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Repost from October 24th, 2009 

Fill in Incredibly Clever Title About the Media Here

 

Act 1: California Marriage Protection Act PSA 1
Song 1: I was I Was Married – The Con
Act 2: When the time is right – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Right Now – The Best of Van Halen, Vol. 1
Act 3: Jim Fouratt on gay rights – Colbert Report
Song 3: Leader – Burning Spear
Act 4: Obama speaks on DADT – Rachel Maddow
Song 4: What Have I Done to Deserve This? – PopArt: The Hits
Act 5: California Marriage Protection Act PSA 2
Song 5: Ain’t No Reason – So Much More
Act 6: Dan Savage on Obama on DADT – Countdown
Song 6: Don’t Ask Me Why – The Essential Billy Joel
Act 7: The gay after tomorrow – Daily Show
Song 7: Sénégal Fast-Food – Dimanche a Bamako
Act 8: The aftermath of the gay rights rally – Mother Jones
Song 8: Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise – The Avett Brothers
Act 9: Queer and loathing in D.C. – Daily Show
Song 9: Let My Love Open the Door – The Definitive Collection
Act 10: Dan Choi: Don’t Tell, Martha! – The Moth Podcast

 

Sources:
Rachel Maddow
Colbert Report
Countdown
The Daily Show
Mother Jones
The Moth

 

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Repost from June 15th, 2006 

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Act 1: The Gay Reformation – The Majority Report
Song 1: I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) – Sunshine On Leith
Act 2: Oreilly’s Worst Lie? – Keith Olbermann
Song 2: Generic patriotic music
Act 3: Warning to Democrats – CounterSpin
Song 3: Peace of Mind – Popular Music That Will Live Forever – EP
Act 4: Ann Coulter on Today – The Young Turks
Song 4: Solsbury Hill – Vanilla Sky (Music from the Motion Picture)
Act 5: Media Monopoly – Ring Of Fire
Song 5: The Passenger – Lust for Life
Act 6: Judgment Day – Kieth Olbermann
Song 6: New Slang – Garden State (Music from the Motion Picture)
Act 7: Rita Cosby and the bikini strangler Part 1 – Young Turks
Song 7: Generic bumper music
Act 8: Insert chapter title here – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 8: Let Go – Details
Act 9: Rita Cosby and the bikini strangler Part 2 – Young Turks

 

Sources:
The Majority Report
Countdown
Counterspin
The Young Turks
Ring of Fire
Wait wait don’t tell me

 

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Edition #439

The Bad Deal Part 2 - The Politicians Strike Back

 

Act 1: We got screwed – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light – Deja Entendu
Act 2: Sanders speaking to oppose tax cuts – Young Turks
Song 2: You Talk Too Much – Carnival Time – The Best of Ric Records, Vol. 1
Act 3: History made – Countdown
Song 3: Tell me tell me – Burning Spear
Act 4: When opposites attack – Rachel Maddow
Song 4: Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) – Josh Groban
Act 5: Bernie could not be stopped – Citizen Radio
Song 5: The Holidays Are Here (And We’re Still At War) – The Holidays Are Here (And We’re Still At War) – Single
Act 6: David Cay Johnston – Democracy Now!
Song 6: Carol of the Bells – Christmas Celebration
Act 7: Rep. Peter DeFazio leading the charge against – Thom Hartmann
Song 7: Se Quiere, Se Mata – Pies Descalzos
Act 8: Rep. Jim McDermott on Obama giving away the store – Young Turks
Song 8: First Snow (Instrumental) – Christmas Eve and Other Stories
Act 9: Bipartisanshi* – Countdown

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
SuperCuts – Daily Show

 

Sources:
Wait wait don’t tell me
The Young Turks
Countdown
Rachel Maddow
Citizen Radio
Democracy Now!
Thom Hartmann
The Daily Show

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Edition #438

The Bad Deal Part 1

 

Act 1: Democracil – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 1: Take Me Down – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Act 2: Baseless, Obama press conference – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Billionaire – Billionaire
Act 3: Something for everyone – Counterspin
Song 3: M79 – Vampire Weekend
Act 4: Thom talks to WH spokeman on tax compromise – Thom Hartmann
Song 4: Greensleeves – The Most Relaxing Classical Music in the Universe
Act 5: WH adviser on how they negotiate – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 5: Curl Up and Die – The Bird and the Bee Sides
Act 6: Obama is a dangerous joke – Young Turks
Song 6: Santa Baby – Santa Baby – Single
Act 7: CT phone home – Daily Show
Song 7: Standing Still – Standing Still – Single
Act 8: Comment on Obama tax compromise – Countdown
Song 8: Lord’s Bright Blessing – Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol
Act 9: Obama is taken hostage – Le Show
Song 9: Hostage-O – Life’ll Kill Ya
Act 10: Going from power to irrelevance – Rachel Maddow

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
National Displeasure – Daily Show

 

Sources:
Jimmy Dore Show
Rachel Maddow
Counterspin
Thom Hartmann
The Young Turks
The Daily Show
Countdown
Le Show

 

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Edition #437

Misleading and hate mongering

 

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Act 1: The Word – Army of Mum – Colbert Report
Song 1: New Slang – Oh, Inverted World
Act 2: Pro-gay groups desperate for Obama to take action – NPR
Song 2: Ready or Not – The Score
Act 3: If you were in and out you’re in – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 3: Nature of the Experiment – A Lesson In Crime
Act 4: It gets worse PSA – Daily Show
Song 4: The Silent Nutcracker (Instrumental) – Christmas Eve and Other Stories
Act 5: DADT repeal in lame-duck hands – NPR
Song 5: Take A Chance – Take A Chance
Act 6: Pentagon report leaves DADT with no leg to stand on – The Progressive
Song 6: How Soon Is Now? – 200 KM/H in the Wrong Lane
Act 7: DADT green light – Rachel Maddow
Song 7: Christmas / Sarajevo 12/24 (Instrumental) – Christmas Eve and Other Stories
Act 8: Tucker Carlson mocks Arabic translators – Media Matters
Act 9: Dan Savage on DADT – Countdown
Song 9: All These Things That I’ve Done – Hot Fuss
Act 10: McCain moving the goal posts on DADT – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 10: Bizzare Love Triangle – Blue Order: A Trance Tribute to New Order
Act 11: McCain in his quest from Principled Independent to Pandering Asshole – Young Turks
Song 11: The Little Drummer Boy – Number 1′s: Christmas
Act 12: DADT hearings Day 1 – Rachel Maddow

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Gaypocalypse Now – Daily Show

Sources:
Colbert Report
NPR
Wait wait don’t tell me
The Daily Show
The Progressive
Rachel Maddow
Media Matters Minute
Countdown
The Young Turks

 

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Edition #436

Misleading and hate mongering

 

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Act 1: Doubtsourced – Daily Show
Song 1: Something Good Can Work – Tourist History
Act 2: Right wing truth – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Walking In the Air – The Snowman
Act 3: Jimmy talks to Moron about the lame stream media – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 3: Soft Serve – Irresistible Bliss
Act 4: Violent conservative speech – Counterspin
Song 4: Fade to Black – Inquisition Symphony
Act 5: Fox’s Nazi rhetoric – Media Matters
Act 6: Glenn Beck attacks MSNBC – Young Turks
Song 6: Moving to New York – The Wombats – EP
Act 7: Quoted but untrue – Rachel Maddow
Song 7: Something happened – Visitors
Act 8: Comment about commentary in the media – Countdown

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Time Mag Advises Pres More Compromise With Repubs – Young Turks

Sources:
The Daily Show
Rachel Maddow
Jimmy Dore Show
Counterspin
Media Matters Minute
The Young Turks
Countdown

 

 

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Edition #435

People scared clothes-less and world powers exposed

 

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Act 1: Don’t touch my junk – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 1: Submarine Symphonika – Honeysuckle Weeks
Act 2: Memo to Fox – Profiling still wont work – Media Matters
Song 2: Your Racist Friend – Flood
Act 3: Homeland security for sale – Young Turks
Song 3: Holiday Road (Live) – Live At the Bass Performance Hall
Act 4: Tales of airport security – Le Show
Song 4: Touch my junk – Harry Shearer
Act 5: Interview with TSA on enhanced pad down procedure – Majority Report
Song 5: Slide – No Angel
Act 6: Wiki gossip – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 6: A Few Honest Words – Learning to Bend
Act 7: NYT on leaked info about Iran – Counterspin
Song 7: How – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? (The Complete Sessions 1991-1993)
Act 8: Wikileaks lets us know what’s going on – The Progressive
Song 8: Tracked in mud – Cory Davies
Act 9: Jay Rosen on Wikileaks – Citizen Radio
Song 9: Just My Imagination – Stars – The Best of 1992-2002
Act 10: Wikileaks vs. world peace – Counterspin
Song 10: The Peace Carol – A Christmas Together
Act 11: Knowing what’s real from Wikileaks – Common Sense

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Jay Rosen on Wikileaks- “The watchdog press died; we have this instead.”

