Amy Goodman Quotes DU on MSNBC Live

[K Gardner]

Just now, on the Chris Hayes show, talking about the Facebook Debacle.

I'd love to find the thread she quoted from. Someone listed 8 points of the Facebook Fiasco where banks and politicians manipulated and profitted.

Good job, DU !

I found it.. she quoted this entire OP:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002716228

[myrna minx]

1. I saw that. It's great to see her on Up with Chris Hayes.

I'm so grateful to Chris Hayes and Melissa Harris-Perry for having such great guests and in depth discussions. I hope she'll receive a wider audience after having such great exposure. Amy.

[K Gardner]

2. I totally agree. His show this a.m. has been particularly

enlightening and troubling.. even more insight into the corruption on Wall Street and elsewhere.

[myrna minx]

3. Just think of how different the world would be if we had people like Amy Goodman on

weekend shows during the 2000 or 2004 elections?! It's so refreshing to see a real journalist on TV and not wall to wall 1% pundits.

[K Gardner]

5. She needs to be on a prime time slot like Maddow. Now that would be

wonderful !

[CTyankee]

12. Yes, take off Morning Joe and put her or Chris or Melissa Harris Perry on instead!

I thought it was great that she quoted DU. I saw it and was thrilled for DU!

I think the panel was a bit stunned with how strong that quote was!

[ananda]

4. K & R

I really like Amy Goodman's reporting.

[NC_Nurse]

6. I just started watching his show last weekend. What a refreshing change from the usual horseshit

that passes for discussion on most talk news shows. I was really impressed with his panelists and the in depth level of discussion.
I felt like I actually had a better understanding of the issues they discussed instead of feeling slimed with ignorant talking points as I often do. I would recommend his show to everyone. It's on Sat. and Sun. mornings from 8-10am on MSNBC. And no, I don't have any connection to the show

[K Gardner]

9. Where else would you EVER find a "greenshoe" discussion... had anyone

not involved in finance and stocks even heard of that until Chris' show this morning? It was jaw-dropping.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/greenshoe.asp#axzz1vzLLqSns

(BTW, NC Nurse, I'm a TN Nurse )

[Daphne08]

7. Yes, I saw that!

Thanks for the link.

[txwhitedove]

8. Amy and Democracy Now ARE my primetime news on drive to work, luckily at work and the drive home.

[goclark]

11. Hope Amy reads this thread!

Hi Amy

[PatSeg]

10. I just saw that!

I wonder if Goodman reads DU regularly.

[Overseas]

13. Great op. Efficient description of what happened. Glad she used it.

[L0oniX]

14. Democracy Now program is distributed free of charge...

so ask yourself why you don't see it on PBS tv stations. PBS is always soliciting donations and they say that programs cost money. Why don't they use what is free?

[red dog 1]

23. You raise an excellent question!

Perhaps that's why NPR stands for Nice Polite Republicans these days.

[2banon]

32. Actually there's upgrade to National Pentagon Radio..

That certainly came to be the case during the run up to the Iraq War & Invasion.

[6502]

38. I noticed this, too...

I can listen to the NPR podcasts for select shows and get good information, BUT the NPR website became unreadable about a couple or so years ago.

[2banon]

31. The few pbs stations that do air it, broadcasts late

KQED in San Francisco, and KRCB in Santa Rosa... that's Sf Bay Area..

I worked in small NPR station and when Amy was first distributing DN! for free our station was very reluctant at first to broadcast.. (they did eventually) ...

The reason for their hesitation? They were worried they might lose their "listener base" if they hear radical voices on the air.. well what they actually meant, was they feared losing their FUNDING base, vis a vis CPB and wealthier (individual) sponsors...

It's not always about the money, but generally it is.. they started getting a lot of pressure from the community after the invasion of Iraq and that was the tilting point.

Community has to pressure the stations, both NPR stations and PBS stations. But remember they're both really very much part of the Corporate Media paradigm, in solid with the 1%.. The News Hour is freaking joke, and so is ATC for that matter/Morning Edition.. they're all presstitutes.. every single one of them.

