Shock and Awesome Podcast 127 – It’s Always Halloween In Washington

November 3, 2011 -  TJ and The Tux wonder what tricks or treats 2012 candidates would hand out if you were lucky enough to make it to their doors this year. Occupy Oakland’s labor strike took OWS’s idea of affecting change and literally kicked it up a notch. TJ and The Tux broke down whether Heat President and former Knicks’ head coach Pat Riley should be hired to unify and clarify the message down in disorganized Zuccotti Park. Riles has time with the NBA lockout.

 

Is Herman Cain in deep water over these harassment charges that have surfaced? Who knows, but one thing is clear, this is one of the last presidential election cycles that will include controversy raised from anonymous players in the shadows. It won’t be long before a candidate’s whole life will be documented through social media sites like Facebook and Foursquare.  Accusers will have to explain why they are not tagged in any photos from the candidate’s many compromising late night party photo albums. The first question of any competent DA should be, “You say that Mr. Candidate sexually harassed you.  Why are you nowhere to be found any where in his life long digitally documented existence?”

 

Joseph Mornin, the online director from rootstrikers.org, joined us to talk the anti-citizens united amendment that was introduced this week and the congressional super committee that is charged with making budget cuts in an election year. The #artistoftheweek is Weekend. How amusing.  Enjoy!

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