GaryBaumgarten
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Title
- Director of News and Programming
- Company
- Paltalk.com
- Bio
- Award winning journalist Gary Baumgarten hosts the News Talk Online show on Paltalk.com. He asks critical questions, and invites people from all around the world to talk directly to his newsmaker guests using Paltalk's voice over IP technology.
Gary came to Paltalk as director of news and programming from CNN where he was the radio bureau chief and correspondent in New York for a decade, where he covered, among other things, the 9/11 attacks in New York and Hurricane Katrina. He was previously reporter and assistant news director at CBS all news radio station WWJ in Detroit. Prior to that he was managing editor at Detroit Radio News Service and a reporter for the Jackson (MI) Citizen-Patriot, the Detroit News and a number of weekly newspapers.
Paltalk is the largest multimedia interactive program on the Internet with more than 4 million unique users. News Talk Online is also syndicated by CRN Digital Talk Radio to cable systems serving an additional 12 million households.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
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suggestion that we
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August 09, 2009 03:14PM - “John,
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August 09, 2009 01:13PM - “That all sounds ominous
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July 13, 2009 02:00PM - “One of the benefits of
working in New York is that
there are
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July 11, 2009 02:21AM - “Yeah probably better to
not report it, then it
won't
happen.”
July 10, 2009 09:49AM
GaryBaumgarten's Links
Support For, Opposition To, Gitmo Trials In New York
http://bit.ly/4id7sZ
There's mixed reaction today to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement yesterday that five Guantanamo Bay detainees, including the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be tried in federal court in New York City
… Read full post »FBI Reviews Handling Of Earlier Hasan Probe
The FBI says it is reviewing whether procedures should be changed as a result of its probe last December of U.S. Army Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan, the alleged gunman in the Fort Hood rampage.
The FBI acknowledges that it had intercepted communications between Hasan and an imam in Yemen with ties… Read full post »
Fort Hood And Religion
Muslim American groups are struggling with a possible backlash over the Fort Hood tragedy, even more so today than on Thursday as new details, and additional speculation, about the suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, emerge.
A devote Muslim, Hasan was reported to have shouted "God is great" in
…
Now We Have 'Proof' Obama Is A Communist
Here we go again.
The blogosphere is aghast over news that the White House will be hoisting the communist Chinese flag on the south side of the White House. Proof, many argue, that President Obama is - well - not just a socialist but a communist.
The only problem is that the… Read full post »
Some parents are vowing to keep their children home from school
on Tuesday when President Obama addresses the nation's school
children.
They are afraid that he's going to use the platform to push his
political agenda, which they see as decidedly socialist, and, I
guess, poison the minds of our nation'… Read full post »
Was The Lockerbie Bomber Released For Oil?
"In the end," said a friend of mine who is an active observer
about these affairs, "it's the only thing that makes sense."
He was referring to a British newspaper report that claims that the
only Pan Am bomber to be convicted was released to Libya - not for
humanitarian reasons because… Read full post »
The Debate Is Frightening And Dangerous
We've all seen video of town hall meetings on the health care reform disrupted and turned into shouting matches and - sometimes - resulting in scuffles and even arrests. I'm here to tell you that, in some instances, the debate has not only become scary but even dangerous. And in that… Read full post »
How Social Discourse Keeps Bottoming Out
Alinsky's Rule 12 lives on
We all hope that the economy has bottomed out and will rebound. I'm hoping that the debate over the political and social issues of the day has as well - but I fear that it has not and will not.
I recently received a… Read full post »
An Iran Official Acknowledges What We All Already Know
It's a bit amazing that it took this long to admit it but Iran's
police chief is now acknowledging for the first time that prisoners
arrested following that nation's presidential election were
abused while in custody.
But he continues to insist that those who died while incarcerated
succumbed to illne… Read full post »
A Terrorist By Any Other Name Is Still The Same
I see.
We've turned the corner in our counter terrorism efforts in the
United States.
No longer is the United States in a war with terrorism or with
Jihadists. We're in a war with al Qaeda.
