"Anything Goes Friday"

Hour One: Guest: U.S. Senator (I-VT)  Bernie Sanders www.sanders.senate.gov

Hour Two - Code Pink Medea Benjamin (plus Iraqi refugee who's husband and 4 yr old daughter were killed by militia because he was an interpreter for the U.S.) www.codepink.org Topic: Just back from Jordan and Syria where she spoke with Iraqi mothers

Hour Three  - U.S. Congressman (D-NJ, 12th District) Congressman Rush Holt www.holt.house.gov  Topic: His recent trip to Iraq

Hour One - Is racism so ingrained in America - we can't get rid of it?

Hour Two - Former Gov. Don Siegelman  www.donsiegelman.org Topic: Updates on his case  & will take listener calls  - Why have travel restrictions suddenly been placed on Gov. Siegelman?

Hour Three - Christy Harvey www.americanprogress.org Topic: News Under the Radar

Tune in May 8th on The Thom Hartmann Program - Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman www.donsiegelman.org is here taking your calls (866) 303-2270. Since Gov. Siegelman is not allowed to travel, we'll be checking in with him from time to time so his case continues to get national attention.

Update: Governor Don Siegelman has been out of prison on bond for over a month and has given interviews to 60 Minutes on CBS, The Verdict on MSNBC, the New York Times, the House Judiciary Committee, the Tuscaloosa News, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Ring of Fire and The Thom Hartmann Program. Now Travel restrictions have been imposed on him. Travel restrictions on a non-violent offender who has been deemed "not a flight risk" seems unusual.

Gov. Siegelman says, "If I'm not a flight risk, why would they be constricting my travel and making it very difficult if not impossible to leave the state?" he said. "There isn't but one conclusion, and that is that they don't want me speaking out on issues. They don't want me speaking to Congress or speaking to the media."

--Thom Hartmann

HAPPY BIRTHDAY THOM!

Hour One  - Topics:  Election Results, Missing  White House e-mails, housing rescue bill, Fox News’ wealthy white males getting their chuckles from discussing ‘downscale voters,’and more 

Hour Two  - Terry Jeffrey www.cnsnews.com Topic: Election results, ethanol debate, food crisis conspiracy theory

Hour Three  -  "Everything You Know Is Wrong" Barry Reid www.edenpress.com Topic: How to Disappear in America

Hour One  - Guest: Bev Harris www.blackboxvoting.org Topic: Voter issues...fraud, cancelled registrations, etc...

Hour Two  - Guest: Dan Gainor www.businessandmedia.org Topic: Thom and Dan debate the Govt's role in the ethanol-driven global food crisis

Hour Three  - Guest: John Stauber www.prwatch.org Topic: What the Pentagon Pundits were selling on the side