If you missed it on XM Satellite Radio's POTUS '08 channel today, the latest PJM Political is online, here.

(Two guesses as to the main subject matter this week.)

Update: Just changed the photo of Hillary--that photo of her in the sunglasses that Drudge currently has up is too much.

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, it's not surprising that people get bitter, they cling to guns or religion, and they tune into the latest edition of PJM Political, featuring Mark Steyn, Michael Yon, James Lileks—and more!

(You have no idea how close I came to using the above uber-pretentious late-1980s high-MTV era-inspired title on the actual PJM post.)

The latest podcast edition of PJM Political on XM Satellite Radio is now online:

As host Bill Bradley notes, John McCain+David Letterman=Comedy Gold! Plus:

• David Harsanyi on The McCain/Lieberman connection: As Harsanyi writes in his Denver Post column: Is McCain now a Lieberman Democrat? Or is Lieberman a McCain Republican? Or, is there any difference? And how do the two men fit into Harsanyi's Nanny State book?
• Begun the Wiki Wars Have! Matthew Sheffield of Newsbusters notes that the entries for the three remaining presidential candidates inside the online anarchopedia are ground Zero in hardscrabble text warfare.

• Roger Kimball of Pajamas and the New Criterion on Tariq Ali's silly nostalgie de la sixties.
• Produced by Ed Driscoll.

For those who missed it on XM yesterday, the newest PJM Political is now online, with extra monkeyfishing for your added podcasting pleasure:

It's Tuzla-Palooza this week, as host Bill Bradley analyzes the CBS clip that showed a distinct lack of sniper fire 12 years ago when the former First Lady dropped in on Bosnia. Plus:

• Frank Martin of Varifrank tells A Tale Of Two Tankers--with both a John McCain connection, and even a synchronistic Sinbadian Tuzla tie-in!
• James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal's "Best of the Web Today" column would rather be monkeyfishing--and who wouldn't?
• Cartoonist/graphic designer Chris Muir explains how he lives life Day By Day.
• And PBS producer/financial author Jim Schlagheck gives his economic prescription to the next occupant of the White House to Glenn Reynolds and Dr. Helen Smith.
• Produced by Ed Driscoll.

Ten days on the road, and I'm gonna make it home tonight, to slightly paraphrase Dave Dudley, not to mention the Flying Burrito Brothers at a far worse road gig than I just returned from.

Watch for regular blogging to resume Friday. And the podcast version of this week's edition of PJM Political on XM Satellite Radio's POTUS '08 channel, featuring James Taranto, Chris Muir, Frank Martin (sans Sigourney, unfortunately), and host Bill Bradley, to go live on the newly revised Pajamas site tomorrow as well.

Assuming some or all of the hyperlinks and MP3 files work, the special Road Warrior edition of PJM Political that I produced while I'm on the East Coast this week is online here. Show topics include:

Carly Fiorina was once the CEO of Hewlett-Packard. These days, she's working for John McCain, as another CEO--Roger L. Simon of Pajamas Media--discovers. And host Bill Bradley on the little-discussed speech that McCain's presumptive opponent quietly gave in Philadelphia this week. Plus:

Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online explains how, as he puts it, Valerie Bertinelli's "lesbian kisses and diet tips" knocked his book Liberal Fascism from atop the NYT Best-Seller List!

James Lileks test drives his Reverend Jeremiah Wright impersonation. (Don't try this at home, kids.)

Michael Barone says the decade's Red and Blue State maps will be thrown out the window in November.

Tune in, here!

And the latest PJM Political is online, here.

Two guesses as to one of the main topics of conversation.

If you missed Hugh Hewitt's show yesterday because you were listening to Pajamas' PJM Political on XM satellite radio, you can tune-in here and catch two hours of Jonah Goldberg discussing Liberal Fascism.

If you missed PJM Political yesterday because you were listening to Hugh Hewitt, you can catch it here.

And for a sneak preview of next week's PJM Political, take a listen to Austin Bay's interview with Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics.

That's the topic of this new Politico article. But Ed Morrissey, Duane Patterson and I discussed the idea on Ed's Blog Talk Radio show and Pajamas' PJM Political XM show two and a half months ago!