 

Links:
Daniel Ellsberg’s open letter to Amazon.com
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/12/02/daniel-ellsberg-says-boycott-amazon/print/

Sources:
Jimmy Dore Show
Media Matters Minute
The Young Turks
Le Show
The Majority Report
Wait wait don’t tell me!
Counterspin
The Progressive
Citizen Radio
Common Sense

 

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Edition #434

Managing and mismanaging

 

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Act 1: Poor corporations pay too much tax – Young Turks
Song 1: Revolution – The Beatles 1967–1970 (The Blue Album)
Act 2: The Word – Nothingness – Colbert Report
Song 2: Koto Meditation Music 4 – Chinese and Japanese Koto Harp and Shakuhachi Flute Music
Act 3: High taxes keeps money in businesses – Thom Hartmann
Song 3: Up nights – Amsterband
Act 4: All the devils are here – Daily Show
Song 4: Melody – Kate Earl
Act 5: Give the people what we want – Slate.com
Song 5: Is Love Enough (feat. Gentleman) – Yell Fire!
Act 6: Massive foreclosure fraud by banks – Young Turks
Song 6: Nutcracker: Act 2: Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy – Nutcracker
Act 7: America’s job loss – Beri Fox – Colbert Report
Song 7: Pilot Light (Extended Version) – Pilot Season Soundtrack
Act 8: GOP budget management – Rachel Maddow

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Rich Ask Obama To Raise Their Taxes – MSNBC

Sources:
The Young Turks
Colbert Report
Thom Hartmann
The Daily Show
Slate.com
Rachel Maddow
MSNBC

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Edition #433

The honorable class of 2010

 

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Act 1: Campaign ads might not matter – On the Media
Song 1: It Don’t Matter – Southern Discomfort
Act 2: Too early, too often – Need to Know
Song 2: Faith – Faith
Act 3: Campaign ads might still matter – On the Media
Song 3: Battle For The Beat – Battle For The Beat
Act 4: Mad as Hell – Mark Fiore
Song 4: My Favourite Game – Gran Turismo
Act 5: Adult Spin – Daily Show
Song 5: The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance – Vampire Weekend
Act 6: Midterm Election Update – The Bugle
Song 6: Drowning Men – Reservoir
Act 7: Freshman orientation – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 7: Book of Days – The Very Best of Enya
Act 8: Uncompromise – Mark Fiore
Song 8: Goodbye Blue Sky – The Wall (Remastered)
Act 9: GOP misses Clinton – Daily Show
Song 9: I don’t mind if you forget me – The Smiths
Act 10: Which brand are your crooks? – Young Turks
Song 9: Let’s Work Together – The Very Best of Canned Heat
Act 10: Michael Moore on the administration – Bill Maher

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Faith-Based Vote – Slate.com

Find source links for this episode after the break!

Sources:
On the Media
Need to Know
Mark Fiore
The Daily Show
The Bugle
Wait wait don’t tell me
The Young Turks
Real Time with Bill Maher
Slate.com

 

Produced By:
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Repost from May 8th, 2006 - He may be a failure, but he's our failure

 

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Act 1: David Bender and Rachel discuss – Rachel Maddow Show
Song 1: Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder: The Definitive Collection
Act 2: The Colbert Revolt – Slate.com
Song 2: Another Love Song – Organised for Hi Fi
Act 3: Dissecting the comedy – The Al Franken Show
Song 3: (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher – Jackie Wilson: 20 Greatest Hits
Act 4: 9/11 was on a Tuesday – Young Turks
Song 4: In the Summertime – The Very Best of Mungo Jerry
Act 5: Why journalists didn’t like the routine – Counterspin
Song 5: Jerk It Out – Love for the Streets
Act 6: Rumors of death threats to Colbert – The Majority Report
Song 6: That non-song that has since become the outro music for the show
Act 7: Anniversary of Mission Accomplished – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 7: Circles – El Oso
Act 8: We shouldn’t even be doing this – On the Media

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Unedited video of Colbert’s original speech at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner

 

Sources:
Rachel Maddow
Slate.com
The Al Franken Show
The Young Turks
Counterspin
The Majority Report
Wait wait don’t tell me
On the Media

 

Produced By:
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Edition #432

Giving voice to the powerless

 

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Act 1: East German immigration reform – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Takin’ Retards to the Zoo – Big Lizard In My Back Yard
Act 2: The fence – Ring of Fire
Song 2: Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2 – The Wall (Remastered)
Act 3: California points the way on college costs for immigration – The Progressive
Song 3: Dreams – Stars – The Best of 1992-2002
Act 4: Prison economics help drive Ariz immigration – NPR
Song 4: Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money) – Essential Pet Shop Boys
Act 5: Fallback position, Migrant Worker – Colbert Report
Song 5: Spanish Flea – Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Act 6: Colbert’s immigration testimony – C-SPAN
Song 6: (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? – A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!
Act 7: Fox News on Colbert’s testimony – Young Turks
Song 7: Shady River – Lake Bottom LP
Act 8: Truthiness to power – Daily Show
Song 8: One – Achtung Baby
Act 9: Mr. Colbert goes to Washington – Countdown

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Calif. Upholds In-State Tuition For Illegal Immigrants – NPR

 

Sources:
Wait wait don’t tell me
Ring of Fire
The Progressive
NPR
Colbert Report
C-SPAN
The Young Turks
The Daily Show
Countdown

 

Produced By:
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Edition #431

Confessions of a ghost writer

 

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Act 1: Expanding the war – Rachel Maddow
Song 1: The Chance I Deserve – Spring Came, Rain Fell
Act 2: Do-it-yourself ribbon sticker – The Pinky Show
Song 2: Just for Now – Speak for Yourself
Act 3: Media spins casualties positively – Counterspin
Song 3: Kids – Oracular Spectacular
Act 4: Bush’s highs and lows – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 4: Between Love & Hate – Room On Fire
Act 5: Continued Bush lies on WMD – Rachel Maddow
Song 5: Knock Yourself Out – I Heart Huckabees (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
Act 6: The decider returns – Daily Show
Song 6: Kick Drum Heart – I and Love and You
Act 7: Bush war crimes – Ring of Fire
Song 7: Everybody’s Gone to War – Fires
Act 8: Bush’s book tour and soft journalism – Counterspin
Song 8: Lleva Me El Compas – Gipsy Kings
Act 9: Nab Bush now – The Progressive
Song 9: Holiday In Spain – Films About Ghosts: The Best of Counting Crows
Act 10: Contemptible hypocrisy – Rachel Maddow
Song 10: Middle Man – Loose Change (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Act 11: GOP to block START Treaty – Young Turks

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
McConnell’s war scandal – Rachel Maddow

Sources:
Rachel Maddow
The Pinky Show
Counterspin
Wait wait don’t tell me
The Daily Show
Ring of Fire
The Progressive
The Young Turks

 

Produced By:
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Edition #430

Cuts like a knife

 

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Act 1: Obama greeted in India – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: These Are Days (Live) – MTV Unplugged: 10,000 Maniacs
Act 2: What we don’t make in the U.S. – Thom Hartmann
Song 2: Mr. Maker – Konk
Act 3: Obama in Asia – The Bugle
Song 3: Starring – Weathervanes
Act 4: Obama’s Willy Loman Schtick – Jim Hightower
Song 4: Jack Names the Planet – Angus (Music from the Motion Picture)
Act 5: Let’s go anywhere – The Daily Show
Song 5: Vacation – Go Go’s
Act 6: War over the budget – On the Media
Song 6: Sweet Little Lies – Yell Fire!
Act 7: On the deficit commission – Liberal Oasis Radio
Song 7: Cuts Like a Knife – An Acoustic Tribute to Bryan Adams
Act 8: Obama acts like a Republican on Social Security – The Progressive
Song 8: High Wire – The Best of Men at Work: Contraband
Act 9: Catfood commission drop a new release – Rachel Maddow

