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Seeing Octoviginuple: Pilot #28 is Here

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Seeing Quintuple: Senator Hillary Clinton appeared on all five Sunday talk shows yesterday, including Meet the Press, as seen above.

Radio shows grow up so fast these days. It seems like one day you're doing five minute segments and the next day, a two hour show is the norm. And that next day is today.

Before we get into today's show, we want to welcome the BPP's new Web Producer, Laura Conaway. (She taught me how to make that cool gray line up there below the photo caption.) She'll be contributing blog posts very soon, which will free me up a bit to man the BPP distillery, where we refine your world into single malt news. Anywho, today's show goes a little something like this...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in New York. (In case you still haven't settled that bet you made with your friend at the bar Saturday night, it's pronounced "ah-mah-DEEN-eh-jahd." I called someone in Tehran yesterday to make sure.) As you probably know by now, the man's visit is causing quite a stir. Today we'll talk to NPR's own Robert Smith, who's on his way to the Columbia campus to cover protests there, and we'll get the bigger picture with USA Today's Barbara Slavin, author of a forthcoming book on Iran. She was the first US newspaper reporter to interview Ahmadinejad and has some interesting insights on him.

Hillary Clinton appeared on all five Sunday talk shows yesterday. We'll distill her 90-plus minutes of face time into three minutes of highlights. You'll laugh. She did.

We'll report on the closing of the last horse slaughter plant in the US, and the demise of the hyphen. Plus, Newt's presidential aspirations and the latest installment of Make Me Care. Today we'll have a reporter from Cnet try to make Luke and Alison care about the release of Halo 3. And Luke will offer an obituary for Seattle radio host Walt Crowley, who he featured in February on Day to Day.

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9:33 AM ET | 09-24-2007 | permalink

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So is there any word yet on which stations are picking up the BPP next week?

Sent by Stewart | 1:30 PM ET | 09-24-2007

I'm in Dallas on vacation this week. Hopefully, I can listen to the pilots as I relax...

Sent by Steve Petersen | 2:12 PM ET | 09-24-2007

Hyphens are the ba-bomb.

It's hilarious and sad how many people say his name Ahk-med-deen-eh-jahd. Ahkmed being a "standard" generic name for middle easterners when people want to make a joke/slur about middle easterners. I could be off on this but the purposely butchering of his name was so common place on right wing "media" that the mispronunciation became picked up by others.

Will an American official be allowed to speak uncensored at an Iranian college? No way, unless she or he wanted to get kidnapped for a year-and-a-half, and/or be publically executed.

Aside from his politics and war crimes, he's had such a track record of bull-sh**ing. He doesn't seem to understand much about the world, or factual knowledge. Being such a liar, there is no educational value of having him speak.

If there was a long counter speech explaining to him why hes an idiot for denying the holocaust and etc, then that would be a different issue. He should only be allowed to talk if it's used as a chance to humiliate that Toad.

Similarly the same goes for having Rumsfeld at Stanford; it's a waste of time to have someone who has a hard time with reality speak in front of an audience trying to get educated on world affairs.

Schools should be schools, not political podiums.

Sent by Joe | 2:14 PM ET | 09-24-2007

I wish I had a nickel for every different way I've heard Ahmadinejad's name pronounced. I once heard an Iranian man say his name as Ah-MEH-dee-nih-jad, with the accent on the second syllable. I asked him about it and said I'd often heard it with the accent on the third syllable, and he said that Iranians say it differently because local accents vary.

Sent by andy carvin | 2:56 PM ET | 09-24-2007

ah..my dinner jah(ket)...that's how i remember it...and i have to say while i agree with the emotional statements of joe, i have a very hard time convincing myself that we should mimic the actions of those we are so appalled by...if we lose who we are as a free,democratic people we may only find ourselves left with constantly thinking about how to be more vindicative, actively seeking retribution in each appropriate moment
and ultimately, i would shutter to feel that we had become just as narrow minded and hateful as whoever we oppose...in fact, history may have already shown us that WWII was the last time we could successfully use such an agressive strategy...

Sent by jay | 4:57 PM ET | 09-24-2007

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