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This Week’s Topics:

–Shirley Phelps-Roper from the Westboro Baptist Church joins us live to discuss her church’s God Hates Fags slogan, and the Supreme Court case involving the church, and we play under over with the words “wrath” and “fag” during her interview.

–New stations in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Massachusetts airing Midweek Politics.

–Conservative media misinterprets the Oscar win by The Hurt Locker as a victory for conservative values.

–Democrats should be angry with the current White House and Congress, and we look at why.

–New York Governor David Patterson runs for re-election for a few days, then quits due to a violence against women scandal.

–Charlie Rangel steps down as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

–After Harold Ford Jr changes his position on gay marriage yet again for political convenience, a New York crowd does not buy it and heckles him in and out of the venue.

–Discussing whether or not having extremists on a program validates them, or serves to discredit their views.

–The incredible story of California State Representative Roy Ashburn, a long-time anti-gay politician, revealing that he is gay after being caught drunk driving when leaving a gay nightclub.

–The Vatican faces another sex scandal, this time an organized male prostitution ring, the same week that they spoke out against gay marriage in Washington DC.

–Dylan Ratigan kicks a teabagger of his show in an actual example of critical journalism.

–Do we need term limits for House and Senate members? The arguments on both sides.

–Palin cracks the ultimate joke on Jay Leno, who has not had an edgy segment on his show for years, criticizing the mainstream media, and citing it as a reason she joined Fox News. Also, she says she will continue to write notes on her hands.

–Sarah Palin admits to having crossed into Canada when she was a child for healthcare.

–Emails about Orly Taitz, health insurance, Glenn Beck, and more.

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This Week’s Topics:

–Orly Taitz, the lawyer, dentist, and real estate agent at the head of the birther movement, joins us live.

–Matthew Rothschild, Editor of The Progressive, joins us live to discuss healthcare and surveillance of liberal activist and peace groups.

–Midweek Politics now available on Stitcher, an app for phones.

–The healtchare summit, including exchanges between President Obama and Eric Cantor, Lamar Alexander, and John McCain.

–Fact-checking the healthcare summit.

–Why Democrats should use reconciliation to pass healthcare reform, even though the bill itself has been watered down more and more, as a political move given that 2010 is already looking bad for them.

–Wrapping up the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, including final medal counts, and a sad but true sign about healthcare held up by a Canadian fan caught on camera.

–Republican legislator Bob Marshall says disabled children are God’s punishment for abortion.

–The activist group Atheist Agenda organizes a program to trade bibles for porn in San Antonio, and the results are hilarious.

–Senator Inhofe wants to investigate what he calls the global warming hoax after some parts of the US received plenty of snow during winter.

–Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons is caught in the Las Vegas airport with a woman named in his divorce papers minutes after denying she was with him, on the same plan as him, and returning from a trip with him in an amusing confrontation.

–Voters who switched to the Democratic Party to screw up the primary in 2008 at the request of Rush Limbaugh are now finding themselves in an unfortunate, but funny, situation.

–A JFK airport air traffic controller allowed his son to direct air traffic for a few minutes, and we have the audio.

–Audience emails about Joe Biden on Ash Wednesday, corporate personhood, and Scott Brown’s use of the Austin plane crash to play politics.

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This Week’s Topics:

–Former Massachusetts Governor and presidential candidate Michael Dukakis joins us live.

–Glenn Beck’s show runs without advertisements in the UK due to everyone bailing out.

–Steve Doocey suggests all plane crashers/bombers look the same, quickly forgetting about the underwear bomber and the Austin plane crash.

–Fox News’ troubles continue, mislabeling JD Hayworth as Former CongressWOMAN, and using the word Presiddent’s, and fawn over Lou Dobbs.

–A Michael Savage clip triggers a google alert for David Pakman, and it is an internet troll with which we are familiar.

–UK journalist Kay Burley does not understand the ash on Joe Biden’s forehead on Ash Wednesday.

–8 of 10 kidnappers for Jesus are release from a Haitian prison, and we wonder why the Pope is so offensive and far-fetched to evangelicals that already believe in virgin births, resurrection, the planting of dinosaur fossils by God to test their faith, and more.

–An overwhelming majority of Americans, regardless of political party, oppose the corporate personhood ruling by the Supreme Court.

–Analysis of the Austin plane crash, and Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown’s bizarre connecting of the crash to his election.