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Lonely President’s Guide to Getting Out of the Country – Daily Show

 

Sources:
Wait wait don’t tell me
Thom Hartmann
The Bugle
Jim Hightower
The Daily Show
On the Media
Liberal Oasis Radio
The Progressive
Rachel Maddow

 

Produced By:
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Edition #429

And let us never speak of it again

 

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Act 1: Press fear award – The Rally
Song 1: Zebra – Teen Dream
Act 2: Sanity/Fear protest of the absurd – NPR
Song 2: I’ll Meet You There – Maybe I’m Dreaming
Act 3: At the Rally Part 1 – New Left Media
Song 3: Finding Something to Do – Would It Kill You?
Act 4: Jon Stewart’s speech – The Rally
Song 4: This Is Not the End – The Sun and the Moon
Act 5: At the Rally Part 2 – New Left Media
Song 5: I Can See Clearly Now – We All Are One: The Best of Jimmy Cliff
Act 6: False equivalencies at the rally – Countdown
Song 6: All the Same to Me – Whatever You Like [Digital 45]
Act 7: At the Rally Part 3 – New Left Media
Song 7: Forgive Me – Veteranos
Act 8: Media objectivity and the sanity rally – On the Media
Song 8: La Réalité (Yuksek Remix) – Dimanche à Bamako (Bonus Track Version)
Act 9: At the Rally Part 4 – New Left Media
Song 9: Dreamtime – Faith In the Future
Act 10: Make it about something – Bill Maher
Song 10: Hold My Hand – The Best of Hootie & The Blowfish (1993-2003)
Act 11: At the Rally Part 5 – New Left Media
Song 11: Someday We’ll Know – Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too
Act 12: Jon Stewart interview – Rachel Maddow

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Come on Jon Stewart – George W. Bush – Daily Show

 

Sources:

NPR
New Left Media
Countdown
On the Media
Real Time with Bill Maher
Rachel Maddow
The Daily Show

 

Produced By:
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Edition #428

Not all beliefs are created equal

 

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Act 1: Stat of the Union – Colbert Report
Song 1: We Are All Made of Stars – 18
Act 2: Nontheists know more about religion – Young Turks
Song 2: Me and God and Jesus – Crooked Roads Band
Act 3: Christmas Suicides come earlier every year – The Onion
Song 3: We Wish You a Merry Christmas – Christmas Masterpieces and Familiar Carols
Act 4: Dawkins lays the smack down on the pope – Richard Dawkins
Song 4: Shattered Faith – Punk-O-Rama 8
Act 5: Honor killings with torture – Young Turks
Song 5: Honor – Praise the Fallen
Act 6: United Arab Emirates wife-beating ruling – David Pakman Show
Song 6: Everloving – Play & Play: B Sides
Act 7: Sam Harris – Daily Show
Song 7: Science Is Real – Here Comes Science
Act 8: Glenn Beck’s Mormon code words exposed = Young Turks
Song 8: Wild Horses – Blind
Act 9: God diagnosed with bipolar disorder – The Onion
Song 9: God Gave Rock & Roll to You – Revenge
Act 10: Birth control in Bogata – Thom Hartmann
Song 10: Can’t Behave (Radio Edit without DJ Quik) – Can’t Behave – Single
Act 11: Evangelical Christian on Obama bringing apocalypse – YoungTurks

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
IHOP: Yahweh or No way – Colbert Report

 

Sources:
 

Colbert Report
The Young Turks
The Onion
David Pakman Show
The Daily Show
Thom Hartmann

 

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Edition #427

Punished for UNDERreaching

 

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Act 1: The mourning after – Daily Show
Song 1: Fake Plastic Trees – The Best of Radiohead
Act 2: 1st draft of election night speeches – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 2: I Feel So – Box Car Racer
Act 3: Compromise and class after the elections – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 3: Fake Empire – Boxer
Act 4: Where has a tea party got out of control – BBC News Quiz
Song 4: Late Night, Maudlin Street – Viva Hate
Act 5: Will the GOP compromise – MSNBC
Song 5: Get Up, Stand Up – Bob Marley & The Wailers: Gold
Act 6: Yes we can, but – Le Show
Act 7: Obama was punished for underreaching – Common Sense with Dan Carlin
Song 7: Good People – In Between Dreams (Bonus Track Version)
Act 8: Katrina vanden Heuvel – Colbert Report
Song 8: Slight Figure of Speech – I and Love and You
Act 9: Mourning Russ Feingold – The Progressive
Song 9: All I Want Is You – Rattle and Hum
Act 10: The youth and the election – Thom Hartmann
Song 10: Silver Lining – Under the Blacklight
Act 11: Electile dysfunction – Slate.com
Song 11: Take It or Leave It – Is This It
Act 12: Election to end all elections – Colbert Report
Song 12: Don’t Dream It’s Over – Divine Discontent
Act 13: Let me recount the errors of our ways – Young Turks

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Who wants it more – Daily Show

 

Sources:
The Daily Show
Wait wait don’t tell me!
The Jimmy Dore Show
BBC News Quiz
MSNBC
Le Show
Colbert Report
The Progressive
Thom Hartmann
Slate.com
The Young Turks

 

Produced By:
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Edition #426

The system is damaged but our expectations are broken

 

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Act 1: Update on crazy Texas textbook changes – Young Turks
Song 1: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – On the Good Ship Lollipop
Act 2: Peabody Public Schools – Colbert Report
Song 2: Classical gas – Vanessa Mae
Act 3: Waiting for superman an teacher unions – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 3: Put Your Records On – Corinne Bailey Rae
Act 4: Something is really wrong with our education system – Young Turks
Song 4: Trigonometry – Nascent
Act 5: Are tests biased against kids who don’t give a shit? – The Onion
Song 5: Care – Kid Rock
Act 6: Education coverage is anti-teacher – Counterspin
Song 6: Am I Wrong – Love Spit Love
Act 7: Davis Guggenheim – Colbert Report
Song 7: You Learn – Jagged Little Pill
Act 8: LA Times calls out school teachers – Young Turks
Song 8: The Gambler – The Gambler
Act 9: Beating up on teacher unions – Counterspin
Song 9: These days – Luxury
Act 10: Eighth-grade reading list favors stuff that sucks – The Onion
Song 10: The Revenge of Holden Caufield – Progression – EP
Act 11: Cenk on US education failure and potential – MSNBC

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Glenn Beck Hates Education – Young Turks

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The Young Turks
Colbert Report
The Jimmy Dore Show
The Onion
Counterspin
MSNBC

 

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Edition #425

Muslims are scary

 

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Act 1: Applause for Bloomberg – The Progressive
Song 1: Falling Down – Falling Down – Single
Act 2: The Parent Company Trap – Daily Show
Song 2: What I Am – Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
Act 3: Images of N.Y. Islamic Center meant to ‘educate’ – NPR
Song 3: Close Your Eyes – Too Young to Fight It
Act 4: Iran’s crisis of modernity – Daily Show
Song 4: Modern Way – Employment
Act 5: Juan Williams, religious conflict and war – Thom Hartmann
Song 5: I Will Follow You Into the Dark – Plans
Act 6: Of course we all feel that way – Citizen Radio
Song 6: Just a Ride – Finally Woken
Act 7: Threatdown, Muslim Edition – Colbert Report
Song 7: Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) – Lungs
Act 8: Religious and ethnic intolerance in the election – Rachel Maddow
Song 8: Creature Fear – For Emma, Forever Ago
Act 9: It’s a small-minded world – Colbert Report

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
NPR Staffing Decision 2010 – The Daily Show

 

Sources:
The Progressive
The Daily Show
NPR
Thom Hartmann
Citizen Radio
Colbert Report
Rachel Maddow

 

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Edition #424

Big Elections Show

 

