SuperBrickTeeVee Issue!

Brick TeeVee is a preview of the Sunday Talking Head Shows beamed across America by Corporate Media, plus some good progressive radio and who will be on which show. If you have other Sunday Talkie shows' guest lists we don't have, please share below. Post your comments while you watch! It's fun, it's healthy and doggonit at least we'll know others can also see through the media manipulation that blankets our public airwaves. DEBUNK HERE!

So, with no further ado, I present to you This Week's Brick TeeVee entry!

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ALL LINKS OPEN A NEW WINDOW!!!

Just when you think it's safe to turn on the teevee again, what with a new Dem administration and all, the Fifth Estate wakes up from its eight-year slumber to find out they should ask hard questions of the administration! As Eric Boehlert of Media Matters notes "When contrasting the early Clinton and Bush coverage, I noted it would be deeply suspicious if, in 2009, the press managed to turn up the emotional temperature just in time to cover another Democratic administration. But wouldn't you know it, the press corps' alarm went off right on time for Obama's arrival last week, with the Beltway media taking down off the shelf the dusty set of contentious, in-your-face rules of engagement they practiced during the Clinton years and putting into safe storage the docile, somnambulant guidelines from the Bush era. In other words, one set of rules for Clinton and Obama, another for Bush. One standard for the Democrats; a separate, safer one, for the Republican." Of course the Republicans are up to their old tricks, making up stories out of whole cloth, like the alleged claims of a non-existent Congressional Budget Office report on the Obama economic recovery plan. And wouldn't you know it, the U.S. Press Corpse didn't even fact-check ONE THING (like that it didn't exist) and let the GOPhers spew lies about a mythical CBO report for days on-end. See Media Matters Myths and falsehoods surrounding the economic recovery plan for the whole sordid saga. But it gets even worse! Think Progress has documented a REPORT: GOP Lawmakers Outnumber Democratic Lawmakers 2 To 1 In Stimulus Debate On Cable News (H/T toniD @ samsedershow.com blog). So, with ALL THAT in mind, the Sunday Funnies should not be too surprising. This George has ONE Democrat in BARNEY FRANK who will be GIVING THE BIZNESS to a bunch of CEOs and JIM DEMINT. CHUCK SCHUMER will try valiantly to fend off more BS from MITCH MCCONNELL on Face the Bob, while JOHN KERRY will use a sleep-inducing 1-2-3 on KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON on Meet the David. And this week it's Senate Majority Whip DICK DURBIN going over to GOP cheerleader Faux News, battling noted "economist" JON KYL, haha! CNN's State of the King has Michigan's guv JENNIFER GRANHOLM as the lone voice of reason. If you get bored with SB XLIII tune into 60 Minutes rerun of "The Road to the White House". Don't miss Ring of Fire Radio's interview with DON SEIGELMAN, now that John Conyers subpoenaed KARL ROVE again about the mysterious firings of nine U.S. attorneys and the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman. The Brick TeeVee crew can't figure out the over/under in SB XLIII so they're going to pay attention to the funny $3 million-a-minute ads, including the entire 3-D break (expected to run near the end of the second quarter), and BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN at halftime. That should get us to our local FM's broadcast of Little Steven's Underground Garage, a Sunday night staple in the Brick TeeVee compound.

Find the Cardinals fan

BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!

Peter B. Colllins on 911 What's the real story on 911? Guest Richard Gage at ae911truth.org joins Peter to discuss the subject. Also, Dylan Avery 911 Loose Change. Click Peter B Collins 01/30/09 H2 @ Green 960
Super Bowl XLIII: Steelers vs. Cardinals LIVE from Tampa, Florida. Coverage begins at 6 pm et on NBC (actually, NBC will have pre-game ALL DAY)
CORRECTION: Last week we referred to the 112th Congress. The current session is the 111th. Sorry.

