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The Brian Lehrer Show / March 18, 2008

The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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  • Senator Barack Obama with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. in a 2005 photograph.
    (Trinity United Church of Christ/Religion New Service)

    Barack Obama at Church

    Senator Obama is facing criticism over remarks made by his pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. We take a closer look at the tradition of black liberation theology and the role of the black church in politics. Also: live coverage of Senator Obama's speech on race, and we open the phones for listener reaction.

Jeremiad

Stephanie Robinson, president and CEO of The Jamestown Project and Eddie Glaude, Jr., associate professor at Princeton University and Gladys Mitchell, doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Chicago and a member of Trinity United Church of Christ, talk about the controversy surrounding Barack Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

SPECIAL: Senator Obama Live from Philadelphia

Live coverage of Barack Obama's speech on race at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

Read the prepared text of the Senator's speech

Open Phones

Listeners call in with their reaction to Senator Obama's speech on race.

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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