Le Show; 2006-11-19

It's not the car noises that I find difficult to understand, it's the people noises. Ladies and gentlemen, when it was hip to be hip, we were hip. And please, won't you stay tuned for the next news here on KCRW? No, it's not at 11 a.m. Don't be fooled. It's at 5 p.m. with weekend all things considered. It's right here. This spot on your dial, why ever move it? But now stay tuned for the show program around the world from here next. From deep inside your radio. So ladies and gentlemen, two weeks in a row at the Lachodom, how could that be?

Who's screwing up, but it's good to get back into the rhythm, the rhythm of the Lachodom, which is, recent listeners may not be aware, it's not actually a dome, it's trapezoidal in shape. Ladies and gentlemen, how do, you know, the president, is it Bush? Yeah. President Bush visited Vietnam this week, which would be the right occasion to raise the question, how do the Vietnamese deal with terrorism? You see, he's in Vietnam, we had a war there, he drew a lesson from that war this week. So it might indeed be appropriate to ask. How do the Vietnamese deal with terrorism? Ed, you want to repeat that? No, Ed doesn't want to repeat that question, but it's, how do the Vietnamese deal with terrorism? Date line, Vietnam, a US citizen convicted of terrorism in a Vietnamese court has been released and arrived this week in the United States, the case of Orlando resident, Orlando

Florida resident, Tuong Nguyen Q. Foshi had complicated efforts to do a trade deal between the United States and Vietnam. Senator Mel Martinez of Florida had blocked the trade bill until Foshi arrived home. Yeah, trade is more important than the Vietnamese fighting terrorism, at least. For Mel, a judge at people's court, not the one you're thinking of, sentenced in Ho Chi Minh City, sentenced Foshi in six other defendants to 15 months of prison for terrorism, with credit for time served while awaiting trial. The defendants admitted they broke Vietnamese law, but denied any link to terrorism. Foshi's daughter set an interview with the Washington Post, she was told her mother had been released early for, quote, humanitarian reasons, unquote. So apparently the Vietnamese recognized humanitarian reasons when a convicted terrorist stands in

the way of a trade bill. Foshi was born in Vietnam, came to the United States after marrying a US sergeant. She was active in protests in the United States against the communist government of Vietnam. She and the other defendants, including two US citizens, were accused of plotting to broadcast anti-communist radio messages, radio, under the direction of an anti-government group based here in California. Vietnam considers that group, the government of free Vietnam as its name, to be a terrorist organization. One member has been suspected of planning bomb attacks on Vietnamese embassies. So it's not out of the realm of plausibility, you see, which I guess is the realm we live in now. Is it plausible that this person might be connected to terrorism? All right, then. Let's release them for humanitarian reasons.

How the Vietnamese deal with terrorism and ladies German in the buried lead department. This week the Associated Press ran a story in its wires which made all the papers. Here is the actual lead, new traces of plutonium and enriched uranium, potential material for atomic warheads have been founded a nuclear waste facility in Iran, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. So that sounds a little alarming. New traces of plutonium and enriched uranium, potential material for atomic warheads. The last sentence in the story. The very last sentence in the story. Official who spoke on condition of anonymity because it was not authorized to discuss the report publicly said, although the uranium was enriched to a higher level than needed to generate power, it was below weapons grade. So potential material for a weapon except it was below weapons grade, so it couldn't

be a weapon. It would be the lead ladies German. If you wanted to do it that way, hello, welcome to the show. They're fired and there's hairy falling. Oh, man. I'm fine. Don't worry about me. The Taurisfunded Sokoh吧 here. I am calling, I am calling you. I was getting me down, to a train in the tunnel. And the sun was shining. The snow was falling like it's too hard Make me think of our brave you are And I'll call my head straight so far And why everything came apart

In my head and my pillow You will never be without me You will never need to tell me There'll be something good about me soon Like sun in the city snow Like snow in the city snow I was watching you sleep I've been watching you dream Should we be upset with trouble I would never let you come to home Looks like maybe we'll lose our home Out of pocket and all alone

