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Radio America<\/strong> talk show host Roger Hedgecock<\/a> discussed my Wall Street Journal <\/a>piece on USDA’s billion dollar bias payoff\u00a0 <\/strong>last night.<\/p>\n

Hedgecock had doubts about the policy’s prudence.<\/p>\n

Thanks to his producer – Phil McGeehan<\/strong> – for sending me this 3 minute audio clip which you can download or play by clicking on for bovard_part2<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Radio America talk show host Roger Hedgecock discussed my Wall Street Journal piece on USDA’s billion dollar bias payoff\u00a0 last night. Hedgecock had doubts about the policy’s prudence. Thanks to his producer – Phil McGeehan – for sending me this 3 minute audio clip which you can download or play by clicking on for bovard_part2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nWSJ Piece on USDA Bias Payoff discussed on Radio America -Roger Hedgecock - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/22\/wsj-piece-on-usda-bias-payoff-on-radio-america-roger-hedgecock-show\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WSJ Piece on USDA Bias Payoff discussed on Radio America -Roger Hedgecock - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Radio America talk show host Roger Hedgecock discussed my Wall Street Journal piece on USDA’s billion dollar bias payoff\u00a0 last night. 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