Login HereOn the first edition of GritTV with Laura Flanders -- media on media. Listen to three leading progressive voices who put the word out-- Phil Donahue, talk show host turned documentarian, whose film -- Body of War -- chronicles a GI wounded in Iraq; Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of the country's oldest weekly magazine, The Nation, 2007 winner of two Peabody Awards and a National Magazine Award; and. of course, Jane Hamsher, founder of the one and only Firedoglake.
Grit TV - Roundtable Discussion in Three Parts:
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oh boy!
Bravo! what a treat to have GritTV here - and such a super discussion!
What a treat!
Thank you FDL!
FDL Rawks!!!
Yay !!
Yesssssssssss!!!!
Beautiful Jane!!!
Beautiful Laura!!!!!
Beautiful Phil!!!
whaddabout katrina?
2 minutes into it and i sense No Nonsense!
Laura, I’m truly ecstatic to see your brilliant personae and charming mien here at the Lake! I’d like to extend a heartfelt Aloha from here in the Isles…! 8-)
Woops…of course…
Beautiful Katrina vanden Heuvel!!!!
What a bunch of great people!!
Katrina vanden Heuvel kicks ass.
Thank you, selise!
Phil… I’m not so sure about,. He’s kinda cute, I guess, but Jane and Laura and Katrina are absolutely radiant.
;))
Hi Laura, welcome to the Lake from a long-time Lake Dweller…
Just for a bit of humor… Sarah Silverman is f**king Matt Damon. O/T but very funny.
Had to do it, sorry. :)
stop
;~P
This is the first time I have seen or heard Katrina.
So far, so good! I love the idea!
“I have the Dish with 600 channels - 400 are selling the Bowflex machine and the rest are selling Jewlry and Jesus”
LOL
Go Phil! Go Jane! Go Laura! Go Katrina!
ahhhh - i’m a happy camper!! 4 of my favorite people in 1 place!! nirvana ;o)
Very cool. Just look at this gross bifurcation of information systems taking place right before our very eyes. How many times have I seen on sites like this great discussions about issues, media, and travesties we hope never to repeat, only to find an alternate. bizarro universe on the network and cable channels?
How long can this glaring imbalance and tension between such dramatically different concentrations of thoughtfulness last, before some sort of intellectual osmosis finally pulls the intelligence into the stupid, to dilute the toxic slurry there?
They say the solution to pollution is dilution. Perhaps therein lies the answer to media mendacity.
Wish I could stay to chat further - I have to get up early…
Wow, this is great. Halfway thru.
bbl.
Take a look on Dish to see if you have Free Speech TV - if so, you can watch GritTV on broadcast too! and tell your friends!
back to lurking to take it all in…… mmmmmm
I love your new Blog, DC! ;-)
I was quoting Phil on the Dish set-up… :})
“How long can this glaring imbalance and tension between such dramatically different concentrations of thoughtfulness last, before some sort of intellectual osmosis finally pulls the intelligence into the stupid, to dilute the toxic slurry there?
They say the solution to pollution is dilution. Perhaps therein lies the answer to media mendacity.”
Wow…bring it on baby!!!!
what’s the deal with the democracy now! black out?
What a privilege to watch these 4 really intelligent people just talk.
I have DishTV…no problem with Democracy Now…what do you mean “black out”?
love, love, love your serial!
This is fantastic. Congratulations Laura and FDL, and yay for us viewers– finally something thought provoking and honest to watch.
just got to that point in the discussion. phil gives props to amy goodman and democracy now! - he does not, as i read the comment, ignore the best (imo) daily national news program.
phil:
go phil! right on!
A lot more informative than Russert’s “Press the Meat”
“You will never hear Brian Williams say that!”
lol
DCLaw1 is Chris in DC? Oh, fuck me!
I bow in humble awe.
I haven’t been able to get the video to work properly. Keeps starting and stopping. I supposedly have high-speed cable, so I don’t know why it’s doing this.
Yeah, Net Neutrality and make the FCC work for us and not the MegaCorps…! ;-)
Who is Chris in DC?
wow - this is exciting
It’s been a veeeeeeeeeeeerrry long day in GritTV production land, so it’s nice to see such a warm welcome here. THANKS Y’ALL!
Lisa G
Show Producer
What browser are you using?
Thanks so much for watching our debut. Please keep your comments coming! We are working from a small studio in New York City but from what I can see in all these posts our reach is great! Laura
How about this one?
LisaG - welcome aboard FDL! and thanks for your work to bring us this great new show!
THIS IS GREAT! Thirty minutes of in-depth discussion of issues. No screaming. No crosstalk. No commercials. WOW!
