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Each week, Hawke and Dove bring you hilarious commentary from beyond the ends of the political spectrum. Dove is left of Lenin; Hawke is right of Mussolini. And issues in the middle get torn up in a hilarious frenzy of ideological mayhem. Conservative Brick Hawke and liberal Attacus Dove put the pun back in punditry. Primary Format : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Los Angeles State/Province : CA Country : USA Country : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of The Hawke and Dove Political Punditry Podcast Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of The Hawke and Dove Political Punditry Podcast Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of The Hawke and Dove Political Punditry Podcast Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. HD237 - EXCLUSIVE: Inside the Palin - Pakistani President Flirt Festival During Sarah Palin’s recent visit to the United Nations, she was gushed over by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari. The meeting — part of her crash course in foreign affairs — began innocuously enough. But Zardari, whose wife Benazir Bhutto was recently assassinated, soon steered the conversation in a direction so flirtatious it might make [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD236 - Sarah Palin Interview Part II - Meet Bristol Palin! In our last episode, Brick Hawke and Attacus Dove scooped Charlie Gibson, Sean Hannity, and the Washington Press Corp still waiting to ask questions of Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin. By some accounts, the level to which this candidate is avoiding press conferences is unprecedented in the history of American political campaigns. A [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD235 - The Sarah Palin Interview (Pt 1) Sarah Palin may not be ready to take on the Washington press corps, but her handlers clearly feel she is more than prepared to face Hawke and Dove. The Alaska Governor sits down for for the first of two interviews, discussing national security, the sanctity of life, and how to skin a live moose. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD234 - Obama vs. McCain; The Feline Debate Hawke and Dove are away this week, but not to fear, Myron Bunkerling is here! And as the general election kicks into high gear, Bunkerling has an exclusive: the first head to head debate between the major candidates (as played by two of Myron’s cats: Mr. Tinkerfluff and Jenny-Fur Aniston.) As we rocket toward November, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD233 - Democratic Convention Hysterics with Attacus Dove The 2008 Democratic National Convention opened Monday night with a cavalcade of speakers both from and far away from the national spotlight, leading up to the headliner of the night… Attacus Dove? Unfortunately not, as Attacus Dove appears to have been bumped from his convention slot in favor of possible future first lady Michelle Obama. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD231 - Advice for the Presidential Candidates With Labor Day and the conventions just around the corner, the election season proper now begins. With the end goal of inauguration day and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in sight, Brick Hawke and Attacus Dove give their campaign advice to candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. But if the goal is to energize their bases, win [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD231 - The Chinese and the Olympics Dateline: Beijing, 2008. The twenty-ninth Olympiad. Hear what happens when Brick Hawke and Attacus Dove travel to Beijing, China to interview a representative from the Chinese Ministry of Information. Issues confronted in this hard-hitting piece of journalism include: the Chinese record on human rights, preparations for the Olympic games, labor concerns, oppression in Tibet, international [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD230 - The Tell-All Book (with Bo-D) Want to know more about the Hawke and Dove Political Punditry Program? You’re in luck. Brick and Attacus have been collaborating with a ghost writer named Bo-D on a behind the scenes “tell-all” book. It takes a lot of work to secure a book deal. Listen as our hosts talk to Bo-D about the writer’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD229 - Teens in America (with Raven Hawke) Government studies show teen pregnancy rates edging upward in the U.S, as well as teen drug use and compulsive use of digital devices like cell phones and iPods. This week, Brick Hawke, Attacus Dove and Myron Bunkerling wade into these issues with the help of an actual teenager: Raven Hawke, Brick’s angsty teenage niece. Will [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD228 - PAAC Founder Cornelius Cumisaka and the Fall of the Neoconservative Agenda The last week has seen the Bush Administration send a high-level State Department Official to begin diplomatic negotiations with Iran, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates admit that the US army is over-committed in Iraq and that the front in the War on Terror needs to be moved back to the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD227 - Soaring Gas Prices (with Al Gore) With gas prices soaring, the energy crisis has turned into a budget crisis for the American people. Who better to ponder the nation’s