American Afternoon with Marc Maron – Friday May 9th 2008.

We want to thank Marc for filling out the guest host seat this week and doing an awesome job. Marc will end this great week with a few guests today. Joining him in HOUR ONE will be journalists Mike Boettcher & Ken Robinson . Mike Boettcher is an award winning journalist and a war correspondent who has appeared on NBC’s Nightly News, Hardball with Chris Matthews and CNN’s “Newsstand”. Ken Robinson is Creator, Writer, and Co-Executive Producer of a Jerry Bruckheimer Warner Brothers Television, and NBC series entitled E-Ring, based on his experiences in Special Operations and the Global War on Terrorism. Additionally, he is Executive Producing and Writing a feature film with Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney. He served a twenty-year career in a variety of tactical, operational, and strategic assignments including Ranger, Special Forces, and clandestine special operations units. His experience includes service with the National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency
Marc’s guest in HOUR TWO will be Chris Hedges. Hedges is a journalist and author, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and society. Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, where he spent fifteen years.
Hedges was part of The New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.
Plus, Marc will be taking your calls at 1-866-303-2270(zero). Topics will include the elections, high gas prices and price gouging and the war in Iraq.
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- May 9, 2008








Maron and Hillary comments
I like Marc Maron but I don't like how he and the other media elites have decided to annoint Obama as our candidate. Hillary's "fat ass"???? Who are you to make personal attacks on candidates? And why no personal comments about Obama or McCain's physical traits? Why just her?
If you want to fight; fight with facts. Air America is part of the plan to steer this election. They need to get back to their real mission and stop the insults on Hillary.
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By therealtoniMay 10, 2008 - 7:45am