Show Notes
Friday!
10pm - Summit For Youth - 12 year old human rights activist Caleb Hayes and conservative 14 year old author, Kyle Williams take over the Mike Webb show.
Click below to see the president study that new Enemy of Freedom - The Segway.
It won't all be rest and relaxation for the Athlete In Chief as he tries out his new Father's day gift, The Segway. He's on a little Father's Day holiday this weekend. Bush gets regular daily briefings on pressing matters whenever he spends his time away from the White House. Just like on 9/11/01 when he "suddenly learned" of the crash and then continued to read "Dick and Jane" to the kids. This weekend, salvaging Mideast peace looms large, but hey, there's GOLF to be played! And besides, when reporters ask, George has learned to put them on "ignore."
The emphasis was decidedly on unwinding here during a weekend in which the family was celebrating the 79th birthday of the first President Bush.The stay in Kennebunkport was only the most recent long weekend of relaxation Bush has taken since the Iraq war. (Remember: the war is over - All that new fighting is terrorism, NOT a war, ok?). He has had three long weekends at his Crawford, Texas, ranch since mid-April.
Arriving at the family's oceanside estate, he boarded a Segway, a standup, motorized scooter that resembles a push lawnmower.
The Segway went down on Bush's first attempt, but he stayed on his feet with a flying leap over the machine. Undeterred, he got on again. His father climbed on a second Segway and they cruised around the driveway at the estate at Walker's Point.
Our Fighter Pilot Athlete in Chief runs from that new whacky weapon of mass destruction, THE SEGUE. Check this space tomorrow for coverage on the "president" Walking AND Chewing gum!
Thursday Night
10pm - Norman Soloman - author: Target: Iraq. Comparing the UK and U.S. media coverage of the War
11pm - Mark Snyder - Gay Catholic activist
Midnight - Smokey Robinson - Legend
CALL TO ACTION!
Join Rep. Jim McDermott and Marla Smith-Nilson, Director of Water Partners International for a benefit breakfast assisting the sick and dying in Iraq.
InfoLink: WATER.ORG
When: This Saturday (June 14), 9:30am
Where: Plymouth Congregational Church, 6th/University, Seattle
Why: Looks to me like Bush is doing JACK about the PEOPLE of Iraq because he's too busy guarding the oil wells. Their on schedule to start pumping Cheney's favorite libation any day now, while the poplulation drinks polluted, disease-riddled water. So, Water Partners is going to get them what they need.
Promised I would post this: THE 9/11 TIMELINE.
Some interesting stuff there.
Tonight: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 -- The Mike Webb Show "Listen to Mike" (click microphone on homepage).
10pm - A brief visit with Marla Smith-Nilson, Director of Water Partners International about the crisis in Iraq.
Then, columnist Geov Parrish joins us to talk about the...."I" word. Can it, should it be done? All things being fair, should Bush be finished?
11pm - Cantor David Serkin-Poole of Temple B'nai Torah discusses his visit to the middle east and the sneaky Christian Identity Movement as related to Bush's Roadmap To Disaster.
Midnight - Emailer is...eh...pissed about waiting in line at the "men's" room only to find there was A GIRL IN THERE. Outrageous!!!! ;)
Response to email from MichaelSavageSucks.com (received by
SavageStupidity.com's editor after the lawsuit was served):
PRESS RELEASE: Public Citizen to defend SavageStupidity.com co-founders
against $500,000 lawsuit by Michael SavageJune 3rd, 2003
SANTA CRUZ, CA - SavageStupidity.com's co-founders, Thomas and Gunilla
Leavitt, announced today that Public Citizen, a nationally prominent
non-profit public interest law firm, has agreed to defend them from a
lawsuit filed by Talk Radio Network, Inc. TRN syndicates "The Savage
Nation", a nationally broadcast radio talk show hosted by the infamous
Michael Savage (née Weiner). "The Weiner has demonstrated his contempt for
free speech by filing this lawsuit, and we intend to dispute it vigorously,"
said Thomas and Gunilla. SavageStupidity.com will also be represented by
David Bradford, a partner specializing in complex litigation at the
prestigious Chicago-based national law firm of Jenner & Block, who will act
as local counsel in the case.
