9/30/11

It’s Casual Friday!

Sam is broadcasting LIVE from his infamous undisclosed location. Today on the show, we’ll be talking with the usual Casual Friday crew, Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) and Moviefone.com’s Chris Rosen (@42inchtv)! Plus, we have a live update from #OccupyWallStreet!

And, of course, we also have week in review songs from the Screaming Majorityand Jimmy Reefercake (@JimmyReefercake)!

09/29/2011

Happy New Year! Professor Bill Lazonick, Director of the Center for Industrial Competitiveness joins us, and more dispatches from Occupy Wall Street

09/28/2011

Back in the studio, continuing to cover the Wall Street protests and more!

09/27/2011

Sam broadcasts live from Liberty Square at the heart of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

09/26/2011

Suzanne Mettler, professor of government at Cornell and the author of “The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy” joins us. We'll also be discussing what happened at #OccupyWallStreet over the weekend. On the part of the NYPD, It wasn't pretty.

09/23/2011

We were down at OccupyWallStreet this morning. We grabbed some footage & audio, but the rain was getting to be too much for our equipment. Instead we will have... Cliff Schecter, Chris Rosen and 2 BRAND NEW week in review songs from the Screaming Majority and Jimmy Reefercake!

Will Bunch of Attytood, Media Matters and author of The Backlash joins usto talk about the media blackout surrounding Occupy Wall Street.

09/21/2011

Former U.S. Rep Alan Grayson joins us on the show! We’ll be discussing the Tea Party and Class Warfare.

09/20/2011

Has Obama taken a populist turn? Ryan Grimm of the Huffington Post gives his analysis.

09/19/2011

Filmmaker Marshall Curry, discussing his film, "If a Tree Falls", on the Earth Liberation Front and their early 2000's spree of property destruction. Then, we have a representative from #OccupyWallStreet (@OccupyWallStNYC) who will be talking to us LIVE from the protest in Wall Street!

Breaking News! For the first time in months, Sam doesn't hang up on Chris Rosen! Also featuring Cliff Schecter on the progressive game plan for the months ahead.

09/15/2011

Sam runs down the week's underreported stories, and wonders if the current administration might be changing its course.

09/14/2011

Republicans are unable to do anything but blame those who need healthcare, and offer no real plan. We also have Bobby Kennedy on the terrible consequences of the Obama admistration's environmental decisions.

Spencer Ackerman of Wired’s Danger Room joins us today to talk Palestinian statehood, and we discuss that disturbing moment at the CNN Tea Party Debate where the audience cheered for the death of a 30 year old man without health insurance.

09/12/2011

RJ Eskow of Campaign for America's Future, discussing raising the Medicare eligibility age. That's not all! We have a very special guest today as well...Janeane "Katherine Harris" Garofalo will be joining us!

09/09/2011

We talk Obama's job speech with our favorite Friday regular, Cliff Schecter . In addition to all that...we have brand new week in review songs from the Screaming Majority, who are back after a week MIA and straight off his hugely popular hit from last week, Jimmy Reefercake!

09/08/2011

Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, joins us today, talking about jobs and the banking industry.

09/07/2011

Sam has a ton of stories to talk about today, including the story of a father who died from a toothache unable to afford care, and a look at tonight's Republican debate and Obama's jobs debate.

09/06/2011

Ari Berman on his latest Rolling Stone piece about the Republican coordinated attempt to suppress the vote. Then Sam and Ari veer into the accusations of liberal naivete.

9/05/2011

FDR, John Lewis, Mario Savio & more... happy labor day and power to the people! Sam back live on tuesday!

09/02/2011

Sam returns to the air in New York to talk news with Cliff Scecter and tolerate Chris Rosen. New Week in Review song by Jimmy Reefercake

Is it too soon to speak of the Bush-Obama presidency? David Bromwich on the reality of "hope and change".