Better than Chris Wallace w/Obama: Berkowitz w/Pundit Robling on Obama/McCain and the death and resurrection of the GOP. On cable and soon streaming
Revised on Wednesday morning at 1:30 am to include links for you to watch, on your computer: pundit and PR expert Chris Robling and Illinois Policy Institute Chairman and CEO John Tillman.
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Jeff Berkowitz: Why do you want [Andy McKenna, Jr.] out?
Chris Robling: He is ineffective.
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Jeff Berkowitz: Wasn’t [Judy Baar Topinka] a terrible candidate [for Governor in 2006]?
Chris Robling: No, I think that Judy was a fine candidate.
Jeff Berkowitz: Did she have ideas? What were those ideas?
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Jeff Berkowitz: My God, how bad a failure do you have to have for them to say, “away with [House Minority Leader] Boehner.”
Chris Robling: Well, you’ve got to ask …some serving member like Cong. Judy Biggert (R-13th, IL), you know, I, personally, I would love to see completely new leadership in Washington, in the House and in the Senate-
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This week’s suburban edition of "Public Affairs," features Chris Robling, a former pol and pundit and currently a communications expert involved in crisis management and litigation support, discussing and debating with Show Host and Executive Legal Recruiter Jeff Berkowitz why McCain lost and Obama won, the death and resurrection of the State and National GOP, what makes Barack run, should State GOP Leaders Cross and McKenna, Jr. be removed from their posts, media bias and much, much more.
See, below, for the Chicago Metro suburban airing schedule of "Public Affairs,"
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You can also watch this week's suburban episode of "Public Affairs," with Chris Robling now on your computer. This show was taped on November 9, 2008.
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A partial transcript of this week's suburban edition of "Public Affairs," is included, below;
Jeff Berkowitz: Wasn’t [Judy Baar Topinka] a terrible candidate [for Governor in 2006]?
Chris Robling: No, I think that Judy was a fine candidate.
Jeff Berkowitz: Did she have ideas? What were those ideas?
Chris Robling: I think she had—she had a couple of good ideas. It was not her year. I am not going to get into looking backward and personal attacks, whether it is Tom Cross or Judy Baar Topinka, two people that I, you know—
Jeff Berkowitz: Try Andy Mckenna. You want him out as State GOP Chairman.
Chris Robling: But, I don’t say anything nasty about him, personally. He is the greatest guy in the world.
Jeff Berkowitz: Why do you want him out?
Chris Robling: He is ineffective.
Jeff Berkowitz: And, why is he still [State GOP Chairman] after four years?
Chris Robling: We have a supine party organization. I mean, what else can you say about a Party that allowed Bob Kjellander to stay in office as our National Committeeman…
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Jeff Berkowitz: The Republican Leader [in the House] stays the same. Cong. John Boehner (R-8th, OH) is still going to be the minority leader.
Chris Robling: I don’t know that.
Jeff Berkowitz: My God, how bad a failure do you have to have for them to say, “away with Mr. Boehner.”
Chris Robling: Well, you’ve got to ask …some serving member like Cong. Judy Biggert (R-13th, IL), you know, I, personally, I would love to see completely new leadership in Washington, in the House and in the Senate-
Jeff Berkowitz: In the Republican Party.
Chris Robling: On the Republican side. I think that we should start over…
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Chris Robling, a principal at Jayne Thompson and Associates, a crisis management and litigation support communications firm, debates and discusses recent national, state and local political and public policy issues with show host and executive legal recruiter Jeff Berkowitz.
Robling’s career has included politics, punditry and public relations. Robling was a long time program host at Chicago Public Radio [WBEZ, 91.5 FM], reported for WGN-TV from the 2008 Republican Convention and was the Executive Director for the Cook County GOP.
Topics discussed include the many strategic and tactical reasons why John McCain lost and Barack Obama won. Was McCain the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time? Did Team McCain not know how to benefit from Sarah Palin? Could McCain have won if he had tied Obama to Bush by opposing the bailout? Did McCain not have the political will power to do that? Why?
