Program Information

#241 -- A Bummer of an Election

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Subtitle:

#240 will be uploaded October 19.

Program Type:

Weekly Program

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Contributor:

Kenneth Dowst Contact Contributor

Date Published:

Oct. 4, 2012, 9:23 p.m.

Summary: With Election 2012 we return to lesser-of-two-evils time. Or do we instead denounce the whole charade? For Progressives, Romney is G.W. Bush III--and so is Obama, pretty much. What to do?

We'll read essays on crummy presidential elections by W.E.B. DUBOIS ("Why I Won't Vote," 1956) and CHRIS HEDGES ("How Do You Take Your Poison?" September 2012). We'll hear a funny trailer for a pretend GOP horror movie about Obama. Plus a satiric rant by LEE CAMP and a bit of music by Bruce Cockburn.

Credits: The trailer "2nd Term O2H" was produced by The Final Edition Radio Hour. Lee Camps rant is from his "Moment of Clarity" podcast #162.

"New World Notes" is produced under the auspices (Latin for "long-suffering sighs") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

Notes: For written commentary, photos & other graphics, videos, great links, and an archive of past installments, please see this show's Web site: http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com. Permanent link to the entry for this installment: http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-bummer-of-election.html .

SERIES OVERVIEW -- Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for. "Date recorded," below, = date of first scheduled broadcast

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