Brick TeeVee's August Recess!

Your Guest List for Sunday's Talking Head News Shows beamed across America by Corporate Media PLUS reports from the best progressive media! If you have other Sunday Talkie shows' guest lists we don't have please share below. DEBUNK HERE! Throw Bricks!
First brick is on us!

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

ALL LINKS OPEN A NEW WINDOW!!!

AS Congress heads for Summer Break Sotomayor is in, Cash for Clunkers gets an extension and Health Care For All gets kicked to the curb while Tea-baggers, Birthers and Deathers obfuscate and scream "Keep government out of my health care" at various town hall meetings while they gratefully accept Medicaid and VA Benefits Health Care! The sheer hypocrisy and idiocy of these people make our heads spin. Paul Krugman explains in The Town Hall Mob, "There was a telling incident at a town hall held by Representative Gene Green, D-Tex. An activist turned to his fellow attendees and asked if they “oppose any form of socialized or government-run health care.” Nearly all did. Then Representative Green asked how many of those present were on Medicare. Almost half raised their hands." Watch Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY9) push back HERE, HERE and HERE. GREAT! (See GritTV below). Look for DOCTOR HOWARD DEAN poking holes in NEWT "Contract ON America" Gingrich's silly musings. Meanwhile there will be plenty of discussion on the "other" war in Afghanistan with GENERAL JAMES JONES and Armed Services Chair CARL LEVIN plus his committee counterpart LINDSEY GRAHAM on Face the Bob. General Jones then takes the NSA Humvee to Meet the David and Faux News Sunday. Of course, the entire Middle East, the 'Stans and Africa may be discussed with U.N. Ambassidor Dr. SUSAN RICE on State of the King. Check out DAVID BENDER hosting Ring of Fire Radio with an interview about "The Family" with JEFF SHARLET. Max Keiser speaks with Alex Jones about The Fed while Antiwar Radio has an interview with Daniel Ellsberg about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Plenty of EXCELLENT stuff in this week's BTV Alerts Section, too, well worth your time to watch/listen. The Brick TeeVee crew is settling in for Dog Days of Summer as well. Although our garden has been eaten by critters large (deer) and small (ground hogs) we have an abundance of zucchini and the hot peppers are doing good. The tomato plants (deers' favorites) keep making a come-back so we hope to make salsa by the end of the month! We hope your gardens are doing well, too!

BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!

»»» Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater @ Democracy NOW! WATCH In Explosive Allegations, Ex-Employees Link Blackwater Founder to Murder, Threats
»»» Jeremy Keenan on AFRICOM @ Democracy NOW! WATCH British Anthropologist Jeremy Keenan on “The Dark Sahara: America’s War on Terror in Africa”
»»» Jeremy Scahill on GRITtv WATCH Jeremy Scahill: Will Blackwater Founder Face Charges?
»»» U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on GRITtv WATCH Summer Swiftboaters: The Healthcare Battle Heats Up
»»» WAYNE MADSEN on TVNEWSLIES RADIO Jesse Richard interviews Wayne Madsen. Listen at MONKS MEDIA mp3 download HERE
»»» NASCAR on ESPN The Left Turn League makes right turns too at the Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen live from Watkins Glen road course. Coverage begins at 1 pm et
»»» INDYCAR on VERSUS Honda 200 live from the Mid-Ohio road course. Coverage begins at 1 pm et
»»» MLB on TBS Twins @ Tigers - 1 pm et
»»» Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN Red Sox at Yankees - 8 pm et

BRICK TEEVEE ACTION!

STOP MANDATORY VACCINATIONS FOR H1N1 Natural Solutions Foundation www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org What You Can Do to Prevent Forced Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccinations. Demand Your Right to Self-Shield! Add your comments in too! Protection From Compulsory Vaccination, Drugging - Your Right to Self-Shield! SIGN NOW! MORE INFO HERE: Diseased African Monkeys Used to Make Swine Flu Vaccines; Private Military Contractor Holds Key Patents

B R I C K T E E V E E
_{image ©2006 arkysue}
THEY report. YOU throw bricks. ©
The essential guide for watching government propaganda
IRAQ: 4,330 Military Dead as of Aug 7, 2009
AFGHANISTAN: 773 Military Dead as of Aug 7, 2009
2,293 days since "Mission Accomplished"
The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises

• This Week (ABC)
  • former House speaker Newt Gingrich
  • former DNC Chairman Howard Dean
  • ROUNDTABLE: Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Peggy Noonan, Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, Matthew Dowd NO GEORGE WILL!!!

• Face The Nation (CBS)
  • Gen. James Jones, National Security Adviser
  • Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Chairman, Armed Services Committee
  • Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Armed Services Committee

• 60 Minutes (CBS) More summer repeats
  • The Price Of Bananas Chiquita Brands International says it paid murderous paramilitaries in Colombia to protect the lives of its employees there, but the families of civilians killed by the paramilitaries say the company is responsible for their deaths. Steve Kroft reports.
  • Brain Power People who are completely paralyzed due to illness or trauma are getting help communicating with a new technology that connects their brains to a computer. In the future, brain computer interface, or BCI, may restore movement to paralyzed people and allow amputees to move bionic limbs. Scott Pelley reports.

• Meet the Press (NBC)
  • Gen. JAMES JONES (Ret.) National Security Adviser
  • Mayor MIKE BLOOMBERG (I) New York City
  • Mayor CORY BOOKER (D) Newark, NJ
  • ROUNDTABLE: The New York Times' DAVID BROOKS; CNBC's ERIN BURNETT; and Newsweek's JON MEACHAM.
  • ****New MSNBC re-air time: Meet the Press will re-air on MSNBC at 2 p.m. ET Sunday afternoons, in place of our 5 p.m. re-air. We will continue to re-air at 2 a.m. ET and 5 a.m. ET (Monday morning) as well.****

• State of the Union With John King (CNN)
  State of the Union with John King offers a blend of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, national and world affairs and cultural segments, plus an hour of Reliable Sources media analysis, hosted by Howard Kurtz, airing every Sunday from 9 a.m. through 1 p.m. et
  • U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice
  • Hour 2 - Howard Kurtz & "Reliable Sources", now a part of "State of the Union".
  • more! (Hey we gotta fill up four hours!)

