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Charlie Rose

The Charlie Rose site announced big changes back in January, and I may have missed the addition of new content during the past month or so.  The new Charlierose.com is loaded with thousands of hours of new and archived interviews.

The efforts that have gone into this unprecedented venture are truly remarkable. For over a […]

Neoliberalism and the City

If you’ve got 90 minutes, listen in (or watch, if you have enough hard drive space) to David Harvey’s keynote lecture:
podcast mp3 (audio), mp4 (video)
Internationally recognized urban geographer and social theorist David Harvey delivers a keynote lecture at the Middlebury College Symposium, “Urban Landscapes: The Politics of Expression.”
from the University Channel
Has anyone found other […]

Tag cloud of Presidential speeches throughout American history

A tag cloud visualization of the most frequently used words in Presidential speeches during approximately the past 200 years.
From BoingBoing

Bush responds to North Korea’s announcement of a successful nuclear test

Video (preceded by an ad)
More from the NYT, BBC, and CNN

Musharraf on the Daily Show

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An-TUDrAflE]
Jon Stewart interviews Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf earlier this week.

Why We Fight - Documentaries

 
A documentary on the American military-industrial complex.  Amazingly, the whole thing is up on google.  It's about an hour and a half long: Why We Fight
Here's the Eisenhower speech referenced in the film.
 
The World War II Frank Capra propaganda films from which the above documentary takes its name: Why We Fight (wikipedia information)
pt. 1 - […]

Georgia peach Lynn Westmoreland

Colbert interviews the 8th district Georgia congressman.
Photo from the Colbert Report filming the Better Know a District segment
from onegoodmove

Bill Bennett on The Daily Show

Video (WMV) from crooksandliars:
Excerpt:
Stewart: So why not encourage gay people to join in in that family arrangement if that is what provides stability to a society?
Bennett: Well I think if gay..gay people are already members of families…
Stewart: What? (almost spitting out his drink)
Bennett: They're sons and they're daughters.
Stewart: So that's where the buck stops, that's […]

Colbert Exclusive Fake Interview with Tom DeLay

Ah, the wonders of editing: video
from onegoodmove 

The Case for Goliath: Michael Mandelbaum discussion

Seen on the Daily Show (video of the interview) a few weeks ago, Mandelbaum heads up a panel discussion on his new book. Link to the site featuring RealAudio of the discussion at Johns Hopkins University
"The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the 21st Century"
Speaker: Michael Mandelbaum, […]

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