From the Air America Radio homepage, here's the line up for this weekend. Guests include Eve Ensler, Tim Robbins, Amy Ray and Jerry Rodriguez (among others). Note that you can listen online, via satellite radio or via traditional radio if you live in one of the 64 areas where Air America broadcasts over the airwaves. Toni wondered about online listening. I've noted you can listen via Real Player or Windows Media Player. Toni wondered if there was a charge "like with the BBC." At one point, you could listen to the BBC online via Real Player, now, however, I belive you have to buy an online package to listen to it. That's not the case with Air America (or for that matter Democracy Now! if anyone's confused), you can listen online free of charge. My apologies for not being clear about that.
So What Else Is News?
Saturday 3pm - 5pm with host Marty Kaplan
Rebroadcast: Sunday 8am-10am
Ring of Fire
Saturday 5pm-7pm with Mike Papantonio and Robert Kennedy, Jr
Rebroadcast Sunday 3pm-5pm
Guests: John Morgan, an attorney active in Florida Democratic politics, talks about Governor Jeb Bush's intentional loss of a Florida state workers' pensions case. Amory Lovins, award-winning physicist and co-author of Winning the Oil Endgame, a new roadmap for future energy sources. Andy Childers, an Atlanta-based lawyer who's closely watching the Ralph Reed race for Georgia Lieutenant Governor.
The Laura Flanders Show
Saturday & Sunday 7pm-10pm
Saturday: Is denial and delay the new American Way? We're told victory is near in Iraq. Congress says ‘So what?' to global warming. Military doctors are aiding interrogators at Gitmo. Activist-attorney John Bonifaz on impeaching Bush, whether justice was done in Mississippi's civil rights murder conviction and the DNC's report on the GOP's Jim Crow election tactics in Ohio in 2004. Then, director Alice Wu talks about her film, "Saving Face."Sunday: What do evangelicals and gay rights crusaders have in common? Hear Laura's frontline report from Billy Graham’s final crusade and the Gay Pride Weekend in New York City. Guests: Bob Moser, whose article about the religious Right wing, ‘The Crusaders’, was published in Rolling Stone Magazine. Eve Ensler gives an update on how a coalition of individuals and groups, including Gloria Steinem and The Center for Constitutional Rights, are working to make the government shut Gitmo down and how you can get involved on July 4. Dr. Annie Sprinkle discusses her new book, ‘Dr. Sprinkle's Spectacular - Makeover Your Love Life’, and how to change the world by facing your fears about sexuality. She will also answer your questions.
The Kyle Jason Show
Saturday 10pm-Midnight
Ecotalk
Sunday 7am-8am with host Betsy Rosenberg
What are the cars of our future? Are We There Yet? Are hybrids part of the answer to America's oil predicament and, if so, why aren't they making more of them? And what about hydrogen - are we two or twenty years away from a fuel cell future? Betsy poses these questions, and more, to a panel of clean car technology experts this weekend on EcoTalk..
So What Else Is News?
[Rebroadcast of Saturday's show] host Marty Kaplan Rebroadcast: Sunday 8am-10am
Mother Jones Radio
Sunday 1pm - 2pm with host Angie Coiro
Actor and filmmaker Tim Robbins discusses "Embedded Live," his new film about the media and the Iraq war. Plus, 24-year-old Iraq correspondent David Enders talks about starting the country's only English-language daily newspaper and his new book," Baghdad Bulletin."
Politically Direct
Sunday 2pm-3pm with host David Bender
David talks with Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico.
Ring of Fire
[Rebroadcast of Saturday's show] with Mike Papantonio and Robert Kennedy, Jr
Rebroadcast Sunday 3pm-5pm
Guests: John Morgan, an attorney active in Florida Democratic politics, talks about Governor Jeb Bush's intentional loss of a Florida state workers' pensions case. Amory Lovins, award-winning physicist and co-author of Winning the Oil Endgame, a new roadmap for future energy sources. Andy Childers, an Atlanta-based lawyer who's closely watching the Ralph Reed race for Georgia Lieutenant Governor.
The Laura Flanders Show
Saturday & Sunday 7pm-10pm
Sunday: What do evangelicals and gay rights crusaders have in common? Hear Laura's frontline report from Billy Graham’s final crusade and the Gay Pride Weekend in New York City. Guests: Bob Moser, whose article about the religious Right wing, ‘The Crusaders’, was published in Rolling Stone Magazine. Eve Ensler gives an update on how a coalition of individuals and groups, including Gloria Steinem and The Center for Constitutional Rights, are working to make the government shut Gitmo down and how you can get involved on July 4. Dr. Annie Sprinkle discusses her new book, ‘Dr. Sprinkle's Spectacular - Makeover Your Love Life’, and how to change the world by facing your fears about sexuality. She will also answer your questions.
The Revolution Starts Now!
Sunday 10pm-11pm with host Steve Earle
You may know her best as one of the Indigo Girls, but Amy Ray has a solo career as a punk rocker. She and Steve discuss singer/songerwriters and activism in music. Music picks include some Patty Griffin, Tupac, the Distillers, The Butchies, The Great Unknowns and a piece from her new album, "Prom."
On The Real
Sunday 11pm-1am with Chuck D and Gia'na Garel
Gia'na chats it up with writer/director Jerry Rodriguez in The Greenroom. Big Brother's latest tactics for world domination, more Affluenza files and hot samples from Chuck D's top ten body rockin' music selections.
In "Air America News" we'll note three items from the home page (and due to complaints from members the person who will probably be awarded "Baby Cries a Lot" in the year-in-review will not have his item noted):
"Deadly Immunity" by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. investigates the government cover-up of a mercury/autism scandal in the June issue of Rolling Stone Magazine.
Marty Kaplan LA Times Op-Ed
Marty Kaplan—host of “So What Else is News?”—wrote a commentary that appeared in the LA Times on June 21st entitled “They Really Like Us—In our Dreams.” He contends that juries and public audiences of infotainment courtroom journalism will continue to acquit and excuse celebrities as long as they maintain the delusion that stars could be their friends.
Rachel Maddow on MSNBC
Rachel Maddow, host of The Rachel Maddow Show, AAR's early morning news hour, will be become MSNBC's first and only progressive spokesperson when she takes her place as a regular panelist on the 'The Situation', hosted by conservative bowtie model Tucker Carlson.
Not on the home page, but news you've noted in your e-mails (and I heard it as well Friday), Janeane Garofalo (piloting The Majority Report solo on Fridays, and doing a damn fine job) and Mike Malloy (The Mike Malloy Show) both devoted considerable time on their programs to discussing The World Tribunal on Iraq. This was news even if the Timid and others took a pass on it. Those interested in something other than the mad musings of AEI guests passed off as close friends to Baby Cries a Lot (that's Tina's nickname, to give credit where it's due, as readers of the gina & krista round-robin know), these are two weekday shows on Air America that are worth listening to.
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