His moniker is on The Fantastic Adventures of the Republican Superfriends .
Great work, keep it up!
Michele - if it was just with the first video, we had to make one correction so there may have been a minor blip - try again and let us know.
I always thought Phil Donohue got very unlucky by happening to be a liberal talk show host just as the mainstream media was being taken over by the Right Wing propaganda machine. Suddenly it was politically incorrect to be progressive, and he was out on his ear. Glad to see his voice is finally regaining the audience it deserves.
Wow… four coherent minds all in the same room engaging in intelligent discussion.
Am I in the Twilight Zone?
DIGG it!
Thank you Twain. Watch tomorrow and see a short from Billionaires for Bush. Good chuckle. We do a new forum four days a week. Send us your ideas, please and we will discuss them. Best, Laura
More, please. Outstanding.
This is going to be a weekly thing, right? Right?
Donahue: “Not everything sucks.”
“Everything doesn’t suck!” — Phil D.
Wow, the things people say on teevee when they aren’t under the corporate thumb.
Thanks, Laura.
thank YOU. please send us your thoughts and topics for discussion. we want to hear about what’s happening in your community. best, laura
Timing is everyting.
I say we strap BillO to chair and make him watch this over and over
;~P
How shall we send you our suggestions, Laura?
Not weekly. We are on four nights a week. Send us your comments and topics for discussion. Much appreciated. Laura
btw, we’re super sorry (and a little p*ssed off) that we didn’t get to post the entire Tom Morello interview today. Our computer bonked when we tried.
But tomorrow is another day . . .
Did you guys see the SUPERDELEGATES! animation we posted earlier? I love that stuff…
Thanks.
((((((((((LisaG))))))))))
If they strapped me to a chair and made me watch billo, I’d call it torture.
That said, turn about is fair play!
Not me, thank Selise. At least, that’s where I heard it from.
we’ll be reading the threads, so you can suggest right here
if you have video, send a link to GRITtv@grittv.org
Outstanding job, and, I eagerly await your future endeavors…! 8-)
Pretty good media day.
DemocracyNow - Slavoj Zizek.
KO - Moyers.
Phil, Katrina, Laura, and of course Jane - right here in these pages.
More and better media - that’s god damned right.
Welcome indeed, Laura.
Well done, Laura and LisaG — it’s an excellent conversation on some very in-depth issues. Can’t wait to see more and more.
(Only about 2/3 through…and loving every minute of it.)
OK, thanks selise..)
Hey guys - don’t forget to DIGG!
Oh, I’d bet! But know that you are appreciated, we are truely grateful!
thx
LisaG and Laura, thanks for all of your work. Great job - look forward to sitting on the shore of the Lake feeling the Grit.
Is there a schedule anywhere?
Gee, maybe I’ll go look.
Direct to me here. I get them, read them and respond. Promise! Tell us what’s going on around you. What is the press missing?? Laura
I could not be more impressed with the debut of amptly named grit-tv! Congrats all around -
If it’s anything like I watched earlier, I can’t wait. There’s a right up front dude.
me: into oversight of our elected officials. doesn’t matter if there is a D or an R after their name.
Monday to Thursday - this week, we’ll have the shows here …
next week, we’ll have a cool new page for GritTV so you won’t miss a show!
Thanks. No reason we can’t turn this whole thing around. Keep in touch. Laura
Accountability accountability accountability.
The inside the beltway mentality that is so very paternalistic and patronizing that they (the elected officials and the TradMed) know so much more by virtue of talking to each other and reinforcing their own biases than those of us in the great unwashed.
And pretty much any topic covered by FDL, C&L, The Nation, DownWithTyranny, Pandagon, and all the other fine blogs that have allowed us to have a voice.
Let’s start in beautiful Northwest Arkansas. Sunday Opinion columnists are:
*drumroll*
David “Bobo” Brooks
Mona Charen
and
wait for it
Cal Thomas
A threefer!
;~P
glenzilla told his readers to read dclaw1’s new blog. i just did what glenn told me to…. and as usual, it turned out to be good advice.
Thank you for watching. Laura
that was me gagging
you are doing a excellent job of keeping things moving in a good direction while letting phil and jane have time to have their say. well done!
Yes the Superdelegates animation was fantastic!
Congratulations Laura and Jane for your leadership and courage.
Pardon me… I think something is wrong with these videos!
People are actually listening to one another and exchanging information!
Not enough shouting here.
Where’s the ridicule?!
Okay… kidding ;-))
What a breath of fresh air!
THANK YOU!
Chomsky.
Fisk, when he’s in the country.
Parenti.
