Seriously, there’s over 20 current TV shows… what’s up with them?
by Jake, the Champion of the Constitution Originally published Friday, April 10, 2009 at http://www.nolanchart.com/article6273.html
I recently resigned my job in Shanghai, China and repatriated to Pennsylvania. It has been a bit of a reverse culture shock, and I keep most of my posts on message, but this is a little weird.
I don’t watch TV, but my family does. Recently, I was trying to read while this cop show “The Mentalist” was on. Someone wanted to switch channels and lo and behold it was just another cop show. I got curious and started asking how many cop shows there were, and was surprised to hear a list of over 10 rattled off. Here’s the results of a 2-minute brainstorm… geez.
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).
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 is yet another effort to demonstrate the popularity of the Judge’s show so that it may get on the Fox News TV channel at some point. So, please visit the new site, watch, comment, and rate the videos, then spread the site around to friends and colleagues.
On the site you will find all the show archive videos (and audio for the first show), a link to the live show, links to guests’ sites, and upcoming guest announcements.
Regular guests to the show include Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Lew Rockwell, Cody Willard, and Tracy Byrnes.
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.
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.
Trends researcher Gerald Celente was on Glenn Beck’s show today. They discussed the potential for a “Global Katrina” (in Beck’s words).
I said a long time ago that I thought Glenn Beck was the “main stream” media equivalent of Alex Jones. I don’t think this is too far off the mark. In fact as time goes by it becomes more evident.
Ron Paul appeared on FOX News with Neil Cavuto today to discuss the latest bailout package: adding another $50 Billion of taxpayer money to the coffers of AIG. Ron Paul is like a beautifully welcomed broken record. A few choice quotes from this latest appearance from Dr. Paul are listed below along with the video.
“When companies get too big and make mistakes they should fail.”
“We’re propping up all the bad mistakes.” (which penalizes the people that made the right choices)
“Governments can’t make the correct decisions. They aren’t smart enough.”
“This whole idea that Washington are genuises… that they can do central economic planning. In this country we don’t call it socialism we call it interventionism and a planned economy.”
Obama coming in is a lot like “Hoover leaving and Roosevelt coming in.”
Quote of the Day: “Bad ideas can only bear the weight of reality for so long.” — Greg Jesson
Today we’ll compare the cases of Alan Greenspan, Ron Paul, and John Stossel, beginning with this . . .
If you oppose fiat currency and centralized government banking, and would like to abolish the Federal Reserve and legal tender laws in favor of free market banking and free market money . . .
And you think the best way to achieve these things is to put the right people — people who believe as you do — in positions of power, then . . .
It would have been reasonable to assume, prior to seeing him in action, that Alan Greenspan was the “right person” to head the Federal Reserve.
You could have justifiably assumed, based on Greenspan’s previous writings and statements, that he would use his position to not only control the damage done by the Fed, but also to argue for its abolition.
None of these things happened. Instead, the opposite happened. Greenspan betrayed every economic principle he had previously professed. Putting a presumed “right person” in a position of power did not have the right result.
To contrast with this example we can compare the case of Ron Paul. Ron Paul has always said the right things, and done the right things too.
Two different “right people” have produced two different results. What are we to conclude from this?
VIDEO Below. Last night on Saturday Night Live’s NBC special Will Ferrell came back as George Bush and Tina Fey joined him as Sarah Palin. This is probably the best SNL skit of the season thus far.
Will Ferrell reprises his impression of George Bush, which was one of the most famous in SNL history. In the bit, Bush endorses McCain-Palin with some of the best humor and satire I’ve seen in awhile on SNL… probably since Ferrell was one of the Saturday Night Live regulars. Watch the video below.
Humor, especially satire, is always the best escape from the futility of watching the markets tank and the country move further away from the principles of liberty.
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