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GRITtv: Oct. 26, 2010
“It's not an election, it's an auction,” says Mike Papantonio of the corporate cash pouring into elections around the country. ; Papantonio's home state of Florida has seen both its Senate and governor's races attracting national attention, as Tea Party candidates in both races argue for cutting benefits and wages in the name of deficits, and ignore crumbling infrastructure.Papantonio checks in with Laura via Skype to discuss the elections, Florida's generation gap and its effect on Tea Party support, and of course, BP, the Gulf, and claims that the oil is gone.Kate Clinton's trying to figure out just why LGBT Americans might be a little depressed this election season. Could it be Sharron Angle? Don't Ask, Don't Tell? Marriage equality? She tracks our country's up-and-down movement on her "It Gets Better" index, and reminds everyone to get out and vote on November 2nd.When you hear about a $5 billion election year, you probably wonder where that money is going.
Email this pageGRITtv: The F Word: Campaign Cash and Corruption
Campaign cash -- we're drowning in a flood of it. As Katrina vanden Heuvel noted yesterday on GRITtv, this is on track to be a $5 billion election—and it's not over. We used to have words for spending like that on politicians: bribery. Remember all that quaint anti-colonial talk about "Independence"? As Zephyr Teachout commented in a meeting I was part of, hosted by the Coffee Party, those founding fathers were all about independence from corruption and prosecuting bribery. Remember the phrase "anti-Trust"? Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: Max Blumenthal: Israel, the GOP, and the Coffee Party
Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah, joins Laura in studio to talk about recent news: the Obama administration's spat with Israel over settlements, the recent California Republican party convention, and the new "coffee party" movement.
GRITtv: Mar. 15 2010
Welcome to GRITtv's new format! We're coming to you from our new studio in SoHo, shooting higher resolution video. We'll be bringing you 30 minutes of content 5 days a week from now on, featuring more of our friends from around the country, more field reporting, and some other new surprises as well. Hope you enjoy! Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah, joins Laura in studio to talk about recent news. A spate of profiles of Timothy Geithner hit the news recently, from Vogue to the Atlantic and several places in between. We ask a couple of experts what's really going on with the economy--and if Geithner deserves any of that praise. Robert Johnson is the director of economic policy at the Roosevelt Institute and the former chief economist for the Senate Banking Committee. Les Leopold is the author of The Looting of America. They both have some words for the Democrats on what happens if don't wise up. Nahr al-Bared ("Cold River") refugee camp in Lebanon is home to 20,000 displaced Palestinians, struggling to rebuild their home after its destruction in 2007. The camp has been around for some 60 years, and in this excerpt from "Checkpoints and More" by A Films, residents of the camp tell their stories. Finally, Laura reminds us that while some profiles of Geithner may be cheering the former New York Fed chair, he's also implicated in the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
