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On The Randi Rhodes Show Yesterday

Randi R: Ron in Connecticut.
Ron S: Hi Randi!
RR: Hello.
RS: Brava! Brava for you for what you said . . . But I think that we’re forgetting, as part of media reform, campaign advertising finance reform.
RR: It is the most important thing that faces Americans today and yet people don’t realize. Campaign finance reform that was sorta kinda broached by [John] McCain and Russ Feingold, but left so many loopholes in it, so that so much money is still pouring in from corporations to, y’know, campaigns. It's the biggest thing that's wrong with America today. It’s allowing for corporatism which leads to fascism – especially in this atmosphere of nationalistic fervor.
RS: The worst thing, other than Bush that is. These are the priorities I figure. First we need to impeach Bush . . .
RR: It allows Bush – if it wasn’t for all this money – I’m sorry, I didn’t realize you were speaking. Go ahead.
RS: Number one, impeach him. Number two, stop the war. Number three, media reform. Number four, campaign finance reform.
RR: Well, you can’t do any of the first three without doing media reform. People have got to know that their president is a crook. People have got to know the president is a liar. People have got to know that their vice president lied to them about mushroom clouds, nuclear issues, issues of weapons of mass destruction, weapons that could have killed our soldiers the second they set foot inside that belt around Baghdad, things that were so horrific that should not have ever been invoked after 9/11, which was real. It did happen. Now we should have been investigating how this could happen and where was Norad, and what was the air traffic controllers saying to these airplanes, where are these tapes? Oh they learned their lesson from Watergate: destroy everything.
RS: What does the Osama clock say today?
RR: Oh, Osama clock! Yeah, it’s really pretty scary, and now we find information that the Bush administration bugged the National Security Council. If they would have bugged Al-Quaeda, maybe we could’ve gotten Osama bin Laden by now.
RS: By now, yes. Hey, can you use a 47-year-old intern?
RR: Of course.
RS: Okay!
RR: For what though, is my business. [both chuckle flirtatiously] Thank you.
RS: Thank you.

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Ron Jackson Suresha is an editor, anthologist, and writer. He is considered an authority on emergent queer masculinities, in particular the subcultures of gay and bi male Bears and of male bisexuality. For Ron's service to the bear community, he was named "Bear of the Year" 2008. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Suresha attended the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, 1976-8), where he studied creative writing, and Vista College (Berkeley, Cal., 1989-92), where he studied American Sign Language. For more than two decades, he has worked as a freelance proofreader for trade book publishers such as Shambhala Publications. He was married in October 2004 to Rocco Russo. He is also a licensed Justice of the Peace in Connecticut, an ordained minister, ULC, and a member of the New London Green Party. Nonfiction works include Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions; Bi Men: Coming Out (coeditor, with Pete Chvany); Bisexual Perspectives on the Life and Work of Alfred C. Kinsey (editor). His latest book is The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin: Stories, jests, and donkey tales of the beloved Persian folk hero, published by Lethe Press.