On today’s BradCast, I (Angie Coiro) am sitting in for Brad and Desi!
My guest is CHRIS HEDGES — yes, that Chris Hedges — journalist, minister, prison instructor, war correspondent. We talk about his new book, America, the Farewell Tour. It’s a conversation recorded for my own show, In Deep with Angie Coiro; the excerpts here are kind of a sneak preview, as the whole thing hasn’t been edited for the In Deep stations yet.
A vote on the Kavanaugh nomination will at least momentarily take a back seat to a Senate hearing on the sexual assault accusation against him. In my commentary on why I believe her and not him, I mention Lisa Graves, a long-time campaigner for truth and integrity in public processes. The two on-point columns of hers you must read are “Brett Kavanaugh Can’t Be Trusted. We Know Because We Worked as Counsel to Senators When He Was in the Bush White House” for Time magazine, and “I Wrote Some of the Stolen Memos That Brett Kavanaugh Lied to the Senate About” for Slate, the latter of which she discussed with Brad on a recent BradCast.
In short: we have a man with an established track record of lying, documented by a reliable source; and a woman who fought to keep her anonymity, who knew her suffering would be for naught, whose life now will be damaged irreparably. I know who I believe.
Brad and Des are back tomorrow. Thanks for listening!
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Excellent! One of the world’s true heroes! Anytime I can hear or see Chris Hedges, I am listening closely. He knows the truth, and is never afraid to speak truth to power. This is a great interview, even though it is only part of Angie Coiro’s interview. Cudos to Angie!
And as always thanks to Chris Hedges for ALWAYS speaking truth to power!
Why didn’t this air on KPFK this afternoon? They instead replayed last Friday’s edition. Just wondering.
Jim – The reason for that is that I’m on the road today and Angie was filling in for us from the Bay Area. So, she’s unable to be live in studio on Mondays. Thus, we sent KPFK our most recent show (from Friday) to use today. Same thing may need to occur next Monday as well. Just FYI.
Dang!
That’s really disappointing to hear that, Brad.
I was hoping Chris Hedges’ absence was due to a conspiracy or somp’n.
What a let-down to hear it isn’t.
lol
DonL –
I know. Sorry. 🙂
Thanks for the kind words. I’ve wanted to interview Chris for so many years.
Our website is undergoing an overhaul; when it’s back up in a day or so, the uninterrupted version, just over an hour in length, will be posted. Meanwhile it’s on our IDAC radio stations and streams.
Dear Angie Coiro,
You certainly do rock.
When you do the show, there is no drop-off in quality, IMO, even though you are subbing for a master like the great BradF.
And that is saying a lot.