist groups). Here are some of the choicer examples MRC has collected over the past 30 days:
Just a Bunch of Ignorant Boobs
“Do you think that Republicans – particularly those in the freshman class over in the House – understand just how serious this debt limit crisis is?...Do you think they understand what might happen if you can’t raise this debt limit here?”
— Bob Schieffer to Senator Jon Kyl on Face the Nation, July 24.
“The question, I think, some people might be asking is, do you think that members of the Tea Party caucus know how to govern, or are they — do they understand that standing up for a cause is not the same as governing?”
— Co-host Ann Curry to Tom Brokaw on NBC’s Today, August 1.
Tea Party = Irresponsible Children
“On one side are those kids in the back seat, Tea Party members of Congress and their stay-at-home blogging cheerleaders who either don’t understand or don’t care about the consequences of default — of the U.S. not meeting its obligations, of us looking like a joke. They’re willing to risk calamity, even embrace it, just to show how dedicated they are to not raising the debt ceiling. On the other side are Democrats and some Republicans who understand this is not a game.”
— Chris Matthews on Hardball, July 14.
“Some people say that the Republican Party has been held hostage by the Tea Party. One of our Facebook followers sent in an interesting analogy and said, ‘Why are Republicans allowing freshman congressmen to control this debate?’ and this person said, ‘It’s like letting the teenager in the family run the family budget.’ I mean, there’s some truth in that.”
— Moderator Bob Schieffer to GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell on Face the Nation, July 31.
Conservatives Are Unhinged Lunatics
“The Republican Party may no longer be a normal party. Over the past few years, it has been infected by a faction that is more of a psychological protest than a practical, governing alternative. The members of this movement do not accept the logic of compromise, no matter how sweet the terms....The members of this movement have no sense of moral decency....The members of this movement have no economic theory worthy of the name.”
— New York Times columnist David Brooks, July 5.
“You can hear the alarm going off, in this case the debt ceiling, which rational people agree needs to be raised, and yet every day there’s no deal.”
— Brian Williams on the July 26 NBC Nightly News.
Tea Party = Extremists
“Watching the extraordinary polarization in Washington today, many people have pointed the finger at the Tea Party. It’s ideologically extreme, refuses to compromise, and cares more about purity than problem solving. I happen to agree with much of that critique, but it doesn’t really answer the question, why has the Tea Party become so prominent? Why is it able to dominate Washington?”
— CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on his Fareed Zakaria GPS, July 24.
Howard Fineman: “What’s going on here, as I see it, is a kind of slow motion secession. This is an ending of the social compact. This is two, three generations worth of agreement about Social Security, about Medicare, about the role of the federal government. The Tea Party people are saying, we want to secede from that society....”
Chris Matthews: “You know what this sounds like? You know what this sounds like? When I spent two years in Southern Africa. It sounds like what the whites talked about doing. Eventually going into some sort of little circle, like Custer’s last stand against the United States.”
— MSNBC’s Hardball, July 25.
Stubborn and Difficult
“I think the frustration the President has, is ‘Look, I’ve come three-quarters the way to your position, and you’re not willing to give me that last 25 percent that I can use to say to Democrats there is something in this for you.’ So I think the intransigence of the Republicans is really beginning to wear on him and just strikes him as more and more unreasonable.”
— New York Times White House correspondent Mark Landler in a podcast for the paper’s “The Caucus” political blog posted July 15.
“A lot of folks are saying the current, you know, ‘My way or the highway, gotta have it all’ climate in Washington is really unworthy of the USA and makes us look like a banana republic.”
— CNN Newsroom anchor Brooke Baldwin, July 19.
“The Tea Party freshmen, upon whom all of this is being laid, really, who say compromise is a dirty word — are they complicating the picture?”
— Christiane Amanpour on ABC’s This Week, July 24.
Hostage-Takers and Terrorists
“The GOP has become the Wahhabis of American government, willing to risk bringing down the whole country in the service of their anti-tax ideology....These people are willing to go right into Armageddon, not face the warning signs. Go right off the cliff...”
— Chris Matthews on Hardball, July 5.
Salon’s Joan Walsh: “These people, the Tea Partiers and their friends and their enablers and their corporate friends like Dick Armey, they have created this shrieking on the right....This game of chicken, in particular, is deadly and it’s wrong and it’s hostage-taking. And you shouldn’t negotiate with hostage-takers.”