Was the economy actually “seizing up,” due to a “liquidity preference,” or is the liquidity preference function no more than a name for a weekly beer bust at the University of Chicago Business School, now “Booth School of Business?” Was the Great Depression in the 1930s really the “Great Contraction,” duly named such by the late Nobel Prize winning, University of Chicago, monetarist and price theorist economist Milton Friedman for the Fed’s unfortunate decision to contract the money supply by a third during the 1930s? Was the “liquidity trap,” a figment of the Keynesian imagination?
Who are the GOP Presidential front-runners for 2012? Are the reformers in the ascendance in the Republican Party now? Could a U. S. Rep. go from the House to the White House in 2012? Could that be Paul Ryan?
Has the State GOP been dying a slow, but steady, death in the last decade. Should Illinois House minority leader Tom Cross be replaced? Does Robling want Andy McKenna, Jr. to be removed as State GOP chairman? What will grow the State GOP?
How should education be reformed? Did moderate, Republican gubernatorial candidate Topinka lose in 2006 because “it was not her year,” or because "she ran an idealess campaign." Could the Illinois Policy Institute and the Heartland Institute provide fresh ideas to Republican candidates in Illinois and Illinois government? Would Judy Baar Topinka and Tom Cross want them?
Is the national GOP dead? Can it be resurrected? Do the U. S. House Republicans need a new Minority Leader? Will they get one?
What makes Obama run? Tick? Who were the three amigos who worked for Obama? Did they make him President? Who is the fourth amigo?
Was Robling the token conservative at WBEZ? Is he that when he appears on WTTW, Chicago’s Public TV station? Is there something in the water at WTTW that keeps it one thousand per cent liberal?
Who will replace Obama in his U. S. Senate seat? To watch Berkowitz discuss potential replacements for President-Elect Obama's Senate seat, please go here. Will Obama remove U. S. Attorney (N.D.IL) Patrick Fitzgerald as a part of the Obama Senate replacement process?
Who will Obama put at Treasury? At State? Would Robling prefer Hillary to Kerry as Secretary of State?
Is there liberal media bias at WTTW? Is the Pope Catholic?
The program with Robling was taped on November 9, 2008.
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Public Affairs Chicago Metro suburban airing schedule.
The show featuring Chris Robling is airing this week in the North and Northwest Chicago Metro suburbs in its regular slot:
Tonight (Tuesday) at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Hoffman Estates, parts of Inverness, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Niles, Northfield, Palatine, Rolling Meadows and Wilmette
and Tonight (Tuesday) at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 35 in Arlington Heights, Bartlett, Glenview, Golf, Des Plaines, Hanover Park, Mt. Prospect, Northbrook, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Schaumburg, Skokie, Streamwood and Wheeling.
and on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Bannockburn, Deerfield, Ft. Sheridan, Glencoe, Highland Park, Highwood, Kenilworth, Lincolnshire, Riverwoods and Winnetka.
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The "Public Affairs," show featuring Chris Robling will also air throughout the City of Chicago on Monday night, Nov. 17, 2008, at 8:30pm on Cable Ch. 21 (CANTV) and that same night 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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The "Public Affairs," show featuring Chris Robling will also air throughout the City of Rockford (and in surrounding areas) next Thursday night, Nov. 20th at 8:00 pm on Cable Ch. 17. The surrounding areas reached by Ch. 17 include Byron, Cedarville, Cherry Valley, Loves Park, Machesney Park, Mount Morris, New Milford, Portions of Ogle County, Oregon, Polo, Stillman Valley, Winnebago, Portions of Boone County and Poplar Grove.
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The "Public Affairs," show featuring Chris Robling is also likely to air throughout the State of Illinois on the Illinois Channel. Details for that airing schedule are TBA.
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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 taped with former pol and current pundit and PR guy, Chris Robling,; Chairman and CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute, John Tillman, Senator Rutherford and former Republican Primary candidate for Governor Ron Gidwitz, a show taped Sep. 30 with Cong. Don Manzullo (R-Egan, 16th CD) about his no vote on the bailout, jobs, trade and other issues related to his election contest with Democrat Robert Abboud, a show taped Sunday, Sep. 28, 2008 with State Rep. Julie Hamos (D-Evanston) and a show taped on Sunday, Sep. 21,2008 with 16th Cong. Dist. Democatic Nominee Robert Abboud (D-Barrington Hills), two shows featuring clips and interviews, primarily from the Democratic and Republican National Party conventions, go here to watch 2nd Convention clip show and shows with Cook County Cmsr. and Obama Media Team Member Forrest Claypool and much more.
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Jeff Berkowitz: Why do you want [Andy McKenna, Jr.] out?
Chris Robling: He is ineffective.
**********************************
Jeff Berkowitz: Wasn’t [Judy Baar Topinka] a terrible candidate [for Governor in 2006]?
Chris Robling: No, I think that Judy was a fine candidate.
Jeff Berkowitz: Did she have ideas? What were those ideas?
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Jeff Berkowitz: My God, how bad a failure do you have to have for them to say, “away with [House Minority Leader] Boehner.”
Chris Robling: Well, you’ve got to ask …some serving member like Cong. Judy Biggert (R-13th, IL), you know, I, personally, I would love to see completely new leadership in Washington, in the House and in the Senate-
**************************************
This week’s suburban edition of "Public Affairs," features Chris Robling, a former pol and pundit and currently a communications expert involved in crisis management and litigation support, discussing and debating with Show Host and Executive Legal Recruiter Jeff Berkowitz why McCain lost and Obama won, the death and resurrection of the State and National GOP, what makes Barack run, should State GOP Leaders Cross and McKenna, Jr. be removed from their posts, media bias and much, much more.
See, below, for the Chicago Metro suburban airing schedule of "Public Affairs,"
****************************************************
You can also watch this week's suburban episode of "Public Affairs," with Chris Robling now on your computer. This show was taped on November 9, 2008.
******************************************************
A partial transcript of this week's suburban edition of "Public Affairs," is included, below;
Jeff Berkowitz: Wasn’t [Judy Baar Topinka] a terrible candidate [for Governor in 2006]?
Chris Robling: No, I think that Judy was a fine candidate.
Jeff Berkowitz: Did she have ideas? What were those ideas?
Chris Robling: I think she had—she had a couple of good ideas. It was not her year. I am not going to get into looking backward and personal attacks, whether it is Tom Cross or Judy Baar Topinka, two people that I, you know—
Jeff Berkowitz: Try Andy Mckenna. You want him out as State GOP Chairman.
Chris Robling: But, I don’t say anything nasty about him, personally. He is the greatest guy in the world.
Jeff Berkowitz: Why do you want him out?
Chris Robling: He is ineffective.
Jeff Berkowitz: And, why is he still [State GOP Chairman] after four years?
Chris Robling: We have a supine party organization. I mean, what else can you say about a Party that allowed Bob Kjellander to stay in office as our National Committeeman…
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Jeff Berkowitz: The Republican Leader [in the House] stays the same. Cong. John Boehner (R-8th, OH) is still going to be the minority leader.
Chris Robling: I don’t know that.
Jeff Berkowitz: My God, how bad a failure do you have to have for them to say, “away with Mr. Boehner.”
Chris Robling: Well, you’ve got to ask …some serving member like Cong. Judy Biggert (R-13th, IL), you know, I, personally, I would love to see completely new leadership in Washington, in the House and in the Senate-
Jeff Berkowitz: In the Republican Party.
Chris Robling: On the Republican side. I think that we should start over…
**************************************************
Chris Robling, a principal at Jayne Thompson and Associates, a crisis management and litigation support communications firm, debates and discusses recent national, state and local political and public policy issues with show host and executive legal recruiter Jeff Berkowitz.
Robling’s career has included politics, punditry and public relations. Robling was a long time program host at Chicago Public Radio [WBEZ, 91.5 FM], reported for WGN-TV from the 2008 Republican Convention and was the Executive Director for the Cook County GOP.
Topics discussed include the many strategic and tactical reasons why John McCain lost and Barack Obama won. Was McCain the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time? Did Team McCain not know how to benefit from Sarah Palin? Could McCain have won if he had tied Obama to Bush by opposing the bailout? Did McCain not have the political will power to do that? Why?
Was the economy actually “seizing up,” due to a “liquidity preference,” or is the liquidity preference function no more than a name for a weekly beer bust at the University of Chicago Business School, now “Booth School of Business?” Was the Great Depression in the 1930s really the “Great Contraction,” duly named such by the late Nobel Prize winning, University of Chicago, monetarist and price theorist economist Milton Friedman for the Fed’s unfortunate decision to contract the money supply by a third during the 1930s? Was the “liquidity trap,” a figment of the Keynesian imagination?