On this week's PJM Political, Glenn Reynolds and I debate David Shuster's now-infamous "PimpGate" remark on MSNBC. Plus a look inside the Romney campaign's sprawling Mitt TV Internet video operation, and a full wrap-up of Chesapeake Tuesday.

As part of their Super Tuesday coverage, Roger Simon and I were interviewed by XM's senior director of news programming, Scott Walterman. At one point, Scott asked us about the enormous sums of money that Ron Paul has raised, largely via the Internet. Scott asked us what will happen to that war chest when Ron drops out of the race: well, now we know.

If you missed Pajamas' weekly show on XM's POTUS '08 presidential election channel, tune in here:

Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards head for the sidelines, and Bill Clinton dusts off the memories of Jesse Jackson in South Carolina, plus:

Host Bill Bradley on John McCain's comeback, the Kennedys' endorsement of Obama, and a preview of Super Tuesday.

Jonathan Last of the Weekly Standard on the campaign trail with Bill Clinton.

Bridget Johnson on "California's New Starring Role in the Presidential Primaries."

Mary Katharine Ham on being dubbed "The Worst Person In The World" by a little known talk show on public access cable TV.

Produced by Ed Driscoll.

For extended versions of the interviews featured on the show, don’t miss this week’s PJM Political “Director’s Cut Interviews.”

Ezra Levant writes:

I was interviewed on the XM satellite radio channel "POTUS '08". Click here to hear it. I'm not sure how a radio channel dedicated to the 2008 U.S. presidential election found a way to dedicate 15 minutes to a case of Canadian censorship, where the CBC's several radio channels have been silent on the subject.

That's an easy one--Ezra's story went from Little Green Footballs to Hot Air to Instapundit to the Pajamas motherblog, stopping by for a cup of coffee on my blog as well. Since it seemed to resonate so much with Pajamas' bloggers--not to mention readers--it seemed to me that it was a topic we should explore on Pajamas' radio show, even if it's a story only tangentially related to the 2008 election. (Presumably, we'll be back to wall-to-wall election horse race coverage next week.)

Ezra Levant was our special guest this week on PJM Political, in which he discussed his infamous videotaped kerfuffle with the Alberta Human Rights Commission.

Also on the show were David Frum on his new book, Comeback:Conservatism That Can Win Again, Patrick Cox, who was Fred Thompson's first campaign hire, and James Lileks.

Tune in here to listen to the whole show, or here to go straight to my interview with Ezra.

While Bill Bradley has a cogent and reasoned post-mortem of New Hampshire in this week's edition of PJM Political on XM Satellite Radio's POTUS '08 channel, others aren't as reserved.

Some on the left blame Diebold for Obama's loss--which would implicate Hillary's campaign in a pretty giant conspiracy, if true. Others? Well, as Michelle Malkin bluntly puts it, "Chris Matthews: New Englanders are lying bigots."

But both examples are predicated on ideas hatched in fever swamps. What is it with the left's ability to divide and conquer their own constituents?

Update: And speaking of New Hampshire and fever swamps...

More: Related thoughts and links via Glenn Reynolds.

Just had a great interview with Steve Forbes, which, barring any huge breaking developments, should air as a segment of next weeks' PJM Political.

And this week's show? It airs tonight at 7:00 PM eastern/4:00 PM pacific, but you--yes you!--can hear it now. Need need to thank us--just consider it part of the rich assortment of swanky free virtual swag that provide our readers here at Ed Driscoll.com on a regular basis...

Who better than Iowahawk himself to educate voters on the important role our nation's 29th state plays in presidential politics:

Iowa is a Microcosm of America. A one-day national presidential primary (as some analysts have recommended) would be prohibitively expensive for all but the most well-funded candidates, and make 'dark horse' campaigns virtually impossible. Democracy is better served by a small scale contest that allows for grassroots candidates to build momentum, while representing the country as a whole. Luckily, Iowa is an almost perfect miniaturized 1/100th scale model of the United States. For example, Northeastern iowa is filled with gritty and glitzy urban financial centers like Dubuque, "Iowa's New York." Iowa's Missouri River West Coast teems with hi-tech Gay entertainment centers like Sioux City ("The San Francisco of Iowa") and Council Bluffs ("The Malibu of Iowa"). With its fashionable supermodel nightclubs and machine gun-wielding drug lords, far southeastern Keokuk is our Miami Beach. And, in the center of it all, there is Des Moines, which is famous as "the Des Moines of Iowa."

