Highly Recommend Jason Lewis Show

[specsaregood]

talking all about Rand today.
http://www.ktlkfm.com/mediaplayer/?station=KTLK-FM&action=listenlive&channel_title=

 

[specsaregood]

still talking about it, positive of course.

 

[specsaregood]

I liked last night's hour 2, where he points out that overall troop levels in the middle east have gone up under Obama and said:
"Obama should be everybody's favorite neocon."
We need this guy on more stations.

 

[specsaregood]

Tonights money quote.
"Child labor is a great american tradition" So true.....

/me labored away in the family businesses as a child....

 

[ajkather]

I liked last night's hour 2, where he points out that overall troop levels in the middle east have gone up under Obama and said:
"Obama should be everybody's favorite neocon."
We need this guy on more stations.

Good stuff! And, he knows there are lots of neo-cons that listen to his show since he comes on after Hannity on many stations. So, he's quite a breath of fresh air.

help him get on more stations!!! call your local one

 

[specsaregood]

Another great show last night.

1. Came out in defense of Mr. Steele.
2. Claims that he has been told that back in 2006 the Taliban approached the US administration/military and said that if the US govt allows the Taliban to be part of the new US-backed government. They would pledge to route al-qaeda and permanently keep them out of Afghanistan. But the US govt refused because, "we don't like how you treat women, especially the first lady doesn't like it"

archives:

http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18...talk&PCAST_TITLE=Jason_Lewis_on_100.3_KTLK-FM
Jason Lewis Show 07/08/10-1st Hour
Michael Steele's comments about the Afghanistan war have kept him in hot water and have some asking for his resignation. Jason thinks this is nuts and wonders where this big tent is now. Didn't the RINOS request a big tent? I guess you're not allowed if you disagree with their foreign policy.

http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18...talk&PCAST_TITLE=Jason_Lewis_on_100.3_KTLK-FM
Jason Lewis Show 07/08/10-2nd Hour
Jason talks about what is going on in the Middle East and what needs to be done.

http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18...talk&PCAST_TITLE=Jason_Lewis_on_100.3_KTLK-FM
Jason Lewis Show 07/08/10-3rd Hour
Jason is joined by Matt Tiabbi from Rolling Stone to talk about the bursting bubbles and Goldman Sachs.

 

[specsaregood]

Another blistering 2 hours about our wars and deficits and how it isn't good for our country or a conservative position.

Jason Lewis Show 07/23/10-1st Hour
Jason talks about the news that the federal deficit is nearly $1.5 trillion. That leads to a bigger discussion about the wars in the Middle-East.
http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18...talk&PCAST_TITLE=Jason_Lewis_on_100.3_KTLK-FM

Jason Lewis Show 07/23/10-2nd Hour
Jason continues the conversation about our role in the Middle East. Also, Jason has some news concerning the deficit.
http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18...talk&PCAST_TITLE=Jason_Lewis_on_100.3_KTLK-FM

Edit: calls for eliminating the departments including: homeland security and education and others.


Jason Lewis Show 07/23/10-3rd Hour
Jason opens up the phone lines for a fun final hour on Friday night. TV shows and topics of the caller's choice dominate this hour.
http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18...talk&PCAST_TITLE=Jason_Lewis_on_100.3_KTLK-FM

 

[specsaregood]

Last monday's show was an excellent argument for non-interventionism. If you haven't listened to Lewis' show before give monday nights a try.
In hour 2 you are even treated to a progressive ex-obama supporter caller proclaiming himself now a progressive for Ron Paul.

http://www.ktlkfm.com/cc-common/pod...t=LEWIS032811_1st%20Hr%20Libya%20Conflict.mp3
Jason returns from the weekend ready to talk about the conflict in Libya and prepares to hear the comments from President Obama in the next hour.

http://www.ktlkfm.com/cc-common/pod...t=LEWIS032811_2nd%20Hr%20Libya%20Comments.mp3
Jason reviews his comments from the first hour. Also, a caller who voted for Pres. Obama shares his view on the President. Also, Pres. Obama comments on Libya

http://www.ktlkfm.com/cc-common/pod...t=LEWIS032811_3rd%20Hr%20Libya%20Reaction.mp3
Jason takes calls reacting to the President’s comments on Libya.

