Tom Lehrer's "A Christmas Carol".

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The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC had Rick on today to discuss his new book. A C&L frenchman named Joel reports: The twenty-minute interview started off fairly calm but grew increasingly more heated as the
conversation went on.

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"The fabulous snarky Lehrer started jabbing an obviously frustrated and annoyed Santorum when the topic turned to the abortion issue. By the time they got on the rights of gays, Santorum was virtually yelling at
Lehrer. Santorum reiterated his assertion that gay sex is never consensual and that it is a kin to bigamy, polygamy, incest, or adultery. At that point, Lehrer let loose and brought up the fact that Santorum's Chief of Staff just came out of the closet. Santorum was pissed off that Lehrer brought this up."

Capitol Buzz has Rick's NPR spot as and says that Santorum plays the victim!

Check out other cool interviews on Brian's site.

In tonight's interview, Jim Lehrer asks Secretary of State Rice if US foreign policy has caused an increase in the number or terrorists.

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Waging peace for humanity

writes an article about Amnesty International and the Bush Administration:

"On 6/3/05, the Bush administration lacked the courage to face its accuser directly. Jim Lehrer of Newshour on PBS moderated a discussion between Amnesty International and the Bush administration. The topic was Amnesty's recent allegations concerning prisoner abuse in the American version of Stalin's Gulag Archipelago. Amnesty sent William Schulz, their executive director in the United States. Lehrer invited the Pentagon to send a representative. Instead, they sent their proxy, Neil Livingston, CEO of Global Options, a security firm with expertise on the subject of terrorism...Read on

News Hour with Jim Lehrer

David was the moderator at the now famous Davos meeting.

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Gergen: I thought he blundered, he went too far, but he also walked it back and that's why I believe sometimes it's terribly sad that he resigned over... and I think the punishment far exceeds the offense.

I finally found some video of someone who was there. It's a good round table discussion on the topic. Gergen clearly is someone who didn't believe that he should have been fired. There was talk of bloggers wanting to take down Eason Jordan. The effect bloggers had on the story itself. Questions about the why the tape hasn't been released. Where was the MSM on the story.

The Democratic presidential candidate's accusation came two days after his first debate with Bush, when he told moderator Jim Lehrer that he avoids saying that the president is lying to the American people.

"I've never, ever used the harshest word, as you did just then," Kerry said. "And I try not to, but I'll nevertheless tell you that I think he has not been candid with the American people."