Letters to the Editor
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Good Debut
By the way NPR had a small segment on the liberal bloggers, their fundraising and activism.
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Great!
Very good, I look forward to more of these podcast, Thanks.
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This is fantastic!
I'm excited to find out whom Glenn will be having on.
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technical suggestion
glenn - this is great! i've always enjoyed your interviews and look forward a regular podcast.
just one technical suggestion - for folks on dialup, it would be helpful if the audio file did not automatically begin downloading.
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Good start
I would hope that this might eventually lead to Glenn getting a semi-regular talking head gig but I'm afraid his brand of truth-telling doesn't fit into the type of narratives the corporate TV media has been so kind to craft for us. Now, Joan on the other hand ...
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Mr. Greenwald,
This is the best news I've heard in weeks. You need the highest, loudest platform we can possibly find for you.
Congratulations on advancing the struggle for respect for the rule of law. I will listen to every broadcast.
You are, indeed, a 21st century Thomas Paine.
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All Glenn all the time
This is tremendous news. I've followed you since your days on 'Unclaimed Territory' which I was pleased to find out is still occasionally updated.
You're a voice in the wilderness my friend. Thank you for being there, we are all made better by it.
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Congratulations Glen
Congratulations Glen on the debut of your radio/podcast!
I am really looking forward to your new format and your elequent arguments/opinions can only be strengthened by further open debate with the "other side".
Dan Ellsberg is a most appropriate "first guest".
Best wishes.....
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technical
It sounds like you might be a little too far from the microphone, and maybe some kind of soundproofing on the walls would help.
Just started listening :)
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Will there be transcripts?
Please keep in mind that, for rapid dissemination of information, the best sound quality is "don't use sound". The average person can read about twice as many words per minute as he can speak, and that's when trying for full comprehension of every sentence - when skimming a discussion for the most important points, printed text is vastly faster than audio.
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Outstanding
I really hope some of your "ideological opponents" will take the opportunity to debate you on your critiques.
Let the games begin.
Are you taking suggestions for guests?
Invite Olbermann.
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Administration lackeys?
This could be a fantastic opportunity to interview some high-level administration members or media pundits who have never heard of you. If Keith Olbermann was unaware of you, it would be interesting to see what other big names don't know who you are. Bill Kristol? Douglas Feith? Condi Rice? Dick Cheney? Setup interviews with Salon press credentials and say you're doing a 'national feature'. Since 9 times out of 10 the press does fluff pieces on rightwingers, they probably wouldn't expect to be asked anything difficult.
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Keep a running tab on who refuses your interviews
I think it would be very helpful for people to know who you ask on to the show, and which of those folks refuse. I'd be willing to bet a large sum of money that 90%+ of those you criticize will be unwilling to come on the show because they don't have the balls to show how full-of-holes their arguments really are. If I were them, I'd run from you as fast as possible. (that's a compliment!)
Congrats and best of luck making this new radio edge a huge thing.
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Kudos Glenn
Great new initiative. The House Judiciary Committee hearing today on “impeachment” and executive power had witnesses you might want to interview. It doesn’t appear that the M$M is going to pay enough attention to the hearing and the examination of the many crimes committed by the Busheviks. It would be especially enlightening for you to interview the two Repug shill witnesses, Stephen Presser NWU and Jeremy Rabkin GMU George Mason University. They claim to be “experts” on the constitution and impeachment. The seemed to have little understanding or knowledge in their area of “expertise.” Their testimony was sheer propaganda.
The Repugs on the committee shouldn’t be allowed to get away with their misrepresentation of the facts especially on Iraq WMD and how the American people and the congress were not falsely led to war. Please interview Scott Ritter, former UN inspector, to refute their propaganda smoke screen. Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren from California would be another to interview. She obviously was a Pelosi stand in and took the Blue Dog position on FISA, impeachment and a truth commission.
I’m sure commenters will have a lot of recommendations on who you should interview. Do you prefer that we make suggestions on the threads, or would you prefer that we send you an email?
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No words
There are no words to describe the feeling of betrayal that I feel. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have not only committed war crimes, they have violated their oath of office and should be removed by force. Now is the time to rise up. If we wait any longer, it will be too late and Blackwater will be at our doors with battering rams and rendition flights to Egypt. It will take 2 million people in the streets of DC, overpowering the DC and Capitol police, gaining access to the WH and the chambers and offices of congress. It will take tar and it will take feathers but it must be done. Otherwise, we will be like sheep led to slaughter by our trusted 'leaders'. If this country is to be saved, it must be cleansed of the Democratic and Republican partys. It must be cleasned with our own blood. Just as it was 200 years ago.
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JKP1000
Glenn is little known outside this lefty blog haze.
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Intercooler:
I think it would be very helpful for people to know who you ask on to the show, and which of those folks refuse. I'd be willing to bet a large sum of money that 90%+ of those you criticize will be unwilling to come on the show because they don't have the balls to show how full-of-holes their arguments really are.
Bloggingheads tried to arrange a debate with me and Larry Lessig over the post he wrote about Leftist "hysterics" angry over FISA and telecom amnesty and the response I wrote. He refused. I just can't imagine writing some critical polemic like that and then just refusing to discuss it or answer for it.
In the right cases, where it's appropriate, I absolutely think that pressuring people who refuse to explain themselves is an excellent tool. That occurred to me when during that whole episode where Michael Mukasey made false claims about how the 9/11 attacks happened. I tried to get a comment from Lee Hamilton about it, and he categorically refused to comment.
I wrote about his refusal, and tons of readers here wrote very impassioned emails to him arguing that, as the 9/11 Co-Chair, he had the obligation to comment on this. The whole point of the 9/11 Commission was to prevent the Government from making false claims about the attacks. In response to those emails, he sent me a comment -- saying that he had no idea what Mukasey was talking about -- and that led to Mukasey's having to retract it, letters from Conyers and others, etc.
It's a great model for forcing accountability that I definitely intend to use.