Edition #301 Compromise catastrophe soaked in corporate cash Act 1: Baucus stands alone - Wait wait don't tell me! Act 2: Does the GOP care more about property than people? - The Young Turks Act 3: The terrible result of the Baucus compromise - Counterspin Act 4: Bill Clinton on healthcare reform - Daily Show Act 5: Health insurance whistle-blower - Bill Maher Act 6: Rick Sanchez investigates corruption in healthcare debate - CNN Act 7: Candidate Obama on healthcare negotiations - The Young Turks Act 8: Better know a lobby: Healthcare for America NOW - Colbert Report Act 9: GOP fear leads to victim-blame - Ring of Fire Act 10: Sen. Conrad outlines how weak he is - The Young Turks Music: Anthem, Pt 1 - Blink-182 Passing storm - Ottmar Liebert Good - Better Than Ezra I gotta feeling - Black Eyed Peas If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out - Cat Stevens Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) - Pet Shop Boys Sitting, Waiting, Wishing - Jack Johnson Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds We're simple minds - Club 8 Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Vote for us and leave comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes.

Edition #300 Looks back, layoffs, tax cuts and stock drops Act 1: Laying off the robots - Wait wait don't tell me! Act 2: The Lehman shock - Slate.com Act 3: Champagne drained from corporate pool - The Onion Act 4: Consensus On Fixing Financial System Erodes - NPR Act 5: Krugman on the 'return of depression economics - Colbert Report Act 6: Hannity misleads on unemployment numbers - Counterspin Act 7: Discussing Lehman Bros and the economic politics - New Yorker Act 8: 1-year anniversary of Lehman Bros collapse - Daily Show Act 9: Deficits as the bogeyman - Counterspin Act 10: Area coach calls star athlete 'too big to fail' - The Onion Act 11: Bush vs. Clinton Do tax cuts work? - The Young Turks Act 12: Good news / bad news America's recession - Daily Show Music: Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30 [Main Title] - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Never recover - The Cardigans Kyoko's House ("stage blood is not enough") - Philip Glass Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day Bury my with my car - Ben Sollee Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac Save me - Aimee Mann Torn Blue Foam Couch - Grand archives Trouble me - 10,000 maniacs Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games - Of Montreal Keepsake - State Radio Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Vote for us and leave comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes.

Edition #299 Tom Ridge's 'I-didn't-really-mean-it' tour Act 1: Torture reports show Dick Cheney was wrong - The Young Turks Act 2: UK mad at Cheney for preempting their police work - Rachel Maddow Act 3: Debate on prosecuting torture - The Young Turks Act 4: Changing up the terror alert system - Le Show Act 5: Tom Ridge would make same decision about Iraq - Rachel Maddow Act 6: John Dean on Tom Ridge's book and interview - Countdown Act 7: Tom Ridge's 'I-really-didn't-mean-it' tour - Le Show Act 8: Reflection on the Tom Ridge interview - Rachel Maddow Music: God? - The Dodos Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - The Smiths Hi - Psapp Warning sign - Coldplay Thank you - Dido I stand corrected - Vampire Weekend Take a chance - The Magic Numbers Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Vote for us and leave comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes.

Edition #298 In the wake of Obama's healthcare speech Act 1: Details still to be ironed out - Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! Act 2: Bernie Sanders on stopping the filibuster - Rachel Maddow Act 3: Pastor Incites gun-toting Obama protesters - The Young Turks Act 4: Checking some healthcare facts - Counterspin Act 5: Why there's no point in reading bills - On the Media Act 6: More fact-free arguments against healthcare - Rachel Maddow Act 7: Breaking down Obama's speech and the reaction to it - Ring of Fire Act 8: Healthcare lies believed shows poll - The Young Turks Act 9: Fixing healthcare by altering patient behavior - NPR Act 10: Having to explain how a healthcare system works - Counterspin Act 11: Talking about the lack of respect for the office of the President - It's all politics Music: Hands down - Dashboard Confessional Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk Don't look back in anger - Oasis Am I wrong - Love Spit Love The District Sleeps Alone Tonight - The Postal Service The kids don't stand a chance - Vampire Weekend Shout - Tears for fears Make your own kind of music - Cass Elliot We can work it out - Heather Nova End it on this - No Doubt Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Vote for us and leave comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes.

