BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a weekly series, Meet the Bloggers, and today “Programme 4: It’s Political“ hit the airwaves and the Internet. Featured in this week’s segments are two of America’s most influential bloggers, Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit and… um… me.
Why HorsesAss.org? Producer Mark Savage told me he was looking for two bloggers, one national and one local, who also represent the opposite ends of the political spectrum. But the average listener might assume that Savage failed in his quest, for while I proudly lay claim to my liberal Democratic bias, Reynolds once again dances around Instapundit’s true ideological slant, describing himself as a “small ‘L’ libertarian” who before the Iraq War might have been identified as a “quirky lefty.”
Yeah. Right.
One of the advantages blogging has over other forms of journalism is that we get to free ourselves from the shackles of feigned objectivity, thus enabling our readers to judge us within the context of our openly embraced bias. But if, like Reynolds, we couch our political slant in half-hearted half-denials, we’re really no better than Fox News.
As for me, I’m not sure if the segment sheds much more light on who I am or what I do than the few minutes allotted allows. Of more interest might be the extended, unedited interview clips of both me and Reynolds that the BBC has posted to the program’s web page.
And of course, if you can’t get enough of my melodious voice, I invite you to tune in or live stream “The David Goldstein Show” on Newsradio 710-KIRO (Sundays, 7-10PM), and download our weekly, beer-soaked, political blabfest from Podcasting Liberally.
Any chance of KIRO making a Podcast of the Sunday show?
Sorry Goldy, but listening to those clips isn’t worth the hassle of having Real Player on my computer.
Ex-MSFTer @1… Yes. KIRO has promised me that they will start podcasting my show. Soon.
David @2… If somebody wants to convert it to an MP3 and email it to me, I’ll upload to my site and post a link.
September 19, 2006
Today, 40% of American adults approve of the way that President Bush is performing his job and 58% disapprove. That’s slightly below where the numbers were before the President’s 9/11 speech, and at the same level as the August monthly average.
http://www.rasmussenreports.co.....proval.htm
Looks like Bush is now having a negative bounce because of his partisan 9/11 speach. Having Colin Powell and John McCain point out his arrogance could not have helped either.
Good! Although I don’t fall quite on your side of the political spectrum, I enjoy Podcasting Liberally, and I’d like to hear the radio show… but Sunday nights, getting the kids ready for school the next day, etc… sheesh. A podcast would be excellent!
Ex-MSFTer @5,
It’s good to hear that.
One of arguments against local, liberal talk radio is that we simply cannot compete for audience with NPR, but I’ve always argued that it’s KVI’s audience that should be our target. I simply do not believe that KVI attracts mostly righties — there aren’t that many devout, talk-radio listening righties in the market. Instead, I believe a huge chunk of their audience consists of centrists and liberals who simply find it more entertaining.
My ultimate goal is not simply to steal away some of KVI’s centrist audience, but also some of its righties who choose to be challenged by somebody who disagrees with them for a change, but does so in an entertaining, passionate and engaging fashion. If all I succeed in doing is making people mad, well, that’s a success because at least they’re listening.
Researchers in the US and Mexico have documented numerous reports worldwide of health hazards associated with eating turtle, including food poisoning with Salmonella. Sea turtles also pick up marine toxins, possibly from algae, which are not removed by washing or cooking and can kill up to a fifth of people affected [[…………..Dear Grossmans, When you come to visit, I would love to prepare my recipe “Sea Turtle Grossmanstein” that I know you would enjoy! Best regards, JCH Kennedy]
After shamelessly suing himself to pander to voters, Democrat state Treasurer Bob Casey Jr. now wants it both ways regarding the most recent appalling decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court….Casey is pleased the court ruled the legislators’ “unvouchered expenses” used to give themselves pay raises from 11 percent to 54 percent were unconstitutional….But Democrat Treasurer Casey didn’t allow the state Constitution to stop him from signing the pay-jackers’ “unvouchered” expenses checks. […..Democrat Carl, Someone new to sue!! Yourself!!]
“Allah Akhbar!” [Carl Grossman]
Wow…
Goldy and the “Hacktacular” Instapundit.
Give ‘Em Hell, Goldy!
Hey JCH…
Get your own fucking blog and you can pollute it all you want with your STUPID right-wing bullshit.
Now that the U.S. government has acknowledged that it sent an innocent man to Syria, where he was tortured, which of you right wingers is willintg to volunteer to be hanged for this crime?
