It’s been a week of arresting confrontations and odd run-ins. In Baghdad, the Iraqi government wants Blackwater’s burly security men out. In Jena, Louisiana, thousands marched charging racial injustice after nooses and a beating.
Alan Greenspan disses George Bush on spending and taxes. A major Democratic campaign contributor confesses fraud. Israel’s airstrike on Syria is said to have had a North Korean nuclear connection.
Sally Field gets censored at the Emmy’s. A Florida student gets tasered in front of John Kerry. OJ Simpson’s booked in Vegas, and not to sing.
Up next, On Point: our weekly roundtable goes behind the headlines.
-Tom Ashbrook
Guests:
Linda Douglass, contributing editor, National Journal.
William McKenzie, editorial columnist, Dallas Morning News.
Jack Beatty, On Point news analyst and senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly.
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