Better than Proft and McKenna on ABC-7's NewsViews: Berkowitz w/10th CD Republican Primary candidate Arie Friedman, M.D. on Cable and NOW Streaming
Updated at 12:05 am on Wedmesday: Our show w/ 10th CD Republican candidate Arie Friedman, M.D., is now streaming from our youtube page here.
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Jeff Berkowitz: You would endorse Republicans, generally?
Arie Friedman, M.D. [10th Cong. District Republican Primary Candidate]: Absolutely.
Jeff Berkowitz: Because [State Rep.] Beth Coulson [R-Glenview], when she was given the chance on this show in 2000 [Sep.14] to endorse George Bush, said she didn’t know, her district is sophisticated, she wouldn’t endorse. You would have endorsed George Bush?
Arie Friedman, M.D. [R-Highland Park]: I would have endorsed George Bush.
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Arie Friedman, M.D.: I think that most of "security theater," started up after 9/11. I mean there were private organizations in charge of security before that. And, after 9/11, it became primarily the TSA. And, since then, it’s been what we’ve just seen, which is now we’re going to tell everybody to sit still and not move, not out of their seat for the last hour strong>[of a flight]. How does that fix any of the problems that we’ve dealt with?
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Jeff Berkowitz: So, what do you think about Coulson? Is she, as some people say, a RINO, a Republican in name only?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Yes.
Jeff Berkowitz: Unequivocally, yes?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Unequivocally, yes… I have been running against [Beth Coulson] for a few months now and know a little bit about her positions and I don’t see any other way to describe her.
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Tonight’s Chicago metro suburban edition of Public Affairs features 10th Cong. District Republican Primary Candidate Dr. Arie Friedman. Dr. Friedman resides in Highland Park and he has done so since he was six years old. The Chicago Metro suburban airing schedule is included, below.
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Our show with 10th CD Republican Primary candidate Arie Friedman, M.D. is NOW streaming here.
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Arie Friedman, the newest kid on the block in the 10th CD Republican Primary, started his campaign late but he could surprise his three major competitors. He has a strong background for Congress in the domestic and foreign public policy arenas. After graduating from the University of Chicago college, Arie Friedman became a naval flight officer, flying fixed and rotary wing aircraft. His seven years of active and eleven years of reserve duty in the navy had multiple deployments, including Operation Desert Storm.
Further, on the domestic public policy side, Arie Friedman is not without ideas on healthcare, having graduated from University of Illinois’ Medical School at the top of his class and has had a group pediatric practice for the last nine years.
Apparently, Dr. Friedman is the only Jewish candidate in the race, which could be significant in the 10th CD, with its significant Jewish population. Increasingly, those voters are taking a Republican Primary ballot as the Democratic Party continues its drift to the left on healthcare, Israel and national security, in general. On the other hand, Friedman may not have enough time to raise money and build the coalitions necessary to win.
However, unlike Republicans Coulson, Dold and Green, Dr. Friedman is willing to be questioned, in depth, on important issues of domestic policy, foreign policy and cultural issues, as well as give his views about his competitors. Take a listen, watch the show tonight and watch the show now streaming here.
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Has Beth Coulson historically been reluctant to endorse other Republicans?
Jeff Berkowitz: You would endorse Republicans, generally?
Arie Friedman, M.D. [10th Cong. District Republican Primary Candidate]: Absolutely.
Jeff Berkowitz: Because Beth Coulson, when she was given the chance on this show in 2000 to endorse George Bush, said she didn’t know, her district is sophisticated, she wouldn’t endorse. You would have endorsed George Bush?
Arie Friedman, M.D. [R-Highland Park]: I would have endorsed George Bush.
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Is Beth Coulson a RINO?
Jeff Berkowitz: So, what do you think about Coulson? Is she, as some people say, a RINO, a Republican in name only?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Yes.
Jeff Berkowitz: Unequivocally, yes?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Unequivocally, yes… I have been running against [Beth Coulson] for a few months now and know a little bit about her positions and I don’t see any other way to describe her.
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Is there substance to Dick Green?
Jeff Berkowitz: Dick Green does an ad …and he says yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that basically what he says?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Yes.
Jeff Berkowitz: I mean, Dick…people think the 10th is a fairly sophisticated District, they need people who say more than "yeah, yeah, yeah."
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Can the United States win in Afghanistan?
Jeff Berkowitz: Would you have sent the 40,000 troops that [General McChrystal in Afghanistan] wanted?
