Malzberg Talk

NewsBusters.org just posted, “Krugman Shows Why Liberals Think Economy Is Lousy”.  Here’s a sample and click through for the full story…

For years one of the great unanswered questions along Main and Wall streets has been why, in the midst of 24 consecutive quarters of uninterrupted growth, polls have regularly found Americans sour about the economy.

On Tuesday, a battle between the New York Times liberal economics columnist Paul Krugman and WOR radio’s Steve Malzberg offered a clue.

WE ALL NEED TO PRAY FOR OUR MILITARY PERSONNEL EVERY NIGHT!

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

A DIFFERENT CHRISTMAS POEM

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.

Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.

My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.

The sound wasn’t loud, and it wasn’t too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn’t quite know,
Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.

My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
a lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.

A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

“What are you doing?” I asked without fear,
“Come in this moment, it’s freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at hom e on a cold Christmas Eve!”

For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts..
To the window that danced with a warm fire’s light.
Then he sighed and said, It’s alright,
I’m out here by choice. I’m here every night.”

“It’s my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I’m proud to stand here like my fathers before me.

My Gramps died at ‘Pearl on a day in December,”
Then he sighed, “That ’s a Christmas ‘Gram always remembers.”
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of ‘Nam’,
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.
I’ve not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he’s sure got her smile.

Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red, white, and blue… an American flag.

“I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..
Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall.”

” So go back inside,” he said, “harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I’ll be all right.”
“But isn’t there something I can do, at the least,
“Give you money,” I asked, “or prepare you a feast?”
It seems all too little for all that you’ve done,
For being away from your wife and your son.”

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
“Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we’re gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.

This poem was written by a Marine stationed in Okinawa, Japan. The following is his request. I think it is reasonable…

“PLEASE, Would you do me the kind favor of sending this to as many people as you can?” Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due to our U.S. service men and women for our being able to celebrate these festivities.

Let’s try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we owe. Make people stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed themselves for us.

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Here’s a clip:

Tough Questions for Hillary, Giuliani

Yes Rudy Giuliani has a lot of explaining to do.

Imagine, the man who served as his chief of prisons and then police commissioner while Giuliani was mayor of New York City has been indicted.

Bernard Kerik, whom President Bush would later nominate for the position of Homeland Security chief based greatly on Giuliani’s rave reviews, has been charged with not reporting income, having work done on his home for free and not reporting it, having some one else pay his rent and not reporting it, lying to federal investigators and lying on his federal application for the homeland security position, among other things.

It’s not good, but it’s also not Giuliani’s fault.

You can read the full column here.

For Love of Politics by Sally Bedell Smith

Ann Coulter…If Democrats Had Any Brains

Judge Andrew Napolitano “A Nation of Sheep”

Thomas DeFrank “Write It When I’m Gone“

The New York Post featured Steve’s interview with  Chris Wallace on Friday.  Here’s a clip, and click through for the full story:

ONE story you won’t find in the mainstream media: Thirty-nine American soldiers were killed in Iraq in October, the fewest deaths there in any month since 2004. In October 2006, 106 U.S. troops were killed. “That story is untold,” Fox News Channel correspondent Chris Wallace said on Steve Malzberg’s WOR Radio show Wednesday. “You don’t see it in the New York Times, and you don’t see it the Washington Post . . . The mainstream media don’t like good news from Iraq. The surge is working.”

Newsbusters reports: …”Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace was WOR radio Steve Malzberg’s guest Thursday afternoon, during which time he made some observations about media bias that few in the industry would dare.What follows is Wallace’s marvelous view of what would have happened to a Republican presidential candidate if he had made similar racist comments as Biden’s, as well as bonus coverage you will surely enjoy. Read the full article here.

Here’s the kids news show from Nickelodeon that Steve featured on his show on Thursday November 1st. You have to see it to believe it.

The New York Post featured Steve’s interview with author Sally Bedell Smith. There’s a clip below, and you can read the full article here.

October 27, 2007 — Hillary Clinton’s first reaction upon discovering that Bill had carried on an affair with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office was that her husband “couldn’t be that insane,” biographer Sally Bedell Smith writes in her upcoming book about the couple, “For Love of Politics.”

Bedell - author of “Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House” and “Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess” - told WOR Radio’s Steve Malzberg that her new book, out next month, includes an interview with a close pal of Sen. Clinton who said Hillary was aware of her hubby’s cheating ways long before Lewinsky.

Bedell told Malzberg on the air, “This person said, ‘If [Hillary] heard that he had sort of gone out and had a fling on the road, she could have believed that in a heartbeat. Look, she was not about to divorce him for doing something that he had been doing for their whole married life, the only difference being the magnitude.’

Sally Bedell Smith’s book tour to promote her new Bill and Hillary Clinton (For Love of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years)book stopped at The Steve Malzberg Show yesterday on the WOR Radio Network. It turned out to be quite revealing, according to NewsBusters.org. You can read about it and listen to the interview here.