NATO! Barada! Nikto! Not a good week for House Republicans pushing spending cuts, "weaponization" and Hunter Biden laptop probes. ( Told Through Narration, Music and Soundbites). Host Paul Fischer used to work for Dan Rather (hence the title of the show), and now remixes the news each week set to the sounds of new music.

Musical Works Title Artist Album Label Year Length Anna Calls From The Arctic (Radio Edit) Dry Cleaning Stumpwork. 4AD Rec 2022 04:55 Racked For a Fall Howie Lee Event, Fact and Those Which Are Emphasized. self released Howie Lee 2023 04:42 Prelude/Outer Space/Radar Bernard Herrmann The Day The Earth Stood Still OST. Varese Sarabande Rec 1951 05:03 Workin On a World Iris Dement Workin On a World. Flariella Rec 2023 03:45 Disembarked Ekin Fil Rosewood, Untitled. Red Eye Rec 2023 03:16 Anything Frankie Rose Love As Projection. Slumberland Rec 2023 03:44 Blue Bones (Death Wish) Billy Nomates Cacti. Invada Rec 2023 03:18 Universe Thanks For Coming You Haven't Missed Much. Beauty Fool Rec 2023 01:52 Forever In Sunset Ezra Furman All of Us Flames. Anti Rec 2022 04:22 Limit Oliver Coates Aftersun OST. Lakeshore Rec 2023 04:03 Wrong Side Tourist Activities single. self released Tourist Activities 2023 04:38 Effort Pearla Oh, Glistening Onion, The Nightime is Coming. Spacebomb Rec 2023 05:01 Stalactite Lisel Patterns for Autotuned Voices And Delay. Ba Da Bing Rec 2023 03:59 Cut 14 Aaron Dilloway One Night At Flux Box. Hanson Rec 2023 06:12 Principia En Attendant Principia. Trouble in Mind Rec 2023 03:22 Additional Credits This program contains soundbites..including opening montage/mix/mashup..Q and A...at W.H. briefing, nat sec comms spokes John Kirby confirms "rumors" that a second object has been shot down...Canada Def Minister confirms a third object has been shot down...Congressman Jack Bergman confirms fourth object shot down over Lake Huron.. DOD spokes Brig Genl Pat Ryder with more on objects shot from the sky and efforts to recover and i.d. the debris...House Intel chair Mike Turner prefers "trigger happy" approach to dealing with these objects ( CNN Sotu)....Q and A Canada Def Min is asked whether the object shot down over the Yukon is "alien"... Chuck Schumer says latest objects are probably balloons, too (ABC This Week)... House Intel and gang of 8 member Jim Himes says there's a lot of "stuff" up there for all sorts of reasons..( MTP)...John Kirby underscores that not everything being detected is a threat.... Biden keeps hammering GOP on threats to medicare and soc sec... republicans keep denying that's their plan...though admit republicans have advocated it... Sen GOP Ldr Mitch McConnell on the Rick Scott plan to "sunset" gov programs every five years..unless they're renewed ( WHAS Louisville, Terry Meiners)...Ron Johnson calls Social Security " a ponzi scheme" ( WISN Milwaukee)... Documents and Subpoenas in the news...Q and A Mike Turner, Intel chair ( CNN Sotu)... The fight over raising the national debt...Biden upbeat after talks with McCarthy...McCarthy says there will be no "clean bill" to raise the debt limit, without spending cuts deal... The Treasury expects the debt limit to be reached in June...Oversight chair Jim Comer says GOP spending plan will be ready in July?( ABC This Week)...Schumer insists there WILL be a clean bill to raise debt and explains why he thinks so (ABC This Week)...excerpts House GOP Hunter Biden's laptop hearing is a bust ...excerpt dem Dan Goldman reacts to basic assertion that the NY Post story was accurate....Q and A...Jim Jordan can't get any witnesses to back his assertions that gov forced twitter to drop the Hunter Biden laptop story...dem Jerry Connolly makes a point of that... the House "weaponization of the government" committee....dem Jamie Raskin makes the case that it's Trump republicans who are "weaponizing" the government against their political foes...from C Span, media and political outlets...for illustrative, analysis and commentary purposes...