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Podcasting Liberally

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My fellow panelists and I sat down to record our inaugural podcast from Drinking Liberally with the understanding that I wouldn’t release it if it sucked. Truth is, I’ve never been adverse to risking public failure, so it would’ve had to really, really suck for me to dump it in the trash.

Sure, it’s a little choppy and disorganized, but there’s some fun and interesting conversation, so just in time for your morning commute, here’s the first installment of Podcasting Liberally… or whatever the hell we decide to call it.

Our main panel includes Carl from Washington State Political Report, Will from Pike Place Politics, Darryl from Hominid Views, and, um… me. Tune in as we discuss a wide array of topical issues, ranging from Tim Eyman’s sexual orientation, to the State of the Union address, to GOP dirty tricks, to Tim Eyman’s sexual orientation.

Special thanks to Gavin Shearer and Richard Huff for producing, editing and serving the podcast, plus bringing all their fancy equipment. To say we couldn’t have done it without them would be, um, entirely accurate. In fact, they don’t really need us, considering they have their own long running podcast, the Confab Show, but shhhhh, don’t tell them.

I’m sure we’ll get a helluva a lot better over time, and a year from now I’ll probably look back on this first podcast with embarrassment… but then, I’m no stranger to embarrassment. I look forward to hearing your comments and critiques, and invite everyone to stop by next Tuesday and participate.

Comments

  1. Thanks for posting this Goldy. Being only 20, I have never been able to take part before today. *tear*

    I’m off to bed, but I’ll listen to this tomorrow. =).
    Gerald, LiberalWashington.com

  5. Hey gang! I thought it came off very well and yes, DL is well on its way to taking over the whole Montlake.

  6. Off topic but very funny…..

    Students at a high school were assigned to read two books, “Titanic” & “My Life” by Bill Clinton. One smart-ass student turned in the following book report, with the proposition that they were nearly identical stories! His cool professor gave him an A+ for this comparison report:

    “Titanic”: $29.99
    “My Life” by Clinton: $29.99

    Titanic: Over 3 hours to read
    Clinton: Over 3 hours to read

    Titanic: The story of Jack and Rose, their forbidden love, and subsequent catastrophe.
    Clinton: The story of Bill and Monica, their forbidden love, and subsequent catastrophe.

    Titanic: Jack is a starving artist.
    Clinton: Bill is a bullshit artist.

    Titanic: In one scene, Jack enjoys a good cigar.
    Clinton: Ditto for Bill.

    Titanic: During the ordeal, Rose’s dress gets ruined.
    Clinton: Ditto for Monica.

    Titanic: Jack teaches Rose to spit.
    Clinton: Let’s not go there.

    Titanic: Rose gets to keep her jewelry.
    Clinton: Monica’s forced to return her gifts.

    Titanic: Rose remembers Jack for the rest of her life.
    Clinton: Clinton doesn’t remember “Jack”.

    Titanic: Rose goes down on a vessel full of seamen.
    Clinton: Monica…ooh, let’s not go there, either.

    Titanic: Jack surrenders to an icy death.
    Clinton: Bill goes home to Hillary…basically the same thing.

  8. When will you NeoCONS get over President Clinton? Why keep trying to redo history and paint him as a failure (such as yourselves?). All the jokes and riddles and inuendos will not erase the great record and tremendous job he did with the US Presidency! Unlike your monkey king, who will undoubtfully go down as one of the worst presidents in history!

  10. @8
    “Why keep trying to redo history and paint him as a failure (such as yourselves?)”

    idiot, the man was impeached and a disgrace to the office….

  11. I wish bad Bill was back in charge. Surpluses instead of deficits. Diplomacy first instead of war. Actual solutions that work instead of messages from the divine.

    But most of all, actual, experienced, competent people who knew how to run government instead of political hacks that could not manage their way out of a latrine:

    Katrina report faults Chertoff, White House

    Associated Press
    WASHINGTON – The White House and Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff failed to provide decisive action when Hurricane Katrina struck, congressional investigators said Wednesday in a stinging assessment of slow federal relief efforts.

  12. Comment by Cougar— 2/2/06 @ 8:34 am

    “All the jokes and riddles and inuendos will not erase the great record and tremendous job he did with the US Presidency! Unlike your monkey king, who will undoubtfully go down as one of the worst presidents in history!”

