How much opposition will there be to the choice of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court? Will Harry Reid become the first Senate majority leader to be defeated since, well, Ernest McFarland (D-AZ) in 1952? And will Joe Sestak really take on Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania?

No idea. But those are among the questions we raised in this week's episode of our "It's All Politics" podcast which, in the wacky world of homonyms, you can hear here:


Credits --
Nonstop talkers: Ron Elving and Ken Rudin
Producer: Evie Stone

Inquiring minds like Alan Miles of Seabeck, Wash., wants to know:

I have a question for you about the "shout-outs" on the podcast: Are they recorded specifically for the program? I'm thinking especially about the fairly recent ones from Alan Simpson and Bernard Goldberg. At first, I thought they were serious comments uttered in another context. Now, I'm wondering whether they are really lifted from another source -- or are recorded tongue-in-cheek specifically for the podcast?

Both were taken from other sources. Simpson's comments about my being a "rascal" were from the previous day's Political Junkie segment on Talk of the Nation. Goldberg's comments about "metrosexuals" and NPR (sheesh) were from a conversation he had with Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly. Here's one difference: Simpson has shown an ability for tongue-in-cheek asides.

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categories: On The Air

11:28 - May 29, 2009

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