The Dana Pretzer Show On Scared Monkeys Radio - Thursday, July 2, 2009 - Special Guests: Wendy Murphy and Robin Sax Discussing Michael Jackson

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Wendy Murphy

Robin Sax

• Former DA & author Wendy Murphy and Los Angeles ADA Robin Sax join Dana tonight to discuss the life and death of Michael Jackson. We have heard in the media talk about Michael Jackson the singer, now we will hear from child victims advocate Wendy Murphy and Robin Sax who has a new book entitled,  ‘Predators and Child Molesters: What Every Parent Needs to Know to Keep Kids Safe’.

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Obamanomics: US Unemployment Rate Climbs to a 26 Year High at 9.5%

Obamanomics you can believe in … More Obama change you can believe in … Jobless claims higher than expected as 467,000 jobs lost in June, driving the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent. The economic carnage continues and everything that Obama has done or proposed has not helped, in fact it might have made matters worse.

The Labor Department report, released Thursday, showed that even as the recession flashes signs of easing, companies likely will want to keep a lid on costs and be wary of hiring until they feel certain the economy is on a solid ground. June’s payroll reductions were deeper than the 363,000 that economists expected.

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Gaffe Prevention: VP Biden’s Witness Protection Program … Sent to Talk to the Not-So Masses by Obama

It appears that President Barack Obama and his handlers have finally found a way to hide VP Biden in a witness protection program away from the media so no more verbal gaffes can be reported. The answer, send Biden to locations to speak where no one shows.

Using the age old adage, If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there, does it make a sound, Obama sent Biden off to rural, rural, town outside of Erie, PA to talk with the common folks about federal stimulus money that can be used to expand broadband access to the Internet for rural areas that typically have poor connections.

It looks like the people did not get the memo as no one showed. It’s like a scene from the movie “Black Sheep” where Chris Farley is sent off to some obscure, rural town to help his bothers campaign to just keep him out of the way. Sounds familiar.

Apparently stimulus money and broadband are not all that interesting to the local folk here: Only around 100 or so people have showed up so far to hear Biden talk at noon at Seneca High School off Route 8 in Wattsburg.

The room looked so sparse that about 30 or so chairs were removed by volunteers to give the illusion of a full house.

The effect didn’t exactly work.

When the Press Attacks: Obama Wearing out his Welcome with Media … Not Even Nixon Tried to Control the Media Like Obama

Wow, who would have thought within the first year of an Obama presidency that the press would compare him to Richard Nixon. OUCH, that’s going to leave a mark, The Chosen One compared to Nixon. …  There’s change you can believe in … Stay tune for Fox’s new TV show, When the LEFT ATTACKS.

The media made Obama, they have carried the water for Obama and now they appear to be fed up with Obama. Has the media finally gotten tired of Obama’s lack of transparency and stonewalling of the media’s questions? What did the media expect? They created Obama by never asking a tough question, does the press now have buyer’s remorse, literally!

When liberal Helen Thomas thinks that Obama is trying to control the press, the Obamamessiah really has a problem. Is the media going to finally expose this President and the Administration for what they really are? They claim they are for oneness and transparency, yet have done nothing but stonewall, create media infomercials, have media plants, and pre-screen Town Hall questions. As Town Hall.com states … It’s about time, called on it for once.

“Nixon didn’t try to do that,” Thomas said. “They couldn’t control (the media). They didn’t try.

“What the hell do they think we are, puppets?” Thomas said. “They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.”

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Karl Malden Dead at the Age of 97 … Rest in Peace

Sadly, Karl Malden has died at the age of 97. The Oscar winning actor died Wednesday of natural causes at his Brentwood home. To one of my favorite actors of all time, Rest in Peace. What a talent this man truly was in a time when actors could truly act and when screen presence was larger than life. Karl Malden was not just another pretty face, the man had it. Thank you for sharing your talents, God Bless.

