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The Brian Lehrer Show / June 20, 2006

The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, June 20, 2006
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  • They Say It's Your Birthday

    Performance artist Sheryl Oring is traveling the country collecting birthday greetings for President Bush who turns 60 on July 6th. She started in Brooklyn and as she spells B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y with the cities she visits, she'll call in between Houston and Des Moines. Also, George Packer on the situation in Iraq, the next installment in "The Border" immigration series: is the immigration debate really about race? and differing views on Governor Corzine's proposed sales tax hike

Half Full or Half Empty?

George Packer, writer for the New Yorker and author, The Assassins' Gate : America in Iraq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005)
- updates the situation in Iraq

» The New Yorker

» A cable sent from US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, to Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, which was leaked to the Washington Post (link opens a PDF)

Happy Birthday, Mr. President

Sheryl Oring, artist, creator of "The Birthday Project" which marks the president's 60th birthday
- calls in from Des Moines on her interactive performance piece

» Sheryl Oring’s website

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The Border: Is Immigration Policy Race Based?

Chung Wha-Hong, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition
- says immigration policy is racist
and
John Keeley, director of communication at Center for Immigration Studies
- says immigration policy is not racist

» Center for Immigration Studies

You, too, can join our flickr group The Border.

Photo: Water can for immigrants at Anza-Borrego desert, Robin Dude/flickr

Taxing Problem

Kevin O'Toole, New Jersey Assemblyman (R-Essex County), on the Budget Committee
and
Bernard F. Kenny, New Jersey Senate Majority Leader, (D-Hoboken)
- debate Gov. Corzine's proposed sales tax increase

» Assemblyman O’Toole’s webpage
» Majority Leader Kenny’s webpage
» Stop The Taxman

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.

Just Launched! The Uncommon Economic Indicators Video Contest. All the details here!

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.