BLAST THE RIGHT! 3/16

3:00 pm
11:00 am Saturday

85 - War On Terrorism Truths: More Of BTR's Interview With Bush-Bashing Conservative Scholar / Email: A Listener Starts Converting A Right-Winger!

Bruce Fein, a conservative scholar who's none too happy with George Bush, makes these three points in the concluding part of our interview:

1. the threat level from terrorism is not insignificant, but nowhere near the threat levels we faced in WWII or the Cold War;

2. civil liberties violations are clearly not justified by any such honest evaluation of the threat level; and

3. the civil liberties violations by the Bush administration, along with the Iraq War, have made us less, not more safe, because these violations and the war have expanded the pool of potential terrorists.
In our email segment, a listener relates how a right-winger at work is beginning to see the light, at least in part from being repeatedly exposed to Blast The Right!

(PS: Right-wingers, if you want to write in to me, fine, but at least do me the courtesy of listening to the podcast first. Please don't respond just on the basis of the brief preview above. Thanks!)