B R I C K T E E V E E
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4,235 Military Dead as of Jan 24, 2009
2,105 days since "Mission Accomplished"
The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises

• This Week (ABC)
  • Google's Eric Schmidt
  • FedEx CEO Fred Smith
  • Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
  • Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.
  • ROUNDTABLE: ABC News' George Will and Martha Raddatz, The New York Times' David E. Sanger and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post

• Face The Nation (CBS)
  • SEN. MITCH McCONNELL R-Ky.
  • SEN. CHARLES SCHUMER D-N.Y.
  • DAVID BROOKS Columnist, The New York Times

• 60 Minutes (CBS)
  • 60 Minutes Pre-empted Feb. 1 Sunday’s 60 Minutes will be pre-empted for the CBS News special CBS REPORTS: "The Road to the White House," a chronicle of Barack Obama’s historic journey to the presidency reported by Steve Kroft. We return with an all-new edition of 60 Minutes on Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. ET/PT

• Meet the Press (NBC) Special airtime for Super Bowl Sunday! On Sunday, February 1, "Meet the Press" will air at 11 a.m. ET on most NBC stations due to coverage of the Super Bowl. Check your local listings.
  • SEN. KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON (R-TX) Member, Banking Committee & Ranking Member, Commerce Committee
  • SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA) Member, Finance Committee
  • ROUNDTABLE: CNBC's Erin Burnett, Forbes' Steve Forbes, and Moody's Economy.com's Mark Zandi.

• Late Edition (CNN) CANCELLED!!!

• State of the Union With John King (CNN) NEW SHOW!
  The new program, hosted by CNN Chief National Correspondent John King, airs every Sunday from 9 a.m. through 1 p.m. et
  • Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn.
  • Gov. Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich.
  • Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
  • Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev.
  • Howard Kurtz (formerly of CNN's "Reliable Sources", now a part of "State of the Union")
  • more! (Hey we gotta fill up four hours!)

• MARON v SEDER
  Mark Maron vs. Sam Seder LIVE Weekdays at 3 pm et!
  
  amazing graphic & logo by nicole s.
  Go to MaronvSeder.com to watch & listen! Very cool!

• Ring of Fire Radio
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/
  
  • Ron Suskind, author of the recent book “The Way of the World,” will be here to tell us how the Bush administration lied us into an endless war in Iraq by forging letters that claimed that Saddam Hussein was building weapons of mass destruction.
  • Author and columnist Jim Hightower will tell us about the latest GOP talking points that say that FDR actually helped prolong the Great Depression.
  • Don Siegelman, former governor of Alabama, will join us to talk about his thoughts on the new subpoena for Karl Rove, and what he hopes the Obama Administration will do to finally clear his name.
  • Greg Floyd, president of the Teamster’s Local 237, will stop by to talk about the dismal state of public housing in America, and what union workers are doing to help fix the problems.
  • And Bob Shavelson, environmental activist from Alaska, will give us the latest scoop on Sarah Palin.
  Ring of Fire Radio hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."

• NEW SHOW! UNREPORTED NEWS on Nova M The Unreported News Radio Show is a show about how Main Stream Media ignores certain News Stories about the issues that affect the Lives of so many people. The Unreported News Radio Show will look at these issues and discuss the ways we can pushback on Mainstream Media for fair Reporting. 11 am et on www.1190novam.com

• fauxnews
  • Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
  • Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.
  • Michael Steele, Republican National Committee chairman

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First brick is on us!

Brick TeeVee and a New Era

Brick TeeVee is a preview of the Sunday Talking Head Shows beamed across America by Corporate Media, plus some good progressive radio and who will be on which show. If you have other Sunday Talkie shows' guest lists we don't have, please share below. Post your comments while you watch! It's fun, it's healthy and doggonit at least we'll know others can also see through the media manipulation that blankets our public airwaves. DEBUNK HERE!

So, with no further ado, I present to you This Week's Brick TeeVee entry!

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ALL LINKS OPEN A NEW WINDOW!!!