• BREAKROOM LIVE
  Marc Maron and Sam Seder LIVE STREAM Weekdays at 3 pm et!
  
  amazing graphic & logo by nicole s.
  ON HAITUS - Watch this space for more info! For up-to-the-minute updates go to samsedershow.com.

• Ring of Fire Radio
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/
  • David Bender returns to the microphone to fill in for Bobby and Pap.
  • Author Jeff Sharlet will be joining us to talk about the pseudo-religious organization known as “The Family,” which serves as a fraternity for some of the most powerful and influential politicians in America.
  • We’ve also got founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Paul Reickhoff with us to talk about how he and his organization helped construct a new GI Bill for America’s Veterans.
  • Comedian Matt Filipowicz will be stopping by to help us run through the news behind the news.
  • Join our blog at http://www.ringoffireradio.com/
  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."

• On the Edge with Max Keiser Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
  WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts “The Truth About Markets” on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s “People & Power” series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
  • [Video] Max Keiser on Alex Jones: The Fed, the dollar and the banksters LINK to four videos
  • Big drop in central bank gold selling plans as Fed & BoE accelerate money Stacy Summary: With the Fed buying its own debt, the Bank of England buying £50 billion more of its own debt . . . why on earth any nation would want to get rid of their gold right now?
  • The ‘C’ word that dare not blog its name Stacy Summary: This afternoon, I’d like to share this blog with you from Glenn Greenwald who has been THE best at chronicling crimes against the US Constitution from both the Republicans (Cheney/Bush) AND the Democrats (Obama). As the MSM is always lame, they, of course, have hardly covered this story; but, unfortunately, much of the blogosphere I read seems to also ignore the issue . . . something I think that has to do with their belief that talking about the Fed or the Constitution is the preserve of conspiracy theorists and/or the right wing. Anyway, let me know what you think of this: The Cheney plan to deploy the US military on US soil at Salon

• ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton & Charles Goyette LIVE (9-11am Pacific, 12pm - 2pm Eastern) Plenty of archives too!
  Listen at Antiwar Radio
  • Scott Horton interviews Daniel Ellsberg (mp3) 28:42. Daniel Ellsberg, author of the article “Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years,” discusses the 64 year cover-up of the destructive power of nuclear weapons, how the A-bomb is a mere trigger for the 1000X stronger H-bomb, the massive loss of civilian life in the allied fire-bombing of German and Japanese cities, the U.S. president’s free hand to commit atrocities in wartime and the need for government whistleblowers to step up and prevent the next false pretext for war.

• fauxnews
  • Gen. Jim Jones, national security adviser.
  • Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Brick TeeVee - THEY report. YOU throw bricks. ©

First brick is on us!

Brick TeeVee Trade Deadline Disasters!

Your Guest List for Sunday's Talking Head News Shows beamed across America by Corporate Media PLUS reports from the best progressive media! If you have other Sunday Talkie shows' guest lists we don't have please share below. DEBUNK HERE! Throw Bricks!
First brick is on us!

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

ALL LINKS OPEN A NEW WINDOW!!!

The Brick TeeVee crew is too verklempt to write much about the talkies this week as The Tribe officially began massive rebuilding with the trades of reigning Cy Young Winner Cliff Lee to the Phillies and catcher Victor Martinez to the Red Sox for a ham sandwich and a subway token (aka a bunch of "can't miss" minor leaguers). Also missing from the Opening Day lineup was Ryan Garko (Giants), Mark DeRosa (Cardinals) and Ben Francisco (with Lee to Philly). Ironically, tonight was Victor Martinez Bobblehead Night and the induction of another great Tribe catcher Sandy Alomar Jr. into the Indians Hall of Fame. As Alomar was driven around the field for a "victory lap" on the back of a Mustang Convertible right past our seats, one of the Crew yelled out "Hey Sandy! We could use a catcher like you right now!" and Sandy turned, pointed at us, winked and waved as the car rolled off the field. That's baseball, I guess. And to add salt to the wound, we just ordered new Tribe tags for the BTV-Mobile that say "C LEE 31" last Monday. Best of luck to all our former Tribesmen. Anyone for a Phillies-Red Sox World Series?

BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!

»»» Manuel Zelaya Speaks from Nicaraguan Border @ Democracy NOW! WATCH EXCLUSIVE: Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Speaks from Nicaraguan Border on Who’s Behind the Coup, His Attempts to Return Home, the Role of the United States and More
»»» Military Operative Spied on WA Peace Groups @ Democracy NOW! WATCH Democracy Now! Broadcast Exclusive: Declassified Docs Reveal Military Operative Spied on WA Peace Groups, Activist Friends Stunned
»»» Chris Hedges on GRITtv WATCH One-on-One: Chris Hedges
»»» NASCAR on ESPN It's the Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 live from Pocono. Coverage begins at 1 pm et
»»» MLB on TBS Phillies @ Giants - 4 pm et
»»» Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN LA Dodgers at Atlanta Braves - 8 pm et

BRICK TEEVEE ACTION!

STOP MANDATORY VACCINATIONS FOR H1N1 Natural Solutions Foundation www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org What You Can Do to Prevent Forced Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccinations. Demand Your Right to Self-Shield! Add your comments in too! Protection From Compulsory Vaccination, Drugging - Your Right to Self-Shield! SIGN NOW!

B R I C K T E E V E E
_{image ©2006 arkysue}
THEY report. YOU throw bricks. ©
The essential guide for watching government propaganda
IRAQ: 4,328 Military Dead as of July 31, 2009
AFGHANISTAN: 763 Military Dead as of July 31, 2009
2,286 days since "Mission Accomplished"
The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises

• This Week (ABC)
  • US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
  • former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan
  • ROUNDTABLE: Author and columnist Michelle Malkin, Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Bloomberg’s Al Hunt and the Wall Street Journal’s Jerry Seib. NO GEORGE WILL!!!