Iowa is also widely known as "The Diversity State," with its vibrant Norwegian-American community and its equally vibrant German-American community, not to mention a growing population of German-Norwegian-American halfbreed mestizos. And, according to the most recent U.S. Census, Iowa has twice as many African-Americans as New Hampshire, and both of them are keenly involved in the political process.

Read the whole thing, then drop by this week's edition of PJM Political for more Iowa-tastic politics!

Update: As if Iowahawk's introduction isn't enough, he's also live blogging the rich futuristic psychosexual fission that is the Iowa Caucus.

John Bolton will join Tammy Bruce at 3:00 PM pacific, along with Claudia Rossett, as Tammy sits in this week for Larry Elder on L.A.'s KABC.

And if you can't tune into that, don't miss PJM Political on XM's POTUS '08 channel at 6:00 PM eastern/3:00 PM pacific. (Podcast online--so tune into Tammy, then listen here.)

This International Herald-Tribune article titled, "In Italy, a winter of discontent" sounds very much like a micro-version of Mark Steyn's opus "It's The Demography, Stupid", which originally appeared in The New Criterion before running in Opinion Journal.

And speaking of which, both Mark and Roger Kimball of the New Criterion appeared on this week's edition of PJM Political on XM's POTUS '08 channel, which can you listen to, here.

If you haven't stopped by yet, this week's PJM Political features:

Jonah Goldberg and Hugh Hewitt discuss CNN's Virtual Reality during last Wednesday's GOP YouTube Debate. Also on the show:

Host Bill Bradley discusses the surprising surges of Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee.

Mary Katharine Ham explains how she made the leap from the newspaper to new media.

James Lileks uncovers the Huckabee/Hanna-Barbera connection.

Joe Mathieu tells Pajamas' Austin Bay what makes the POTUS '08 Channel tick.

Produced by Ed Driscoll.

Tune in here to listen!

In case you missed it, yesterday's show on XM satellite radio's POTUS '08 channel is available for downloading here. Pretty nifty line-up, too:

Join host Bill Bradley for thoughts on yesterday's GOP YouTube/CNN debate, plus:

Pajamas CEO Roger L. Simon and Bob Owens of Confederate Yankee interview Sen. Fred Thompson regarding the future of America's War On Terror.

Should Thompson not get the nomination, Ed Morrissey and Duane Patterson (producer of The Hugh Hewitt Show) discuss his chances as a GOP vice presidential nominee.

Glenn Reynolds and Dr. Helen Smith discuss the upcoming Supreme Court case involving the Second Amendment with Robert Levy of the CATO Institute.

Liz Stephans and Scott Baker of Breitbart.TV on the role of YouTube and viral online video in the 2008 presidential election.

Produced by Ed Driscoll.

For extended versions of each of today's segments, and the video of the Thompson interview don't miss this week's PJM Political "Director's Cut Interviews."

For podcasting techies wondering what I used to record the segments with Liz and Scott, and the previous segments from the last two weeks' shows all recorded earlier this month from Blog World in Las Vegas, I simply used my trusty Samson Zoom H4 Handy Recorder (which has a pair of pro-style XLR jacks, visible in the photo that accompanies the Videomaker review), a pair of Shure SM58 mics, and a pair of tabletop mic stands. The Zoom recorder uses an SD card, and an 2-gig sized card provides about two hours of audio, which can quickly be ported over to a PC's hard drive and then into your DAW program of choice for editing and mixdown.

I threw them all into a suitcase before heading to Vegas just as a lark, but I was astounded at how clean the audio was, even with the roar of Vegas Convention Center crowd all around, which is why I ended up doing so many interviews there. The trick, I think, is the Shure SM58s. There's a reason why so many rock groups use them on-stage and on live recordings--their cardioid input pattern makes them great at focusing the loudest sounds (which normally should be the person talking/singing/playing into them) and de-emphasizing the background noise.

