Midweek Politics with David Pakman

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman – March 18, 2009

MP3 Podcast: Available with entire Midweek Politics Archive for Members

Total Running Time: 56:22

This Week’s Topics:

–Sut Jhally, Executive Producer and Adriana Barbaro, Producer, Co-Director, and Co-Writer of Consuming Kids, the latest Media Education Foundation documentary, are live in studio to discuss the film.

–More Obama budget controversies, including hypocrisy on earmarks, stimulating green energy, and more.

–AIG and their bonuses, as well as Senator Chuck Grassley’s controversial comments about executives committing suicide.

–Senator John McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain, commenting on stimulus packages and the economy minutes before saying she actually does not understand the economy or how it works.

–More on stem cells, including some bizarre parodies.

–The health care situation, including comments from Bill Clinton.

–Dick Cheney says we are already less safe as a result of Barack Obama’s policy decisions.

–Sean Hannity says that torture is compatible with Christianity, while at the same time new reports confirm the Bush administration did torture.

–A German frozen food company comes up with a product idea called Obama friend chicken fingers.

–Fox News calls CNN the Communist News Network.

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