Rujax [#11], Try to stay on topic.
Righties who want a challenge? Are you fucking kidding me? The last fucking thing a rightie wants is a real honest debate with real issues on ground not controlled by the likes of KVI or some other arm of the GOP!
Nice. About a third or more of the time in the interview is about the comment threads.
I’ve noticed that strangers to horsesass.org always talk about the comment threads and how vile they are. Would Goldy’s readership be larger without the ugly comment threads that repel so many people? Maybe but probably not so much.
I think it’s more likely Goldy’s readership would be less. So keep slinging your bullsh*t wingnuts!
I really hate it when the wingnuts say, “guvmint” instead of “government”. I love a big, soft, squishy government that has plenty of SOCIALISTIC PROGRAMS
Yes! The huger the socialistic boondoggle the better. Like Rural Electrification and the whole alphabet soup of NEW DEAL LIBERALISM!!! It was great!!! I’ll take a welfare queen in a purple Cadillac any day over my son in a body bag.
Because I said: “purple Cadillac”, Puddybud ( Bre’r Rabbit ) will most likely hop out of the brier patch and call me a racist. Que lastima!
OF COURSE Reynolds is a liar. He’s a conservative.
Goldy,
Do you have any ratings data for your show for the few weeks you have been on?
I agree with Clueless. I think the open exchange here, without censorship, is definitely attracting readers and participants.
I laugh everytime a WingNut here uses Fuck or Shit in a sentence because I think, wow, can’t say that at (un)SP.
I did and got banned a long time ago.
The Minnow is easily offended by BLUE language. The shame is he is not offended by the lies he posts on his blog.
You know, I almost forgot:
Fuck you, Stefan. You lying Jewish Wingnut.
All my best,
Carl Grossman
Democrat, Jew, Patriotic American fighting for truth, liberty and justice. (Hey, just like Superman)
I love a big, soft, squishy government that has plenty of SOCIALISTIC PROGRAMS
Commentby headless lucy— 9/19/06@ 12:01 pm
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As long as I’m not picking up the tab, whatever blows your skirt up, luce!
Hope everyone caught the Democratic Policy Committee hearing yesterday on C-Span, because there is no reporting that I can find from any major (or minor) corporate media organization regarding the war profiteering hearings yesterday. Billions of your tax dollars are being poured down a sinkhole and only the Democrats care about any accountability on the issue.
Sens. Leahy and Dorgan and Rep. Waxman have all introduced legislation to explicitly provide for stiffer penalties and more substantive oversight of war profiteering — but it has been voted down each and every time.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/.....08:SP03292:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/.....09:SP02476:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/.....09:HZ00746:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/.....09:SP04230:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/.....09:SP02476:
Say a big thank you to the GOP-controlled rubber stamp Congress.
You couldn’t say THAT on USP either.
SGMMAC
Did you see that the “force their 19-year-old daughter to have an abortion” parents did so because they’re white and the embryo’s father is black?
Sounds like Maine Republicans who just “came to Jesus” on abortion. Don’t worry, though, IOKIYAR.
How come we’ve been in Iraq for more than THREE YEARS (as long as it took to win World War II in the Pacific) and there’s still no electricity or water for their population? What happened to those billions and billions fo dolalrs in iad? WHO’S GOT IT?
http://english.alarabonline.or.....3%20%C3%95
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/F.....4Aa01.html
#13
Like YOU?!, fuckhead?
Nooooo Problemmmmm.
David in Wedgewood @ 2:
Sorry Goldy, but listening to those clips isn’t worth the hassle of having Real Player on my computer.
RealPlayer has a well-deserved reputation as being a big steaming heap of spyware.
Due to the terms of the BBC’s charter, they are not allowed to distribute software which favors a particular company (i.e. by mailing consumer information back to Real).
Thus, if you download Real from the BBC site, you will get an adware and spyware free version of Real.
It may or may not be worth the hassle to you. I’m just sayin’
Hey Jerry…check this out:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush’s approval rating has rebounded to 44 percent, the highest level in a year, in the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Bush’s approval rating jumped five points from 39 percent in the previous poll conducted earlier this month.
The bounce comes with seven weeks before elections to deicide control of Congress amid falling gas prices and a renewed campaign by Bush to boost support for the Iraq war and to portray Republicans as more competent than Democrats on security, the newspaper said.
Bush’s approval rating edged up largely on the strength of Republicans coming back to the fold with 86 percent saying they support him now, compared to 70 percent in May, USA Today said.
