The Yellow Brick Road to the White House
Thursday, February 15, 2007
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President Next: Interviews with the Candidates
The 2008 Presidential race has started and WNYC’s Brian Lehrer is speaking to the candidates vying for your vote. Burning issues on the campaign trail have been the war in Iraq, health care, education and global warming. Find out where the candidates stand on these issues and why they want to become the 44th President.
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Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas hopes to be the conservatives’ conservative in his run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. We’ll ask about his positions on issues like abortion and gay marriage, as well as his opposition to the troop surge in Iraq. Plus, the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer and Jill Savitt of Human Rights First on the connection between the “pretend” torture on 24 and the use of real torture in Iraq; and an insiders' guide to New York.
The Yellow Brick Road to the White House
Sam Brownback, U.S. Senator (R-KS) talks about his run for the 2008 Republican presidential candidacy.
TV Torture
Jane Mayer, staff writer for the New Yorker and Jill Savitt, Director of Public Programs for Human Rights First, say that television shows that depict torture are inspiring torture in real life
Inside Guide
Jane Pirone, publisher, and Rob Tallia, managing editor of the Not For Tourists guidebooks, talk about the 2007 edition of their guide to New York City and field listeners' calls on when they knew they were New Yorkers and the "funnest" places for kids.
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