Arie Friedman, M.D.[R-Highland Park]:I would have sent him whatever he wanted...[O]n the people that we have in the military, from the Generals on down to the Lance Corporals, they are extremely intelligent people, highly trained. They spend their lives doing this work. We shouldn’t be micro managing how they fight any more than you’d micro manage your surgeon as he is performing an operation. What really makes me angry as a former military officer is the idea that we can’t win [in Afghanistan].
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Is the Obama Administration getting airport security right?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: I think that most of "security theater," started up after 9/11. I mean there were private organizations in charge of security before that. And, after 9/11, it became primarily the TSA. And, since then, it’s been what we’ve just seen, which is now we’re going to tell everybody to sit still and not move, not out of their seat for the last hour [of a flight]. How does that fix any of the problems that we’ve dealt with?
Jeff Berkowitz: What should they do?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: What they should do is start being more intelligent about who they focus on. There are a lot of resources here to be used. Somebody who comes from Nigeria. Somebody whose father has reported him [to the U. S. embassy as a possible security threat]. Somebody who is on various no fly lists is somebody who should be targeted very carefully for investigation.
Jeff Berkowitz: This guy [the Christmas day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab] wasn’t on a no fly list. He was on some sort of list that had 500,000 people on it.
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Right, he was on a security list of some sort. A watch list.
Jeff Berkowitz: A watch list, but not where you could do much about it.
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Right.
Jeff Berkowitz: So, he probably should have been on the “no fly,” list?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Certainly.
Should we try to profile potential terrorists?
Jeff Berkowitz: At least based on what we knew. And, is it the reluctance to profile people…
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Of course, it is.
Jeff Berkowitz: As some people say, we can profile objects…because it is more than security theater. It is about political correctness because somebody is going to say not everybody getting on a plane in Nigeria is a security risk-- but somebody getting on a plane in Nigeria whose father is a well established guy, big time banker…he thinks somebody should keep an eye on his son [and tells the U. S. Embassy in Nigeria that], that should be a tip-off…and then [the son] got on the plane—was it in Amsterdam or Nigeria-- that he bought a one-way ticket
Arie Friedman, M.D.: A one-way ticket.
Jeff Berkowitz: [paid for in] cash?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Yes.
Jeff Berkowitz: Are we starting to build a profile here? The Obama Administration said we were going to use science…so, if you are using science, shouldn’t they be building this profile, tracking these things and say, when enough of these factors pile up…
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Right
Jeff Berkowitz: Then, what you want to do is…talk to the person. Ask him a few questions. Do we have anybody in this country who is experienced in- what do we call it- intelligence operations? So, we want somebody to talk with him or her and see whether that person is a risk and if they decide that person is—they don’t go on the plane.
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Right.
Are some foreign airports doing improper screening of security risks?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: One of the criteria should be when you are deciding whether it is a high risk airport or not is whether the airport itself will accept our security people to go and investigate what their situation is. So, you can have a high risk airport, even the airport that this guy originated from, but if were able to send our own people pro-actively forward to have it be a more secure environment, that would be one thing. If they said no, then that’s an airport perhaps we should consider [barring flights from departing there and coming into the U. S.]
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Arie Friedman, M.D. [10th Cong. District Republican Primary Candidate], interviewed on Sunday, December 27, 2009 on Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz, and airing this evening in 24 Chicago Metro North and Northwest suburbs on Comcast Ch. 19 or Ch. 35, as indicated, below.
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From Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz, taped on December 27, 2009
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The Chicago Metro suburban episode of "Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz," featuring this week's guest,10th Cong. District Republican Primary Candidate Dr. Arie Friedman,M.D.,airs:
tonight, Tuesday night, 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 night, 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.
The Chicago Metro Suburban edition of "Public Affairs," usually airs, as well, 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.
Due to a transfer this month of control of broadcast facilities from Comcast to the Village of Highland Park for the above referenced ten suburbs, the airing of Public Affairs in those ten suburbs has ceased for the month of December, but will resume, on the same airing schedule, on January 4, 2010. We anticipate airng the Public Affairs show featuring 10th Cong. District Republican Primary Candidate Dr. Arie Friedman,M.D., discussed above, during that first or second week of January, 2010 in the aforementioned ten suburbs, in the same time slot we have previously aired, i.e., Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19
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The Public Affairs show, featuring 10th Cong. District Republican Primary Candidate Dr. Arie Friedman,M.D.,also will air on Monday night, January 11, 2010, throughout the City of Chicago at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21
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More than 118 of our shows from the last two years are posted on the Public Affairs YouTube page . Now streaming are our most recent shows w 10th Cong. District Republican Primary Candidate Arie Friedman, M.D. (R-Highland Park), Republican Guv candidate State Sen. Kirk Dillard(R-Naperville); Cong. Danny Davis, Patrick Collins, former Chairman of the Illinois Reform Commission;
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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.