I should have worked and I should have known Seeing the dark clouds coming But you will never be without me I'm beside you, never doubt me There'll be something good about me soon Like snow in the city snow Undetermined in a sensual I am calling, I am calling you You

You You You I don't care much about cocaine And you'll never see me jumping out no airplane Wine and whiskey don't give me no thrill

I don't care nothing about the nasty little pill But women Now that's a whole other thing You won't see me wasting all the money I made And you ain't gonna never see me drive no escalade If you're looking for a hand down You're wasting your time I wouldn't give a crutch to a cripple I wouldn't give a ball of dine But women More that's a whole other thing Now when you talk about new women That's a whole other thing I like a big dog short sat in and in between I like a winner general and I like a winner

I like a winner whisper But I love a winner scream I like a winner Don't be telling me what to do with my body I know I'm good at best when I see more I know I'm good at best when I see more Look at that, we're walking past over there I don't buy stock, I don't place no bets And I won't be smoking none of them's thank you, cigarettes Only one thing make me throw my money away And that's a little TLC and a little TNT But women, yeah, that's all another thing

I'ma say it again, look here, women, women, women, that's all another thing Oh baby, yeah, go the women, that's all another thing That's okay, thanks, I'm fine From the edge of America, from the home of the homeless, I'm Harry Scherer, welcoming

you to this edition of the show, no people to thank for coming by to the book signings this week because there weren't any, but that starts right up after the holiday again if you want to come by, see me hear me, see me hear me, smell me, touch me, feel me, buy me book, in other words, buy the book, that'll be starting up again this week, only thing to remind you of is holiday sing along at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco this coming Friday and Saturday, you might want to check that out, some fabulous people forcing you to get into the holiday spirit despite your better judgment, ladies and gentlemen those pesky inspectors general are at it again, I think it's a new department of the program though damn inspector general because you know the Bush administration is trying to get rid of the special inspector general for Iraqi reconstruction because he's brought such bad news

well, you know, he's not the only damn inspector general doing that the Bush administration's proposal to secure the nation's borders with that high tech virtual fence is likely to cost far more than the two billion dollars that industry analysts initially estimated maybe up to 30 billion that I buy a lot of houses in New Orleans wouldn't it? This new figure comes from the Homeland Security Department's inspector general, I say abolish him, me, the ambitious plan to deploy sensors, cameras and other surveillance technology along 6,000 miles of the borders with Canada and Mexico runs the risk of runaway costs because of poorly defined objectives and a vastly overstretched contracting staff at the department, look at those costs run, all right then the dramatically higher estimates delivered to the house members by inspector general Richard Skinner, he's a dead man walking, he's toast, the damn inspector general ladies and gentlemen spoiling everything for everybody, injected a new dose of skepticism

into the national debate to curb illegal immigration according to the story in the Washington Post, the feasibility of the Bush administration's preferred plan, the fence to which Congress has already dedicated 1.2 billion and it's beginning on a pilot basis along a 28 mile stretch south of Tucson draws fresh doubts from Congress about its eventual price tag, hey we got the money as long as we're not bogged down and oh yeah that's right, now ladies and gentlemen news of the warm, won't you? Dateline Nairobi climate change is to blame for health problems such as increasing epidemics of malaria and waterborne diseases in Africa, heat wave related deaths in Europe and the

high incidence of cerebral cardiovascular conditions in China, this according to specialists calling for public health responses to tackle the problem, the resurgence of disease outbreaks calls for better climate surveillance and response and better health planning and coping with such disaster says dearmid Campbell Lindrum a scientist with the United States, United Nations World Health Organization, who, that's right who's on first? As we impact on the climate it is unreasonable to think that this will not impact on health he said, industrialized nations, the principle emitters of greenhouse gases blame for contributing to climate change, were loading health risks on developing countries said Campbell Lindrum. If the sun warms the earth too dangerously the time may come to draw the shade, this also from Nairobi. The shade would be a layer of pollution deliberately spewed into the atmosphere to help cool the planet, the proposal comes from prominent scientists among them a noble laureate, the reaction that the annual UN conference on climate change in Nairobi is a mix of caution, curiosity

