Friday News Roundup - Hour 1
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-11-04/friday-news-roundup-hour-1
Weekly unemployment claims dropped to their lowest level in five weeks; GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain denied reports that he sexually harassed former female employees, and accused Gov. Rick Perry of orchestrating a smear campaign against him; and an Occupy Oakland general strike turned violent overnight. Guest Host Katty Kay of the BBC will analyze the week's top national news stories with Naftali Bendavid of The Wall Street Journal, Nia-Malika Henderson of the Washington Post, and Ron Elving of NPR.
Guests
Naftali Bendavid
national correspondent, The Wall Street Journal.
Nia-Malika Henderson
national politics reporter, The Washington Post.
Ron Elving
Washington editor for NPR.
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I disagree that Mitch McConnell's job is to oust the President. Once upon a time Mitch McConnell's job was to represent the people who elected him and do the business of the United States. This is the crux of the problem--that they only see their job now as to beat the other party!
I listen to this show every day. However, today I was very offended to have the journalists laughing during the comments and question of a caller. Very demeaning and condescending. You may want to tell them that air laughing through your nose is very audible on the mike.
Everybody always says that 'the jobs have to come from the high-tech industry', as if that is common knowledge, but it is my impression that the high-tech jobs are in Asia. Government stimulus to build roads and bridges is not high-tech. If I correctly interpret this table of the bureau of labor statistics http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_104.htm the top three in number of jobs between now and 2018 will likely be (1) nurse, (2) home health aide and (3) customer service representative. The top two combined are not high-tech but health care.
I have been listening to this show for years, decades really. And I have NEVER heard a more bias "Reporter" than your guest from the Washington Post. She frames every comment with Republican talking points and framing. Her bias would make Byron York blush. She makes NO attempt to even pretend that there is any POV of value that is not a conservative one.
I am stunned that a reporter for a newspaper like the Washington Post so cavalierly displays her bias in her comments. It reflects badly on the paper, journalism and the the Diane Rehm show.
It's the republican's job to put themselves back in power? Bull! It is every member of congress' job to work to solve the problems of all Americans. Mitch McConnell should be ashamed of himself. He has a responsibility to support the President, as the president of OUR country.
I agree. I found the snickering very offensive and even confirmed the comments of the caller.
that guest who just said the MSM is not organized..you can say that again. They were critical in helping the Bush administration spread their lies before the invasion of Iraq and are doing the same by not asking tough questions or challenging the unsubstantiated claims about Iran being repeated
Hello from Maryland: // I listen regularly but don't think I have ever heard such a misinformed comment from one of the on-air guests. Talking about Senator McConnell's motto to make sure President Obama fails and is not re-elected, your guest said "that is every politician's object." IMHO, this commentator should be banished from the show.// Most high school grads know that congressmen and women in this country swear to "support and defend the Constitution".
Occupy is the flip-side of the Tea Party, what is this reasoning based on? I for one would welcome the socialist ideas swirling around Occupy to enter the political debate. It would expose the true depravity in the lefts agenda.
Imorgan no need to wonder that only 9% of the American people have any faith in our congress. No need to wonder why people have faith when they say "no one is above the law" Trickle down indeed. Crumbling from on high
Hey Grady Lee Coward. Did you get a love-note from Anne Stopper yet? Are you prepared to present evidence today that I am a racist as you called me? We've been waiting for it for ... what, a couple of months now? Are you ready to present the evidence or apologize and retract it? Aren't you the one who called Herman Cain an "oreo"? What is that? That's not racism because he's a black conservate? Lotta questions here, GLC. We're waiting for your rationalization ...er ... explanation.
I want to take issue with Malika-Henderson's statement that as leader of the House Republicans, it is Mitch McConnell's job to ensure the President is not re-elected. It is surely not the job description stated in the Constitution and certainly not what we taxpayers are paying him to do.
Ron Elving thinks the press is being as fair to Cain as they were to Clinton? How about a few facts:
ABC, CBS, NBC Morning and Evening News reporting, first 3 days of coverage:
Clinton/Jones 1 story (allegation of harrassment)
Clinton/Willey 3 stories (allegation of groping)
Clinton/Broaddrick 3 stories (allegation of rape)
Cain FIFTY stories (allegations of "feeling uncomfortable", later termed harrassment)
Does that sound fair to anyone?
lmorgan wrote:
"I disagree that Mitch McConnell's job is to oust the President. Once upon a time Mitch McConnell's job was to represent the people who elected him and do the business of the United States. This is the crux of the problem--that they only see their job now as to beat the other party!"
I don't think Mitch said it was his ONLY job! In any case it is the surgeons job to remove the cancer that's killing the patient.