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Jeff Berkowitz: You would endorse Republicans, generally?
Arie Friedman, M.D. [10th Cong. District Republican Primary Candidate]: Absolutely.
Jeff Berkowitz: Because [State Rep.] Beth Coulson [R-Glenview], when she was given the chance on this show in 2000 [Sep.14] to endorse George Bush, said she didn’t know, her district is sophisticated, she wouldn’t endorse. You would have endorsed George Bush?
Arie Friedman, M.D. [R-Highland Park]: I would have endorsed George Bush.
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Arie Friedman, M.D.: I think that most of "security theater," started up after 9/11. I mean there were private organizations in charge of security before that. And, after 9/11, it became primarily the TSA. And, since then, it’s been what we’ve just seen, which is now we’re going to tell everybody to sit still and not move, not out of their seat for the last hour strong>[of a flight]. How does that fix any of the problems that we’ve dealt with?
***************************************
Jeff Berkowitz: So, what do you think about Coulson? Is she, as some people say, a RINO, a Republican in name only?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Yes.
Jeff Berkowitz: Unequivocally, yes?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Unequivocally, yes… I have been running against [Beth Coulson] for a few months now and know a little bit about her positions and I don’t see any other way to describe her.
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Tonight’s Chicago metro suburban edition of Public Affairs features 10th Cong. District Republican Primary Candidate Dr. Arie Friedman. Dr. Friedman resides in Highland Park and he has done so since he was six years old. The Chicago Metro suburban airing schedule is included, below.
*********************************************
Our show with 10th CD Republican Primary candidate Arie Friedman, M.D. is NOW streaming here.
*************************************************************
Arie Friedman, the newest kid on the block in the 10th CD Republican Primary, started his campaign late but he could surprise his three major competitors. He has a strong background for Congress in the domestic and foreign public policy arenas. After graduating from the University of Chicago college, Arie Friedman became a naval flight officer, flying fixed and rotary wing aircraft. His seven years of active and eleven years of reserve duty in the navy had multiple deployments, including Operation Desert Storm.
Further, on the domestic public policy side, Arie Friedman is not without ideas on healthcare, having graduated from University of Illinois’ Medical School at the top of his class and has had a group pediatric practice for the last nine years.
Apparently, Dr. Friedman is the only Jewish candidate in the race, which could be significant in the 10th CD, with its significant Jewish population. Increasingly, those voters are taking a Republican Primary ballot as the Democratic Party continues its drift to the left on healthcare, Israel and national security, in general. On the other hand, Friedman may not have enough time to raise money and build the coalitions necessary to win.
However, unlike Republicans Coulson, Dold and Green, Dr. Friedman is willing to be questioned, in depth, on important issues of domestic policy, foreign policy and cultural issues, as well as give his views about his competitors. Take a listen, watch the show tonight and watch the show now streaming here.
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Has Beth Coulson historically been reluctant to endorse other Republicans?
Jeff Berkowitz: You would endorse Republicans, generally?
Arie Friedman, M.D. [10th Cong. District Republican Primary Candidate]: Absolutely.
Jeff Berkowitz: Because Beth Coulson, when she was given the chance on this show in 2000 to endorse George Bush, said she didn’t know, her district is sophisticated, she wouldn’t endorse. You would have endorsed George Bush?
Arie Friedman, M.D. [R-Highland Park]: I would have endorsed George Bush.
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Is Beth Coulson a RINO?
Jeff Berkowitz: So, what do you think about Coulson? Is she, as some people say, a RINO, a Republican in name only?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Yes.
Jeff Berkowitz: Unequivocally, yes?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Unequivocally, yes… I have been running against [Beth Coulson] for a few months now and know a little bit about her positions and I don’t see any other way to describe her.
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Is there substance to Dick Green?
Jeff Berkowitz: Dick Green does an ad …and he says yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that basically what he says?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Yes.
Jeff Berkowitz: I mean, Dick…people think the 10th is a fairly sophisticated District, they need people who say more than "yeah, yeah, yeah."
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Can the United States win in Afghanistan?
Jeff Berkowitz: Would you have sent the 40,000 troops that [General McChrystal in Afghanistan] wanted?
Arie Friedman, M.D.[R-Highland Park]:I would have sent him whatever he wanted...[O]n the people that we have in the military, from the Generals on down to the Lance Corporals, they are extremely intelligent people, highly trained. They spend their lives doing this work. We shouldn’t be micro managing how they fight any more than you’d micro manage your surgeon as he is performing an operation. What really makes me angry as a former military officer is the idea that we can’t win [in Afghanistan].
