Politics and Reality Radio with Joshua Holland: LOL James O’Keefe; Do Sanders’ Supporters Favor His Policies?
by Joshua Holland
This week, we’re joined by LA Times reporter Matt Pearce, who parachuted into Minnesota to report on a terror trial of three Somali-Americans and ended up with a much more interesting story of a refugee community trying to carve out a piece of the American Dream.
Then we speak with Princeton University political scientist Christopher Achen, who co-authored a piece in the NY Times this week arguing that people tend to choose a candidate based on their “inherited partisan loyalties, social identities and symbolic attachment,” rather than the candidate’s policy positions.
Then Ed Kilgore, the NY Magazine columnist, drops by to talk about the State Department’s IG report on Hillary Clinton’s email brouhaha. We keep that one short and to the point.
And finally, Digby joins us to point and laugh at right-wing dirty trickster James O’Keefe, who recently managed to sting himself when he failed to hang up his phone before articulating his scheme to burn George Soros’ Open Society Foundation.
Musical theme this week is TV theme-songs!
Playlist:
CBS Orchestra: “Theme from Hawaii-5-0”
Sammy Davis, Jr.: “Baretta’s Theme”
Jerry Scoggins: “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” (Beverly Hillbillies)
The Blues Brothers: “Rawhide”
Mike Post: “Hill Street Blues”
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