August 3, 2005

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
.

Click here for the audio

"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.

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