• Face The Nation (CBS)
  • Larry Summers, National Economic Council Director
  • Bob Woodward, The Washington Post
  • David Brooks, The New York Times
  • Kathleen Parker, Syndicated Columnist

• 60 Minutes (CBS) More summer repeats
  • Screening The TSA Are the hassles passengers endure at airport security checkpoints really making them safer? The Transportation Security Administration says they are, but a security adviser who has advised them says those measures are "security theater." Lesley Stahl reports.

• Meet the Press (NBC)
  • National Economic Council Director Larry Summers
  • ROUNDTABLE: authors of the new book "The Battle for America 2008," DAN BALZ and HAYNES JOHNSON; and two former congressmen, Democrat HAROLD FORD JR. and Republican J.C. WATTS.
  • ****New MSNBC re-air time: Meet the Press will re-air on MSNBC at 2 p.m. ET Sunday afternoons, in place of our 5 p.m. re-air. We will continue to re-air at 2 a.m. ET and 5 a.m. ET (Monday morning) as well.****

• State of the Union With John King (CNN)
  State of the Union with John King offers a blend of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, national and world affairs and cultural segments, plus an hour of Reliable Sources media analysis, hosted by Howard Kurtz, airing every Sunday from 9 a.m. through 1 p.m. et
  • Christina Romer, Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers discusses the economy, jobs and corporate bonuses.
  • Sen. John McCain (R) Arizona weighs in on Pres. Obama's promise to improve bipartisanship in Washington.
  • Hour 2 - Howard Kurtz & "Reliable Sources", now a part of "State of the Union".
  • more! (Hey we gotta fill up four hours!)

• BREAKROOM LIVE
  Marc Maron and Sam Seder LIVE STREAM Weekdays at 3 pm et!
  
  amazing graphic & logo by nicole s.
  ON HAITUS - Watch this space for more info! And SAM & MARC on RING OF FIRE! See below!

• Ring of Fire Radio
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/
  • Sam Seder and Marc Maron will be filling in for Bobby and Mike this week.
  • This week on Ring of Fire, we’ll be talking with best-selling author David Sirota about the numerous ways in which the wealthiest one percent of Americans are working to destroy healthcare reform.
  • We’ve also got author Chris Mooney, who’ll tell us how America has abandoned its quest to be the scientific champion of the planet, which has led to a dumbed-down state of American culture.
  • We’ll also be hosting a roundtable discussion with Jay Rosen and Jamison Foser about some of the biggest media stories that have happened recently, and what they mean for the state of American journalism.
  • And we’ll talk with Wendell Potter, a former insurance industry insider, who says that all of the tricks being used to derail healthcare reform are coming straight out of the big insurance companies’ playbooks.
  • Join our blog at http://www.ringoffireradio.com/
  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."

• On the Edge with Max Keiser Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
  WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts “The Truth About Markets” on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s “People & Power” series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. Download show HERE (mp3)

• ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton & Charles Goyette LIVE (9-11am Pacific, 12pm - 2pm Eastern) Plenty of archives too!
  Listen at Antiwar Radio
  • Scott Horton interviews Glenn Greenwald (mp3) 38:45. Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and current Salon.com blogger, discusses Washington’s treatment of the Constitution as a legal suggestion, why real patriots are civil liberties extremists, evolving Democratic excuses for not prosecuting Bush administration war crimes and how governmental powers “temporarily” increased during emergencies never fully recede.

• fauxnews
  • Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., chairman of the Ways and Means Committee
  • Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C
  • Indiana Congressman Mike Pence

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Brick TeeVee - THEY report. YOU throw bricks. ©

First brick is on us!

Brick TeeVee salutes Walter Cronkite

Your Guest List for Sunday's Talking Head News Shows beamed across America by Corporate Media PLUS reports from the best progressive media! If you have other Sunday Talkie shows' guest lists we don't have please share below. DEBUNK HERE! Throw Bricks!
First brick is on us!

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

ALL LINKS OPEN A NEW WINDOW!!!

All bets are off as the country embraces Walter Cronkite's passing. But no doubt they'll try. The much more important British Open pushes out This Snufagopolis, so we tune to Face the Bob with CHARLIE "Where's my General" RANGEL and Brick Target MICHAEL STEELE. Meet the David gets Head Obstructionist MITCH McCONNELL and KATHLEEN "force everybody to get swine flu vaccinations" SEBELIUS who sez "I want to be clear: This summit is not about raising alarms or stoking fears. It is about being prepared." Vaccinations against swine flu are likely and probably will begin in mid-October, assuming soon-to-start studies go well. But she says first in line for shots likely will be school-age children, young adults with conditions such as asthma, pregnant women and health workers. Okay then! Shots for everybody! As Gonzo Journalism tells us "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro". Thusly This Fall: Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccines? @ the citizen.com: Health and Human Services Secretary (and Bilderberg member) Kathleen Sebelius told the Associated Press on June 16 that she is urging school superintendents around the country to spend the summer preparing for a massive swine flu vaccine this fall and added that schools are being put on notice that they might be turned into factory assembly line shot clinics. “If you think about vaccinating kids, schools are the logical place,” Sebelius said. On May 6, the Obama administration announced “an unprecedented fall vaccination campaign that could entail giving Americans three flu shots — one to combat annual seasonal influenza and two targeted at the new swine flu virus spreading across the globe,” the Washington Post reported. That's nice! Be sure to have plenty of bricks available for racist Jefferson Beauregard "crack cocaine thang" Sessions the Third taking on MITCH MCCONNELL on State of the John. Beyond that, it's progressive teevee and audio featuring SAM SEDER on Ring of Fire Radio plus author NICOLETTE NIMAN who tells us the true story of what happens to our food before it reaches our tables. Lastly, 60 Minutes pays tribute to Walter Cronkite. The Brick TeeVee crew remembers watching Cronkite inform us of JFK's assassination, the Viet Nam war, Apollo 11's lunar landing and so much more. Cronkite told it "the way it is" for nearly two decades. Cronkite's Journalism is mostly a faded memory or never existed for so much of our populace since news reporting became a "business" when Roon Arlidge took over ABC News. Our Corporate Media controls nearly 90% of U.S. media and doesn't do investigative reporting anymore; rather they are stenographers for their corporate clientelle advertisers who want us to beleive BP, Shell and Exxon are really behind alternative energy or Boeing "keeps democracy safe" or McDonald's and Wendy's and Kraft provide us with healthy meals or there's such a thing as "clean coal". No, Walter's time as a leader of an independent Fourth Estate is long gone (and he'd be the first to tell ya so!). With the passing of Walter Cronkie, let us embrace the Alternate Press we have now with our money and our hearts and minds, in the midst of newspapers all over the country going bankrupt. Let us begin anew an aggressive constitutionally-mandated FREE PRESS that acts like it's supposed to: openly questiioning and investigating our government and the corporate leaches that use and abuse OUR tax dollars. Cronkite would ask no less.

