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The Brian Lehrer Show

Friday, August 26, 2005
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  • Hugo or I Go

    This week Pat Robertson was forced to retreat from his statement that America should depose President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. But how bad or good has the Venezuelan firebrand been for his own people?

Hugo or I Go

Andrew Webb-Vidal correspondent for the Financial Times in Venezuela

and
Richard Gott former Latin America correspondent for the Guardian and author, Hugo Chavez: The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela (Verso, paperback 2005)
-on Hugo Chavez's record in Venezuela

» The Financial Times
» "Hugo Chavez: The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela" (Verso Books)
» "Two fingers to America" by Richard Gott in the Guardian

Two Weeks in the Sun

Open Phones on your thoughts on the right way to vacation

Bolton of Lightning

Colum Lynch reporter for the Washington Post
- on the US's ambassadors push for reform at the UN ahead of a world summit
» Washington Post

Who's Afraid of C. Virginia Fields?

C. Virginia Fields, Manhattan Borough President and Democratic candidate for mayor,
-explains why she wants to be mayor

» The Office of Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields

A person dressed as a bear to represent a bear market performs outside the New York Stock Exchange on October 6, 200 in New York. Wall Street tumbled after the opening bell as fallout from the credit crisis triggered concerns about the economy and the Dow fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years.

Uncommon Indicators

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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.

Cast your vote for our video contest semi-finalists.

Ray Young, General Motors Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

The Rocky Road Ahead

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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.

Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.

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Tweet If You Use Twitter

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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.

What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!

(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexerde/80417539/">alexerde</a>/flickr)

Don't Say That, Literally

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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")

What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!

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From Denmark with Love

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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.

Judge Sotomayor

Squatting, Then and Now

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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.

Video Picks

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Check out some recent video clips of interviews with guests and Brian Lehrer's weekly Web video picks.