We have a special political junkie's Thanksgiving survival guide this week on PJM Political, by the way.

(I threw caution to the wind and selected yet another scene cut from the watered-down first season of Sesame Street to illustrate the post...)

Just had a terrific afternoon visit to XM satellite radio's headquarters in Washington DC, to visit the production facilities for their POTUS '08 channel. It was a pleasure to finally meet Joe Mathieu in person after exchanging weekly emails and phone calls regarding PJM Political, and to also meet his fellow on-air talent, Rebecca Roberts and Tim Farley. (Not to mention spending a few minutes on the air discussing Pajamas and its origins in between the big story of the day.) XM has quite a production facility--on the other hand, in a way, it's also a slightly more compact than you might imagine. Just as today's technology allows individual blogs to punch far above their weight, it also allows a single facility in DC to pump over a hundred channels of audio out into the hinterlands via satellite.

The latest PJM Political is online--click here to listen!

Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of the Blogosphere, PJM Political, hosted by Bill Bradley, catches up with Colonel Austin Bay in Abu Dhabi, Richard Miniter and Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic, and extensive coverage of last week’s BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas, including interviews with:

Glenn Reynolds, from An Army of Davids to the limits of the Blogosphere.

Hugh Hewitt on changing lives, one Blog at a time, and A Mormon In The White House.

Ed Morrissey on a talk radio station that’s open to all, and interviewing Rudy Giuliani.

Stephen Green on Vodka, Vegas, Hillary, and Peggy Noonan.

Pajamas CEO Roger Simon looks ahead--next year’s BlogWorld, and to later this month, when he interviews Fred Thompson.

Rick Calvert, the CEO of BlogWorld Expo, on putting it all together.

James Lileks: Will Hillary revoke Wolf Blitzer’s license?

Bill Bradley: Has Elliot Spitzer revoked Hillary’s license?

Produced on location by moi.

Extended versions of several of this week's segments can be found here. Finally, if you missed any previous episodes of PJM Political, click here and scroll through for hours of audio archives.

Just got into San Jose airport, and back home from Vegas. While I was there, I recorded a ton of audio from Pajamas' booth at the BlogWorld convention. Watch--err, listen--for this in the coming weeks in future episodes of PJM Political.

Update: Speaking of audio, "Nothing says blogger party like subdued hip hop", as Duane Patterson writes, complete with a short video clip of such "music" at the Thursday night Pajamas Party at Blog World. It's proof that not everything was smooth sailing on Blog World's maiden voyage.

By the way, it was a pleasure to finally meet both Duane and Ed Morrissey for the first time in person, and they graciously allowed me to sit in on their regular gig at Blog Talk Radio. I appear about 20 minutes into show, after Ed's interview with Rudy Giuliani (via scrambled subspace radio from the planet Skyron), and N.Z. Bear, who was there at Blog World, but sadly I didn't get a chance to talk much.

If you missed our weekly episode of PJM Political on XM Satellite Radio's POTUS '08 Channel today, you can listen to it here.

You'll hear:

Host Bill Bradley asks: Is John Edwards going to sacrifice himself to take down Hillary Clinton?

Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post and CNN’s Reliable Sources discusses his new book, Reality Show: Inside The Last Great Television News War.

Pajamas' own Corn & Miniter Show (With Eli Lake of the New York Sun sitting in for Richard Miniter), explore the winners and losers of the Democrats’ recent debate.

Austin Bay of Pajamas' Blog Week In Review podcast interviews Heather Mac Donald and Steven Malanga, co-authors of The Immigration Solution, with an emphasis on Hillary, Russert, and last week's debate.

James Lileks, master of the Bleat and purveyor of Gastroanomalies.

Glenn Reynolds and Dr. Helen Smith ponder if Hillary Clinton is “a daring girl.”

David Paul Kuhn of Politico.com spots The Neglected Voter: White Men and the Democratic Dilemma.

Pajamas CEO Roger L. Simon and Blogosphere pioneer Mickey Kaus debate Fred Thompson’s latest campaign ad.

Produced by yours truly.

Extended versions of several of this week's segments can be found here. Finally, if you missed any previous episodes of PJM Political, click here and scroll through for hours of audio archives.

