A Tribute to Fallen GOP Candidates

The Young Turks have posted their salute to the Republican presidential candidates that didn't quite make it.

The Word - Medium Matters

Stephen Colbert takes a look at the controversies over Limbaugh's "phony soldiers" comment and MoveOn.org's "General Betrayus" ad.

Monty Python on Public TV

This is a clip from an in-studio appearance for local PBS affiliate KERA-TV in Dallas, Texas in 1975. Apparently, KERA was the first station in the US to broadcast Monty Python's Flying Circus, after an executive pulled the show from a box of rejected British television programs. This appearance on the station's pledge drive, however, has not been aired since it was broadcast live, and only a portion of it has survived the last 32 years. It is an extremely rare interview and was shot just after Monty Python and the Holy Grail had wrapped production.

Bill Moyers Journal - Low Power Radio

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This week's Bill Moyers Journal focussed on big media's attempts to consolidate power and lobby Congress and the FCC.

In this segment, Moyers looked at the services provided by small local broadcasters and how they benefit their communities. During Hurricane Katrina, only 4 out of 41 broadcasters were able to stay on air and provide the area with coverage of the storm, as well as issue evacuation warnings and direct survivors to FEMA aid centers - information the big media failed to offer. And this isn't the first time big media has failed the districts in which they broadcast.

But now we have a chance to turn it all around. Legislation in both the House and the Senate could help to promote local media and restore a balance of power over the public airwaves.

Edwin Starr - "H.A.P.P.Y. Radio"

Bill O'Reilly: Worst Person in the World

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In this edition of Countdown's Worst Person in the World, the title goes to repeat champion Bill O'Reilly for claiming that Washington, DC is being overrun by lesbian gangs. Bill also manages to be his own runner-up.

Vulture Funds

Investigative reporter Greg Palast visited Air America's Randi Rhodes Show to talk about how Bush's buddies are stealing millions of dollars from the charitable funds that were donated by Congress for AIDS relief in Africa. And Bush knows about it and hasn't done a damn thing to stop it.
This will just make you sick with rage...



Can we storm the Capitol yet?

Radio Paradise Lost?

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David Brancaccio of PBS's Now reports on the the legislation that threatens to kill internet radio by next month.

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