The Middle with Anthony Weiner

In just 28 days balloting will begin in the first swing state. And in 86 days votes will be counted. That is plenty of time for a major change. But Anthony lays out the state of play for his team and tries to climb into the MAGA bubble to shake them awake. This is a long way from done, so we look at how it might change and what happens if the news of the day becomes a trend. Also, this week Billy...

Donald Trump shouted the quiet part out loud again for about the 300th time. He turned the attention back on himself this week with an, uh, incendiary interview by and about black women. It went about as well as you might expect. Is race baiting good politics in 2024? Anthony is legitimately conflicted on that point. Meanwhile the next big week for Harris is about to begin. She chooses a vice pres...

Years of a frankly desultory political scene seems to have given way this week to something we desperately needed, some fun. Call it Black Girl Summer if you want to piss off the White Nationalists, but for most Americans it is the beginning of a welcome rebrand of the campaign for President. Anthony has more spring in his step and his MAGA friends seem not to know what to do next. The buzz will w...

Please stop the world, we wanna jump off. An insane week of news this week and Anthony isn’t the only one trying to figure it out.  Donald Trump decided on his veep, but that was the easy part.  The Secret Service has to explain the debacle in Pennsylvania that led to a man dying and two others being seriously injured. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has to figure out just how wrong Eileen Canno...

The GOP heads to a swing state to say things to each other next week. Anthony is sort of relieved to be talking about something besides whether or not Joe Biden knows someone’s name. What does this version of the Republican party believe anyway? Convention platforms usually make that clear. Not this year. A clear-eyed look at the plans for the next Trump term. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

We watched every move our President made this week. Democrats were on eggshells, but what should Republicans be rooting for? Anthony looks at the state of play in a race that hasn’t changed much in years – the country wishes both candidates were better. Also, SCOTUS plays with fire.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony was like a lot of Democrats on Thursday watching the debate through the cracks of his fingers. So, after a couple of days of chicken-with-heads-cut-off freak outs, has the race really changed? In related news, can we take a moment to look at the transcript of that debate? What was up with the other old guy on stage? He was saying some crazy things. And, Anthony is a foster dad…of a dog. Le...

Just days before the earliest presidential debate in our lifetimes, Anthony has some thoughts on the rules of the battle and how they may protect Trump from being Trump. But what do we do about all the stuff he says? Just let him ramble? Stop and make corrections? Its complicated. On the other side is Joe Biden. He may have a tougher job. It’s a preview show. Also this week, Jordan is off to camp...

With the first presidential debate just 12 days away, Anthony has some advice for Team Biden: just give all the speaking time to Trump. It will be hilarious. This week we listened with jaws slacked as the former President and current convicted felon, wandered all over the rhetorical reservation and finally fell off the other side. Sinking boats and hungry sharks were the least of it. In more serio...

After all the drama and false starts, the earth shattering October Surprise that spawned a thousand wafer thin conspiracy theories and even more breathless Congressional Hearings, it all comes down to this : Hunter Biden faces the music for…wait for it…being a drug addict who filled out a gun purchase application wrong and was late on his taxes…maybe. Anthony takes a wistful look at this sad story...

Anthony paraphrases Winston Churchill this week declaring our system of criminal justice is the worst – except for all the others that have been tried. No victory lap, instead a sober look at the totally normal, nothing unusual, very common trial of a fellow that used to live in New York.  We have had a few days to dispense with all the hot takes, so perhaps we need a few cooler ones from someone...

It was a silly week in America. Donald Trump took the Bronx (not really). Joe Biden put a kill order out on his opponent (definitely not really). And Nikki Haley did the exact thing she said she wouldn’t ever do (yes, really). But on the other side of the pond they geared up for an election in a very different way. Elections were called in the United Kingdom for July 4th. Putting aside how disresp...

Well that was easy! No months of speculation necessary. In a crazy few hours this week, Biden and Trump not only agreed to debate but also decided when and where. Too good to be true? Anthony thinks maybe it is. Nonetheless it is great fodder for Saturday afternoon political radio. We get the candidates started with some ideas for what we want them to say to each other and to the country. Also, Tr...