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Act 1: Midterm erections – Colbert Report
Song 1: I’m Not the Man (Live) – MTV Unplugged: 10,000 Maniacs
Act 2: The donor Party – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: When I was a baby – The New Pornographers
Act 3: The argument for public financing of elections – MSNBC
Song 3: Everybody Wants to Rule the World – 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tears for Fears
Act 4: The genesis of corporate personhood – Thom Hartmann
Song 4: Undone (The Sweater Song) – Weezer
Act 5: Left Behind – Paul Begala – Colbert Report
Song 5: Don’t Let It Bring You Down – Medusa
Act 6: Mcacca moments – Rachel Maddow
Song 6: Vote – Roots, Rock & Revolution
Act 7: Palin Envy – The Progressive
Song 7: Fool – Laundry Service
Act 8: Crazy to vote for GOP in 2010 – Young Turks
Song 8: Don’t Dream It’s Over – Smallville: The Talon Mix (Original Soundtrack)
Act 9: Extreme candidates – Rachel Maddow
Song 9: Strange Bath – I Heart Huckabees (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
Act 10: Commentary on extreme candidates – Countdown

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Indecision 2010 – Negative Campaigning – Daily Show

 

Sources:
 

Colbert Report
Rachel Maddow
MSNBC
Thom Hartmann
The Progressive
The Young Turks
Countdown
The Daily Show

 

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Edition #423

Worshiping a false idol

 

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Act 1: Chilean miners saved by democracy – Counterspin
Song 1: Hero of the Day – Load
Act 2: Bizarre worship of the free market – The Progressive
Song 2: Shattered Faith – Punk-O-Rama 8
Act 3: Shocking facts on US poverty – Young Turks
Song 3: Buildings & Mountains – Keep Color
Act 4: GOP killing jobs – Rachel Maddow
Song 4: All for You – Sister Hazel
Act 5: Robert Reich interview – Colbert Report
Song 5: If I Ever Feel Better – United
Act 6: Workers need to take a pay cut – Counterspin
Song 6: What I’m Looking For (Ad Version) – What I’m Looking For (Ad Version) – Single
Act 7: Companies buying stocks, not employees – Young Turks
Song 7: Leaving On a Jet Plane – Have a Ball
Act 8: Housing guy apologizes for housing bubble – NPR
Song 8: Let Me Fall (From “Cirque du Soleil”) – Josh Groban
Act 9: The Chamber on outsourcing jobs – Rachel Maddow
Song 9: Easy – Born On Flag Day
Act 10: What to do about the Bush tax cuts – Counterspin
Song 10: 12:51 – 12:51 – Single
Act 11: Proof the Bush tax cuts failed miserably – Young Turks

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Poor Single Mother With Lots Of Credit Cards. (It’s Not What You Think.) – NPR

 

Sources:
Counterspin
The Progressive
The Young Turks
Rachel Maddow
Colbert Report
NPR

 

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Edition #422

Things will get better

 

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Act 1: Don’t enforce – Rachel Maddow
Song 1: How – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? (The Complete Sessions 1991-1993)
Act 2: WaPo promotes homophobe – Counterspin
Song 2: Why (You Confuse Me) – Everybody Knows EP
Act 3: DADT ruled unconstitutional – Countdown
Song 3: A Change Is Gonna Come – Learning to Bend
Act 4: Shielded ID interview – Rachel Maddow
Song 4: My Private Nation – My Private Nation
Act 5: The death of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell – The Progressive
Song 5: In a Cave – Elephant Shell
Act 6: Things will get better – Joel Burns
Song 6: Better Be Quiet Now – Figure 8
Act 7: Make a plan or stop saying you will – Rachel Maddow

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Make a plan or stop saying you will – Rachel Maddow

 

Sources:
Rachel Maddow
Counterspin
Countdown
The Progressive
Joel Burns YouTube video

 

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Edition #421

End Nixon's war on drugs

 

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Act 1: Election narrative – Counterspin
Song 1: Black & Blue – Miike Snow
Act 2: Beltway election narrative – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Late Afternoon – Theo Bard
Act 3: Glenn Beck in trouble with Fox – Young Turks
Song 3: Up Against the Wall – Writer’s Block
Act 4: Rupert Murdoch watch – Le Show
Song 4: Nantes – The Flying Club Cup
Act 5: Professional Left commentary – Countdown
Song 5: Leader – Burning Spear
Act 6: Politician’s lies – On the Media
Song 6: Too close – VNV Nation
Act 7: MSNBC’s political narrative – Daily Show
Song 7: You’re the Best – The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Act 8: CNN’s Rick Sanchez fired – Young Turks

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Journolist Proves ‘Liberal Media’ Is BS – Young Turks

 

Sources:
Counterspin
Rachel Maddow
The Young Turks
Le Show
Countdown
On the Media
The Daily Show

 

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Edition #420

End Nixon's war on drugs

 

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Act 1: Cenk’s Take to end the war on Drugs – MSNBC
Song 1: Gangsta’s Paradise – Rhino Hi-Five: Coolio – EP
Act 2: Terror, drugs, poverty redouble efforts – The Onion
Song 2: Cameras – Cameras – Single
Act 3: Update on the drug war – Rachel Maddow
Song 3: I Wanna Be Sedated – Road to Ruin (Expanded & Remastered)
Act 4: Beer industry vs Marijuana legalization – Young Turks
Song 4: Havana – Garageband jingle
Act 5: Gang Busters, John Burrnett – Colbert Report
Song 5: Mexico – James Taylor: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
Act 6: Oakland goes pot – Jim Hightower
Song 6: Recycled Air – Give Up
Act 7: Desperate drug addict driven to get a job – The Onion
Song 7: Tragic Kingdom – Tragic Kingdom
Act 8: Why pot should be legal – Young Turks
Song 8: Same song twice – Sublime
Act 9: Prop 19, Joesph Califano and Gary Johnson – Colbert Report
Song 9: A Rush of Blood to the Head – A Rush of Blood to the Head
Act 10: Could regulating/taxing pot save states budgets – Thom Hartmann
Song 10: Dreaming My Dreams – No Need to Argue
Act 11: Model-train hobby becomes model-train habbit – The Onion
Song 11: Peace Train – Footsteps In the Light
Act 12: How the war on drugs started – Young Turks

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Police Capture Nation’s Largest Crystal Meth Kingpin – The Onion

 

Sources:
 

MSNBC
The Onion
Rachel Maddow
The Young Turks
Colbert Report
Jim Hightower
Thom Hartmann

 

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Edition #419

The asylum is holding elections, don't let the inmates be the only voters

 

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Act 1: Tea party coloring book Colbert Report
Song 1: Poem to a horse – Shakira
Act 2: GOP busted on talking points – Young Turks
Song 2: Playing your part – Emotional Violence
Act 3: Elitist nonsense – Slate.com
Song 3: Razor Wire (Instrumental) – Chris Priest
Act 4: Indecision 2010 – unforced errors edition – Daily Show
Song 4: Eyes – Rogue Wave
Act 5: Demint Gov shut down – Rachel Maddow
Song 5: Stand by me – Pennywise
Act 6: Tea party and the Koch bros – Ring of Fire
Song 6: Sit and listen – Malibu Knights
Act 7: Rich Iott wears a Nazi uniform – Colbert Report
Song 7: Close to me – The Cure
Act 8: Voters want to know who funds ads – NPR
Song 8: Information Travels Faster – Death Cab For Cutie
Act 9: Time to fight for strong progressives – Young Turks

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Indecision 2010 – Revenge of the Fallen – FearStock.com – Colbert Report

 

Sources:
Colbert Report
The Young Turks
Slate.com
Daily Show
Rachel Maddow
Ring of Fire
NPR

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Edition #418

Math has a well known liberal bias

 

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Act 1: Foreclosure Crisis – Daily Show
Song 1: Razon Wire – Chris Priest
Act 2: TARP sequels coming – Young Turks
Song 2: Big Mistake – Fair Ain’t Fair
Act 3: Crooked lending practices – Le Show
Song 3: Lake Michigan – Asleep At Heaven’s Gate
Act 4: Mortgage bankers assn. – Daily Show
Song 4: Hang On Sloopy – Hang On Sloopy – The Best of the McCoys
Act 5: Top 20% have too much money – Young Turks
Song 5: Animal – Miike Snow
Act 6: Tax Shelter Skelter – Colbert Report
Song 6: Gray or Blue – Sea Green, See Blue. – EP
Act 7: The return of debtors’ prisons – The Progressive
Song 7: Rows of Homes – The Western States Motel
Act 8: Austan Goolsbee – Colbert Report
Song 8: Bloodstream – Stateless
Act 9: Dems at war with corporate interests – Young Turks
Song 9: Dance Music – The Sunset Tree
Act 10: Arizona family chooses to live in the middle – NPR
Song 10: Keepsake – Weeds (Music from the Series, Vol. 3)
Act 11: Fox News guest rips ‘liberal math’ – Young Turks

