Truth About Dennis Rodman’s Trip To North Korea, Katie Couric Fails Transgender Community, Obama Never Lied About Obamacare, 40 Percent of White Men Arrested By Age Of 23, and Indonesia’s Mass Murderers Go Unpunished. Think Progress’s Hayes Brown, Nation Magazine’s George Zornick, Think Progress’s Zack Ford, Professor of Criminology Dr. Robert Brame, and Film Critic Michael Snyder. Please subscribe to this show for free as a podcast on iTunes and Stitcher.
Republicans want you to believe that millions of Americans are losing their health insurance due to Obamacare, and that President Obama lied when he said, “If you liked your plan you could keep it.”
George Zornick writes for The Nation Magazine, he’s been looking into this for the Washington Post and writes that when all is said and done only ten thousand Americans will lose their coverage, not the five million conservative pundits would want us to believe. He joins us from Washington DC. Then California’s State Supreme Court last Thursday ruled unanimously that undocumented workers could now practice law in the state of California. Rachel Swan writes for SF weekly and she has been following this case, she joins us from San Francisco. Michael Snyder is our resident film critic and he has two documentaries we all have to see. And Jeremy S. Kramer spills the beans on The Annenberg Foundation. Plus Gary Shapiro sits in with Will Ryan And The Cactus County Cowboys. Please subscribe to this show as a free podcast on iTunes and Stitcher and give us a great review.
Film Critic Michael Snyder offers up his list of the best movies you should be watching from 2013, plus a few that you probably shouldn’t.
How Wall Street buys professors to teach, write and testify on Wall Street’s behalf with two time Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist David Kocieniewsk from The New York Times. David Kocieniewski wrote two investigative articles this year about Goldman Sachs and Apple that we discuss all the time on this show. His latest investigative piece will make you question everything you’re told by economists and professors. Then Film Critic Michael Snyder lists his favorite movies for 2013. Also Will Ryan and The Cactus County Cowboys, Jimmy Lee Wirt, Janie Haddad Tompkins, Hal Lublin and Jeremy S. Kramer. Portions of our show are written by Hal Lublin, David Weiss and David Feldman. Please subscribe to our show for free as a podcast on iTunes and Stitcher.
David Kocieniewski is a business reporter who has been covering the nation’s tax system for The New York Times since 2010. Previously, Mr. Kocieniewski had been a reporter on the paper’s Metro desk since 1995 where he focused on law enforcement, corruption and its offshoot and the New Jersey government.
In 2013, he was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
“for its penetrating look into business practices by Apple and other technology companies that illustrates the darker side of a changing global economy for workers and consumers.”
In 2011, Mr. Kocieniewski examined the efforts by businesses to lower their taxes and the debate over how to improve the tax system in a series titled “But Nobody Pays That.’‘
In April 2012, the series was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. The Pulitzer jury said his work
“penetrated a legal thicket to explain how the nation’s wealthiest citizens and corporations often exploited loopholes and avoided taxes.”
Mr. Kocieniewski joined The Times in 1995. Previously, he worked at The Detroit News from 1986 to 1990, and New York Newsday from 1990 to 1995. He has covered criminal justice and politics for most of his career.
While at New York Newsday, he wrote a series of stories about corruption in the New York Police Department that led to the Mollen Commission hearings and won a handful of awards from various organizations, including the New York State Bar Association and the National Association of Black Journalists.
Mr. Kocieniewski is the co-author of “Two Seconds Under the World,” a book about the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the F.B.I.’s failure to takes steps that might have prevented it. He also wrote “The Brass Wall,” an exposé about corruption in the police department’s Internal Affairs Bureau that nearly cost a hero undercover detective his life; the book was cited as one of the top 10 nonfiction books of 2003.
Mr. Kocieniewski was born in Buffalo, N.Y. He graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1985, and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1986.
A whole lotta show. More than three hours of pure delight with Emmy Award Winning Comedy Writer Chris Kelly. Chris Kelly’s new book is Downton Tabby. It’s sort of like Downton Abbey with cats. The more you think about it, the more you realize that it’s the perfect Christmas gift. Chris is one of the greatest comedy writers in the history of television. He currently works on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher and blogs for The Huffington Post even though Arianna Huffington is a vagina dentatta witch. Plus Mark Thompson, Laura House and Movie Critic Michael Snyder. New music from Will Ryan And The Cactus County Cowboys. Web Guru Jimmy Wirt talks about our new store www.ShopWarOnChristmas.com. Also Eddie Pepitone, Janie Haddad Tompkins, Hal Lublin, and Jeremy S. Kramer. Portions of today’s show written by Chris Compton, Guy Nicolucci, David Weiss, Please give this show a great review on iTunes and Stitcher.
BBC’s Louis Theroux on Michael Jackson, Scientology, Westboro Baptist Church and whether child molesters can be cured. Also Laura House, Will Ryan and Film Critic Michael Snyder. Louis Theroux is best known for his documentaries in the television series Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends and When Louis Met…, as well as his Louis Theroux’s BBC Two specials. Subjects for Louis’ specials include criminal gangs in Lagos, Neo-Nazis in America, ultra-Zionists in Israel, child psychiatry and the prison system in California and Florida. A 2007 special, The Most Hated Family in America, received strong critical praise from the international media. Please subscribe to our show as a free podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. Also pass the link to this show to all your friends.