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WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday September 28, 2008

By John Batchelor on September 28, 2008 5:38 PM | No Comments
WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday September 28, 2008

By John Batchelor. posted on September 26, 2008 at 2:09 PM

WABC-AM New York City/WMAL-AM Washington DC/KSFO San Francisco Sundays 7 PM-10 PM Eastern Time

705P ET:  Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution, re the Ole Miss debate and the spin room.  Re the theatrics of the Hank Paulson deal.   "The Limits of Obamamania in Europe"

720P:  Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R) re the House Republican Policy Committee and the statement of principles of the economic rescue plan, re the theatrics of the White House and the Democratic majority.  Re John McCain signs on with the House GOP and the future of the GOP.

735P:  Roundtable John Fund, Mona Charen, Vaughn Ververs, re the Ole Miss debate and the politics of the Paulson bailout plan.

750P:  Continued

805P:  Larry Kudlow, CNBC, re the Ole Miss debate, re the Paulson bailout plan.

820P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, the Kadima elections and the aim of Livni to form a government, re the Iran threats at the UN. re the Russia Venezuela deal.

835P:  Ken Silverstein, Harper's Magazine, author "Turkmeniscam," re the politics of the lobbyists, re Obama attacks McCain for Rick Davis.

850P:  Gillian Tett, Financial Times, re the credit crisis worldwide.  Putting dodgy assets in deep freeze will not remove the rot.   Is the domino effect about to spread to Main Street?

905P:  Jack Shaw, frmer DOD, re the mysterious case of the billionaire Iraqi-born developer and his busienss deal with Tony Rezko, and his meetings with Barack Obama in 2004.

920P:  Aaron Klein, WND, re the Al Aqsa threats to Gaza, the civil war between Hamas and Gaza, re the Olmert negotiations for final status continue with Abbas.

935P:  David Reynolds, author, "Waking Giant," re the Andrew Jackson presidency.

955P:  Exeunt with John Loftus, Intelligence Summit.
 

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mombam, Posted on September 28, 2008 7:59 PM

Re Mona Charen's statement that Mc didn't remind us/BHO that the gains in Iraq are fragile and reversible - not true. Check the transcript. McCain said exactly that during that discussion

KFI Sunday Schedule September 28, 2008

By John Batchelor on September 28, 2008 5:37 PM | No Comments
KFI Sunday Schedule September 28, 2008

By John Batchelor. posted on September 26, 2008 at 1:42 PM

 KFI-AM 640 LA Sundays 7 PM -10 PM Pacific Time

705P PT: James Taranto, Wall Street Journal, re the Ole Miss debate, re the politics of the bailout squabble, re jet jockey style of John McCain.

720P:  Jodi Schneider, Congressional Quarterly, re the bailout packages (right, all the scheming parties, no flowers), the Paulson plan, why Mrs. Pelosi fears to pass a bill with her majority, why Barney Frank was yelling in the pow-wow on Thursday 25.

735P: Roundtable, Margaret Hoover, Larry Johnson, Craig Unger, re the Ole Miss debate, re the politics of the plutocrats, re the panic in the Pelosi/Reid/Frank caucus when it realized it had sandbagged itself to vote for the Bush/Paulson plan.

750P:  Continued.  The Great Temporizer, and his plutocrat advisers, Buffet, Summers, Rubin, Volcker.

805P: Roundtable, Monica Crowley, John Avlon, Jim McTague, re the Ole Miss debate and the spin room.  

820P:  Continued.

835P:  Melik Kaylan, Wall Street Journal, re the damage to South Ossetia and the brutality of the Russian invasion of Georgia.

850P:  Olivier Guitta, Middle East Times, re the Al Q attacks in Yemen and Pakistan, re the Al Q offensive.

905P: Sue Shellenbarger, Wall Street Journal, re the stress on families and children when mom or dad are laid off, or change jobs.

920P:  Bob Zimmerman,author, re the Hubble delay, the Chinese spacewalk, the Falcon-X delay, and the mystery of the sun's strange quietude.

935P:  David Fromkin, author, "The Cowboy and the King," the story of Teddy Roosevelt and King Edward of the United Kingdom.

955P:  Exeunt David Grinspoon, re SETI conference in Paris.

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Kenneth Stevens, Posted on September 27, 2008 11:29 PM

One of my earliest memories is of watching the old Project Gemini launches on television. I hadn't yet learned to read, but somehow I could sense that the possibilities contained in the rocket sitting out there on that launch pad meant something that was maybe even more important than all my beloved Road Runner and Bugs Bunny cartoons put together, a fairly big mental leap for a preschooler.

