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Where is the Progressive Passion?

Why are we compromising so much?
Why is that the right-wing tactics of lying and demagoguery succeed?
Why aren’t people converging on town halls FOR health insurance reform?
Should progressives learn from the dirty tricks of the Lunatic Right?

Veteran White House Reporter Helen Thomas

Guest: Helen Thomas

Probably no one alive today has had more substantive interaction with as many Presidents as many times as the “Dean of the White House Press Corps” Helen Thomas, who regularly interrogated 10 Presidents: Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr., and now Obama.

Beneath the Veil

My television guest tonight Mary Apick, an award-winning Iranian actress from before the Iranian Revolution, is still a household name in Iran. Today she is an American actor and also a director, producer, and human rights activist.
Mary Apick’s play, Beneath the Veil, showing one night only at the Kennedy Center on October 8, explores the role of women in Islam and Islam in women’s lives.

Mark on NPR: Health Care Debate

Sources of Right-Wing Anger

From the “birthers” to the town hall mobs to those stocking up on guns…
Where does right-wing anger come from?
Is it racism or some other deep-seated fear?
Fear of what?
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