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Connie On...
 2004 Audio Commentaries
- Top 10 Gifts for Departing Cabinet Members
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | December 14, 2004
Connie Rice, who normally skips the Christmas frenzy, was unexpectedly moved by a tremendous sense of relief to find gifts for imminently departing members of President Bush's cabinet. So just in time for the “10 Days of Christmas,” The Top 10 Christmas Gifts for Departing Cabinet Members.
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- Top 10 Election Myths to Get Rid Of
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | November 16, 2004
Two weeks post-election, Democrats and voters for Sen. John Kerry are trying to determine what happened, and why. Rumors are the rule of the day and clarity is hard to come by. Connie Rice says the first step is to dispel some myths, size up the real danger and end the despair.
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- Top 10 Outrages of the 2004 Corporate Tax Bill
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | October 20, 2004
The Bush administration and other legislators are eagerly touting the passage of a 633-page tax bill called the “American Jobs Creation Act of 2004,” but commentator Connie Rice has her own name for this bill—the “Corporate Looting and Piracy Act.” She says there are so many absurd “riders” in the bill that it was hard to pick out only 10 for her latest list.
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- Top 10 Secrets They Don't Want You to Know About the Debates
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | September 29, 2004
After weeks of wrangling, Kerry and Bush will square off for the presidential debates. Both camps have agreed to an elaborate, 32-page contract that spells out everything from the size of the dressing rooms to permitted camera angles. But the controversy over the debates threatens to overshadow the events themselves and Connie Rice says that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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- Top 10 Signs You Might Not Get a Fair Trial at Gitmo
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | September 14, 2004
The U.S. military admitted for the first time last week that one of the prisoners held without charges for more than two years at the base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was never an al Qaeda or Taliban fighter and should be immediately released.
Connie Rice has been monitoring the tribunal, and she's come up with another of her Top 10 lists.
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- Top 10 'Taboo' Things Said about Baghdad
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | August 23, 2004
Over the last 18 months, U.S. military and political leaders have had to deal with a restive population of unemployed young men, looting, a devastated infrastructure and a violent insurgency. Those same military and political officials have said things that strike Connie Rice as curious—and so she has paraphrased them into another top 10 list.
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- Rape Shield Law and the Bryant Case
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | August 9, 2004
As the future of the Kobe Bryant case remains in limbo, Connie Rice talks with NPR's Juan Williams about the impact of the rape shield law.
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- Top 10 Weapons of Mass Distraction
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | July 14, 2004
Connie Rice shares another one of her ever-popular top-10 lists with “Top 10 Weapons of Mass Distraction.”
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- Beating Caught on Tape
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | June 28, 2004
Connie Rice talks about the videotaped beating of a suspected car thief as he was being arrested in Compton. Rice says this case should not be compared to the Rodney King incident and gives several reasons why these two cases are not similar.
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- Patriot Act House-Buying Woes
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | June 16, 2004
Connie Rice discusses how the USA Patriot Act could throw a monkey wrench in the plans of first-time home buyers.
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- Top 10 'Unreality' Shows
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | June 7, 2004
Connie Rice is back with another top-10 list about the top 10 “unreality” shows Hollywood should snap up right now.
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- Soaring Prison Populations
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | June 1, 2004
NPR's Tony Cox talks to Connie Rice about how communities across the United States are being impacted by growing prison populations.
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- 'Brown' Commentators' Roundtable, Day 5
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | May 21, 2004
Connie Rice participates on a commentators' roundtable marking the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. The final round of discussion focuses on the unfinished agenda of Brown.
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- 'Brown' Commentators' Roundtable, Day 4
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | May 20, 2004
Connie Rice participates on a weeklong commentators' roundtable commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Thursday's conversation focuses on the immediate and longer-lasting consequences the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling.
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- 'Brown' Commentators' Roundtable, Day 3
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | May 19, 2004
Connie Rice participate in day three of a week-long commentators' roundtable marking the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. This time, focusing on the impact the Supreme Court ruling had on the classroom itself.
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'Brown' Commentators' Roundtable, Day 2
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | May 18, 2004
Connie Rice participates in the second day of a week-long commentators' roundtable marking the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, and about the landmark ruling's impact in the civil rights movement.
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- 'Brown' Commentators' Roundtable, Day 1
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | May 17, 2004
Connie Rice participates in a weeklong commentators' roundtable discussion about the legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, and discusses the past, present and future implications of the landmark Supreme Court ruling.
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- U.S. Prison Abuse and Iraq
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | May 11, 2004
The Iraqi prison abuse scandal continues to shock the nation. But some say our own prison system is a model for such bad behavior. Connie Rice talks about the connections.
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- Top 10 Ways to Lose War on Terror
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | May 3, 2004
Connie Rice offers up another one of her popular “Top 10” lists—this time, her top 10 ways to lose the war on terror.
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- Subtext of U.S. History
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | April 19, 2004
Connie Rice speaks about what she calls the "screaming subtext in U.S. history" operating in very different ways in the Michael Jackson and Kobe Bryant cases.
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- 10 Things Condi Didn't Say
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | April 13, 2004
Connie Rice shares the top 10 things National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice—her second cousin—didn't tell us in her testimony before the panel investigating the U.S. government's response to terrorism before and after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
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- Iraq, a Year Later
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | March 17, 2004
One year ago, President Bush declared his intention to strip Saddam Hussein's regime of weapons of mass destruction, if the dictator himself did not do so himself. NPR's Tony Cox discusses what's happened since with civil rights attorney Connie Rice.
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- How to Save Straight Marriage
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | March 2, 2004
Connie Rice's other proposed laws or constitutional amendments, inspired by President Bush's proposed amendment outlawing gay marriage.
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- DeLay's Power Grab
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | February 23, 2004
Connie Rice is appalled at House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, saying he and his allies have entrenched themselves in the nation's capital and are shutting down democratic processes, creating a one-party state. Rice talks with NPR's Tavis Smiley about what she calls an unprecedented takeover of Congress.
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- Gay Marriage Rights
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | February 9, 2004
Connie Rice kicks off a series of conversations about civil unions and gay marriage. The series will examine how members of the African-American community are responding to this national debate.
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- Bush's Foreign Policy
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | January 26, 2004
Connie Rice looks at the myths and realities of President Bush's foreign policy, as spelled out in his State of the Union address.
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- Troubled L.A. Hospital
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | January 12, 2004
Connie Rice talks about troubles at Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical Center, the main hospital in the impoverished Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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- Top 10 Signs of Corporate Rule
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | January 5, 2004
Connie Rice asks whether the United States is running a democracy or a “kleptocracy” controlled by a corporate juggernaut. She shares a list of top 10 signs corporations have hijacked our government.
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