It only comes but once a year. Today is Festivus! We dealt with it briefly on my show this morning, and will commence the airing of the grievances this afternoon on The Randi Rhodes Show! So get your lists ready and prepare to call in to 866-877-2634 between 3 and 6 EDT this afternoon.
We’ll speak with Chaz Stevens, the Florida blogger who planted the Pabst Blue Ribbon Festivus Pole in the FL Capitol rotunda (next to the display from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster!)
And since today is the deadline to enroll in an insurance plan via the Affordable Care Act in order to be covered on January 1, we’ll talk with Wendell Potter – health insurance industry insider turned whistleblower, who has a new e-book out: Obamacare: What’s in it for me? What Everyone Needs to Know About the Affordable Care Act.
This morning on my show, we listened back to an interview I recorded with American Atheists’ President David Silverman (appropriate for Festivus, I thought), and Nicole Belle joined in for the penultimate edition of Fools on the Hill for 20013:
The Sunday shows were pretty lackluster, being the penultimate Sunday of the year and the one right before Christmas. But at the inevitable look back at the year, it did appear that the Sunday shows seemed to have one recurring theme that they kept coming back to, no matter which show you watched: the failure of the Barack Obama presidency.
Joe Manchin, who is alleged to be a Democrat, although I’ve seen no evidence of that, suggested that maybe in Obama was ‘friendlier”, maybe more could be accomplished.
Greta Van Susteren was so depressed by Obama’s last press conference it just made you want to kill yourself. Classy, right?
Peter King is really upset that Obama is not defending the NSA more strongly, seeing how they are keeping us safe. Evidence be damned.
And the show that’s supposed to be watching the watchers and monitoring the state of journalism thinks that Conan O’Brien’s comedy bit on local news repeating syndicated stories verbatim is very funny. But I think that’s laughing at the proof that journalism is dead.
