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Forrester on Brian Lehrer: Open Thread

by: Media In Trouble

Wed Nov 02, 2005 at 08:52:06 AM EST



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Today at 10 AM.

You can listen to the show at WNYC.org

You can email Brian Lehrer with any questions you might have.

Here is a good question:

Mr. Forrester, your positions tend to waver with the polls.  Can you please clarify, once and for all, your position on public funding for embryonic stem cell research, as well as who you think should pay for cleaning up Ringwood?

Judging by your public statements, you seem to have been against embryonic stem cell research, before you were for it, with the contention that you wouldn't fund it with state funds.

Your public record also says that you were first FOR having tax payer funds pay for cleaning up Ringwood, but as of last night's debate, you seem to now want to put the financial responsibility into polluter's hands.

As a follow-up question, wouldn't many consider this flip-flopping, waffling, and at the very least misleading?

Consider this an Open Thread for those who listen in.

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TURN IT UP! (0.00 / 0)
Gore Vidal is talking about how we were bamboozled in the 2000 election.  He is also pissing on e-voting machines.

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Lehrer : Is there any evidence that the machines were hacked in 2004? (0.00 / 0)
Gore Vidal:  Yes... begins discussing the John Conyers report.

Continues to say the election was stolen.

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Liberal Media Jab (0.00 / 0)
Vidal says NYTimes ignored Conyers book.  Right Right Right.

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Spread the word-Corzine Rally Sunday (0.00 / 0)
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell speaking in Glassboro, New Jersey for the Corzine Pre-Election Day Rally, Sunday, November 6, 2005, 1-3pm. This event is free and open to the public. For more information phone (856) 401-0100 or call Masso's on Delsea Drive in Glassboro, NJ.

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Suprise Closed session highlighted (0.00 / 0)
I have more at Media In Trouble including a liberal media challenge of the day.

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Juan WIlliams (0.00 / 0)
This is the second time I am hearing this piss poor example of a liberal's voice today.  He was on Morning Edition.

He is saying the Dems can scream and holler all they want, but the time of reckoning was the election (accountability moment).

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Redemption (0.00 / 0)
Ok Juan is now saying that the report has been slow in comming.  Saying Dems used whatever power they had to push the envelope on the report, at a tim when the public is paying attention.

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On Torture (0.00 / 0)
Williams highlights this Wapo Story

saying people in CIA are uncomfy with torture, and talking to reporters like Dana Priest.

Reminds folks there is no argument in the Senate, saying 90 some Senators voted for McCain's ammendment.

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Williams redeeming himself (0.00 / 0)
Basically, he is pointing the plamegate to the VP's office.

Excellent Williams!  I retract my former comment.

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The boys are talking Rosa Parks (0.00 / 0)
Williams thinks all this hoopla actually goes against Rosa Parks legacy.  Citing that she is all over grade school walls etc.

I don't know but I do kno that Sam Alito and Bill Frist have no business goin to her wake.

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Talkin about Ferrer (0.00 / 0)
Looks like the mayoral debate in NYC was pretty hot last night.


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Starts (0.00 / 0)
by saying that the Corzine camp has not yet agreed to come on the phone.

This is bullshit.  Corzine just get on the air with Brian Lehrer.

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Forrester is calling in (0.00 / 0)
Brain says Record and Star Ledger eendorsements were not that great.  Focusing on craptacular 30 in 3 plan.

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Forrester on state employees (0.00 / 0)
says his tax plan will not cut the payroll for state employees.

Waste fraud and abuse... blah blah

saying there is huge ammounts of money.

Lehrer says the math doesn't add up.  Saying Forrester is not being fully honest.  Is there really enough discretionary spending to find the cuts?

Forrester... throwing out numbers if it costs 7+ bilion he has only highlighted about 3 billion so far.
Budget has 3/4 money in NJ budget goes to state grants. Says controlls on these grants are poopy.  

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Q: If papers turn out to be right about the math (0.00 / 0)
Will you have to rescind on your tax plan or cut into services?

Forrester- linking state budget makers to local budget makers... as i said before.. good luck.  Doesn't this mean you have to deal with the Democratic party bosses you verbally poop on?

Business climate in Jersey is wretched.
I pointed out this lie yesterday.

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Q: Bush's avian flu plan (0.00 / 0)
requires state governments with 75% of the costs.
Did Bush just screw NJ with all this extra spending.

Forrester says he isn't happy with what he has been hearing from Washington...
Funny he allows these guys to fundraise for him.  

Not happy with what has happened with the last 5 years.
HA!  Says Corzine has been a leader and should have done something....

Pretty hard if you are a Senator in the minority.  ASSHAT!


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Q: Dems may not want to vote for you cuz they are mad at the national Republican party (0.00 / 0)
Question is also about Iraq.

Forrester - thinks political parties exhist for one reason... to create good government...

f/u Q: Was the Intelligence flawed?

Forrester... doesn't want to comment on foreign affairs...
criticizes feds for Homeland security fund distribution.
blames this on Corzine...

NO sir it was your buddies in the republican party who did that.

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Q: What about your business? (0.00 / 0)
People like you get rich off these contracts.

Forrester...Misleading ads by Corzine.

Lehrer.. you too have been accused of running misleading ads.

Forrester... uh..blah...

Lehrer.. if you arent the employer, the doctor, or the patient, arent you just taking a piece of the pie?

Forrester... we are teh same as any health insurance company does...blah blah

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Q: Do you know the %age of NJians with no health insurance (0.00 / 0)
Forrester... I dunno.. just know its worse than last year.  

Q:  What would you approximate it as?

Forrester says close to 1 million...
med mal reform...

OH SNAP The Phone DROPPED!!!

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CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? (0.00 / 0)
Q: Mentioned Business climate...
OH SNAP Someone just mentioned my post on the Entrepreneur mag rating of NJ as #2

THANKS LINDSAY!!!

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Q: What are the chances of residents beign able to vote (0.00 / 0)
Lehrer!!

Q:  Is there a movement in NJ?

Neither candidate has addressed this question.

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Forrester is back (0.00 / 0)
Q: Back to the call about the Entrepreneur magazine article.

Forrester is answering... cites Beacon Hill study. claims 44th.  which also indicated NJ is 45th.  Says has no idea what the source is...

Its Entrepreneur magazine...

About the immigrant voting.

Forrester things citizenship is pre-requisite.

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Home Rule Question (0.00 / 0)
Forrester still BSing about waste fraud and abuse.

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I am on the phone wanting to ask about minimum wage. (0.00 / 0)
Still talking about home rule (0.00 / 0)
Forrester is so full of crapskies.

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Q: navy man was at one point uninsured, what about Camden (0.00 / 0)
Camden is piss poor and poopy city.  It is a blight on NJ.  the caller is right.

Forrester... Failure of NJ... Camden important...deal making for policy making... political bosses... waste fraud and abuse...

So what woudl you do?

Corrections... and drug treatment...

Prison ministries...WTF?!?!

still havent told us what you will do.

cure substance abuse...

Forrester... why isnt' that enough?

HAHA.. How about reducing crime with crimefighters?


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Q: What about the health insurance (0.00 / 0)
If you lie between piss poor, and middle class, you cant afford or get heatlh insurance... so how about those folks...

Forrester... Medical malpractice reform...
Sides with Codey on getting children medical care...



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Q: Closing comments (0.00 / 0)
Forrester... bosses rulling...need a change...family... fragmented.... resources wrongly allocated...

Poopy I didn't get to ask my question...

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