Sam Seder CRUSHES Right Wing Caller On Healthcare! & Good News For Seder Fans (Friday Bonus Show)

good to know he's back

He's always good, once heard him on the radio doing a send up of Ted Stevens and his "the internet is a series of tubes" diatribe... :rofl:

Good news! I miss hearing from him.

He says he makes 250k and he is still crying. The upper middle class is out of control selfish and arrogant. They need to be taken down a notch. Get a mail order degree in business administration and all of a sudden your ego is bigger than a house. Win a good hand paying the stock market and people think they're Warren Buffet. However if your rinky dink small business folds, well now, help me US gov with my bankruptcy.

We need to have a better accounting system of taxes and entitlements that takes into account the "hard work" and the "lucky breaks" they received. We need class warfare. I'm sorry but they started that war but we're going to finish it and them. Every tax loophole that benefits the upper middle class needs to be checked and closed. Every unearned break received must be accounted for and made public for all to see and judge.

This guy reminds me of conservative "journalist" O'Keefe. It seems that while he benefited from a good education and got a job in the right field. It's not enough to just say wow I've got it good, not as good as Bill Gates but better than 95% of other fellow citizens.

I don't make as much as this conservative caller and admit making mistakes, I don't spend 90% of my time worrying about a single mother on food stamps or 20 or a thousand. If there was as much abuse of the system as conservatives believes there is nothing would get done and nobody would be left to pay taxes.

Many have the "I've gone mine, if you don't you're just lazy" attitude.

Probably the only talk show host I like better than Cenk. (just keepin it real ;) )

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Like Sam better, that is. You just don't know it. ;)

Sam is viciously opposed to the US Free Trade deals, he's called George H.W. Bush an asshole and a war criminal and he thinks the Duggars should be arrested for littering.

Speaking of which, his Air America talk right now is pretty interesting.

Crap. Please put this up on the podcast. :begging:

right there! And I loved it.

This is the kind of personality we need to counter Shawn Hannity and Glenn Beck on Faux Noise.

Much appreciated...I'll watch/listen to Sam every chance I get. Hope the new gig is going well. :hi:

it is. I've finally found a true career path, and a job I'm excited to do every day.

I'd like to see him get a spot on MSNBC.


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I'll have to get back to you on that, although I'm not sure when I'll know the answer.

Sam is one of the best radio progressives. He should have his own show.

if you're reading this, love you Sam! get a new big show soon! and i still remember how you and Janeanne had the best bumper music of any show EVAR! anyone who plays The Chameleons' "Swamp Thing" as a bumper has to be a whole tubload of awesome!

Logic, reasoning and facts,
-it gets them every time.

" They can't handle the TRUTH!"

:)

K&R

And of course I missed the call in number, but I did hear Sam mention his IM: sedermvs

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and essentially agreeing with my plan as to how to make liberal radio work.

Older (four year +) post of mine regarding liberal radio.

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Commercial Progressive/Liberal Radio Is Not Viable

Why people expect power to support those talking truth to power is beyond me.

There is a ready market of over 40% of the populace in even the reddest of areas that are not currently served by political talk radio. What every business model requires, a ready-made market.

Problem is, the money boys (advertisers, station owners) are from the other side of the political divide, and most apparently would prefer to lose money. Even worse, they are now apparently buying up AAR affiliates with good numbers in order to push them off the air. No station, no problem.

So much for the free market.

Instead of trying to ‘fight the last war’, that is, model progressive talk radio after Reich-Wing radio, a different (and not really innovative), approach is needed.

This approach is . . . . use the NPR model.

In larger, left leaning cities, commercial Progressive radio will be viable due to the critical mass of advertisers. In smaller, or redder, markets, where most of the advertisers are prejudiced, funding would come from the ‘Corporation For Progressive Radio’ to offset losses.

As Liberals/Progressives, we would need to donate $100/200 a year to the corporation (I used to donate this much to NPR). If 1/6 of Kerry voters donated $100/yr., $1 B a year could be raised.

My belief is that until those in the Red areas (Phoenix, Missoula, Atlanta, etc. etc.) are provided access to an alternative to Reich-Wing propaganda radio, Progressive politicians will make limited inroads. Some discount the effect of Reich-Wing propaganda radio on the political shift, and dumbing down, of the electorate, particularly the ‘working class’. I do not. Radio is low cost (for the consumer), convenient, and pervasive among the ‘working class’.

One other change is that the on-air ‘personalities’ would need to accept that they are part of a movement, and park their ego, and need for $1 M/yr paychecks, at the door.

My experience with all cities, and particularly ‘Red’ cities (St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Des Moines, Albuquerque), is that the older/university neighborhoods are ‘Blue’, surrounded by ‘Red’ suburbs which are the enclaves of the middle and ‘working’ classes. That is, the part of the electorate that has been consistently voting against their best interest. Therefore, the primary strategy would be to ‘serve’ these areas. The ‘Blue’ would provide a critical mass of funds, with the CPR providing funds to keep the enterprise ‘just in the black’.

A secondary strategy would be a salient into smaller markets with larger universities (Columbia, MO, Springfield,. MO, Iowa City/Cedar Rapids, IA, Fort Collins, CO) and therefore a younger demographic. The dynamic in these smaller cities would be similar to the larger cities, with the relatively large progressive base proving the revenue to operate nearly self-sufficient.

A third, and probably most important, strategy, will be an air-drops into (typically ‘Red’) smaller cities that are rural regional centers (Quincy, IL, Topeka, KS, Waterloo, IA, Quad Cities, IA). These operations would probably require the most funds from the CPR.

Parallel to all of the above, ownership of stations should be the priority, or the sorry situation in Missoula and Phoenix will simply continue. With an adequately funded CPR, when a station comes up for sale, they would be ready. On-line funding drives could even be effected to raise funds to outbid the Christo/Corporatist oligarchy.

Sure miss Sam on the air. He really deserves a regular show. It would be wonderful if he could get a slot on Sirius/XM.

The insider stuff about AAR was fascinating. Who would have guessed that Lionel was a jerk? LOL...

We miss ya Sam!

let him (and us, i.e. TYT) know.

Want more Sammy and will become a paid member if he becomes a regular. Also, couldn't watch today's show at noon, so I'm hoping there will be a podcast or YouTube. Thanks for putting Sammy on!