Detroit to Rachel: Ouch, that hurts!

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Thursday April 23, 2009 · 8:03 AM PDT

2009/04/23 · 08:03

(Cross-posted from my blog at http://thenancyskinnershow.blogspot.com)

Ok – Let me set this up right. I’m a huge Rachel Maddow fan. I enjoyed her radio program, and often quote her and credit her insightful interviews on my show (i.e. this is not an Alec Baldwin thing). I respect intelligent, likeable women like Rachel who have been able to break the male political host opinion barrier as she has done. Kudos.

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Monday April 20, 2009 · 12:59 PM PDT

2009/04/20 · 12:59

(This is cross-posted from my blog)

On Friday's show, I was talking to James Boyce about the tea parties, and when the subject of Janeane Garofalo's appearance on Keith Olbermann's show came up, I mentioned that I thought Janeane was a little over the top in that she essentially called all Republicans racists. (NOTE: I did not call her a hater; I called her "over the top" with her comments.) [Start listening at approximately 14 minutes by going to this link, clicking on Friday's show (SkinnerShow-(17-4-2009).mp3) and giving it a few minutes to open up. Or, you can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and get it from there.]

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Thursday November 20, 2008 · 7:29 AM PST

2008/11/20 · 07:29

Many of you know me as having lost to President-Elect Barack Obama in the US Illinois Democratic primary (losing to POTUS is pretty cool) or from my years on radio and TV as a progressive commentator.

I started all this because of the climate crisis. I live in Detroit and we are looking into the abyss. I ran for congress in '06 on re-tooling the auto industry to produce the next generation of fuel-efficient vehicles. We hear the anger from congress and the country about the industry's resistance to change all these years, loud and clear. But Michigan needs your help now.

Please read my column in today's Detroit Free Press "Yes, Detroit Can Make a Green Turnaround"and post there and go to www.YesWeCanDetroit.com to sign a petition if you agree with me.

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Tuesday November 20, 2007 · 3:25 PM PST

2007/11/20 · 15:25

I'm so glad to see that Grist.org's forum put climate change on the presidential agenda. I don't see any such effort focused on the congressional races. I ran against a 14-year anti-environment incumbent Republican, Joe Knollenberg, last November and almost beat him 47-51% after being outspent 7 to 1. My signature issue was global warming and I live smack dab in the home of the auto industry. Robert Kennedy Jr. did my first ad endorsing me for my leadership on global warming (see below). Now the DCCC has recruited a candidate to run against me in the primary whose campaign slogan is "the right kind of change" and is very much a part of the establishment.

There are many among us in Michigan who believe the influence of the auto industry in DC has cost us jobs by resisting (and being sheltered from) change. I believe that a major shift in technology is rapidly needed in Detroit's auto industry and the entire nation has a national security stake in this one. Ironically, the United Auto Workers get this, and I have strong support there.

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