Today's Show: Recapping The Tea Party Convention

(Rescheduled; Dave Weigel's plane was delayed yesterday due to the DC snow) 3:30pm EST - Last week marked the first official Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, where many right of the right-wing gathered to show support of this new fringe political party. Joining us today, David Weigel, political reporter with the Washington Independent, to talk about his coverage of the Tea Party Convention and where the party goes from here.

Listen to The Michelangelo Signorile Show weekdays live from 2-6 pm ET on Sirius XM's OutQ: Sirius 109, XM 98 and on the Sirius XM iPhone app. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a free seven-day pass or, if you have an iPhone or Blackberry, go to the app store and download Sirius XM for free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.

Today's Show: Does James O'Keefe Have a Race Problem ?

4:30pm EST - Over the past few weeks, a lot has been coming out on James O'Keefe, right wing hero turned allegede criminal, since he broke into New Orleans offices of Senator Mary Landrieu. Max Blumenthal, award winning journalist, recently uncovered O'Keefe's possible racist past, in an article he wrote for Salon, James O'Keefe's Race Problem. He joins us this afternoon to talk about his past and how it lead up to these recent events.

Listen to The Michelangelo Signorile Show weekdays live from 2-6 pm ET on Sirius XM's OutQ: Sirius 109, XM 98 and on the Sirius XM iPhone app. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a free seven-day pass or, if you have an iPhone or Blackberry, go to the app store and download Sirius XM for free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.

Today's Show: Recapping The Tea Party

3:30pm EST - Last week marked the first official Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, where many right of the right-wing gathered to show support of this new fringe political party. Joining me this afternoon, David Weigel, political reporter with the Washington Independent, to talk about his coverage of the Tea Party Convention and where the party goes from here.

Listen to The Michelangelo Signorile Show weekdays live from 2-6 pm ET on Sirius XM's OutQ: Sirius 109, XM 98 and on the Sirius XM iPhone app. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a free seven-day pass or, if you have an iPhone or Blackberry, go to the app store and download Sirius XM for free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.

Clips of the Week: “It Comes Down to Integrity”

Our Friday feature on the show, Clips of the Week: the dumb, sometimes smart -- mostly not -- things they said all week, all put to music by our producer David Guggenheim. This week: “It Comes Down to Integrity”

Interview with Barney Frank

These are some short clips from my interview with Congressman Barney Frank from Thursday (Feb 4) about a variety of issues but including "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and the Employment Non-Discrimination Bill.

In these first three clips, Barney is very forceful in his opinion that another review of DADT, as Gates announced, is unnecessary, that he is unhappy with the issues Gates raised regarding what the review would do and that he believes we should have a vote on repeal well before the review that would have repeal go into effect after the review is complete.







In this clip, Barney and I discuss the president and the White House and whether Obama will push for DADT repeal in Congress this year. Barney becomes frustrated with calls to put the pressure on the White House.




In this clip, Barney says unequivocally that Nancy Pelosi will back a vote on DADT and ENDA, even though shortly after the interview she told reporters that she wasn't certain there would be a vote on DADT (and the White House is now hedging too.)He then expresses his frustration with my even asking about Pelosi and the leadership's commitment.




In this clip Barney expresses his frustration with gay activists and the LGBT community on how they lobby and work with Congress.

Interview with HRC's Joe Solmonese

This is my interview with Joe Solmonese of the Human Rights Campaign on Thursday (February 4) regarding DADT repeal, ENDA and the LGBT agenda moving forward..

Today's Show: 8 At Sundance

3:30pm EST - Reed Cowan, director of 8: The Mormon Proposition, joins us this afternoon to talk about the film and the reaction 8TMP has been getting since it release at Sundance, which is coincidentally in Utah, home of Mormon Church headquarters and the epicenter of the Latter-day Saints faith.

Listen to The Michelangelo Signorile Show weekdays live from 2-6 pm ET on Sirius XM's OutQ: Sirius 109, XM 98 and on the Sirius XM iPhone app. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a free seven-day pass or, if you have an iPhone or Blackberry, go to the app store and download Sirius XM for free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.

Today's Show: The Hidden Brain

4:30pm EST - Shankar Vedantam, longtime author of the Washington Post's "Department of Human Behaviour" column, joins us this afternoon to speak about his new book, The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars and Save Our Lives, which takes us through case studies that illistrate different aspects of brain function, emotinal response, and cognitive processes that happen outside of our conscious awareness.

Listen to The Michelangelo Signorile Show weekdays live from 2-6 pm ET on Sirius XM's OutQ: Sirius 109, XM 98 and on the Sirius XM iPhone app. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a free seven-day pass or, if you have an iPhone or Blackberry, go to the app store and download Sirius XM for free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.

Today's Show: Rep. Barney Frank Checks in

4:30pm EST - In the wake of the win of Senator-elect Scott Brown in Massachusetts, Democrats in Washington seem to be in panic mode when it comes to whether or not they will be able to get the legislation they need passed. Joining us this afternoon, openly gay Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank joins us to speak about what the loss in Masschusetts really means along with where the issues concerning the LGBT community now stand in Washington, including the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

Listen to The Michelangelo Signorile Show weekdays live from 2-6 pm ET on Sirius XM's OutQ: Sirius 109, XM 98 and on the Sirius XM iPhone app. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a free seven-day pass or, if you have an iPhone, go to the app store and download Sirius XM for free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.

