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Dave Pakman
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4/1/2009 9:33 PM
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By Dave Pakman on
2/17/2010 6:26 PM
This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / February 17th, 2010
Total Running Time: 57:57
This Week's Topics:
--Sit-down interview with Congressman Barney Frank about financial reform, Iraq, Don't Ask Don't Tell, and more.
--New radio and television stations airing Midweek Politics in Hartford and Massachusetts.
--An incredible story about a group of evangelical churchgoers who decided to steal children from Haiti to convert them away from Catholicism and to Baptists, and who fortunately were arrested before leaving the country with any kids.
--Peter Sprigg from the Family Research Council believes that homosexuality should be outlawed and punishable by law.
--Sprigg's colleague, Tony Perkins, also subscribes to bizarre and extreme ideology when it comes to homosexuality.
--During a hearing in New Hampshire related to repealing same-sex marriage, Representative Nancy Elliott gives some strange and entertaining thoughts about homosexual activity.
--The new national security distraction...
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By Dave Pakman on
2/10/2010 6:36 PM
This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / February 10th, 2010
Total Running Time: 57:04
This Week's Topics:
--Notorious anti-gay Paul Cameron joins us live to discuss his claim that homosexuals in the military are significantly more likely to rape of sexually assault fellow soldiers in the military.
--Ervin Staub, Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts and Abu Ghraib expert witness, joins us live in studio.
--Viewer emails about Tim Tebow and Midweek Politics.
--The Super Bowl and the Focus on the Family Tim Tebow anti-abortion advertisement, which many could not tell was anti-abortion.
--A gay dating site who tried to purchase an ad on the Super Bowl was rejected by CBS, while the anti-abortion ad was allowed.
--President Obama makes what might be his first major gaffe during a speech.
--The Tea Party Conference, whether the possible success of the Tea Party would help liberals or conservatives more, and Tom Tancredo's incredible comments during his turn...
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By Dave Pakman on
2/3/2010 6:16 PM
This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / February 3rd, 2010
Total Running Time: 58:37
This Week's Topics:
--Victor Ostrovsky, ex-Mossad case officer, former member of the Israeli Defense Force, and former Lieutenant Commander of the Israeli Navy, joins us live.
--New stations airing Midweek Politics in Atlanta, Winnipeg, and New York.
--Do Louis' tattoos have to be covered for the TV version of Midweek Politics?
--Barack Obama's first official State of the Union address, including standing ovations, applause, Samuel Alito's eye-rolling and head-shaking, pivoting to the economy and away from healthcare, and much more.
--Sarah Palin's insightful analysis before and after the SOTU speech.
--Chris Matthews with another strange race-related comment, saying he forgot Barack Obama was black for an hour during the SOTU.
--Obama asks for a full repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell during the SOTU, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates agrees, yet a task force needs to research DADT for one year...
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By Dave Pakman on
1/27/2010 6:39 PM
This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / January 27th, 2010
Total Running Time: 57:49
This Week's Topics:
--Eric Weaver, CEO of Opportunity Fund, joins us to discuss microlending, economic recovery, and much more.
--New stations in Massachusetts, Georgia, and Maine.
--Emails pour in about co- producer Louis' claim that he does not vote in local elections, and no evidence exists that he ever donated to the Barack Obama campaign.
--The Supreme Court ruling that corporations have the same first amendment rights as individuals and may spend freely to support or oppose candidates for President and Congress, and analysis of which Justices voted which way, and the effect this could have.
--Do second amendment rights, by extension, also flow to corporations?
--The Hope for Haiti Now Telethon is television on CBS, ABC, NBC, CW, FOX, TNT, Weather Channel, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, HBO, Showtime, Major League Baseball Network, Style Network, E! Entertainment Network, ReelzChannel, TNT, Comedy Central,...
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By Dave Pakman on
1/20/2010 6:22 PM
This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / January 20th, 2010
Total Running Time: 57:30
This Week's Topics:
--Ray Drewnowski, Political Director for Pioneer Valley Young Democrats, joins us live in studio to discuss the results and ins-and-outs of the recent Massachusetts special Senatorial election that saw Republican Scott Brown elected to replace Ted Kennedy in the US Senate.
--Email reaction to Jordan Sekulow's recent appearance on Midweek Politics.
--The Haitian earthquake, including Barack Obama's quick response, and why it was too quick for Rush Limbaugh, after saying the response to the underwear bomber was too slow.
--The status of illegal Haitian immigrants in the US and deportation, over 30 aftershocks following the magnitude 7 earthquake, and Fox News coverage of the event.
