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The White House's war on Fox shows its ignorance of the network's true purpose: show business. And Team Obama is giving Murdoch just what he wants. After David Axelrod sneaked into Roger Ailes’ office in New York to powwow on Sept. 30, the White House brain trust of David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel decided that it is shrewd and useful to attack Fox News as a Republican tool—or as White House Communications Director Anita Dunn remarked, as “a wing of the Republican Party.” It is a guess that the president is not annoyed by this tactic. It is a better...

Republicans are once again ascendant—and for this they can thank Rahm Emanuel. John Batchelor gets the scoop from gleeful conservatives on the trail of Democratic destruction left by Obama’s bullying enforcer. Suddenly the disgraced and demoralized Republican Congress has an unearned future, thanks to the superhuman clumsiness of a man who has made himself indispensable to the Obama administration and insufferable to the Democratic Congress, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. The GOP always knew that Emanuel was a problem that could not be solved and could only be endured while he served three tempestuous terms in the House. But now...

Conservative radio talk-show host John Batchelor says the whack jobs disrupting health-care town halls confirm the Republican Party has become a cruise ship to the seventh grade. The sad-eyed Townhall Turfers now follow the saucer-eyed Birthers and the cranky Tea-Baggers as the latest political fad that the weakling Republicans not only cannot get away from but also cannot get enough of, like chocolate sauce on anything. The phenomenon of surly, verbose, sweaty voters crowding into overlit public rooms to hear out the numbing conclusions of a member of Congress on health-care reforms in all the 57 varieties has taken over...

Sunday 805P Eastern Time: Ed Hayes, attorney, re Sotomayor nomination, re Ireland Will Take Two of Remaining 229 Guantanamo Bay Detainees From U.S. Ireland agreed to take two of the remaining 229 prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba Sunday 820P Eastern Time: Aaron Klein, WND, watching the build-up in BEkaa by the now fully re-armed Hizballah. Re George Mitchell's mission to Damascus. Sunday 835P Eastern Time: Brooks Hansen, author, "John the Baptizer," the life and times of the man who baptized Jesus. Sunday 850P Eastern Time: Exeunt re the Birthers grow.

The GOP, reduced to hosting loonies who obsess over Obama’s birthplace, is slipping into the ash heap. The Daily Beast’s John Batchelor on why Republican incoherence may doom the party to the fate of the Whigs. The romantic yarn that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not in the United States, and is therefore an illegitimate POTUS is the core of a still-evolving conspiracy theory that now explodes like a neutron stink bomb splashing on the right wing while leaving the center and left idly smiling and curious. What is going on with the despondent Republican Party that it hosts...

Rather than a blow to a career, Sarah Palin's decision to resign underlines her self-awareness, writes The Daily Beast's John Batchelor. She is now unmatched for the 2012 primary. The early excuse for the Republican circular firing squad of the holiday weekend is that Weekly Standard editor and party brainiac Bill Kristol claims that pugnacious McCain campaign enforcer Steve Schmidt has been caught gossiping to Vanity Fair’s Todd Purdum about Sarah Palin’s rambling and incoherent vice-presidential campaign last September and October...

Rather than a blow to a career, Todd Purdum’s piece is a spectacular tribute to a force of nature built for another national race. The excuse for the Republican circular firing squad of the holiday weekend is that Weekly Standard editor and party brainiac Bill Kristol claims that pugnacious McCain campaign enforcer Steve Schmidt has been caught gossiping to Vanity Fair’s Todd Purdum about Sarah Palin’s rambling and incoherent vice presidential campaign last fall. Purdum, writing with a polite disdain, does flatter Palin as “the sexiest and riskiest brand in the Republican Party,” before he goes on to mention unnamed...

The stand-up comedian Wanda Sykes took only seconds in her disciplined 15 minutes at the White House Correspondents' Dinner—a naughty performance that mocked both Barack Obama and Rush Limbaugh—to lay out a vision for the Republican Party. Of course, Sykes didn’t mean to help the GOP, yet in the manner of a prophet she climbed up on the mountaintop of C-SPAN at the precise moment that the glamorous tribes of Washington, New York, and Hollywood had gathered to worship, and she spoke the words that came to her as if from a special effects Yahweh. Wanda Sykes articulated a simple...

The public may have liked the president’s big speech, but the GOP isn’t worried. Insiders say they’re raring for a fight, and that they think Obama’s in a very vulnerable position. ... “I feel sorry for him sometimes,” confided a senior Republican House member about President Obama. “He invited us over to the White House to explain to us how the stimulus plan is working, and how the budget is going to work, and he spoke to us a couple of times. He doesn’t act like he knows what’s going on with the economy. He’s so afraid of confrontation, when...

