Comcast Cable TV Show features Elizabeth Brackett on Rod Blagojevich

My weekly show TV Chicagoland ("30 Minutes") last month (June 2009) featured an interview I did with Steve Johnson of the Chicago Tribune.

Beginning next week, the weekly Comcast Cable TV Show will feature an interview with Elizabeth Brackett, the WTTW Channel 11 reporter who wrote the book "Pay to Play" which explores the controversy surrounding former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Although I like Blagojevich and his wife, Patti, I thought the book was interesting. It's only drawback was it seemed to reflect the negative view the media has of the former governor.

Johnson talks about the departure of TV shock jock Jerry Springer from his Chicago base and the rise of his TV afternoon format.

The segment is broadcast on Comcast Cable TV every Friday night on Channel 19 at either 7 pm or 8:30 PM depending on which Comcast circuit you live in. (You can visit www.TVChicagoland.com to find out.)

The show is broadcast in 145 suburban communities.

-- Ray Hanania

www.RadioChicagoland.com

Here's the online video of the show:

07-6-09 Interview with Elizabeth Brackket, author @ Yahoo! Video

Wanted to thank the listeners for their support

My weekly radio show "Radio Chicagoland" is off the air, mainly because we lost a major sponsor who was with us for so long and we couldn't find a substitute in time to keep the show going. Regardless, I wanted to say thank you to all of the listeners who spent the past 9 months with me as we had so much fun, forst on WJJG AM Radioa nd later WCEV 1450 AM Radio. I couldn't have asked for a better group of people to call my "radio friends."

We may or may not make it back ont he air. It all depends, so I will look at this as a brioef sabatical from on-air rboadcasting. Maybe find another radio station. Who knows.

But I did want to say thank you especially to Neha Mehra, our intern and Special Reporter on Youth News. She did a GREAT JOB! And so did Ali Ido, who provided special reports from the street in his "Street News" segments. What a great job they all did.

In the meantime, I will probably continue to podcast interviews that will be posted on both the Radio Chicagoland web site at www.RadioChicagoland.com, and also at the Southwest News-Herald web site at www.SWNewsHerald.com. Those interviews will be of general interest. I also plan to do some special interest interviews on the Middle East and Chicago's dysfunctional Arab American community in the hopes of shaking some sense into their senselessness. You can find those on Radio Chicagoland and also on my web site at www.Hanania.com.

Thanks and talk to you soon
Ray Hanania
www.hanania.com

Why are the Padres and Dodgers playing baseball in the dictatorship of China?

It's amazing to me how we are struggling to remove lead-tainted toys from our country that are made in China, fighting to force China to lift it's oppressive ban on news media there, and end its brutal campaign against political and social dissidents in China, and yet two major league baseball teams are playing an exhibition game in Beijing?

Are we that stupid or just ignorant as Americans?

China is a dictatorship. It is an oppressive terrorist nation. But we play this hypocritical game of double-standards carefully criticizing China's policies while still trying to make money off that nation?

Are we not making money off the lives of murdered Chinese dissidents? Are we not exploiting the slave labor of China? Are we not winking and nodding that it is okay for China to oppress it's people as long as we can by poinsoned toys cheap.

My son came up to me this morning while I was watching a CNN news broadcast of the Padres-Dodges game in Beijing, China and showed me a box of toy cars that he has from a huge collection that were made inC hina and we suspect are poisoned with lead.

Why do we tolerate some dictatorships when it benefits us economically and crackdown on dictatorships when we have no benefot to gain from them? Is that not hypocritical?

We are not the leaders of the Free World when we pick and chose morality, principle and do or do not enforce an international standard of the rule of law. You can't be half-pregnant. We're eaither the leader of the Free World and we champion freedom for everyone, including in nations that we gain that are dictatorships, or we are hypocrites and we don't care and we close our eyes to oppressive when it benefits us.

Doesn't that make America complicit in the oppression of freedom, and therefore void our claim to be the "leader of the Free World?"

Pathetic. Hypocritical. Disgraceful. Embarrasing. Shameful.

Ray Hanania
www.RadioChicagoland.com

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Some related links (these are news links and may not be available indefinitely):

Padres versus Dodgers in Beijing, China:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/baseball/mlb/dodgers/la-spw-dodgers16mar16,1,2657424.story

China lead poisoning issue:
http://www.usrecallnews.com/2007/10/list-of-recalled-toys-for-lead-poisoning-hazards-childrens-toy-recalls-from-china.html

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First show on WCEV now posted/Podcast and online

The first WCEV 1450 AM broadcast of Radio Chicagoland is now available online and in podcast format. Here's the Podcast feed:

http://rayhanania.libsyn.com/rss

Enter the feed into the "subscribe option" for your iPod and we'll update the feed with new shows.

Tuesday show, Feb. 19, 2008 featured former Congressman Bill Lipinski discussing the presidential elections, the fight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and the candidacy of Republican front-runner and likely nominee John McCain.

And, an interview with Heather Warthen, editor of the Orland Park Prairie Newspaper on the Feb. 2, 2008 Lane Bryant/Tinley Park muders.

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