For the first time since December 2005, a majority of people polled did not say the war in Iraq was a mistake. The respondents were evenly split at 49 percent to 49 percent, the report said.
2 & 28 If it’s any encouragement, I installed the latest freebie Realplayer on my PC last night, for reasons that aren’t worth going into, and was very, very careful to un-select all the options for getting “free updates”, advertising crap, associate the player with anything but .rm files, etc. So far, it doesn’t seem to have messed anything up. Maybe now that Real is mostly in the business of selling content (and perhaps with some awareness of how shabby their image had become) they’ve backed away from some of the mischief they’ve been noted for in the past.
17-18 Hell, Lucy…I learned to drive in a purple Caddie, and I was a white boy from Magnolia.
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“As long as I’m not picking up the tab, whatever blows your skirt up, luce!” Commentby Libertarian— 9/19/06@ 12:42 pm
Who the hell do you think you are? I have to pay for your wars, so you damn well can pay for our soft squishy programs!
Darkside
Speaking of polls, did you see the new AP-IPSOS?
And in the same poll his job approval is only 39%, with 60% disapproving.
Bush bounce in the polls? Hardly…
Here’s someone who really went to find out…
Post-Sept. 11 Bounce Evaporates For Bush, GOP
“If President Bush ever did get a bounce in the polls from the fifth anniversary commemoration of Sept. 11, it has completely evaporated. All the most recent polls on Bush are right here. For starters, look at the last 10 Rasmussen polls:”
Follow the link for details. Bush bounce? Not.
Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest employer, is planning to launch a voter registration and education campaign this fall targeted at its 1.3 million employees in an effort to combat growing criticism from Democrats and labor unions. [There are more HAPPY Wal-Mart shoppers than there are Democrat voters! [even with the 25% Democrat voter fraud!]
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 9/19/06@ 2:32 pm
Chill just a bit, Roger. I don’t think Libertarian is really happy about the wars, and would apply the same reasoning there as he/she does to our soft squishy programs.
In fact, while most Libertarians oppose the soft squishy stuff, they are even more opposed to spening billions of dollars and God only knows how many lives on foreign wars.
Oh, and when you’re over at Stephan’s garden, would you bring me back some veggies? Anything but spinach, please. With all the BS over there, I have an idea of where the e-coli outbreak might be coming from.
25% of the NYC fire department has respiratory problems because the White House lied to New York policemen and firemen and others who ran to Ground Zero to help on that horrible day.
6 I used to have to drive to Portland and back a lot for work, and I’d listen to KVI and it’s Portland equivalent because Limbaugh et al were sufficiently grating on my sensibilities to keep me awake behind the wheel.
If I was one of the “hearts and minds of America” they were fighting for, then my myocardium and grey matter were a couple of skirmishes they lost.
Sept. 18, 2006 — Most Americans have welcomed the news that gas prices are falling, having declined an average of 42 cents nationwide in the past month.
But from the way some people are carrying on, you would think it was the sky that was falling, not gas prices.
Heading up the field is Democrat Daniel Akst, whose op-ed piece in The New York Times today lays out the case for the negative effects of lowering gas prices.
“Anything that reinforces the role of fossil fuels — particularly oil — as the world’s primary energy source, is bad, not good,” Democrat Akst writes. […………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..Gas prices high: “Bush no good!” Gas prices low: “Bush no good”! [Carl Grossman]
I used to have to drive to Portland and back a lot for work, and I’d listen to KVI and it’s Portland equivalent because Limbaugh et al were sufficiently grating on my sensibilities to keep me awake behind the wheel.
If I was one of the “hearts and minds of America” they were fighting for, then my myocardium and grey matter were a couple of skirmishes they lost.
Commentby ArtFart [ArtFart………Sorry about “AirAmerica”. Maybe if they stole another 850 grand from poor black kids in New York, you could listen to them!]
Bush no good! Bush no good! Bush no good!
Ties to GOP Trumped Know-How Among Staff Sent to Rebuild Iraq
Early U.S. Missteps in the Green Zone
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 17, 2006; Page A01
Adapted from “Imperial Life in the Emerald City,” by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, copyright Knopf 2006
After the fall of Saddam Hussein’s government in April 2003, the opportunity to participate in the U.S.-led effort to reconstruct Iraq attracted all manner of Americans — restless professionals, Arabic-speaking academics, development specialists and war-zone adventurers. But before they could go to Baghdad, they had to get past Jim O’Beirne’s office in the Pentagon.