20% are out of work kathleen and more than a fifth of Americans are living in poverty. 60 million have no health coverage and 20 million others have counterfeit coverage, a hundred million more would still be ruined by catastrophic injury or illness. New jobs are mostly lower waged, just as with Clinton. Decreasing household incomes are rapidly boosting the productivity index even as the economy deflates. GDP is inflateded by higher fuel bills, rising utilities, medical for increased stress, fraud scheme losses, and food. It's all a big bubble.
As for snickering at public opinion, I thought that was part of what elite pundits were paid for. If they worked for Bloomberg they could expect a little "bunnis."
(see Blumberg/Koch debate)
kathleen wrote:
"Marcus Bernstein and Woodward knew exactly who their source was. They kept it secret. Will go along with you that they both have lived off of this led by the nose investigative case. Felt had an agenda...and Bernstein and Woodward followed and were knighted for following the agenda."
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Where did I say that Woodward did not know who he was meeting in the underground parking garage? The point of referencing Woodward/Bernstein and Deep Throat was to illustrate how far a major news publication will go relying on a source that is never mentioned by name in the reporting. What makes you think the sources in the story regarding ACORN organizing Occupy- fill in the blank - protests are unknown to the people reporting the story? Explain.
Felt had an agenda? What do you think Woodward and Bernstein's agenda was besides becoming rich and famous by bringing down a Republican POTUS?
BTW: Woodward and Bernstein sold their Watergate notes to University of Texas for $5 million. The problem with this is that the notes were the property of their employer at the time, The Washington Post.
dengre wrote:
"I have been listening to this show for years, decades really. And I have NEVER heard a more bias "Reporter" than your guest from the Washington Post. She frames every comment with Republican talking points and framing "
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You are objecting to Washington Post's Nia-Malika Henderson's liberal bias?
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dengre wrote:
"I am stunned that a reporter for a newspaper like the Washington Post so cavalierly displays her bias in her comments. It reflects badly on the paper, journalism and the the Diane Rehm show."
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You just now object to the pervading liberal bias of The Washington Post, their reporters, and The DR Show? OK.
Nia-Malika Henderson didn't get your memo that she parrots "Republican talking points." MSNBC's Chris Matthews and the Washington Post's Nia-Malika Henderson congratulated Politico's Jonathan Martin for Sunday's hit piece on Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.
NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON, WASHINGTON POST: "Yeah, and you heard Herman Cain for instance today call it a witch hunt, and obviously conservatives are blaming it on the liberal media. But I will say I think there have been rumors about this swirling around his campaign, swirling around press organizations, and, you know, kudos to you J-Mar for breaking this thing."
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/10/31/chris-matthews-and...
Nia-Malika's idea of journalism is to report "rumors."
Putting responsibility on French paper is like blaming the person who is raped because they weren't wearing a burka!
Capitalism has worked fine for me, as well as my brother and sister. We worked our way through school, started with crap jobs, worked our way out of debt and into a position of security. The missing ingredient within the OWS supporters is patience. There is a pervasive sense of entitlement - for which my baby boom generation holds responsibility - that is in the minds and hearts of the Gen-X group. They have spent their lives being encouraged to achieve, they have become educated, and they now believe that it is their turn to feed at the trough. Two problems: (1) Beyond education and preparation, there is a need to put in the time and energy required to be prepared for leadership. (2) Baby boomers still occupy the positions they desire. As their home values were counted upon for funding of retirement, and these have been crushed, it is likely that they will be occupying these positions for some time to come.
There is plenty of blame to go around, but capitalism remains the worst economic theory on earth - with the exception of all the others.
Your caller, Aaron, made an important point that I believe your guest missed. The leveraged up, artificial debt was bailed out along with actual debt. CDS's were purchased on CDO's that someone else owned. My insurance policy on my home will pay for my home if it burns down. If 50 people insure my home and it burns down, 49 people who paid a relative small premium collect money although they took no asset loss. If my insurance company cannot pay and must be bailed out, 49 people other than me collect at the taxpayers' expense. This massive part of the bailout is the story that will impoverish the public if derivative gambling is allowed to continue. Some are pointing out that one trillion dollars in subprime debt turned into 10 trillion in total debt, with nine being the artificial debt that, I think, Aaron is referring to.
StLouis wrote:
"We worked our way through school, started with crap jobs, worked our way out of debt and into a position of security. The missing ingredient within the OWS supporters is patience. "
I'm with you StLouis, but actually I think the missing ingredient with the "flea party" is the "work" part.
Having properties seized w/o representation US pause to consider our past oaths, pledges, and sacred honor(health, sanity, savings ALL gone).
Realtor, the one who sold US '96 at 115K, could not sell last few years..., now representative of FANNIE MAE(home bought 88K), who immediately replied(!) to realtor... if home 'clean' in ten days(no trace of US)- $1400 after inspection... or a few more weeks and LOCKED OUT no cash(check- with NO where to cash LOL). Suppose $1400 goes to the under the table workers fixing ALL the neighbor homes(never 'built' to VA standards to begin with BUT that other rant)- US miss the war widow who had to leave next door.
