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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 643: Liberal and Conservative News.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 643. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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This episode is called “Liberal and Conservative News.” It will use a lot of vocabulary that is used in American politics and media to describe two different philosophical views of the way the government should work. Let’s get started.

Bill: Why are you reading that rag?

Rachel: I enjoy reading it. I like its news coverage and its incisive commentaries.

Bill: That’s nothing but a liberal propaganda rag. You can’t believe a thing they print in there.

Rachel: That’s not true. The news stories are objective and unbiased. This magazine isn’t like the newspapers and news websites you read. Those are run by ultraconservative