After a mere four days in office Team Obama has begun the process of closing Gitmo, lifted the federal ban on stem cell research, revoked the executive order issued by Bush that exerted executive privilege to keep presidential papers private longer than 12 years, and more. The 112th Congress is set to pass the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which will most likely be the first law Obama will sign. But the economy is a mess, the Middle East is a mess and there's much to do to clean up Bu$hco's disasters. First off is NANCY PELOSI in an exclusive sit-down with This George. Look for Nobel prize winner PAUL KRUGMAN on the roundtable. Not to be undone, Face the Bob gets an exclusive with VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN. Meet the David features incoming Economic Council Director LARRY "Africa is Under-polluted" SUMMERS up against House Minority Loser JOHN "Crybaby" BOEHNER. Throw bricks at roundtable guest & free-market cheerleader TOM FREIDMAN. Crossing over to the Dark Side this week is CHUCK SCHUMER on Fake News Sunday along with JOHN "Crazy Train" MCCAIN. The only other GOPhers we can find are on CNN's new STATE OF THE KING, those being KENT CONRAD and LINDSEY GRAHAM. Mayor MICHAEL BLOOMBERG will tell King why he should be NYC Mayor for Life and DOUGLAS FIETH will tell King what a great victory Iraq is! Catch a very good Ring of Fire Radio show this week to learn how badly conservative ideology has failed with Bernie Horn from the Campaign for America’s Future and the ACLU's Barry Steinhardt to talk about their new “You Are Being Watched” campaign exposing some of Homeland Security's most onerous privacy invasions. The Brick TeeVee crew watched C-SPAN on Tuesday and couldn't go back to work until they saw gwb leave DC for good in the helicopter. Where's a flock of geese when you need one? Unfortunately the gala parties were a bit over the top, considering one plate of food probably cost what we'll make all week. Pssst! Did anybody tell them we're in a DEPRESSION? Anyway, only three weeks until Pitchers and Catchers report to Spring Training!

BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!

NHL All-Star Game LIVE from Montreal, celebrating the Canadiens' 100th anniversary. Coverage begins at 6 pm et on Versus.com

B R I C K T E E V E E
_{image ©2006 arkysue}
4,232 Military Dead as of Jan 24, 2009
2,098 days since "Mission Accomplished"
Tracking Obama’s Promises

• This Week (ABC)
  • EXCLUSIVE! House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
  • ROUNDTABLE: Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard Carly Fiorina, ABC's George Will, Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts, and the New York Times' Paul Krugman

• Face The Nation (CBS)
  • VICE PRESIDENT JOSEPH BIDEN

• 60 Minutes (CBS)
  • "The Winter Of Our Hardship" Scott Pelley reports on Wilmington, Ohio, whose residents have been hit particularly hard in this economic crisis because the town’s largest employer, DHL, is shutting its domestic operation.
  • No Peace Deal Bob Simon reports from Israel and the West Bank where a growing number of Israelis and Palestinians say that a two-state solution is no longer possible.
  • Wine Rx Scientists have found a substance called resveratrol in red wine that slows down the aging process in mice. Will it someday lengthen the lives of humans, too? Morley Safer reports.

• Meet the Press (NBC)
  • LAWRENCE SUMMERS - Director, National Economic Council
  • REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH) - House Republican Leader
  • ROUNDTABLE: The New York Times' Tom Friedman, The Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes, and NPR's Michele Norris

• Late Edition (CNN) CANCELLED!!!

• State of the Union With John King (CNN) NEW SHOW!
  The new program, hosted by CNN Chief National Correspondent John King, airs every Sunday from 9 a.m. through 1 p.m. et
  • David Plouffe, Obama presidential campaign manager
  • New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg
  • Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
  • Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D.
  • Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.
  • Doug Feith, former undersecretary of defense
  • Charles Swift, former naval defense attorney
  • Howard Kurtz (formerly of CNN's "Reliable Sources", now a part of "State of the Union")
  • more! (Hey we gotta fill up four hours!)

• MARON v SEDER
  Mark Maron vs. Sam Seder LIVE Weekdays at 3 pm et!
  
  amazing graphic & logo by nicole s.
  Go to MaronvSeder.com to watch & listen! Very cool!

• Ring of Fire Radio
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/
  
  • David Bender, host of Air America’s Politically Direct, will stop by and give us his first-hand account of the inaugural celebrations that took place in Washington, D.C. this week.
  • Author Stephen Kinzer will tell us why the relationship between the United States and Iran went from cordial to hostile.
  • Bernie Horn, a senior fellow with the Campaign for America’s Future, will be here to talk about some of the biggest failures of conservative ideology.
  • Barry Steinhardt, the Director of the ACLU Technology and Liberty Program, will tell us about their new “You Are Being Watched” campaign, which monitors the surveillance efforts of the Department of Homeland Security.
  • And Tom Geoghegan, a labor lawyer from Chicago, will be joining us to talk about his candidacy for the House seat being vacated by Rahm Emanuel.
  Ring of Fire Radio hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."

• NEW SHOW! UNREPORTED NEWS on Nova M The Unreported News Radio Show is a show about how Main Stream Media ignores certain News Stories about the issues that affect the Lives of so many people. The Unreported News Radio Show will look at these issues and discuss the ways we can pushback on Mainstream Media for fair Reporting. 11 am et on www.1190novam.com

• fauxnews
  • Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
  • Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

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Brick TeeVee - THEY report. YOU throw bricks. ©

First brick is on us!