Good-bye Walter Cronkite
"The Most Trusted Man in America"
b. November 4, 1916 d. July 17, 2009

"An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe." -Thomas Jefferson

Cronkite in "War Made Easy" trailer
From The Archives: Cronkite, Live Via Satellite on NPR - Cronkite remembering the first live satellite broadcast to Europe via Telstar, 47 years ago July 23.

BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!

»»» "Journalism and the Crisis of Democracy" WCPN 90.3 Cleveland Stop the presses! Breaking News! Journalism is dying! The terms seismic shifts and tectonic plates moving are overused but they certainly apply to journalism today. The venerable fourth estate is an endangered species. Newspapers, like the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, which was around for 150 years, have closed. Many others are threatened. Foreign reporting, never a strong suit, is getting worse. Bureaus are being cut back or eliminated. The demise of journalism, particularly investigative journalism, would have major implications for the functioning of our increasingly parlous democracy. If politicians and corporations, bankers and financiers know that there is no one looking at and reporting on what they are doing then corruption, which already exists, will increase exponentially. The masters will go unchallenged. Unless a new economic model emerges, print journalism as we’ve known it, will cease to exist. Robert McChesney is co-founder of the Free Press, a non-profit organization working to increase public participation in media policy debates. He is professor of communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Author of numerous books including “Rich Media, Poor Democracy” and “The Problem of the Media,” his latest is “The Political Economy of Media.” Alternative Radio: Journalism and the Crisis of Democracy @ WCPN. Buy podcast or CD at Alternative Radio HERE.
»»» Mass killing by a US-backed warlord on Democracy NOW! WATCH Obama Calls for Probe into 2001 Massacre of at Least 2,000 Suspected Taliban POWs by US-Backed Afghan Warlord
»»» Howard Dean on Democracy NOW! WATCH Howard Dean on His Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform
»»» Howard Dean on GRITtv WATCH Howard Dean on Healthcare, Dissecting ‘Bruno’, and Got Docs? Presents ‘The Fire This Time’
»»» Buchanan vs. Maddow WATCH Rachel Maddow SLAMS Pat Buchanan Over Sotomayor Bias
»»» PGA on ABC British Open Final Round LIVE from Turnberry Resort's Ailsa Course in South Ayrshire, Scotland - coverage begins at 9 am et
»»» MLB on TBS Detroit Tigers @ NY Yankees - 1 pm et
»»» Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN NY Mets @ Atlanta Braves - 8 pm et

BRICK TEEVEE ACTION!

You done good! THIS JUST IN via email from Dennis Kucinich: "With your support, your phone calls, your emails, we won a major legislative victory today for a state single payer health care option in the House of Representatives in Washington, DC. The House Education and Labor Committee approved the Kucinich Amendment by a vote of 27-19, with 14 Democrats and 13 Republicans voting yes.
~snip~ "Under the Kucinich Amendment a state's application for a waiver from ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act -Ed.) is granted automatically if the state has signed into law a single payer plan. With the amendment, for the first time, the state single payer health care option is shielded from an ERISA-based legal attack. Now that the underlying bill has been passed, as amended, by the full committee, we must make sure that Congress knows that we want the provision kept in the bill at final passage!
"The state single payer option was one of five major amendments which I obtained support to get included in HR3200. One amendment brings into standard coverage for the first time complementary and alternative medicine, (integrative medicine). Another amendment drives down the cost of prescription drugs by ending pharmaceutical industry's sharp practices manipulating physician prescribing habits. An amendment stops the insurance industry from increasing premiums at the time when people are not permitted to change health plans; and finally an amendment imposing a requirement on insurance companies that they disclose the cost of advertising, marketing and executive compensation expenses (which generally divert money from patient care). Please make sure you post this message on your social networking site, ask all your friends to get involved and encourage everyone you know to sign up at www.Kucinich.us so we can build full momentum behind this movement for real health care. Let's do this! "

B R I C K T E E V E E
_{image ©2006 arkysue}
THEY report. YOU throw bricks. ©
The essential guide for watching government propaganda
IRAQ: 4,326 Military Dead as of July 18, 2009
AFGHANISTAN: 742 Military Dead as of July 18, 2009
2,272 days since "Mission Accomplished"
The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises

BRICK TEEVEE PROGRAMMING NOTE:

The BrickTeeVee Crew will be on summer holiday next weekend, celebrating Apollo 11: "That's one small step for man. And one giant leap for mankind." See you next month!
WeChooseTheMoon.org

• This Week (ABC)
  • NO SHOW - pre-empted by British Open Final Round coverage

• Face The Nation (CBS)
  • Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah (left)
  • Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.
  • Michael Steele, RNC Chairman