**********************************************************
Is the Obama Administration getting airport security right?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: I think that most of "security theater," started up after 9/11. I mean there were private organizations in charge of security before that. And, after 9/11, it became primarily the TSA. And, since then, it’s been what we’ve just seen, which is now we’re going to tell everybody to sit still and not move, not out of their seat for the last hour [of a flight]. How does that fix any of the problems that we’ve dealt with?
Jeff Berkowitz: What should they do?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: What they should do is start being more intelligent about who they focus on. There are a lot of resources here to be used. Somebody who comes from Nigeria. Somebody whose father has reported him [to the U. S. embassy as a possible security threat]. Somebody who is on various no fly lists is somebody who should be targeted very carefully for investigation.
Jeff Berkowitz: This guy [the Christmas day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab] wasn’t on a no fly list. He was on some sort of list that had 500,000 people on it.
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Right, he was on a security list of some sort. A watch list.
Jeff Berkowitz: A watch list, but not where you could do much about it.
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Right.
Jeff Berkowitz: So, he probably should have been on the “no fly,” list?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Certainly.
Should we try to profile potential terrorists?
Jeff Berkowitz: At least based on what we knew. And, is it the reluctance to profile people…
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Of course, it is.
Jeff Berkowitz: As some people say, we can profile objects…because it is more than security theater. It is about political correctness because somebody is going to say not everybody getting on a plane in Nigeria is a security risk-- but somebody getting on a plane in Nigeria whose father is a well established guy, big time banker…he thinks somebody should keep an eye on his son [and tells the U. S. Embassy in Nigeria that], that should be a tip-off…and then [the son] got on the plane—was it in Amsterdam or Nigeria-- that he bought a one-way ticket
Arie Friedman, M.D.: A one-way ticket.
Jeff Berkowitz: [paid for in] cash?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Yes.
Jeff Berkowitz: Are we starting to build a profile here? The Obama Administration said we were going to use science…so, if you are using science, shouldn’t they be building this profile, tracking these things and say, when enough of these factors pile up…
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Right
Jeff Berkowitz: Then, what you want to do is…talk to the person. Ask him a few questions. Do we have anybody in this country who is experienced in- what do we call it- intelligence operations? So, we want somebody to talk with him or her and see whether that person is a risk and if they decide that person is—they don’t go on the plane.
Arie Friedman, M.D.: Right.
Are some foreign airports doing improper screening of security risks?
Arie Friedman, M.D.: One of the criteria should be when you are deciding whether it is a high risk airport or not is whether the airport itself will accept our security people to go and investigate what their situation is. So, you can have a high risk airport, even the airport that this guy originated from, but if were able to send our own people pro-actively forward to have it be a more secure environment, that would be one thing. If they said no, then that’s an airport perhaps we should consider [barring flights from departing there and coming into the U. S.]
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Arie Friedman, M.D. [10th Cong. District Republican Primary Candidate], interviewed on Sunday, December 27, 2009 on Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz, and airing this evening in 24 Chicago Metro North and Northwest suburbs on Comcast Ch. 19 or Ch. 35, as indicated, below.
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From Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz, taped on December 27, 2009
************************************************************
The Chicago Metro suburban episode of "Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz," featuring this week's guest,10th Cong. District Republican Primary Candidate Dr. Arie Friedman,M.D.,airs:
tonight, Tuesday night, 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 night, 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.
The Chicago Metro Suburban edition of "Public Affairs," usually airs, as well, 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.
Due to a transfer this month of control of broadcast facilities from Comcast to the Village of Highland Park for the above referenced ten suburbs, the airing of Public Affairs in those ten suburbs has ceased for the month of December, but will resume, on the same airing schedule, on January 4, 2010. We anticipate airng the Public Affairs show featuring 10th Cong. District Republican Primary Candidate Dr. Arie Friedman,M.D., discussed above, during that first or second week of January, 2010 in the aforementioned ten suburbs, in the same time slot we have previously aired, i.e., Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19
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The Public Affairs show, featuring 10th Cong. District Republican Primary Candidate Dr. Arie Friedman,M.D.,also will air on Monday night, January 11, 2010, throughout the City of Chicago at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21
******************************************
More than 118 of our shows from the last two years are posted on the Public Affairs YouTube page . Now streaming are our most recent shows w 10th Cong. District Republican Primary Candidate Arie Friedman, M.D. (R-Highland Park), Republican Guv candidate State Sen. Kirk Dillard(R-Naperville); Cong. Danny Davis, Patrick Collins, former Chairman of the Illinois Reform Commission;
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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.
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