MONITOR: Lou Dubose & Molly Ivins book on our rights; also musician Hank Woji

[Pokey Anderson]

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April 6, 2008

Today's Guests:
-- Journalist LOU DUBOSE on his book with Molly Ivins on the Bill of Rights

-- Musician HANK WOJI live in the studio, with new music


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<> 6:00 pm CDT -- Headlines

<> 6:20 pm CDT - Journalist LOU DUBOSE on his book with Molly Ivins on the Bill of Rights


Photo by Jana Birchum

LOU DUBOSE is a veteran Texas journalist. Monitor co-host Pokey Anderson will talk with him about the book he co-wrote with Molly Ivins about a subject she was passionate on, the Bill of Rights.

And, because we miss Molly, we'll play a couple of short clips of Molly as well.


Ann Richards and Molly Ivins

Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault Against America's Fundamental Rights is an unblinking look at the dangers to the Constitution, but at the same time is a celebration of the lengths ordinary Americans will go to, to protect their rights under the Constitution.

Lou Dubose is a former Texas Observer editor, and former politics editor of the Austin Chronicle. He has also written books on George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Tom DeLay. Based in Austin, he has written about Texas and national politics for thirty years.

BOOKS by LOU DUBOSE:

Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault Against America's Fundamental Rights (co-written with Molly Ivins)

Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency (co-written with Jake Bernstein)

The Hammer Comes Down: The Nasty, Brutish, and Shortened Political Life of Tom DeLay (co-written with Jan Reid)

Shrub : The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush (co-written with Molly Ivins)
Bushwhacked (co-written with Molly Ivins)

Boy Genius: Karl Rove, The Architect Of George W. Bush's Remarkable Political Triumphs (co-written with Jan Reid and Carl M. Cannon)


<> 6:40 pm CDT -- Musician HANK WOJI live in the studio, with new music


Monitor co-host Mark Bebawi's guest tonight is musician HANK WOJI, live in the studio with us. He takes time out from recording his new album to share with us his new song, "Because We Spend Our Money on the War."

Drawing comparisons to Arlo Guthrie and Cat Stevens, Hank was one of six Texas Regional Songwriters picked for recognition in the 2002 Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Competition. He has received Honorable Mentions in the 2006 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival Songwriting Contest and the 2006 SongDoor International Songwriting Contest and in 2007 was chosen as a Finalist in both the South Florida Folk Festival Singer-Songwriter Competition and the Suwannee Springfest Songwriting Contest
An experienced musician, Hank now lives in Houston after many years playing in the NY/NJ metro area. His music combines elements of Folk, Blues, and Rock with Brasilian, Cuban, African and Indian rhythms.

HANK WOJI'S WEBSITES:
http://www.hankwoji.com
My Space: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=210216542


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ARCHIVES for The Monitor

April 6
-- Journalist LOU DUBOSE on his book with Molly Ivins on the Bill of Rights
-- Musician HANK WOJI live in the studio, with new music

March 30
-- JANINE JACKSON of FAIR, re the media
-- JABBAR MAGRUDER of Iraq Veterans Against the War

March 23
-- WINTER SOLDIER - a brief montage
-- JAMES PAUL on the Iraq War
-- BARACK OBAMA'S speech in full: "A More Perfect Union"

March 16
-- Law Prof. SCOTT HORTON on two fallen Democratic governors, Eliot Spitzer and Don Siegelman

March 9
-- MARK SCHAPIRO exposes who is keeping products safe. Or not.

March 2
-- GREG PALAST on Exxon, the Valdez, and John McCain

February 24
-- WILLIAM HARTUNG on redefining American security; also, examining US military spending

February 17
-- National Lawyers Guild President MARJORIE COHN on our Cowboy Republic

February 10
-- MARJORIE COHN on current Constitutional issues
-- SUSAN PYNCHON and KITTY GARBER on Florida's lost 100,000

[opihimoimoi]

1. K&R'd...we lost 2 great women....(very sad)

"My crotch set off your machine"....to airport supervisor while detained...Ann Richardson

Them 2 were the best.....

A SALUTE :toast:

[Pokey Anderson]

2. There are some consolation prizes for living in Texas!

Ann Richards and Molly Ivins were two of them.

Barbara Jordan was another.

Sissy Farenthold is another.

I was privileged to meet three in person. I got to interview Molly by phone in her last year, another privilege.

Molly was passionate about defending the Bill of Rights, and Lou Dubose tells how she was in her last weeks of life, still hounding him for details on his latest interview of one of their subjects for the book.

[opihimoimoi]

3. If anything, the Bush/GOP smear machine should be indicted and tried for

messin with the 2 True Texas Hero's(Heroines)

The GOP is paying a price for those attacks on Ann....