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As Black Friday descends upon the world, Dave, Mac, and Michael detox from their Thanksgiving indulgences and Twilight New Moon mania. Michael offers awards season reviews The Lovely Bones, Up in the Air, and Broken Embraces; Mac puts his Ben 10 seal of approval on Alien Swarm; Blu-ray reviews of Cars, Monsters, Inc., and Santa Buddies; Dave enjoyed his 500 Days of Summer but no longer wishes to be My Sister's Keeper; deconstructing George Clooney's box office appeal; and interpreting Thanksgiving coloring book images with high-larious results. Share your comments and questions in the new Filibuster discussion forum.

CLICK TO WATCH HEADZUP.TV Mobile Satire For A Mobile Democracy HEADZUP ON THE NEWS: Joe Lieberman is asked about why he is avoiding going on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show to discuss health care reform and the public option. Lieberman states that he won't appear because Maddow has a "point of view", while he regularly appears on Sean Hannity Fox News... which also have a point of view. Read more about this at the Think Progress website. FREE DAILY MOBILE DOWNLOADS: Visit www.headzup.tv using your cell phone and download Headzup video clips and share them with others as picture messages. SUBSCRIBE TO THE DAILY HEADZUP and get FREE daily "heads up" by email. DOWNLOAD TODAY'S HEADZUP and share them with your family and friends. YOUTUBE GALLERY Watch hundreds of the most popular, most recent, and most discussed Headzup clips on YouTube. FACEBOOK Join us on Facebook. TWITTER Free mobile videos by following us on Twitter. copyright, 2009 - Headzup Entertainment

No sooner had they voted to move the health debate forward, than Senators. Joe Lieberman, I/D-Conn., and Ben Nelson, D-Neb., threatened to stop it in its tracks. Both "indicated Sunday that they will not vote to pass the package if it includes a government-run insurance program," no matter what the people in their states actually want, no matter what positive difference it might make. Lieberman's state of Connecticut is overwhelmingly for a public option--68% overall, including 83% of Democrats and 73% of independents. He's against it. No matter what. Private insurers are Ben Nelson's biggest donors. Nelson's been against a public option from the start -- back in May he said it was because the public plan 'would be too attractive and would hurt the private insurance plans.? Yet 46% of the Nebraska Democrats asked in a new poll would be less likely to support Nelson in a primary if he filibusters health care. At least in the House, so called Blue Dog Democrats claimed their opposition was based on some semblance of political calculus. Big city liberals just don't understand what it's like "out there" in tenuously democratic Blue Dog districts with a mid term looming -- the argument, mostly unchallenged, led to concessions after concession by House leadership. Even that conventional calculus deserves a second look. Are all those Blue Dog seats really in so much danger? Michael Tomasky, writing in the New York Review of Books, said it's not necessarily true that the Blue Dogs are ham-strung by their districts. "All but a small number of these Democrats won their own races by a greater margin than McCain's over Obama in the district. Thirty of them beat their GOP opponents by 10 percentage points more than McCain beat Obama." Moreover, as Tomasky continues, "for the vast majority of members of Congress, once you've been elected and reelected once or twice, it takes either a pretty big scandal or a rare historical tidal wave (as in 1994) to produce defeat." The Blue Dogs' opposition to the public option never did make much sense. If their biggest concern is cost: there's no more effective cost-container on the table than a robust public option. And the Blue Dogs' districts tend to be poorer?where people could benefit from a public option the most. So what's playign out here? It's not substantive; it's not even political in voting-booth sense. What's playing out is pocket book politics - the legislator's pocket book. Lieberman's received over $4 million from health related business and private insurance companies over his career. It's not people politics, it's campaign contribution politics that are playing out in the Senate. The F Word is a regular commentary by Laura Flanders, the host of GRITtv which broadcasts weekdays on satellite TV (Dish Network Ch. 9415 Free Speech TV) on cable, and online at GRITtv.org and TheNation.com. Follow GRITtv or GRITlaura on Twitter.com.