    What are the hallmarks of the Clinton Presidency? Clearly impeachment wasn’t one of them. I’m genuinely interested in what you think they are.

  13. @ 10

    Momus, I don’t really think, you know, other people agree with you since, after all, the Democrats gained seats in 1998 in response to the impeachment. The American people rightly see that time in our history as one party’s egregious political ploy against a ‘bubba’ who whipped ’em twice. But it’s cool, keeping bringing it up. 1998 makes Bush look like fucking Augusto Pinochet in comparison.

  14. @ 12

    Are you ConservativeFirst, but ‘ReadingSkillsLast’? Weren’t you paying attention during the 90’s?

    Balanced budget, poverty went way down, real income up, peace in Ireland, record corporate profits, biggest expansion of the US economy since Ike…

    Honoestly, CF, there’s so much and I don’t think you really give a shit, so I won’t continue to list them…

  15. Belltowner,

    Keep talking you liberal pussy. I am curious, at what point did you become completely feminized?

  16. Insult him all you want, my neo-con friends and conservative enablers. He knew how to run the joint. The only reason the Flight-Suit-in-Chief has lasted this long is other people have been carrying his ass.

  18. Hey Skippy (Commander Ogg)..

    I keep hearing you women criticize this guy and he keeps outsmarting you and well, just rubbing you face in shit.

    Of course, that because of his advisors, or saturn in line with venus, or whatever EXCUSE you have for the day.

    Your a whinny minority that has lost, deal with it. Now get to work and pay your taxes bitch

  21. Treefrog,

    I’m surpirised you have time to comment, what with all the bullshit counciling you have with molestation victims and their families.

    Now, go formulate another lie which makes you some authority on a liberal discussion….

  22. If confronted by a rabid troll, DON’T try to capture it. Call the authorities and keep the kids inside. DO NOT explain the success of the Clinton record as he can’t understand logic. Avoid taking a stridently anti-Bush tack, as it will send him into a frothy, masterbatory rage.

  24. I ask again – are you going to show some guts and support the Danes? Gerald has already declared that he is afraid the extremists might have their feelings hurt, so he isn’t. Either that, or he agrees with them.

  27. I see Momus Pompous Assus wilfully has his head buried up his pompous assus again this morning. There’s NO COMPARISON between the Clinton and Bush presidencies. Dubya will be remembered as one of the least competent and most corrupt presidents of all time. Clinton probably will be remembered the most for Monica and impeachment, but his economic record is without parallel in modern history. Clinton left the country — and the US military — in good shape, and the Bushies dragged both into the sewer.

  28. Goldy, you overestimate the interest in your podcast. Instead of drinking liberally on Tuesday, go do something of real value. Do some volunteer work like Stefan.

  29. Let’s not forget that the Bullshit-Artist-in-Chief was elected in 2000 and again in 2004.

  31. re 29: These are the only two “elections” that have been held by the Supreme Court and Diebold. I’ll bet Chuck Hagel can get away with his criticisms of Bush because he can spill the beans on the Republican Diebold Scam if they get strident in their “getbacks”.

  32. On to Cheney’s miSsing e-mails…hmmmm…obstruction of justice, destroying evidence, conspiracy…any other ideas? It’s such a wonderful thing that we don’t have a competent, horny president any more but instead are saddled with a criminal gang “led” by the C+ Boy Wonder of Yale.

  34. Who wants to hear a bunch of sissy, pussy, wimp Democrat liberals who can’t get dates? Ann Coulter would laugh at all of you!

  36. 32., Daddy Love, Didn’t Bill “Draft Dodger” Clinton attend, but did NOT graduate, Yale? [hehe]

  39. Keep talking you liberal pussy. I am curious, at what point did you become completely feminized?

    You say “liberal pussy” like its a bad thing.

    What’s your problem with pussy, honey?

  40. MOMUS,

    Pray to your G-ds Mister, if you believe in any, that the FSIC and his #1 Turd Blossom can frighten enough of the sheep with this bullsh-t war talk to stay in power. If the Democrats can get there act together and take over either the House or Senate, two things will happen immediately.

    a) The congressional oversight committees will do something not seen in 5 years of Republican rulestart issuing subpoenas
    b) The President will need to stock up on depends™.

  42. Here is an article that provides a perfect example of what “radical liberal propaganda” does to children.

    “R.I. School Essay Brings in Secret Service
    Feb 02 2:34 PM US/Eastern WEST WARWICK, R.I.

