Show Guests and Topics for December 29, 2011
December 29, 2011
Matt Miller in the anchor chair!
Good Thursday to everyone — here’s what’s coming up on The Dylan Ratigan Show today with guest host Matt Miller. (Say hi to him at @MattMillerNow on Twitter. He’ll be here all week holding down the fort!)
The Big Story today: An Insiders’ Look at Iowa. What should we make of Rick Santorum’s surge there, and what’s up with Michelle Bachmann’s state chairman defecting to the Ron Paul campaign? We’ll also take a look at the role big campaign money is playing there — in December, candidates and their committees spent more than $10 million combined — and that’s not even including the money their PAC’s are spending.
On today’s Megapanel: Mark Tapscott, Susan DelPercio and Jimmy Williams join us, along with General Treasurer of Rhode Island, Gina Raimondo. Ms. Raimondo was recently featured in Time Magazine, which you can check out here.
End of the year travel – is it the safest year ever? If you’re flying, it looks like it could be, with only one fatality for every 7.1 million passengers traveling on a commercial or charter flight somewhere around the globe. A couple other interesting factoids: more Americans are driving than flying over the holidays. And here’s a story about airports looking to replace the TSA with private contractors. (Whatever gets us through faster!)
Could there be a real third party threat in 2012? Between Ron Paul in Iowa and Gary Johnson announcing yesterday that he’s launched a Libertarian bid, it could be possible? We’ll find out more from Kahlil Byrd of Americans Elect.
Daily Rant: The one and only Imogen Lloyd Webber with a very special “Happy New Year” rant.
That and more coming up at 4PM! As always, let us know your thoughts — Tweet @DylanRatigan (which we’re checking while he’s on vacation) or email us at dylan@dylanratigan.com.
Hope not but the president would love it.
We have become a country of cowards. We have given up our civil liberties by embracing the “patriot” law. We are ready to go nearly nude at airports. We spend more than all the rest of the world on defense and intelligence, BUT every “pundit” on TV always thinks we are vulnerable to inconsequential countries like Iran and N. Korea.
Shame on us!!!!!!
@ Gary C. Maybe not the entire ticket as HOSTS. I mean, I could see Michelle looking as if she's going to give us a peek behind door number 3 and looking surprised (as ever) at what she finds there.
Franklin Roosevelt promised "a new deal for the American people".
Throughout the nation men and women, forgotten in the political philosophy of the Government, look to us here for guidance and for more equitable opportunity to share in the distribution of national wealth… I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. This is more than a political campaign. It is a call to arms.
The New Deal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal
Roosevelt and the Congress forged ahead with a new program of reform, often called the Second New Deal, which included Social Security, more controls over banks and public utilities, an immense work relief program, and higher taxes on the rich to help pay for it all.
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace-business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hatred for me – and I welcome their hatred. I should like to have it said of my first administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second administration that in it these forces met their master.
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Speech at Madison Square Garden”
So Matt Miller and the person who he was interviewing regarding changing the current Gregorian calendar need a little education. Both of you used the word "gypped", which is considered an ethnic slur to descendents of gypsy families. I counted it four times. Come on!
Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine never lets me down. He is the worst kind of pseudo scientist. I love how you guys in the media always have him on as an "expert" to debunk things you don't like when he offers zero proof and can easily be proven wrong by doing the least amount of research.
As far as his claims today go that todays 99% are more powerful than any king of the past, and that they are richer than all of the 1% of the past that is utterly and completely ridiculous. Of course kings, queens and aristocracy could have people put to death on a whim. They could have people tortured and maimed on a whim. Laws didn't apply to them and they made laws up as they went along. Does that sound like they were far less powerful than all of the 99% today? Pure fantasy! Here's a simple example, during the black plague a simple duke sent his daughter from England on a ship to Spain to marry another Dukes son. He sent another ship THAT WAS SOLEY FILLED WITH HER WARDROBE. That's right, she had so many cloths they filled a whole ship and that was in the 16th century. Does that sound like someone from todays 99%? Elites from those days commonly had anywhere from 6 to 24 servants in their households that not only cooked and cleaned but even DRESSED them.
It is common now for the Republicans to make the very claims that Shermer made to Republican crowds mostly on networks like Fox or Clear Channel radio for the truly ignorant who they believe will simply believe their propaganda. Don't believe it for a moment. Shermer like most professional skeptics is anything but a scientist. I would hardly classify him as an engineer. A hack, yes. He belongs right alongside the clowns at Fox and I'm disappointed but not surprised you had him on as a guest.