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The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, August 08, 2006
  • Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) laughs while campaigning on August 6, 2006
    Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) laughs while campaigning on August 6, 2006 (Photo by Bob Falcetti/Getty Images)

    Dis-Connecticut

    Senator Joe Lieberman meets challenger Ned Lamont in Connecticut’s Democratic primary -- an election that both parties are watching to gauge the effect of the Iraq War on the electorate. Connecticut Democrats have a chance to call in and register their votes in a Brian Lehrer Show informal, unofficial, thoroughly unscientific exit poll. Plus, What Have We Learned about memorials and memorializing since 9/11? and what do you wish you'd spent more time doing?

Dis-Connecticut

Michael Tomasky, executive editor of The American Prospect magazine
- discusses the Connecticut primary and whether Joe Lieberman can connect with the electorate

Gaging Joementum

Sue Haigh, Connecticut political reporter for the Associated Press
-assesses voter turnout in Norwich, Connecticut
and
Susan Bysiewicz, Connecticut Secretary of State.

Un Exit Poll

Connecticut Democrats call in for an unofficial, unscientific exit poll to say whom they voted for in today's primary: Senator Joe Lieberman of challenger Ned Lamont

What Have We Learned: Memorial

James E. Young, Ground Zero Memorial Jurist, Professor and Chair of the Department of Judaic & Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and author, At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture (Yale University Press, 2002)
and
Michael J. Lewis, teaches at Williams College, and author, American Art and Architecture(Thames & Hudson, 2006)
and
Paul Goldberger,Dean of Parsons School of Design and the architecture critic for the New Yorker and author, Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York(Random House, 2004)
-on the process of memorializing and the Ground Zero Memorial

I Wish I'd . . .

Listeners call in to answer the "deathbed" question: What do you wish you'd spent more time doing?

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!

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.