and some resignation to such, quote, massive and drastic operations as the chief UN climatologist describes them. The Nobel Prize winning scientist who first made the proposal is himself, not enthusiastic about it. It was meant to startle the policy makers as Paul Krutzen of Germany's Max Planck Institute for chemistry. If they don't take action much more strongly than they have in the past he says, then in the end we have to do experiments like this, serious people are taking his ideas seriously. This weekend in Moffitfield, California, NASA's Ames Research Center hosts a closed door high-level workshop on the global haze proposal and other geo-enternaring ideas for fending off climate change. The Dutch scientist Krutzen awarded a 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry, uncovering the threat to the ozone layer, suggested that balloons bearing heavy guns being used to carry sulfates, high aloft, and fire them into the stratosphere, while carbon dioxide keeps heat from escaping

earth substances such as sulfur dioxide, a common air pollutant reflect solar radiation back out, helping to cool the planet. Tom Wiggly, a senior US government climatology, expert followed that article with a paper of his own in the journal Science, Wiggly cited the president of the huge volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991. It poured so much sulfurous debris into the stratosphere, it is believed to have cooled the earth by half a degree centigrade for about a year. Wiggly ran scenarios of stratospheric sulfate injection through supercomputer models of the climate, and reported that the idea would indeed seem to work, even half that amount per year would help. A huge dissemination of pollutants would be needed every year or two, as the sulfates come back down as acid rain. The US scientist said a temporary shield would give political leaders more time to reduce human dependence on fossil fuels.

He says experts must more closely study the feasibility of the idea, and it's possible effects on stratosphere chemistry. Why would that? Why would it have any effect on the stratosphere chemistry? It's just screwing around with it. Most fires in northern countries may cause regional cooling, and not warming, as was previously thought. Oh, I'm so confused. It's the warming he's causing the cooling. Researchers say their new findings could meet it on a global scale, forest fires will not affect climate change one way or the other, and usually one way or the other. And far fewer polar bear cubs are surviving, off Alaska's northern coast. According to a federal government report released this week, if I'd better not have been from an inspector general or I'm getting the study of polar bears in the south Beaufort sea, which spans the northern coast of Alaska and western Canada, I blame Canada. I'm sorry. Also found that adult males weigh less and have smaller skulls than those captured and measured two decades ago. Be cuter.

The study is not directly blame the changes on a decline in sea ice, however, fewer cubs and smaller males are consistent with other observations that suggest changes in sea ice may be adversely affecting polar bears. Study warns that a decline in cubs survival and smaller adult males are the same conditions that preceded a decline in the polar bear population of western Hudson Bay, Canada, where the population dropped 22% in 17 years. The grim reaper of global warming is now clearly killing polar bear cubs, says the head of an anchorage Alaska-based group aimed at halting climate change. I say they're cuter. That's just me, ladies and gentlemen. But it's just me here. So who else is going to be saying that? You have to ask yourself that. Ladies and gentlemen, some news about the new Iraq, the last person still believing in that policy, please turn out the lights on your way out because the, I don't know who

it is, deserting the ship this week, but they're eating a lot of cheese. First of all, here's this quote from President Bush. I don't have it on tape. But this is President Bush in Vietnam, as I mentioned earlier, he's in Vietnam earlier this week, making comparisons between Vietnam and the Vietnam War and the Iraq War. And saying this about the need to not quit in his words, this is the quote, we're not leaving until this job is done until Iraq can govern, sustain, and defend itself, unquote. Now I may have missed something there. I may, you know, since I was reading, I may not have heard right, but it doesn't seem to me like I, as if I read the word democracy or democratic anywhere in that. Did I?

