Sponsor

wnyc.org / 93.9fm / am 820

Prima Donna

« previous episode | next episode »

Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Al Gore's campaign manager in 2000 was Donna Brazile, a feisty Louisianian with a passion for creole food. In her new political memoir, she shares some tips for the kitchen and explains her surprising friendship with Bush advisor Karl Rove. Also, new rules on wigs and water among Orthodox Jews, the New York Times' Tom Friedman, and how reliable are fingerprints really?

Prima Donna

Donna Brazile senior political strategist, former Gore campaign manager, and author, Cooking With Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics (Simon & Schuster, 2004) comments on the Democratic Presidential campaign

Comment

Shell Shocked

J.J. Goldberg Editor In Chief, The Forward on the recent orthodox rabbinical rulings on microscopic crustaceans in tap water

Comment

How May I Direct Your Call?

Thomas Friedman Columnist for the New York Times and author, Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Sept.) discusses outsourcing, his documentary on Discovery and politics

Comment

Fingering the Criminals

Michael Greenberger Director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security and Professor of Law at University of Maryland and principal deputy associate under attorney general Janet Reno discusses the Padilla case, and the release of information by the government and the flaws associated with evidence including fingerprints
and

Comment

Today we are outsourcing our blog...

Please check out our extended entry which contains some of the emails we received from listeners during Brian's interview with Thomas Friedman from The New York Times.

Comment