Who are the GOP Presidential front-runners for 2012? Are the reformers in the ascendance in the Republican Party now? Could a U. S. Rep. go from the House to the White House in 2012? Could that be Paul Ryan?
Has the State GOP been dying a slow, but steady, death in the last decade. Should Illinois House minority leader Tom Cross be replaced? Does Robling want Andy McKenna, Jr. to be removed as State GOP chairman? What will grow the State GOP?
How should education be reformed? Did moderate, Republican gubernatorial candidate Topinka lose in 2006 because “it was not her year,” or because "she ran an idealess campaign." Could the Illinois Policy Institute and the Heartland Institute provide fresh ideas to Republican candidates in Illinois and Illinois government? Would Judy Baar Topinka and Tom Cross want them?
Is the national GOP dead? Can it be resurrected? Do the U. S. House Republicans need a new Minority Leader? Will they get one?
What makes Obama run? Tick? Who were the three amigos who worked for Obama? Did they make him President? Who is the fourth amigo?
Was Robling the token conservative at WBEZ? Is he that when he appears on WTTW, Chicago’s Public TV station? Is there something in the water at WTTW that keeps it one thousand per cent liberal?
Who will replace Obama in his U. S. Senate seat? To watch Berkowitz discuss potential replacements for President-Elect Obama's Senate seat, please go here. Will Obama remove U. S. Attorney (N.D.IL) Patrick Fitzgerald as a part of the Obama Senate replacement process?
Who will Obama put at Treasury? At State? Would Robling prefer Hillary to Kerry as Secretary of State?
Is there liberal media bias at WTTW? Is the Pope Catholic?
The program with Robling was taped on November 9, 2008.
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Public Affairs Chicago Metro suburban airing schedule.
The show featuring Chris Robling is airing this week in the North and Northwest Chicago Metro suburbs in its regular slot:
Tonight (Tuesday) at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Hoffman Estates, parts of Inverness, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Niles, Northfield, Palatine, Rolling Meadows and Wilmette
and Tonight (Tuesday) at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 35 in Arlington Heights, Bartlett, Glenview, Golf, Des Plaines, Hanover Park, Mt. Prospect, Northbrook, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Schaumburg, Skokie, Streamwood and Wheeling.
and on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Bannockburn, Deerfield, Ft. Sheridan, Glencoe, Highland Park, Highwood, Kenilworth, Lincolnshire, Riverwoods and Winnetka.
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The "Public Affairs," show featuring Chris Robling will also air throughout the City of Chicago on Monday night, Nov. 17, 2008, at 8:30pm on Cable Ch. 21 (CANTV) and that same night 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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The "Public Affairs," show featuring Chris Robling will also air throughout the City of Rockford (and in surrounding areas) next Thursday night, Nov. 20th at 8:00 pm on Cable Ch. 17. The surrounding areas reached by Ch. 17 include Byron, Cedarville, Cherry Valley, Loves Park, Machesney Park, Mount Morris, New Milford, Portions of Ogle County, Oregon, Polo, Stillman Valley, Winnebago, Portions of Boone County and Poplar Grove.
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The "Public Affairs," show featuring Chris Robling is also likely to air throughout the State of Illinois on the Illinois Channel. Details for that airing schedule are TBA.
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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.
**************************************************
Recently posted shows on the Public Affairs YouTube page include shows taped with former pol and current pundit and PR guy, Chris Robling,; Chairman and CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute, John Tillman, Senator Rutherford and former Republican Primary candidate for Governor Ron Gidwitz, a show taped Sep. 30 with Cong. Don Manzullo (R-Egan, 16th CD) about his no vote on the bailout, jobs, trade and other issues related to his election contest with Democrat Robert Abboud, a show taped Sunday, Sep. 28, 2008 with State Rep. Julie Hamos (D-Evanston) and a show taped on Sunday, Sep. 21,2008 with 16th Cong. Dist. Democatic Nominee Robert Abboud (D-Barrington Hills), two shows featuring clips and interviews, primarily from the Democratic and Republican National Party conventions, go here to watch 2nd Convention clip show and shows with Cook County Cmsr. and Obama Media Team Member Forrest Claypool and much more.
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