alternatives than liberal commentator Attacus Dove and former Vice President Al Gore. Thinking outside the box, Dove and Gore present the new possibilities on the energy horizon. In fact, T. Boone Pickens [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD226 - The Next First Lady (with Aunt Edie) Americans face a stark choice in November: between Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama as First Lady. This week, Hawke and Dove explore the impact these two ladies might have on their husbands campaigns. Joining them is moderator Myron Bunkerling and his eccentric Aunt Edie. Listen as Brick and Attacus do their best to survive Edie’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD225 - The Play’s The Thing All the world’s a stage. And this week’s episode of The Hawke and Dove Political Punditry Program is no exception. Hear what happens when our esteemed panelists try their hand at radical thespianism. In an effort to win a National Public Internet Shakespeare competition, Attacus Dove nobly directs a wooden Brick Hawke and the ever-sheepish [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD224 - An Interview with Jimmy Carter Former President Jimmy Carter is never one to keep his opinion to himself. Since he lost his re-election campaign in 1980, Mr. Carter has established himself as a progressive voice of dissent during the predominantly conservative era of the last few decades. Today, the former President sits down with our own Attacus Dove to discuss [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD223 - The Politics of Star Trek Science fiction stories often explore relevant sociopolitical issues. And the world of Star Trek is no exception. This week, Hawke and Dove indulge Myron by engaging in a lively debate about the politics of Gene Roddenberry’s beloved utopian creation. While Dove prefers the more genteel world of Next Generation, Hawke gravitates toward the tougher style [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD222 - Terry McAuliffe Opines on Hillary Clinton’s Future Former Chair of the Democratic National Committee and current Hillary Clinton Campaign Manager Terry McAuliffe joins the illustrious Hawke and Dove to delve into the ups and downs of Senator Clinton’s fight for the nomination, now that Illinois Senator Barack Obama has clinched the required number of delegates to claim the nomination. Recognizing Hillary’s truly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD221 - Hawke, Dove and Myron Go Fishing In observance of Memorial Day, Hawke, Dove and Myron decide to take a little fishing getaway. But that won’t stop the podcast, as Myron has brought along his recording equipment. So as Hawke sets out to conquer a legendary Muskie known as Fat Bastard, Dove takes in the local flora. And poor Myron, who is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD220 - Barack Obama Rules for Board Games (Interview Part 2) Continuing last week’s interview with Barack Obama which ended in an ideological firestorm of confrontation between our conservative commentator Brick Hawke and our liberal elocutionist Attacus Dove, this week’s episode of the Hawke and Dove Political Punditry Program sees probable Democratic nominee for President Illinois Senator Barack Obama leading our pundits in a little exercise [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD219 - Barack Obama Interview Part One No less strong a Clinton Supporter and Senior Advisor than James Carville recently admitted that Barack Obama likely has the Democratic Presidential nomination in the bag. Tonight, as West Virginia votes to keep the contest between Senator Obama and Hillary Clinton going, probable Democratic nominee Obama sits down with Hawke and Dove to explain [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD218 - Minimum Wage - Good or Bad? On the eve that the Connecticut State Senate has passed an increase of the minimum wage from $7.00 to over $8.00 while the federal minimum wage remains a stagnant $5.85 per hour, Hawke and Dove pick up their battle-axes and prepare to jostle over this contemptuous issue. While many different presidents have touted their [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD217 - Potential Running Mates With the Democratic Primary becoming this season’s longest-running television sitcom, speculation has turned towards who might offer the most traction to either a Clinton or an Obama ticket. At the most recent debate, both candidates appeared to back away from the suggestion that they be willing to run together as a dream team. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD216 - Hawke and Dove Fight Over FISA National Public Internet apologizes for this week’s Hawke and Dove Program being two days late. Hardly any partisan skirmish in Congress this term has been as drawn-out and protracted as the fight to fix FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. With GOP congressmen lining up behind the Telecom companies in support of immunity for their [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD215 - Don’t Matter If You’re Jeremiah Wright? Barack Obama has taken much criticism for his continued support of his personal Pastor Jeremiah Wright, who has made controversial comments on race. In this episode, Bricke Hawke tries to hoist Mr. Obama on his own petard by playing some of these quotes, including “God damn America,” and other comments regarding