16 Nov 08 Barack Obama first post-election interview on CBS 60 Minutes with Steve Kroft - Webcast !
Well, as my regular readers know, I’m a pretty big fan of CBS 60 Minutes – and tonight’s episode is no less interesting and enticing.
Once the football game is over (it’s 19:00 and the game is still on) CBS 60 Minutes will have Barack Obama (yes, that one) on the show in his first interview since winning the election. Steve Kroft is the one who is going to interview Obama and the subjects covered include:
- How Obama plans to help homeowners facing foreclosure
- What Obama thinks obout Secretary Paulson and the $700B aid package to the banking industry
- Obama and his opinion on a bailout package for the auto industry
- What Obama learned from reading Abraham Lincoln
- The challenges ahead
Since 60 minutes is a no-fluff kind of show, I expect it to be a pretty interesting episode to say the least!
CBS is a relatively tuned-in kind of news organisation, so they already have the webcast of the interview available and here it is:
Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Television
14 Oct 08 Canadian 2008 Elections : CTV News declares Conservative Minority at 21h49
Hmmm…. kinda early IMHO, but I think CTV News wouldn’t do it without some serious data mining and projection software 
So Lloyd said it… conservative minority government: 21h49 EDT.
11 Oct 08 CTV W5 Capital Shame : The great decline of Canada’s national Capital – Ottawa caught in huge crack and meth crisis
I just watched a truly disheartening and frightening CTV W-Five episode covering a subject that is often not discussed – far less so by the Federal ministers on Parliament Hill just blocks from one of the worst drug, prostitution and homelessness problems anywhere in the nation. None of them, including Public Security Minister Stockwell Day, accepted to meet with CTV W-5 saying they were “too busy”…
They hounded the Premier of Ontario, but he also brushed off a reporter and hustled into a building…
Personally, I am not surprised by this report. I’ve been to Ottawa many times over the last 20-25 years; my ex-wife and much of her family were from there, as was my late stepfather.
In January 2008 I began a series of about a ½ dozen business trips, one every month or so, to the National Capital Region and usually stayed in hotels in the Downtown, or Byward Market area. The Byward Market is a charming 3-4 square block neighbourhood which, by day is a nice selection of multicultural restaurants and farmer market type stands. It’s next to one of the largest shopping centre’s in the Ottawa metropolitan area; the Rideau Centre Shopping Centre.
Now being a Montrealer, I like to explore a city’s nightlife and evening culture – we have a massive choice of cafés, lounges, showbars and nightclubs in Montreal – around the market.
A few of the times I stayed in hotels (including the Econolodge and Marriott Courtyard Inn) near the Byward Market. Those are both nice hotels; granted the Econo Lodge Downtown at 475 Rideau street is pretty much no-frills motor inn more than hotel with rooms straight onto an inside parking lot that is directly onto Rideau street across from a 7-11 and in the vicinity of churches, residential homes and … well a little pic of the Econolodge :
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Tags: Capital Shame, Crime, CTV W-5, CTV W-Five, drugs, Health, Ottawa, Politics, Television, Travel
09 Oct 08 Warrick Brown killed off on CSI .. nice episode tonight …. will miss Gary Dourdan
Well it was tough enough realising that Warrick will no longer be on CSI, and it was a great episode.
OK, enough with the jokes about how everyone is sexy and fit and charming (and works for the police) … I know only one such police officer (and I DJed at his wedding :P) …..
But I really liked Gary Dourdan as the blue eyed black african-american mulatto cool dude with passion and style on the show.
According to most reports his departure from the show was “mutually acceptable”…..
It was a great premier episode in finding out who killed him :)….
So, CSI and CSI:NY are still in my top 10 fiction TV shows…. along with The Unit (which has been shuffled to Sunday nights at 10pm boooooo)
Tags: CSI, Gary Dourdan, Television, The Unit, Warrick Brown
05 Oct 08 CBS 60 Minutes report on Delta Force mission lead by “Dalton Fury” against Osama Bin Laden… pre-empted at 8:00pm by the Amazing Race!
Talk about annoying.
I was just watching a pretty fascinating story on 60 minutes with the commander of the Delta Force unit (about 50 top commandos) sent into the hills of Afghanistan via Tora Bora to hunt down and kill Osama Bin Laden. They had heavily disguised the Delta Force commander, who has just written a book about the mission under the pseudonym Dalton Fury, and had first time video of the mission, which was to approach the 14,000 foot summits in the Afghan mountains where Bin Laden was suspected to be holed up.
Previous strategies to approach by surprise from the top side of the 14K mountains and another one to litter the path through the mountains with air-dropped landmines by unknown sources higher up, either in Central Command or even higher (i.e. POTUS)…
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Tags: Dalton Fury, Delta Force, Osama Bin Laden, Politics, Television, War