 

[kpfareal]

I've been listening for a few days now. Just finished the 3rd hour from last friday, very dissapointed. Talking about 2012 GOP candidates, no mention of either Paul's, but talk of real conservatives like Rubio and Paul Ryan...

Don't think i'll tune in again.

 

[specsaregood]

I've been listening for a few days now. Just finished the 3rd hour from last friday, very dissapointed. Talking about 2012 GOP candidates, no mention of either Paul's, but talk of real conservatives like Rubio and Paul Ryan...

Don't think i'll tune in again.

Interesting, I'm listening to thursday and he mentions Dr. Paul positively in the first half hour. then he followed that up a bit later by saying we should cut the military budget and draw down in the middle east. What is not to like?

Edit: and another dr. paul mention in the 3rd hour.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

You can go back through his podcasts if you wish. He has a very consistant record and had a great interview with Ron Paul on his End the Fed book, etc.

He has admitted his metamorphasis away from the neo-con foreign policy, but he is a very Conversative/Libertarian guy.

It really irritates me when some folks of the liberty persuasion have some sort of "purity" test. When 99% of talk radio is neo-con and then there are few like Jason Lewis (nationally syndicated) out there saying all of the right things, we should take everything we can get.

I compare this to the Glenn Beck angle. Yes, I disagree with him on certain areas (and his Medina tactics, hawkish foreign policy, etc), I would still rather he be there than not be. Obviously, I wish talk radio or the mainstream was full of Rothbardian whitty intellectuals... but that is not the case.

Personally, I'll take whatever I can get that promotes liberty.

~Andy

I agree about the "libertarian purity test", but Beck is not good for the liberty movement. He might drop important names like Hayek and RP, but there's little substance to his work. There are others who are much better, like Lewis and Walter Williams (as far as "right libertarians" go). Even better is to dig up podcasts by people like Charles Goyette, etc.

 

[kpfareal]

Interesting, I'm listening to thursday and he mentions Dr. Paul positively in the first half hour. then he followed that up a bit later by saying we should cut the military budget and draw down in the middle east. What is not to like?

Saying that Rubio and Ryan are conservatives and mentioning Trump before either Paul as the GOP nominee...

 

[specsaregood]

Saying that Rubio and Ryan are conservatives and mentioning Trump before either Paul as the GOP nominee...

at the same time, he already mentions Paul positively more than any other nationally syndicated host. I dont' think a week goes by where he doesn't. And his platform is pretty much inline with Dr. Pauls. eg: the 2nd hour of last thursday was an indictment against keynesianism.

 

[emazur]

I don't know what the hell happened on that particular show, but he's always spoken well of Paul and his platform. Maybe someone should do a call in and ask "what the hell happened?". If he kept that up, I would never listen again either

 

[Ray]

I listen to his show everyday on my drive home from school. Sadly Glenn Beck is on during my ride to school :/

 

[specsaregood]

I've been listening for a few days now. Just finished the 3rd hour from last friday, very dissapointed. Talking about 2012 GOP candidates, no mention of either Paul's, but talk of real conservatives like Rubio and Paul Ryan...

Don't think i'll tune in again.

Ok, I just listened to that friday 3rd hour, it sounded like me was just baiting a caller to mention Paul.
A caller mentioned Ron Paul only a couple minutes later and also mentioned Rand was considering it and Jason Lewis got fairly excited about the Rand prospect.

 

[Travlyr]

If I heard him correctly, Jason Lewis misrepresented the gold standard on his show tonight. He said that the gold standard meant that government would pay a fixed price for gold... like $35 per ounce. And he went on to say that the government was limited in its spending because the gold standard kept them in check.