    The Secret Service is investigating a seventh-grader who wrote a school essay that authorities say advocated violence against President Bush, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and others.

    The boy’s homework assignment for English class was to write what he would do on a perfect day. In addition to the president and Winfrey, the boy wrote that violence should be directed at executives of Coca- Cola and Wal-Mart, police and school officials said.

    “His perfect day would be to see the destruction of these people,” Schools Superintendent David Raiche said.

    The Secret Service investigation is ongoing, but the essay may have been a “cry for help,” said Thomas M. Powers, resident agent in charge in Providence. Threatening the president is a felony, he said.

    Authorities would not identify the boy or his teacher or release a copy of the essay. He was not arrested, police Detective Sgt. Fernando Araujo said.

    “It wasn’t any detailed, minute-by-minute plan,” Araujo said. “It didn’t meet the criteria for a criminal charge.”

    The boy has been temporarily barred from school, but as a mental health rather than disciplinary precaution, Raiche said.”

  43. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – An oil tanker with 360,000 barrels capacity was struck by an ice floe and ran aground while loading oil products at an Alaska refinery on Thursday, causing a spill, a state official and the refining company said.

    “At this time we do not have an estimate as to the amount of product released,” refinery owner Tesoro Corp. said in a statement.

    The Tesoro-chartered double-hulled tanker, the Seabulk Pride, was loading heavy vacuum gas oil and unleaded gasoline from the refinery in Nikiski, Alaska, on the Cook Inlet, the company said. It said the ship was aground about half a mile

    north of the dock, and that the vessel’s tanks were secure.

    Ice conditions at the time of the accident were “extreme,” said Lynda Giguere of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.

    She said two tugboats and a helicopter had been dispatched to the scene.

    In 1989, the Exxon Valdez supertanker grounded on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, spilling about 11 million gallons (50 million liters) of crude oil.
    [Quickly, 2000 Democrat Lawyers named Lowenstein, Loeb, Stern, Goldenstein, and Leiberburg have flown to Alaska with lawsuit forms in hand to “hunt” for clients!!]

  44. Ogg @ 40

    Dig this dmwit…..

    NO-ONE supports abandoning Iraq.

    This was already put to a vote and you liberla pussies would not vote on it at that time.

    All you do is bitch and criticize.

    You might want to change you name from Commander to ensign or possible Seniorita Ogg.

  46. Momus,

    20 years did I serve in combat service support for the Army of the United States. I was fortunate to miss 2 wars, including the present one, and five or six “police actions”, because with apologies to Mr. Rambo or the FSIC, you are not bulletproof, the enemy is not that bad a shot, and your weapon will run out of ammunition. I did my time, took my chances, and pretty much thank the Universe for my good fortune, and all my limbs intact.

    I have had to spend the last 3 years watching the nightly news as my fellow soldiers and marines (I was a Marine reservist before I joined the Army) are getting blown away two or three at a time because a lazy, selfish, alcoholic frat boy (who was born into the lucky sperm club) decided he had to show he was a bigger man then his daddy.

    2,382 Americans are dead, you idiot. Add this to the 2948 dead Americans in a terrorist attack that could have been prevented if King George and his sycophants didn’t have there heads up there ass. They are all responsible, Bush for ignoring the PDB’s, Rice for ignoring the Counter-Terrorism czar and the little Rummer boy for ignoring the Generals.

    I took an oath to die for my country. I did not take an oath to die stupidly. Tell me what those brave men and women are dying for? And when the last helicopter lifts off from the Baghdad airport 3, 5, or 10 years from now: when Iraq is transformed into an Islamic-fascist state ruled by proxy from Iran, you tell them their sacrifice was not in vain.

  48. and what a disgrace during the SOTU…how could the ‘king wannabe’ mention President Clinton and himself in the same sentence? That is like comparing Mario Andretti with a DUI felon! (oh, the DUI part does stick with Bush)

  49. and it sure breaks my heart that DeLay’s hand picked successor got ‘whipped’ in the RepubliCON’s elections. Too bad the CONs did not have the guts to put Shadegg into office, but then again, he might of actually done something to change the corruption in the GOP

  50. PRESIDENT CLINTON WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS ABORTION BILL. CLINTON LOOKS UP AND SAY PAY IT.

