Progressive News with Tim Black's bottom-up style call-in show, Freedom Friday, included some sparkling gems from Tim, as always, and several great call-in comments, on Friday Nov. 4. One is transcribed, here.

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Progressive News with Tim Black's bottom-up style call-in show, Freedom Friday, included some sparkling gems from Tim, as always, and several great call-in comments, on Friday Nov. 4.

At approximately 31 minutes, in response to Tim's insightful words, call-in commenter Bruce from Baltimore made some great points. He began by responding to Tim's comments about what Colin Powell called "Hillary Clinton's hubris," and the situation she has set up, in which international mega donors to the Clinton Foundation are facing the possibility of the house of cards falling down. Tim had ruminated over the possibility that something "bad could happen," given the power of the mega wealthy and their possible angry response to their predicament.

And indeed, "somethings bad" have already happened, including some incidents in the very recent past. Bruce started by mentioning one:

"If (someone doesn't) think something "bad could happen", let's not forget how quickly the news forgot about Seth Rich. It's kind of funny that in any other news cycle, a DNC staffer who was allegedly giving information to Julian Assange, all of a sudden, 3 o'clock, there are no cameras, gets two shots in the back of the head by a horrible robber who didn't even care to grab the wallet, that's just amazing!

And then just like that, CNN forgot about it, FOX news forgot about it, all the mainstream media forgot about it... Just like when an individual shot at a Bernie Sanders Headquarters... you hear about it once or twice, and then it just disappears.

Because that's what happens when the people who are making the money also control the message.

...now you have the president out there stomping for Hillary, even though he said, 'she will say anything and do nothing.'

now they're all hugging on stage because they get paid by the same people. Like we don't see that!

We're millennials, we see through all that BS... we have people like Tim Black, .. we have people like Democracy Now... who aren't bought by 'politics'

I'm getting sick and tired of Obama trying to keep guilting people into voting for (Hillary)

Because first it was: if you vote for third party, you're voting for Trump...

then it was: if you don't vote, you are voting for Trump...

then it was: if you don't vote for Hillary you are destroying my legacy...

now it's: if you don't vote for Hillary, you might be a sexist, you might want to check yourself.

No-o-o-o-o...because I like Elizabeth Warren, I like Jill Stein, I like Gabbard, the Senator from Hawaii who endorsed Sanders, I would have loved for her to run!

So don't give me that crap about a "real progressive" who hates the idea of a women running for office.

Maybe, Obama--Barry--maybe we don't have an issue with her being a woman,

maybe we have an issue with her being a Goldwater girl,

maybe we have an issue with her saying that Robert Byrd was her personal mentor.

Maybe we have an issue with the fact that when she was in office

she called black people "super-predators" (click here)

...Now she's saying we've got 'magic'...

..on top of that (her) husband gave us some of the most ridiculous restrictive crime laws and drug laws that basically destroyed a whole generation".

there are so many reasons not to like her"...

and maybe, just maybe, Barry, maybe we don't want our first female president to be as much of a letdown as our first black one, how 'bout that?

How 'bout that, indeed.

Tim attracts some insightful commenters on his show.

Please note, I'm not a transcriptionist, the text above is the closest I could get in the time I had, there may be some minor errors. Tim Black is a pillar of the progressive community, and I invite you to watch the whole show (or listen while you're cooking dinner, as I do).

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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, 2013. In June, 2015, the combined views on her articles, diaries and quick link contributions topped one million. She was particularly happy that her article about Bree Newsome removing the Confederate flag was the one that put her past the million mark.

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A NYC native, her response to 9-11 was to pen an invitation to healing through creativity, entitled, "90-Minute Quilts: 15+ Projects You Can Stitch in an Afternoon" (Krause 2006), which is a bestseller in the craft field. The sequel, MORE 90-Minute Quilts: 20+ Quick and Easy Projects With Triangles and Squares was released in April, 2011. Her popular video, How to Stitch a Quilt in 90 Minutes with Meryl Ann Butler can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrShGOQaJQ8

She has been active in a number of international, arts-related projects as a citizen diplomat, and was arts advisor to Baltimore's CIUSSR (Center for Improving US-Soviet Relations), 1987-89. She made two trips to the former USSR in 1987 and 1988 to speak to artists, craftpeople and fashion designers on the topic of utilizing the arts as a tool for global wellbeing. She created the historical "First US-Soviet Children's Peace Quilt Exchange Project" in 1987-88, which was the first time a reciprocal quilt was given to the US from the former USSR.

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OpEdNews Senior Editor Joan Brunwasser interviewed Meryl Ann in "Beyond Surviving: How to Thrive in Challenging Times" at https://www.opednews.com/articles/Beyond-Surviving--How-to-by-Joan-Brunwasser-Anxiety_Appreciation_Coronavirus_Creativity-200318-988.html

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