From their shared loathing of Rahm Emanuel to the insurgency led by the minority leader (“he took us by the throat”), the inside story of why not a single House Republican supported the president’s stimulus package. "Rahm, you don't waste a crisis," a senior Republican, speaking on the phone in a mock dialogue, pretended to tease White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel the day before the stimulus bill vote in the House of Representatives. "Rahm, you're making the Clinton mistake going for spending in a crisis. Reagan radically adjusted the tax code in his crisis. Rahm, all you’re trying...

Gaza Starts Grim-Looking Year" Special.   705P ET:  John Gapper, Financial Times, with Simon Constable, DowJones, co-host, re how the credit catastrophe of 2008 points to mrket failures, gloom, and a kind of numb fear similar to the families robbed by the Pied Piper, re the coming cars crash, newspaper/magazine crash, retail crash.  In '09, Not Much to Cheer About Either 720P:  Kerry Grace, Wall Street Journal, with Simon Constable, DowJones, re the delayed fuses of rotten mortgages, theft, brown lawns, ghost towns, wrecked families, accelerated despair, in the U.S. housing market that looks to become black humor in the new year.  "My house is...

The John Batchelor Show Sunday October 3rd, 2008 Listenlive from 7pm – 10pm ET (4pm – 7pm PT) on WABC AM 770 New York City 10pm – 1am ET (7pm – 10pm PT) on KFI AM 640 Los Angeles WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday September 28, 2008 by John Batchelor. posted on October 3rd, 2008 at 2:09 PMWABC-AM New York City/WMAL-AM Washington DC/KSFO San Francisco Sundays 7 PM-10 PM Eastern Time705P ET:  Thaddeus McCotter, Member of Congress, 11th Michigan (R), re the Paulson bailout fight, re the rejection in the House on Monday, 205-228, re the jam job by the Senate,...

The John Batchelor Show Sunday September 28th, 2008 Listenlive from 7pm – 10pm ET (4pm – 7pm PT) on WABC AM 770 New York City 10pm – 1am ET (7pm – 10pm PT) on KFI AM 640 Los Angeles WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday September 28, 2008 by John Batchelor. posted on September 26, 2008 at 2:09 PMWABC-AM New York City/WMAL-AM Washington DC/KSFO San Francisco Sundays 7 PM-10 PM Eastern Time705P ET:  Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution, re the Ole Miss debate and the spin room.  Re the theatrics of the Hank Paulson deal.   "The Limits of Obamamania in Europe"720P:  Thaddeus...

There is no deal likely, not today, not tomorrow, not this weekend, and the holidays next week move this melodrama to late next week. And why? Because the emails and faxes and phone calls to Capitol Hill are running 10 to 1 against the Hank Paulson deal. Ten to one against from the Democrats. One hundred to one against from the Republicans. Because the American taxpayer is making a stand. Because the House GOP has found the high ground, and the American citizenry is on the same high ground. Why do we see (right) Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Chuck...

The John Batchelor Show Sunday September 21st, 2008 Listenlive from 7pm – 10pm ET (4pm – 7pm PT) on WABC AM 770 New York City 10pm – 1am ET (7pm – 10pm PT) on KFI AM 640 Los Angeles WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday September 21, 2008 by John Batchelor. posted on September 19, 2008 at 5:24 PM  WABC-AM New York City/WMAL-AM Washington DC/KSFO San Francisco Sundays 7 PM-10 PM Eastern Time 705P ET:  Nomi Prins, author, "Other People's Money," re the Week that Scared Hank and Ben, re the cure, re the global credit markets, re Lehman owes money to Freddie?...

McCain's Right ArmBy John Batchelor. posted on September 12, 2008 at 10:05 PM September 1968 After a year of starving and abusing 32 year old John McCain, no medical attention, abandonment and isolation in a windowless cell at the North Vietnamese Potemkin Village of a prison called the Plantation, the sadistic boss of the camp, Major Bai, called "Cat" by the POWs, ordered that the torturers break the admiral's son and force him to sign a confession. It was September, 1968. John McCain's father, John S. McCain, had become admiral of the Pacific Fleet the summer before, and the son's...

There is a secret group in the Obama-Biden campaign tasked with shutting off any leaks from the record that links Barack Obama to his longtime adviser and mentor Bill Ayers, professor of education at the University of Illinois and unrepentant Weatherman terrorist and fugitive from the 1970s. This surprising fact has been developed by Chicago-born and Ralph Nader-supporting Professor Steve Diamond of Santa Clara University Law School, who maintains the Global Labor and Politics blog and has pieced together over many months the unusual surreptitious activity around the public records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) grant now housed at...

