Also, there may be one more surprise guest added to the lineup at the last minute.
It sounds like another great show with some new blood (so to speak). Please spread the word and tune in to the show tomorrow at 2pm if you can. The more people that watch the show online the better chance it has of making into the normal Fox TV lineup. You can watch the show here: http://foxnews.com/strategyroom (Foxnews.com Strategy Room online channel).
It airs beginning at 2pm EST on Wednesday. The show is 60 minutes long and commercial free. If you are unable to tune in to the show look for it a bit later that day here at Liberty Maven.
We’ve received word that Judge Andrew Napolitano will have Ron Paul, Cody Willard, Peter Schiff, and Tracy Byrnes on his Internet show “Freedom Watch” tomorrow at 2pm EST.
Also joining those regulars will be Glenn Beck (via telephone) who now hosts his own television show on Fox. While Beck differs on foreign policy with Paul, they are on the same footing when it comes to the economy and free markets.
If you listen to Beck enough you will find that he really isn’t too far away from Paul on foreign policy. He claims that we need to do something to fight terrorism abroad and that we don’t have the luxury of being complete non-interventionists when it comes to “protecting” our borders. It’s like he “wants” to believe in non-interventionism, but he just can’t seem to get there. He is constantly quoting the Founders to his guests, using their words to emphasize his own beliefs.
Perhaps at some point he’ll quote the non-interventionist “entangling alliances with none” and come back with an argument FOR bringing our troops home. If that never happens, at least there is another voice out there preaching the free market message.
The past couple days have been quite interesting due to a live improvised and impassioned rant by CNBC’s Rick Santelli the other day. His rant represents the near-rage many Americans feel about the Obama administration’s latest plan for wealth redistribution and creating further moral hazard.
The story begins with Rick Santelli’s rant:
Amen Rick. Amen. He may be a loud talker, but he speaks the truth, which these days needs to be shouted for anyone to hear it. After the stir he caused with his rant online CNBC posted a poll asking if you would show up for a Chicago Tea Party in July as he mentions in the rant. Apparently, before the poll was removed 94% said they’d be there with about 250,000 votes.
This morning I heard Rick’s rant played and discussed on Glenn Beck’s radio show, Opie and Anthony’s radio show of all places, and several other main stream media outlets.
During Ron Paul’s primary campaign in late 2007 I was traveling for a conference wearing my Ron Paul 2008 t-shirt. A man noticed the shirt and struck up a conversation with me by saying, “That guy is real. He’s an Independent, not like the others. I saw him on that show on HBO… uhmm… Bill Maher! He was great!”
The man who spoke to me about Dr. Paul in the airport was not the first nor last person that told me they first learned of Ron Paul by watching him on Maher’s show.
Outside of the Leno, Meet The Press, and Comedy Central appearances his appearance on Real Time was probably the one that gave him the most exposure. This is especially true since it occurred fairly early in his campaign, following the debate where Paul and Giuliani exchanged blows regarding the Iraq war.
Look for video of his appearance here tomorrow after it airs.
Seeking to stabilize the foundering housing market, President Obama is offering a plan to help as many as nine million families refinance their mortgages or avoid foreclosure, according to a summary released by the White House on Wednesday morning.
The plan, which is more ambitious than expected, would spend $75 billion to help keep as many as four million families in their homes, and would help as many as five million more refinance their mortgages to take advantage of lower interest rates.
Immediately, Chris Martenson (author of the incredible Economics Crash Course) fired back on his blog, saying:
If you did not buy more house than you could afford, or never issued a loan to a party that could (obviously and predictably) not repay that loan, then you just got punished.
He goes on to analyze the plan and the media’s mischaracterization of it, using New York Times’s coverage as an example.
Then he takes a look at it from an economic standpoint…
This is throwing good money after bad, and, worse, by seeking to “shore up sinking house prices,” it betrays a complete ignorance of the actual root of the problem. Blaming sinking housing prices for the fix we are in is equivalent to blaming the car for the drunk driving wreck. If Obama were to craft a similar program for drunk drivers, it would include new cars for any that happened to wreck their own.
Last week was Judge Andrew Napolitano’s first online show for Fox News called Freedom Watch. Today will be the second installment and will again include Ron Paul and Peter Schiff among other free market champions. Last week’s show truly was a free market power hour.
We were able to capture the audio of last week’s show. This time, if things go according to plan, we will have video of the show available after it airs. If you are unable to watch it live check back with us for the video.
Judge Napolitano discusses Obama’s decision to shift the Census taking methods from the Commerce Department to Rahm Emmanuel and some other topics regarding constitutionality.
More and more people today have the mindset that they are owed a good life, free from the burdens of their own debt; that they are entitled to what others have, even if they haven’t worked hard; that an American President has the power and authority to cure all their ills. Meanwhile, Ron Paul campaigns on the opposite: personal responsibility, Constitutionally-limited government, etc. How in the world can he expect support by enough people to get elected? Clearly he cannot, especially given some of these sad-but true examples (most notably the first one):
This means, of course, that people are manipulated. Take the current Gaza conflict. The ceasefire came neatly before Obama’s inauguration, conveniently getting the new president off the hook for a spell, until a resumption of hostilities could be finessed on terms to fit the new administration. Now we’re on the brink of those new hostilities. How have they been finessed?
They were precipitated by a roadside bomb that killed an Israeli soldier patrolling outside Gaza, breaking the ceasefire. The finesse? Hamas denied responsibility for the bomb. Israel and the West (including Hamas) know that the world outside Gaza does not take note of niceties like a denial of responsibility for a bomb attack, so Israel can now launch attacks on Gaza as it sees fit. These attacks will not appear the all out massacre that Operation Cast Lead did, giving Obama wiggle room to say that Israel has the right to defend itself. Note: this delicate controlling of history involves complicity from ALL sides, including Hamas, which is now in a position to fire rockets at will.
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