Frustrated at the thought of a Hollywood writers strike? Roger L. Simon suggests the perfect replacement for your favorite weekly show. Tune in each Thursday!

If you missed this week's episode of PJM Political, which airs 6:00 PM and 11:00 PM Eastern each Thursday on XM's POTUS '08 Channel, click here to listen to the podcast version, which is now online at Pajamas HQ.

Show highlights include host Bill Bradley asking: Was Tim Russert Hillary's strongest opposition in Tuesday night's debate?

Also on today's show:

John Fund of the Wall Street Journal explains "Who is Mike Huckabee?" and why Huckabee was so perturbed with Fund's recent Opinion Journal profile that he wrote his own rebuttal.

Pajamas' own Corn & Miniter, discuss the winners and losers of the recent GOP Debate--beyond John McCain, who certainly won the soundbite award.

Don Surber of the Charleston Daily Mail wonders how a young journalism student got under the Edwards campaign's skin.

Austin Bay of Pajamas' Blog Week In Review podcast interviews Michael Ledeen, author of The Iranian Time Bomb

Virginia Postrel of The Atlantic and her own Dynamist blog explains the issue that she says may be as important as religion in explaining the divide between America's red and blue states.

Steve Green of VodkaPundit confesses: "I Was a Card-Carrying Libertarian."

Pajamas CEO Roger L. Simon and Pajamas Express journalist Ron Rosenbaum go in search of campaign coverage black holes.

Produced by yours truly!

Finally, if you missed any previous episodes of PJM Political, click here and scroll through for hours of audio archives.

No, that's a new law firm, it's the guests on this week's PJM Political show. The MP3 version of this week's PJM Political on XM Satellite Radio's POTUS '08 channel is now online--tune in here to listen!

What does GOP presidential hopeful Gov. Mitt Romney say about HillaryCare and other issues? Glenn Reynolds and Dr. Helen Smith interview the former Massachusetts governor. ( Full-length interview here.)

Other topics discussed in this week's show, hosted by Bill Bradley, include:

Diana West of the Washington Times on her new book, The Death of the Grown-Up, and the dearth of grown-ups on the 2008 campaign trail. (Full-length interview here.)

Gray Lady Down! Michael Malone, ABC News' "Silicon Insider" on "How The New York Times Fell Apart." Will the Blogosphere pick up the pieces in '08? (Full-length interview here.)

James Lileks on Ron Paul and his....dedicated...fans.

US News & World Report's James Pethokoukis: Will subprime mortgage woes equal a subprime economy in '08?

Corn & Miniter on the first GOP candidate to leave the race.

Bill Bradley compares and contrasts the response to the Southern California fires with Katrina in '05.

Roger Simon on the campaign trail.

Produced by yours truly.

Finally, if you missed any previous episodes of PJM Political, click here and scroll through for hours of audio archives.

The MP3 version of this week's PJM Political on XM Satellite Radio's POTUS '08 channel is now online--tune in here to listen!

PJM Political spends a fair amount of time in the Minnesotan corner of the Blogosphere this week, as Captain Ed Morrissey interviews GOP presidential hopeful, Senator John McCain. Also joining host Bill Bradley are:

John Hinderaker and Paul Mirengoff of Power Line, Time magazine's "2004 Blog of the Year" on the state of the 2008 election.

James Lileks, the Bard of Minneapolis.

And from beyond the Twin Cities:

The Glenn & Helen Show, featuring energy efficiency guru Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute with his advice to the 2008 candidates.

Govindini Murty and "Dirty Harry" of the Pajamas-affiliated conservative film blog, Libertas on Hollywood's role in the 2008 presidential election.

The Corn & Miniter Show, featuring David Corn, Richard Miniter, and dozens of oysters on the half-shell.

Steve Green of VodkaPundit and Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom, with their unique take on the candidates and their foibles.

And host Bill Bradley on the state--precarious and otherwise--of the candidates' finances.

Produced by yours truly. And yes, my voice was shot this week.

And for extended "Director's Cut" podcast versions of several of this week's segments, click here.

Finally, if you missed our previous episodes of PJM Political, listen here.

