PJM Political 2/6/10: Of Super Bowls and Show Trials

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Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a snapshot of Washington and beyond:

• From PJTV.com’s Trifecta, featuring Steve, Bill Whittle, and Scott Ott, a look at the “Tebow’s Tale” — the Super Bowl ad the left doesn’t want you to see.
• From his Afterburner series on PJTV, Bill Whittle looks at what he calls “Super Bowl Democracy.” As Bill says, “In a country as huge as ours, representative democracy might be a crazy idea. But it’s so crazy it just might work — if citizens rule, not czars.”
• From his weekly Instavision series on PJTV.com, Glenn Reynolds speaks with Marc Thiessen, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, who believes that with Obama now at the helm, the CIA’s hands are now tied. And that America is, as the title of Thiessen’s new book implies, Courting Disaster.
• Joe Hicks of PJTV.com opens up the Hicks File on James O’Keefe of BigGovernment.com, and the show trial the mainstream media have held for him. As the Beastie Boys would say, Joe’s going to set straight this Watergate!
• If, as Hicks says, the MSM has had a hastily conceived show trial for James O’Keefe of BigGovernment.com. then the presiding judge has been David Shuster of MSNBC.com. Also taken from PJTV’s Trifecta, Bill Scott, Steve explore how Shuster’s rush to judgment has backfired badly.
• Finally, from PJTV.com’s Post-American Bandstand, starring Alfonzo Rachel and its newest host, a man who hopes to parley his visit to the Blogosphere into a career in show business, and quite frankly, we think he just might make it someday. Ladies and Gentlemen, Pat Boone…
• Produced by Ed Driscoll.

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PJM Political 1/30/10: Raiders of the Inglourious Astrouterfers!

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Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a snapshot of Washington, Israel, and Hollywood:

• “She” is obviously no John Galt, but PJTV’s Trifecta asks who is “Ellie Light”, and what does it say about the president when his last diehard supporter just might be a cyberbot?
• Steve, Bill Whittle and Scott Ott postmortem President Obama’s State of the Union address, with plenty of soundbites from the president, and plenty of snark from the gang.
• In a segment from PJTV.com’s  Middle East Update, Whittle asks Caroline Glick, deputy managing editor of the Jerusalem Post how well the SOTU played in Israel.
• PJM Political then takes a break from the horrors of the real world to debate the blood-soaked fantasies of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, via PJTV’s Poliwood, with Pajamas Media CEO Roger L. Simon, and his fellow Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Lionel Chetwynd.
• While Basterds at least knows who the good guys and bad guys were in World War II, that isn’t always the case with Hollywood. As Andrew Klavan explains, culture in Hollywood has become a place where the conservative facts of life are magically turned into liberal fantasies. From JFK conspiracy theories to murderous evangelical Christians, can you spot the difference between “culture” and reality? Andrew can.
• Produced by Ed Driscoll.

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PJM Political 1/23/10: It’s The Truck, Right? — Chicks Dig The Truck

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Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a snapshot of Washington…and Massachusetts:

• Glenn Reynolds interviews Michael Barone of the Washington Examiner — the Democrats’ supermajority is gone, and Barone says it’s only the beginning.
• From PJTV’s Trifecta series, Scott Ott of Scrappleface.com, PJTV’s own Bill Whittle and Steve discuss who should get the credit for Scott Brown’s victory: the Republican Party — or the Tea Party?
• The Supreme Court has ruled against the infamous McCain/Feingold campaign finance legislation. Will big money wreck American politics? Or will voters still recognize BS when they see it? From PJTV’s Front Page, Allen Barton talks with fellow PJTV regular Joe Hicks, and Terry Jones of Investor’s Business Daily.
• The left has ostracized him, but progressive Democrat Thomas W. Fuller won’t toe the party line on global warming. Pajamas Media’s CEO Roger L. Simon talks with the co-author of Climategate: The CRUtape Letters.
• From PJTV’s weekly Poliwood series, Roger and fellow screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd explore the new “history” TV series that Oliver Stone will be producing for Showtime — which among other things, promises to put Hitler and Stalin into “context.”
• This week’s show ends with Steve’s round up of the Week In Blogs – and after the Massachusetts Miracle, and the MSM’s warm, welcoming embrace of newly minted Senator Brown, what a week it was.
• Produced by Ed Driscoll.

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PJM Political 1/16/10: Smurfs, Spies, And Jell-O Shots!

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Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a snapshot of Washington and beyond:

• Allen Barton speaks with Terry Jones of Investor’s Business Daily, and pollster Alex Bratty on whether or not the GOP’s Scott Brown can surge in the final days of his campaign to snag a vacant Senate seat in a very blue state.
• From PJTV.com’s Poliwood series, Roger L. Simon and Lionel Chetwynd dissect James Cameron’s blockbuster Avatar. Is it a technical triumph or a lefty agenda laden piece of technojunk?
• What will happen if President Obama doesn’t reconcile his inner-Jefferson with his inner-Wilson? That’s the question that Glenn Reynolds asks Walter Russell Mead, Senior Fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations.
• Last week, PJTV.com sent Bill Whittle to Washington DC. Two whistleblowers that Bill speaks with believe that radical Islam’s influence over our government is growing and having access to our national security secrets is part of a much larger strategy. (Part one of a two-part series on PJTV. Watch Part I here; Part II here.)
• Steve’s Week in Blogs segment, complete with the odd (very odd!) Jell-O shot with Paul Begala.
• Produced by Ed Driscoll.