• 60 Minutes (CBS)
  • CBS pays Tribute to Walter Cronkite
  

• Meet the Press (NBC)
  • KATHLEEN SEBELIUS Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
  • SEN. MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY) Senate Republican Leader
  • ROUNDTABLE: PAUL GIGOT of The Wall Street Journal; JOHN HARWOOD of CNBC & The New York Times; MICHELE NORRIS of NPR's "All Things Considered"; and RICHARD WOLFFE, author of "Renegade: The Making of a President".
  • ****New MSNBC re-air time: Meet the Press will re-air on MSNBC at 2 p.m. ET Sunday afternoons, in place of our 5 p.m. re-air. We will continue to re-air at 2 a.m. ET and 5 a.m. ET (Monday morning) as well.****

• State of the Union With John King (CNN)
  State of the Union with John King offers a blend of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, national and world affairs and cultural segments, plus an hour of Reliable Sources media analysis, hosted by Howard Kurtz, airing every Sunday from 9 a.m. through 1 p.m. et
  • Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, and
  • Ranking Member Jeff "crack cocaine thang" Sessions, R-Alabama
  • White House Budget Director Peter Orszag
  • Reverend Jesse Jackson
  • Hour 2 - Howard Kurtz & "Reliable Sources", now a part of "State of the Union".
  • more! (Hey we gotta fill up four hours!)

• BREAKROOM LIVE
  Marc Maron and Sam Seder LIVE STREAM Weekdays at 3 pm et!
  
  amazing graphic & logo by nicole s.
  See/hear the show at any time of the day. Get Podcasts, video, audio streams and watch show live at Breakroom LIVE! Very cool! Also available weekday MIDNIGHTS at Ohio Majority Radio. SAM ON RING OF FIRE THIS WEEK! See below! Watch Sam's interview with Matt Taibbi HERE

• Ring of Fire Radio
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/
  • This week on Ring of Fire, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will be here to tell us about the urgent need for healthcare reform in the US, and what he’s doing to make that reform a reality.
  • We’ll also be talking with author and Middle East expert Reza Aslan about the recent presidential elections in Iran, and he’ll tell us why he thinks the stolen election is the beginning of a military coup in the country.
  • We’ve also got author Nicolette Niman who will tell us the true story of what happens to our food before it reaches our tables.
  • And Air America’s own Sam Seder will stop by to run through some of the biggest news stories of the past week that you might not have heard about.
  • Join our blog at http://www.ringoffireradio.com/
  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."

• On the Edge with Max Keiser Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
  WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts “The Truth About Markets” on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s “People & Power” series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
  • Hank “Sacks of Gold” Paulson admits to threatening Ken Lewis. Stacy Summary: A little artwork from @Rasta! Very funny. And I have given Hank Paulson his very own gangsta name. I wasn’t happy with “pretty face” as I believe Marketwatch called him. Anyone able to do a mockup of Ken Lewis finding a horse’s head in his bed? READ: Hank ‘Sacks of Gold” Paulson admits to threatening Ken Lewis @ politico
  • Stacy Summary: Max and Stacy for Resonance 104.4 FM in London. A compilation of some of the best Max material and interviews. Thanks for a great week and helping Max’s France 24 appearance go viral! It’s on the top of the list for News & Politics - even beating Michael Jackson’s head on fire! Download show HERE (mp3)

• ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton & Charles Goyette LIVE (9-11am Pacific, 12pm - 2pm Eastern) Plenty of archives too!
  Listen at Antiwar Radio
  • Scott Horton is on vacation. This interview is from the Antiwar Radio archives and was originally broadcast on July 23, 2008. Scott Horton interviews Pat Buchanan (mp3). Pat Buchanan, political analyst, columnist and author of "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World", discusses the British politicians’ colossal blunders that led them into World War I and II and the collapse of their empire, the consequences of American intervention in WWI and imposition of the Versailles Treaty, Hitler’s motive to regain the lands lost in the east and willingness to forsake former German provinces in the west out of his desire to avoid war with England and France, what really happened at Munich, the folly of the British war guarantee to Poland during their dispute with Hitler over Danzig and the real lessons of the second World War.

• fauxnews
  • Peter Orszag, Director, White House Office of Management and Budget
  • Sen. Judd Gregg, (R) New Hampshire / Ranking Member, Budget Cmte.
  • Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Astronaut

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Brick TeeVee - THEY report. YOU throw bricks. ©

First brick is on us!

Brick TeeVee Match-Up Sunday!

Your Guest List for Sunday's Talking Head News Shows beamed across America by Corporate Media plus some good progressive radio. If you have other Sunday Talkie shows' guest lists we don't have please share below. DEBUNK HERE! Throw Bricks!
First brick is on us!

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

ALL LINKS OPEN A NEW WINDOW!!!

As the Battle for Health Care "Reform" heats up, match-ups, face-offs, show-downs and a hoedown greet us this Sunday morning. This Snufagpololis has a match-up with DICK DURBIN and JON KYL, while Face the Bob gets the PAT LEAHY vs. JEFF SESSIONS face-off. Meet the David features a show-down between JOHN MCCAIN and CHUCK SHUMER while Fake Snooze has a not-so-much show-down between Blue Dog DIANE FEINSTEIN and JOHN CORNYN. Tune into State of the King where John tries to lead the hoedown with dance partners Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Dem Senators Debbie Stabenow & Kent Conrad and GOPher Senators Judd Gregg & Lamar Alexander. Make sure you count how many times the new GOP Talking Point Keyword 'Individual Mandate' gets used! (Read that link! -Ed.) Don't miss the Brick TeeVee alerts with an interview with John Pilger and a health care costs debate on GritTV PLUS the rebroadcast of Ring of Fire where Marc Maron and Sam Seder sit in for Mike and Bobby. Matt Taibbi's The Great American Bubble Machine @ Rolling Stone about Goldman Sachs has created quite a stir. See Max Keiser and Sam's interview with Matt below. Then read Taibbi’s Scream: Stop the political system that lets Goldman Sachs and others run roughshod over society at new deal 2.0. Plus here's an Exclusive Interview: Rolling Stone Journalist Matt Taibbi at Wall St. Cheat Sheet. The Brick TeeVee crew is relaxing as the summer heats up. They've already bought all the fixins for the MLB All-Star Game, Home Run Derby and the Legends Softball game (our favorite!). Enjoy!

BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!