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Arianna Huffington – Daily Show

 

Sources:
Daily Show
The Young Turks
Le Show
Colbert Report
The Progressive
NPR

 

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Edition #417

Lunatics on the right, broken system, support the fighters 

 

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Act 1: Stop whining – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Listen – Listen Carefully E.P
Act 2: GOP candidates looking to kill social security – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Say It to Me Now – Once (Music from the Motion Picture)
Act 3: American Corruptistan – Jim Hightower
Song 3: Messages – Food In the Belly
Act 4: Who’s buying the US elections – Young Turks
Song 4: I Paid for the Party – The Best of Loma Records – The Rise and Fall of a 1960′s Soul Label
Act 5: (C) Spot run – Daily Show
Song 5: Follow You Follow Me – Turn It On Again – The Hits
Act 6: Democrats getting out politicked – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 6: When I Come Around – Dookie
Act 7: Late for Obama to turn left – The Progressive
Song 7: Inspiration – ¡Volare! – The Very Best of the Gipsy Kings
Act 8: Right Club – Daily Show
Song 8: That Thing You Do! (Live At the Hollywood TV Showcase) – That Thing You Do! (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Act 9: Dems on offense – Rachel Maddow
Song 9: Wait Up (Boots of Danger) – Champ
Act 10: Help progressives win in 2010 – Young Turks

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Delewert Report – The Colbert Report

 

Sources:
Wait wait don’t tell me
Rachel Maddow
Jim Hightower
The Young Turks
Daily Show
Jimmy Dore Show
The Progressive
Colbert Report

 

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Edition #416

Today is 350.org's Global Work Party 

 

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Act 1: Deniers funding NOVA – Counterspin
Song 1: Like the Weather – In My Tribe
Act 2: News of the warm – Le Show
Song 2: Cold As Ice – No End In Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner (Remastered)
Act 3: 350.org’s Bill McKibben interview – David Letterman Show
Song 3: Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? – Play & Play: B Sides
Act 4: Walmart going green – Counterspin
Song 4: Mother Earth (International RMX) – Culcha Candela
Act 5: News of the warm – Le Show
Song 5: PTF2012 – Praise the Fallen
Act 6: The new ice island – Need to Know
Song 6: Island In the Sun – Weezer (Green Album)
Act 7: Moving to the suburbs – NPR
Song 7: Title and Registration – Transatlanticism
Act 8: Family of 5 found alive in suburbs – The Onion
Song 8: Recycled Air – Give Up
Act 9: Moving to the city – NPR
Song 9: Freetime – New Sacred Cow
Act 10: Walruses and Ostriches – The Progressive

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Skepticism vs. denial about climate change – Need to Know

 

Sources:
Counterspin
Le Show
David Letterman
Need to Know
NPR
The Onion
The Progressive 

 

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Edition #415

You thought you were angry at Wall Street before

 

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Act 1: It’s ooover! – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Steal My Kisses – Burn to Shine
Act 2: Summers stepping down – Counterspin
Song 2: 2 Atoms In a Molecule – Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down
Act 3: Social security lie – Young Turks
Song 3: Don’t Believe the Hype – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Act 4: The GOP spending addiction – Slate.com
Song 4: Not an Addict – Paradise In Me
Act 5: Nearly half oppose tax hike for rich – Counterspin
Song 5: The Only Exception – Brand New Eyes
Act 6: Unbearable Wall Streeters Part 1 – This American Life
Song 6: Kyoko’s House (“stage blood is not enough”) – Mishima (Original Music Composed By Philip Glass)
Act 7: General Motors sales of disposable car – The Onion
Song 7: Kathy’s Song (Come Lie Next to Me) – Welcome to Earth
Act 8: Unbearable Wall Streeters Part 2 – This American Life
Song 8: Mad World – Donnie Darko (Music From the Original Motion Picture Score)
Act 9: Fed up with economics reporting – Counterspin
Song 9: La Réalité – Dimanche a Bamako
Act 10: Greed still isn’t good – Real Time with Bill Maher
Song 10: Just My Imagination – Bury the Hatchet
Act 10: Small businesses – Countdown
Song 10: Gone Going – Monkey Business
Act 11: Wall Street vs. Main Street – Young Turks

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Capitalism Hits the Fan with Economist Richard Wolff – Thom Hartmann

 

Sources:
Wait wait don’t tell me
Counterspin
The Young Turks
Slate
This American Life
The Onion
Bill Maher
Countdown
Thom Hartmann 

 

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Edition #414

As the election looms

 

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Act 1: Paul Rykoff on the war not being over – Rachel Maddow
Song 1: Girl in the war – Chris Priest
Act 2: Jon Krakauer on Pat Tillman – Colbert Report
Song 2: Great Divide – First Band on the Moon
Act 3: Army ignored complaints of Afghan slayings – NPR
Song 3: Call for Help – Stale and Dry
Act 4: Reporting on soldiers killing and being attacked – Counterspin
Song 4: Dance With Me – Bande a Part
Act 5: Death squads for sport in Afghanistan – Citizen Radio
Song 5: Something happening – Visitor
Act 6: Obama rattles sabers at Iran – The Progressive
Song 6: If you close the door – Adam Bork
Act 7: UN General Assembly – The Bugle
Song 7: Wave of Mutilation – Wave of Mutilation – Best of Pixies
Act 8: Financing an empire Part 1 – Common Sense with Dan Carlin
Song 8: Untitled – Zoe Keating
Act 9: US Suppresses freedom of press in Afghanistan – The Progressive
Song 9: The Czar of Munster – When Juniper Sleeps
Act 10: Financing an empire Part 2 – Common Sense with Dan Carlin

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
International House of Handshakes – Daily Show

 

Sources:
Rachel Maddow
Colbert Report
NPR
Counterspin
Citizen Radio
The Progressive
The Bugle
Common Sense with Dan Carlin
The Daily Show

 

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Edition #413

As the election looms

 

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Act 1: Couldn’t be elected dog catcher – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Brain Stew – Insomniac
Act 2: Election narrative – On the Media
Song 2: Falling In Love Again – Desireless
Act 3: Culture war is back – Rachel Maddow
Song 3: All the Same – Dressed Up As Life
Act 4: Obama and Rahm on salesmanship – Le Show
Song 4: Mr. Blue Sky – ELO’s Greatest Hits
Act 5: Rahm’s political strategy failure – Young Turks
Song 5: Solsbury Hill – Hit
Act 6: Democrats getting out politicked – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 6: Turn This Boat Around – Grand
Act 7: Obama and Biden lecture their base – The Progressive
Song 7: Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise – I and Love and You
Act 8: Postcards from the pledge – Daily Show
Song 8: Two Sisters – Left Side of the Brain
Act 9: They’re running on your record – Rachel Maddow

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Christine O’Donnell Witch Test – Colbert Report

Sources:

Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me

On the Media

Rachel Maddow

Le Show

The Young Turks

The Jimmy Dore Show
The Progressive
The Daily Show
Colbert Report

 

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Edition #412

Islamophobia

 

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Act 1: Extremest Makeover – Homeland Edition – Daily Show
Song 1: You Don’t Know Me (feat. Regina Spektor) – Way to Normal (Deluxe Version)
Act 2: Rush, Beck and Obama Muslim poll – MSNBC
Song 2: Tracked in mud – Cory Davies
Act 3: Burning the dictionary – Le Show
Song 3: Iko Iko – Chapel Of Love
Act 4: Bloomberg on ‘Mosque’ controversy – Daily Show
Song 4: Chicago – Illinois
Act 5: Awesome Bloomberg speech – Young Turks
Song 5: (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? – A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!
Act 6: Not at war with Islam – Rachel Maddow
Song 6: Love the Way You Lie (feat. Rihanna) – Recovery (Deluxe Edition)
Act 7: Islamophobiapalooza – Daily Show
Song 7: Have you had enough – Rickie Lee Jones and The Squirrel Nut Zippers
Act 8: Muslim cab driver attacked – Young Turks

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Word – Losing His Religion – Colbert Report

 

Sources:
The Daily Show
MSNBC
Le Show
The Young Turks
Rachel Maddow
Colbert Report

 

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Edition #411

A look at the Republican Tea Party

 

