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The Errington Thompson Show 1-17-09
ecthompsonmd January 17, 2009

I start off the show with a high five for pilot Chesley Sullenberger and his crew. Bush has a press conference and an 13-minute primetime self-congratulatory chat with the American public (barf bag please). Bradley Schlozman (what a great name), former head of the Civil Rights office, has been found to have violated civil rights law. With luck, Eric Holder will follow up on this. We tortured Mohammed al-Qahtani. Susan Crawford gave an interview to WaPo (story written by Bob Woodward, so it must be true 🙂 ), basically saying that she wouldn’t prosecute because he was tortured. This is a problem. In the Dare

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What's Going On: Evening News Roundup
ecthompsonmd September 29, 2008

Here’s the Monday evening news roundup: Unless you’re living in a cave, you already know that the U.S. House of Representatives rejected the bailout plan. The Dow responded by dropping 778 points. This is the single largest one-day drop since October 1987. In my opinion, the president gave us a half-hearted attempt to sell this plan. He had one prime time speech and that was it. (To be fair, he did have a photo opportunity with congressional leaders in the White House.) If this plan is going to pass, the president needs to take it to the American people and sell

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Bush primetime 9-11 speech
ecthompsonmd September 12, 2006

Do you see anything new in this speech?  Why? Why did he call a prime time news conference if he had nothing new to say? Addendum (9/12):  maybe, just maybe if you have nothing new to say then maybe you are trying to say something old.  Maybe you’re trying to say something they said before.  Maybe President Bush and the rest of his administration are telling us loud and clear that they have failed.  Although some of the people that planned the 9/11 attacks have been arrested or killed, the true masterminds continue to taunt us from the hills of northern

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