Let's just check until Iraq can govern, sustain, and defend itself, unquote. That's when the job is done. Ladies and gentlemen, that job was done before we invaded. It governed, sustained, and defended itself. Just fine. Job was done before we started the job. Okay. Who is it? I'm leaving the ship this week, Joshua Moravczyk, a neo-conservative at the American Enterprise Institute, told the Washington Post he's distressed to see Neocons turning on Bush, but says he believes they should admit mistakes and openly discuss what went wrong. Quote, all of us who supported the war have to share some of the blame for that. There's a question to be sorted out whether the war was a sound idea, but very badly executed. And if that's the case, it appears to me the person most responsible for the bad execution was Rumsfeld. And it means neo-cons should not get too angry at Bush about that. It may also be, he said, that the mistake was the idea itself, that Iraq could serve as a democratic beacon for the Middle East. Quote, that part of our plan is down the drain, unquote, Joshua Moravczyk. Kenneth Cakewalk-Adelman, quoted here from the Vanity Fair article, just want to re-emphasize

what he says, because he says it in a different way. The breaking point for him was Bush's decision to award medals of freedom to El Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, General Tommy R. Franks, and then CIA Director George Tennett, quoting Cakewalk-Adelman. The three individuals who got the highest civilian medals the president can give were responsible for a lot of the debacle that was Iraq. All told he said the Bush National Security team has proved to be the most incompetent of the past half century, but obviously he adds the president is ultimately responsible. Hey, we had our accountability moment. It was called whenever. Attacks in Iraq reached a high of approximately 180 a day last month, reflecting an increasingly complicated conflict that includes sectarian clashes of Sunni and Shiite militias on top of continuing strikes by insurgents, criminal gangs, and al-Qaeda. This, according to the directors of the CIA and the CIA, no single narrative is sufficient

to explain all the violence we see in Iraq today. We need more narratives, ladies and gentlemen, there's a severe narrative shortage. That's where Hollywood can help out. We got narratives up the wazoo, as a matter of fact, that's where Lieutenant General Michael D. Maples, as the head of the CIA, attempted to describe the enemy. Iraqi nationalists, ex-bathists, former military, angry Sunni, jihadists, foreign fighters, and al-Qaeda who create an overlapping, complex, and multipolar Sunni insurgent and terrorist environment. He added she-a-militants and she-a-militants, she-a-militants, and she-a-militants. That is complicated. Some Kurdish, Peshmerga, an extensive criminal activity further contribute to violence, instability, and insecurity. In unusually harsh terms, the two intelligence directors spelled out how quickly the violence in Iraq has escalated this year. From 70 attacks a day in January to 100 a day in May, and then to last month's figure of 180 a day. The longer this goes on, the less controlled the violence is.

The more the violence devolves down to the neighborhood level, says Michael Hayden, head of the CIA, the center disappears and the normal people acting not irrationally end up acting like extremists. The Bush administration continues to emphasize the role of al-Qaeda in Iraq, but maples of the DIA described the current situation as mostly an intra-Arab struggle to determine how power and authority will be distributed with or without the U.S. presence. Al-Qaeda and foreigners messing around were estimated to total no more than 1300, ladies and gentlemen, while Hayden, pressed by senators, estimated the number of insurgents in the low tens of thousands, maples estimated the number of Iraqi insurgents, including militias at 20 to 30,000, and said there are many more who supply support. It's complicated. That's the problem. It was supposed to be simple. And ladies and gentlemen, here's what happens when you tell the truth about Iraq and you

