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Transcript: Author: Liberals Should Lament Conservatism's Death
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- August 31, 2009
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MELISSA BLOCK
NPR All Things Considered
08-31-2009
Author: Liberals Should Lament Conservatism's Death
Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time 21:00-22:00 PM
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MELISSA BLOCK, host:
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
And I'm Robert Siegel.
Author Sam Tanenhaus presents us with a paradoxical dilemma. These are conservative times, he writes. So conservative that Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter can cross the aisle, become a Democrat without changing a single position. So conservative that gays demand a right to live by traditional family values - marrying and raising children. And yet, as Tanenhaus sees it, American conservatism has degenerated ...