**Update: You can watch the entire segment with Pamela and Eric - here.
For the second hour our current political events panel features Elizabeth "Media Lizzy" Blackney, Michael Johns and Bryan Del Monte. Our topics includes Healthcare, Jobs and the Stimulus and Copenhagen/Climategate. Join the discourse in the chat room or call in with your questions and comments.
**Update: You can watch the entire segment with our distinguished Panel of Patriots - here.
More about our esteemed guests:
Pamela Geller is the author of the soon to be released, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War onPamela "Atlas" Geller is the founder, editor and publisher of Atlas Shrugs.com, bringing you the news you will not hear from the mainstream media, covering little-reported events of great import, and providing an unblinkingly honest examination of global affairs.
America with Robert Spencer(forward by Ambassador John Bolton)
Pamela Geller's
videoblogs ("vlogs") on a wide range of current events have won
enthusiastic acclaim, as have her exclusive Atlas interviews with
internationally renowned authorities on jihad, terrorism, and related
issues, including John Bolton, Geert Wilders, Bat Ye'or, Ann Coulter, Mark Steyn, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski, Steve Emerson, Christopher Hitchens, Natan Sharansky, and many others. (Videos of many of these interviews are available at AtlasShrugs.com.) She routinely confers with leading scholars on the Middle East, Islam, Eurabia, China and Russia.
Atlas has broken numerous important stories -- notably the questionable sources of some of the financing of the Obama campaign. Pamela Geller is a regular contributor to Newsmax. Many of her articles /op-eds have been published in Newsmax, The Washington Times, , Big Government, Human Events, The American Thinker, Israel National News,, World Net Daily, Front Page magazine, New Media Journal, Canada Free press among other publications.
Atlas began her publishing career at The New York Daily News and subsequently took over operation of The New York Observer as Associate Publisher. She left The Observer after the birth of her last child, but remained involved in various projects, including American Associates, Ben Gurion University. She has also served as Senior Vice-President for Strategic Planning and Performance Evaluation at The Brandeis School.
Everything changed for Atlas on September 11, 2001. She immediately began to immerse herself in gaining a full understanding of geopolitics, Islam, jihad, terror, foreign affairs and the imminent threats to our freedoms that the mainstream media and the government wouldn't cover or discuss. After engaging in various forms of activism in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, she became convinced of the crying need for an alternative to the mainstream media, and began AtlasShrugs.com in February 2005.
The site won the 2005 "Best New Blog" Jewish & Israeli Blog Award, was a finalist in the 2005 Weblog Awards, and finished in third place for "Best Conservative Blog" in the 2008 Weblog Awards. Atlas also won the "Grande Conservative Blogress Diva" Award for 2008.
Pamela Geller she has made appearances on Hannity and Red Eye on the Fox News channel. She is a frequent guest on talk radio and has a regular segment on The Jaz McKay radio show. She speaks regularly to organizations, synagogues and groups across this nation. Geller was a featured speaker at David Horowitz's Freedom Center.
Atlas writes daily at AtlasShrugs.com, where she is fighting the great fight, changing the world one word at a time.
Mr. Del Monte is a former Bush Administration official and national security/foreign affairs policy expert. He has been published in major news outlets such as Rueters, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, and others, as well as conservative publications such as Human Events.
He has appeared on major media outlets in both the US and Britain on national defense issues and has lectured before the US national war colleges, and conservative think-tanks in both the United States and Europe on defense issues.
He presently works as a consultant in Washington D.C. on national security issues.
Michael Johns is a health care executive, former White House and U.S. federal government official, and a conservative policy analyst and writer.
In his industry capacities, Michael has held executive management responsibilities in several components of the U.S. and global health care industry. In addition to his extensive private sector career, Michael has served as a White House speechwriter to President George H. W. Bush, a senior aide to former New Jersey Governor and 9/11 Commission Chairman Tom Kean (R-NJ), and a senior United States Senate aide to U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Michael began his career as a policy analyst at the Washington, D.C.-based Heritage Foundation and as an editor of the foundation's scholarly magazine, Policy Review. Michael has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, National Review, CBS HealthWatch, and other national media.
He has appeared on PBS, CNBC, C-SPAN, Al Jazeera, Fox Morning News, and other networks. Michael is a graduate of the University of Miami, where he majored in economics and graduated with honors. He resides in Deptford, New Jersey and Emmaus, Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth “Media Lizzy” Blackney is a former Republican communications strategist and spokesperson for Gubernatorial, US Senate and presidential candidates.
After booking clients on Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, and numerous major network affiliates and major dailies, she made a dramatic change and moved into the world of blogging and journalism.
Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, she served as Managing Editor for BlogTalkRadio’s Heading Right Station Radio station. Until recently she was a Contributor to AOL’s Politics Daily Hot Seat.
Eric Voogd is a member of the Israel Lobby working between Chicago and Washington, DC. He is a Latin honors graudate of the University of Illinois. Since the age of thirteen, he has traveled extensively in 22 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. During the first intifada in Israel when he was just fourteen, Eric had a firsthand encounter with terrorism in Jerusalem involving the PLO and Yasser Arafat. That experience forever changed his life creating an indelible impact which guided the course of his future academic studies and professional career.
Eric speaks in synagogues, churches, universities and to private philanthropic organizations on terrorism, counterterrorism, radical Islam, honor killings, sharia law, the Muslim Brotherhood and anti-Semitism. He has organized pro-Israel rallies in the Chicago metropolitan area. In August 2009, Eric had the honor to share the stage during a pro-Israel rally with Caroline Glick, Deputy Managing Editor of The Jerusalem Post and Senior Fellow for Middle East Affairs of the Washington, DC-based Center for Security Policy. In September 2009, he organized and led a rally against a national anti-Semitic hate conference at DePaul University in Chicago. This conference featured former PLO Spokesperson Rashid Khalidi, an intimate friend of Barack Hussein Obama. In September 2009, he was requested to write a chapter on US-Israeli relations in the context of the current administration in Washington, DC; this chapter is for a forthcoming book examining various aspects of the Obama presidency.
Eric is a featured guest on radio programs in the United States and Israel. He writes and does research for the Unity Coalition for Israel (http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/), an alliance of Christian and Jewish organizations actively working together to generate support for the State of Israel. The Unity Coalition for Israel has 200 autonomous partners representing more than 40 million Americans making this the largest network of pro-Israel groups in the world.
He is the past Director of Broadcast Media Relations for the US News Bureau of an Israeli-American media company. He works to vigilantly combat the anti- Semitic, anti-Zionist, anti-Jewish, anti-Israel agenda which is endemic in universities throughout the United States.
He is an Advisory Council Member for Stand With Us (http://www.standwithus.com/), an international education organization that ensures that Israel's side of the story is told in communities, campuses, libraries, the media and churches through brochures, speakers, conferences, missions to Israel, and thousands of pages of Internet resources.
Eric is the Midwest Regional Director for an Israeli-American firm which imports food products into the US market. As a member of the American Israel Chamber of Commerce, he is keen on promoting a positive, proactive, public relations image of Israel. Eric is a committed member of the Republican Jewish Coalition where he diligently works in leadership development of young professionals and expanding the base of the Republican Jewish Coalition. As a Rotarian, he strives to facilitate meaningful contributions in communities to enhance the lives of individuals and families.
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