Controversial Politics

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Journalist Dennis King criticizes Mayor Bloomberg’s acceptance of the Independence Party’s endorsement. Mr. King desribes the party as a political cult, headed by Lenora Fulani and founded by her guru, Fred Newman. The group recently stirred up controversy when Ms. Fulani maintained that the comment she made ten years ago about Jews being “mass murderers of people of color,” was not anti-Semitic.

Music: Soundtrack to The Fog of War, music by Philip Glass: “Revolution in the Pentagon” / “100,000 People”

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