Produced by:
KBOO
Program::
Air date:
Mon, 11/24/2008 - 9:00am to 10:00am
A program of social and political commentary from a socialist-feminist point of view.
On the Old Mole Variety Hour, film theorist Robert Samuels talks with Jan Haaken about the politics of comedy and irony in entertainment, as for example in Madagascar 2, Tropic Thunder, Religulous, and W. Bill Resnick and Economist Arthur McEwan discuss the spiraling economic crisis. And Clayton Morgareidge looks at the situation in Afghanistan in light of President-elect Obama’s policy to ramp up the war there.