live in Denmark. The editor and two reporters from one of Denmark's main newspapers have gone on trial charge with publishing secret intelligence about Iraqi weapons, well, or the lack thereof. In articles published two years ago, they quoted from an analysis by a Danish intelligence agency, Frank Greville, his report written before the war started, concluded that there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. We weren't all wrong. Ask Frank Greville. The journalist could go to jail if found guilty. Denmark is usually an ardent defender of freedom of expression. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper went on trial along with reporters. They pleaded not guilty. Greville was sentenced last year to four months in jail for leaking the documents to the reporters. The Danish prime minister, Anders Fogoraz Musin, supported the invasion of Iraq and told parliament he was convinced Saddam Hussein did have WMD. The defense lawyer for the journalist told the court his clients had done nothing wrong

because there was a huge public interest in the information they published. So nice and jump. It ain't just us. And now news from outside the bubble. Data line Australia, as Australian troops reach full strength in Afghanistan, US intelligence chiefs have warned that Taliban insurgents backed by al-Qaeda are likely to step up lethal attacks on coalition forces. The intelligence chiefs predict even more intensive fighting in Afghanistan next year, as the insurgents increase their forces and al-Qaeda defines Afghanistan as a critical battleground in its war against the West. Defense intelligence agency director Michael Maples told the US Senate Armed Forces Committee

that in 2007 insurgents are likely to sustain their use of more visible aggressive and lethal tactics to undermine international support for the reconstruction of Afghanistan. This Sunday age newspaper in Australia reveals that al-Qaeda plans to target Australian troops in Afghanistan as malicious crusaders. And NATO cannot win the fight against the Taliban alone and will have to train Afghan forces to do the jobs at the UN's top official in the country. At the moment, NATO has a very optimistic assessment, says Tom Kunigs, the diplomat hand hitting the UN mission in Afghanistan. They think they can win the war, but there is no quick fix. He said training the fledgling Afghan National Army, they've been fledgling now for how many years? Good fledgling, babe. To defeat the Taliban was crucial. They could win, but against an insurgency like that, international troops cannot win, he said.

Attacks in Afghanistan have increased fourfold this year, and 3,700 people have died mostly in the South. The US has made 2,000 airstrikes in Afghanistan since June against only 88 in Iraq. Last week, an umbrella group of Afghan and international aid agencies said the crisis highlights the urgent need for a rethink of military poverty reduction and state building facilities for the police in Afghanistan. It's going to be the word of the year, ladies and gentlemen. I recall how we lived on the corner of the bed, and we'd speak of a Swedish rule of Hessian and war, and we'd talk with our eyes of sweetness in our lives.

Tomorrow's a rich surprise, some things we could do. In our madness, we burned 100 days, time takes time to pass, and I still hold some ashes to me, an occasional dream. And we'd sleep all so close, but not really close our eyes, twin the sheets of summer bathed in blue, the gently weeping night, it was so long ago I can't really touch your name for the days of fate we're strong for you, they danced you far from me. In my madness, I see your face in mind, I keep a photograph, it burns my wall with time,

an occasional dream. I recall how we lived on the corner of the bed, and we'd talk with our eyes of sweetness in our lives, and tomorrow's a rich surprise, some things we could do.

In our madness, we burned 100 days, time takes time to pass, and I still hold some ashes to me, an occasional dream, time, an occasional dream of mine, an occasional dream of mine. This is La Show, and ladies and gentlemen, what's our, what's our friend,

Pakistan up to, we know what's going on in Iraq and Afghanistan now, but what about our friend, the Big P, Pakistan said it successfully test fired a new version of its nuclear capable medium range missile this week, it congratulations, that's a show of power a day after peace talks with India, they were criticized by domestic Pakistani hardliners, I get it, they're doing the, the shimmy, guess where Pakistan got its design for the missile, they test fired this week, hands, no hands, you can't answer, you gotta go back to Denmark, stand trial, no the answer is North Korea, in a while, our friends, the Pakistani