On May 12th TRN filed a federal lawsuit asking for $500,000 in damages due
to "lost advertising and business opportunities", in an attempt to
permanently shut down three web sites containing detailed criticism of
Michael Savage and encouraging consumer boycotts of advertisers on his radio
and television shows. Filed in a Northern Illinois court, the suit claims
that Culligan International Company canceled a contract for advertising on
"The Savage Nation" worth more than $100,000 after receiving "false and
malicious" email from the web site owners and their readers. Others named in
the lawsuit are a John Doe (responsible for michaelsavagesucks.com), and
Julie Sigwart, owner of Take Back the Media (takebackthemedia.com), both of
whom also vigorously dispute the merits of TRN's claims.
"We are extraordinarily pleased to have two such prestigious firms defending
us. Public Citizen has a strong history of successfully defending web site
owners like ourselves against meritless attempts to stifle free speech, and
we are confident they will prevail in our case as well. TRN's claims are
without substance - this lawsuit is clearly an attempt to silence a rapidly
rising flood of criticism from the grassroots that is driving all sensible
advertisers away from Savage's show," said Thomas Leavitt, co-founder and
content editor for SavageStupidity.com. "No sane company wants to be
associated with the stream of racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-immigrant,
anti-Semitic and generally hateful and obnoxious comments broadcast daily on
'The Savage Nation'. Intimating that Elizabeth Smart is a slut, calling gay
pride marchers 'the brownshirts of the modern age', and ranting that
'Hispanics breed like rabbits' place Michael Weiner far outside the
mainstream of American political discourse. Advertisers are leaving in
droves on their own - we're just helping the process along by empowering
people with documented and referenceable commentary they can use to
effectively communicate their pre-existing concerns to Savage's advertisers.
Savagestupidity.com is freedom of speech in action, as American as Apple
Pie, and we fully expect the courts to recognize that."
Talk Radio Networks, Inc. has also filed a domain name dispute complaint
with the National Arbitration Forum attempting to seize the
savagestupidity.com domain name, based on unfounded claims that it is
"confusingly similar" to michaelsavage.com and violates the as yet to be
approved "Michael Savage" trademark. SavageStupidity.com's co-founders have
chosen to answer this on their own, filing a response on May 26th, 2003.
Savage filed a similar claim against michaelsavagesucks.com, whose owner
responded on May 20th, 2003. Both sites expect to prevail, but are prepared
to pursue further courses of action should the corporate-biased Uniform
Dispute Resolution Process fail to produce a satisfactory result.
SavageStupidity.com and michaelsavagesucks.com were the lone voices
documenting Savage's hate-filled commentaries until earlier this year, when
MSNBC announced plans to broadcast a talk show hosted by Michael Savage on
Saturday afternoons, after dropping veteran liberal-leaning talk show host
Phil Donahue from its lineup. Several national organizations, including the
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), the National Organization for
Women (NOW), and GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation),
responded by launching extensive publicity efforts aimed at encouraging
MSNBC to reconsider its decision to offer Savage's hateful rants a televised
forum, and documenting his long history of problematic remarks.
"We find it curious that Savage's lawsuit does not mention any of these
nationally prominent organizations, despite their much greater ability to
generate negative publicity and the fact that at least one of them, GLAAD,
maintains an extensive repository of Savage-related information on their web
site, including audio/visual excerpts," said Thomas. "This is obviously
another case of a media giant picking on the little guy/gal, in an attempt
to set an unfortunate precedent that would harm free speech on the Internet
and elsewhere. We are pleased that Public Citizen and David Bradford
recognized the importance of this case by agreeing to defend us. The flood
of supportive and helpful email that we've received from visitors to the web
site indicates that they are not alone in this recognition, and has been
very much appreciated."
