Glenn Beck moved from CNN to Fox early in 2009. He now proclaims without hesitation that he considers himself a libertarian. Many long-time, more purist libertarians scoff at that self-characterization. Also last year a new web-only show began airing on Fox’s online video site called “Freedom Watch”. This is where many of the purist libertarians hang out. Judge Andrew Napolitano is the host and he has regular guests that include Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Jacob Hornberger, Robert Higgs, Tom Woods, and many more.
Back in December 2009 ABC’s John Stossel switched to Fox and began his own hour long show on the Fox Business Channel. His show is probably somewhere in between Beck’s moderate form of libertarianism and Judge Napolitano’s purist libertarianism on Freedom Watch. Does this mean libertarianism is no longer a dirty word among establishment politicos? Not quite yet, I’m afraid.
The Judge’s show is still only available online and replays are aired on Fox Radio on the weekends. Beck’s claims of libertarianism are difficult to reconcile with his stance on torture and foreign intervention; although, to his credit he has softened his position on foreign wars in the last year. Stossel’s show is on the Fox Business Channel which isn’t the juggernaut in ratings the Fox News Channel has become. Still these three shows could signal a slow evolution toward making libertarianism more mainstream in America.
If you’ve never seen Freedom Watch you can check out all the past shows at FreedomWatchonFox.com. As for Stossel you can watch each of the four shows he’s had so far at the bottom of this article. His show is must-see TV for free marketers and libertarian-minded people every where.
Earlier today Judge Andrew Napolitano was the guest host on the Glenn Beck show. Four liberty-loving guests appeared on the show with the Judge. Peter Schiff, John Stossel, Ron Paul, and Rand Paul all appeared. When the Judge hosts Beck’s show it almost turns into an episode of Freedom Watch.
If you don’t know what Freedom Watch is then please check out http://freedomwatchonfox.com/. It’s an online only show hosted by the Judge catering to freedom-loving people everywhere.
Check out the excellent discussions from the show today below.
About a week ago, John Stossel announced on his blog that he’s leaving ABC and the primetime show 20/20 and will be starting up a new hour-long, prime time, weekly program on the Fox Business Channel.
As for the content of the program, Stossel states:
In my new job, I want to dig into the meaning of the words “liberty” and “limited government”. ABC enabled me to do some of that, but Fox offers me more airtime and a new challenge.
I’m still considering what I will do with my own show, one hour each week. Economics certainly. Exercises in understanding libertarianism. My “take” on the issues of the day. Kind of like this blog. In fact, maybe we’ll call it, Stossel’s Take?
In fact he asks for your ideas if you care to submit them. I look forward to his program, since it appears he won’t be hampered as much by the whims of the ABC editors and producers. At least, his new program will be less likely to be pushed out by Michael Jackson news.
Another great “Freedom Watch” show today. Tom Woods, Ron Paul, John Stossel, Gerald Celente, and Peter Schiff joined Judge Napolitano.
Especially interesting was the segment with the exclusive audio of a Campaign For Liberty manager getting detained and harassed at the St. Louis airport seemingly because he had too much cash on him. You can watch that segment isolated here. It seems these guys didn’t get the word that the MIAC document was retracted. Yet more evidence that we live in the land of the unfree.
Ron Paul comes on during the final segment and discussed the G20 meetings and other topics.
I watched John Stossel’s latest wonderful 20/20 special on ABC last night. I can’t tell you how excited I get when I see libertarian views being expressed on a main stream media show like this.
These ideas should be commonplace, but over the years they’ve been usurped by statism–the belief that the government is the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-do-good god. But the devil is in the details and Stossel once again reveals the devil in statism
The show is in six parts.
Economic crisis?
Should roads be private?
Should drugs be legal?
Should the federal government (our tax dollars) pay for preschool for every child?
Is combating illegal immigration doomed to fail?
Is America still the land of opportunity?
Watch all six in the playlist embedded below. (Thanks go to youtube user wisted for uploading the videos)
This week’s episode of Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano is in the bag. This week Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Peter Schiff, Campaign For Liberty President John Tate, Tracy Byrnes (from FBN), and John Stossel joined the Judge for more discussion on liberty.
They discussed Obama’s plan for education, the endless bailouts, and more. John Stossel joined the show during the final minutes via telephone and discussed his upcoming special on 20/20 Friday night at 10pm EST called “Bailouts, Big Spending, and Bull.”
Ron Paul was on for the first 15 minutes or so. John Tate joined during the last half hour. Please spread the playlist below around the net. And be sure to join the Facebook “Fans of Freedom Watch” group if you haven’t already.
Watch what many are calling the liberty power hour below. All 6 parts should play in succession via the playlist here.
Judge Napolitano continues his liberty power hour, Freedom Watch, tomorrow afternoon at 2pm EST. This week he welcomes one of the main stream media’s best free market libertarians John Stossel. No doubt they will discuss Stossel’s upcoming special on 20/20 Friday night called “Bailouts, Big Spending, and Bull”, among other topics.
The Judge also brings back Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Peter Schiff, and Tracy Byrnes (from Fox Business Channel). Also joining the crew will be Campaign For Liberty President John Tate.
The show has been a big hit on the Internet and YouTube. The ultimate goal is to try to get the show on the Fox News TV channel so please show the Fox Execs how much you support the show by doing the following:
Two quotes, one from Barack Obama and the other from his choice for chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, spell out their intentions.
Obama said: “Painful crisis also provides us with an opportunity to transform our economy to improve the lives of ordinary people.”
One would have to know and understand the progressive politics (and adherence to socialistic policies and Keynesian economics) to be able to read between the lines. But Emanuel is more straightforward, saying “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
Wow. Politicians don’t even bother to hide their agendas any more.
This is the subject of John Stossel’s most recent commentary.
So they will “transform our economy.” Obama’s nearly trillion-dollar plan will not merely repair bridges, fill potholes and fix up schools; it will also impose a utopian vision based on the belief that an economy is a thing to be planned from above. But this is an arrogant conceit. No one can possibly know enough to redesign something as complex as “an economy,” which really is people engaging in exchanges to achieve their goals. Planning it means planning them.
Obama and Emanuel want us to believe that their blueprint for reform will bring recovery from the recession. Yet we have recovered from past recessions without undertaking a radical social and economic transformation.
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