Streaming Saturdays 5/21/2011

Happy Saturday and thanks for joining us on The Experience. We have a host of interesting topics on deck for this week, ranging from candidate updates on the Republican side for 2012 to the scandal that has brought down former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn to recent calls for Ronald McDonald's Resignation.  We'll also be taking a look at the impact of the final week of the Oprah Winfrey Show and a man in Detroit who won the lottery but won't give up his food stamps. And as usual we'll be talking to YOU to get your take on the week's news and events.

For more background info you can get the scoop on the stories D has been reading all week over at Reddit.

Be sure to add your voice to the mix, give us a shout at 866-677-2496 or on Twitter or Facebook where you can chime in on some of the questions we'll be asking on the air.

It all starts at 12 noon ET (9am PT) - see you then!! 

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Streaming Saturdays 4/23/2011

It's Saturday and that means that it is once again time for The Derrick Ashong Experience. We have some great discussion topics lined up for this week including new Airline Passenger Rights and President Obama's Facebook Townhall Meeting. We'll also delve into some questions about parenting,  immigration, a new Malcolm X biography and of course Earth Day.

For more background info you can get the scoop on the stories D has been reading all week over at Reddit.

Be sure to add your voice to the mix, give us a shout at 866-677-2496 or on Twitter or Facebook where you can chime in on some of the questions we'll be asking on the air.

It all starts at 12 noon ET (9am PT) - see you then!! 

Streaming Saturdays 4/2/2011

It's Saturday once again and this week marks the first broadcast from D's new homebase, Washington, DC.  Today the show will kick off with a bit of local DC coverage and then we'll jump right in on Libya and the CIA and the President's approval rating. Derrick will be chatting with some educators from Boston and will get into a number of youth issues including sexting and the controversial breastfeeding baby doll. And of course there will  be plenty of opportunity for audience participation all throughout the show.

For more background info you can get the scoop on the stories D has been reading all week over at Reddit.

Be sure to add your voice to the mix, give us a shout at 866-677-2496 or on Twitter or Facebook where you can chime in on some of the questions we'll be asking on the air.

It all starts at 12 noon ET (9am PT) - see you then!! 

Streaming Saturdays 3/26/2011

Hey Hey it's Saturday!! We are on the air LIVE bringing you the news and issues of the world with the flavor and spice of DNA added in. We'll start by acknowledging the one year anniversary of Health Care Reform and of course we'll examine the situation in Japan and some of the rising criticism of President Obama's Libya Strategy including what some are calling a flip-flop of Kerry proportions by none other than Newt Gingrich. We'll tackle some questions on parenting and some interesting stories that popped up this week around immigration.

For more background info you can get the scoop on the stories D has been reading all week over at Reddit.

As always we expect the discussions to be very LIVEly. Be sure to add your voice to the mix, give us a shout at 866-677-2496 or on Twitter or Facebook .

It all starts at 12 noon ET (9am PT) - see you then!! 

The Sons of the Father

Watching Chris Matthews on Hardball the other night and he has neo-con "war-nik" Frank Gaffney on, to debate Dick Cheney's recent comments on Obama with President Reagan's son Ron Reagan.

It's pretty much to be expected in these so-called dialogues between representatives of the "Left" and the "Right" that an argument will shortly ensue. But this one was a bit beyond the pale even for politijunkies like me. At the end of a pretty heated exchange, Gaffney tells Ron Reagan that his father would be ashamed of him. Now you know I'm pro peace & dialogue and such...but I would have smacked the metaphorical taste out of the old coot's mouth right then. Check it out: How crass must you be to drag a man's dead daddy into the fray. All politics aside I'm guessing President Reagan loved his son as much as any father, and knowing Reagan's own neo-conservo-iconoclastic reputation (yes I made that word up), was probably proud of him for having the guts to "go his own way". You can peep the full exchange here. D.N.A

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