The fascination and the excitement stay with me even now, which is why I appreciate the effort you put forth to cover space travel and astronomy. Thank you, Mr. Batchelor.

That said, I hope you can begin to devote a bit of time to recent developments in genetics, another topic worthy of your efforts, one seldom covered by the media. Genetics is to science today what nuclear physics was to the nineteen-thirties.

Michael Colburn, Posted on October 06, 2008 12:22 AM

Mr Batchelor,

You are:

THE VOICE OF COMMON SENSE!

Glad you are back!

Michael Colburn Antioch, Ca.

WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday September 21, 2008

By John Batchelor on September 21, 2008 5:36 PM | No Comments
WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday September 21, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on September 19, 2008 at 5:24 PM

 WABC-AM New York City/WMAL-AM Washington DC/KSFO San Francisco Sundays 7 PM-10 PM Eastern Time

705P ET:  Nomi Prins, author, "Other People's Money," re the Week that Scared Hank and Ben, re the cure, re the global credit markets, re Lehman owes money to Freddie?  Which Investment Bank Will be Next? Mother Jones, Sept. 17th, 2008 As Wall Street Collapses, Will Washington get a Clue? Alternet, Sept. 17, 2008

720P: Stephen Moore, Wall Street Journal, re the Hank Paulson patch, RTC 2.), or TARP, the so-called Bad Bank, re the tax plans of Obama s McCain: New Evidence on Taxes and Income.

735P: Roundtable with John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Mona Charen, NRO, and Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, re the market meltdown then rally on RTC2.0, re McCain Says Cox Should Be Fired.

750P: Continued re the hammering on Sarah Palin and the crowds grow larger, re the prep for the debates, re the Jews and Sarah.  Hackers and Hacks.

805P:  Charlie Gasparino, CNBC, re the wild reporting week ont he market meltodnw, re the fibacials and a 19% swing on Thursday 18, re the Dick Fuld, Ken Lewis, John Thain, Hank Paulson show, re short-selling at MS, reported by John Mack.

820P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, re Rally Against Iran, Monday 22 September, 1145 am, UN Plaza, NYC, re the Sarah Palin disnivitation, re the Kadima elections.

835P: Michael McFaul, Hoover Instituion, re the Russia market collapse, re the Medvedev-Putin regime, e Georgia and the markets, re the price of oil and the Kremlin aggression.

850P: Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Nation, re the finacial crisis and the campaign, re the Sarah Palin phenomenon and the campaign, re the debates.

905P:  Ambassador Simona Mirela Miculescu, Romanian Ambassador to the United Nations, re the opening of the general assembly, re Russia and the Caucasus, re NATO and Russia.

920P:  Aaron Klein, WND, re the Kadima election of Tzini Livni and the Israeli elections, re the challenge by Likhud and Labor, re the West Bank threats, re Livni and Iran,

935P:  Ken Silverstein, author, "Turkmeniscam," re the lobbying covens in Washington and the williness to work for any apapratchik creature for cash.

955P:  Exeunt with Bob Zimmerman re delays possible in Hubble rescue

KFI Sunday Schedule September 21, 2008

By John Batchelor on September 21, 2008 5:33 PM | No Comments
KFI Sunday Schedule September 21, 2008

By John Batchelor. posted on September 19, 2008 at 4:27 PM

 KFI-AM 640 LA Sundays 7 PM -10 PM Pacific Time

705P PT:  Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal, re the McCain campaign stops and the Palin crowds, re the pace and direction of the McCains, re the rolling financial crisis and the reaction time.  McCain Questions Fed Actions

720P:  Jim Carlton, Wall Street Journal, re the Sarah Palin revelations continue, Creamery Case Draws Palin Critics, Troopergate and the Todd Palin refusal of the subpoenas, re the hacker and Sarah Palin's Yahoo account, re California Reaches Deal on Budget.

735P: Roundtable with Larry Johnson, No Quarter, Michael Levine, Levine Communications, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, re the McCain vs Obama campaigns on the globa; financial crises, re the Palin phenomenon and the Jews at the anti-Iran rally in NYC.

750P:  Continued.

805P:  Monica Crowley, McLoughlin Group, Bill Whalen, Hoover, Jim McTague, Barron's, re the Bush White House and the global banking/credit markets, re the Paulson solution and the campaign, re the Obama cred and the McCain cred.

820P:  Continued.