get their missiles from our enemies, the North Koreans, and our friends, the Pakistani sell nuclear plans to our enemies, the North Koreans, talk about complicated, it's more complicated than fighting in Iraq, missile has been test fired many times, must be getting tired, thank you, President, a Prime Minister, Shaqqut Aziz, watched the launch and congratulated scientists for developing the new version of the missile, Pakistan, he said, believes that peace that comes from a position of strength and operational readiness, Pakistan says the London Times is allowing Taliban fighters who might be wounded in battles with the British or other NATO forces in Afghanistan to trot back across the border to be treated at safe houses, the Sunday Times found Taliban commanders and their fighters recuperating in the city of KETA and moving freely around parts of the city, in a white walled compound in the

northern suburb of Pashtunabad, that's where the Pashtun's live, more than 30 Taliban were recovering from the bloodiest fighting in Afghanistan in five years, they lounged on cushions sipping green tea and sucking it boiled sweets, while laughing at NATO reports that they've sustained heavy casualties, they're sucking it boiled sweets, I'm gonna, Pakistan is not a banana state, says President General Purve, and the allegations that a Pakistani intelligence agency is helping the Taliban and other militants are baseless, that's what Purve, General Purve is Musharraf, said in an interview with a German magazine, focus, like the band love the magazine, Pakistan is not a banana republic, he says, our army is well organized in loyal army personnel constitute the major chunk of the intelligence agency, he said Pakistan push tunes may be supporting the Taliban, but such allegations against Pakistani intelligence were baseless and incorrect, and finally on the subject of our friends

the Pakistanis, the legislative assembly of Pakistan's northwest frontier province, I believe one of the provinces that abuts Afghanistan, this Friday passed a resolution demanding that the Pakistani government free the father of the Pakistani abom, Dr. A.Q. Khan, because he's ailing, and he's in house arrest, and he'd like to get physicians of his own choice. This is the guy, ladies and gentlemen, who sold nuclear know-how, plans, fixings to the North Koreans, the Lebanese, the Libyans, and the Iranians, and his punishment is that he can't choose his own doctor, just as it's tough in Afghanistan, isn't it? The Islamist dominated assembly made the demand as Khan completed 1,000 days in house arrest.

That is so grim, I hope he doesn't have cable, Khan is considered a national hero in Pakistan for giving Pakistan nuclear weapon capability, and spring this year the government announced he was suffering from prostate cancer and arranged surgical removal under its supervision. You like that government medicine, huh? He was returned to his confinement in Islamabad after recuperation in Karachi, but his health has been worrying his family, which is not all that to live with him. Now we don't know if he likes that or not, but that's the way it is, in our friend Pakistan, ladies and gentlemen, ad agency executives are leery if not outraged about Fox's highly controversial November sweep special OJ Simpson, if I did it, here's how it happened, scheduled to air on the Fox network.

I'm so proud to be a part of that family at the end of the month. I can't think of a client that would go near this, says I, a burger media director at the Richards group in Dallas. I can't see any package goods advertisers buying this. If you're looking for backlash, this would be the super bowl of backlash. It's going to pull up Fox ratings and create buzz, says burger, Fox needed to do something in the fourth quarter. They were virtually invisible. They would not only have problems with advertisers that could be an issue with Fox affiliates that might not want to take the show, says the vice president of corporate research for horizon media. It's the lowest form of hype, says Gary Carr, senior vice president of national broadcasting for target cast. It's an embarrassment to our business. I can't imagine anyone in their right mind buying it to this. I'm ashamed for Fox for doing this after the network gained respectability in recent years. Some speculate the network is just testing the advertising waters and will announce a few

days before airing that it's a commercial free event. Of course, then it won't qualify for the ratings the way I understand the whole deal, but what do I know? More on this story, moments from now here in Lucho. It's the high of the Tiger, the thrill of the fight, a rising up to the challenge of arrival. And the last known survival, stocks is free in the night, and he's watching us all with the high love, the Tiger, the Tiger.

