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...produced and co-directed with Ellen Spiro, and which airs tonight on the Sundance Channel in honor of Veterans Day, tells the story of Tomas Young, a formerly gung-ho soldier who was paralyzed after less than a week in Iraq. Donahue spoke with TIME about getting kicked off MSNBC, why Iraq war movies are not a draw, and the death of the word "liberal...
...gotten more acceptable to be anti-war on television now? You were famously kicked off of MSNBC for your opposition to the Iraq...
Absolutely. That's obvious. Just look at Keith Olbermann. They are now targeting the audience that I figured I might be able to get. I thought people would watch me because I was different. Silly goose. We turned out to be a big embarrassment to MSNBC. In October 2002, if you were a board member of General Electric, you didn't want a retired, gray-haired talk show host popping off against this war or this president. It wasn't good for business. If you were against the war, you risked being called liberal. And if your cable channel...
Republicans over the past weeks have made it clear they'd welcome Lieberman if he chooses to defect. "Joe Lieberman is certainly going to be a wild card," Senator John Ensign, a Nevada Republican, told MSNBC last week. "And it depends - you know, we welcome Joe. I think Joe's a terrific guy with a lot of integrity and does what he believes...
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