John Amato is MSNBC's 'Muckraker of the Day'
By David Neiwert Friday Jan 16, 2009 4:34pm
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John Amato, as we mentioned a little earlier, was featured on MSNBC's "1600 Pennsylvania Ave." program with David Shuster this afternoon as "Muckraker of the Day."
Mostly the conversation was about Bush's farewell speech and how "gracious" Republicans have been. You'll enjoy John's reaction.
Amato: This has been the most incredibly destructive presidency probably in the history of our nation. Look at the results. Look at what Obama has inherited. And I'd say David again, what America has done now is repudiated Conservatism in its entirety.
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He doesn't look anything like the guy in the C&L logo.
The Man in Black... :)
For the Giants. Don't think otherwise.
;^D
On edit: Subtle little hyperlink, Orang. :D
E-A-G-L-E-S!!!
*Wink*
Kudos to you! I love C&L. My life is different since I've been coming here. I feel much more informed. Thanks.
I totally agree, I saw it on TV. Most destructive presidency ever, yes. Regan started it, yes. Clinton kept it going?????
Obama??????
Torture!
We're disgraced.
MRotW
Congrats, John!
What the muck?
Awesome John!!!
He's Muckraker of the Year here.
not liking me very much...LOL
I'll take care of them…
the nits.
Help Alice X - Choms... deal with the nits.
Excellent interview.
You make us all proud.
Is that what I get on my nuts?
I thought you were right on target. I just wish they would have given you more time to say what you really thought.
you should publish their email addresses so we can all write them a thank-you note! :-)
Or at least post some of the more profane or( profound )of the comments.
If you are taking flak, it means you are over the target... from WWII I think.
Or as a Johnny Cash paraphrase goes..
It's not about not pissing people off, It's about pissing the right people off.
You're on target :)
Flugabwehrkanone.
Anti-aircraft gun.
Archie. Flak.
Gott strafe England!
I'll send you a left wing email. Way to represent, Amato. Getting right wing email is a great sign you did well. If you can, pass along some of the emails and let us know what they say.
process--see below at 21:28. Another new name we'll never see again, except maybe on a Gaza thread...
Good job representing the truly right, as in correct, point of view.
Ya let us down John.
Ya needed to show up with long, stringy, greasy hair, coke bottle glasses, packing 90 more pounds with Cheetoh crumbs in your poorly fitting Dungeons and Dragons t-shirt.
lol....
Looks like Hannity but talks like a DFH.
Nice work piasan.
The caption in that pic say; "Muckracker of the day".
Another in a great history of muckraking.
We can now add an entry under "A".
especially being able to make some solid points in the ADD timescale of TV. Mega-hits!!!!
This your profile John?:
http://www.stuartngbooks.com/gould_dick_tracy...
nice going john
nice of schuster to not that this site condences and posts all the best stories
I especially appreciate your parsing his "graciousness."
and looking hawt, yummy and delicious, as always.
You should be very proud of C&L, John. It is truly the best site on the web. Keep up the great work!
thanks...
:)
Shuster gave C&L a nice plug-something about how Dave and his colleagues consider it to be one of the best online resourses for whats happening-presumably-in leftwing politics.I wholeheartedly concur.Nice job Johnny.
I'm glad he got the 1600 show...
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/d/dicktrac...
that muck, John. Ya never know what the hell you will turn over.
Great work, great site.
Lave ya, kid
Jo
C&L is my lifeline. Now let's hope you get more air time. Who knew David Schuster checks in here. Hey Dave!
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/d...
Guess JS was right... :-)
Well done.
so gracious. Class all the way around.
http://www.remixamerica.org/videos/born-again...
It just makes a person feel good to hear music like that from regular American folks.
It warms the heart. Thank you!
It was on Bill Moyer's tonight. I'm a-hopin' it becomes a thread.
Praise Bob!!!
Hey, do you have a YouTube with Sarah Palin commenting on bloggers? It would be appropriate for Amato's comment at the bottom at 20:06.
I've been mildly, and sometimes heavily addicted to you blog since it was 6 months old. I found it from a link on Michael Moore's website.
I was just thinking to myself this morning that you have been so influential in the media and the political process, that you should be one of the talking heads on these shows.
