Liberal Talk Radio Takes Off

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Where do you get your daily news?

Well, it's different now, because you can just blog around like a maniac. I read AlterNet, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, and then scan the wires and The Nation and Salon and Progressive. I read you guys. I read Time and Newsweek. It varies, but I will be on media watch for three hours every day.

Do you do that before your show?

I do it at about 6:00 in the morning.

From your house?

I do part of it from my house. I'm very disruptive. I have, like, Shiny Object Syndrome. It's like, "Oh, have you seen this horrible story about the antiabortion protest -- look at your shoes!" So I must be alone. And I bother others as well. So I do most of it at home and then I do my last 45 minutes to an hour here. We talk about the stories that we're actually going to focus on for the show and then whittle it down. Because what's really important about our show is talking about the stories that should be on the front page that are not.

So you're reading a lot of alternative sources.

Yes. And it's so appalling to find out what's alternative. The fact that the government bloated the Medicare bill by 25 to 50 percent and then put it before Congress and didn't tell them-that's on page A20 of The New York Times. Not exactly a human interest story. And then you look at the cover of the New York Post and it's Jennifer Aniston making out with some other Friend.

Do you have time to read books?

The book seems to me like an expensive mattress -- "I wish I could have that. It would be comfortable. It would make me happy." And there are so many I want to read. We have authors on all the time and you skim the book and you talk to them and they make the book sound even better. And you're like, "God damn it, I really am going to read that Bob Woodward book. I'm getting into Bush's brain, really going to read it." And the honest-to-God truth is I just don't have time. Some people are magical and can do everything.

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