The John Batchelor Show Sunday September 7th, 2008 Listenlive from 7pm – 10pm ET (4pm – 7pm PT) on WABC AM 770 New York City 10pm – 1am ET (7pm – 10pm PT) on KFI AM 640 Los Angeles WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday September 7, 2008 by John Batchelor. posted on September 06, 2008 at 3:26 PM   WABC-AM New York City/WMAL-AM Washington DC/KSFO San Francisco Sundays 7 PM-10 PM Eastern Time 705P ET:  William McGurn, WSJ, re Joe Biden and the lunchpail Dems, re the Biden pick to appeal to Scranton, to Cathlics, to the Reagan Dems, re Biden...

The John Batchelor Show Sunday August 31st, 2008 Listenlive from 7pm – 10pm ET (4pm – 7pm PT) on WABC AM 770 New York City 10pm – 1am ET (7pm – 10pm PT) on KFI AM 640 Los Angeles WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday August 31, 2008 by John Batchelor. posted on August 29, 2008 at 10:27 PM WABC-AM New York City/WMAL-AM Washington DC/KSFO San Francisco Sundays 7 PM-10 PM Eastern Time   705P ET:  Laura Meckler, WSJ, re the McCain choice of Palin and the vetting and secrecy of the last weeks as the choice narrowed, re the McCain...

The John Batchelor Show Sunday August 24th, 2008 Listenlive from 7pm – 10pm ET (4pm – 7pm PT) on WABC AM 770 New York City 10pm – 1am ET (7pm – 10pm PT) on KFI AM 640 Los Angeles KFI Sunday Schedule August 24, 2008 by John Batchelor. posted on August 22, 2008 at 5:10 PM KFI-AM 640 LA Sundays 7 PM -10 PM Pacific Time   705P PT: Eli Lake, NY Sun, re Daniel Kurtzer of the Obama Team in Syria, re Assads of Damascus in Moscow, re the new Cold War in Syria and the reborth of the...

Listenlive from 7pm – 10pm ET (4pm – 7pm PT) on WABC AM 770 New York City 10pm – 1am ET (7pm – 10pm PT) on KFI AM 640 Los Angeles Sunday Schedules Home /Schedules /Sunday Schedules / Sunday in NYC, DC, SF, LA. WABC, WMAL, KSFO Schedule Sunday August 17, 2008 By John Batchelor. posted on August 12, 2008 at 2:30 PM WABC-AM New York City/WMAL-AM Washington DC/KSFO San Francisco Sundays 7 PM-10 PM Eastern Time705P ET: John Bolton, AEI, re the Georgia crisis at the UN Security Council, the the Cold War Remake, re what does Russian aggression...

The John Batchelor Show Sunday August 3rd, 2008 Listenlive from 7pm – 10pm ET (4pm – 7pm PT) on WABC AM 770 New York City 10pm – 1am ET (7pm – 10pm PT) on KFI AM 640 Los Angeles WABC-AM New York City/WMAL-AM Washington KSFO San Francisco Sundays 7 PM-10 PM Eastern Time705P ET: Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, re the 1960s reawakened by the pontificating Al Gore and the troubled John Edwards, re Obamania recreates Beatlemania, re “What if Iraq Works?� “Critics of the war now argue that a victory in Iraq was not worth the costs, not that victory...

The John Batchelor Show Sunday July 20th, 2008 Listenlive from 7pm – 10pm ET (4pm – 7pm PT) on WABC AM 770 New York City 10pm – 1am ET (7pm – 10pm PT) on KFI AM 640 Los Angeles If you missed last week show, listen on John Batchelor On-Demand Podcast  WABC-AM New York /WMAL-AM Washington /KSFO San Francisco Sunday 20 July.“Murphy’s Law is often misinterpreted,� Nick Spark, the author of A History of Murphy’s Law, told me. “The point is to look ahead and predict what could go wrong, and then work to prevent these outcomes.�705P ET: John Bolton, AEI,...

The John Batchelor Show Listenlive from 7pm – 10pm ET (4pm – 7pm PT) on WABC AM 770 New York City 10pm – 1am ET (7pm – 10pm PT) on KFI AM 640 Los Angeles If you missed last week show, listen on John Batchelor On-Demand Podcast Sunday July 6 WABC in New York and WMAL in Washington DC and KSFO in San Francisco. Sundays 7 PM-10 PM Eastern Time 705P ET: Jodi Schneider, Congressional Quarterly, re Congress sinking toward single digits in approval, re Congress now moving chairs on the Titanic (left, just launched 1911) of the credit markets...

