3/10/23 Jim Bovard on Waco, 30 Years Later

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Jim Bovard is back on the show to discuss the Federal Government’s siege at Waco thirty years ago. Scott and Bovard reflect on how they both first learned about the story. Bovard then goes through his experience reporting on the government’s evolving PR campaign to avoid blame for committing mass murder in the middle of Texas. Discussed on the show: Bovard articles on Waco, Ruby Ridge, and Gun Rights Waco: The Rules of Engagement (IMDb) Waco: A New Revelation (IMDb) Jim Bovard is a columnist for USA Today and the author of Public Policy Hooligan: Rollicking and Wrangling from Helltown to Washington. Find all of his books and read his work on his website and follow him on Twitter @JimBovard. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
0:19.6	time to end the war in Afghanistan,
0:21.6	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
0:24.8	terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on
0:31.3	foreign policy and all available for you at
0:34.3	Scott Horton.org you can sign up the podcast feed there and the full interview
0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. wrote all those books including lost rights and freedom and chains and the Bush
0:55.1	betrayal and attention deficit democracy and he really is the most accomplished
0:59.5	Libertarian journalist in our history and it's cool too because he does this sort of you know
1:06.7	investigative punditry so that he can stay angry while also reporting new original facts and details and journalism as he does the great Jim Beauvard welcome back to the show sir. How are you?
1:18.5	Hey good. Thanks Scott. Thanks very much for your kind words. What me angry I'm a nice country boy. Yeah there you go well
1:26.7	Listen I guess what happens is I read your articles in my voice and so that's different
1:32.0	Well, you know it's that's different. Well, you know, it's...
1:34.0	That's fine. I mean, I appreciate Yerem and I certainly appreciate all the heck do you, you know,
1:40.0	letting people know about them, so...
1:42.0	Well, hell yeah.
1:44.0	I should have mentioned that you're regular over at the New York Post these days,
1:50.0	but you have been doing this a long time and you know I might have told you this story probably off the air only if I did before Jim but
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