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On this week’s show, December 1, 2012:

Hour 1

Charlie Mitchell on latest Congress/Obama regarding Bush tax cuts

Charlie Mitchell on lame duck Congress: sequester & other issues. Is Social Security off table in fiscal cliff negotiations as Durbin says?

Daniel Marans on Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist, @TaxReformer) – The man behind the infamous “Taxpayer Protection Pledge”?

Cliff Schechter on Obama/White House strategy… plus, potential Rand Paul GOP candidacy in 2016. (@SenRandPaul)

You can listen to the podcast for hour 1 on line here:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/weactradio/Hour_1_-_TAN_12.1_-_edited.mp3

Hour 2

David Shuster’s roundup of week

Allie Braswell, CEO of the Central Florida Urban League (@CFLUrbanLeague) on Florida GOP acknowledging politically motivated voter suppression

Daniel Marans on what he saw at the Black Friday protest at Walmart in Secaucus, NJ (@forrespect, @changewalmart)

Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) of Salon on Walmart protest effectiveness & progressive strategy in Obama’s 2nd term

You can listen to the podcast for hour 2 on line here:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/weactradio/Hour_2_-_TAN_12.1_-_edited.mp3

Hour 3

Alan Rosenblatt on how Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, is opening up China

Corporate/social responsibility in media: Fox News’ anti-American, falsely reported “war on Christmas”

Activist of the Week: Josh Stearns (@jcstearns), Free Press (@freepress), on holding FCC accountable and preventing Rupert Murdoch from monopolizing media.

How it should be: How we should keep money out of elections and how the media should point out conflicts of interests, like Simpson & Bowles getting $40,000 a speech

You can listen to the podcast for hour 3 on line here:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/weactradio/Hour_3_-_TAN_12.1_-_edited.mp3