The John Batchelor Show Sunday July 6th , 2008 Listenlive from 7pm – 10pm ET (4pm – 7pm PT) on WABC AM 770 New York City 10pm – 1am ET (7pm – 10pm PT) on KFI AM 640 Los Angeles If you missed last week show, listen on John Batchelor On-Demand Podcast Sunday July 6 WABC in New York and WMAL in Washington DC and KSFO in San Francisco. 705P ET: Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ Americas Editor, re the spectacular Colombia special ops, "Operation Check-Mate," to rescue French citizen Ingrid Betancourt... 720P: Herb London, Hudson Institute, author, “America’s Secular Challenge:...

The John Batchelor Show Sunday June 29th , 2008 Listenlive from 7pm – 10pm ET (4pm – 7pm PT) on WABC AM 770 New York City 10pm – 1am ET (7pm – 10pm PT) on KFI AM 640 Los Angeles If you missed last week show, listen on John Batchelor On-Demand Podcast Sunday June 29 WABC in NEW YORK and WMAL in Washington DC. 705P ET: Jim McTague Barrons re Congress and energy policy, re Countrywide sweetheart loans to Congress and Chris Dodd of Connecticut. Does the Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee get to keep his cheap loan from...

The John Batchelor Show Sunday June 22nd , 2008 Listenlive from 7pm – 10pm ET (4pm – 7pm PT) on WABC AM 770 New York City 10pm – 1am ET (7pm – 10pm PT) on KFI AM 640 Los Angeles If you missed last week show, listen on John Batchelor On-Demand Podcast 705P ET: Brooke Goldstein, Middle East Forum, filmmaker, "Making of a Martyr." 720P: Clive Thompson NYT Magazine. 735P: Roundtable Jake Schlesinger WSJ re Obama landslide victory indicated in the Ohio and Pa. polls. Also re Nuke McCain, oil drilling flip flop McCan, re Nafta-gate and Obama. 750P: Continued....

The John Batchelor Show Sunday June 15th, 2008 Listenlive from 7pm – 10pm ET (4pm – 7pm PT) on WABC AM 770 New York City 10pm – 1am ET (7pm – 10pm PT) on KFI AM 640 Los Angeles If you missed last week show, listen on John Batchelor On-Demand Podcast Show schedule for June 15th, 2008 WABC IN NY 705P ET: Herb London Hudson Institute, author “America’s Secular Challenges: The Rise of a New National Religion,” re “the cult of the self” that is “inimical to civitas – patriotism.” Re the Obama phenomenon and the search for faith in...

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With four months to go until the Democratic National Convention in Denver Colorado August 24-28, what is now clear is that the two warring camps in the party mean to fight out the nomination to the floor itself and at least the first ballot. This is a full scale civil war in the Democratic Party. Both camps identify four major fronts where the combat will be sophisticated, ruthless and round-the-clock. The first major battlefront is cash. The Obama campaign is clearly dominant, raising a dumbfounding $235 million overall, with $42 million on hand and more each hour. I received four...

LISTEN ONLINE SUNDAY NIGHT TO JOHN BATCHELOR FReepers, I need your help. I am really very, very tired of hearing that Hillary has been fully vetted. John Batchelor allowed drunk driver Sid Blumenthal to get away with that tonight. For those who didn't hear, the way has been opened for discovery. Opened, that is, for everyone but Hillary. Without being asked by her counsel, lying weasel attorney for the Clinton mob, David Kendall, Aurelio Munoz simply decreed that she doesn't have to testify until after the election. I need held reaching Batchelor to let him know about a little...

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In a head spinning effort to make McCain the bad guy of a story, CNN has taken the voiced support for Barack Obama by the terrorist organization Hamas and turned it into a finger pointing at Republican John McCain for being mean to Obama. Talk about spin, CNN has really done a doosie here. Taking the words of the terrorists in Hamas and placing them in McCain's mouth is simply unbelievable. But that's exactly what they've done. CNN's Political Ticker Blog showed us some gymnastics worthy of the Olympics -- or more correctly a contortionist -- to turn the words...

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On Sunday, Aaron Klein and John Batchelor interviewed Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to the Prime Minister of Hamas, on WABC radio. The interview produced a scoop which, for some reason, has not been widely publicized: Hamas has endorsed Barack Obama for President. Yousef said, "We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election." Why? "He has a vision to change America." Maybe Yousef has some insight into what Obama means by all these vague references to "change." Of course, Hamas's taste in American presidents is suspect. Yousef also described Jimmy Carter, who was about to pay...

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Who is Nahdmi Auchi, who according to the British newspaper TimesOnline may have lent money through a company he controls in Panama to support a fundraiser for U.S. Senator Barack Obama in May 2005? Who is Mr. Auchi? A British billionaire living in London, born in Iraq in 1937. And why would he, as it is alleged, lend money via a Panama company, Fintrade Services -- of which his wife, Ibtisam Auchi, is said to be a director -- to a freshmen U. S. senator from Illinois just a few months after he is sworn in as a very junior...