--Pat Robertson suggests that the Haitian earthquake is a result of Haiti's signing of a pact with the devil to free them from France's rule, and even Imus disagrees.
--Harold Ford Jr, sounding more...
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By Dave Pakman on
1/13/2010 6:13 PM
This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / January 13th, 2010
Total Running Time: 54:19
This Week's Topics:
-Jordan Sekulow, conservative talk radio host, human right attorney, and Director of International Operations for the American Center for Law and Justice joins us live to discuss travel security, his work as an attorney, and more.
--New stations airing Midweek Politics in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Massachusetts.
--Harry Reid's Obama Negro comments and the subsequent apology, and why the analysis was accurate while Reid still used racist terms.
--We discuss why Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have become de facto apology-takers when it comes to African-Americans, particularly when they themselves have hugely racist pasts.
--Comments on the Harry Reid Negro statement from Governor Tim Kaine, RNC Chairman Michael Steele, and Rod Blagojevich's own bizarre racist comments.
--The book Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin and the fascinating stories it tell.
--Bill...
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By Dave Pakman on
1/6/2010 6:21 PM
This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / January 6th, 2010
Total Running Time: 56:15
This Week's Topics:
--Chris Martenson from ChrisMartenson.com joins us live to discuss the economy, alternative energy development, green jobs, his transition out of corporate America, and more.
--All airline passengers from 14 specific countries will now be screened in detail when flying.
--Newark Airport Terminal C gets locked down as a result of one man skipping security through the exit lane while cameras were not recording and a TSA agent reportedly was on his cell phone not paying attention, and thousands of passengers have to get rescreened as a result.
--Joe Lieberman, not surprisingly, says that AbdulMutallab should not be tried in the US court system, and on top of it, GITMO should stay open and is the most humane place anyone could be held as a detainee.
--Barack Obama restates that there were security problems leading to AbdulMutallab's underwear bombing attempt, and that GITMO should...
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By Dave Pakman on
12/30/2009 6:23 PM
This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / December 30th, 2009
Total Running Time: 57:21
This Week's Topics:
--Mary Serreze of NorthamptonMedia.com joins us live in studio to discuss the national news made by fifteen or more fires being set by a serial arsonist in our broadcast city of Northampton, Massachusetts.
--Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian man on a cash ticket with no luggage and no passport who was already reported to the CIA as a possible terrorist attempts to blow up a plane flying from Nigeria to Detroit via Amsterdam.
--We go through the details of the attempted plane bombing, and the suspicious nature of the trip, as well as information from other passengers, and AbdulMutallab's own father's phone call to authorities about his son's suspicious behavior in recent weeks.
--All about the explosive PETN used in the attempted bombing, how it might be screened by TSA in the future, and more, as well as an incident on the same flight with another Nigerian man two...
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By Dave Pakman on
12/23/2009 6:15 PM
This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / December 23rd, 2009
Total Running Time: 57:07
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This Week's Topics:
--Sign up for our newsletter at midweekpolitics.com
--The healthcare non-reform bill passes, with controversy, at one in the morning on the Senate floor.
--Senator Tom Coburn asks others to pray some do not make it to the healthcare vote, then afterward explains he was referring to an alarm clock simply not going off.
--Senator Bernie Sanders withdraws his single-payer amendment to the health insurance bill after Senator Coburn makes a Senate clerk read all 767 pages out loud.
--Al Franken denies Joe Lieberman additional speaking time on the floor of the Senate, and all hell breaks loose.
--John McCain says he does not remember another instance of a Senator objecting to another Senator receiving a few additional moments to speak, but it turns out McCain himself did so a few years back, although the tape was temporarily misplaced...
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By Dave Pakman on
12/16/2009 6:34 PM
This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman / December 16th, 2009
Total Running Time: 57:28
This Week's Topics:
--Maggie Bergin, government affairs consultant/lobbyist from The Art of Politics, joins us live in studio.
--New stations airing Midweek Politics in Nashville, Olympia, Wisconsin, and Charlotte.
--Getting into the Christmas spirit with new song parodies from both the left and right.
--Barack Obama's acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize in Copenhagen, although many question it even more after his decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
--Sarah Palin says that she wrote something very similar to what Barack Obama said at his acceptance speech in her book, maybe looking for some credit.
--More non-reality based fake debate on MSNBC, with a conservative bringing back the favorite talking point of freeing millions of people in Iraq.
--Healthcare reform moves closer to non-reform, with even the Medicare buy-in basically removed, and Joe Lieberman becoming the...
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