Wilshire & Washington | Maegan Carberry

W&W Hope & Gay Marriage: CA’s Fight Rages Despite Non-State of Union Snub

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ February 25, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The nation’s new agenda, as laid out by President Obama last night, may have moved on to other weighty matters - ooh, economy, when will you be your old self again? - but the fight against Proposition 8, banning gay marriage in California, still rages on. Guest Geoff Kors, Executive Director of Equality California, joins [...]

W&W: Politicking Yields Winning Time for Obama, Oscar

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ February 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

NOTE FROM MAEGAN: Please forgive the awful sound of my scratchy Darth Vader voice!! I’ve been pushing myself too hard in New York and I’m permanently sick.
How about that? Mr. Obama came to Washington and got his stimulus. Of course, he didn’t have the “presidential mojo” to sign the bill in DC. But here’s [...]

W&W: Netroots Activism: Tips for Operating on Governing (Not Campaign!) Mode

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ February 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Obama promised us Government 2.0, but what really happens after you join the Facebook group to save the whales or add your name to an Overturn Prop 8 email list? Does anyone actually read them? What happens when these thousands upon thousands of letters arrive at the door of Congress? Sarah Schacht, founder and Executive [...]

W&W: Republicans Dominating Online? #topprog Plays Catch-up on Twitter

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ February 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Looking for a Twitter primer? Listen in to today’s show and hear from Chris Cardinal, CEO of Principal Strategy, Inc., who introduces us to the wide world of hashtags for twitter: #topprog for liberal thoughts and news, #dontgo for conservative thoughts and news, and #tcot for microblog entries from top conservative lawmakers. Are Republicans suddenly [...]

CNN’s Ali Velshi on Wilshire & Washington

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ January 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

When you look at that $825 billion bailout, what do you see? Massive government spending? Necessary infrastructure changes? Something shiny? It’s like a Rorschach test for political dogma. So if you’re confused by Rush Limbaugh’s explanation – who isn’t? – here’s a balm: stop listening to self-involved blowhards and listen to people who actually studied [...]

Selling the Stimulus Plan

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ January 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

If you missed the President’s first official YouTube address, here it is. A portion of it is dedicated to his plan to save the economy, which has been widely regarded on both sides of the philosophical spectrum as too much or too little. Today Paul Krugman debunks what he calls Republican myths about the plan, [...]

W&W: WhiteHouse.Gov: Still Celebrating the Online Inauguration

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ January 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

We have a new white house website, updated with a blog, and you can even subscribe to a feed. Oh, yeah, and there’s a new president there too, but back to technology. Really, can anything be official until the website changes over? But with Obama in charge, will the website be anything more than just PR? Can [...]

W&W: Extreme Makeover: Newspaper Edition

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ January 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The blogosphere and twittersphere have been, um, a-twitter this week about the future of the newspaper world. The Chicago Tribune is going tabloid. Gasp! The Atlantic says the NY Times could be out of business by May. Oh no! The Seattle PI is going to either close or be sold. Oh my! BlogTalkRadio purchases a [...]