screenshot of video of confrontation between carl paladino and fred dicker

Are Politicians' Private Lives Off Limits?

Digesting Politics Podcast | Sep 30, 2010

WNYC's Brian Lehrer, Andrea Bernstein and Bob Hennelly discuss the widely shared video of gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino's confrontation with New York Post's Fred Dicker, the persistent challenge to reinvigorate the upstate economy, the pension fraud case of Alan Hevesi, and more.

Are Politicians' Private Lives Off Limits?

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