Mychal Denzel Smith is covering the George Zimmerman trial for The Nation magazine. We all know Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin, now it’s up to a jury of six women to determine whether or not he’ll get off. Mychal Denzel Smith’s work on race, politics, social justice, pop culture, hip hop, mental health, feminism and black male identity has appeared in various publications, including The Guardian, Ebony, theGrio, the Root, Huffington Post and GOOD. Today’s show features Mike MacRae, Mark Thompson, Janie Haddad Tompkins, Jeremy S. Kramer and Chris Pina. Portions of our show were written by Mike MacRae, Dylan Brody and David Feldman.
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On today’s show we talk about Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, the swing vote, the guy everybody has to please with constitutional scholar and author Ian Millhiser. Plus Robin Williams, Martin Short And Will Ryan and The Cactus County Cowboys.
In case you’re unfamiliar with Justice Kennedy, remember back in October of 2012 when Romney and Obama were courting the undecideds? Remember how annoying the undecideds were? Everyone had already made up their minds months earlier, but roughly three percent of the country claimed they just didn’t know, when in fact they wanted the attention. Well, that’s who Justice Anthony Kennedy is. He just doesn’t know. We talk with Ian Milhiser who just wrote a great piece for Think Progress entitled “Ten Reasons No One Should Lionize Justice Kennedy.” Ian Millhiser is a Senior Constitutional Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. And through the prism of Anthony Kennedy we’ll get to see how liberal, or just how conservative the John Roberts court is turning out to be.
Also on the show remember Rick Perry, the governor of Texas? Remember he ran for president last year and it turns out he was actually dumber than Michele Bachmann? Well, today, he’s going to announce whether or not he’s running for reelection as governor of Texas, and he also might announce whether or not he’s running for president again, even though his last campaign by all measures was a complete disaster. So, we’re running a sketch we did last year with Robin Williams playing Governor Perry, it still holds up.
And how about this? Marty Short and Will Ryan together on the same stage, how great is that?
Ray James, Will Ryan and David Feldman wrote portions of today’s show. Alicia Cordova produces us.
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America celebrates the Declaration Of Independence by sitting idly by as Egypt topples a popularly elected president. On today’s show we remember all those other despots who were toppled this year with Robin Williams, Martin Short, Paul Dooley, Robert Smigel, Janie Haddad Tompkins, Mark Thompson, Laura House plus Will Ryan And The Cactus County Cowboys featuring Westy Westenhoven and John Presto Reynolds. Today’s show is written by Guy Nicolucci and David Feldman.
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Despite being told to take the Fourth of July off, David, Mark Thompson and Will Ryan decided to do a show anyway. So in honor of The Fourth we give you 1/4th of a show. Actually it’s pretty good. We’re just being hard on ourselves. Plus it’s really hot in Los Angeles, and we were dehydrated, tired and lonely. Seriously, 1/4th of this is really, really good. I promise. I just don’t know which fourth. I think it’s near the end. Or the middle. Look, if you’re drunk, suffering from heat stroke or hallucinating from the spoiled mayo in Aunt Phart’s macaroni salad you’re going to love this.
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Marty Short does Jerry Lewis, and the situation in Egypt with Laura House, The King Of TV, Janie Haddad Tompkins and Ron Babcock. New music from Will Ryan and The Cactus County Cowboys. Portions of today’s program are written by Ben Zelevansky, Ron Babcock and David Feldman.
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The Senate passes landmark immigration reform and Esther Yu-Hsi Lee from Think Progress breaks it all down for us. Plus Film Critic Michael Snyder. New music from c. Also Jeremy S. Kramer, Janie Haddad Tompkins, Hal Lublin, and Lauren Pritchard. Portions written by Ned Rice, David Weiss and David Feldman.
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