|
BARRY GORDON — lifelong entertainer, longest-serving president of the Screen Actors Guild, and
former candidate for Congress — is talking politics,
entertainment, and other hot topics. Down-to-earth, with a voice known to
millions,
Barry's takes on the political ballgame are smart and lively, filled
with passion and humor. Throughout this last year, Barry has fielded calls from listeners and interviewed
some of the top guests on the air today:
Political Leaders,
including ...
Senator Barbara Boxer
Senator Byron Dorgan
Former Senator and Presidential Candidate
Gary Hart
Rep. John Conyers Jr.
Rep. Brad Sherman
Rep. Henry Waxman
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich
Former Ambassador Peter Galbraith
Former Ambassador Swanee Hunt
Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson
Jerry Brown, California Icon
Bev Harris, Founder of BlackBoxVoting.org
Dolores Huerta, Legendary Labor Leader
Paul Rieckhoff, Veterans Activist
Scott Ritter, Former U.N. Weapons
Inspector
Cindy Sheehan,
"Peace Mom"
Andy Stern,
President of the SEIU
John Sweeney,
President of the AFL-CIO
Bestselling Authors,
Renowned Commentators, and Respected Scholars, including ...
Dr. Helen Caldicott, The World's Leading
Anti-Nuclear Activist
Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics
and Advocate for Peace
David Corn, Washington Editor of
"The Nation" and Bestselling Author
Craig Crawford, Washington, DC Columnist
and TV Commentator
Catherine Crier, Court TV Host and
Bestselling Author
John Dean, Watergate Principal and
Bestselling Author
Lou Dobbs, CNN Business and Financial
Anchor
Michael J. Gerhardt, Professor of
Constitutional Law
Robert Greenwald, Documentary Filmmaker
Thom Hartmann, Progressive Talk Show Host
Arianna Huffington, Author &
Multi-Media Commentator
Paul Krugman, New York Times Op-Ed
Columnist
Robert Kuttner, Co-Founder of "The
American Prospect"
Michael Lerner, Progressive Rabbi
Mark Crispin Miller,
Author/Activist/Scholar
Markos "Kos" Moulitsas, Top
Blogger
Greg Palast, Investigative Journalist
William Rivers Pitt, Bestselling Author
Ron Suskind, Bestselling Author
Helen Thomas, Dean of the White House
Press Corps
Gore Vidal, Iconic American Writer and
Intellectual
Jim Wallis, Progressive Christian Leader
Lawrence Wright, Bestselling Author
Howard Zinn, Legendary Historian and
Activist
Representatives of
Influential Organizations and Publications, including ...
ACLU
Amnesty International USA
Campaign for America's Future
Center for American Progress
Center for Public Integrity
Common Cause
Demos
Economic Policy Institute
Free Press
"The Hotline" from the National
Journal Group
IAVA (Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of
America)
Media Matters for America
"Ms." Magazine
Planned Parenthood
Sierra Club
WakeUpWalMart.com
Celebrated
Entertainment Figures, including ...
Ed Asner, Barry's Fellow Former President
of the Screen Actors Guild
Burt Bacharach, Legendary Composer
Ed Begley Jr., Actor and Environmental
Activist
Terence Blanchard, Grammy-Winner
Chris Bliss, Comedian / Activist /
Juggler Extraordinaire
Andy Borowitz, Humorist
Scott Dikkers, Satirist, Editor-in-Chief
of "The Onion"
Nora Dunn, "Saturday Night
Live" Alum
Argus Hamilton, Comedian and Nationally
Syndicated Columnist
Chris Lemmon, Actor/Author Son of
Barry's Old Friend Jack Lemmon
Lisa Loeb, "Billboard"-Topping
Singer/Songwriter
Robert Loggia, Actor
Jim Meskimen, Impersonator (Jibjab),
Improvisationist, & Funnyman
Chef Harry Schwartz, Popular TV
Personality
Kenneth Turan, Film Critic of the
Los Angeles Times
Billy West, Voice Artist ("Ren &
Stimpy" and many others)
Michael Wilmington, Film Critic of the
Chicago Tribune
And Many More!
