Summary: Election issues, media consolidation, drone victims, and more news that the corporate media won't cover! This week on Talking Left, we brought you as many non-corporate news topics as we could fit into three hours! First, we spoke with Brad Friedman of The Brad Blog about some serious election issues in Virginia. Not only did people have trouble using the completely unverifiable touch screen voting machines, but there were thousands of absentee ballots missing from the totals in Fairfax County. As of Sunday, there are only 55 votes separating the candidates in the Attorney General's race, and the whole vote could come down to provisional ballots. This story is likely to change quickly - so be sure to follow all the updates at The Brad Blog, and by following Brad on Twitter. Next we heard from Lou Colagiovanni of Ruthless-Politics.com, and the Facebook page "We survived Bush. You will survive Obama." Lou shared his thoughts on the election results in Virginia, New York, and New Jersey, as well as on Chris Christie in general. It appears that like us, Lou doesn't appreciate the corporate media focus on future elections, while they enjoy important topics like the NSA, drones, and more. Hopefully, Lou will come back again soon so that we can get into some of the more important issues - and the ones that you won't hear on major networks. After that we were joined by Congressman Alan Grayson, who told us about the amazing congressional hearing on drone bombing victims. As usual, the Congressman With Guts did not back down from his beliefs, which include putting a stop to the bombing of innocent civilians. The comments and stories that Congressman Grayson shared were amazing, and the fact that only five members of Congress bothered to show up to the hearing is as well. These atrocious acts are being committed in our name, and we must not stand for it. Last, but certainly not least, we spoke with Sue Wilson, of SueWilsonReports.com, about taking back our public airwaves. Sue will be right here in DC next week, to air Broadcast Blues,a documentary about media consolidation and what we can do to stop it. Just like protecting our right to vote, protecting our media is vital to our democratic process, and we have to get involved to fight for change. Please donate, or help in this fight in any way you can, at MediaActionCenter.net. Thanks to Rocky Mountain Mike for writing and producing our incredible theme music! Please check out his amazing Sound Cloud! Thanks to We Act Radio - 1480AM WPWC, Radio or Not, and SoFlo Radio - for helping to ensure all listeners have corporate-free, independent radio! And, of course, thanks to you, our listeners, friends, and family - for supporting us through all of our crazy shows, dreams, and political addictions!! You can also follow all of the news about upcoming topics and guests on our Facebook page and on Twitter @TalkingLeft. And you can subscribe to Talking Left free on iTunes and to our awesome new YouTube Channel! As always, thanks for listening!
