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Article: Jim Hightower. (populist) (Interview)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- August 1, 1993
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There's a new voice blaring out populist gospel on syndicated radio from coast to coast. It belong former Agriculture Commissioner of Texas, chairman of the Financial Democracy Campaign, founder of the New Populist Forum, the fifty-year-old funniest man in all the American Left. As Molly Ivins say Rogers and Mother Jones had a baby, hightower would be that rambunctious child: mad as hell, with a
For five minutes daily, on forty-six radio stations, Hightower gives out little morsels of political consciousness, story-telling, and Left commentary. And all with a twang as wild and edgy as a cholla cactus.
During the long dark night of the Reagan-Bush period, ...