When it comes to the intersection of business and politics, we love to get Reuters Jim Pethokoukis to join us. He’s a terrific writer and analyst, not to mention new media superstar with his blog and superb twitter feed.
Tonight, the focus was on this week’s healthcare summit. We talked about the political theater, the style and the substance. We also took a lot of calls from the great WRKO listeners.
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On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 6-8pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
I’ve enjoyed his Washington DC reporting and commentary for a long time and last night finally had the opportunity to welcome Matt Lewis of Politics Daily to Pundit Review Radio.
Matt attended CPAC and I wanted to get his impressions of the event, from the speakers to the topics to the energy and optimism of the attendees. We took calls, including one from Boston Maggie about Admiral Lippold, who might be running against Harry Reid in NV. Go figure, a Navy question from Maggie!
One of the things Matt wrote about and we discussed was the sense that the GOP has entered a new era. Nothing exhibited that more than this clip, of homophobe fool Ryan Sorba getting a reception he so richly deserved,
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On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 6-8pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
Producer Rob really out did himself with this one. He landed Dennis Miller tonight and he lived up to the billing. He was hilarious. We squeezed about three Miller Times segments out of him. He was incredibly gracious, spending a full half-hour with us. We covered a ton of ground, from Scott Brown to Obama, from Bill O'Reilly to George Bush and the war on terror.
Full interview
Excerpt: Dennis Miller on Dick Cheney
Excerpt: Dennis on Obama’s “Rosebud”, aka Blame Bush
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On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 8-10pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
A lot of things are used as political weapons including cyberspace, civilians and the environment to name a few. In my lifetime, terrorism has always been used as a political weapon. It’s been a highly successful one, after all it got Yasar Arafat a Nobel Peace Prize.
What we haven’t seen, for the most part in the West, is assassination used as a political weapon. In the Muslim world, yes, it has been a tactic in recent years, from Harari in Lebanon to Benazir Bhutto. In the West however, we had two major assassination attempts within three months in the spring of 1981 with President Reagan and Pope John Paul II both being shot.
I write this out of a sense of dread that I got watching this video of the Christmas Eve attack on the Pope. The video is pretty terrifying and it made me realize that there have been a series of recent incidents that could have had tragic consequences.
This woman tried to do the same thing at this mass last year and yet Father Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, said, “Ms Maiolo is known to the Vatican, but she was never thought to have been of any serious danger. If anything, the poor woman needs treatment, which is what she is getting.”
What if she had a gun? Incredible.
Italian PM Berlusconi has fractured nose, broken teeth after attack
December 13
According to CNN, “The attack at a campaign rally Sunday in Milan left Berlusconi bleeding profusely from his left upper lip and cheek.”
Feds: Couple crashed Obama’s state dinner
November 24
Sure, who could argue that Tarq and Michaele Salahi are pathetic fame whores. Still, the security angle of their reality TV inspired stunt has been underappreciated by the media and the public. If they had intentions beyond 12 episodes on Bravo, who knows what could have happened.
I wasn’t sure if I should even do this post. It should go without saying, but it doesn’t, that although I oppose his policies, I wish this president, any president, absolute security and safety. We (the civilized world) have been lucky that these have all been minor incidents. Hopefully, this is just a phase and not a sign of things to come, a bad omen.
Timothy P. Carney is the lobbying editor for the Washington Examiner and he joined me last night to talk about his thought provoking new book “Obamanomics“.
Before talking about the book, I had to ask Tim about his amazing experience as a young journalist in Washington DC, working as a protege of the legendary reporter and columnist Robert Novak.
The book itself stands conventional wisdom on its head. Carney argues that Obamanomics is actually good for Big Business, at the expense of almost everybody else.
Just as President George W. Bush, with his bailouts, spending sprees, and new entitlements, abandoned the free market at the behest of Wall Street and drug makers, Barack Obama’s vision of bigger government is also the dream of corporate lobbyists.
Obama’s healthcare reform, stimulus spending, global warming legislation, and auto industry bailouts are ambitious packages of regulations, taxes, mandates, and spending that benefit Big Business — what corporation wouldn't welcome more taxpayer-funded subsidies, regulation that crowds out competition, and government mandates that drive more business to them?
There are other big beneficiaries as well: Politicians, who gain more power; and lobbyists, who gain more influence.
The victims are small businesses crushed by regulations and taxes, taxpayers — especially future taxpayers who will be burdened by the debt financing today’s spending sprees — and consumers, who face higher prices and fewer choices.
What should we call this Big Business-Big Government agenda pursued by President Obama? Although robust corporate-government collusion was hardly invented by the current administration, the U.S. has not seen such a consistent practitioner of corporatism in more than half a century. It's fitting then to name this Big Business-Big Government practice Obamanomics.
On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 8-10pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
Who wants to put aside for a few minutes The Age of Obama, and take a look back at The Age of Reagan instead? I thought so.
Joining me last night was Steven F. Hayward, one of the country’s leading experts on the Reagan presidency, who has written an exhaustive two volume biography titled The Age Of Reagan.
With the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the timing was just right to take a look back at this great president. I also wanted to talk to Steven about how Reagan is being mis-remembered, to use a George W. Bush phrase, by today’s conservatives. They had a rocky relationship with President Reagan. Today’s GOP could also benefit by reexamining not just Reagan’s substance, but his style.
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On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 8-10pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
Feature Interview: Snowball: Warren Buffett and the business of life
Alice Schroeder has scored one of the most coveted assignments in financial journalism, writing the first authorized biography of the world’s greatest investor and one of its richest men, Warren Buffett. This is no fawning profile of a sainted figure. This is the warts and all story of a very complex human being. As much as there is to admire about Warren Buffett the investor, his personal life leaves a lot to be desired.
Here is my interview with Alice Schroeder
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Politics, Radio, health care | Kevin | 
February 28, 2010 9:34 pm | 
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