If you thought the show was going to be wall-to-wall Stormy this week, you mostly dodged a bullet. Anthony was more interested in the impossibly bad situation that Joe Biden has put himself in with his latest joust with Bibi. We start out with the quiet electoral strength of a person who isn’t even running for President anymore. A shotgun marriage for Donald Trump and…Nikki Haley? Learn more about...

Doesn’t anyone around here understand this whole Free Speech thing?! We are a radio station for (expletive deleted) sake!! Anthony is no First Amendment scholar or anything, but he tries to at least explain the basic mistakes being made by both the right and left this week. Want to protest on campus? Knock yourself out. Want to complain about your day in court? Have at it. But we have rules around...

“In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love”. Ok, maybe Tennyson hadn’t met the young people on who have made a home on the lawns of colleges all over the country and most notably at Columbia in upper Manhattan.  Those folks seem bent on protest. Anthony considers how we should look at these demonstrations and makes some distinctions that seem to be getting lost.  Former C...

No doubt about it, this was a week like few others in American history.   A really famous guy goes on trial and totally normal court stuff happens. Congress has important things to do so they ignore the crazies and just do them.  And the neighborhood bully in the Middle East is shown to be impotent by a coalition of just about everybody. Anthony takes some time to appreciate these historic but act...

Donald Trump keeps digging himself deeper on abortion. He’s proud he “broke” Roe but begs Arizona to be a pro choice state for him. For his next act he promises not to sign a national abortion ban…well, “promise” is a strong word. It’s chaos.  In the meantime, Joe Biden keeps chipping away at a signature issue : debt forgiveness.  Republicans are shocked, shocked! You mean Middle Class Joe is deli...

Freaking out about immigration and the “less than human” humans coming in to our country, is looking more and more like a desperate gambit by Trump and his minions in Congress and in the media. It got overshadowed by real news this week. Anthony looks at yet another sizzling jobs report and snickers at the rhetorical gymnastics necessary to not acknowledge how well we are doing. And, in another ed...

Anthony joins in memorializing fallen NYPD officer Jonathan Diller who did a dangerous job with valor and now leaves a 1-year-old son and a grieving family. As inevitable as it was that it would become an opportunity for opportunists, it was still pretty jarring to see it in action this week. Trump showed up for the wake and addressed the media while not addressing his spotty record on defending l...

Donald Trump didn’t remove his cap for the national anthem at his rally this week. Maybe that’s because it was a weird cult mash up of the song.  This week Anthony does that thing where he imagines the freak out if Joe Biden took a knee for our actual national hymn and instead substituted some words.  And for his next round of “Top This”, Trump returns to his old standby – naked antisemitism. In l...

This week, the highest ranking Jewish American in our history, gave a clear eyed assessment of the situation that Israel faces and predictably no one liked what they heard. But Anthony looks at the whole speech and wonders if maybe Chuck Schumer was just saying out loud what so many Israel supporters have been saying quietly for months. Also, on this week’s show, another Republican quits and TikTo...

Anthony loves him a good State of the Union address. The old, forgetful and frail Joe Biden decided to skip the event and sent instead a fella who talked fast, yelled a bit and spit facts. The Republicans are shocked – shocked! – that the speech was so political. We look closer at the night and the orange haired elephant in the room.  Also, this week, the Republicans in Congress want to defund the...

Maybe, just maybe, Americans would like to know if Donald Trump is guilty of crimes before they go to the polls. Anthony looks at this novel idea and tries to square it with the decision by the Supreme Court to hear a rather preposterous legal theory on a rather, uh, unambitious schedule. Also, this week we finally heard from Hunter Biden...sort of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...

Who's the pro-life party now? With a ruling from an Alabama court that should have been obvious, red state families are suddenly not sure if invitro fertilization will be legal. Anthony looks at how the Dobbs decision that so many Republicans cheered may now have them in a box. Also this week, the Hunter case has truly jumped the shark and a look at the jumbled politics of Israel and Ukraine.  Lea...