To pass muster with O’Beirne, a political appointee who screens prospective political appointees for Defense Department posts, applicants didn’t need to be experts in the Middle East or in post-conflict reconstruction. What seemed most important was loyalty to the Bush administration.
O’Beirne’s staff posed blunt questions to some candidates about domestic politics: Did you vote for George W. Bush in 2000? Do you support the way the president is fighting the war on terror? Two people who sought jobs with the U.S. occupation authority said they were even asked their views on Roe v. Wade .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....00193.html
And you wonder why Iraq has turned into a quagmire?
Thank God the war on Terrorism has nothing to do with it. Such a shame that the same people who blew Iraq are also running the war on terror.
4:
You are behind the times:
Bush approval rating rebounds in new poll
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Sep 19, 1:43 AM (ET)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush’s approval rating has rebounded to 44 percent, the highest level in a year, in the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Bush’s approval rating jumped five points from 39 percent in the previous poll conducted earlier this month.
The bounce comes with seven weeks before elections to deicide control of Congress amid falling gas prices and a renewed campaign by Bush to boost support for the Iraq war and to portray Republicans as more competent than Democrats on security, the newspaper said.
Bush’s approval rating edged up largely on the strength of Republicans coming back to the fold with 86 percent saying they support him now, compared to 70 percent in May, USA Today said.
For the first time since December 2005, a majority of people polled did not say the war in Iraq was a mistake. The respondents were evenly split at 49 percent to 49 percent, the report said.
However, the poll finds that the Iraq war continues to be a problem for Bush. Sixty percent said he does not have a clear plan for handling Iraq and 75 percent said Iraq is in a civil war, USA Today said.
The telephone poll of 1,003 people was conducted September 15-17, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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“As long as I’m not picking up the tab, whatever blows your skirt up, luce!” Commentby Libertarian— 9/19/06@ 12:42 pm
Who the hell do you think you are? I have to pay for your wars, so you damn well can pay for our soft squishy programs!
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 9/19/06@ 2:32 pm
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They ain’t my wars, Roger. I’d like to see the US un-involve itself in the Middle East. I’d also like to see the Cold War finally end when we leave Korea to let the countries that live in that neighborhood settle that one without the US dictating to everyone.
Lighten up, dude.
re 22: The poor can’t pay for their own welfare, jerkoff. I know lots of “LIBERTARIANS” WHO WANT THE FREEDOM NOT TO PAY UNION DUES, but at the same time they don’t want to bargain as an individual for their own wage and benefits package against a large, organized “CORPORATION”. I don’t want to be footing YOUR bills either, testamoleon. Can you define CORPORATION? I don’t think you can.
There’s strength in numbers, dweeb.
Did I read unions only use 40% of their dues for their constituents. Nice job moonbats. Kind of destroys the comment from the other thread about the BIAW. Unions, We’ll rip you off everytime!
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HEY DICK FACE ROGER RABBIT WHY DONT YOU TRY CANADA THEY HANDED HIM OVER YOU FUCKIN IDIOT.
JOHN @36 YOU SURE YOU WERE AN NCC.I THINK YOU WERE A SEA LAWYER.AND FROM THE BULLSHIT YOU SPEW NOT A GOOD ONE.WHY DONT YOU GO DOWN TO THE GOAT LOCKER UNTIL THE CRUISE IS OVER,THATS WERE YOU PROBLEY DO YOUR BEST WORK.
Hey Carl, How many other posters on HA.ORG have to get their wives to “protect” them on this web? hehe, JCH
Can you define CORPORATION? I don’t think you can.
Commentby headless lucy— 9/19/06@ 4:57 pm
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A “corporation” is an entity with unlimitied life, created by state charter. The purpose of this entity is to limit the liability of the owners of the corporation while pursuing other goals, such as making a profit or, in the case of a non-profit corporation, to achieve some charitable, cultural or religious goal.
The owners of the corporation can be directly invovled in the day-to-day management of the business or not. Many corporations, even privately-held ones, are managed by others rather than the shareholders.
Lucy, that’s a rough definition of what a corporation is.
While unions offer strength in numbers, the dark side is that union leadership can be corrupt (Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters comes to mind, the mafia, etc.), and the average worker finds himself working for two managers: the boss at work and the union boss.
Unions are not what I wish to be part of, but I don’t fault anyone who believes a unions will be right for him or her.
So, Lucy, join a union or not. It’s your choice.
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