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The Leonard Lopate Show / June 18, 2004

The Leonard Lopate Show

Friday, June 18, 2004
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  • The Two Americas
    The Two Americas

    The Great Divide

    Pollster Stanley Greenberg breaks down the Democratic/Republican divide in the U.S. into identifiable factions - "F-You Boys," "Super-Educated Women," and "Privileged Men," to name a few – and shares his hopes for an end to the deadlock. Then, a look at how Funny Cide shocked the horseracing world by winning both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness in 2003. And linguistics professor Geoffrey Nunberg explains how words like "blog" and the mispronunciation "nucular" became common, and what they tell us about American culture.

Stanley Greenberg

Stanley Greenberg’s book is The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It. Greenberg was part of Clinton’s 1992 re-election team.

Sally Jenkins, Dave Mahan and Eric Dattne

Sally Jenkins is the author of Funny Cide: How a Horse, a Trainer, a Jockey, and a Bunch of High School Buddies Took on the Sheiks and Blue Bloods...and Won. Dave Mahan and Eric Dattner are two of Funny Cide’s owners.

» Visit Funny Cide's website

Geoffrey Nunberg

Geoffrey Nunberg is a linguistics professor at Stanford and a regular language commentator on NPR. His recent book is Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Controversial Times.

» More about Geoffrey Nunberg

Bill Richardson on Diplomacy

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New Mexico governor Bill Richardson will be joining Obama’s cabinet as Commerce Secretary. You can hear him talk about his experience in foreign policy and diplomacy on the Lopate Show in April 2007.

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Plaxico Burress on the Lopate Show

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NY Giants star Plaxico Burress is in the headlines this week for his self-inflicted gunshot wound. You can hear him on the Leonard Lopate Show in July 2008 talk about his life on and off the football field, and what it was like to win the 2007 Super Bowl.

Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System

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Former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle has accepted President-Elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. You can hear Tom Daschle talk about his prescriptions for fixing American’s health care crisis on the Leonard Lopate Show in March 2008.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama, Circa 2004

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Listen to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.

Guest Picks

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Find out surprising facts about some recent guests on the Leonard Lopate Show. Check out our Guest Picks section! Did you know that football star Herschel Walker loves Judge Judy, Laurie Anderson is a big fan of agility training for dogs, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi likes Johnny Depp?