In the MEAN time... guess will go see what Semi is up too!
(yes she is STILL semi occupied at the sGI plant- being a semi-soylent green industry protein supplement. SOYLENT GREEN- not letting your neighbors sit out in the cold- waste not... still no excuse to call)
So what do US get paid if become job creators... think US found way to relieve stress too- WIN WIN... laughing maniacallyly with swinging sledge(good cardio as well)... 'Are you wantonly destroyiing property???'- "NO US are 'JOB CrEa8TORS' !!!! "
O C C U P Y foreclosure
O C C U P Y N A V Y
O C C U P Y together
BUY local- barter- HELP local
no money- give time
SADLY your local VA or Salvation Army AND food kitchens overwhelmed- may make the 'news' after Christmas.
US need help today. NOT after next years election. As a veteran Us have been trained to be screwed... BUT think of the children near you for GOD's SAKE !!!
PS- for those risking their careers by allowing a larger number to avoid freezing temperatures NOW(federal state local laws violation) THANK YOU. our kind of 'whistleblower' hippie law breakers. GOD BLESS !
Miss you, Diane!
Katty Kay, I appreciate you sitting in, but Diane does always seem to ask what I'm wondering myself. She would have immediately questioned Ms.Henderson's statement that in Congress it's "all of the Republicans' job...to get their party in power". We all know that this is not their job but it is EXACTLY this mentality that is currently warping congressional action.
If ANYONE in congress wants to keep their job, I recommend figuring out that their job function is not to get re-elected. Cyclical thinking like this will keep our country from running, and bind us to the economic troubles we're currently experiencing.
Congress: this from a voter (your BOSS) DO YOUR JOB OR I WILL FIRE YOU.
Natalie, as a boss also I would want to fire them if they did not block Obama. Republicans only control 1/3 of government and can't do much else.
"kathleen wrote:
Marcus where is that crazy ass person who always objects when certain people post something before the program starts"
I am right here, honey.
The presumptions by this panel tell me that we have a long way to go before we come to any sort of agreement that results in constructive change. I am not one who favors compromise, unless it is by the extreme right who OWNS this recession and world economic collapse, with its financial innovations and global derivatives market; regardless of anything Barack Obama does, or how ineffective his policies have been. So, three cheers for partisanship in this corner. Exactly the same sort of Machiavellian politics is playing out in Greece, where—you know—a socialist is holding the Euro deal (and high finance) hostage to participatory democracy! Unheard of. Well, we can all breathe a little easier knowing that political leaders and neo-cons in favor of the status quo have nipped that one in the bud. At the risk of compromising our newfound national ethos of the richest mouth hailing the new found day—secured by Supreme Court decision—I’m going to go out on a limb here and express my view that blaming Greece, or any debtor nation, or Obama, or Liberals, for a collapsing Euro and our global recession is like blaming recalcitrant California utility ratepayers, rather than market manipulating Texas energy traders, post deregulation, for the collapse of Enron.
A manufacturing economy changing to a high tech economy? Is this the best the panel can do in analyzing our structural economic problems? I entered the field of high technology over twenty years ago, and I can tell you that it has its problems; not the least of which are temp agencies and HR departments that seek the cheapest, most dispensable, least organized labor on the planet for “their clients.” How about the securitization of about every industry in the country? I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that contracted State Park maintenance corporations have investors that are trading off-exchange as we speak. Thousands of people in the streets protesting Wall Street machinations and financial excesses, and talk show pundits are still waxing Ayn Rand and flat tax solutions. Have right-wingers ever read anything else, other than Atlas Shrugged? Oh, yes, None Dare Call it Conspiracy, another Bircher Bible study. Take all Ayn Rand’s heroes in Atlas Shrugged, change the circumstances to real world, real time events, and you find villains, not heroes. The sooner they follow John Galt to that fantasy island free of the free-loading, good-for-nothing losers, with all their gold, the sooner we can all nuke them and create a decent world again. Pure arrogance and bigotry, of the class-conscious, conspicuous consumption variety. (Dagny limping around the kitchen with a broken leg, insisting on doing her part: “Hey, what’s that flash of light in the sky?”)
NewsBusters: Caller to NPR Attacks Media for Downplaying Democrat Sex Scandals, And Reporters Deny, Deny, Deny
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2011/11/04/caller-npr-attacks-me...
let's give the 1% an insentive they will understand a direct relationship to how much extra tax they pay with unimployment rates or with the percentage of peope under the line of poverty. if you give the richest 1% a tax break what is there motivation to create higher paying jobs in the u.s.?