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Podcast for Saturday, December 20, 2008 [ 3:56:20 | 108.18 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (241)

On our ‘Best of Hell: 2008′ we featured the following interviews:

• From June 14, David Cay Johnston is an independent investigative journalist, formerly with The New York Times, now focusing on the subject of taxation. David’s most recent book is last year’s “Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill.”
• From October 4, author Dave Zirin writes the column ‘The Edge of Sports’ at http://www.edgeofsports.com and is a regular contributor to SI.com, The Nation, SLAM and the Los Angeles Times. Dave’s new book is “A People’s History of Sports in the United States” (The New Press).
• From November 29, BlackCommentator.com editorial board member Larry Pinkney who writes the column “Keeping It Real.” Larry is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
• From October 11th, Thomas Frank whose latest book is “The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule” (Metropolitan Books). Tom is a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

We played a ‘Moment of Truth’ delivered by Jeff Dorchen back on July 19th entitled, “Thomas Friedman Versus The Methodist Fish Fry.” We also replayed Todd Williams, ‘Our Man in Budapest’ and the former host of Hungarian TV’s Feszti Korkep, giving us a report from May 31st.