835P: Stephen F.Cohen, NYU, re the Russian market collapse and the Medvedev/Putin regime, re the global banking crisis and Russia, re was this Georgia or Putin?  Volatility Plagues Russian Markets

850P:  Cohen continue re the collapse of Ukrain government lest week and the pending snap elections, re Yushchenko vs Tymoshenko, re NATO and Ukraine.  Ukraine's Ruling Coalition Collapses

905P:  Jim Rogers, author, "Bull in China," from Singapore, re the financial turmoil in credit, re the sinking of the Asia markets, re the Hank Paulson fix on Wall Street.  Financials Lead Surge in Asia

920P:  Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, re the financial turmoil in Asia, re the baby formula scandal in China shaking Bejing as much as the money.  China Milk Scandal Widens

935P:  Paul Austin, author, Something for the Pain, re modern health and the emergency room that dominates the national healthcare bills for the needy.

955P:  Exeunt re market opening numbers for the new week of thrills ahead.

 

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Peter Koelliker, Posted on September 21, 2008 10:16 AM

JB - I'm still looking for B. Raman in your list of scheduled guests. His views on Pakistan (vs. India)would be highly appropriate at this time. Also, what ever happened to John Loftus? I realize it's been some time since you've had him on. I always came away with fresh insights (reading between the lines), especially regarding middle eastern military strategy. I do trust he's healthy.

WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday September 14, 2008

By John Batchelor on September 14, 2008 5:33 PM | No Comments
WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday September 14, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on September 13, 2008 at 9:02 PM

 WABC-AM New York City/WMAL-AM Washington DC/KSFO San Francisco Sundays 7 PM-10 PM Eastern Time

705P ET: Sichan Siv, author, "Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America," frm US Ambassador to the UN during the Bush Administration, re the opening of the troubled UN, re the powerlessness of the Securioty Council to manage North Korea, Georgia, Sudan, Gaza, Pakistan.
 
720P: Jim Carlton, WSJ, Alaska correspondent, re just returned from Anchorage and Sarah Palain, re Troppergate in Anchorage, re the unusual characters of Wasilla, Alaska and the rise of a "True North" sitcom to national mania, re the Moose Dressing Party, and Sarah at 16 (right).
 

735P: Professional roundtable with Mona Charen, NRO, Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, and John Fund, WSJ, re the liptsick, the pig, the olls, the Obama campaign manager David Ploufe loses control, the McCain can't type webad, the accusations. 

750P: More, with comments on Sarah Palin's 3 interviews with ABC's Charlie Gibson, re Sarah Palin dominating the news cycles.

805P:  Larry Kudlow, CNBC, "Kudlow and Company," re Sarah Palin and energy as national security, re the beloved Governor Drill, Drill, Drill, re Lehman Brothers and the moral hazard crisis again: let Lehman fail.

820P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re the United NAtions organization week and Israel, re the continued failure of Ehud Olmert to act responsibly and resign, re the Quartet in Moscow.

835P:  Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, re the David Petraeus brifing of LWJ of the captured Zawahiri documents pointing to a collapse of ALQ in Iraq, re the crisis in Al Q.

850P:  Matt Kaminski, WSJ, re Barack Obama the missing years, re why the Obama campaign is silent on the Obama in New York episode, before Chicago.
 

905P: Simona Mirela Miculescu, Rumania ambassador to the UN, re the organization of the UN, re the crisis in the Caucasus and the EU, re Rumanian people opinion toward the Russian aggression.

920P: Aaron Klein, WND, rethe Obama campaign and calling Sarah Palin "lipstick on a pig" on the Democratic Party blog by Elizabeth Perry, since August 30, re a released terrorist threatens American.
 
935P: Russell Roberts, author, Hoover Institution, "The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity," re the credit crisis, the Detroit failures, the Lehman Brothers moral hazard.
 
955P: Exeunt re Bob Zimmerman and the strange growth on Phoenix Lander's legs on Mars.

KFI Sunday Schedule September 14, 2008

By John Batchelor on September 14, 2008 5:31 PM | No Comments
KFI Sunday Schedule September 14, 2008

By John Batchelor. posted on September 13, 2008 at 8:27 PM

 KFI-AM 640 LA Sundays 7 PM -10 PM Pacific Time

705P PT:  Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan, at Livonia in Wayne County, west Detroit, re the Reagan Democrats and the "lipstick on a pig," re Bill Ayers of Chicago and the Obama campaign

720P: Jim McTague, Barron's, re the meltdown press conferenceof Charlie Rangel, 15th NY, re his tax schemes and his chairmanship of Ways and Means, re the Lehman Brothers meltdown.