Malden’s career lasted six decades, more than 50 films, including an Oscar in 1951 for “A Street Car Named Desire”. Many of my generation remember Karl Malden for his role on the TV series, “Streets of San Francisco.” As stated by Shakesville, Malden had a special “badass” quality that was a presence on the screen or TV. Of course Karl Malden is also remember for other films he was in like the original Miracle on Ice, Gypsy, On the Waterfront and Patton to name a few. See all of his numerous accomplishments here.

However, to reach superstardom, one needs to be remembered in a timeless manner and there is nothing more timeless than a catch phrase in a commercial that becomes symptomatic with the product being advertised. For more than 20 years Karl Malden was the face of American Express, before anyone referred to it as AMEX. In 1973 Karl Malden introduced us with the catch phrase … “Don’t Leave Home With Out It.”

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Daily Commentary - Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 - Setting the Record Straight on Elvis, the Real King

• More importantly, stop comparing Jacko to him, Princess Diana, or anyone else.

ELVIS was the real King … the numbers and record sales do not lie.

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Private Health Care Business in Canada? I Thought They were the Model of Universal Healthcare?

Look what happens when people are provided a choice. Who really wants the government to provide them healthcare? These are the same folks that responded so quickly when Hurricane Katrina hit. The government is an inefficient and wasteful entity at best, do you really want your care and your children’s care in the hands of the government?

As Obama and the Democrats go down the path of socialism and government control of healthcare, maybe Americans need to take a look to our good friend to the North and see how their universal healthcare is doing.

Canada’s universal healthcare system is always referenced as a beacon of success for universal healthcare. Really? Maybe someone should tell Canadians that. Having to face long waits, rationalized medical care and substandard care and interesting thing is occurring in the Great White North. Private clinics are opening and providing Canadians with care who are willing to pay. What a novel concept, the free market system is alive and well and working in Canada.

“I think there is a fundamental shift in different parts of the country that’s beginning to happen. I think people are beginning to realize that they should have a choice,” says Luc Boulay, a partner at St. Joseph MRI, a private clinic in Quebec that charges around $700 for most scans.

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Obama Back Peddling on Taxes … Press Corps Laughing at the Lameness of Gibbs Response & the Process

Barack Obama … Read my lips, no new middle class taxes.

The honeymoon is over. The press laughs at Press Secretary Gibbs lame attempt to duck their questions. Has the as the Obama House of Spin is starting to unravel. Barack Obama made a campaign promise that he would not tax anyone who makes less that $250. That promise all but got him elected a it was those mean rich people who were going to pay for everything in Obama’s redistribution of wealth program.

Looks like Obama is learning that a campaign promise and a smile does not make a President.

Check out Gibbs run in with the media and that campaign promise that Obama made.

“President on the campaign said that he made a flat pledge that he would not raise taxes on anybody making  over $250. So is that pledge still active?”

“Hypothetical? He Made a pledge. He said  I am not going to raise any taxes on anyone making under $250. Is that pledge still active?”

Gibbs responds, “We are going to let the process work its way through.”

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Daily Commentary - Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 - Time to Put a Stop to Prescription Drug Abuse Enablers

• Dana calls for prescription drug reform.

Consumer Confidence Takes Unexpected Slide on Obama’s Watch … Drunken Sailor Spending and Taxes is Economies Undoing

Confidence in Obama dealing with the economy is becoming an issue. Stimulus plan was not only pork, it was a turkey. The honeymoon is over.

Consumer confidence falls unexpectedly in June. Unexpectedly? With all the deficit spending, with all the socialistic government control of banks and the car industry, with all the stimulus money borrowed against our grand children’s future. Should it really be unexpected when even the President’s approval ratings are going down? On top of it all, unemployment continues to rise, even though Obama’s admin said it would not go over 10%.

It is a pretty sad state of affairs when Obama pal, George Soros, says that borrowing costs pose a threat to economic recovery.

The consumer confidence index fell to 49.3 in June from 54.8 in May. Economists polled by Reuters had expected a healthier reading of 55.0 for the month.

Billionaire investor George Soros added to the cautionary tone, saying that rising borrowing costs posed a threat to any eventual economic recovery.

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