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The Brian Lehrer Show

Thursday, September 04, 2008
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    Live from the Republican National Convention: Day 4

    Coverage continues from the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Get the latest news from the floor. Plus: NPR's Juan Williams talks about last night’s big speeches from Rudolph Giuliani and Sarah Palin.

    See WNYC's Flickr page for more images from the convention.

    What are Brian and the rest of the WNYC team doing and thinking at the convention? Check out Brian's Twitter feed.

RNC Coverage: Hour 1

Glenn Reynolds, law professor at the University of Tennessee and founder of Instapundit, John Stanton, staff writer for Roll Call, and Pilar Marrero, reporter and columnist for the La Opinión and a reporter with Feet in Two Worlds, analyze last night's speeches and preview Senator McCain's speech tonight.

Then
WNYC Meet the Delegates Series: James Brady from Shaker Heights, OH.


Then
Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito talks about speech "zingers" at the Republican National Convention.

RNC Coverage: Hour 2

Peter Coy, economics editor for Business Week magazine, Aswini Anburajan, a reporter with Feet in Two Worlds, a project of the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School, and Jason Riley, member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board and author of Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders , analyze the speeches, and talk about the Republican's economic and energy plans.

Then
Convention time means party time. Nancy Watzman heads up the Party Time project of the Sunlight Foundation. She dishes the details about the premiere Republican fetes.

Then
WNYC Meet the Delegates Series: Ben Horsley from Bountiful, UT


Then
Steven Waldman, Editor-in-chief and President of Beliefnet and Charles Dunn, Dean of Robertson School of Government at Regents University, discuss religion and the Republican party.

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.

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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.