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Amy Goodman’s New Column, “Tutu, Obama and the Middle East”
As President-elect Barack Obama focuses on the meltdown of the U.S. economy, another fire is burning: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You may not have heard much lately about the disaster in the Gaza Strip. That silence is intentional: The Israeli government has barred international journalists from entering the occupied territory.
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“A View From the South”
Evo Morales knows about “change you can believe in.” He also knows what happens when a powerful elite is forced to make changes it doesn’t want.
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“President Obama Can Redeem the White House”
Alice Walker is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But Monday, I called her to talk about a true story. The Obamas had just visited the White House. The first African-American elected president of the United States had visited his soon-to-be residence, a house built by slaves.
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Amy Goodman on CNN Newsroom, November 10, 2008
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Anjali Kamat’s New Column: “Change We Can Believe In?”
Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat writes, “To all those for whom America has represented generations of racial injustice, the election of America’s first Black president marks the beginning of a new era…But unless the inspired millions who brought him to power continue to believe their demands matter and insist on holding him accountable each step of the way, it will be Obama’s corporate and hawkish friends who determine the domestic and foreign policies of the coming administration and our collective future.”
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“Organizer in Chief”
You could almost hear the world’s collective sigh of relief. This year’s U.S. presidential election was a global event in every sense. Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, represents to so many a living bridge—between continents and cultures.
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Studs Terkel, 1912-2008
The legendary radio broadcaster, writer and oral historian Studs Terkel has died at the age of 96 in Chicago. Over the years Terkel has been a regular guest on Democracy Now!In 2005, Studs Terkel appeared on Democracy Now! shortly after undergoing open heart surgery. He told Amy Goodman, “My curiosity is what saw me through. What would the world be like, or will there be a world? And so, that’s my epitaph. I have it all set. Curiosity did not kill this cat. And it’s curiosity, I think, that has saved me thus far.”
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“Election Protection”
Election Day approaches, and with it a test of our election system’s integrity. Who will be allowed to vote; who will be barred? Who will get paper ballots; who will use electronic voting machines? Will polls be open long enough to accommodate what is expected to be a historic turnout?
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MSNBC Fires Shock Host Michael Savage After He Tells Caller, “Get AIDS and Die, You Pig”
Weekly TV show “Savage Nation” was canned yesterday, two days after Savage’s homophobic remarks aired. He remains on 300 radio stations. We talk to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting’s Steve Rendall and broadcast an excerpt of Savage’s show.
Five months ago MSNBC overhauled their schedule. The network’s most progressive voice Phil Donahue was out. A team of well known conservatives were quickly hired.
An internal study leaked to media critic Rick Ellis, described Donahue as a “a tired, left-wing liberal out of touch with the current marketplace.”
The report went on to say that Donahue presented a difficult face for NBC at a time of war. The station feared that Donahue’s show would become “a home for the liberal anti-war agenda at the same time our competitors are waving the flag at every opportunity.”
One of his replacements was Michael Savage.
Let’s take a listen to an excerpt from his most recent show on Saturday.
"MICHAEL SAVAGE: So you’re one of those sodomists. Are you a sodomite?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I am.
MICHAEL SAVAGE: Oh, you’re one of the sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How’s that? Why don’t you see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it. Get trichinosis.
OK, do we have another nice caller here who’s busy because he didn’t have a nice night in the bathhouse who’s angry at me today? Get me another one, put another sodomite on. No more calls out of-–let’s go to the next scene. I don’t care about these bums. They mean nothing to me. They’re all sausages. Next scene; onto the next scene on the Savage Nation.
Those are the words of Michael Savage.
Well yesterday MSNBC decided enough was enough and fired Michael Savage. But Savage nightly radio show remains on over 300 stations.
- Michael Savage, radio and TV host recorded on MSNBC July 5, 2003. He was fired from MSNBC yesterday.
- Steve Rendall, senior analyst at FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.
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