Today's Show: HRC and the LGBT Agenda In Washington

3:30pm EST - We've been talking all this week about repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," since the president addressed repealing the policy in his State Of The Union last week and we saw it discussed for the first time in 17 years in the Senate. Joining us in studio this afternoon is Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, to discuss the news coming out of the hearing for a yearlong study on repealing the DADT policy and where this puts other policies, like ENDA and DOMA, on the LGBT legislative list in Washington.

Listen to The Michelangelo Signorile Show weekdays live from 2-6 pm ET on Sirius XM's OutQ: Sirius 109, XM 98 and on the Sirius XM iPhone app. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a free seven-day pass or, if you have an iPhone, go to the app store and download Sirius XM for free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.

Today's Show: CBS and Focus on the Family

4:30pm EST - This weekend is "Superbowl Sunday," a day when many American's will be attending parties with friends and family, cheering for their favorite team. And what's the Superbowl without the commercials? But in the mix of witty and clever ads, CBS has green-lighted an ad by Focus On The Family with an anti-abortion message featuring college football star Tim Tebow, winner of the Heisman Trophy. Joining us today is Dana Goldstein, associate editor of The Daily Beast, who recently wrote an article, The Making of CBS's Pro-Life Ad, where she says CBS executives had a hand in crafting this ad.

Listen to The Michelangelo Signorile Show weekdays live from 2-6 pm ET on Sirius XM's OutQ: Sirius 109, XM 98 and on the Sirius XM iPhone app. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a free seven-day pass or, if you have an iPhone, go to the app store and download Sirius XM for free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.

Today's Show: Where DADT Goes From Here

3:30pm EST - Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, joins us this afternoon to go over yesterday's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" hearings and to talk about the year-long study the defense department wants to implement and why this may be just another stalling tactic in the quest for equality.

Listen to The Michelangelo Signorile Show weekdays live from 2-6 pm ET on Sirius XM's OutQ: Sirius 109, XM 98 and on the Sirius XM iPhone app. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a free seven-day pass or, if you have an iPhone, go to the app store and download Sirius XM for free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.

Today's Show: Don't Ask, Don't Tell Hearings

4:30pm EST - We've been talking about repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" on and off throughout the first year of President Obama's presidency and when he was going to keep his promise about repeal. This past week, we have really been focused on it when news broke that Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) postponed the hearings due to the president addressing repeal in his State Of The Union Address. Finally, today, after 17 years, there is a hearing as to whether or not we see repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Joe Sudbay of AMERICAblog joins us this afternoon to talk about the hearings, which he is live blogging about this afternoon.

Listen to The Michelangelo Signorile Show weekdays live from 2-6 pm ET on Sirius XM's OutQ: Sirius 109, XM 98 and on the Sirius XM iPhone app. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a free seven-day pass or, if you have an iPhone, go to the app store and download Sirius XM for free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.

Interview with Senator Gillibrand

This is my interview with Senator Kirten Gillibrand from Friday. We spoke about DADT, ENDA, Harold Ford and other issues.

Today's Show - Linking O'Keefe & Breitbart

4:30pm EST - Last week, we reported on the news tht the conservatives' new young icon, James O'Keefe, best know for dressing like a pimp and secretly video taping ACORN employees, was arrested with three others allegedly tampering with the phones in Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office. Joining us this afternoon is Karl Frisch, director of Media Relations at Media Matters for America, to talk about the arrest and the link between O'Keefe and Andrew Breitbart, "a protégé of Internet gossip Matt Drudge and proprietor of a variety of right-wing websites including BigGovernment.com", and what this means for conservative media.

Listen to The Michelangelo Signorile Show weekdays live from 2-6 pm ET on Sirius XM's OutQ: Sirius 109, XM 98 and on the Sirius XM iPhone app. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a free seven-day pass or, if you have an iPhone, go to the app store and download Sirius XM for free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.

Today's Show: Will DADT Be Repealed This Year?

3:30pm EST - Last week, the president laid out his plans for the economy, health care and national security in his State Of The Union Address, and said he would "work with Congress and the military" to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell." But we've discussed on the show, and here on the blog, various reports that suggest pushback from the Pentagon and show some mixed messages on whether repeal will happen this year or there will be a "years-long" process. Joining us this afternoon is Dr. Nathanial Frank, Senior Research Fellow with the Palm Center and author of Unfriendly Fire: How The Gay Ban Undermines The Military And Weakens America, to give his opinion as to what he thinks will be talked about in tomorrow's hearings where Secretary Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mullen will speak.

Listen to The Michelangelo Signorile Show weekdays live from 2-6 pm ET on Sirius XM's OutQ: Sirius 109, XM 98 and on the Sirius XM iPhone app. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a free seven-day pass or, if you have an iPhone, go to the app store and download Sirius XM for free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone.