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Summary: Our guests include author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Executive Director of the ACLU of Tennessee Hedy Weinberg, and Media Matters for America Research Fellow Elbert Ventura.

Part 1 – Who Did Your Voting Machines Vote For? Intro, news items, and a to do list that includes one item: help stop the delay of the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act. Plus a recap of the TNDP summit, Arlen Spector jumps off a sinking ship, Sarah Palin’s hypocrisy, and food that speaks.
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Part 2 – Interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin Doris Kearns Goodwin is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of, among other works, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. On Thursday, May 7th, she will receive the Nichols-Chancellor’s Medal from Vanderbilt University, where she will also give the Senior Day address. After she gives us a preview of her speech, we talk about her son’s service to our country, baseball, her appearances on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, war, andher advice for budding historians in the Information Age. [20.3 MB 17:41 download MP3]

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Part 3- Legislative Update with the ACLU’s Hedy Weinberg Hedy joins us to run down the important work the ACLU is doing to fight back against legislation that threatens the reproductive health of women in Tennessee, immigrants, and members of the GLBT community. She also tells us about the hope they have to help pass Rep. Jeanne Richardson’s (D-Memphis, the Fightin’ 89th!) bill to add gender identity to Tennessee’s Hate Crimes Law. [9.4MB 08:12 download MP3]

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Part 4- Media Matters for America Smackdown and More. Media Matter Research Fellow Elbert Ventura joins us to explain how certain conservative media personalities are baselessly blaming Mexican immigrants for spreading swine flu across the border. [9.4MB 08:12 download MP3]

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