–Stimulus hypocrites: A handful of members of Congress that publicly opposed the stimulus, and then asked for a ton of money from it.

–The hijinks at CPAC, including the crowd going nuts for Newt Gingrich as he is introduced to the sound of Eye of the Tiger, and his statement about the secular, Socialist machine that is the Democrats.

–Bob Barr is shouted down at CPAC for mentioning a legal fact, that waterboarding is torture.

–Ron Paul wins a straw poll at CPAC for the 2012 presidential race.

–Colin Powell comments on Obama’s first year in office, and disagrees with Dick Cheney that Obama has made the country less safe.

–Tony Kornheiser is suspended from ESPN for his comments about reporter Hannah Storm.

–Audience emails about Evan Bayh, insulting Midweek Politics, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and the Westboro Baptist Church.

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Total Running Time: 57:57

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This Week’s Topics:

–Sit-down interview with Congressman Barney Frank about financial reform, Iraq, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and more.

–New radio and television stations airing Midweek Politics in Hartford and Massachusetts.

–An incredible story about a group of evangelical churchgoers who decided to steal children from Haiti to convert them away from Catholicism and to Baptists, and who fortunately were arrested before leaving the country with any kids.

–Peter Sprigg from the Family Research Council believes that homosexuality should be outlawed and punishable by law.

–Sprigg’s colleague, Tony Perkins, also subscribes to bizarre and extreme ideology when it comes to homosexuality.

–During a hearing in New Hampshire related to repealing same-sex marriage, Representative Nancy Elliott gives some strange and entertaining thoughts about homosexual activity.

–The new national security distraction of Arabic language students from the US, highlighted by the aggressive detention and interrogation of Nick George from Pomona College who was caught with English/Arabic flashcards for words such as funny and to smile.

–We discuss whether going after students studying Arabic for 4 hours with 7 different law enforcement officials keeps us more safe, or takes resources away from actual potential terrorists.

–In explaining the difference in reactions from trying shoebomber Robert Reid in the US during the Bush administration and the underwear bomber in the US now, Newt Gingrich resorts to lying that Richard Reid was an American citizen, and Monica Crowley that there simply were no military tribunals in 2001.

–In what can only be described as a fantasy world, Dick Cheney criticizes Barack Obama and Joe Biden for trying to take credit from Bush and Cheney for the miraculous, incredible success that is the war in Iraq.

–Senator Evan Bayh says he will not seek re-election to the US Senate, and while he says the decision was not motivated by being down in the polls, which he is not, he did take a few shots at Congress, and we discuss whether it will hurt or help him in a potential run for the presidency, which some are predicting.

–Director Kevin Smith is thrown off of a Southwest Airlines flight for being too fat, and it has create a frenzy on Twitter between Smith and the airline.

–Michelle Obama will appear on Fox News with Mike Huckabee in what seems like a carefully crafted non-political appearance related to childhood obesity.

–A deluge of emails after last week’s interview with anti-gay Paul Cameron goes viral.

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Total Running Time: 57:29

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This Week’s Topics:

–Notoriously anti-gay Paul Cameron joins us live to discuss his claim that homosexuals in the military are significantly more likely to rape of sexually assault fellow soldiers in the military.

–Ervin Staub, Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts and Abu Ghraib expert witness, joins us live in studio.

–Viewer emails about Tim Tebow and Midweek Politics.

–The Super Bowl and the Focus on the Family Tim Tebow anti-abortion advertisement, which many could not tell was anti-abortion.

–A gay dating site who tried to purchase an ad on the Super Bowl was rejected by CBS, while the anti-abortion ad was allowed.

–President Obama makes what might be his first major gaffe during a speech.

–The Tea Party Conference, whether the possible success of the Tea Party would help liberals or conservatives more, and Tom Tancredo’s incredible comments during his turn at the podium.

–Sarah Palin has crib notes written on her hands during her speech at the Tea Party Conference, and refers to them during a very friendly and tame question and answer session after her speech.

–Sarah Palin’s hypocrisy over the use of the term “retard” by Rush Limbaugh and Rahm Emmanuel.

–The same Republicans criticizing and condemning the Obama administration for its decision to try the underwear bomber in US federal court said nothing when the Bush administration tried shoe bomber Richard Reid in a US federal court, which led to a guilty verdict and  a life sentence without parole in a super maximum security prison.

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