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arrival. And the last known survival, stocks is free in the night, and he's watching us all with the high love, the Tiger, the thrill of the fight, a rising up to the challenge of the fight, a rising up to the challenge of arrival, stocks is free in the night, and he's

watching us all with the high love, the Tiger, the thrill of the fight, a rising up to the challenge of arrival, stocks is free in the night, and he's watching us all with the high love, the Tiger, the thrill of the fight, a rising up to the challenge of the fight, a rising up to the challenge of arrival, stocks is free in the night, and two things that prevent authors from telling the whole unvarnished truth. The kind of

truth readers would be willing to pay $30 a copy for. Those two forces- Oh, I was afraid you weren't going to get to them. A lawyer and ego. There are legal reasons that certain books just haven't even been written until now and of course the human ego often stands in the way of admitting something historic or sexy. So there was a whole world of books that either never existed at all or existed in such a tame, watered-down form that they went straight from the printing plant to the remainder bin. Without even passing Amazon. Those are the books that subjunctive press is going to publish because the hypothetical memoir employs the magic word that silence is both the attorneys and the ego. And the word is, if- You've read the press release. It's written with a dry enthusiasm. Thank you. I think your first book is emblematic of just how promising the new genre might be if I cared about world domination by Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch has never written a conventional

memoir. Of course not because he's still in the arena and what Mr. Murdoch would call the self-appointed empires and referees would be the first people lining up to buy a conventional memoir in the hope of finding a smoking gun or two. And yet, in if I cared about world domination, Mr. Murdoch outlines a sly and ruthless formula for ensnaring media enterprises and politicians like, doesn't he? It's almost like the smoking gun without the smoke. That's right. In chapter seven, one of my favorites by now. He gives a step-by-step scenario of how, if he had wanted to, he would have staked out a conservative ideological position, personally, while making favorable business deals with everyone from British left-wingers to Chinese communists all in the pursuit of media domination and every segment of the globe. I mean, what if somebody had ever tried to do that? This would be the game plan.

He also speculates, I guess he'd say, on the way he would have horn swaddled a succession of investors into giving him billions of dollars while he would have retained operational control of all these companies. Yes, you can read it as a hypothetical business book, as well as a hypothetical character study. Well, it might be fair to say you could read it as anything except a hypothetical good book. At night. Dude, I know Mr. Murdoch couldn't be here with us today or any day, but could you give us a little bit of the flavor of, if I cared about world domination? Well, I don't read that well without my glasses, I ran too faint to wear them on the radio, but I did bring along a short excerpt from the audio book edition if you'd like to hear it. No, I think that would be a first for our program. It's a little scary, but did Mr. Murdoch do the audio book? No, it's read by O.J. Simpson. The famous celebrity, that's right. This is from the last chapter about how Mr. Murdoch might have handled his most recent controversy, if he'd had one.

From if I cared about world domination by Robert Murdoch? The thought would have occurred to me. Why would not put this titillating borderline offensive program on my broadcast network while encouraging my cable news network to denounce it? That way, if I'd wanted to, I could have corralled both the audience for the program and the audience repelled by the very idea of it. As with the political alliances I could have made, each side would think I stood for some principle while I would be trying to keep a straight face all the way to the bank. O.J. Simpson reading from the Rupert Murdoch hypothetical memoir, if I cared about world domination. Great presence on Mr. Simpson's voice. What was that? The U87? I'm sure it was. We're going for quality here. Judith, you've just announced a wave of signings for future hypothetical memoirs haven't you. A couple of really big ones, Ira, if I screwed up big time by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and if I mailed anything that moved by former President Bill Clinton.

Well, the Atlanta ones a bit on the titillating side. Well, I certainly hope so. We didn't sign him in the hope of getting the hypothetical scoop on welfare reform. Will O.J. Simpson be reading their audiobooks as well? I tend to doubt it. I think if we didn't get the office themselves for some reason, we might want to go for a Charlie Rose. Oh, good choice. And good luck, Judith McGagan, with your entire list of books from some junky press. The first one should be in bookstores in Time for the Holidays. If we published it, yes. Thanks for joining us today in The Book Bank. We had help today from the pulp institute. Without us, you'd be reading on bark. Next week, another enlightening conversation about the world between the table of contents and the index. Until then, I'm a Rezipkin, climbing out of the book bag. This is CPR, Continental Public Radio.

