Omar Fekeiki Interview
Pete’s guest today was Omar Fekeiki. Here’s the Salon.com article Pete referred to during the interview. And here’s search results for his articles in the Washington Post.One comment on the interview: Omar said he couldn’t understand why Americans would protest a recruiting center in their own town. The reasons they’re protesting are quite explicit: they don’t want young people from their community getting swindled into fighting wars that don’t serve the interests of their community. Disagree or not, I just think it’s important that, before criticizing people for doing something and implying they don’t have a reason, asking them why they’re doing it is a good move. I’m not a big fan of Code Pink, the group Omar was referring to, but here’s what they say about why they are protesting recruitment.
Has anyone seen The Daily Show bit about Marines in Berkley? I believe it was aired on March 12 or 13 of this year…
Here’s the link
Here’s the embed, if it isn’t stripped:
The most hilarious part was the interviews of Code Pink ladies on the street… The one who said it was all about free speech and then agreed it would be nice to have some kind of organization that protected those rights made me feel like that Indian in the 1970s era pollution commercials…
Brian,
Is this the Omar of the blog “Iraq the Model”?
Todd, that DS piece mocking Code Pink was hilarious. While I’m fine with protesting recruitment centers, I have to say they really do make convenient asses of themselves. Unfortunately we can’t allow embedded video in the comments or it could cause major problems with the site.
As for Omar being the guy from Iraq the Model, I haven’t seen any reference to that in any of his bio material. I think that Omar is trying to remain kind of anonymous. I doubt that dude or his family would last very long if his identity were revealed.
I heard this for a few minutes when I was in the car today. I still am annoyed there’s no podcasts (i didn’t hear the whole thing), because it’s basically free advertising. Plus, as a subscriber, I should be able to download sirius content for listening to on my own time. It’s called timeshifting.
As well, the podcast would (since it’s not live) be advertising for sirius for the nonsubscribers: it’d encourage them to subscribe so they could participate in the live shows.
Please try to get podcasts setup? Pretty please?
Several people have raised the idea of podcasts. I hope you all realize this is an unofficial website, in that we have no direct relationship to Sirius. The podcasts would take a tremendous amount of work, not to mention server space and bandwidth, and there’s no budget for that kind of thing. I will talk to the producers and see if there’s any chance it can be done, but please don’t be too pushy hear — you’re trying to get blood from a stone.
BBB
Yes, we know. Sirius has reported a net loss since the satellite was launched.
Hell it is hard enough to get them to change the name of the channel, let alone give up precious bandwidth to us.
http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/03/listen-to-rev-j.html
In keeping with the spirit of the fairness and balance Pete is implying by investigating the other side’s point of view, i CHALLENGE everyone to listen to Jeremiah Wright full sermon [link above] and tell me that he’s anti-American!!! He damn near calls this cuntry the New Jerusalem, but Fox “news” and Howard Stern are totally oblivious to that FACT.
Thanks for the link, Eminems. I just listened to the whole sermon (probably missed some while I was working), and now I’m considering drafting Jeremiah Wright for president. Obama has nothing on him. This guy is honest and he tells it straight. He gets it. Too bad his supposed understudy Obama is so fucking lame.
In our Sound Byte oriented media, all they care about is “God Damn America”. I’ve listened to Wright’s speech as well and most of it was very well spoken.
However, just like with Obama’s great speech, all people will ever hear are the remarkable sound bytes. Rev Wright is guilty of nothing more than some really bad judgment in the composition of his speech, and Obama will pay the price for it.
Boy Travis, you are so correct. You can cut 3 seconds out of a 10 minute speech and completely twist the meaning of what the person is saying. I believe “taking out of context” is cliche, but sadly it is a growing behavior being exhibited by the media these days.