Interview with Lee Papa of RudePundit.blogspot.com

(Note: This is another one of those interviews I did when I was still experimenting with the shows theme and style, and before I knew I could archive with Odeo. It was originally recorded in June of 2006 and is a bit more partisan than the current version of the show. I also noticed that I spoke a lot more than I should.)

Today I'll be interviewing Lee Papa: A writer, professor and performer who authors the popular blog RudePundit.blogspot.com. His two year old blog gets tens of thousands of readers each week from all over the world.

The New York Times calls Papa: "A tornado of a writer" and "a child of Lenny Bruce, Richard Prior and Hunter S. Thomson."

Lee's style does not pull punches. He is famous for strong language and graphic depictions of what he thinks Republican ideology is doing to the American working class. At the same time, RudePundit.blogspot is well written and thought out - a feature that many rant-only blogs don't necessarily have.

Today we are going to talk about the RudePundit.blogspot, and how to write the way people talk about politics amongst themselves.

We also discuss Papa's CD The Year of Living Rudely, some of the history of citizen journalism and the labor movement why it's important to occasionally "preach to the choir".

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Disclaimer: Lee Papa is not paying me anything to post a link to his CD in the side-bar of this blog. I gave him the space because he was the first "A lister" to to agree to an interview for this show.

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