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Cinema transcendent, in the other of the Urbans, And now it is in German, it's time for the apologies of the week. Oh, so sorry. A former Texas A&M university student has publicly apologized for his role in making a video showing the degradation of a white student in blackface. Again, a identified ex student apologized to the school and to blacks. A 3.5 minute video was made two years ago and raised protest when it surfaced last week in it a white student using a belt as a whip and monishes and whips another white student in blackface makeup.

The president of Texas A&M issued a statement saying that three students involved admitted responsibility and that they withdrew from the institution. I am truly outraged by this moronic video, said the president of Texas A&M. Those who made it are not true Aggies. Unquote, the president of Texas A&M, who happens to be the new incoming defense secretary Robert Gates. He may not know much about the war, but he knows a true Aggie. The Arizona Cardinals have apologized for a sound system glitch that marked a tribute to Pat Tillman who left the NFL team to join the Army Rangers and died in friendly fire in Afghanistan two years ago. Fans stood during half time. As Tillman's name was added to the team's ring of honor a video montage on the stadium's giant screens was shown. The former teammates talked about his spirit. Fans did not hear a word until the last segment. The Cardinals posted an official apology on the team's website. Our intent was to provide a very special tribute to Pat and in the end we did not do that. We regret that very much, they said.

They suspected Islamic militant, told judges in Jakarta Indonesia he took part in the beheadings of three Christian girls on an Indonesian island racked by religious violence to avenge the deaths of Muslims. And then he apologized to the families. We are not cold-blooded killers. That's a good excuse really. We just wanted revenge. Hollywood star Brad Pitt is apologized to Mumbai police. That's the former Bombay. After a scuffle but no, Brad Pitt isn't the former Bombay. Mumbai is. After a scuffle between his partner Angelina Jolie's bodyguards, Bollygards in India of course, and parents at a school, three of Jolie's bodyguards were arrested and later freed on bail after parents at the school filed a formal complaint with police. Jolie is in India filming a movie about US journalist Daniel Pearl's abduction and murder by Islamic militants in Pakistan. India is standing in for Pakistan.

This means war. I am sorry for whatever has happened and for any inconvenience caused to the sentiments of people we love children would not do anything to harm them, Mumbai police chief, and Roy quoted Pitt as saying to him. Denmark apologized to Turkish economic minister Ali Babakhan. It was stopped at the Copenhagen airport for a body search. The apology was for showing diplomatic impoliteness. The crisis stemmed from the Danish police's attempt to search Babakhan at the airport and Danish ambassador to Ankara Kim Jorgensen apologized. I like the name. Ali Babakhan. A US marine is publicly apologized to the family of an unarmed man who was shot to death by US troops in Iraq. Private John Judkuz, one of eight servicemen, implicated in the attack several months ago in Haddad, Hamdanya. He's a camp Pendleton where he'd be sentenced. He's made a plea agreement with prosecutors and is likely to receive a light sentence. He apologized to the family of the Iraqi man who died.

It's alleged that the eight-man team looked, was looking for a suspected insurgent where they failed to find him. The men became frustrated and dragged a disabled grandfather from his home, bound him and beat him and then shot him to death. Another apology was heard. In the same case, Lance Corporal Tyler Jackson was sentenced to 21 months in custody and a general discharge. I would like to apologize to the family. He said, I would like to apologize to the Marine Corps, peers, friends, and family. I apologize for any wrongdoing. I have done. At this point, it seems almost beside the point to say this, I'm quoting the New Republic deeply regrets its early support for the Iraq War. There's no apology you can take to the bank. The apology to the weak latest gentleman, a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Ladies and gentlemen, that's going to conclude this week's edition of the show.

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