735P:  Professional roundtable with Diana West, Larry Johnson, John Avlon, re the "lipstick on a pig" scenario, the peculiar breakdown of the Obama message, re what is the Obama-Biden message now that McCain-Palin have taken "change?"

750P:  Continued re Sarah Palin TV interviews, re the Charlie Gibson method, re the ABC edit to stir a headline re the Iraq war.

805P: Professional roundtable with Monica Crowley and Bill Whalen, re the Sarah Palin phenomenon (left, the packed house in Carson, Nevada on Sat 13) and the strange dysfunction fo the Obama campaign, re the McCain serenity, re the electoral college polls form Zogby.

820P: Continued with Michael Levine, Levine Communications re, Should David Plouffe be fired and replaced by a fresh pro, re Obama and the Politics of Swift Boats, re the last 50 days.

835P: Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ, re Chavez and the breakdown of relations with the US, re the withdrawal of envoys and the visit of two Russian bombers to Caracas, re Evo joins Chavez, the new Fidels, the the Monroe Doctrine tested.

850P: Ann Marlowe, WSJ, re the breakdown in Afghanistan, re the Bush team shifting assets from Iraq to Kabul, re the war between Pakistan and Nato on the border.

905P: David Grinspoon, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, astrobiology curator, re the strange growths on the Mars Phoenix Lander legs, re the record of abundant surface water on Mars over many hundred of millions of years, re the Mars LAB 2009.

920P: Lou Ann Hammond, Carlist,com, re the Detroit bail-out scheme, re the future with First-of-a-Kind Solar-Powered Wireless Power Transmission Experiment.

935P: John Zogby, author, "The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream."

 

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Corlyss Drinkard, Posted on September 15, 2008 12:47 AM

I've participated in Zogby's online polls since he instituted them. If he conducted them by cell-phone, I wouldn't be polled. I keep my cell phone off except when I call out. My land line is just to allow me to have the high speed internet so I don't use it to call or accept calls. Until I began participating in his online polls, I had never been polled.

WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday September 7, 2008

By John Batchelor on September 7, 2008 5:30 PM | No Comments
WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday September 7, 2008

By John Batchelor. posted on September 06, 2008 at 3:26 PM

  WABC-AM New York City/WMAL-AM Washington DC/KSFO San Francisco Sundays 7 PM-10 PM Eastern Time

705P ET:  William McGurn, WSJ, re Joe Biden and the lunchpail Dems, re the Biden pick to appeal to Scranton, to Cathlics, to the Reagan Dems, re Biden and Obama spending the week working Pennsylvania, re the threat of "Guns and Jesus" Palin to Biden.
 
720P:  Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R), re Dick Cheney's embassy to Baku, Tbilisi, Kiev,  re the Sarah Palin phenomenon at Minneapolis and the rise of the Sam's Club Republicans, re the culturally conservative Dems of Metro Detroit.
 
735P: Professional roundtable with John Fund, WSJ, and Mona Charen, NRO, and Vaughn Ververs, CBS.com, re the Palin Hurricane, re the change of weather in Minneapolis, re the McCain speech and maverick theme.
 
750P: Continued re the Obama campaign asking Mrs. Clinton to attack Palin (she refuses), re the culture wars return, re the electoral map looks like 2000 and 2004.
 
805P: Larry Kudlow, CNBC, "Kudlow and Company," re the rise of Sarah Palin, re Governor Drill, Drill, Drill, re the Reagan Demos and the Sam's Club Republicans, re McCain's economic blanks/ re Fan/Fred bailout.
 
820P:  Charles Gasparino, CNBC, re the Fan/Fred bailout by Paulson and the U.S. Treasury, just announced.  The new regulatorsadmit that "...both companies made things worse by loosening their standards and accepting riskier types of loans. Fannie and Freddie's credit losses are being driven primarily by loans made in 2006 and 2007, when lending standards were loosest; by mortgages made to borrowers who fell outside their traditional lending standards, and by heavy exposure to loans in such areas as California and Florida where home prices have fallen most sharply. Loans made in 2006 and 2007 account for 65% of second-quarter credit losses at Freddie Mac and nearly 60% of those losses at Fannie Me, according to company estimates.
 
835P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re the Cheney speech in Italy that Russia is gun-running to Syria and Iran and the terror units, re the threat to Israel and the Russian support of Iran, re the Bush diplomacy blind to Russian interference. 
 
850P:  Martin Wolf, Financial Times, re the Anglo-American system,  "The Anglo-Americans have a distinctive civilisation: civilian, yet bellicose, commercial, yet moralistic, individualistic, yet organised, innovative, yet conservative, and idealistic, yet ruthless. To its foes, it is brutal, shallow and hypocritical. To its friends, it is the fount of freedom and democracy."
 
 
905P: Wickham Boyle, writer, re "Calling," an opera that recounts a downtown familiy's experience during and after 9-11.  Opens at LaMama, NYC, September 12-28.
 
920P: Aaron Klein, WND, re the dividing of the Old City of Jerusalem by the Olmert/Rice/Abbas work, re the fate of Temple Mount and the Waqf.
 
935:   Bing West, author, "The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq,"  re the transformation of Iraq war from a victory to a defeat prior to the surge.  The US military is the strongest tribe.
 
955P:  Robert Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re the pending Hubble rescue mission.
 

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Peter Koelliker, Posted on September 07, 2008 10:14 AM

A week or so back I noted B. Raman on the schedule. I listened, but did not catch the interview. Since I spend half the year in Chennai, I would have been interested in what he has to say.

On another note: Isn't the internet great? I can listen to you even when I'm out of the country.

John Batchelor, Posted on September 07, 2008 3:10 PM

Ram was on the sked that evening but called away with family needs at the last moment. He is always on topic, and will return next week to measure the unusual new leader of the failed state of Pakistan.

KFI Sunday Schedule September 7, 2008

By John Batchelor on September 7, 2008 5:29 PM | No Comments
KFI Sunday Schedule September 7, 2008

by John Batchelor. posted on September 06, 2008 at 12:16 PM

 KFI-AM 640 LA Sundays 7 PM -10 PM Pacific Time

705P PT:  Jim Carlton, WSJ, re Sarah Palin of Alaska, re her record, her family, and now the hear over Troopergate, the fresh accusation that Palin fired a state safety commissioner because of a family feud with her former brother in law.
 
720P:  Clive Thompson, NYT Magzine, re the phenomenon of Newsline, the Facebook fature that allows networked uses to chrionicle their young lives with the precision and enthusiasm of a Tristram Shandy.  Note to CT on NYT Magazinewebsite: 
 

September 7th, 2008 3:00 pm
Clive: This of course suggests a hip murder mystery in which the clues are Twittered and Flickred and Facebooked, and our digital Holmes.2 must walk the cat backwards. Exhausting and truly through the looking glass, and then Holmes.2 sees the trail heading in a circle until he realizes the killer is the victim and the murder hasn't happened yet in cyberspace. A body without a crime report until the social network learns of the fate (tree-forest-sound?). Can Holmes.2 act in time to keep the killer/victim alive forever in cyberspace? You are the man to write it, CT. Cheers.

-- John Batchelor, NYC

 
 
 
 
735P:  Professional Roundtable with John Avlon, author, Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re Hurricane Sarah at the GOP, re the inability of the Obama-Biden campaign to answer the Palin phenomenon, re John McCain's last mission to rule.
750P:  Continued with Michael Levine, Levine Communications, re the Sarah fad.
 
805P:  Professionals Jim McTague, Barron's, Monica Crowley, the McLoughlin Group, Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution, re Hurricane Sarah and the complete make-over of the conservative cause into frontier feminism, re John T.R. McCain and the campaign against "the Interests."
 
820P:  Continued re the GOP folly to rail against bail-out and to tolerate Bear, Sterns, Fan/Fred and the Big Three scame coming in Congress.
 
835P:  Andrew England, Financial Times, at Dubai, re the boomtown in Basra, Iraq, after the success of the surge and the defeat of the Mahdi Army, employment demands, international business.
 
850P:  Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, re Anbar is free and turned over to IQ, re Basra is booming, re the state fo security in the new Iraq/ also re deterioration in Afghanistan border with Pakistan.
 
905P:  Brad Miner, author, "Smear Tactics: The Liberal Campaign to Defame America," re the ten day assault on Sarah Palin by the major news organizations.
 
920P:  Mary Kissel, WSJ, at Hong Kong, re the fall of the Japanese government, the teetering of the Bangkok government, the destabilizing of the economies of Asia, the rise of the paper tigers.
 
935P:  Nick DiFonzo, author, "The Watercooler Effect," re the rise and power of rumor to direct politics and the econmy, re how to confront and manage rumors.
 
955P:  Exeunt re Alaska chic, re the Palin Bunch goes to Washington.