Host Chris Matthews: “I agree with you. I agree with you. I agree. It’s terrorism.”
— MSNBC’s Hardball, July 5.
Pat Buchanan: “They [conservatives] say, ‘This is the wrong way to go. We don’t believe in it. We’ve committed against it. We can’t do it, Mr. President, you’re asking us to break our word and do something we think is not going to work, and we’re not going to do it, sir.’”...
Co-host Mika Brzezinski: “So, I think the, what was the answer to my question that who the hostage taker is, Willie?”
MSNBC’s Willie Geist: “Sounds like Pat’s boys. Pat’s boys are holding the hostage.”
Newsweek editor-in-chief Tina Brown: “I think they’re the suicide bombers in all of this.”
— MSNBC’s Morning Joe, July 6.
“Wake up to the national security threat. Only it’s not coming from abroad, but from our own domestic extremists....The blunt truth is that the biggest threat to America’s national security this summer doesn’t come from China, Iran or any other foreign power. It comes from budget machinations, and budget maniacs, at home....So let’s remember not only the national security risks posed by Iran and Al Qaeda. Let’s also focus on the risks, however unintentional, from domestic zealots.”
— New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, July 24.
“If sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the GOP on a suicide mission.”
— New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, July 27.
Now the text of the Monday, August 1 Media Reality Check:
The Liberal Media Empire Strikes Back
During Month-Long Debt Talks, Liberal Media Savaged Tea Party Conservatives as Ignorant, Irrational, Irresponsible and Even Terrorists
For the past month, as the debt talks slogged on in Washington, the so-called mainstream media unleashed increasingly hysterical attacks on the Tea Party and anti-tax hike conservatives — epitomizing the liberal elite’s supreme annoyance at the push to curb federal spending and contain the size of government.
The media’s disdainful language has ranged from the merely condescending (wondering whether the Tea Partiers in Congress actually knew how things worked, or referring to them as children), to outright hostile (likening the Tea Party to al Qaeda or other terrorist groups). Here are some of the choicer examples MRC has collected over the past 30 days:
Just a Bunch of Ignorant Boobs
“Do you think that Republicans – particularly those in the freshman class over in the House – understand just how serious this debt limit crisis is?...Do you think they understand what might happen if you can’t raise this debt limit here?”
— Bob Schieffer to Senator Jon Kyl on Face the Nation, July 24.
“The question, I think, some people might be asking is, do you think that members of the Tea Party caucus know how to govern, or are they — do they understand that standing up for a cause is not the same as governing?”
— Co-host Ann Curry to Tom Brokaw on NBC’s Today, August 1.
Tea Party = Irresponsible Children
“On one side are those kids in the back seat, Tea Party members of Congress and their stay-at-home blogging cheerleaders who either don’t understand or don’t care about the consequences of default — of the U.S. not meeting its obligations, of us looking like a joke. They’re willing to risk calamity, even embrace it, just to show how dedicated they are to not raising the debt ceiling. On the other side are Democrats and some Republicans who understand this is not a game.”
— Chris Matthews on Hardball, July 14.
“Some people say that the Republican Party has been held hostage by the Tea Party. One of our Facebook followers sent in an interesting analogy and said, ‘Why are Republicans allowing freshman congressmen to control this debate?’ and this person said, ‘It’s like letting the teenager in the family run the family budget.’ I mean, there’s some truth in that.”
— Moderator Bob Schieffer to GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell on Face the Nation, July 31.
Conservatives Are Unhinged Lunatics
“The Republican Party may no longer be a normal party. Over the past few years, it has been infected by a faction that is more of a psychological protest than a practical, governing alternative. The members of this movement do not accept the logic of compromise, no matter how sweet the terms....The members of this movement have no sense of moral decency....The members of this movement have no economic theory worthy of the name.”
— New York Times columnist David Brooks, July 5.
“You can hear the alarm going off, in this case the debt ceiling, which rational people agree needs to be raised, and yet every day there’s no deal.”
— Brian Williams on the July 26 NBC Nightly News.
Tea Party = Extremists
“Watching the extraordinary polarization in Washington today, many people have pointed the finger at the Tea Party. It’s ideologically extreme, refuses to compromise, and cares more about purity than problem solving. I happen to agree with much of that critique, but it doesn’t really answer the question, why has the Tea Party become so prominent? Why is it able to dominate Washington?”
— CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on his Fareed Zakaria GPS, July 24.
Howard Fineman: “What’s going on here, as I see it, is a kind of slow motion secession. This is an ending of the social compact. This is two, three generations worth of agreement about Social Security, about Medicare, about the role of the federal government. The Tea Party people are saying, we want to secede from that society....”
Chris Matthews: “You know what this sounds like? You know what this sounds like? When I spent two years in Southern Africa. It sounds like what the whites talked about doing. Eventually going into some sort of little circle, like Custer’s last stand against the United States.”
— MSNBC’s Hardball, July 25.
Stubborn and Difficult
“I think the frustration the President has, is ‘Look, I’ve come three-quarters the way to your position, and you’re not willing to give me that last 25 percent that I can use to say to Democrats there is something in this for you.’ So I think the intransigence of the Republicans is really beginning to wear on him and just strikes him as more and more unreasonable.”
— New York Times White House correspondent Mark Landler in a podcast for the paper’s “The Caucus” political blog posted July 15.
“A lot of folks are saying the current, you know, ‘My way or the highway, gotta have it all’ climate in Washington is really unworthy of the USA and makes us look like a banana republic.”
— CNN Newsroom anchor Brooke Baldwin, July 19.
“The Tea Party freshmen, upon whom all of this is being laid, really, who say compromise is a dirty word — are they complicating the picture?”
— Christiane Amanpour on ABC’s This Week, July 24.
Hostage-Takers and Terrorists
“The GOP has become the Wahhabis of American government, willing to risk bringing down the whole country in the service of their anti-tax ideology....These people are willing to go right into Armageddon, not face the warning signs. Go right off the cliff...”
— Chris Matthews on Hardball, July 5.
Salon’s Joan Walsh: “These people, the Tea Partiers and their friends and their enablers and their corporate friends like Dick Armey, they have created this shrieking on the right....This game of chicken, in particular, is deadly and it’s wrong and it’s hostage-taking. And you shouldn’t negotiate with hostage-takers.”
Host Chris Matthews: “I agree with you. I agree with you. I agree. It’s terrorism.”
— MSNBC’s Hardball, July 5.
Pat Buchanan: “They [conservatives] say, ‘This is the wrong way to go. We don’t believe in it. We’ve committed against it. We can’t do it, Mr. President, you’re asking us to break our word and do something we think is not going to work, and we’re not going to do it, sir.’”...
Co-host Mika Brzezinski: “So, I think the, what was the answer to my question that who the hostage taker is, Willie?”
MSNBC’s Willie Geist: “Sounds like Pat’s boys. Pat’s boys are holding the hostage.”
Newsweek editor-in-chief Tina Brown: “I think they’re the suicide bombers in all of this.”
— MSNBC’s Morning Joe, July 6.
“Wake up to the national security threat. Only it’s not coming from abroad, but from our own domestic extremists....The blunt truth is that the biggest threat to America’s national security this summer doesn’t come from China, Iran or any other foreign power. It comes from budget machinations, and budget maniacs, at home....So let’s remember not only the national security risks posed by Iran and Al Qaeda. Let’s also focus on the risks, however unintentional, from domestic zealots.”
— New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, July 24.
“If sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the GOP on a suicide mission.”
— New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, July 27.
Live today on 100.5 News Radio KXNT/Las Vegas at 6pm ET
We'll be discussing the pros and cons of yesterday's "comprimise" debt deal.
As of 4pm ET/1pm PT, there are not enough votes in the House to pass the "deal." We'll be discussing the specifics with Examiner.com's Jim Kouri who writes on current events. He'll be joining me at 6:35pET/3:35pPT. You can write him at: Copmagazine@aol.com
The author of "United States of Bankruptcy will join me at 7:35p ET/4:35p PT to discuss the "deal" and why is it there are no REAL cuts in this plan?
My buddy Matt Burke, lawyer and researcher for the show, will be on with me at 8:05p ET/5:05p PT to discuss the vote count and if it fails, will Obama go for the 14th amendment? Is that legal?
Nashville based talk show host Steve Gill who serves in 2 administrations will join me to discuss the deal and where we are at 8:35p ET/5:35p PT.
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