Fellow Silicon Valley resident Alan D. Mutter writes, "As if the mainstream media didn’t have enough trouble navigating the uncharted realm of digital innovation, they are losing many of the young, technologically astute employees who could be their guides":

“What am I doing here?” a talented young designer and programmer working at a publishing company asked me recently. “These guys don’t get it. I’ve got to get out. I’m just wasting my time.”

Like the others quoted in this article, the young journalist is not being named, so as to protect his livelihood until he bails out of his MSM job.

He summed up the frustration of the twenty- and thirty-something professionals who grew up with a keyboard at their fingertips and an iPod, or at least a Walkman, plugged in their ears. They use modern media the way their generation does, not the way their fifty-something bosses wish they would.

But the young net natives, for the most part, rank too low in the organizations that employ them to be invited to the pivotal discussions determining the strategic initiatives that could help their employers sustain their franchises.

“In most organizations, the people with the most online experience have the least political capital,” said one mid-level online editor at a newspaper. “It seems like the pace of change inside media is slowing, tied up in politics and lack of expertise in managing technical projects – while the pace of change is continuing apace outside our windows.”

I don't have too much else to add to Glenn Reynolds' comments on the Washington Post's Marc Fisher's drive-by shot at XM satellite radio's new POTUS '08 channel, or Pajamas' weekly contribution to the 24-hour channel, PJM Political. Except to note that, just as former CBS (and later CNN) executive Jonathan Klein was unnerved that "a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing" could expose Dan Rather promulgating forged documents (to borrow from Pajamas CEO Roger L. Simon's weekly introduction to the PJM Political), it might surprise the WaPo's Fisher that the elements that go into the PJM Political show are assembled almost entirely in a series of home studios. Including the Glenn & Helen Show, Austin Bay's Blog Week In Review, James Lileks' segment, and my own interviews linking them together. Not to mention all of the editing, mixing and mastering, which I do on an a high-end PC designed primarily for music production, and armed with some pretty nifty audio software.

And while I'm proud of what we've been able to do on PJM Political, I still think the ultimate example of DIY production is England's 18 Doughty Street. Every day, they self-produce hours of high-definition live television for the Internet out of a London townhouse. I'm not sure if I'd want to do that! (At least not on a daily basis.)

As Mutter writes in the above link, the 20 and 30-somethings working in the nation's newsrooms know that this sort of programming really is the future of news--even if their bosses would rather stick with a model that's been outdated since Tim Berners-Lee found a way in 1989 to run a user-friendly graphical Web on top of an Internet that was already two decades old.

(And just wait 'til the 64-bit revolution in computing really starts to power the Army of Davids and their multimedia efforts.

(Via Small Dead Animals, whose graphic of a large and equally dead flyblown reptile couldn't be more appropriate for their post.)

In case you haven't seen the links from the Insta- and VodkaPundits, as well as the one-man global pundit (thank you gentlemen!), this week's PJM Political is online now, and will be on XM in about an hour and a half.

I think we assembled a pretty good show, if I do say so myself:

You'll hear Mark Steyn, the one-man global content provider, discussing his best-selling America Alone in the context of the 2008 election. Also joining host Bill Bradley are:

Laura Ingraham on an excerpt of the Glenn & Helen Show discussing her new book, Power to the People.

Amity Shlaes, on her best-selling look at the Depression, The Forgotten Man, (about which Rudy Giuliani recently told talker Glenn Beck that "it would be great for everybody to read it").

James Lileks, the Bard of Minnesota.

University professor/blogger Steve Boriss on the Future Of News, and its immediate future: the upcoming election year.

Jules Crittenden of the Boston Herald and his own Pajamas-affiliated blog on the transnational synchronicity of Katie Couric and Barack Obama's near-simultaneous flag pin kerfuffles.

Steve Green of Pajamas-affiliated VodkaPundit and Bill Bradley on Tuesday's GOP debate.

Roger Simon and Bruce Carroll of Pajamas-affiliated Gay Patriot on the first Democratic debate aimed towards the GLBT community.

Err, and me!

Finally, if you missed our first two episodes of PJM Political, listen here.

Click here for further details, or tune into #130 on your XM dial, the POTUS channel.

And if George, Bill, George and Jimmy are tuning in, remember, this offer still stands....