Monday, November 17, 2008

Better than Monday Night Football: Berkowitz w/ Robling on Death and Resurrection of the GOP, Obama, McCain,Cross and McKenna. On Cable and Streaming

Jeff Berkowitz: Media Bias. Were the media in the tank for Barack Obama? Is that one of the reasons why he won?

Chris Robling:
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Jeff Berkowitz: But, my point is you don’t have any Republicans who support these things. So, you can’t ARGUE for school choice because they don’t SUPPORT choice.

Chris Robling: Well, I think there are a lot of Republicans in the rank and file out there who do support a ban on increased taxes, who do support reform of government bureaucracies, who do support things like choice in education and I think that these—
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Jeff Berkowitz: Who does Rod Blagojevich appoint to replace Barack Obama as the junior senator from the State of Illinois?

Chris Robling: It is very tough—

Jeff Berkowitz: Give me two names.
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Tonight's Chicago edition of "Public Affairs," features Chris Robling, former pol and current pundit and PR expert. The show with Chris Robling includes discussions of why McCain lost and Obama won, the death and resurrection of the State and National GOP, what makes Obama run, why Chairman McKenna should step down, why Chairman McKenna is still around-- and much, much more. Go here for a more detailed description of topics discussed on, questions answered on and a partial transcript of tonight's show.

Robling is currently involved in crisis management and litigation support for a communications firm: Jayne Thompson and Associates, Ltd.

The show airs throughout the City of Chicago tonight at 8:30pm on Cable Ch. 21 (CANTV) and on cable in Aurora and surrounding areas at 7:30 pm on ACTV-10. The Aurora station, Aurora Community Television, Comcast Cable Ch. 10, reaches all of Aurora, Bristol, Big Rock and parts of Oswego, Sandwich, Sugar Grove and Montgomery.
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Jeff Berkowitz: Media Bias. Were the media in the tank for Barack Obama? Is that one of the reasons why he won?

Chris Robling: Yes, no question.
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Jeff Berkowitz: Who does Rod Blagojevich appoint to replace Barack Obama as the junior senator from the State of Illinois?

Chris Robling: It is very tough—

Jeff Berkowitz: Give me two names.

Chris Robling: …I think Jesse Jackson Jr. has to be considered a strong possibility…

Jeff Berkowitz: Does Tom Cross support [school] vouchers?

Chris Robling: I don’t know. Why are you…

Jeff Berkowitz: Because he doesn’t support school vouchers.

Chris Robling: I gotta call Tom Cross and get him on your next program [Good Luck].

Jeff Berkowitz: I am picking on Tom [because]--

Chris Robling: I am not here to pick on Tom.

Jeff Berkowitz: You would have trouble finding a half a dozen Republicans in the State House who support vouchers. Tom-I’m only picking on-because he is the [House Republican] leader and I know he won’t.

Chris Robling: Okay.

Jeff Berkowitz: But, my point is you don’t have any Republicans who support these things. So, you can’t ARGUE for school choice because they don’t SUPPORT choice.

Chris Robling: Well, I think there are a lot of Republicans in the rank and file out there who do support a ban on increased taxes, who do support reform of government bureaucracies, who do support things like choice in education and I think that these—

Jeff Berkowitz: You think a lot of people in the Republican Party who are in the State House support school vouchers?

Chris Robling: I think there are some.

Jeff Berkowitz: Can you name two?

Chris Robling: I am not saying that there are a lot. I, you know-- but I think that’s illustrative of the disjunction, okay. This is, Jeff, exactly the problem. We’ve got a ferment of Republican, or let’s say right of center, or market oriented ideas.

Jeff Berkowitz: You and Dan Proft, you’ve got two Republicans out there. You’re making it sound like there are 120 legislators who are behind you.

Chris Robling: I think there are—

Jeff Berkowitz: This is the problem. You have a lot of spineless legislators who have no philosophy, who have no thought and then they can’t understand why they can’t challenge anybody.

Chris Robling: This is your word. It is not my word. My word is involvement and if people don’t get involved in their local Republican party, then…
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Chris Robling: I think we’ll see Barack Obama leave [Patrick] Fitzgerald there for the time being.

Jeff Berkowitz: For how long? Long enough to—

Chris Robling: Through an indictment of Rod Blagojevitch.
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Jeff Berkowitz: In Chicago, a lot of media bias…You know something about Public TV and WTTW. Would you say they are biased to the left?

Chris Robling: Well, PBS, I think that—

Jeff Berkowitz: What about the local station, WTTW?

Chris Robling: No, I think they do a pretty good job. They try to stay—they try to report accurately.

Jeff Berkowitz: Is there anybody …who works for them, WTTW, on TV, who is a conservative?

Chris Robling: I don’t know. I mean I don’t know how many of them are liberals, either. I don’t have a sense of—

Jeff Berkowitz: Really, you don’t know?

Chris Robling: Well, I mean I have a sense of some people.

Jeff Berkowitz: Elizabeth Brackett, you’re not sure?

Chris Robling: I honestly don’t know.

Jeff Berkowitz: Carol Marin, you’re not sure?

Chris Robling: Carol Marin has a column, so I am a little more clear on her position.
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Jeff Berkowitz, Show Host/Producer of "Public Affairs," and Executive Legal Recruiter doing legal search can be reached at JBCG@aol.com. *************************************************************
"Public Affairs," is a weekly political interview show airing in Chicago on CANTV, in the Chicago metro area, Aurora and Rockford on Comcast and also often on the Illinois Channel. You can watch the shows, including archived shows going back to 2005, here.
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Recently posted shows on the Public Affairs YouTube page include shows with pundit and PR expert Chris Robling , Illinois Policy Institute Chairman and CEO John Tillman., Senator Rutherford , former Republican Primary candidate for Governor Ron Gidwitz, a show with Cong. Don Manzullo (R-Egan, 16th CD) about his no vote on the bailout, jobs, trade and other issues, and shows with Cook County Cmsr. and Obama Media Team Member Forrest Claypool and much more.
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