Act 1: GOP congress – Rachel Maddow

Song 1: I Miss You – blink-182

Act 2: Restoring Honor Rally Part 1 – New Left Media

Song 2: God Shed His Grace On Thee – 50/50 – 50 Tracks, 50 Years

Act 3: Bush speechwriters says GOP is screwed – Young Turks

Song 3: Kill Yourself (Instrumental Version) – Shock Value (Instrumental Version)

Act 4: Sarah Palin’s Mama Grizzly Coalition – Daily Show

Song 4: On a Neck, On a Spit – Yellow House

Act 5: Restoring Honor Rally Part 2 – New Left Media

Song 5: My List – Sam’s Town

Act 6: Reagan would be unelectable today – MSNBC

Song 6: Drumming Song – Lungs

Act 7: Restoring Honor Rally Part 3 – New Left Media

Song 7: Pray for You – Getting Dressed In the Dark

Act 8: I give up – 9/11 responders bill – Daily Show

Song 8: Cobrastyle – Robyn

Act 9: Restoring Honor Rally Part 4 – New Left Media

Song 9: Ignore the Ignorant – Ignore the Ignorant

Act 10: Comparing the parties – Ring of Fire

Song 10: Bitter Sweet Symphony – Urban Hymns

Act 11: Shadow government attracts shadow protesters – The Onion

Song 11: Cast No Shadow – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory

Act 12: Restoring Honor Rally Part 5 – New Left Media

Song 12: In the Waiting Line – Simple Things

Act 13: GOP is the party of hate – The Ed Show

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Defamation of Independents – Colbert Report

 

 

Sources:

Rachel Maddow

The New Left Media

The Young Turks

The Daily Show

MSNBC

Ring of Fire

The Onion

The Ed Show

Colbert Report

 

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Edition #410

The economics of happiness and anger

 

Act 1: Fox News job opening - Colbert Report

Song 1: Work - Bob Marley

Act 2: Class warfare - Top 1% vs. You - Young Turks

Song 2: Class warfare - Chris Priest

Act 3: Republicans winning class warfare - The Progressive

Song 3: Working class hero - Exit Clov

Act 4: The economics of happiness - Thom Hartmann

Song 4: Happy - Sister Hazel

Act 5: Unemployed businessman has time for headache - The Onion

Song 5: Take Five - Dave Brubeck

Act 6: How cars suck out money and souls - Radio Ecoshock

Song 6: Fade to Black - Apocalyptica

Act 7: Economics and the stimulus - Media Matters

Act 8: Raiding social security for giveaways to rich - Sam Seder

Song 8: Chicago X 12 - Rogue Wave

Act 9: Deductible Me - Daily Show

Song 9: Bu De Bu Ai - Pan Wilber

Act 10: Obama needs to clear economic cabinet - The Progressive

Song 10: Here it goes again - Ok Go

Act 11: Republicans oppose tax cuts - Young Turks

 

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Edition #409

Do it yourself universe, God not required

 

Act 1: Evangelical Christian Terrorists - Young Turks

Song 1: Early in the morning - Peter, Paul And Mary

Act 2: Interview with the Pope (Matt Besser) - Citizen Radio

Song 2: Livin' on a prayer - Bon Jovi

Act 3: Blair and the Pope assail atheism and secularism - The Progressive

Song 3: Like a prayer - Madonna

Act 4: God loses his decision-making coin - The Onion

Song 4: Free to decide - The Cranberries

Act 5: "Child witches" abused in Africa - Young Turks

Song 5: We're in heaven - Dj sammy

Act 6: Steven Hawking hates God - Colbert Report

Song 6: My wife left me for a guy named Jesus - Exit 57

Act 7: The non-existence of God - Countdown

Song 7: Shattered faith - Bad Religion

Act 8: Jews covenant with God up for renewal - The Onion

Song 8: Ebudae - Enya

Act 9: Religious, anti-gay, gay man interviewed - Young Turks

Song 9: Whenever God shines his light - Van Morrison

Act 10: Rally to Restore Sanity - Daily Show

 

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Edition #408

Continuing march toward equal rights

 

Act 1: Reaction to the Prop 8 Ruling - Jimmy Dore Show

Song 1: Suite for Solo Cello No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: V. Gavotte I/II - Yo-Yo Ma

Act 2: Orientation of the Prop 8 judge - Counterspin

Song 2: Strange bath - Jon Brion

Act 3: DOMA ruled unconstitutional - Rachel Maddow

Song 3: 1901 - Phoenix

Act 4: Threatdown - Texas GOP - Colbert Report

Song 4: Sodomy - Galt MacDermot and Tom Pierson

Act 5: Conservative destroys Fox News on gay marriage - Young Turks

Song 5: Stairway to heaven - Apocalyptica

Act 6: Glenn Beck on gay marriage - Media Matters

Act 7: Invasion of the country snatchers - Colbert Report

Song 7: Royal American Medley - United States Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps

Act 8: Debating gay marriage - Midweek Politics

Song 8: Sowing the seeds of love - Tears for Fears

Act 9: Gay is icky - That's bullshit - Sam Seder

Song 9: Sunday, Bloody Sunday - U2

Act 10: Moron on Ken Mehlman's courage - Jimmy Dore Show

Song 10: Courage - Authority Zero

Act 11: Gay old party - Daily Show

 

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Edition #407

War is over, but not really

 

Act 1: Richard Engle on the Taliban in Afghanistan - Rachel Maddow

Song 1: Reach out in the darkness - Friend and Lover

Act 2: Generals push to stay in Afghanistan - Young Turks

Song 2: Go your own way - Fleetwood Mac

Act 3: A new presidential power - Common Sense with Dan Carlin

Song 3: I don't want to be - Gavin DeGraw

Act 4: Obama should end combat in Afghanistan as well - The Progressive

Song 4: Right now - Van Halen

Act 5: What if you threw a peace and no one came - Colbert Report

Song 5: One - Apocalyptica

Act 6: Obama's end of war speech - Media Matters

Act 7: We didn't really leave Iraq - Citizen Radio

Song 7: Everybody's Gone To War - Nerina Pallot

Act 8: Richard Engel on the end of the war - Colbert Report

Song 8: Hero of war - Rise Against

Act 9: Saddam vs. now - Rachel Maddow

 

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Edition #406

Election season in full swing

 

Act 1: What's next for campaign finance - Bill Moyers Journal

Song 1: Save tonight - Eagle-Eyed Cherry

Act 2: The disclose act - On the Media

Song 2: Loud pipes - Ratatat

Act 3: Gibbs says Dems will lose - Wait wait don't tell me

Song 3: It's a wonderful life - Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution

Act 4: Funny, insane Republican - Young Turks

Song 4: Angry - The Bug and Tippa Irie

Act 5: Class of 2010 - Rachel Maddow

Song 5: How to save a life - The Fray

Act 6: GOP operative uses homeless for dirty tricks - Young Turks

Song 6: Crying - KD Lang feat. Roy Orbinson

Act 7: Are you ready for some midterms? - Daily Show

Song 7: Brain Damage - Pink Floyd

Act 8: Obama takes on the GOP, too little too late - Young Turks

Song 8: Too late, too slow - Shout Out Louds

Act 9: The spite stuff - Rachel Maddow

 

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Edition #405

Countdown to Beckopalypse has Begun

 

Act 1: Cenk takes on Fox News - The Ed Show

Song 1: One - Apocalyptica

Act 2: Fox funds GOP Govs - Media Matters

Act 3: Fox and GOP make it official - Colbert Report

Song 3: So long - Lodger

Act 4: Missed connection at Whitestock - Wait wait don't tell me

Song 4: BotL Promo instrumental - Chris Priest

Act 5: Glenn Beck rants inciting murder - Young Turks

Song 5: Hurt so good - Yellow Snow Company

Act 6: Glenn Beck's crusade - The Progressive

Song 6: Sweet Lullaby - Deep Forest

Act 7: The head count at Whitestock - On the Media

Song 7: You can't count on me - Counting Crows

Act 8: Chris Wallace fails again with Glenn Beck - Jimmy Dore

Song 8: Father of mine - Everclear

Act 9: Poll - Americans are progressive on most issues - Young Turks

Song 9: Time of the season - The Zombies

Act 10: Poll - Positive things better than negative things - The Onion

Song 10: I want it now - Leslie Bricusse

Act 11: Rachel responds to O'Reilly's attack Part 1 - Rachel Maddow

Song 11: Your Highness - The Out Crowd

Act 12: Rachel responds to O'Reilly's attack Part 2 - Rachel Maddow

 