Please see the Podcast
Archives for a complete rundown of our great guests and
diverse topics.
|
|
|
HOW
TO LISTEN TO OUR PODCASTS
FIND
A SHOW BY THE DATE
FIND A SHOW BY THE
GUEST
Click
on any date to read a summary of the show
and to
stream or download the podcast.
Aaron,
Craig, Free Press, National Conference for Media Reform, January
7, 2007
Abdo,
Geneive, U.N. Alliance of Civilizations, "Mecca and Main
Street," September 10, 2006
Acosta, Robert, Iraq War Veterans, Iraq War, March
12, 2006
Acuff, Stewart, AFL-CIO, Labor Day, September
3, 2006
Adelstein,
Jonathan, Federal Communications Commission, Media Reform, January
7, 2007
Ahmed, Nafeez Mosaddeq, Institute for Policy Research and
Development, "The War on Truth," July
9, 2006
Anderson,
Rocky, Mayor of Salt Lake City, United for Peace demonstration, January
21, 2007
Angelides, Phil, Democratic Party, California Governor's
Race, May 27, 2006
Armstrong, Jerome, MyDD, Blogging & "Crashing the
Gate," March 26, 2006
Arnove, Anthony, "Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal," July
16, 2006
Asner, Ed, The Post-Election
Political Landscape, November 19, 2006
Bacharach,
Burt, "At This Time," May
7, 2006
Bacon, David, Immigration, April
9, 2006
Bakan, Joel, University of British Columbia, "The
Corporation" ("Inequality Matters" Show), June
11, 2006
Barr, Bob, NSA Wiretapping etc., February
5, 2006
Bates, Dianne, Sundance Film Festival, January
22, 2006
Bedingfield, Kate, Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee, Take Back the Congress, April
2, 2006
Bee, Granny, "A Hot Topic," July
30, 2006
Begley Jr., Ed, "Who Killed the Electric Car?", July
30, 2006
Benson,
Diane, Alaskan candidate for Congress and mother of disabled
Iraq veteran, October 22, 2006
Berg, Michael, Green Party, Death of al-Zarqawi (his son's
killer), June 18, 2006
Bernstein, Jared, Economic Policy Institute, "All
Together Now," May 14, 2006
Blackledge, Steve, California Public Interest Research Group,
AT&T/BellSouth Merger & California Cell Phone Users Bill of
Rights, March 6, 2006
Blanchard, Terence, The Grammys, January
29, 2006; Katrina: One Year Later, August
27, 2006 (repeated December 31, 2006)
Blank, Paul, WakeUpWalMart.com, The Wal-Martization of
America, March 1, 2006
Bliss, Chris, Juggling & MyBillOfRights.org, June
25, 2006
Boatman, Jay, "The Many Moods of Vince Daniels,"
Right-Wing Politics, June 24, 2006
Borosage,
Robert, Campaign for America's Future, Analysis of 2006
Election, November 26, 2006
Borowitz,
Andy, "The Republican Playbook," October
8, 2006
Boutte, John, Katrina: One Year Later, August
27, 2006 (repeated December 31, 2006)
Bowen, Debra, Race for
California Secretary of State, October
29, 2006
Boxer, Barbara, U.S. Senate, NSA Wiretapping & "A
Time to Run," February 19, 2006
Brand, Glenn, Sierra Club, Global Warming (Earth Day), April
23, 2006
Brown, Charlie, Democratic Party, Take Back the Congress (vs.