Dave, Mac, and a slowly recovering Erich talk Under the Dome, the new Stephen King novel; Discovery Channel's new documentary on Jack the Ripper; review MST3K: Volume XVI, Ben 10 Alien Force: Volume 5, Stunt Rock, and Roland Emmerich's Godzilla (Blu-ray); determine who really was inside that Chewbacca costume; identify unsuspecting fictional serials killers; and play everyone's favorite new game -- guess the plot of that random DVD review. Share your comments and questions in the new Filibuster discussion forum.

A Closer Look: The Senate breaks a filibuster against a judge who banned prayers in Jesus' name. AP Religion Editor Steve Coleman reports.

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While Dave, Mac, and Mike wait breathlessly for John Cusack to save the world, they recall post-apocalyptic hijinks of yore (remember Woops! ???), an early assessment of ABC's V, a brief Mad Men Season 3 post-mortem, getting wet for Stallone's new epic The Expendables, trying to make sense of Xavier: Renegade Angel, absorbing the entire undisputed universe of Rocky Balboa on Blu-ray, build your own Alpha Male super team, if Michael Bay had directed it, and Roland Emmerich re-imagines Hitchcock. Share your comments and questions in the new Filibuster discussion forum.

It's all quiet on the roller derby front, so Dave, Mac, and Mike turn their attention towards little known NHL expansion teams, suffering fandom of awful sports teams, an unhealthy obsession with Mythbusters, intrigued by the reboot of V, catching up on Curb Your Enthusiasm, finding humor in the villainy of toxic waste dumpers, looking back on the quiet early career of Roland Emmerich, horror movies starring unusual deli meats, memorable face peels, and grisly appendage removals. Editor's Note: Please wait an hour after eating, before listening to this episode. Share your comments and questions in the new Filibuster discussion forum.

CLICK TO WATCH HEADZUP.TV Mobile Satire For A Mobile Democracy HEADZUP ON THE NEWS: Press Secretary Robert Gibbs reveals his Halloween costume to President Obama, scaring him. Learn more about Joe Lieberman's filibuster threat at the Crooks and Liars web site. FREE DAILY MOBILE DOWNLOADS: Visit www.headzup.tv using your cell phone and download Headzup video clips and share them with others as picture messages. SUBSCRIBE TO THE DAILY HEADZUP and get FREE daily "heads up" by email. DOWNLOAD TODAY'S HEADZUP and share them with your family and friends. YOUTUBE GALLERY Watch hundreds of the most popular, most recent, and most discussed Headzup clips on YouTube. FACEBOOK Join us on Facebook. TWITTER Free mobile videos by following us on Twitter. copyright, 2009 - Headzup Entertainment

Nancy Pelosi unveiled the House health care reform bill today, and most of the media immediately focused on the horse race. Did she have to give up too much, or was it a win for progressives? Yet the details of the bill remained largely unreported, and the debate around the public option remains a question of "dead or alive" rather than one of details, cost-saving, and whether the bill would actually insure more people. Meanwhile, Joe Lieberman seized headlines by announcing that he would filibuster any Senate bill that contained a public option, and it was up to bloggers like Marcy Wheeler to point out that the media wasn't factchecking Lieberman's statements. Is the media complicit in the failings of health care reform? Allison Kilkenny of Citizen Radio, Adam Green of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Diane Archer of the Campaign for America's Future, and Bob Fertik, President of Democrats.com join us to discuss the coverage, good and bad, and what it means for the fate of the public option.

Just in time for Halloween, Kate Clinton has some thoughts about some scary issues facing America right now: the health care debate, and the New York mayoral election. She's also got some suggestions for the "Men Who Stare At Goats" who oppose health care--give us a real filibuster. Get up and read from the phone book for 72 hours and let the public see who's willing to really put themselves on the line to oppose popular reforms.