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Edition #404

Citizen Kant or Radio Dispatches from the Occupied South

 

Act 1: Citizenship down - Colbert Report

Song 1: Slave song - Sade

Act 2: Utah's anti-immigration dystopia - The Progressive

Song 2: Backfire - MuteMath

Act 3: Terror babies - Le Show

Song 3: Politic Amagni (La Politique, C'est Pas Bon) - Amadou and Mariam

Act 4: Should anyone born in the US become citizens - Thom Hartmann

Song 4: Stan - Eminem and Elton John

Act 5: US beefs up the southern border with beef - The Onion

Song 5: Indiado - Sergio Mendes

Act 6: Scapegoating immigrant children - The Progressive

Song 6: Keepsake - State Radio

Act 7: Julian Castro on immigration - Colbert Report

Song 7: Heaven - Los Lonely Boys

Act 8: Neo-Nazis patrolling US border - Young Turks

Song 8: I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers

Act 9: Once again, immigration is a hot button issue - NPR

Song 9: Silver Lining - Rilo Kiley

Act 10: Born in the USA - Daily Show

Song 9: Fear is a villain - Theo Bard

Act 10: Xenophobia runs rampant - The Progressive

Song 9: Generator (Second Floor) - Freelance Whales

Act 10: Republican wants illegal immigrant camps - Young Turks

 

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Edition #403

Rachel Maddow gives credit where credit is due

 

Act 1: 9 Billion lost - Wait wait don't tell me

Song 1: Where Did It Go - Jimmy Cliff

Act 2: The insane cost of war - Young Turks

Song 2: Goodbye yellow brick road - Elton John

Act 3: Taliban code of conduct - Rachel Maddow

Song 3: Sometimes I rhyme slow - Nice and Smooth

Act 4: Reaction to 9/11 - Common Sense with Dan Carlin

Song 4: John Adams theme song - HBO

Act 5: Growing intelligence community - Colbert Report

Song 5: Under the gun - The Killers

Act 6: Still not out of Iraq - The Progressive

Song 6: Drowning men - Fanfarlo

Act 7: Mission accomplished part 2 - Wait wait don't tell me

Song 7: Don't talk - 10,000 Maniacs

Act 8: US always has money for war - Young Turks

Song 8: Give a little bit - Supertramp

Act 9: Iraq numbers - Le Show

Song 9: Trillion Dollar Bargain - Harry Shearer

Act 10: Credit where credit is due - Rachel Maddow

 

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Edition #402

The economics of stupidity

 

Act 1: The Word - Ownership society - Colbert Report

Song 1: Different names for the same thing - Death Cab For Cutie

Act 2: Supply-side economics debunked - Young Turks

Song 2: Baby it's fact - Hellogoodbye

Act 3: Unemployed voters - Rachel Maddow

Song 3: Working class hero - John Lennon

Act 4: Wall street starving millions and getting away with it - Thom Hartmann

Song 4: Beautiful - Smashing Pumpkins

Act 5: Company you've never heard of wants to reward you - Onion

Song 5: Beyond the sea - Bobby Darin

Act 6: Social security rant by Cenk - MSNBC

Song 6: Kandi - One eskimO

Act 7: Econo-misers - Rachel Maddow

Song 7: Money for nothing - Dire Straits

Act 8: Barney Frank on the Consumer protection agency - Colbert Report

Song 8: When you were young = The Killers

Act 9: Were you born on the wrong continent - Thom Hartmann

Song 9: Summer in the city - The Lovin' Spoonful

Act 10: The unpaved States of America - Rachel Maddow

 

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Edition #401

The Beckoning

 

Act 1: The ACLU on Obama's 'New normal' - On the Media

Song 1: Harold T. Wilkins, Or How To Wait For A Very Long Time - Fanfarlo

Act 2: The ACLU report on Obama - Rachel Maddow

Song 2: There's still time - Peter Wolf

Act 3: Cut Obama no slack on civil liberties - The Progressive

Song 3: Tragic flaw - Arkells

Act 4: ACLU defends Nazis' right to burn down ACLU headquarters - The Onion

Song 4: Play with fire - The Rolling Stones

Act 5: Interview with Akbar Ahmed - Daily Show

Song 5: The Edge Of The Ocean - Ivy

Act 6: Beck and Limbaugh devastating quotes - Young Turks

Song 6: Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - Apocalyptica

Act 7: Beck and the MLK legacy - Media Matters

Act 8: Cenk on Glenn Beck's MLK rally - Young Turks

Song 8: Frontier Psychiatrist - The Avalanches

Act 9: Tea baggers going to DC - Rachel Maddow

Song 9: Legend of Zelda - Apocalyptica

Act 10: Beck vs MLK - Media Matters

Act 11: Beck on God, blood and goldline - Young Turks

 

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Edition #400

So much for don't be evil

 

Act 1: So much for 'don't be evil' - Wait wait don't tell me

Song 1: Blueprint - Arkells

Act 2: Internet Exploiter - Daily Show

Song 2: Once around the block - Badly Drawn Boy

Act 3: Google and Verizon on net neutrality - Countdown

Song 3: Resurrection (space club mix) - PPK

Act 4: Peter and the Wolf meets net neutrality - On the Media

Song 4: Peter and the wolf - Prokofiev

Act 5: Area man consults the Internet - The Onion

Song 5: Wait so long - Trampled by Turtles

Act 6: Google and Verizon have a deal - Young Turks

Song 6: Jenny don't be hasty - Paolo Nutini

Act 7: Net neutrality and the Google-Verizon deal - Thom Hartmann

Song 7: Solid action - The Wes Hollywood Show

Act 8: Internet outage plunges nation into productivity - The Onion

Song 8: The Office UK - Outro #1 - Big George Webley

Act 9: Net neutrality - Countdown

Song 9: The middle - Jimmy Eat World

Act 10: Electronic frontier foundation - Colbert Report

Song 9: Cat faces - Ugly Casanova

Act 10: Cenk's rant on net neutrality - Dylan Ratigan Show

 

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Edition #399

Climate bill killed as the world melts

 

Act 1: The trouble with fracking - Rachel Maddow

Song 1: That's all - Clare and the Reasons

Act 2: Obama on respecting science - Citizen Radio

Song 2: Where is my mind - The Pixies

Act 3: News of the warm Part 1 - Le Show

Song 3: Let's dace to Joy Division - The Wombats

Act 4: The cries from Pakistan - The Progressive

Song 4: Cry - James Blunt

Act 5: Lose 300 million pounds of CO2 - Slate.com

Song 5: Don't let's start - They Might Be Giants

Act 6: Climate bill killed - Young Turks

Song 6: I still haven't found what I'm looking for - U2

Act 7: The decline of the oil economy - The Bugle

Song 7: (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher - Jackie Wilson

Act 8: News of the warm Part 2 - Le Show

Song 8: Faster, sooner, now - David Gray

Act 9: Greenland ice island - Countdown

Song 9: Juno - Tokyo Police Club

Act 10: 2010 hottest year so far on record - Young Turks

 

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Edition #398

This is a total waste of our time

 

Act 1: Cat and Mosque - Mark Fiore

Song 1: Anywhere is - Enya

Act 2: Municipal land-use update - Daily Show

Song 2: Tolerance - Michael Franti And Spearhead

Act 3: Cantor on the mosque 'Come on' - Rachel Maddow

Song 3: It's Alright - Huey Lewis and the News

Act 4: Jimmy's take on the mosque - Jimmy Dore Show

Song 4: Golden Brown - The Stranglers

Act 5: Islamic architecture - The Bugle

Song 5: Drums of freedom - Theo Bard

Act 6: Who are we as a nation - The Young Turks

Song 6: I don't believe in that - Chip Taylor

Act 7: Citizen Radio talks on Cordoba - GRITtv

Song 7: Different people - No Doubt

Act 8: The sacred ground arguement - Jimmy Dore Show

Song 8: The argument - This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb

Act 9: How to know it's election season - Sam Seder

Song 9: One love - Playing For Change

Act 10: Embarrassing moments - Rachel Maddow

Song 10: South Side - Moby

Act 11: The 'radical' Imam behind the mosque - Young Turks

Song 11: Knock yourself out - Jon Brion

Act 12: Mosque-Erade - Daily Show

Song 12: Missed the boat - Modest Mouse

Act 13: Special Comment on the mosque - Countdown

 