  51. RABBIT @34 YOU ARE TALKING OUT YOUR RABBIT ASS AGAIN AFTER DOING 30 YEARS I CAN TELL YOU THE 2 WORST PRESIDETS FOR THE MILITARY WERE CARTER AND CLINTON THOSE TWO ASSHOLES FUCKED UP THE MILITARY BUT HEY YOU WERENT THERE.BUT THANKS FOR PLAYING DIPSHIT

  52. YO go easy on Rabbitt, He and his friends have had a couple of pretty big defeats this week. :)))))))))

  53. F*cked up the military, Mr. Yo? F*cked up the military?!?

    No, this is what happens when you have an incompetent b*stard as the Commander in Chief:

    Out of jail, into the Army
    Facing an enlistment crisis, the Army is granting “waivers” to an increasingly high percentage of recruits with criminal records — and trying to hide it.

    By Mark Benjamin
    Feb. 2, 2006 |

    “I parked and walked over to his car and got in and we were talking,” the future Air Guardsman later wrote. “He asked if I had any marijuana and I said yes, that I bought some in Wilmington, Del., earlier that day. He said he wanted some.” The drug dealer went on to recount in a Jan. 11, 2005, statement written to win admission into the military, “I walked back to my car [and] as soon as I got in my car an officer put his flashlight in the window and arrested me.”
    Under Air National Guard rules, the dealer had committed a “major offense” that would bar him from military service. Air National Guard recruits, like other members of the military, cannot have drug convictions on their record. But on Feb. 2, 2005, the applicant who had been arrested in the mini-mall was admitted into the Delaware Air National Guard. How? Through the use of a little-known, but increasingly important, escape clause known as a waiver. Waivers, which are generally approved at the Pentagon, allow recruiters to sign up men and women who otherwise would be ineligible for service because of legal convictions, medical problems or other reasons preventing them from meeting minimum standards.

  54. The “Religion of Peace” strikes again.

    Muslims attack Indonesian pastor
    Voice of the Martyrs helps man get new teeth after machete assault

    Posted: February 3, 2006; 1:00 a.m. Eastern

    © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

    Santoso’s new smile.
    “Santoso,” a farmer and a pastor for a small village church in Indonesia, was attacked on the way home after sharing Christ with Muslims on a farm in the city of Poso.
    He and a friend, both on motorbikes, were hit with a machete wielded by a Muslim who jumped from a bush. The Muslim tried to cut off his head but missed, hitting Santoso in the mouth. He ran to his village holding his face. Because of the attack, Santoso lost 10 teeth and damaged his tongue; his friend’s fingers were cut off. This was the third attempt on Santoso’s life.
    “The Voice of the Martyrs” medical staff has flown him to Java twice for treatment and is happy to report Santoso now has teeth implants. Before going into his last surgery, he told VOM: “I read Ephesians 1:19 which promises God’s great power to us who believe. God sends me power so I can bear suffering. We rejoice that one Muslim has come to Christ.”
    Christians across the 3,000 inhabited islands of Indonesia are suffering increased attacks, church burnings, imprisonment and threats from angry mobs because of their faith in Jesus Christ. Much of the world would like you to believe that Christians are no longer persecuted, but Santoso would disagree. Now you can stay informed of what is really happening to your Christian brothers and sisters in countries like Indonesia and discover practical ways that you can get involved.

  55. In my opinion the should outlaw missionaries. Let everyone stay with their current religion and don’t continually try to ram yours down their throats. The Christians are probably more to blame than anyone. Who is to say whether Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism or Christianity is better? They are all handed down from mouth to mouth via stories and everyone knows how stories tend to change with the times. Example: GWB+WMD

  56. Drivel @ 55,

    An astounding response……

    Are you a student of history? Cause if you were, you would know that the Buddhist religion is their original religion. Islam came in sometime after in a wave of proselyizing.

    And then (of course) there is the good old USA that was predominantly a Christian Nation from its founding. Are you then saying that we should outlaw Islam in this country?

    And radical libs wonder why they are a political minority.

  57. jaybo, not once did I mention outlawing any religion. I specifically said they should ‘outlaw’ the brainwashing being done by religions trying to convert other denominations to their own specific religion. If a person believes in ‘whatever’ type of religion that is great by me. I am many things, but deffinitely not radical……..

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