Jan 28, 2012
Middle Eastern correspondent Aya el Batrawy (
@ayaelb), who correctly predicted a year back that El Baredei would not become Egypt’s new leader, called in to give an update on Tharir Square. This to celebrate the one year anniversary of the #Jan25 uprising. So often we lose sight of the long struggle that continues after the bright lights and Anderson Cooper has left the scene for more theatrical pictures.
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Jan 28, 2012
TJ and The Tux got their second chance to speak with Governor Roemer this week and he was fired up. To date Roemer has been shut out of 21 Republican debates and because of that he is starting a unity ticket by picking a Democrat for his Vice Presiden- tial running mate. Erskine Bowles of the Simpson-Bowles debt reduction plan is on the short list. Instead of being about a party, Roemer’s 8 years as President would be about America. In Roemer’s words, “Obama is owned by wall street. Mitt Romney is the 1% and Newt Gingrich is a lobbyist for the 1%. Meanwhile big business controls all of the reforms in Washington, banks are still too big to fail and corruption is all encom- passing”. Each party is blaming each other and Roemer is the only candidate that is “free to lead”.
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Jan 27, 2012
Few knew this at the time, but TJ and The Tux reported live as the President made his way onto the floor for the State of the Union Tuesday night. Hear the commentary that an entire Nation sadly missed.
Mitt Romney is not “the kindest warmest person we know” the way brainwashed soldiers like Bennet Marco (played by Frank Sinatra) referred to Raymond Shaw in the 60′s classic the Manchurian Candidate. Mitt, according to today’s brainwashed talking heads is “the electable one.” Until South Carolina happened. There, cold water hit the faces of those who saw the race as Mitt’s to lose and Newt Gingrich woke them out of their hypnotic slumber. Gingrich upset Romney in The Gamecock State and is threatening in Florida. Why has Mitt Romney struggled to seal the nomination early, or were expectations set too high to begin with? In reality Romney has only won the state of New Hampshire.
2012 GOP Presidential candidate Buddy Roemer (
@buddyroemer) joined the duo to lay out his six point plan to fight corruption in Washington. Roemer already overcame corruption once when he beat out Edwin Edwards for the governorship of Louisiana, the most politically colorful state in the union. Roemer is “free to lead” as he writes on his website, and told Shock and Awesome why.
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Jan 25, 2012
Former Governor Buddy Roemer joined us today for our Thursday podcast “The Lame-Churian Candidate.” Roemer, is running for President with no desire for Super PAC money or endorsements, while having been left out of most of the debates that have taken place.
Roemer may currently be on the outside looking in, but the Weekly Standard reported today that that 33% of GOP want a new candidate injected into the mix. The upcoming days and weeks could be Roemer’s moment to shine. Here are a few tidbits from the interview, which can be heard here and on East Village Radio Thursday.
Roemer on his idea of forming a “Unity Party” by running with a Democrat on the ticket “I don’t want to build a party. I want to build a Nation.”
Roemer on why leadership is in disarray “Noone’s in charge. They’re bought.”
Roemer on entering the race: “My time’s gonna come.”
For more info on the candidate go to www.buddyroemer.com
Jan 23, 2012
Newt Gingrich fought off what many analysts felt was to be his last stand with a defeat in South Carolina. He punched, clawed, and simply played smart in turning the tides. Dumping two tax issues on Romney while spinning an ex wife’s “open marriage” claims into an advantage. Remaining calm amidst other charges that he is too hot headed to be the Republican nominee. In doing so, Gingrich overcame a ten point deficit days prior to upset frontrunner Mitt Romney by twelve points on Jan 21st. Now as early voting begins in Florida (an estimated 40 percent will have voted by the actual primary date of Jan 31), it is Romney who must come out of his shell and go on the attack against the “Comeback Kid.”
Romney has maintained a well rehearsed smile on debate stages since the first one last Spring. He has kept comments directed towards Barry “the Cigarette” Obama, not the players beneath him in the GOP polls. Why stoop down to their “also ran” level right? Wrong. Not anymore. Forget Rick Santorum’s “win” in meaningless Iowa. Newt Gingrich is the one who won in South Cackalacky. Where they’ve picked Republican Presidents since 1980.
For Mitt Romney’s camp, the “play it safe and run out the clock” approach has to stop before Florida. The Newtster is finding some ryhtym now and momentum can be a dangerous weapon. Especially since the former Speaker is now cementing a consistent message to go along with it. That HE is the Reagan conservative. That HE can beat Obama in debates. That the “three wives” controversy is dated and a left wing media attack. That Romney is NOT one of “us” but instead a moderate elitist. With a bank account too great to have any empathy for the working class.
Romney must go back to those old Bruce Lee karate films, and study them. Symbolically. Preparing to go on the offensive, and counter any moves made by Newt in a more aggressive way. In other words, get ready unleash a few roundhouse kicks. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Challenge the unpredictable Gingrich to remain disciplined and calm. Using whatever means necessary to regain control of a narrative that only weeks back, read that of all the Republicans, only Mitt was the electable one in a general election. That may mean that opening shots and retorts aimed at Newt have to start containing more lethal power once again.
Gingrich was publicly furious about Romney’s negative ads against him in Iowa and vowed revenge. In South Carolina, he got it in the form of a huge win. Mitt helped out however, by taking the bait in not keeping up the pressure on his rival down South. Meanwhile Gingrich counterpunched by raising Romney’s record twenty years back at Bain capital relentlessly leading up to the South Carolina primary. This as he complained about the historic nature of an ex wife’s tales from just ten years ago. While not a peep came from Romney about his rival’s historical hypocrisy of wanting to sideline only his own past. A more recent one at that as well.
