Our friend Matt Burden from Blackfive was invited to the White House for an hour long meeting with President Bush. Many of our milblogging friends were in attendance, including Bill Roggio and Bill Ardolino, who are both back in Iraq, reporting from the front lines.
Blackfive: The Day I Met The President of the United States
It made four years of slugging away at telling the truth, four years of having my life and my family threatened, four years of listening to lies go unanswered about my brothers and sisters in combat (except by us), four years of spending valuable time and money in defense of something that should not need my presence…ah, you get the idea.
For an hour today, it made it all worth it. He just wanted to say “Thanks, friend.”
…I’m flying back to Chicago and spending a night out with Mrs. Blackfive who spends enough time without her husband (even with Presidential requests for meetings). I need to tell her “Thank you.” for letting me do what I do.
Congratulations Matt, and thank you for everything you do. I know it is even more than people realize. You are someone to be admired and we are grateful for the friendship we have with you.
We welcomed Pat Dollard back to the show this weekend. He gave us an update on Young Americans, his Iraq documentary that will be coming to a major cable channel very soon. That’s great news. You can check out over an hour of raw footage at PatDollard.com.
My favorite part of the interview was when Pat took director Brian DePalma out to the woodshed for a well deserved verbal smackdown. Depalma just won Best Director at the Venice Film Festival for a so-called “pro-troop movie” is anything but. This was classic Pat Dollard, pulling no punches.
Every time Pat is on the show we get memorable phone calls. This week, a Vietnam vet and a retired Marine from Maryland called in to thank Pat. The most memorable call we ever took was with Pat on the line, it was from Susan, an Army wife and mother.
Pat Dollard on Young Americans cable deal and Brian DePalma
All of our interviews are also available for download at iTunes and Podcast Alley via the Pundit Review Radio Podcast.
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Bjørn Lomborg is the best-informed and most humane advocate for environmental change in the world today.
–Michael Crichton
Bjørn is a breath of fresh air in the debate about Global Warming. No hysteria or hyperbole from him, only rational thinking and sound solutions.
A groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns….Lomborg presents us with a second generation of thinking on global warming that believes panic is neither warranted nor a constructive place from which to deal with any of humanity’s problems, not just global warming. Cool It promises to be one of the most talked about and influential books of our time.
An hour with Bjørn Lomborg
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What is Pundit Review Radio?
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin and Gregg give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Hailed as “Groundbreaking†by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
We had the honor of welcoming back to Pundit Review Radio SSG David Bellavia. It’s not every day that we get to talk with someone who has been the subject of Someone You Should Know.
David is a former Army Staff Sergeant who served in the First Infantry Division for six years. He has been recommended for the Medal of Honor by his leadership, and has been nominated for the Distinguished Service Cross. He has received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, the Conspicuous Service Cross (New York State’s highest combat valor award) and was recently inducted into the New York State Veteran’s Hall of Fame.
His new book House to House: An Epic Memoir of War is just that. It is a brutally honest, incredibly detailed look at David’s Iraq experience, with a special focus on the events in Fallujah. One of the blurbs on the book jacket really hit home,
“Staff Sgt. Bellavia brings it. This is life in the infantry, circa right now. They used to say that the real war will never get in the books. Here it does, stunningly. You may not agree with it, or like what he has to say. Read it anyway — and then sit silently for an hour or so and contemplate what he has done on behalf of his country.”
– Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq and Making the Corps
We took some emotional phone calls tonight from people who wanted to say thank you. One from a Vietnam Vet and another from a father whose daughter recently joined the Air Force. This was a tremendous hour spent with a genuine hero who has written a truly memorable book.
All of our interviews are also available for download at iTunes and Podcast Alley via the Pundit Review Radio Podcast.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin and Gregg 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 your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10 pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
Bruce McQuain from QandO joined us for another edition of Someone You Should Know, the untold, inspirations true stories of the men and women fighting for us around the world. The Someone You Should Know radio collaboration began as an extension of Matt Burden’s series at Blackfive. Thanks to Matt, Bruce is now on board and we are lucky to have him as part of the show.
Tonight Bruce told us a special 9/11 story of a first responder who sacrificed his life on that terrible day.
From Bruce’s QandO tribute,
A few weeks ago I signed on to an effort called the “2996 Project” organized by a blog to do a tribute to each and every one of those who died on that day. Three thousand bloggers are participating. The names were assigned randomly. When you signed up, you got whoever was next.
I was honored to draw the name of David Halderman Jr.
Of course, I never knew David Halderman. I’d never previously seen his name or if I had, it never registered beyond that of a person who’d died that day in those barbaric attacks. But when I began to research David, I found a man for whom my admiration and respect knew no bounds.
You see, David Halderman was a firefighter with Squad 18 of FDNY.
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What is Pundit Review Radio?
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin and Gregg 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 your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10 pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Intelligence experts scouring the latest video of Osama bin Laden for clues warned on Saturday that his message offers hints that Al-Qaeda is planning another attack on US interests.
In his first video appearance in three years, the elusive Al-Qaeda chief mocks the United States as “weak” and vows to escalate fighting in Iraq, all the while using language similar to the kind used ahead of other past attacks…”The world is following your news in regards to your invasion of Iraq, for people have recently come to know that, after several years of tragedies of this war, the vast majority of you want it stopped.”
Democrats, when asked for comment, said they agreed with bin Laden.