The Conventions Are Over… Let the Campaigns Begin
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
America is desperately weak and failing — in need of drastic fixes before it's too late. Or, it's as great as ever — despite serious problems that are amenable to repair. We hear the opening themes of a campaign with Democrats stealing some traditional Republican ideas.
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| 0:00.0 | Podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | Listen to the organist, the culturally omnivorous, intellectually ravenous podcast from the editors of the Believer magazine. |
| 0:10.0 | Part of poetry is learning how to speak. |
| 0:13.5 | Chili Billy. |
| 0:15.7 | I am also a horse. |
| 0:17.4 | I really value my life, even though I know it's debatable whether I'm even really alive. |
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| 0:30.6 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:38.3 | The conventions are over. Let the campaign begin. |
| 0:45.3 | Hello again, I'm on the only, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:48.3 | Between now and November, voters will be inundated with dramatically different visions of America and what it needs. |
| 0:54.2 | The attacks on our police and the terrorism of our cities threaten our very way of life. |
| 1:03.3 | He wants us to fear the future and fear each other. There's enough hyperbole on both sides to keep fact checkers busy, |
| 1:12.3 | but in a polarized nation, facts may matter less than emotions. |
| 1:16.0 | Violent images in both news and entertainment may exaggerate voters' fears. |
| 1:20.3 | We'll hear what's revealed by the early polling. |
| 1:22.9 | Today's talking point, the conventions, the campaigns, and the money. |
| 1:26.9 | First, here's the news. |
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| 1:55.2 | Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund. |
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