Edition #297 Cheney's tortured facts and logic Act 1: Blackwater's corrupt crusade - Countdown Act 2: Cheney's interview prop with FOX - Le Show Act 3: Planet Cheney - Rachel Maddow Act 4: Reporting on the torture report - On the Media Act 5: Infotainment with a war criminal - Countdown Act 6: Taking apart the FOX Cheney interview Part 1 - The Young Turks Act 7: Is using a minotaur to gore detainees torture? - The Onion Act 8: Taking apart the FOX Cheney interview Part 2 - The Young Turks Music: Modern Crusaders - Enigma Six Underground - Sneaker Pimps Welcome To The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance Pink Moon - Nick Drake Billy - James Blunt Where do I begin? - The Chemical Brothers Crazy Maze - Desree Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Vote for us and leave comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes.

Edition #296 Distasteful discord leaks onto the floor of the house Act 1: Sen. Coburn to weeping woman: Ask you're neighbor - The Young Turks Act 2: Appease the wrong people... - Countdown Act 3: Coverage of the healthcare debate - Counterspin Act 4: GOP confirms they're totally unwilling to be reasonable - Rachel Maddow Act 5: McCan't and McShouldn't - Slate.com Act 6: Conservatives don't use logic in making decisions - The Young Turks Act 7: Prepping for the healthcare speech - Le Show Act 8: "You're a liar!" shouted in joint session of congress - NPR's It's All Politics Act 9: Barbara Boxer on Obama's healthcare speech - Rachel Maddow Music: Live like you're dying - Lenka Middle Man - Jack Johnson Mrs. Robinson - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Golden Brown - The Stranglers Sleeping in - The Postal Service I second that emotion - Diana Ross & The Supremes The waiting - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers One Million Miles - J. Ralph Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Vote for us and leave comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes.

Edition #295 Playing games with the climate and cheating Act 1: Coal industry mail fraud - Rachel Maddow Act 2: 'Astroturf' campaign fights climate bill - NPR Act 3: A look at post-Katrina New Orleans - Le Show Act 4: Surviving the storm: Voices from Katrina - NPR Act 5: Bill McKibben from 350.org - Colbert Report Act 6: News of the warm - Le Show Act 7: Denver's secret - Slate.com Act 8: Jellyfish may help keep planet cool - NPR Act 9: Face-lift: New 'Faces of coal' campaign - Rachel Maddow Music: Buildings and mountains - The Republic Tigers Unforgiven - Apocalyptica Help - Howie Day I will survive - Cake Favorite game - The Cardigans Beds are burning - Midnight Oil Blowing' in the wind - Bob Dylan Into the ocean - Blue October Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Vote for us and leave comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes.

Edition #294 The very long battle continues, now without our General Act 1: Betsy McCaughey pounded by Jon Stewart - Rachel Maddow Act 2: The history of pushing for universal healthcare - On the Media Act 3: The powerful vs. the powerless - The Young Turks Act 4: The Republican death machine - Slate.com Act 5: Jonathan Cohn on healthcare - Colbert Report Act 6: A detailed look at the possible death of the public option - Rachel Maddow Act 7: Kennedy's lasting devotion to heathcare reform - NPR Act 8: The profit of providing bad health insurance - Countdown Music: Mr. Maker - The Kooks See you on the other side - Ozzy Osbourn You could be happy - Snow Patrol Unknown song :-( A million ways - OK Go Any way you want it - Journey Close Your Eyes - Young Love Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Vote for us and leave comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes.

Edition #293 For-profit journalism at some of it's worst Act 1: So you think you can douche - Daily Show Act 2: Fact-imparted miniverse on healthcare - Rachel Maddow Act 3: Poll bearers: cable news polls itself - Daily Show Act 4: Neal Boortz on human debris - The Young Turks Act 5: Fox News: The new liberals - Daily Show Act 6: Raising terror level to raise polling points - Rachel Maddow Act 7: CNN's just sayin' - Daily Show Act 8: Playing politics for terror - Countdown Music: Stand by me - Playing for change Across the universe - Rufus Wainright Crash - The Primitives Sorrow - Bad religion We like to party - The Venga Boys The World Has Turned And Left Me Here - Weezer What's the matter here? - 10,000 Maniacs Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Vote for us and leave comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes.