The Matthew Filipowicz Show

Hey, everyone!  We’re super excited that our fifth ever Matthew Filipowicz Bad-Ass Members Only Episode is now available!  However, as “Members Only” implies, it is for Bad-Ass Members Only.  How do you become a member?  Simple, just head over to our members page and sign up.

As always, our bonus episodes give you a chance to get to know our amazing writer/performers better as we do our version of the McLaughlin Group, which we’ve dubbed the Filipowicz Forum.  This month’s forum was recorded live at the Irish Oak bar in Chicago, IL immediately following Barack Obama’s speech at Drinking Liberally’s State of the Union watch party.

This month’s forum features writer/performers Bob Rok, Tim Grimes, and stand up comedian James Fritz.  And without a doubt, this is the rowdiest, drunkest forum we’ve done to date.

So become a member today!  Not only do you get the warm fuzzy feeling of supporting independent progressive media and our monthly bonus episodes, but you’ll also receive other… perks (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).  Also, once we reach 100 members, we will go to three shows a week!

However, if you can’t afford to become a member, if you give a one time donation, you’ll get access to that month’s bonus episode!

So what are you waiting for?  Become a member today!

-Matt

Episode 86 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Rob Boston from Americans United for the Separation of Church and State here to talk about five Founding Fathers whose skepticism on Christianity would make them unelectable today.

We also have Mary Bottari from the Center for Media and Democracy back on the show to give us an update on the Scott Walker recall and the campaign to break up Bank Of America.

We’ll also discuss the State of the Union speech, the recording of this month’s Bad-Ass Members Only Bonus Episode after the Drinking Liberally Chicago SOTU Watch party, and the creation of a new Justice Department mortgage crisis task force.

Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes and at www.matthewf.net.  You can follow the show on Twitter and Facebook.  You call the listener hotline at 617-855-TMFS.  You can support the show by becoming a member.  We have new shows every Tuesday and Thursday.

-Matt

Episode 85, The Best Of Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Matt is on the road today, so we will be running “The Best Of The Matthew Filipowicz Show” with some of our favorite interviews and sketches.

Coming up on today’s show, we have Slate senior editor Dahlia Lithwick back on the show to talk about Newt Gingrich’s radical stances on the courts, including ignoring the Supreme Court and his threat to arrest judges that he disagrees with, as well as her take on the NDAA.

We also have comedian Lee Camp back on the show to talk about Occupy Wall Street briefly reclaiming Zuccotti Park on New Year’s Eve as well as Barack Obama signing the NDAA..

Our writer/performers today are Kate Ward and Josh Bolotsky.

Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes and at www.matthewf.net.  You can follow the show on Twitter and Facebook.  You call the listener hotline at 617-855-TMFS.  You can support the show by becoming a member.  We have new shows every Tuesday and Thursday.

Episode 84 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have historian and author of Nixonland, Rick Perlstein, back on the show to discuss his new column for Rolling Stone about how Governor George Romney’s loss to Richard Nixon deeply affected his son Mitt Romney’s political outlook.

We also have the host of Ring of Fire Radio, Mike Papantonio, back on the show to talk about Barack Obama may have a hard time exploiting Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital due to his coddling of Wall Street and the 1%.

Plus, we’ll be talking about how you can build your own Republibot.

We’ll also discuss the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline by Barack Obama, Senate Democrats supporting SOPA and PIPA, the fall of Chris Dodd, Rick Perry dropping out, and Newt Gingrich asking his second wife for an open marriage.

Our writer/performer today is Tim Grimes.

Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes and at www.matthewf.net.  You can follow the show on Twitter and Facebook.  You call the listener hotline at 617-855-TMFS.  You can support the show by becoming a member.  We have new shows every Tuesday and Thursday.

-Matt

Episode 83 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have professor and author Nan Levinson here to discuss her In These Times article on America’s secret data mining network.

We also have documentary filmmaker Sam Mayfield here to talk about the Kickstarter campaign for her upcoming documentary, Wisconsin Rising.

Plus we have Rick Perry’s spokesperson here to respond to Perry defending US soldiers urinating on corpses in Afghanistan.

We’ll also discuss the tide turning against SOPA, the turning in of petitions for the Scott Walker recall, and Newt Gingrich’s nasty, racist exchange last night with Juan Williams at the GOP Primary Debate in South Carolina.

Our writer/performer today is Josh Bolotsky.

Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes and at www.matthewf.net.  You can follow the show on Twitter and Facebook.  You call the listener hotline at 617-855-TMFS.  You can support the show by becoming a member.  We have new shows every Tuesday and Thursday.

-Matt

The following is a message to women from Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum.

Episode 82 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have Tim Karr from Free Press back on the show to talk about the campaign to get the FCC to shine a light on political attack ads, and the push to stop SOPA.

We also have the winner of the Netroots Nation holiday fund-raising bazaar Robert Victorson here to discuss 10 small things that can be done to reduce big time joblessness.

Plus we have a message from Rick Santorum to all the women out there, and we have Mitt Romney responding to the right wing attacks on his time at Bain Capital.

We’ll also discuss Mitt Romney’s claim that anyone who wants to discuss income inequality is envious of the 1%.

Our writer/performer today is Kate Ward.

Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes and at www.matthewf.net.  You can follow the show on Twitter and Facebook.  You call the listener hotline at 617-855-TMFS.  You can support the show by becoming a member.  We have new shows every Tuesday and Thursday.

-Matt

Episode 81 of the Matthew Filipowicz Show is now available to stream and download.

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Coming up on today’s show, we have writer and activist Matt Stoller here to discuss his article, How Ron Paul Challenges Liberals, and the response to it.

We also have Shannon Thompson from Occupy New Hampshire here to give us a rundown on Occupy The Primary.

Plus we have a statistics professor here to mathematically predict the 2012 election.

We’ll also give you a rundown of our weekend at Occupy The Primary, Kate getting to ask Rick Santorum a question, and how Occupy protesters outnumbered GOP supporters at the primary debate.

Our writer/performer today is Tim Grimes.

Remember, you can subscribe and podcast the show for free on iTunes and at www.matthewf.net.  You can follow the show on Twitter and Facebook.  You call the listener hotline at 617-855-TMFS.  You can support the show by becoming a member.  We have new shows every Tuesday and Thursday.

-Matt

On Saturday in New Hampshire, Rick Santorum was asked by a young Catholic, who full disclosure, happens to be my fiancee, about whether, as a Catholic, he agrees with the Church’s teaching that Government has a large role in providing for the poor.

His answer was frankly a muddled mess about how he was instrumental in cutting welfare and how the poor need to get jobs and, no joke, get married.

Don’t take my word for it. Here’s video of his answer.

So, again, according to Santorum, cutting welfare helped the poor. And if you don’t want to be poor, get a job and get married.

I don’t believe that’s in the Bible, but, I could be wrong.

Also, just having a job doesn’t necessarily keep you out of poverty. There are just as many if not more people who are currently under-employed as unemployed in this country.

But, hey, Santorum’s already gone after homosexuals, women, black people, or blah people as he likes to call them. Why not the poor, too?