Rep. John Doolittle), June 4, 2006
Brown, Jerry, Democratic Party, California Attorney General
Race, May 27, 2006
Burger, Deborah, California Nurses Assn., California Clean
Money Campaign, February 19, 2006;
Yes on Proposition 89 (Clean Money Initiative), October
8, 2006
Burk, Martha, "Ms." Magazine, "Crude
Awakening," August 6, 2006
Cadena,
Mona, Amnesty International USA, Torture Awareness Month, June
25, 2006
Caldicott,
Dr. Helen, "Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer," October
1, 2006
Callahan, David, Demos, "The Moral Center," September
10, 2006
Campbell,
Patrick, IAVA (Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America),
Veterans Day and Perspectives on Iraq and the new Congress, November
12, 2006
Carlip, Hillary, "Queen of the Odd Balls," August
20, 2006 (repeated December 24, 2006)
Chiang,
John, Race for California State Controller, October
29, 2006
Chomsky, Noam, MIT, Lebanon and the Greater Middle East, August
20, 2006 (repeated December 24, 2006)
Cohen,
Jeff, "Cable News Confidential," September
24, 2006
Cole, Juan, University of Michigan, Lebanon, July
23, 2006
Coleman, Penny, "Flashback," June
25, 2006
Collins, Demtric, "Doggie Dog World & Kitty Cat
Kingdom," February 5, 2006
Conyers, John, U.S. Congress, NSA Wiretapping etc., April
30, 2006
Corn,
David, "The Nation," "Hubris," September
17, 2006
Cornell,
Lydia, Ann Coulter etc., December 3,
2006
Crawford, Craig, "Attack the Messenger," August
20, 2006 (repeated December 24, 2006)
Creekmore Jr., Marion V.,
"A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter, The Power of a Peacemaker,
and North Korea's Nuclear Ambitions," October
15, 2006
Crew, Adrienne, "Blogosphere: Best of the Blogs," June
4, 2006
Crier, Catherine, Court TV, "Contempt," July
23, 2006
Curtis, Crista, "The Many Moods of Vince Daniels,"
Right-Wing Politics, June 24, 2006
Dean,
John W.; "Worse Than Watergate," March
19, 2006 (repeated April 16, 2006);
"Conservatives Without Conscience," August
27, 2006 (repeated December 31, 2006)
Delgadillo, Rocky, Democratic Party, California Attorney
General's Race, May 27, 2006
Dikkers,
Scott, "The Onion," "Destined for Destiny: The
Unauthorized Autobiography of George W. Bush," October
22, 2006
Dobbs, Lou, CNN, "War on the Middle Class," November
19, 2006
Dorgan, Byron, U.S. Senate,
"Take This Job and Ship It," August
20, 2006 (repeated December 24, 2006)
Draut, Tamara, Demos, "Strapped," May
21, 2006
Dunn, Nora, South Dakota Anti-Abortion Bill & SNL, March
3, 2006
Eisler,
Riane, Center for Partnership Studies, Progressive Family
Structure, June 18, 2006
Epping,
Charles, "Trust," October
1, 2006
Eskridge,
William, Yale Law School, "Gay Marriage," September
17, 2006
Evitts, William J., The
Johns Hopkins University, "Breach of Contract" [the social
contract], November 26, 2006
Faux,
Jeff, Economic Policy Institute, "The Global Class
War," May 7, 2006
Feng, Kathay, California Common Cause, Clean Money Campaigns,
May 28, 2006
Filson, Steve, Democratic Party, Take Back the Congress (vs.