»On the Death of McNamara on Democracy NOW! Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has died at the age of 93. McNamara was one of the key architects of the Vietnam war, which killed at least three million Vietnamese, around one million Cambodians and Laotians, and 58,000 American soldiers. We take a look at McNamara’s legacy with two pre-eminent historians: Howard Zinn and Marilyn Young. We also speak with Jonathan Schell, who covered Vietnam as a reporter in 1967 and met with McNamara in a secret Pentagon meeting. WATCH Vietnam War Architect Robert McNamara Dies at 93: A Look at His Legacy With Howard Zinn, Marilyn Young & Jonathan Schell
»Honduras' Manuel Zelaya on Democracy NOW! Talks between the ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the leaders of last week’s military coup begin today in Costa Rica. Shortly before leaving Washington DC for Costa Rica, Zelaya sat down with us for a rare U.S. television interview. He discusses how military coup forces forced him out, the upcoming talks in Costa Rica, his domestic policies in Honduras, the role of the United States and more.WATCH In Rare U.S. Broadcast, Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Discusses Coup, Costa Rica Talks, U.S. Role and More
»John Pilger FULL INTERVIEW on Democracy NOW! Award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker, John Pilger, joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the media, health care, and Obama’s wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pilger has has written close to a dozen books and made over 50 documentaries on a range of subjects including struggles around the world for a more just and peaceful society and against Western military and economic intervention. WATCH John Pilger on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the Corporate Media, Obama’s Wars and Resisting the American Empire
»Health Care Reform on GRITtv The cost of healthcare in this country is unsustainable. There's no way around it. Some projections estimate that healthcare costs will equal 20 percent of Gross Domestic Product in the next decade. What are the economics of healthcare reform? Is a public option the answer? And is congress willing to make the necessary changes to overhaul the system? Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Reed Abelson who covers healthcare for the NYT, and Teresa Ghilarducci, director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy at the New School on the real cost of healthcare reform. WATCH The Real Cost of Healthcare Reform
»Marcy Winograd on GRITtv School?s out, but state programs, many that impact teenagers, have been slashed throughout the country from NY to California. 80 percent of state parks in California could be closed and an estimated one million children will be without healthcare if the governor doesn?t sign a budget. At the same time the number of homeless families is rising. It is looking like a long, hot summer. How will America?s youth spend their time? Christian DiPalermo, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Parks, Marcy Winograd, a high school teacher in South Los Angeles and a co-founder of Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles, and Community activist and attorney Kafahni Nkrumah on the impact of the financial crisis on social programs and parks in America?s cities. WATCH GRITtv: Summertime Blues: How Are We Being Affected By Service Cuts?
»INDYCAR on ABC The Honda Indy from Toronto, Canada. Coverage begins at 1 p.m. et
»MLB on TBS LA Dodgers @ Milwaukee Brewers - 2 pm et
»Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN St. Louis Cardinals @ Chicago Cubs - 8 pm et
»MLB All-Star Game Festivities! It's The Mid-Summer Classic from Busch Stadium in St Louis! Check out the Home Run Derby on Monday on ESPN at 8 pm followed by the Legends Soft-Ball Game. The 2009 All-Star game is Tuesday night at 8 pm et on FOX and ESPN Radio.

B R I C K T E E V E E
_{image ©2006 arkysue}
THEY report. YOU throw bricks. ©
The essential guide for watching government propaganda
IRAQ: 4,322 Military Dead as of July 11, 2009
AFGHANISTAN: 733 Military Dead as of July 11, 2009
2,265 days since "Mission Accomplished"
The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises

• This Week (ABC)
  • Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill.
  • Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.
  • Roundtable: George Will, Donna Brazile, Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson and the Washington Post's Bob Woodward.

• Face The Nation (CBS)
  • Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. (left)
  • Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.

• 60 Minutes (CBS) Summer Re-broadcasts
  • KILL BIN LADEN - The officer who led the army’s Delta Force mission to kill Osama bin Laden after 9/11 reveals what really happened in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, when the al-Qaeda leader narrowly escaped. Scott Pelley reports. Shawn Efran is the producer.
  • EYEWITNESS - Lesley Stahl reports on flaws in eyewitness testimony that are at the heart of the DNA exonerations of falsely convicted people like Ronald Cotton, who has forgiven his accuser, Jennifer Thompson. Shari Finkelstein is the producer. THIS IS A DOUBLE-LENGTH SEGMENT.

• Meet the Press (NBC)
  • SEN. JOHN McCAIN (R-AZ)
  • SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY)
  • ROUNDTABLE: Republican Strategist and former adviser to Pres. George W. Bush, KAREN HUGHES; Democratic Strategist, BOB SHRUM; NBC News' Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, ANDREA MITCHELL; and Politico's Chief Political Columnist, ROGER SIMON.
  • ****New MSNBC re-air time: Starting this week, Meet the Press will re-air on MSNBC at 2 p.m. ET Sunday afternoons, in place of our 5 p.m. re-air. We will continue to re-air at 2 a.m. ET and 5 a.m. ET (Monday morning) as well.****

• State of the Union With John King (CNN)
  State of the Union with John King offers a blend of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, national and world affairs and cultural segments, plus an hour of Reliable Sources media analysis, hosted by Howard Kurtz, airing every Sunday from 9 a.m. through 1 p.m. et
  • Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
  • Debbie Stabenow, D-Michigan
  • Judd Gregg, R-Hew Hampshire
  • Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee
  • Kent Conrad, D-North Dakota
  • Hour 2 - Howard Kurtz & "Reliable Sources", now a part of "State of the Union".
  • more! (Hey we gotta fill up four hours!)