the government’s involvement in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD214 - The Role of the Super Delegates in the Democratic Primary Process Given all the attention given the role of the Super-Delegates in the Democratic Primary Process thus far this election season, it’s easy to see why so many are frothing over just who Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl will choose to support. Indeed the speculation over what these super-delegates will do has the entire leftist blogosphere [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD213 - Myron Tries His Hand At Punditing Since Attacus Dove is out of the studio this week, Brick Hawke, in an enormous display of generosity, indulges our hirsute moderator, Myron Bunkerling, by letting him try his hand as a pundit. Although there are many amateur pundits out there, Myron Bunkerling takes the phrase pundit to new heights. While Hawke tries to keep [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD212 - Hawke, Dove and Myron Make A Movie for YouTube Nothing has democratized the political process so much this season as the YouTube Phenomenon. Everyday citizens can now create and distribute their own political ads, and many of them are doing a better job of it than the candidates themselves. Brick Hawke, Attacus Dove and Myron Bunkerling, committed to staying as current as possible, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD211 - The Mortgage Meltdown and Ensuing Financial Crisis Experts agree that the housing crisis is on the verge of becoming a full-blown pandemic. Greedy lenders extended bad loans to under-qualified borrowers, and now those unfortunate souls with adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) are seeing their mortgage payments rise through the roof. Into this mess wander Hawke and Dove, each with unique experiences to help [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD210 - Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama Conservatives have been trying to spin the apparent indecisiveness on the part of the Democratic party with respect to it’s two presidential candidates as evidence of a split Democratic party, papering over their own very real split between fiscal, social, and talk-radio conservatives. It’s a hard canard to swallow, since Democratic turnout has dwarfed [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD209 - Hawke Interviews McCain Brick Hawke is nothing if not a true conservative. His credentials bear no scrutiny. As such, he is the perfect person to extend a conservative olive branch towards the formerly fiercely independent, maverick politician who is now the standard-bearer presumptive-conservative-Republican-presidential-nominee John McCain. McCain, who clearly believes himself to be everybody’s friend, deftly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD208 - Economic Stimulus Hawke and Dove discuss the economic stimulus package that Congress and George W. Bush recently collaborated on, in a rare showing of bipartisan spirit. It seems that both sides of the aisle are eager to hand out money to individual Americans, especially in an election year. However, just how does this kind of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD207 - The Academy Awards National Public Internet asks each show each year to fill out an Oscar ballot, and Hawke and Dove are no exception. Myron is off-site this week, so recording was done over the tubes via Skype. Incidentally, the Hawke and Dove Political Punditry Podcast now has a phone number you can call and ask [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD206 - Super Duper Über Tuesday Results & Analysis Nearly a week has passed, and the leading campaigns are still reeling from the results of Super Tuesday. On the Republican side, the split between establishment Republicans and their evangelical base seems not to have deterred John McCain’s quest to secure the nomination. Meanwhile, the real story on the Democratic side is not [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD205 - Campaign and Debate Clips, Bleeps, and Blunders The winnowing of the Presidential Candidate field on both sides of the aisle (what - Huckabee and Paul are still in the race?) leads our fearless commentators to reflect upon their favorite bloopers of the campaign primary season. Candidate gaffes and goofs abounded this year, and Hawke and Dove are on hand with their [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD204 - The Undecided Voters There’s nothing the punditocracy class (including the likes of Hawke and Dove) hate more than undecided voters. When the choices seem so clear to the media, who are constantly pushing a frontrunner narrative onto a race that is still plainly up for grabs in both parties, those fewer and fewer undecided voters seem willing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD203 - The Rise of the Independent Voter Given the ruckuses in the caucuses and the pendulum swing of popularity between front-running candidates in both parties, this primary season has come to be called the season of the Independents. While the Republican machine appears to be running out of steam and Democrats are on the rise this cycle (turnout for Democrats has increased [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD202 - The Shock Jock National Public Internet Host Myron Bunkerling is out this week, and has supplied his