Mitt Romney better start to employ some more emotion and fight on Gingrich than Obama starting Monday. There will be plenty of time to go after a sitting President should he be the last one standing. As for now, he is not. Florida is a two man battle thanks to the final score in Carolina. If Romney does not agree, and thus fails to alter the gameplan on Gingrich as a result, he may be in for another Southern surprise.
Jan 20, 2012
Tim Miller Interview: We spoke to Tim Miller (@timodc), Spokesman and National Press secretary for Jon Huntsman, who provided insight for why Huntsman bowed out of the race and how S.C, is do-or-die for every one not named Romney.
Author Jody Sabral:“Changing Borders” author Jody Sabral (@jsabral)wondered if Rick Perry was looking for anything more than the far right’s vote with his ”Turkey’s leaders are Islamic terrorists” barb. She broke down Turkey’s relations with NATO, and its view of the GOP candidates and Obama. As for Perry, he’s out, having thrown his ignorant lot in with Gingrich.
Newt: In South Carolina on Saturday, Newt Gingrich needs a win, or a close second to stay in it. With his characterization of Obama as the “food stamp president,” we wonder; since a job for most doesn’t make ends meet, what’s so bad about a few handouts?
Romney: Is Mitt Romney‘s business experience from the LATE 90′s (when he last exited the private sector) really an advantage? …We can already see Romney sending out the national guard equipped with Palm Pilots, Star-Taks, and Creed CDs skipping in Discman players to build a new workforce.
Bitches: Jay-Z reportedly says he won’t use the word “bitch” in a song anymore because he has a baby girl. Are all the aforementioned bitches now exculpated?
SOPA: We hope all of this information gets to you before SOPA shuts the lights off on our site.
#artistoftheweek is Savoir Adore (@savoiradore)
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Jan 16, 2012
When he called his third place finish in New Hampshire a “ticket to ride,” Jon Huntsman appeared ready to fight it out in South Carolina. So much for that. The GOP field shrunk again as Huntsman announced he was dropping out of the field. Endorsing Mitt Romney as the only one capable of taking on Obama, while taking a shot at the campaign vitriol on his way out the door. “This race has degenerated into an onslaught of negative attacks not worthy of the American people and not worthy of this critical time. At its core, the Republican Party is a party of ideas, but the current toxic form of our political discourse does not help our cause.
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Jan 16, 2012
TJ and The Tux caught up with the Austrian Electroacoustic Andrew Bird and #artistoftheweek on “Steve Jobs and Wall St. Mobs” in October 2011, Effi, to chat about life without wienerschnitzel, electronic music production and the collapse of the European Union. He plays more instruments than we can name. More importantly he can communicate and translate sounds from Graz without the use of grass. Look for genre jumping, language loving Effi all over Europe sounding like Lilly Allen with The Strokes’ hair and Mozart’s shoes. Eat your heart out Julian Casablancas.
Check out Effi’s music here.
EFFI is a singer/songwriter from GRAZ using electronic and acoustic instruments.
Live he is playing with his fabulous band: Roland Hanslmeier (Drums) and Martin List (Bass)
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Jan 12, 2012
Talk of the Granite State’s GOP Primary centered around the “Gloves Coming Off” but TJ and The Tux wondered what would happen if instead the clothes came off. Would Romney be in solid gold silk briefs made only from silk worms fed a steady diet of truffled kobe beef and free market principles? Would Newt be caught wearing original 1776 Benjamin Franklin Old Glory unsanitary napkins?
Political Reporter
Ryan Grim of the Huffington Post told Shock and Awesome that Romney’s “I heart firing people” comment will be used as a trident shaped skewing stick by Barack Obama in the general election to simply hold Mitten’s squirmy body in place while he rapidly and repeatedly plunges a bayonet of envy into his shriveled blue blooded heart. After, of course, he cruises to the nomination as Grim feels he will.
Matthew Spolar, politics and statehouse reporter for the Concord Monitor, who has witnessed all candidates firsthand and observed the NH debates up close, mentioned Buddy Roemer as looking as “presidential” as any currently in the field…That NH’s primary may be remembered as one that solidified Mitt Romney as the front runner. Way to go Captain Obvious!
John Hopwood told us that Mitt Romney was a real good looking guy..Pause No Homo, in a Reaganesque way… Hopwood shared anecdotes beyond, from his experiences at primary town halls in New Hampshire since 1976…
Tim Tebow has shocked the sports world with his Sunday miracles but long time Denver sports radio personality
Gil Whiteley shocked TJ and the Tux when he told them that ”Tebowmania” has surpassed the era of John Elway in terms of maniacal fandom in football crazed Denver. Maybe evangelical prayer mixed with Coor’s Yellow Belly tall boys at altitude has even
Jewish snow bunnies caught up.
#Artistofthetweek – @littleredband
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Jan 11, 2012
A “Tale of the Tape” between the two QB’s before
the big game Saturday in Foxboro.
Jan 3, 2012
Shock and Awesome will appear live on www.eastvillageradio.com for an "Iowa Caucus" special today 2-4 pm. There will be breakdowns, analysis, special guests and of course surprises.. Shock and Awesome style
Dec 26, 2011
Doh! Newt Gingrich forgot to apply in time for the March 6th Virginia primaries. That’s alright Newt, we understand. We’ve been there. TJ and the Tux in their lifetime, have forgotten to apply for class at college, forgotten to renew their visas, vehicle registrations, and alot more. Overlooking deadlines for state primaries during Presidential campaigns though? No. Can’t say we’ve done that.
However, who are WE to say this type of behavior is uncalled for, or unacceptable. It’s human. That’s what it is. Better not need those 50 delegate votes when it’s all said and done though Mr Speaker. It would be a shame to lose the nomination simply because you forgot to sign up for something, like a drunk frat kid.
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