• BREAKROOM LIVE
  Marc Maron and Sam Seder LIVE STREAM Weekdays at 3 pm et!
  
  amazing graphic & logo by nicole s.
  See/hear the show at any time of the day. Get Podcasts, video, audio streams and watch show live at Breakroom LIVE! Very cool! Also available weekday MIDNIGHTS at Ohio Majority Radio. SAM AND MARC ON RING OF FIRE THIS WEEK! See below! Watch Sam's interview with Matt Taibbi HERE

• Ring of Fire Radio
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/
  • This week on Ring of Fire, Sam Seder and Marc Maron from Air America’s Break Room Live will be taking over the studio while Bobby and Mike are out of town.
  • Author and health journalist Maggie Mahar about the ongoing battle over healthcare reform, and how the big money interests of the insurance industry keep trumping the healthcare needs of US citizens.
  • We’ll talk with author Ryan Grim about the failures of the so-called war on drugs which he details in his new book “This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America.”
  • We’ve also got congressman Earl Blumenauer with us today to talk about the recently passed Clean Energy and Security Act, and we’ll find out if this piece of legislation does enough to protect our environment.
  • And we’ll be talking with Phil Angelides, Chairman of the Apollo Alliance, who’ll tell us what exactly a green economy would consist of, and what we can do to help make it a reality.
  • Join our blog at http://www.ringoffireradio.com/
  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."

• On the Edge with Max Keiser Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
  WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts “The Truth About Markets” on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s “People & Power” series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
  • Goldman Rules: Fed issues threat to destabilize markets if Congress gets oversight. Stacy Summary: Huge tip of the hat to Mike2liverpool for this!!! Seems the Fed has learned a valuable lesson from Paulson . . . your thoughts!? READ: Fed warns oversight will destabilise markets and threaten future generations @ Financial Times.
  • WATCH [Video] Bloomberg on Goldman’s market manipulation code

• ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton & Charles Goyette LIVE (9-11am Pacific, 12pm - 2pm Eastern) Plenty of archives too!
  Listen at Antiwar Radio
  • From June 29th, 2009 Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter (mp3) Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses his 5-part series (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) examining the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, the near certainty al-Qaeda and not Iran was responsible for the bombing, the existence of an Iran-backed Saudi Arabia Hezbollah, former FBI Director Louis Freeh’s overly cozy relationship with Saudi Prince Bandar and Bill Clinton’s disastrous foreign policy that helped instigate 9-11. Gareth Porter is an independent historian and journalist. His articles appear on the Huffington Post, Inter Press Service News Agency and on Antiwar.com.

• fauxnews
  • Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
  • Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas
  • House Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Brick TeeVee - THEY report. YOU throw bricks. ©

First brick is on us!

Independence Day Weekend with Brick TeeVee!

Your Guest List for Sunday's Talking Head News Shows beamed across America by Corporate Media plus some good progressive radio. If you have other Sunday Talkie shows' guest lists we don't have please share below. DEBUNK HERE! Throw Bricks!
First brick is on us!

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

ALL LINKS OPEN A NEW WINDOW!!!

For this Independence Day weekend the big interview will be VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN on This Snufagopolis, followed by a sour-faced CHUCK GRASSLEY, who double dips on Face the Bob. It wouldn't be an Independence Day without some military brass, so Admiral MIKE MULLEN gets the call on Face the Bob and Faux News and General COLIN POWELL (ret.) flag-waves on State of the King. Throw bricks at JOHN "Crybaby" BOEHNER, also on Faux News, who most recently tried to read the entire "cap-n-trade" bill on the floor of the house, calling it a "Pile of Shit" (video at HuffPo to prove it - Where's the outrage???). Be sure to check our alerts and donate to GRITtv with Laura Flanders before Midnight tonight! See SAM SEDER on Laura's Rountable! Jessie Ventura and Bernie Sanders are featured on a "best of" Ring of Fire Radio, Max Keiser talks with PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS (see The U.S. Regime-Change Recipe for Iran at counterpunch) and AntiWarRadio has an interview with MICHAEL SCHEUER you must listen to closely. We hope your holiday weekend has been fun and safe so far. Please check out Mountaintop Independence Day. As Laura Flanders sez, Celebrate Independent Media this Independence Day!!!

BRICK TEEVEE ACTION!

GRIT TV Fundraiser!
GRITtv has a matching grant to meet by Midnight Sunday, July 5. If we can raise $5,000, GRITtv will be able to claim a matching grant of $75,000. That will keep GRITtv keeping-on through the summer. In response to our pitch -- 112 viewers have contributed $3,900 since Wednesday! The is post has been picked up and reposted by the generous Jane Hamsher and others.Contributions for GRITtv are coming in every hour. I'll give you a full tally on Monday. Meanwhile, would you pass on the word: it's easy to give fast, safely, online or to send a check, made out to GRITtv to GRITtv, 641 6th Avenue, 4th Floor, NY, NY 10011. Donate ON-LINE HERE NOW!!! Sez Laura, "Celebrate Independent Media this Independence Day. With my appreciation and THANKS to you!!! -Laura"

BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!

