Today's TRMS
Osama bin Laden's driver has just been convicted of providing material support to terrorists following an illegal, secretive terrifying kangaroo court trial at Guantanamo. Joining Rachel tonight to talk about Hamdan's life, trial and conviction is the man who just wrote the definitive book on the subject, Jonathan Mahler. His new book is called: The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power.
Also, journalists only need the vaguest sign of friendship between one of the candidates and another politician to assume that a vice presidential choice is nigh. But, it does seem like Obama is spending an awful lot of time with Evan Bayh. So much so that we are nervous this is more than a coincidence. So we've asked John Nichols to join us today to talk about why Bayh would be a terrible, terrible running mate.
GSH
Great to hear Gil Scott-Heron on the show two days running. Would be nice to hear "I Think I'll Call It Morning" for those days when Ms. C. Little needs cheering up or "When You Are Who You Are" on the days when Sen. Obama doesn't let Rove-McCain define him.
By the way, I read late 2007 that GSH was starting to perform shows again and might be recording some new music. Anybody in NYC heard any more details about concerts or new music?
As far as the polling information, would you be able to have a guest on the show who can reassure us that there is a significant Obama undercount happening? I know that I read earlirer in the primaries that the polling folks don't call mobile phone users in their surveys (too costly). Since many younger voters use those phones rather than land lines, they are under represented, enough so that a 3% lead may truly be 5 to 7%. Would Zogby address that situation? Is this something that Chuck Todd ever mentions in private MSNBC sessions?
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By JTGullsAugust 7, 2008 - 2:24am