The Last Brick TeeVee of the BU$H ERROR!

Brick TeeVee is a preview of the Sunday Talking Head Shows beamed across America by Corporate Media, plus some good progressive radio and who will be on which show. If you have other Sunday Talkie shows' guest lists we don't have, please share below. Post your comments while you watch! It's fun, it's healthy and doggonit at least we'll know others can also see through the media manipulation that blankets our public airwaves. DEBUNK HERE!

So, with no further ado, I present to you This Week's Brick TeeVee entry!

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ALL LINKS OPEN A NEW WINDOW!!!

Only TWO MORE DAYS until the end of the Bu$h Administration. (Can you believe we made it this far?) And with all the hoopla surrounding the Coronation Inauguration you would expect lots of Dems on the Sunday Talkies this week. And you would be right! The lone GOPhers this week, DANA "too much cappuccino" PERINO & ED GILLESPIE, seek safe harbor on CNN's new four-hour Sunday show "State of the Union with John King", which replaces U-Boat Captain Wolf Blitzer's "Late Edition". State of the King gets first dibs on the Prezident-Elect OBAMA with his side-kick DAVID AXELROD, who then takes the Prezident-Elect Limo Ride to meet with This George. Another casualty of the Sunday Gab-Fests will be FACE THE BOB SCHEIFER, who CBS announced a year ago would "plan to step down from the Sunday morning political talk show with the inauguration of a new president". Who will replace Bob is anybody's guess! What's your's? Face the Bob gets LARRY "Africa is Under-polluted" SUMMERS and ERIC MICHAEL DYSON. Meet the David lands RAHM EMANUEL back from his "family vacation in Africa" (say, isn't Israel in Africa?) and asks him if he's sold his US Rep seat yet and if he likes ROLAND BURRIS. (We at Brick TeeVee like Tom Geoghegan in IL-5! And we're not paid to say that!) Then NANCY "Impeachment is off the table" PELOSI travels to the Dark Side on FAUX NEWS. Listen for SAM SEDER on with Bobby and Pap on RING OF FIRE RADIO along with MELISSA ROSSI talking about her new book “What Every American Should Know About the Middle East” on the Sunday night rebroadcast. The Brick TeeVee Crew is surely as happy as the next American to see the BCF leave the scene but we thought FOR SURE Ralph Nader was gonna win. So we're "keeping our powder dry" as "they" say to see what the new administration will bring, but all this talk of taking on "entitlements", extending Gitmo detentions, hedging on Iraq withdrawal, "surging" in Afghanistan and threatening VETO on another unaccountable $350 BILLION to the same wize guys who got us into this mess with some of these same wize guys now in his administration, well, you get the idea. Tune in next week!

BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!

NFC Championship Game Eagles @ Cardinals on FOX. Coverage begins at 3 pm et
AFC Championship Game Steelers @ Ravens on CBS. Coverage begins at 6:30 pm et The winners of these games will face off in Super Bowl XLIII in two weeks

B R I C K T E E V E E
_{image ©2006 arkysue}
2 days until our national nightmare is over
4,227 Military Dead as of Jan 16, 2009
2,091 days since "Mission Accomplished"

• This Week (ABC)
  • Incoming White House senior adviser David Axelrod
  • ROUNDTABLE: George Will, Donna Brazile, Matthew Dowd, PBS' Gwen Ifill, and the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne

• Face The Nation (CBS)
  • Lawrence Summers, incoming director of the National Economic Council
  • Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University
  • John Dickerson, Slate Magazine.

• 60 Minutes (CBS)
  • 60 Minutes is pre-empted Sunday, Jan. 18, by CBS Sports coverage of the American Football Conference Championship game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens.

• Meet the Press (NBC)
  • EXCLUSIVE Rahm Emanuel
  • ROUNDTABLE: NBC's Tom Brokaw, The New York Times' David Brooks, presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, PBS's Tavis Smiley and NBC's Chuck Todd.

• Late Edition (CNN) CANCELLED!!!