A true gold standard would keep the government in check. But a gold standard, like a meter standard, is simply a standard definition and has nothing to do with price. Since 1983, a standard meter is defined as the length of the path traveled by light in vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. A standard measure of gold is a defined purity and weight of the element Au... it has NOTHING to do with a price of gold. In a free market, the price should be determined by free market trading of the metal based on the purity and weight of the metal.

 

[ajkather]

I agree about the "libertarian purity test", but Beck is not good for the liberty movement. He might drop important names like Hayek and RP, but there's little substance to his work. There are others who are much better, like Lewis and Walter Williams (as far as "right libertarians" go). Even better is to dig up podcasts by people like Charles Goyette, etc.

I think it's kind of a mixed bag with Glenn Beck. I've become convinced he has good intentions, but is just wildly misguided on so many levels that his bad impulses water down anything good that he does. It's just so frustrating since I know he is an intelligent man and KNOWS the path but will not get on it. You can't say "I love liberty" and then turnaround and say how much you want the state to intervene.

Jason Lewis on the other hand IS a great defender of liberty and I appreciate his honest, funny, and sharp commentary. While he is no Rothbardian-Natural Rights-Thomist, who is? He really is great and does care about liberty more than the 99% of the frauds on talk Radio. Plus, he does have a pretty good audience and is nationally syndicated.

He has gone to the mat numerous times on Foreign Policy speaking truth to the neo-con death merchants and that alone should yield support from us Ron-Paulians.

 

[ajkather]

If I heard him correctly, Jason Lewis misrepresented the gold standard on his show tonight. He said that the gold standard meant that government would pay a fixed price for gold... like $35 per ounce. And he went on to say that the government was limited in its spending because the gold standard kept them in check.

A true gold standard would keep the government in check. But a gold standard, like a meter standard, is simply a standard definition and has nothing to do with price. Since 1983, a standard meter is defined as the length of the path traveled by light in vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. A standard measure of gold is a defined purity and weight of the element Au... it has NOTHING to do with a price of gold. In a free market, the price should be determined by free market trading of the metal based on the purity and weight of the metal.

I think you are correct in that a gold "standard" is simply the government issuing or minting government coins set by a fixed measure of weight of gold. What I believe he was referring to was the 20th Century FDR onward of what the Gold Standard and it's relation to price. So, yes he technically did have it wrong about the semantics of what is considered a "standard" by using gold in a country. If there is an outflow of gold, a country on a gold standard would see other weights of gold coins show up in different denominations and weights I would assume. But, we also had silver used in coins ... so technically we had bi-metalism which can cause problems when one form of money is overvalued against another money (like gold, silver, copper).

I personally do not favor a gold standard and would favor simply competing currencies WITH 100% reserve banking. If gold ends up being the preferred method of money, so be it. That is Ron Paul's position and I support it.

 

[ajkather]

You obviously don't listen to his show since he mentions the Pauls all of the time in glowing tone and respect. He bashs neo-con war hawks day and night and all of the Islama-phobes (Spencer, Horowitz, Gellar, et al) who want a totalitarian police state and wars with every nation.

I'm not a particular fan of Rubio or Ryan. They seem like Rand-Paul wannabies with a lot of smoke and mirrors. He also has a lot of CATO people (like Chris Edwards, etc) on to talk about tax policy and shrinking the budget. I usually tune on these since I see a lot of CATO people as rather useless.

He has taken Trump to task in his stances in previous shows. He's not a fan of Trump. I think he likes Rubio and Ryan (had them both on his show), but he has not put them up on a pedistal the way he has the Pauls in his show, I assure you.

He also has had Dr. Tom Dilorenzo on the show talking is a fan of his work since he actually quotes him in his book, Power Divided is Power Checked..

Food for thought....
My only feeling why he doesn't mention Ron Paul as President is that he has said he doesn't know if he will run. But, if he did run, I do believe he would back Ron Paul, no doubt about it.