Full documentation of both the lawsuit and the domain dispute is available
through the SavageStupidity.com website at http://www.savagestupidity.com/
in the sections on the home page labeled "Lawsuit" and "Domain Name
Dispute".
Other Resources:
Public Citizen website:
Jenner & Block website... "A lawyer fights to preserve the blood-bought
rights of our people in defense of the poor. -Justice Floyd E. Thompson":
http://www.jenner.com/
David J. Bradford:
http://www.jenner.com/people/bio.asp?id=41
GLAAD Archive on Savage (includes audio/visual samples and media coverage of
Savage controversy):
http://www.glaad.org/action/campaigns_detail.php?id=3295
FAIR News Release on Savage's hiring by MSNBC "GE, Microsoft Bring Bigotry
to Life":
http://www.fair.org/activism/msnbc-savage.html
Bob Lonsderry "ASK MICHAEL SAVAGE TO APOLOGIZE" (re: comments about
Elizabeth Smart):
http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1104
About Thomas and Gunilla Leavitt
Husband and wife, writer and designer, Thomas and Gunilla have found that
their skills complement each other. "Gunilla is a very visual person, but
she's helpless when faced with the task of filling an empty page with text.
I, on the other hand, am happy pounding a keyboard till my fingers bleed -
nothing pleases me more than to make rhetorical mincemeat of ludicrous
public figures like Michael Weiner," said Thomas. "Before I met Gunilla,
however, it would have never occurred to me to create a site like
SavageStupidity.com (and indeed, I never did), because I simply lack the
design skills to create anything even remotely professional, and the high
quality look and feel of the sites we've created is very important to me.
I'm as helpless before a graphic design program as Gunilla is before a text
editor."
"My job is to make things look pretty. Before I met Thomas, I lost a lot of
business because my clients just were not up to the task of creating
original content to populate my designs - with him, I'm able to offer both
design AND copy writing, which makes my clients ecstatic. It works the same
way with the advocacy media web sites we create together - Thomas comes up
with the concept, I design it and create templates, and he takes it from
there," said Gunilla. "The look and feel are all me, the content and words
are all him, which is the way I like it."
SavageStupidity.com was the first advocacy media web site Thomas and Gunilla
created together - since then, they've collaborated on a number of other
projects, including BuyFrenchNow.com, and ISwitched.org (which profiles
activists who've switched to the Green Party and documents why they made the
switch), as well as numerous web site designs and revamps for local
organizations Thomas and Gunilla work with, and Thomas' City Council
campaign site at http://www.thomasleavitt.org/cc/.
About SavageStupidity.com
Founded in May of 2002, SavageStupidity.com's goal is to raise awareness
about Michael Savage's hateful diatribes and the attitudes they foster and
support among his listener audience. To that end, it has generated over
500,000 page views, including over 130,000 in May of 2003 alone, published a
wide selection of "hate mail" from Savage supporters demonstrating Savage's
noxious influence, and been cited in a number of media and activist articles
as one of the primary sources for information on Savage and "The Savage
Nation".
Get a load of the latest Presidential Portrait. The story's almost as handsome! Bush now says, "Iraq HAD a weapons program." HAD! How much will it take for all of America to realize that this dangerous guy has got to go. I invite any and all emailers who can tell me ONE decent thing...just ONE, that Bush has done for this country. He started what could become a World War based on a bald faced lie and everyone's talking about Hillary's book. At least I used it to focus on the stark contrast between administrations. One caller suggested the media is being a little bit soft on Hillary because it only helps them move away from the most serious question facing the world right now: United States Acts of Aggression.
Seatac Councilwoman Jumps Off Aurora Bridge. Close friend said she suffered health problems but others said they had no clue. When do you talk to someone about suicide?
Suicide Hotline: 1-800-784-2433
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