»Jeremy Scahill on Democracy NOW! In Iraq, a deadly car bomb in the northern city of Kirkuk has killed up to forty people and injured another 100. Tuesday’s bombing came hours after US troops withdrew from major Iraqi towns and cities, marring celebrations on a day that is now officially declared as “National Sovereignty Day,” a public holiday. We go to Iraq to speak with Sahar Issa, an Iraqi reporter working with the Baghdad Bureau of McClatchy Newspapers. We also speak with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill about his article, “Iraq’s ‘National Sovereignty Day’ is US-Style Hallmark Hype.” WATCH How Can We Have Sovereignty When We Don’t Have Electricity or Water to Bathe? Iraqi Reporter on US Troop Pullback
»Honduras Military Coup leaders are SOA Grads on Democracy NOW! Romeo Vasquez, a general who led the military coup in Honduras against President Manuel Zelaya, received training at the US School of the Americas. The SOA has trained more than 60,000 soldiers, many of whom have returned home and committed human rights abuses, torture, extrajudicial execution and massacres. According to School of the Americas Watch, Vasquez attended the SOA in 1976 and 1984. The head of the Air Force, Gen. Luis Javier Prince Suazo, also studied there in 1996. We speak with Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of the School of the Americas Watch. WATCH Generals Who Led Honduras Military Coup Trained at the School of the Americas
»John Pilger on Democracy NOW! We play an excerpt of an extended interview with Australian investigative journalist, John Pilger. Speaking about the US healthcare system, Pilger says, “What is it about US legislators that they appear to be so in bed with such powerful interests, such as the insurance companies, that they can’t represent their own people’s needs, their own people’s basic human rights.” WATCH John Pilger Calls UK National Health Service a Treasure, Blasts US Lawmakers for Being “in Bed with Powerful Interests” and Neglecting “Their Own People’s Basic Human Rights”
»GRITtv Media Round Table In world events this week: popular unrest in Iran grew, the Honduran President was the victim of a military coup and US troops withdrew from Iraqi cities. On the news this week: obituary-porn following Michael Jackson's death and the Sanford affair gabfest. Did media coverage hit a new low point this week? We'll talk about that and the arrival of Senator Al Franken. Beneath the spin and beyond the hype, we welcome to our GRITtv Media Round Table: Bob Moser, Editor of the Texas Observer and author of Blue Dixie: Awakening the South's Democratic Majority, Jill Nelson, Author, Let's Get It On: A Novel and finally, Sam Seder, Host of Breakroom Live. And more! WATCH Obituary Porn: New Media Low? “Sex is Not Static, It’s Fluid,” F Word: Senators Reflect, and Animal Rights Activities=Terrorists?
»WIMBLEDON on NBC Andy Roddick will face off against Roger Federer in the Men's Finals at Centre Court. Coverage begins at 9 am
»MLB on TBS 2009 All-Star Game Selection Show! - 1 pm et
»Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN Tampa Bay @ Texas - 8 pm et

B R I C K T E E V E E
_{image ©2006 arkysue}
THEY report. YOU throw bricks. ©
The essential guide for watching government propaganda
IRAQ: 4,321 Military Dead as of July 3, 2009
AFGHANISTAN: 719 Military Dead as of July 3, 2009
2,258 days since "Mission Accomplished"
The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises

• This Week (ABC)
  • Vice President Joe Biden
  • Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa.
  • Roundtable: George Will, Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Cynthia Tucker, the Washington Times' Tony Blankley, Vanity Fair's Todd Purdum, and former Bush-Cheney strategist and ABC News contributor Matthew Dowd

• Face The Nation (CBS)
  • Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff
  • Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa
  • Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

• 60 Minutes (CBS) Summer Re-broadcasts
  • SAVING FLIGHT 1549 - Hero pilot Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and his flight crew together reveal for the first time the sights, sounds and physical sensations they experienced as they pulled off an incredible water landing last month, saving the lives of all 155 people aboard US Airways Flight 1549. Katie Couric reports. Michael Radutzky, Tanya Simon and Lori Beecher are the producers. THIS IS A EXTRA-LENGTH STORY
  • BON JOVI - Jon Bon Jovi and his band are still filling arenas and producing hit albums 26 years after breaking out of the local New Jersey music scene. Steve Kroft reports. John Hamlin is the producer.

• Meet the Press (NBC)
  • Meet the Press will not air Sunday, July 5 due to NBC's coverage of the Wimbledon tennis finals. We will return at our regular time on July 12.

• State of the Union With John King (CNN)
  State of the Union with John King offers a blend of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, national and world affairs and cultural segments, plus an hour of Reliable Sources media analysis, hosted by Howard Kurtz, airing every Sunday from 9 a.m. through 1 p.m. et
  • former Secretary of State Colin Powell
  • Her Majesty Queen Noor
  • Hour 2 - Howard Kurtz & "Reliable Sources", now a part of "State of the Union".
  • more! (Hey we gotta fill up four hours!)

• BREAKROOM LIVE
  Mark Maron and Sam Seder LIVE STREAM Weekdays at 3 pm et!
  
  amazing graphic & logo by nicole s.
  See/hear the show at any time of the day. Get Podcasts, video, audio streams and watch show live at Breakroom LIVE! Very cool! Also available weekday MIDNIGHTS at Ohio Majority Radio Check out SEDER on RING OF FIRE BELOW!

• Ring of Fire Radio
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/
  • Former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura will be here to give us his thoughts on the Bush administration, including how he thinks we need to be handling the former officials that are responsible for allowing torture.
  • GQ correspondent Robert Draper will be joining us to tell us why history won’t be as kind to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as the former administration official would like to believe.
  • Senator Bernie Sanders will be with us today to talk about his efforts to pass legislation that would create a better healthcare system in America, and provide coverage for the millions of Americans who are currently lacking any form of health insurance.
  • We’ve also got Representative Carolyn Maloney who’ll give us the facts about the recently passed Credit Card Holders’ Bill of Rights, which will prevent credit card companies from ripping off consumers, and help keep countless of Americans from going into bankruptcy.
  • And author Geoffrey Nunberg will be here to tell us how the GOP’s grip on the electorate has diminished as their ability to manipulate voters with their language has also declined.
  • Join our blog at http://www.ringoffireradio.com/
  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."

• On the Edge with Max Keiser Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
  WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts “The Truth About Markets” on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s “People & Power” series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
  • At BLIPtv... On the Edge with Max Keiser - 03 July 2009. Max interviews Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury

• ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton & Charles Goyette LIVE (9-11am Pacific, 12pm - 2pm Eastern) Plenty of archives too!
  Listen at Antiwar Radio
  • From July 3, 2009 Scott Horton Interviews Michael Scheuer (mp3) Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA’s bin Laden unit and author of Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq, discusses the government’s reliance on CIA covert action instead of conventional military force to protect the U.S., how the Congress and President fail to take meaningful action because they seek the adulation of the media and Europe, the wisdom in leaving Afghanistan ASAP and how Americans won’t realize their government isn’t protecting them until Osama bin Laden attacks again. LISTEN CLOSELY at about 0:14 in. Michael Scheuer is a 22-year veteran of the CIA and the author of Through Our Enemies Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America, Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq and Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror.

• fauxnews
  • Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, House majority leader
  • Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, House Minority Leader

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Brick TeeVee - THEY report. YOU throw bricks. ©

First brick is on us!