• State of the Union With John King (CNN) PREMEIRE!!!
  The new program, hosted by CNN Chief National Correspondent John King, airs every Sunday from 9 a.m. through 1 p.m. et
  • President-elect Barack Obama
  • David Axelrod, senior Obama advisor
  • Ed Gillespie, Bush White House counselor
  • Howard Kurtz (formerly of CNN's "Reliable Sources", now a part of "State of the Union")
  • Dana Perino, Bush White House press secretary
  • Dee Dee Myers, former Clinton White House press secretary
  • Dan Lothian, CNN White House correspondent
  • April Ryan, American Urban Radio Networks.
  • more! (Hey we gotta fill up four hours!)

• MARON v SEDER Mark Maron vs. Sam Seder LIVE Weekdays at 3 pm et! amazing graphic & logo by nicole s. Go to MaronvSeder.com to watch & listen! Very cool! And SEDER ON RING OF FIRE this week, too!

• Ring of Fire Radio
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/
  
  • Senator Bernie Sanders will be joining us this week to talk about the dismal state of our US economy, and what Congress is doing to get us back on the right track.
  • Author Adam Michaelson will give us the inside scoop on how Countrywide Mortgage Co. helped bring about the collapse of the mortgage industry.
  • Patrice Simms, senior attorney with the NRDC, will be here to talk about the recent legal victory over Duke Energy in North Carolina, who was trying desperately to make their new coal plants exempt from environmental regulations.
  • Melissa Rossi, author of the new book “What Every American Should Know About the Middle East,” will be here to tell us all about the sordid history of United States’ foreign policy.
  • Susan Casey-Leftkowitz, a senior attorney with the NRDC, will be joining us to talk about how the destruction of tar sands throughout North America is destroying a valuable part of our ecosystem.
  • And Air America’s own Sam Seder will be here to help us run through this week’s buried stories.
  Ring of Fire Radio hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."

• NEW SHOW! UNREPORTED NEWS on Nova M The Unreported News Radio Show is a show about how Main Stream Media ignores certain News Stories about the issues that affect the Lives of so many people. The Unreported News Radio Show will look at these issues and discuss the ways we can pushback on Mainstream Media for fair Reporting. 11 am et on www.1190novam.com

• fauxnews
  • Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
  • Robert Gibbs, senior adviser and press secretary to President-elect Obama

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Brick TeeVee - THEY report. YOU throw bricks. ©

First brick is on us!

BrickTeeVee "Last Gasp"

Brick TeeVee is a preview of the Sunday Talking Head Shows beamed across America by Corporate Media, plus some good progressive radio and who will be on which show. If you have other Sunday Talkie shows' guest lists we don't have, please share below. Post your comments while you watch! It's fun, it's healthy and doggonit at least we'll know others can also see through the media manipulation that blankets our public airwaves. DEBUNK HERE!

So, with no further ado, I present to you This Week's Brick TeeVee entry!

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ALL LINKS OPEN A NEW WINDOW!!!

Just when you thought it was safe to watch the Sunday Funnies again, it's DARTH CHENEY again, this time with U-Boat Captain Blitzer while NANCY PELOSI tries not to get too close to Darth. (We think these interviews are tapes of earlier appearances as CNN is "celebrating" Wolf before they change formats/hosts for Late Edition.) Then FAKE NEWS SUNDAY has the father-son duo of GEORGE 41 & GEORGE 43, so load up on those bricks! Face the Bob digs deep with ROLAND BURRIS and why he isn't a Senator yet, then asks DICK DURBIN the same question while Minority Leader JOHN "Crybaby" BOEHNER explains how the 7.2% unemployment rate can be fought with more tax cuts and off-shoring jobs, of course, with "bi-partisan support". Speaking of jobs, Meet the David gathers the NBC Economic Roundtable to tell us how THEY would fix the crumbling economy. Also, look for BILL "Hey hey hey!" COSBY with his new book and MAXINE WATERS, too. This Snufagupolis snags an exclusive with President-elect Obama for the whole hour where Obama reinforces "The U.S. is a strong ally of Israel". Meanwhile, death and destruction continue in Gaza. Looks like perhaps the U.S. knew of the Israeli operation several weeks ago: at Reuters AlertNet U.S. seeks ship to move arms to Israel (Hat Tip to SamSederShow.com board's Nora for the find!) "The U.S. is seeking to hire a merchant ship to deliver hundreds of tonnes of arms to Israel from Greece later this month, tender documents seen by Reuters show...The request for the ship was made on Dec. 31, with the first leg of the charter to arrive no later than January 25 and the second at the end of the month...The ship hired by the MSC [Military Sealift Command] in December was for a much larger cargo of arms, tender documents showed...The ship was requested early last month to load on December 15." It also mentions "989 standard 20-foot containers" and "325 standard 20-foot containers of what is listed as "ammunition" ". YIKES! Naomi Klein wrote about the Israeli Security bizness in The Nation in 2007. Check out Laboratory for a Fortressed World: "Overlooked is Israel’s huge and expanding export business. Israel now sends $1.2 billion in “defense” products to the United States—up dramatically from $270 million in 1999. In 2006 Israel exported $3.4 billion in defense products—well over a billion more than it received in US military aid. That makes Israel the fourth-largest arms dealer in the world, overtaking Britain." Huh. The Brick TeeVee crew has shaken off the Bowl Game stupor and donned snow suits and snow shovels to dig us out of the year's first Lake Effect snowfall of about a foot of the white stuff. Looks like we'll get a short break before the next system comes through and leaves us in single-digit temperatures! Only 43 days until Pitchers and Catchers report to Spring Training!

BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!

The Golden Globe Awards NBC Sunday at 8 pm et
BradBlog on Peter B. Collins Catch the podcast of Friday's Peter B. Collins Show third hour with "His Bradness" Brad Freidman of the Brad Blog for this week's Election Protection info. Listen at Green 960 HERE!

B R I C K T E E V E E
_{image ©2006 arkysue}
9 days until our national nightmare is over
4,223 Military Dead as of Jan 7, 2009
2,084 days since "Mission Accomplished"

• This Week (ABC)
  • EXCLUSIVE Barak Obama

• Face The Nation (CBS)
  • ROLAND BURRIS Former Illinois Attorney General
  • REP. JOHN BOEHNER Republican – Ohio
  • SEN. DICK DURBIN Democrat – Illinois

• 60 Minutes (CBS)
  • The Price Of Oil The historic swings in oil prices last year were the result of financial speculation from Wall Street and not supply and demand, several sources from the financial and oil communities tell Steve Kroft.
  • The Chairman CBS News correspondent David Martin profiles Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen.
  • Wyclef Wyclef Jean immigrated to the U.S. as a child and grew up to live the American dream as a millionaire rock star. He’s now using his extraordinary talents and wealth to help his native Haiti. Scott Pelley reports.

• Meet the Press (NBC)
  • BILL COSBY Co-Author, "Come On, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors"
  • DR. ALVIN F. POUSSAINT Director of the Media Center, Judge Baker Children's Center Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School & Co-Author, "Come On, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors"
  • REP. MAXINE WATERS (D-CA) Chairwoman, Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity
  • ADRIAN FENTY Mayor of Washington, D.C.
  • ECONOMIC ROUNDTABLE: Economic adviser to president-elect Obama, Fmr. Rep. David Bonior (D-MI); The Wall Street Journal's Paul Gigot; CNBC's John Harwood, Vanity Fair's Bethany McLean; and Moody's Economy.com's Mark Zandi.

• Late Edition (CNN)
  • Vice President Dick Cheney
  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
  • more!

• MARON v SEDER Mark Maron vs. Sam Seder LIVE Weekdays at 3 pm et! amazing graphic & logo by nicole s. Go to MaronvSeder.com to watch & listen! Very cool!

• Ring of Fire Radio
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/
  
  • We’ll be taking a look at the latest lawsuit against Halliburton and KBR with attorney Elizabeth Burke, who is taking on the war contractors for providing tainted supplies of food and water to US troops
  • Author Jon Mills will tell us how the policies of the Bush administration and the actions of corporate America have stripped away our rights to privacy.
  • Documentary film director Josh Tickell will be joining us to talk about his new film “FUEL”
  • Donna Lisenby from Appalachian Voices will be joining us to talk about her recent run in with the Tennessee Valley Authority, who tried to prevent her from testing the toxicity of the pollutants coming from energy plants in Tennessee.
  • And comedian Matt Filipowicz will be here to tell us all about the funniest stories that have made headlines so far this year.
  Ring of Fire Radio hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."

• NEW SHOW! UNREPORTED NEWS on Nova M The Unreported News Radio Show is a show about how Main Stream Media ignores certain News Stories about the issues that affect the Lives of so many people. The Unreported News Radio Show will look at these issues and discuss the ways we can pushback on Mainstream Media for fair Reporting. 11 am et on www.1190novam.com

• fauxnews
  • President George W. Bush
  • Former President George H.W. Bush

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First brick is on us!