Yeah, I know. Real heavy on the truth.
jane - please read bmaz on fisa immunity, it may not be the telcos driving the push for immunity.
Beat me to it.
Fein, Horton, Dean, FDL’s Christy, etc… Rule of Law…! ;-)
great! no shouting matches… all got their respective points in a timely manner - nothing like intelligent conversation - i look forward to more of this… thanks laura, phil, katrina and of course jane for linking this with the lake as i dont have sat tv…. {applauding loudly at home :o))
uh. ? more wine, anyone?
And I’m really glad you did. And shared.
*holding out goblet*
…yes, please.
Off to watch TDS.
Thanks again, Laura, Jane, Katrina, Phil and all the pups.
‘nite
Aloha, DB!
It’s in the garage. Follow me…
Now that we know that Harry Reid and Carl Levin plan hearings on the Pentagon rent-a-general scandal, how about a roundtable exclusively on that topic? Glenn Greenwald, Marcy, and Kagro X would be good, to discuss who best to call to testify and what to ask them.
I believe we’ve passed the time when subpoenas to BushCheneyCo officials will do any good; network executives and on-air talent should be “invited” to tell their stories, under oath, to our legislators. Maybe the Generals would come to the hearings, but BushCheneyCo might not let them.
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Another great round-table topic might be “Why Does Henry Waxman Have to Do All the Oversight?” This would focus on the lack of interest on the Senate side due to the deal Joe Lieberman got for GOP support for his re-election bid after he lost the Democratic nomination.
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I’m sure other FirePups will have great ideas, too.
hey just stunning
There is no reason we shouldn’t pass the 21st Century GI Bill that is being debated in Congress right now. It was introduced by my friend Senator Jim Webb, a Marine who served as Navy Secretary under President Ronald Reagan.. His plan has widespread support from Republicans and Democrats. It would provide every returning veteran with a real chance to afford a college education, and it would not harm retention.
I have great respect for John McCain’s service to this country and I know he loves it dearly and honors those who serve. But he is one of the few Senators of either party who oppose this bill because he thinks it’s too generous. I couldn’t disagree more. At a time when the skyrocketing cost of tuition is pricing thousands of Americans out of a college education, we should be doing everything we can to give the men and women who have risked their lives for this country the chance to pursue the American Dream
That and we get to start all over again.
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Churchill
The revolution will not be televised because it will upset Timmeh’s breakfast.
mahalo!
When you say all the pups, you’ve no idea…If radio was a team effort — TV takes a whole league. Here are some of the names of the dedicated people who are making this program possible — so far.
Carl Ginsburg, Michael Eisenmenger, Eric Galatas, Bill Schaap, Lisa Guido, Gina Kim, Diane Shamis, David Rowley, Chase Pierson, Elizabeth Press… And that’s just a start.
You can add your name to the list!!!
What a long day. Hasta manana lakers. And THANK YOU for your support!!!
heard him today on the hedge funds driving up THE PRICE OF OIL,now trading on the London exchange to ESCAPE SRUTINY …teh good
Wow, this is just splendid.
I honestly believe there’s an audience for this that’s much larger than those lucky enough to stumble on it tonight.
I can’t be the only person completely fed up with the Sunday shows; the simple **civility** of this program, in addition to the fine minds, is very heartening.
great work!
Did someone say wine?
:)
scrutiny
Hi,
Chase here. I am the web producer for the Grit TV project. I just wanted to say hello and how delighted I am with this amazingly warm reception!!! Great to meet you all and I look forward to getting to know you all better. You can expect some regular posts from us this week and by next week we should have our own site up with some exciting new features that we hope you all will enjoy. Good Night, and don’t let the super delegates bite…
chase
change is in he air
just wishfull thinking on my part.
and why, yes, thank you i will. *g*
All you folks who helped make this happen - major hat tip.
Thank you all very much.
Great job. That kind of thing makes politics fun again. Keep it up.
Oh and by the way, I will be blogging under the name Mechanical Bull. I’ll explain later…
chase
laura - can’t tell you how much i appreciate you hanging out in the thread with us while we watch.
Kudos, Chase! I truly look forward to the future installments…! ;-)
Torture. They must not be allowed to get away with it.
Propaganda — (lying) to
the HomelandAmerica to make a case for war and malexecuting their sinister wars for oil.Arresting people in mass round ups..and “then” sorting out if you are “legal” or not….after the fact…or just disappearing you…4evah… How many?
Disappearing US citizens…locking people up…throwing away the key…where are they?
These are just a few of “my favorite things”….
*standing on chair clapping*
this was great! i’ve emailed the link to all my family (including the r’s)