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Taibbi’s New ‘Bubble’ Article

Banks Stress TestsThe Rolling Stone article Pete discussed at length on the show Thursday is online here. It includes a video of journalist Matt Taibbi explaining the basic tenets of the article. This is pretty good stuff. I haven’t even finished it, but I’m floored by how much digging Matt has done. Hopefully, he’ll be on the show next week. This is a blistering indictment of Goldman Sachs and the like. We all knew that the Obama administration is in the pocket of Wall Street, and we knew Goldman Sachs plays a highly influential role, but this will blow you away.

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Weekly Standard ‘Targeted’ by Holocaust Museum Shooter?

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A listener who is upset that Pete referred to alleged Holocaust Museum terrorist James Von Brunn as a “right-wing extremist” sent a link to a story raising the idea that conservative magazine The Weekly Standard might have been considered a potential target by Von Brunn. The listener — and to be fair, the Politico.com article he linked to — insinuated that maybe Von Brunn isn’t a right-wing extremist after all, since he might have had a bone to pick with the a decidedly right-wing publication. The article finds even more reason for ambiguity and confusion:

Von Brunn’s white supremacist roots put him under the rubric of a “right-wing extremist,” but the substance of his views — which included everything from believing that President Bush may have been in on the September 11 attacks to denying that President Obama is an American citizen — are too far on the fringe to fit into conventional political classification.

Thinking 9/11 was a Jewish conspiracy and thinking Obama isn’t a US citizen are “fringe,” to be sure… but they don’t really contradict that he is on the right-wing fringe. And did they include “everything” between those two views, or was that just hyperbole from the commentator?

As for why the FBI reportedly found a slip of paper in Von Brunn’s pocket that had The Weekly Standard’s address on it, I can only speculate… but here goes:

  1. Von Brunn wanted to drop by and pay for his subscription renewal in person.
  2. Von Brunn thought he might be able to go there for resupply when he ran out of ammunition.
  3. Von Brunn hates Jews, and is upset that there’s one running his favorite right-wing hate-mongering magazine.
  4. Von Brunn is really a leftist who hates conservatives, and after making a clean getaway from his Museum slaughter, like any good leftist Museum hater, he was going to take his frustrations out on Bill Kristol.

Which one of these is least likely?

HotAir blog follows up with even more, claiming Fox News might also have been a target.

In all seriousnes, it is not uncommon for extremists on both sides of the spectrum to reserve their most-seething vitriol for more-moderate sharers of their own broad leanings. The idea is that they should know better, or theyr’e “selling out” the cause, etc. Neither TWS nor Fox News would satisfy a true right-wing extremist, just like I think Mother Jones and MSNBC are for wimpy liberals, not true leftists.

And all that being said, yes, we’re probably jumping the gun about this guy’s views. He hated the Fed, he hated Jews, he hated Obama, but maybe he’s just a crazy person whose politics just seem like hardcore conservatism.

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The Afghanistan Bounty Leaflet

One of today’s many great guests, Kristine Huskey, mentioned these leaflets offering bounties for turning in “Arab terrorists.” This leaflet doesn’t mention Arabs, but it’s pretty disturbing nonetheless — actually more so than Kristine portrayed it, if you ask me.

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More on the leaflets here, and still more leaflets here.

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Sonia Sotomayor - You be the judge!

I was doing some research and reading some articles and blogs regard the president’s nominee of Sonia Sotomayor. I came across this, which gives an “unbiased” look at her decisions. I figured I’d share this with you and let you be the judge:

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The Pentagon’s Message Machine

Pete referred to a New York Times article by David Barstow and promised listeners that a link would be provided on the site. The following articles are related to this story and provided for your review:

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From the Show

Monday, June 29

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (Ret.) on Military Policy & Diplomacy

“And we’re back with a guest we’ve been anticipating for weeks now. You may have seen one of his many interviews he’s been giving lately. He is the former chief of staff for Colin Powel when he was secretary of state. Before serving at the State Department, my guest served 31 years in the US Army — he was in Vietnam — and he’s been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration since leaving he State Dept. in January 2005. He’s currently a professor of government and public policy at the College of William and Mary. He joins us today to talk about a number of issues — we’ll see what we get to — from torture to prosecution to the lead up of the Iraq War to what’s going on now, including what role he played in that. So welcome to the show, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson. ”

 

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Wednesday, June 17

Daniel Kildee on Shrink to Survive Policy

"My guest is the man behind this idea and proposal [shrink-to-survive policy]. He’s been the county treasurer of Genesee County since 1997; before his election as treasurer, he served for 12 years as Genesee County Commissioner, including five years as chairman of the board of Commissioners. I’ve been to Flint, Michigan, Daniel; it is not doing well. You’ve been there for a long time. Thank you for joining us."

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Bruce Mirken on Marijuana Issues

[MISSING AUDIO. Communications director and spokesman for Marijuana Policy Project; contributions to dozens of local and national television and radio broadcasts; quoted in The New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, etc.; op-eds and commentaries in the Chicago Sun-Times, San Diego Union Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, AlterNet, etc. Also serves as liaison to the scientific community; contributed articles to Medscape General Medicine and Prevention Forum; served on the editorial board of Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention and Policy.]

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Andrew Rubin and Allison Vogel on Health Care Reform

"As health care reform dominates the headlines and health care questions and concerns dominate the conversations of families everywhere, my guests take calls and email from listeners of all backgrounds from across the country and help them navigate the pressing dilemmas that they face. They break down the health care system for people to help them understand claims, co-pays, networks and so much more on their show; it’s called Health Care Connect, it’s right here on Sirius and XM every Thursday, 12–2 pm ET, Doctor Radio, Sirius 114, XM 119. Andrew Rubin and Allison Vogel, thank you for joining us."

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Tuesday, June 16

Fawaz Gerges on Iran and Netanyahu Speech

"I want to get to my guest, who we had on a couple weeks ago who was just really fantastic. You may have seen him on CNN, you may have read his commentary on CNN; he also is a professor of Middle Eastern studies at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of two recently acclaimed books, Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy (2006), and The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global (2005). We had him on I think just before the President’s speech in Cairo and now we’re bringing him back. We want to talk about Iran. Fawaz Gerges, thank you for joining us again."

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