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PJM Political 1/9/10: Overly-Embiggened Politicians Face A Year Of Entoastment

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Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a snapshot of Washington and beyond:

• In his interview with Ed Driscoll, Steve coins a perfectly cromulent new word to describe the ideal fate of beclowned politicians: entoastment.
• From his weekly Instavision program, Glenn Reynolds talks with Dan Mitchell of the CATO institute, who explains why Obama’s stimulus was a flop.
• PJTV’s Allen Barton talks with Terry Jones of Investor’s Business Daily and Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute. Since President Obama seems determined to keep CPAN is on the sidelines, will the revolution be televised?
• Steve explores “The Obama Doctrine” with Caroline Glick, deputy managing editor of the Jerusalem Post: does it come down to “Be Friends With Our Enemies and Unkind to Our Friends?”
• Steve on the Week In Blogs.
• Produced by Ed Driscoll.

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PJM Political 1/2/10: From Hell’s Decade, I Podcast At Thee!

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Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a look back this New Year’s weekend at the year — and the decade — that was:

• Steve discusses The Biggest Story of 2009 — and why it won’t appear on the MSM’s WWII-era radar screens anytime soon.
• PJM Political producer Ed Driscoll speaks with:

Glenn Reynolds on the Year In New Media and other Army of Davids-related stories from 2009.

James Lileks on Time magazine’s recent “Decade From Hell” cover story.

Col. Austin Bay, co-author of A Quick and Dirty Guide To War on President Obama’s first year as Commander In Chief of the War On Terror. (Hint: Austin doesn’t give Mr. Obama a B+.)

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PJM Political 12/26/09: Look Back In Bemusement

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Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a look back this Christmas weekend, at long, strange year there was, and how we got we here:

• Steve looks back at one of the biggest political stories of 2009, the passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy, which has repercussions to this day.
• As she explains to Dr. Helen, blogger and syndicated “advice goddess” Amy Alkon sees rude people — and does something about it.
• PJM Political Producer Ed Driscoll looks back at the politicians, advisors, celebrities and dignitaries who’ve appeared on the show’s first two seasons, with soundbites from:

Senator John McCain.

Former Senator Fred Thompson.

Former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee (plus James Lileks on 2007’s brief “Huckabee boomlet!”)

Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney.

Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

Steve Westly, eBay, co-founder, California Campaign Co-chair for Obama ’08.

Steve Maviglio, Democratic strategist for Hillary Clinton ‘08.

Michelle Malkin’s harrowing run-in with a “truther” during the 2008 Democratic Convention.

From the film’s premiere at the 2008 GOP convention, American Carol’s Jon Voight.

General David Petraeus.

John Howard, former Prime Minister of Australia.

And from September of 2007, an offer from Ed they could refuse…

• And boiled down from PJTV’s nine hours of live coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party Protests, interviews with:

Pajamas Media/PJTV CEO Roger L. Simon.

PJTV co-hosts Allen Barton, Bill Whittle and Joe Hicks.

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.com.

Talk radio star Hugh Hewitt.

Finally, from the “Twitter-sphere”, Michael Patrick Leahy of Top Conservatives On Twitter, and beaming in from Planet Kruiser, a cameo from the man, the myth, the legend, comedian Stephen Kruiser.

• Produced by Ed Driscoll.

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PJM Political 12/19/09: Mazursky, Teachout, Geraghty, And Greenhut

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Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a snapshot of Washington and beyond:

• Legendary film director Paul Mazursky stops by for an interview with longtime writing partner Roger L. Simon and his co-host on their weekly “Poliwood” series on PJTV, Lionel Chetwynd.
• Terry Teachout, drama critic with the Wall Street Journal and critic-at-large with Commentary magazine, discusses his new biography Pops: A Life of  Louis Armstrong, and The Skeptic, his classic 2002 biography of H.L. Mencken.
• Jim Geraghty, proprietor of National Review Online’s “Campaign Spot” blog fleshes out his recent post on potential icebergs ahead for Newsweek in 2010.
• Steven Greenhut, director of the Pacific Research Institute Journalism Center in Sacramento and longtime Orange County Register journalist discusses his new book, Plunder: How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation.
• Produced by Ed Driscoll.

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PJM Political 12/12/09: Highway To Obamaville

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Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a snapshot of Washington, Obamaville, and beyond:

• Steve on “The Week In Blogs.”
• Glenn Reynolds interviews economic blogger Megan McArdle of the Atlantic magazine about her experience following the advice of debt-relief guru Dave Ramsey.
• From PJTV, Bill Whittle interviews author Bruce Bawer,  (While Europe Slept), who’s currently in Copenhagen to report on the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, followed by the Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore on the EPA’s attempt to regulate CO2 emissions, even in the wake of ClimateGate.
• Whittle interviews Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institute and Clifford May of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies on President Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan.
• Produced by Ed Driscoll.

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PJM Political 12/5/09: The Science Is Scuttled!

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Just back from his interview with the BBC, join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a snapshot of Washington and beyond:

• Allen Barton of PJTV.com interviews Marlo Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute about “ClimateGate”, the hacked emails of the Climate Research Unit of Britain’s University of East Anglia, one of the world’s leading clearinghouses for global warming research. Plus a preview of his upcoming interview with Alan Carlin, a senior operations research analyst with the EPA, and Pajamas Media contributor.
• In light of ClimateGate, from their weekly “Poliwood” series on PJTV.com, Pajamas CEO Roger L. Simon and fellow Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd call for the Oscar to be rescinded for Al Gore’s agitpropumentary, An Inconvenient Truth.
• Steve takes a quick snapshot of “The Week In Blogs.”
• Five Questions for James Lileks, including ClimateGate and President Obama’s call for a surge in Afghanistan.
  
• Glenn Reynolds interviews best-selling Australian science fiction author John Birmingham, creator of the Axis of Time series.
• Produced by Ed Driscoll.

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