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work a lot of feedback to ralph nader's appearance last week on maybe politics
louis by the way welcome to the program mid-week politics dot com is the website
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we had ralph nader on last week and we talked about
a whole bunch of stuff i thought ralph is pretty good i don't know i i i diet
and i know that ralph can be sometimes long winded but that's ok gets into
detail he knows his stuff
i thought i want pretty well
you they well i don't think we've had a baroda about injury with him yet
over this issue that we've done
okay well some people thought we did against i got a couple of emails richard
from chicago says of ralph nader's well past its prime what are you doing having
them on your show the last time he was relevant was nine years ago and he was
on the wrong side of history that referring of course too
the year two thousand and
the allegations that ralph nader essentially took the presidency from al
gore
and ok well are now that that don't know that ralph nader's past his prime
he's doing different stuff now i guess it's not maybe not too so i'm not as
interesting as
getting in the way of the two thousand presidential election daughter now fill
in waterloo iowa says i couldn't think of a concept that as a that is a bigger
waste of time than a seven hundred page made-up story about billionaires saving
the world
have the former terrorist act on your show
what it what i think those referring to his ralph nader's book only the
super-rich can save us
which it's it's a fiction fiction i don't know ralph nader doesn't use the
term fiction calls a day
utopian
what was the time he used afrikan now
some kind of remember
anyway
and it's over seven hundred pages filth seems to think it's a waste of time ok
stacy minneapolis tell ralph nader's a great american hero and he's been
shunned by the media for years have in mind again soon i don't think ralph
nader has been shown by the media
i'd just been preparing for our interview eventually anyway not resign
in preparing for our interview with ralph nader
i think i must've watched
twenty different
high-profile media interviews that he did
so i don't know that he's been shown by the media but okay everybody has as
their opinion you can you email us radio at mid-week politics dot com as you can
see we really do
read those emails
no question about that
would like to also welcome to the showcase i_t_c_ in gilchrist oregon on
one oh six point five f_m_ it's great to have them with us and we have a couple
of stations now in oregon airing the show
yall oregon is one of the
i would say progressive centers of of the country is it not a release the
portland area i don't actually know how close gilchrist is and whether they're
very liberal or not
i know that thom hartmann who i do some work with these a progressive talk radio
guy and he's based in portland oregon
and uh... they're it's great to have a minute gilchrist oregon k i_t_c_ f_m_
everybody listening there
now i got into an interesting discussion the other day lewis with a couple of
people
about the show
and about a couple of other things and i'm curious do you think our listeners
listed that listen to this show regularly whatever that means
do you think they listen to talk radio
in general so they listen to it talk radio for liberal conservative whatever
that they listen just to public radio in general that they'll listen to that
any any talk radio's on his liberal
at what time you know what do you think
i don't know i'm someone who doesn't listen to radio at all really so her
i have no idea i mean i imagine people listen to any talk radio shows probably
wasn't too multiple
talk radio shows
but seat that's that's what i sent and i listen to ton of conservative talk radio
i don't agree when i listen to someone like russia sean hannity or whomever
i don't agree with what they're saying but they're really good on the radio so
i listen from that point of view i don't care whether i agree with them or not
a lot of are a lot of people that have been emailing me say that they just
listened to public radio stations like ours another pacifica stations
and that they don't befits if it happens to be talk the listen to it but if it's
music or whatever the listen to that
they don't really seek out talk radio
on other parts of the dial i'd be interested to hear from some of our
audience do you listen if you listen to her
our show
do you live what else do you listen to on the radio to listen to all talk radio
left and right you listen to just just liberal talk
do that wasn't any talk you just listen to what's on npr maybe i don't know
perhaps we grew up on uphold on the website or something there you go the
brand new mid-week politics dot com
anil analogy now you mention it barbara boca listeners out of uh... unit into
here
there are a lot of people who will strictly listen to
this radio station right or how many others similar solicitations rick
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let's talk about sarah palin
it's amazing whatever juice every week what goes on with sarah palin seems to
escalate
we know about her book and i know that some we've been getting emails from
people saying by talking about sarah palin when she has a book out
you're essentially driving her book sales
this could be said about anything by talking about rush limbaugh
we are getting him bob listen any publicity is good publicity i'm sorry we
there's is there's too much to talk about
it would be silly not to bring it up the amazing things that have been going on
with sarah palin what it not is there any way for us to do a show about u_s_
politics and to not even mention the absurd things that have been going on
with sarah palin and the news media and the interviews she's been doing
it's at least you know
entertainment
you know distributor damon value i think it's it's worth it fine entertained with
what sarah palin has going and at that that the top of the list i would say
she's now floating glenn beck as a possible twenty twelve
running-mate of course we don't know that she's even going to be running for
president
in nineteen forty twelve but what we do know is that
she is now floating glenn back as a possible candidate and glenn beck is the
guy from fox news
and here's a talk radio program
who has done
all sorts of bizarre stiff you don't know who glenn beck is
then you should just google and we we couldn't we don't have the time to
explain all of the crazy bizarre stuff that's gone on on glenn beck's program
if your lovely woman i apologize
had trouble because if you really want u
you probably know progressions
so in an interview that said hill into the news max she floated foxnews host
glenn beck's name
as a running mate for twenty twelve
sarah palin said but glenn beck i have great respect for he's a hoot
he gets his message across and such a clever way
well apparently sarah palin's qualifications for being a running mate
is that
they'd be aku
glenn beck is a hoot
are we really do believe lewis that sarah palin would seriously consider
glenn beck has her running mate
she doesn't want a credible conservative
she doesn't want the policy expert
she wants a running mate who
is a hoot
apparently
or running mate who is a
as qualified
as she has she has never ever to be vice president she certainly doesn't want to
be outdone by her body may and it seems likely picking one back
she'll certainly accomplish that right
there was a comment on line which is what was really funny to a couple of
these articles about sarah palin glenn beck
and this is i thought it had to have been a joke but it's not this is a
serious comment that someone put online
if the u_s_ still exists as a country in twenty twelve
then pale and back maybe just the ticket
to pull us back from the brink of communism
that that's extraordinary i would would pay to meet the person
but posted that
in reading the sponsor pale and possibly
floating glenn beck
as a running mate for twenty twelve
who who could that possibly be
i would love for them to sit here in the studio with us and asked i would have a
few questions for that person
wrote a comment
i don't know i think i'll be out of the person you're talking to ever wrote this
contact
if the u_s_ still exist in pale and back will bring us back from communism it's
it's amazing