Patt Morrison for Monday, 11/30/09

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Monday, November 30, 2009

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:06 – 1:30

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1:30 - 1:58:30

Being good without God: Humanists roll-out ad campaign

The American Humanist Association is rolling out its first national holiday ad campaign, promoting awareness about the humanist movement and ethical life philosophy. Starting this week, buses here in Los Angeles might read “No God?...No Problem!” and “Why Believe in a God? Just be Good for Goodness’ Sake.” The campaign started in DC last week, and so far the response has been mostly positive—save for the few hundred emails telling the AHA they’re going to hell. How do you “sell” an idea like that? Patt talks with the AHA and an advertising expert.

 

Guests:

Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association (AHA)

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Tug McTigh, advertising Vice President and creative director at Callahan Creek in Lawrence, Kansas; he’s also co-host of the American Copywriter podcast

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2:06 – 2:30

Ramping up the troops to wind down our 8-year war in Afghanistan

Tomorrow President Obama will announce details of his long-anticipated troop surge and strategy change in Afghanistan and the main theme will be increasing the number of American troops with an eye on an exit strategy.  There are so many contentious issues and parties in the debate over Afghanistan that one needs a score card:  Congressional Democrats are divided on the best way forward while Republicans should support the President’s surge; while Afghans, skeptical of more foreign invaders and their own problematic government, keep a weary eye on developments.  What’s the best way forward, and eventually out of Afghanistan?

 

Guests:

Michael Cohen, senior research fellow at the New America Foundation

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Rep. John Larson, D-Connecticut’s 1^st District; Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus

 

Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-California’s 25^th District; member of the House Armed Services Committee

 

Ali Ahmad Jalali, former Interior Minister of Afghanistan; professor at the Near East South Asia Center of Strategic Studies at the  National Defense University

 

Said Tayeb Jawad, Afghanistan’s Ambassador to the U.S.

 

 

 

2:30 – 2:58:30

Inside the Kingdom:  the struggle for Saudi Arabia

Like most of the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is a country full of contradictions, sometimes violent ones.  Thanks to its massive oil reserves the residents of the Kingdom enjoy modern cities, luxury goods and generally comfortable lives; and yet there is an ancient tribal system and violently conservative religious morals that dominate Saudi Arabian society.  Robert Lacey traces the history and charts the future of Saudi Arabia, the same conflicted country that produced Osama bin Laden and ranks as one of America’s staunchest allies in the Middle East.

 

Guests:

Robert Lacey, author of “Inside the Kingdom:  Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists & the Struggle for Saudi Arabia”

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