Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Hour 1

Ron breaks down the
President’s speech – we give it a 10 – pretty much.

 Ron talks with George
Lakoff, famed  UC Berkeley professor of
linguistics and cognitive science, about the President’s speech and his recent piece:
The Seven Intellectual Underpinnings of the Obama Code

Hour 2

Your calls on the President’s
Speech

Hour 3

Senator Barbara Boxer is pushing
ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, conservatives
hate it.

ParentalRights.org –
President, Michael Sarris

Founder and Chair of
Homeschool Legal Defense Association

Live from Madison, Wisconsin, Lee Rayburn is back in the saddle for another week. 

Tonight's show: Lee Rayburn hosts from Madison, Wisconsin.  Lee will be hosting all week. 

Tonight’s Show

David Bender wraps up his week in the host chair

8:00 PM EST John Edwards’ right hand man Joe Trippi joins us to discuss last nights LGBT event

8:30 PM You heard him last night at the HRC/LOGO presidential forum.  Tonight, senator/presidential candidate/“straight” talker” Mike Gravel joins us on air to share his take on last night’s event.  Can we expect some jabs at the waffling front runners? 

9:00 PM Live from Sam Brownback headquarters in Iowa (!!!) Atlantic columnist Marc Ambinder tells us what we need to know about the upcoming GOP straw poll.

9:30 PM Central New York Representative Maurice Hinchey joins us to talk about his House Resolution to censure Bush, Cheney and Gonzales.   Senator Russ Feingold has introduced the same resolutions in the senate.  

10:00 PM David Bender takes your calls on medicinal marijuana and other topics

11:00 PM Sam Seder’s dispatches from Yearly Kos

Tune in next week for the return of Lee Rayburn

Tonight’s show:

David Bender hosts

8 PM EST David talks to legendary gay rights activist David Mixner. Check out his blog at davidmixner.com

8:30 PM EST assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute David A. Brown joins us to talk about QU’s new poll examining the influence that interest groups have on voters.

9-11:00 PM EST For the first time in electoral history, every candidate for the Democratic nomination will appear at a Presidential Forum focused on LGBT issues. The event is presented by the Human Rights Campaign and LOGO, the new lesbian & gay network from MTV Networks. We will carry the forum live and in its entirety. Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese, Melissa Etheridge and esteemed journalist Jonathan Capehart will appear as panelists at the event. Plus David Bender will provide additional commentary for Air America listeners. 

11:00 PM EST Senator Mike Gravel joins us to share his firsthand take on the presidential forum.

11:15 PM EST Eric Stern, senior advisor to the Edwards campaign with more firsthand commentary.

11:30 PM EST Executive producer and co-host of XM’s " The Agenda," Mary Breslauer wraps up our discussion of this historical event.