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Election 2006 Debate Tuesday

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Guest: Republican strategist Mike Lane
Mark skewers the racism of Virginia Senator George Allen and the coverup of House Republicans of the growing page scandal.

The INSIDE SCOOP on the Build-Up to the War in Iraq

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Mark is reporting live via telephone from Washington today, with Bob Kincaid hosting the show.
Mark’s attending a public forum where David Corn, Washington Editor of The Nation, and Michael Isikoff, investigative reporter of Newsweek, discuss their new book, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, which explores the inner workings of the current administration and the deliberations behind the build up to the Iraq War.
Here’s a quote from the forum.
“As debate continues to swirl around the causes and lead up to our involvement in Iraq, two of Washington’s premier investigative reporters have released a new, insiders account of the bitter battles between the CIA and the White House, the skirmishes within the intelligence community over the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and a top reporter’s ties to Iraqi exiles fomenting for war.”

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The Week in Review: Kick Out the Republicans!

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We’re coming down to the wire. And the latest polls say that Democrats will take the House and have a decent shot at the Senate.

Conspiracy Theories of the Right and the Left

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Guest: Robert Parry, investigative journalist of Consortium News
Some conspiracy theories are proven: for example, the connections between the George H. W. Bush and Rev. Sun Myung Moon and between Moon and North Korea.
Others are unproven: the Right’s claim that Democrats are to blame for the information on Mark Foley coming out in October or that the Clintons killed Vince Foster. Or the Left’s claim that Bush intentionally caused 9/11.
What causes partisans of the Left or the Right to seek to place everything that happens in a paradigm where the other side can be blamed? How are we to distinguish between good journalism — getting the “inside scoop” on facts that powerful forces would conceal — and wishful thinking?