Today on Doing Time - Monday October 6th
The Dow is crashing! And hard! We’ll be sure to check in on Wall Street’s dire day and assess what it means for you. What did that big bailout do anyway?
However, John McCain has decided he’s bored with listening to Americans fret over their savings, credit, economic future and so forth. So he’s trying, and hard, to have Sarah Palin change the subject to a 40 year old news story.
Enter William Ayers. Who is he? Is he a “terrorist” as Palin claims? And did Obama “pall around” with him? Ron Kuby actually knows William Ayers personally, so we’re going to straighten out the McCain smears for you … with an unexpected opinion or two in there.
Chris Cilizza of the Washington Post will help us examine the new nasty side of the Presidential campaign.
Obama’s rapid response to the Ayers attack was impressive by any standard. Not only did his campaign have its own decades-old scandal at the ready to drudge up about McCain, but this one, the Keating Five S&L scandal, actually has to do with the economic woes of voters.
Check out this 13 minute documentary they’ve released.
We’ll talk with Rosa Brooks of the LA Times to find out what exactly is the Keating Five, and what did McCain do wrong with Charles Keating?
Plus, pirates and infrastructure, sex workers and unions, big disnery birthday parties and guess who said
Dominatrix plural
1) the proper form is Dominatrices. You can avoid the controversy by using the more modern term -- Domina. How do I know? I used to be one. And now make and sell BDSM implements to them and the general public. (www.aswgt.com)
2) I can also vouch for the fact that there has been a definite recession in this area of "recreation" -- we have seen a steady decline in sales during the Bush years.
3) wanna talk about old acquaintances? How about Norm Coleman being a bearded radical in college and turning a full 180 as soon as he graduated? It was here at Hofstra and I know people who "knew him when."
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Gillian