[bleever]

15. Okay, no one's going to believe this, but I'm the person who told Amy about DU.

I met her in Oregon, and as she signed my copy of "The Exception to the Rulers" I asked her if she read Democratic Underground. She said no, asked me what it was, and wrote down the website address.

So I got that goin' for me.

[classof56]

16. Wayt to go, bleever!

A fellow Oregonian salutes you!

[bleever]

20. Well,

I can't claim to be an Oregonian, but I do visit once a year. Beautiful state you got there.

[babylonsister]

18. Yay. bleever!

Great job, and where ya been? I been missin' you!

[bleever]

19. I'm always here, reading

almost everything.

sis!

[freshwest]

39. Thanks for helplng build progressive momentum. Much appreciated, like DN is!

[DeSwiss]

17. K&R

If a man has an apartment,

stacked to the ceiling with newspapers...

...we call him crazy.


If a woman has a trailer house,

full of cats...

...we call her nuts.


But when people pathologically hoard so much
cash that they impoverish the entire nation...

...we put them on the cover of [font color=orange]Fortune[/font] magazine
and pretend that they're role models.

B. Lester

[just1voice]

21. Wow, that was quite an honor and a surprise!

I've been reading Amy Goodman and Democracy Now for years so it was really exciting to see her read something I wrote. I was also surprised that MSNBC had her on their network as MSNBC, like the rest of the MSMedia, is mostly propaganda. I was also surprised to see Joe Weisenthal who I've seen a few times on RT.

Kudos to MSNBC for putting people with integrity on the network and kudos to Chris Hayes for at least discussing the massive corruption that exists today.

[K Gardner]

22. I'm so glad you saw it ! What a wonderful validation for you.. kudos

and keep up the good work !

[just1voice]

29. Thank you for making me aware of it!

I would have likely never heard of it as I rarely watch MSNBC. "Up with Chris Hayes" looks like a good show, on a MSMedia network no less. Here's the link to the program mentioning DU:

http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/26/11895596-how-facebook-failed-to-deliver

[PotatoChip]

42. I was hoping someone would post a link.

That was pretty cool. For those who wish to watch, Amy's DU mention is at about the 8+(?) or 10(?) minute mark (sorry, don't remember exactly- but it's somewhere in the time frame. Closer to 10-something, I think)

Love Amy Goodman! My thanks to the OP for the thread and just1voice for the link.

[xchrom]

24. Du rec. Nt

[politicasista]

25. She doesn't seem friendly to Dems

Seen Obama supporters say otherwise on Twitter, and she too wasn't nice to Gore or Kerry, especially with the Skulls and Bones comments.

She seems to be liberal, but has no problem dissing a liberal when it's cool to do so.

[LeftyMom]

26. Amy freakin' Goodman under the bus now?

Jesus.

[politicasista]

27. No,

just know that she doesn't seem to be Dem friendly.

[flvegan]

28. (facepalm)

[Oilwellian]

30. I'm not too happy with the Dems either

And I've been a Democrat for 40 years. The information in the OP is one of the MANY reasons why.

[EFerrari]

33. You're right about that. She isn't friendly. Then again, she's a journalist

not a party spokesperson.

[2banon]

35. Exactly, And that's the point.

She does the job of a journalist. Kind of rare in the field but, there you have it..

[Poll_Blind]

37. +1

PB

[2banon]

36. She's no friend to the Reeps either.. eom..

[LeftyMom]

40. Is that how we evaluate journalists now?

Personally I'm a fan of the investigation and honesty metrics, myself. Party loyalty is a bit too Pravda for my taste, but if it works for you, go for it.

[2banon]

34. Amy isn't a Liberal. She's a Leftist to the core.

[marmar]

41. When she's dissing Dems, they (the Dems) are usually caught in acts of un-Liberalness

Democrat and Liberal aren't mutually inclusive