cousin as a replacement. His cousin normally hosts a radio show in the vein of Mancow, Howard Stern, or Don Imus, on a small network based out of Poughkeepsie, NY. Hawke and Dove discuss the many revelations involving the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD201 - Inside the Iowa Caucuses The first Hawke and Dove Political Punditry Podcast episode of 2008 (Season 2, Episode 01) sees Bricke Hawke and Attacus Dove undercover inside the mysterious and puzzling Iowa Caucuses, observing and commenting on a process barely understood and more frequently misunderstood by the rest of the country that in some cases involves secret deals, back-room [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD037b - Xmas Party Aftermath (Bonus Episode) A special bonus episode rounds out 2007 here at hawkeanddove.com. This episode picks up where Episode 37 left off - join Hawke and Dove as they journey to a twenty-four hour establishment in order to perk up the soused Myron Bunkerling with copious amounts of coffee, salt, and starch. Thank you for being [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD037 - The Christmas Party (Part 1) Hawke, Dove and Myron host a Xmas Party where they eat, drink, and be merry. Joining them are several of the notable guests from past episodes this year, including: General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan WWI Veteran Charlie Bodgit The Reverend Dwight Doyle Arianna Huffington Nestor Twee and Alastair Fong of NPI Chris Dodd Vice President Al Gore Senator Larry Craig Cher Thanks for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD036 - Dove is out-Doved by an Über-Liberal This week, Brick Hawke and Attacus Dove welcome Humanists United in Gathering President Leslie Olbermeyer, considered to be an ideological ally of Professor Dove’s. Considering recent episodes of the Hawke and Dove Political Punditry Podcast have featured such noted conservative stars as Senator Larry Craig, The Reverend Dwight Doyle, and last week’s interview with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD035 - Interview with GOP Wunderkind Ron Paul Congressman Ron Paul has proven to be a sensation during this Presidential Primary Season. As an outspoken OBGYN running for President with a populist, libertarian stance on everything from foreign entanglements (Iraq) to domestic issues like social security, his grassroots, internet-driven campaign is reminiscent of Howard Dean’s candidacy in 2004, although on the Republican [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD034 - Pervez Musharraf The people of Pakistan face constant turmoil as radical Islamists, militants and moderates battle for the soul of the country. At the center of this storm is President Pervez Musharraf. By declaring martial law, clamping down on free speech and undermining the courts, Musharraf has held onto power. Still, the future of this nuclear-armed power [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD033 - WGA (Writer’s Guild of America) Writer’s Strike UPDATE: It’s being reported today that the WGA and the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers are back at the table, and perhaps close to a deal. But you should still listen to this podcast to understand what is at stake if these talks don’t work out! And now back to your [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD032 - Happy Thanksgiving; A song-filled celebration of the Season Myron Bunkerling moderates a Thanksgiving celebration as Brick Hawke and Attacus Dove put aside their differences to celebrate and be thankful for the past year of podcasts, disagreements and debates. After discussing how each will celebrate the holiday this week, Dove invites in a very special Native-American guest and his Band of Indians. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD031 - The Torture Debate Thanks to the confirmation of Judge Michael Mukasey as the new Attorney General, “Waterboarding” has become a household term. This has set off a hot debate in all corners of the media and throughout Washington concerning the use of what the White House terms “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques.” Indeed, the question does not seem [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD030 - In Honor of Veteran’s Day Brick Hawke and Attacus Dove take time out of their busy punditry schedule playing Pundits and Dragons to celebrate the sacrifice of our troops, those brave souls who volunteer to fight for freedom and liberty. In celebration of the upcoming Veterans Day, Hawke and Dove interview Mr. Charlie Bodgit, an original World War One [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD029 - Pundits and Dragons All pundits are nerds at heart. Just take a look at this picture of a youthful Rush Limbaugh. Or this picture of Lou Dobbs. Or this picture of a young Michael Moore. Hawke and Dove are no exception. In today’s episode, they take a break from the usual punditry to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD028 - Fostering Family Focus with Rev. Dwight Doyle This week, on the heels of the Values Voter Summit, Hawke and Dove welcome a contemporary of Family Research Council founder James Dobson into the studio to discuss the “Values Voter” and get perspectives on the 2008 Republican nomination race. Listen to hear a discussion about: The importance of the Christian Right in 2008 Discrimination in America Today Christian [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD027 - Critiquing the Critics with Arianna Huffington A very special guest joins our boys in the studio today… Esteemed media critic and social butterfly Arianna Huffington drops by for an in-depth conversation about the feeding frenzy that is the modern mainstream media, including a look at what happens behind the green door to the green rooms of some of television’s best known [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD026 - Myron’s Hour of Glory Celebrating six months of the Hawke and Dove Political Punditry Podcast, Brick Hawke and Attacus Dove have gone on vacation. Luckily, moderator Myron Bunkerling has prepared a little treat for you, along with some of his colleagues at National Public Internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD025- Chris Dodd Hip Hop Party Senator and Democratic Presidential Candidate Chris Dodd stops by to introduce his new media relations manager and his plan to reach out to minority and young voters. A whole host of celebrities have endorsed the exciting, vigorous campaign stylings of Senator Chris Dodd. Looking at the list, you’d think they might go with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD024 - The War on Drugs This episode sees our crusading commentators take on the War on Drugs. The failure of the War on Drugs does not seem to be in dispute, as agreed upon by such public figures as noted conservative William F. Buckley and retired liberal news reporter Walter Cronkite. Indeed, with the amount of money spent [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD023 - Al Gore Interview & Intervention Your Best Life Now. Enjoying Everyday Life. Either of these phrases could describe the year Al Gore has had - a hit Oscar-winning movie, a bestselling book, a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, and now an emmy! So why the hell won’t he cheer up? Attacus Dove is on the case. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD022 - Fred Thompson: Barely Legal The fresh faced Fred Thompson is now officially in the race for the Republican nomination for President. After running what many termed a “stealth campaign” known primarily for it’s lack of stealth, and ignoring the complaint against him filed with the Federal Election Commission, Mr. Thompson has finally out-turtled the hare and jumped the shark. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD021 - Exclusive Interview with Senator Larry Craig! Presenting a Hawke and Dove Political Punditry Exclusive - the first post-resignation one-on-one interview with disgraced Idaho Senator Larry Craig, who goes mano-a-mano with Brick Hawke. Senator Craig resigned Saturday, after the fallout from his guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of lewd and disorderly conduct led many Republican and Conservative stalwarts to cast [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD020 - News Roundup 08-26-07 Hawke and Dove comment on all the news items that seem to have fallen through the cracks in the last few weeks. Topics covered include: Michael (Leave it to) Deaver The legacy of Karl Rove Presidential decision Making in Karl Rove’s absence Dennis Hastert will not seek re-election Denny Hastert is so fat How fat is he? The relevancy of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD019 - Abortion Hawke and Dove prepare to square off over one of the most controversial topics of our time. Over the course of history, induced abortion has been the source of considerable debate, controversy, and activism, as well as the source of terrorist attacks. On one side, anti-abortion activists have been convicted of bombing abortion [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD018 - Live Call-In Show Myron Bunkerling is unavailable this week, leading our fearless commentators to engage in the kind of free-wheeling, wide-open debate that is the live call-in show. Unfortunately, they are prevented from their egalitarian mission by the antics of a single caller. This celebrity has made a name for herself by calling in to political [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD017 - Alberto Gonzalez This week Hawke and Dove discuss troubled United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez and the scandal(s) surrounding him, whether involving the memos written during his tenure as White House Counsel that ran circles around the Geneva Conventions in order to endorse possibly torturous methods in the War on Terror, or the politically-motivated firing of 8 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD016 - Sicko (A movie by Michael Moore) Some of you may have heard about a new film making the rounds of the art-house circuit. Purported to be an expose of the United States’ health-care system (or lack thereof), it is made by an unassuming filmmaker by the name of Michael Moore. The political nature of this film has made it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD015 - History of Hawke and Dove (Part II) This slow news week, we pick up where we left off a few weeks ago with the history of Hawke and Dove. In part one, we were schooled about our scholiast’s backgrounds, education, and upbringing. In this episode, we get a bit more personal, delving into the people who have influenced, political aspirations, recreational [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD014: Interim Iraq Progress Report Last week, the Bush administration released the Interim Iraq Progress Report. At an almost insurmountable 25 pages, the report contains 18 precious assessments concerning the Iraqi government’s achievements with regards to the yardsticks of progress that the Bush Administration laid out in January when it announced a completely new strategy and a shift in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD013 - Scooter Libby Myron Bunkerling is on… assignment this week. Guest hosting will be his Aunt Edie. The Scooter Libby commutation has all of Washington atwitter, as it seems Congress and the Executive Branch are headed towards a constitutional showdown, that could forever affect the future of this country in regard to the separation of powers. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD012: The Week In Review Hawke and Dove take a break from their tour down memory lane in order to address some of the pressing topics of the latest news cycle in this, their first ever independence-day podcast. Our hearty commentators each have a unique way of celebrating the birth of our nation. Join Hawke and Dove as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD011 - A Brief History of Hawke and Dove (part 1) Since Dick Cheney has effectively muzzled the entire government and fourth estate, there is nothing to talk about except ourselves. Their propensity for verbosity unbound, Myron Bunkerling gets our pedantic pundits to open up about themselves in this, part one of the history of Hawke and Dove. Everything you ever wanted to know about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD010 - Insurance Reform (Boring Topic Day) The day-late post this week is a result of the producers trying to find something else to put up, and failing at this effort. Hawke and Dove had a mini-rebellion in studio over the weekend, and failed to address the previously-agreed upon topic of insurance reform. Also, neither took responsiblity for agreeing to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD009 - Bush, The Lame Duck President President George W. Bush’s poll numbers are at an all time low. As the media decides Bush is approaching lame duck status, what will his legacy be? Should he be burnished on Mount Rushmore or burned at the stake? Our hardy commentators offer their thoughts on whether this ugly duckling will be remembered as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD008 - The Immigration Debate This week, Hawke and Dove deconstruct the ideological divide over immigration, and the current immigration bill being debated in congress, each illuminating their positions with cogent analysis and outright self-interest. Discussed are the American ideals of protectionism, the “melting pot,” and the virtue of cultural assimilation as demonstrated by Jim Henson’s creature shop. Among the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD007 - Shadow Candidates Will they or won’t they? Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of politicians. Hawke and Dove do. It takes a lot of guts to run for President. It takes a lot of balls to run for President. It takes a lot of money too. So a lot of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD006 - Scoring the Debates Hawke and Dove score the first debates of the 2008 Presidential Campaign. This is a lot different than scoring AT the debate, which neither Hawke nor Dove achieved. But there is still time to make up for mistakes made at these, the first Democratic and Republican candidate debates. Politics is like Hollywood [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD005 - The War in Iraq (update) Political pundits Hawke and Dove take on the Iraq war. Conservative Hawke and Liberal Dove tried to ignore the war, then debated about how to engage, and ultimately are commenting on the war as a last resort. In the process, we learn about etiquette in Professor Dove’s Para-psychiatric Religious History classroom, and Hawke reveals the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD004: Women in Power Hawke and Dove celebrate how far women have come in America’s fledgling democracy. The historical role of women in our society is contrasted with the power they have achieved in recent years — all through the prism of three notable current female history-makers (or should we say “herstory?” - Dove); First female Speaker of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD003: Campaign Funding Hawke and Dove explore the vagaries of modern campaign financing. Issues discussed include: popular songs of the sixties and seventies, the importance of fresh oysters, and Myron Bunkerling opines upon the best place to store money. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HD002: Global Warming Hawke and Dove investigate the phenomenon of global warming - the facts, the myths, and techniques to prevent it - while simultaneously turning up the heat on each other. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Presidential Candidate Round-up Hawke and Dove do the candidates; Hillary, Obama, Edwards; McCain, Giuliani, Romney; a possible dark horse. Political pundits Brick Hawke and Attacus Dove review the current crop of presidential contenders. On the Democratic side, they scrutinize Clinton, Obama and Edwards. For the GOP, McCain, Giuliani and Romney go under the microscope. This no holds barred [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website