! Screw CNN Listen here to SOTU on PACIFICA : (commentary already started)

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any other alternative links welcome

listen online to Pacifica's WBAI:

http://www.wbai.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=8292&Itemid=42

8:00-11:00 pm: The State of the Union Address-Live!
WBAI brings you Verna Avery-Brown, Washington Bureau Chief, and Larry Bensky, Pacifica's National Affairs Correspondent, as they kick off Pacifica's national coverage at 8:00 pm, one hour before President Bush takes to the world stage to give his sixth State of the Union Address.

From 10:00-11:00 pm Pacifica guests will offer analysis and response.

WBAI's next-day local coverage starts with Wakeup Call, which will have an extended segment on the State of the Union from 7:10 to 7:40 am, taking listener calls, and playing excerpts. Guests include U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel and others.

At 9:00 am, Democracy Now! will have an analysis with Washington insiders, and feature Democratic response to President Bush's speech.

Hugh Hamilton assesses the domestic and foreign policy implications of the president's speech on Talkback!, starting at 3:00 pm. Guests include Lee Farris, senior tax policy analyst with the research organization United for a Fair Economy.

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1. also, Gore Vidal Delivers State of the Union

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/31/1532246

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Gore Vidal Delivers State of the Union: "Let the Powers That Be Know There is Something Called We the People of the U.S. and all Sovereignty Rests in Us."

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In advance of President Bush’s state of the union address later tonight, author Gore Vidal delivers his own traditional state of the union address. We hear Vidal speak about patriotism, the NSA domestic surveillance programs, corporate America, Presidential powers and more.
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In Washington, President Bush will deliver the State of the Union address tonight. In advance of tonight we’d like to bring you a different take on the annual presidential speech.
Since the early 1970s, author and playwright Gore Vidal has been delivering his own State of the Union address. The tradition began on the David Susskind Show. We’re going to continue that tradition by hearing from Gore Vidal today.


Gore Vidal, one of America’s most respected writers and thinkers. He’s authored more than twenty novels and five plays. His recent national bestsellers are "Dreaming War" and "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace." His latest book is called "Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia."

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RUSH TRANSCRIPT

JUAN GONZALEZ: Here is Gore Vidal in an address he recorded for us on the State of the Union.

GORE VIDAL: Today, the 31st of January, in the hallowed year, election year, of ’06, could be a memorable day if we all do our part, which is simply to concentrate, among other things, and do perhaps what a couple of groups have decided would be useful for the President, I guess his State of the Union. We might give him some idea of our state, which is one of great dissatisfaction with him and his regime. And there's talk of perhaps demonstrating in front of the Capitol or here or there around the country to show that the union is occupied by people who happen to be patriots. And patriots do not like this government.

This is an unpatriotic government. This is a government that deals openly in illegalities, whether it is attacking a country which has done us no harm, two countries -- Iraq and Afghanistan -- because we now believe, not in declaring war through Congress as the Constitution requires, but through the President. ‘Well, I think there are some terrorists over there, and I think we got to bomb them, huh? We'll bomb them.’ Now, we’ve had idiots as presidents before. He's not unique. But he's certainly the most active idiot that we have ever had.

And now here we are planning new wars, ongoing wars in the Middle East. And so as he comes with his State of the Union, which he is going to justify eavesdropping without judicial warrants on anybody in the United States that he wants to listen in on. This is what we call dictatorship. Dictatorship. Dictatorship. And it is time that we objected. Don't say wait ‘til the next election and do it through that. We can't trust the elections, thanks to Diebold and S&S and all the electronic devices which are being flogged across the country to make sure that elections can be so rigged that the villains will stay in power.

I think demonstrations across the country could be very useful on this famous Tuesday. Just say no. We've had enough of you. Go home to Crawford. We'll help you raise the money for a library, and you won't even ever have to read a book. We're not cruel. We just want to get rid of you and let you be an ex-president with his own library, which you can fill up with friends of yours who can neither read nor write, but they'll be well served and well paid, we hope, by corporate America, which will love you forever.
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2. Air America's "Political Science Theater 3000"

www.airamericaradio.com

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4. thank you! who needs those fools at CNN! n/t

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3. listening now... leftie commentary :-)

I feel more at home now

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5. talking impeachment!

David Swanson

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6. talking PNAC

anyone else listening?

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7. are you really watching the corporate media?

Code Pink

are you really watching the corporate media? :think:

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8. they reported the t-shirt n/t