All those police counter terrorism units around the country are
going to have to rename themselves. They are… Read full post »
How Do You Rate Obama's 1st 200 Days?
He's been president now for 200 days and the latest polls show that President Obama's ratings are slipping to around the 50 percent approval mark. In large measure over constituent perception of the two biggest domestic issues on his plate: the economy and health care reform.
Obama has… Read full post »
The Difference Between Us And Them
Former President Bill Clinton's surprise and high-profile trip to North Korea to try to win the release of two U.S. journalists sentenced to years of hard labor for illegally entering that country and the plight of three hikers who strayed across the border from Iraq into Iran and who are being… Read full post »
Treasury Sec. Geithner: Tax hike possible
Then candidate-Barack Obama repeatedly told the nation during his presidential campaign that all the fixes he had in mind for the United States would not include a tax increase for the middle class. But two administration officials amended that refrain/…
Sheriff To Feds: What Part Of 'Illegal' Don't You Understand
Agents of the schizophrenic U.S. government put their lives on the line everyday along the Mexican border chasing illegal immigrants streaming across the border. Most of them are coming here to seek a better quality of life. But others are trafficking in drugs and are dangerous people. The rec/…
British troops in Iraq
It's pretty obvious the British government followed the U.S. lead into the Iraq war. Now, many people in the United States no doubt are wishing the United States would follow the UK and launch an inquiry into the war in Iraq.
Many of the same… Read full post »
Forget Viagra - If You Want Afghan Support Protect Civilians
I poked fun a few months ago at the Pentagon when someone broke the story that the U.S. military was trying to win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people by passing out Viagra. But now comes word that a UN report is indicating that civilian deaths in Afghanistan are… Read full post »
Watch For Change In Health Reform Debate
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying out a new argument in the
health reform debate. And if it resonates you can expect to see the
Democrats, led by heath care reform cheerleader-in-chief Barack
Obama, use it as the new rallying cry.
Pelosi is arguing that the
health insurance companies are the real… Read full post »
A broadcast industry publication reports that Clear Channel has decided that it does not want to hire former Alaska governor and failed vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin as a radio talk show host.
Broadcasting and Cable says CC feared that Palin couldn't sustain a full three hours on… Read full post »
Born in the USA
Either officials in Hawaii are putting their reputations and their jobs on the line as part of a massive conspiracy to cover up the fact that Barack Obama isn't qualified to be president of the United States or he was, indeed, born in the USA.
Once again, the state's/…
Time To Stop Discounting Swine Flu Warnings
Airline passengers in Argentina
The news media did us all a disservice by overplaying the swine flu story when it first broke.
At the time there was really no indication that it would cause massive numbers of Americans to die. The story deserved reporting, but the breathless overselling of… Read full post »
Obama Backs Off On Stupid Cops Remark
President Obama has now called Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley, the white cop who arrested his friend, black Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates and came away singing a completely different tune about Crowley. Calling him an outstanding officer with a record of racial sensitivit… Read full post »
Some still can't accept the fact that Obama is president
When the allegations that then-Senator Obama wasn't a U.S. citizen started swirling during the presidential campaign you'd think that the first person to seize upon them would be his opponent, Republican Senator John McCain. But his now f/…
Minister's Bible 'Threat' Conviction Tossed
Rev. Pinkney
Good God! It's now safe for ministers to quote the Bible and predict that God will smite a judge.
The Rev. Edward Pinkney's First Amendment rights were violated, a Michigan appellate court has ruled, when he was imprisoned for quoting the Bible in an article he penned… Read full post »
Should Permit Holders Carry Guns Across State Lines?
My driver's license was issued by the state of New Jersey but it is recognized by the 49 other states so I don't need a separate license for each state I visit. Which is a good thing because, if that were required, there'd be virtually no interstate travel in the United/…
Let's Go To Mars!
On today, the 40th anniversary of man's first landing on the moon, the crew of the Apollo 11 which accomplished that feat is issuing a challenge to President Obama. To set a goal of man reaching Mars.
It was the challenge set by then-President John F. Kennedy that made it possible for/…
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