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since Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:04:17.
Walt, Mearsheimer Not On Point
by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)
Today's On Point broadcast with Tom Ashbrook discussed America's Cultural Clustering as described in Bill Bishop's "The Big Sort". Ashbook, Bishop, and Atlantic Monthly senior editor Jack Beatty discussed increasing social and political polarization in the USA. They mentioned how little crossover exists on issues between the Republican and Democratic Parties.
I called into the show at 11:40 (20 minutes remaining) and spoke with a call screener almost immediately to propose to ask about the Israel Palestine question, for it should be a lightning rod for political controversy. Yet, there is almost complete consensus between the two parties.
I wanted to ask whether the situation was the result of the Israel Lobby as hypothesized by Professor Mearsheimer and Walt in The Israel Lobby and Foreign Policy or whether some other phenomenon drives consensus against the polarizing dynamic. The screener rejected my question and described it as something far too tangential to discuss so close to the end of the program.
by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)
Today's On Point broadcast with Tom Ashbrook discussed America's Cultural Clustering as described in Bill Bishop's "The Big Sort". Ashbook, Bishop, and Atlantic Monthly senior editor Jack Beatty discussed increasing social and political polarization in the USA. They mentioned how little crossover exists on issues between the Republican and Democratic Parties.
I called into the show at 11:40 (20 minutes remaining) and spoke with a call screener almost immediately to propose to ask about the Israel Palestine question, for it should be a lightning rod for political controversy. Yet, there is almost complete consensus between the two parties.
I wanted to ask whether the situation was the result of the Israel Lobby as hypothesized by Professor Mearsheimer and Walt in The Israel Lobby and Foreign Policy or whether some other phenomenon drives consensus against the polarizing dynamic. The screener rejected my question and described it as something far too tangential to discuss so close to the end of the program.
