Meet the New Press Podcast
WEMJ 1490 Saturdays 9am-11am (EDT)
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Hour One:
Opening Banter – Doug and Skip talk about the opening Olympic Ceremony and with things underway, a Czech shooter had already won the first Gold medal. The pollution levels in Bejing are also quite evident, and they guys asked the question "so, why are the enviro-wackos complaning" (and of course, knew the reason why). They also noted, with sorrow, the death of the little girl up in Ashland due to the flash flooding that swept the family car away.
We talked with Matt Murphy of the Granite State Employee Freedom Coalition to see where the gang discussed that Shaheen was spending the weekend with the AFL-CIO hoy-paloi – in other words, Big Union. Shaheen refuses to discuss the issue of Employee Free Choice Act– EFCA (secret ballot voting for unionization)– and discussed former Presidential Democrat George McGovern’s opposition to it. Our friend Chan from Weekend Pundit calls in from the live stream with his observations as a long term union guy.
We talked with one of our favorite guests, Liz Mair who is now with with RNC as Director in the eCampaign Division of the RNC. Mostly, we talked about the number one issue of the campaign – energy and the differences between McCain and Obama in this regard. We also discussed McCain’s Lexington Program. Also, we talked gas prices and that the expectation that lower gas prices in the future will (and has) lower current prices. We also expounded on the fact that Americans do not like to be told they can and have to be content with less – we want and can do more! Nukes – yeah, we like’em!
Ending Banter – The Obama Sign and the fact that nuke power could very well result in higher employment in the Lakes Region.
Hour Two:
Quick Banter – a bit more on nukes, jobs, safety, and why do the opponents believe that future generations are going to be stupider than now?
We had a wonderful time with Amil Imani discussing "useful idiots" and the process of how fundamentalist Islamism (mostly fueled with petro-dollars from the Saudis are planting mosques as part of their "soft jihad" of cultural, religious, and legal warfare. As he grew up in Iran, he knows first hand the danger that the West is facing. We discuss some of the problems we see here in the US and in the West, the small little incidents, when connecting all the dots, show that Islam may well be using the openness of the West against it.
Lastly, James Pindell from PolitickerNH.com (THE place on the ‘Net for dishing inside politics in NH) was our last guest and the topic was the Congressional and Senatorial races here in NH: the primary with Jeb Bradley (who the ‘Grok has endorsed!) and John Stephen (we discussed the recent UNH polling data) in NH CD-1 and the general election with Carol Shea-Porter. We also touched on the Sununu / Shaheen matchup.
No SchlubCam this week.