Thanks for helping to break the barrier. There is still a huge chunk of people who are getting dis-information from the evening news and consolidated major publications. Blogs expose everyone to so much more information and will only raise the IQ and participation of the electorate.
You're doing a great service to all of us. C&L is my go-to place for information and fun.
Thanks. You look good on t.v. Don't give up your day job. We need you too much here.
i saw you on the tube today, and was proud to know you, both in person and in blogtopia and yes, i coined that phrase!
in blogtopia and I salute you as well, my dear!
(You coined that phrase 'blogtopia'? I never would have known! - Hah!)
In my case it's not Cheetohs crumbs in my ill fitting Dungeon and Dragon's t-shirt. It's Walkers Oat Cakes with Lemon Curd in my Kafka t-shirt. My snack is washed down with Burgundy, whilst I smoke Gauloises Brunes and listening to Ofra Haza.
It's a Texan thing I guess.
but you have a well-balanced diet! That's the important thing.
you!
You made us proud John!
To see the man who made C&L possable telling the truth, in a classy way. (I would have been tempted to bang my fist on the desk and say: "ARE YOU F***ING KIDDING ME! HE'S...." Shuster was cool and let you do what's right. Working together we ALL will change this country for the better.
John Amato and David Shuster! Great to hear the voice of Truth, Bush was a complete failure and conservatism is a complete failure.
And Bush lied again. His decisions weren't hard, they were simply based on the neo-con agenda of power and greed.
Blogs have come a long way baby!
Maybe next time you could invite me on.
I drink so heavily
That I could be seen as the liberal answer to Christopher Hutchens
With indecipherable mutterings and sliding off my chair alot
I'd be a true intellectual.
U need to bring a vodka bottle on the set and chug it as u speak...
Only if it's Monopolova.
Or better yet Zwack Slivovitz.
But now I have to go to bed to either fall asleep or pass out.
Whichever comes first.
One of the most influential blog sites. Great Work John!
I found C&L after I discovered Keith. Life took a turn for the better.
Thank you!
Here's a big old kiss for you John 'cause once again, you did good! :)
Goddam Amato....we are all proud as shit of you....no really.
Hey, come to that 'Drinking Liberally' thing in Santa Monica, if you ain't like, high fallutin' somewhere in DC, and we'll slam a couple of 'musicians shots' and then, well and then, we'll go do stupid shit like back in the day. God DAMM, way to go you sax playing mothereffer'.
Bush (by which we mean Cheney et al) was no American conservative; he was a neo-fascist. The Nazis also pretended to be conservatives; they were, in fact, feudalists. The neo-"conservatives" made great strides in turning this country into a Banana Republic. We are about halfway there now, and saddled with a debt that will cripple Obama's ability to reverse course (if he even intends to try).
Will Obama repeal the PATRIOT Act, end warrantless surveillance, expose the bogus "war on terror" as a hoax, halt the absurd and unconstitutional "war on drugs," throw the moneychangers out of the Temple of Democracy, abolish the skein of executive orders that could be used someday to impose an unelected "shadow government" headed by a de facto president for life, and/or throttle the military-industrial-mafiosa complex?
I would bet heavily against it. It's clear from his meteoric rise that Obama's been anointed by the Powers That Be to put a kinder, gentler face on the consolidation of power that's been accelerating under both Democratic and Republican administrations for 50 years.
It's going to take more than just hoping for change to turn this around.
but let's HOPE your wrong. Can you even conceive what is in the minds of so called minorities who for the most part have been on the outside looking in.
Congratulations! Now keep us posted on the most ridiculous, illiterate, or genuinely funny wingnut feedback you receive.
WOW! Having someone on the television who knows what the hell they're talking about! That's almost like change I can believe in!
Muckraker? JA you need rebranding.
You lovely man, you!
You Did It LIVE! (and, may I say, a million time better than billo ever could).
I was surprised to see you when I turned on the tube, but glad to know that Shuster has the good sense to engage real progressive commentators.
I stumbled upon C&L a couple years ago, and now consider it my home in the blogosphere. You and all of your contributors do a great job, and I sure hope C&L will be here when I turn on my computer for a long time to come. Hope to see you in TV-land again, soon!
I hate the troops and don't honor the presidency and whatnot.
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