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Background Briefing has a new home at BackgroundBriefing.org.
Please visit and bookmark the new site. You can search show archives here.
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| As Tuesday’s election looms, we begin with an overview of voting in America with a nationally recognized expert in election law and campaign finance regulation. Richard Hasen, the author of “The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown” joins us to discuss fraudulent charges of voter fraud on the right, and voting machine conspiracy theories on the left, that together have diminished confidence Americans have in the integrity of voting. |
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Then we speak with one of the world’s leading analysts of popular culture, media and their connection to everyday life. Joining us is Toby Miller, a professor at the City University of London where he has an article at their website, “The Race for the White House 2012: The New American Dream”. We discuss the irony that wealth-producing and knowledge-generating centers in the Blue States of the country like New York and California that vote Democrat, subsidize Republican right-wing welfare in socialist Red States who vote Republican. |
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Then finally, we examine how much Mitt Romney has got away with in the election due to our pathetic press and the feckless Democrats who have not forced him to reveal his taxes and list of bundlers. We discuss another aspect of Mitt Romney that has also been off-limits, his role as a member of Mormon “royalty” and his connection to the vast finances generated by tithing that the secretive hierarchy of the Mormon Prophet and his Disciples have at their disposal. Kay Burningham, the author of “An American Fraud: One Lawyer’s Case against Mormonism” joins us. |
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| MUSIC: Leonard Cohen - Democracy; Xavier Rudd - 4th World; My Morning Jacket - The Day is Coming; The Book of Mormon - I Believe |
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