Freidman Death-Eaters

jmho...

I WONDER

I'm almost finished with Naomi Klien's SHOCK DOCTRINE (yeah I know, slow reader and all, but it is sooooo depressing, best in small chunks) but this article about NYC's Rainbow Room gave me pause.

A famous New York Restaurant that started business in 1934 is closing shop on January 12, 2009 as a result of increasing cost of operations and general economic downturn. ... The most probable reason for its closure is the landlord’s plan to raise the rate of rental for the space that was recently appraised as an office space resulting into $8.7 million a year rent which is more than twice the current rate.

(Let's see. QUICK MATH! $8.7M over 365 days is $24,000 a day income JUST TO COVER RENT! Wonder how much a shrimp cocktail is...)

I was thinking about Klein's description of SHOCK where all traces of what once was is no more. Think about her description of how Iraq's Antiquities were looted ("Democracy is messy" -Rummy) and the entire history of a once proud nation and the womb of civilization was WIPED OUT by ransacking and GI's on order to let it go on and defend the Oil Ministry (reminds me of the huge weapons cache clearly marked with IAEA seals went unguarded - do see THIS LINK). Now we have seen national icons like Lehman Bros. closed, liquidated with GM and Chrysler soon to follow. Here in NEOH we used to have Geauga Lake, a roller coaster amusement park that has been around since the early 1900's, traded for some lake front property developers' coin, the park having been sold to Six Flags, then Cedar Point and ultimately closed. Used to be the site of Sea World Ohio, too, all gone. Long-time Cleveland icon National City Bank got swallowed up by an evil Pittsburgh bank, no less, throwing salt into the wound of CLE OH. The site of old Cleveland Trust is nearing demolition, since the county can't sell it, rehab it or rent it because of asbestos. Meanwhile the Jankees move into new digs and signed three players for contracts bigger than some entire franchises' payroll. Our collective memory is being WIPED OUT right before our eyes.

The Freidman Death-Eaters have finally got a toe-hold on this country after EIGHT LONG YEARS of "bipartisanshippy" and are working it to robotic-like precision: The Gov't is a shell (witness Katrina) and those "have-mores" are raking in the $$$$ via tax-payer dollars for Haliburton, CACI, Blackwater, et. al. with virtually no oversight by ANYBODY (since they're all "in" on "the game"). Klein predicts gated communities where disaster is just a Lear-Jet Vacation trip away: privatized gov't and resources for the gated communities, cake and dirt for the rest of us, just like Russia, South Africa, Argentina, China, Poland, Iraq and all the other countries the Freidmanites have worked their failed ideology of torture as a means to unbridled free-market EXPLOITATION capitalism.

Our new prezident thinks the world of Reagan and has brought an entire cadre of Freidmanites with him. Huh.

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Brick TeeVee for the New Year 2009!

Brick TeeVee is a preview of the Sunday Talking Head Shows beamed across America by Corporate Media, plus some good progressive radio and who will be on which show. If you have other Sunday Talkie shows' guest lists we don't have, please share below. Post your comments while you watch! It's fun, it's healthy and doggonit at least we'll know others can also see through the media manipulation that blankets our public airwaves. DEBUNK HERE!

So, with no further ado, I present to you This Week's Brick TeeVee entry!

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ALL LINKS OPEN A NEW WINDOW!!!

First Brick TeeVee of 2009 and it starts out with a BANG! Load up your bricks for possibly the LAST teevee interview with Veep-for-16-more-days DARTH CHENEY on Face the Bob and save some bricks for HW BUSH on Fake News. Meet the Dave features HARRY "Milquetoast" REID who will wax poetic about the 110th Congress and all the "progress" it made. This George picks the scab of BlogoGate with Rod's appointee to replace Obama ROLAND BURRIS. Also look for a grudge match featuring DICK DURBIN and MITCH MCCONNELL. On U-Boat Captain Blitzer it's all about the Israel-Palestine conflict, featuring QUEEN NOOR of Jordan and Palestinian negotiator SAEB ERAKAT. We point to Empire Burlesque and Chris Floyd who plainly states, "What is the ultimate context of this carnage? The fact that the Arab inhabitants of Palestine had their land taken away from them by force -- not in some ancient, historic era, but within the lifetime of many thousands of Palestinians still living. ... But as Greenwald notes, every action taken by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance groups could be characterized as "retaliation" for the theft of their land, not to mention the war crime of collective punishment and genocidal blockades visited upon the Occupied Territories for years." Also, as Greenwald also notes "...it becomes even more striking in light of the bizarre fact that the consensus view -- that America must unquestioningly stand on Israel's side and support it, not just in this conflict but in all of Israel's various wars -- is a view which 7 out of 10 Americans reject. Conversely, the view which 70% of Americans embrace -- that the U.S. should be neutral and even-handed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict generally -- is one that no mainstream politician would dare express." As we head into the new administration, don't look for any major change in U.S. policy toward Israel. Meanwhile, the Brick TeeVee crew has been soaking in Bowl Games and adult beverages at a record pace. Go Buckeyes! Now that we're in a new year it's only 50 Days until Spring Training and 87 Days until Opening Day! We can't wait! Happy New Year, everybody!

BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!

'The Obamas' on CNN Sunday at 8 pm et
Fiesta Bowl: #10 Ohio State vs. #3 Texas Kick off around 8 pm et Monday night on Fox. Go Buckeyes!
GMAC Bowl: Tulsa vs. Ball State Kick off around 8 pm et Tuesday night on ESPN.
BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP: #1 Florida vs. #2 Oklahoma Kick off around 8 pm et Thursday night on Fox.

B R I C K T E E V E E
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16 days until our national nightmare is over
4,221 Military Dead as of Jan 2, 2009
2,077 days since "Mission Accomplished"

• This Week (ABC)
  • U.S. Senate Appointee Roland Burris, former Illinois Attorney General
  • Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
  • Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
  • ROUNDTABLE: The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvell, and ABC News' George Will, Jonathan Karl, and Cokie Roberts

• Face The Nation (CBS)
  • VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY

• 60 Minutes (CBS)
  • Is It Murder? With drunken driving fatalities staying constant despite all the campaigns against the crime, some prosecutors are pursuing harsher penalties against perpetrators, including long prison terms for those who caused deaths. Bob Simon reports.
  • Mind Reading Neuroscience has learned so much about how we think and the brain activity linked to certain thoughts that it is now possible – on a very basic scale - to read a person’s mind. Lesley Stahl reports.
  • The Mad Scientist Of Football Texas Tech coach Mike Leach made up for a lack of money and top talent by creating an innovative offense that’s changing the game of college football and beating bigger schools which regularly attract the best talent in the nation. Scott Pelley reports.

• Meet the Press (NBC)
  • SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV), Majority Leader
  • ROUNDTABLE: NBC's Richard Engel, The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, BBC World News America's Katty Kay, Al-Arabiya's Hisham Melhem, and NBC's Andrea Mitchell, and The New York Times' David Sanger.

• Late Edition (CNN) A compilation of interviews from 2008 featuring
  • Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat
  • Gov. Jon Corzine, D-N.J.
  • Gov. Mark Sanford, R-S.C.
  • former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass.
  • Queen Noor of Jordan
  • Israeli Cabinet Minister Isaac Herzog
  • Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyu

• MARON v SEDER Mark Maron vs. Sam Seder LIVE Weekdays at 3 pm et! amazing graphic & logo by nicole s. Go to MaronvSeder.com to watch & listen! Very cool!

• Ring of Fire Radio This week’s show is a re-broadcast of our December 6th, 2008 program.
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/
  
  • The ragin’ Cajun himself, James Carville will be with us today to talk about the implosion of the Republican Party.
  • Max Kennedy, author of the new book Danger’s Hour, stops by to talk to us about how today’s suicide bombers are eerily similar to the Kamikaze pilots of World War II.
  • Chuck Clusen, Director of National Parks and Alaska Projects for the NRDC, will be here to tell us about the NRDC’s recent victory over Shell Oil.
  • And Kevin Danaher, founder of the Green Festival, will be joining us to talk about how the WTO is lining the pockets of corporations by exploiting workers and destroying the environment all around the globe.
  Ring of Fire Radio hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."

• NEW SHOW! UNREPORTED NEWS on Nova M The Unreported News Radio Show is a show about how Main Stream Media ignores certain News Stories about the issues that affect the Lives of so many people. The Unreported News Radio Show will look at these issues and discuss the ways we can pushback on Mainstream Media for fair Reporting. 11 am et on www.1190novam.com

• fauxnews
  • House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md.
  • Former President George H.W. Bush

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