McNerney, then Pombo), May 28, 2006
Fitrakis, Bob, Green Party
of Ohio, Election-Fraud Roundtable, October
29, 2006
Foser, Jamison, Media Matters for America, "The Path to
9/11," September 10, 2006;
Debunking the Foley "Myth Machine," October
15, 2006
Freeman, Stephen, University of Pennsylvania, Center for
Organizational Dynamics, "Was the 2004 Presidential Election
Stolen?", July 9, 2006
Friedman, Brad, The Brad Blog, Blogging, March
26, 2006
Fuhrman, Randy, "Caterer to the Stars" &
Valentine's Day, February 12, 2006
Galbraith,
Peter, Former Ambassador to Croatia, "The End of
Iraq," December 10, 2006
Garamendi,
John, Race for California Lt. Governor, October
29, 2006
Gardner,
Steven, Center for Science and the Public Interest, Junk Food
Lawsuit, January 22, 2006
Gerhardt, Michael, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill School of Law, Signing Statements, May
7, 2006
Goldberg, Jackie, L.A. School Board, Proposition 82, June
4, 2006
Greenwald, Glenn, "How Would a Patriot Act?", August
6, 2006
Greenwald,
Robert, "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers," October
22, 2006
Gumbel, Andrew, "Steal
This Vote," November 5, 2006
Hacker,
Jacob S., "The Great Risk Shift," November
19, 2006
Hamilton,
Argus, Comedic View of 2006 Elections, November
12, 2006
Hamilton,
Tim, Gasoline Price Spikes, April 30,
2006
Hamsher, Jane, firedoglake, Blogging & the "Roots
Project," March 26, 2006
Harewood, Dorian, "Strictly Blackjack," July
2, 2006
Harris,
Bev, BlackBoxVoting.org,
Election-Fraud Roundtable, October 29,
2006; "Hacking Democracy," November
5, 2006
Hart,
Gary, Former U.S. Senator, "The Courage of Our Convictions:
A Manifesto for Democrats," September
24, 2006
Hartmann,
Thom, "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle
Class," October 8, 2006
Heenan, David, "Flight Capital," January
22, 2006
Hilleren,
Peter, WeeklyRadioAddress.com, "Destined for Destiny: The
Unauthorized Autobiography of George W. Bush," October
22, 2006
Holtzman,
Elizabeth, Former Congresswoman, "The Impeachment of George
W. Bush," December 3, 2006
Horne, Gerald, "Final Victim of the Blacklist," August
13, 2006
Huerta,
Dolores, Issues of Economic Justice in the November 2006
Election, November 5, 2006
Huffington,
Arianna, "On Becoming Fearless," December
3, 2006
Hunt,
Swanee, Former Ambassador to Austria, "Half Life of a
Zealot," December 3, 2006
Kadidal,
Shayana, Center for Constitutional Rights, "The Articles of
Impeachment Against George W. Bush," March
19, 2006 (repeated April 16, 2006)
Kahlenberg, Richard, The Century Foundation, Education &
Opportunity (For "Inequality Matters" Show), June
11, 2006
Kaiser, Martin, "Odyssey of an Eavesdropper," April
30, 2006
Kall, Rob, OpEdNews.com, Zogby Poll, February
26, 2006
Kaplan, Ben, "How to Go to College Almost for
Free," February 19, 2006
Kasper, David, Empowerment Project, "Soldiers Speak
Out," July 16, 2006
Kaye, Harvey, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay,
"Thomas Paine and the Promise of America," July
2, 2006
Kneer, Kathy, Planned
Parenthood Affiliates of California, No on Proposition 85, October
22, 2006
Knott, Alex, Center for Public Integrity, Big Money in
Elections, June 24, 2006
Krugman, Paul, NY Times & Princeton University, Tax
System Inequities, April 23, 2006
Kuttner, Robert, "The American Prospect" & the
Economic Policy Institute, The Marketplace & Democracy (For
"Inequality Matters" Show), June
11, 2006
FIND A SHOW BY THE GUEST
A-K L-Z
|
|
Don't
miss Barry's TV talk show,
Webcast
9 to 10 p.m. PT,
Tuesday
through Thursday,
on Pasadena56
|
Sign up to
receive all the latest news.
|
"Radio
Host Shows It's All Right to Be Left" (The Jewish Journal,
9/8/06)
"Wide
Range of Topics Take the 'Field'" (San Bernardino Co.
Sun, 2/12/06)
"So Very
Barry" (Pasadena Star News, 1/12/06)
Barry
Gordon From Left Field Press Kit 
|
