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TBAD 2011: E-studio - Marc Steiner with Lizz Winstead
Oct 4th, 2011. Marc Steiner interviews Lizz Winstead, Comedian, Writer, co-creator of The Daily Show. Lizz talks about trying to get both AirAmerica & The Daily Show off the ground, and how there's no easy way to understand how progressive media will be received. She talks about the challenge of breaking through "disinformation" to form substantial content.
Email this pageGRITtv: Making You Laugh at Politics
"I think a comic's job is always to question authority and question the status quo," says Kelly Carlin, daughter of famous political comedian George Carlin. Now, with more Americans trusting Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to provide not only information, but even political rallies, it seems that political comedy is more relevant than ever. Kelly joins GRITtv contributor John Fugelsang and comic Lee Camp for a discussion on the place of political comedy--when your guy is in the White House, when the subject is popular and when it's not, parody and satire and the difference between, and much, much more.
GRITtv: Greg Mitchell: Money Media Miss the Point (Again)
The big story last week, of course, was the elections: Republicans take back the House! Nearly $5 billion spent on campaigns across the country--most of it from faceless corporate donors! Yet instead, by the weekend we were left with a different story, when Keith Olbermann was suspended from MSNBC for donating money to three Democratic candidates. Not a peep, of course, about the amount that MSNBC's parent company, GE, gave. And then, of course, George W. Bush started his book tour, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace joked with Jon Stewart about Fox's employing the Republican candidates for 2012, and our friends at The Nation were profiled in today's New York Times. Greg Mitchell, media blogger at The Nation, joins us to discuss. Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: Robert Scheer: Appetites for Wealth
"Wall Street was blackmailing us," says Robert Scheer of the bank bailouts, "And we got nothing in return." It's not news to any viewers of GRITtv that Wall Street's tentacles ran throughout our election, but now that the election is over, we turn again to the running of government.Scheer joined us in the studio recently to discuss his new book, The Great American Stickup, and we asked him to give us some thoughts for after the election as well. Most pressing of all, he asks if either bankers or politicians are capable of thinking in anyone's long-term interests.
GRITtv: Robert Scheer: An Obit For Our Hopes
Barack Obama hit the Daily Show on Wednesday night, and made the unfortunate comment that Larry Summers had done a "heckuva job" running the economy. Robert Scheer of Truthdig notes that Summers was the chief architect of Clinton-era policies that created the economic crisis in the first place, and that Obama's appointment of him to get us out of it was never going to result in anything but more money being thrown at Wall Street. Scheer visited the GRITtv studios to talk about Summers, Bill Clinton, Obama, and why there are a few Tea Party candidates he wouldn't mind seeing win this election cycle.
GRITtv: Amanda Marcotte: Olivia Munn, Sarah Palin, & Choice
What's up with all these arguments over feminism these days, anyway? The Daily Show and Gawker blog Jezebel have an argument over its representation of women; meanwhile, Sarah Palin is a feminist! Except when she's not! And the Atlantic has declared "The End of Men." What's it all about? Who better to discuss all this than blogger and author Amanda Marcotte, who joins us in studio to talk about The Daily Show's hiring Olivia Munn, Sarah Palin's fundraising skills (or lack thereof) and the latest battle over reproductive choice, as well as her new book, Get Opinionated: A Progressive's Guide to Finding Your Voice (and Taking a Little Action).
GRITtv: To Kill or Not to Kill the Bill
The progressive community is at each other's throats over the health care bill: some say kill it and start over, others say pass it now and fix it later. Without a public option, Medicare buy-in, or other cost-controlling measures, and with Stupak and Nelson holding women's rights for ransom, is there anything good left in this bill? We ask Chris Hayes, Washington editor for The Nation, Lizz Winstead, host and producer of Shoot the Messenger, and Miriam Yeung of Women of Color United for Health Care what's in, what's out, and what the best course of action is now for progressives who want to see real reform.
