Sep 05 2008
Analysing McCain’s Acceptance Speech As Protesters are Arrested
As day four of the Republican National Convention wrapped up in St. Paul, Minnesota, last night John McCain topped the 4 day event with a speech that may say was uninspired, especially in comparison to his running mate the previous day. While he addressed the delegates, outside the convention hall, hundreds of riot police confronted protestors with snipers, grenades, and rubber bullets, on the streets of St. Paul. Between 200 and 500 people are thought to have been arrested – most charged with “unlawful assembly.” Uprising host, Sonali Kolhatkar was at the Xcel Energy Center, with Pacifica Radio, broadcasting from radio row. Sonali and her co-host Mitch Jeserich spoke with FSRN’s Aura Bogado who was on the streets monitoring the police actions. They also spoke with Democracy Now producer Sharif Abdel Kuddous, who was arrested for the second time this week. Following that Sonali and Mitch analysed McCain’s speech with guests Rick Perlstein author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, and Antonia Juhasz, author of “The Tyranny of Oil: The World’s Most Powerful Industry, and What We Must Do To Stop It.”
GUESTS: Rick Perlstein author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, and Antonia Juhasz, author of “The Tyranny of Oil: The World’s Most Powerful Industry, and What We Must Do To Stop It.”
One Response to “Analysing McCain’s Acceptance Speech As Protesters are Arrested”
[…] In the course of a week, as poll data is starting to show, Gov. Palin, simply by being herself, has come quite a way toward reassembling the “New American Majority” that Kevin Phillips wrote about so many years ago, long before his career settled down into churning out one anti-Bush book per year and making the rounds of left-wing internet talkshows. Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson has started to realize which way the wind is blowing, and Paul Krugman at the New York Times, discussing the shift in the electoral temper, invokes Rick Perlstein’s Franklins/Orthogonians dichotomy from Nixonland. (Perlstein, meanwhile, discusses this week’s events here.) […]