omeone at the studio asked me if there was anything that Ralph Nader had not been questioned about during his campaign for the presidency. Frankly there is a great deal to concentrate on that takes us way beyond whether or not the Republicans are financing him in the hope that he'll win away a large number of Democrats. And that is why I am hoping and expecting to be interviewing him within the next couple of weeks. Nader, the master of the controversial, has now taken on the respected ADL (The anti-defamation league). He's involved in quite an ugly exchange with the Jewish organization, since he suggested that President Bush and Congress were "puppets" of the Israeli government. I'd really enjoy probing his logic and reasoning. Mr. Nader your depiction of Israel as the puppeteer controlling the powerful United States Congress and the White House, smacks of bigotry and age-old stereotypes.
I can remember conversations...some heated...with candidate Nader, before the 2000 presidential election. One of the approaches he took then was that there was hardly a difference between the two parties or their candidates. I don't believe I have met a single solitary American who believes that whether it is Bush or Kerry in the office, that they would be at all alike in how they would attempt to run the country.
And Ralph, if it should come to pass that you became the chief executive, what would you hope to achieve in the first 100 days?

Speaking of upcoming interviews ...there re so many planned and promised and one of them will be a conversation with a man famed for biting the land that feeds him; we hope to be having discussion with Gore Vidal from his home on the Adriatic coast of Italy. His current take on our election? Politician, author, playwright, curmudgeon, critic, cynic (almost any descriptive word will do)...has said that we are living in the United States of Amnesia and "for the busy fanatics who rule over us...we are permanently the United States of Amnesia...we learn nothing, because we remember nothing". He views himself as a "noble defender" of the American republic ...Republic with a small "r".

If you've been listening and managed to discover the conversations I've been having throughout the day and night on KNX, you will, I hope, have realized that I'm having a good time at this station.
I've just received a call from "a source" at the Los Angeles Times who told me that there will be a story in tomorrow (Friday, August 20th's) edition of the Times about me...On the other hand one can easily be "bounced" by a typhoon, hurricane, celebrity murder, another "the other Michael Jackson story" ; you know the litany.

And if I could sit down this very evening for conversation with any member of Congress, I'd choose a senior Republican who, in the final days of his House career, has really broken with his party. The man is Rep.Doug Bereuter from Nebraska who is completing 13 terms in office. He claims that the U.S. military's assault on Iraq was unjustified and that the situation now has deteriorated into, "a dangerous, costly mess". I wonder how many others of either party feel that way, but leave the words unspoken.
This gentleman is a senior member of the House International Relations Committee and vice chairman of the House intelligence committee. He said publicly, "I've reached the conclusion, retrospectively,now that the inadequate intelligence and faulty conclusions are being revealed, that all things being considered, it was a mistake to launch that military action". He has gone a step further, adding."Left unresolved for now is whether intelligence was intentionally misconstrued to justify military action". What do you think?