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Edition #397

The morale of the troops

 

Act 1: Lt. Dan Choi finally discharged - Rachel Maddow

Song 1: Honesty - Billy Joel

Act 2: Dan Choi on LGBT support of Dems - Citizen Radio

Song 2: Gimme Sympathy - Metric

Act 3: Jonathan Hopkins on DADT - Rachel Maddow

Song 3: Right to complain - Trombone Shorty and Marc Broussard

Act 4: Targeting Target scores a direct hit - The Progressive

Song 4: Back on earth - Ozzy Osbourne

Act 5: DADT comic book theatre - Rachel Maddow

Song 5: I'm not over - Carolina Liar

Act 6: The Gay Reichs - Daily Show

Song 6: Go do - Jónsi

Act 7: Katherine Miller on DADT - Rachel Maddow

Song 7: What's wrong - The Secret Handshake

Act 8: Glorious nonviolent revolution - The Progressive

Song 8: Revolution - The Beatles

Act 9: Military survey on DADT revision - Rachel Maddow

Song 9: This Fickle World - Theo Bard

Act 10: Discussion of being gay on The View - Midweek Politics

Song 10: Two Sisters - Fiction Plane

Act 11: Final comments on gaining respect - Rachel Maddow

 

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Edition #396

Mentally and morally bankrupt economics

 

Act 1: Killing an ant with a nuclear bomb - Wait wait don't tell me

Song 1: High hopes - Frank Sinatra

Act 2: Barney Frank on Elizabeth Warren - Rachel Maddow

Song 2: Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance

Act 3: Breaking down the impending tax "hike" - Jimmy Dore

Song 3: These things take time - Pummel

Act 4: Restore the estate tax! - Slate.com

Song 4: Modern Way - Kaiser Chiefs

Act 5: Voodoo economics - Rachel Maddow

Song 5: Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games - Of Montreal

Act 6: Survival air for sale - Le Show

Song 6: Take a look around - Limp Bizkit

Act 7: Honest and dishonest discussions of trade policy - Common Sense with Dan Carlin

Song 7: We Are Nowhere And It's Now - Bright Eyes

Act 8: Goldman S@#%$ - Daily Show

Song 8: You make loving fun - Fleetwood Mac

Act 9: Time to cut social security - Young Turks

 

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Edition #395

Another giant distraction based on bigotry

 

Act 1: Be nice to minorities - Bill Maher

Song 1: We are going to be friends - White Stripes

Act 2: Latino 911 - Daily Show

Song 2: Nothing Else Matters - Apocalyptica

Act 3: Championing the AZ law - Media Matters

Act 4: Obama's weak immigration reform - Young Turks

Song 4: Loud pipes - Ratatat

Act 5: Arizona's photo radar - Daily Show

Song 5: Ballad of Hugo Chavez - Arkells

Act 6: Border violence, that's bullshit - Sam Seder

Song 6: Cattle call - Don Edwards

Act 7: Interview on reaction to AZ law ruling - Rachel Maddow

Song 7: Breakneck speed - Tokyo Police Club

Act 8: Hurray for courageous judge Suan Bolton - The Progressive

Song 8: Fade to black - Apocalyptica

Act 9: Susan Bolton ruling - Media Matters

Act 10: AZ immigration law stopped by federal judge - Young Turks

Song 10: Look after you - The Fray

Act 11: Fake immigration stories - Rachel Maddow

Song 11: Concrete Box - Nada Surf

Act 12: US will now offer platinum plus citizenship - The Onion

Song 12: Solid Action - The Wes Hollywood Show

Act 13: Immigration stories now user generated - Rachel Maddow

 

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Edition #394

A battle finally won in the war

 

Act 1: Lesbian mothers - Colbert Report

Song 1: Middle Class Boy - Theo Bard

Act 2: Crazy gay marriage speech - Young Turks

Song 2: The bleeding heart show - The New Pornographers

Act 3: Kentucky bans gay pet weddings - The Onion

Song 3: Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps - Cake

Act 4: Time to pay reparations to gays - Thom Hartmann

Song 4: January wedding - The Avett Brothers

Act 5: Breakdown of prop 8 - Rachel Maddow

Song 5: Celebration guns - Stars

Act 6: Commentary on prop 8 - Countdown

Song 6: One - Apocalyptica

Act 7: Right wing reactions to Prop 8 ruling - Media Matters

Act 8: Californigaytions - Daily Show

Song 8: Curtains close - The Arctic Monkeys

Act 9: Landmark ruling on same-sex marriage - The Progressive

Song 9: Solid Ground - Dougie Maclean

Act 10: The winning lawyers - Rachel Maddow

Song 10: Dreams - Gabrielle

Act 11: Prop 8 tossed out - It's all politics

Song 11: Goodbye stranger - Supertramp

Act 12: Gay marriage is inevitable - Young Turks

Song 12: Time to take out the trash - Brad Sucks

Act 12: How to ruin same-sex marriages - Colbert Report

 

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Edition ##393

Shirley you jest, Obama

 

Act 1: The Obama Paradox - Rachel Maddow

Song 1: Who's crying now - Journey

Act 2: Shep Smith rips Fox - Young Turks

Song 2: True affection - The Blow

Act 3: Administration congratulates itself too soon - Wait wait don't tell me

Song 3: Harder, better, faster, stronger - Daft Punk

Act 4: MSNBC and Fox after the correction - Jimmy Dore Show

Song 4: Better be quiet - Elliott Smith

Act 5: Racist Fox News and crazy NAACP voicemail - Young Turks

Song 5: Call on me - Eric Prydz

Act 6: Obama's atrophy - Rachel Maddow

Song 6: The reflex - Duran Duran

Act 7: Shirley Sherrod on interviews with Fox and Obama's comments - Countdown

Song 7: Secret heart - Feist

Act 8: Fox News on Sherrod and Democratic cowards - Young Turks

 

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Edition #392

WikiFrenzy

 

Act 1: Just got the carfax - Wait wait don't tell me

Song 1: Aegean Wave - Suzanne Ciani

Act 2: Documents - Rachel Maddow

Song 2: Opportunity - Pete Murray

Act 3: That's the way I leak it - Colbert Report

Song 3: Mr Maker - The Kooks

Act 4: Congrats to Wikileaks - The Progressive

Song 4: So long - Lodger

Act 5: More on the Iraq inquiry - Le Show

Song 5: Broken Horse - Freelance Whales

Act 6: On the Wikileak - On the Media

Song 6: Do You Want To Know A Secret - The Beatles

Act 7: Secret info revealed - The Now Show

Song 7: Throwing stones - Shout Out Louds

Act 8: Best Leak Ever - Daily Show

Song 8: Fall of the Star High School Running Back - The Mountain Goats

Act 9: Wikileak and video critique - Citizen Radio

 

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Edition #391

Not right, not fair and not justice

 

Act 1: Gary Johnson, Pro-pot activist - Colbert Report

Song 1: Drug Ballad - Eminem

Act 2: How the drug war hurts communities - Citizen Radio

Song 2: Down on the corner - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Act 3: Drug Czar toppled by drug Bolsheviks - The Onion

Song 3: Because I got high -  Afroman

Act 4: Daniel Okrent on prohibition - Daily Show

Song 4: Drink the water - Jack Johnson

Act 5: Police tortured confessions - On the Media

Song 5: Behind bars - Felix "the Catt" and Baga Tricks

Act 6: Cops taser family in their backyard - Young Turks

Song 6: Paperwork - Opposite Day

Act 7: Drugs and Taser war - Citizen Radio

Song 7: New slang - The Shins

Act 8: Police taser trail - Rachel Maddow

 

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Edition #390

Reverse Robin Hood Republicans

 

Act 1: GOP on raising retirement age, cut benefits - Young Turks

Song 1: Home - Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros

Act 2: Barney Frank on financial reform - Chris Priest

Song 2: Lawless Flawless - Chris Priest

Act 3: GOP plan for the deficit - Rachel Maddow

Song 3: If you close the door - Adam Bork

Act 4: The Magnetar Trade story Part 1 - Pro Publica

Song 4: One - Apocalyptica

Act 5: Largest ever tax hike - Media Matters Minute

Song 5: One - Apocalyptica

Act 6: The Magnetar Trade story Part 2 - Pro Publica

Song 6: Wild world - Cat Stevens

Act 7: Unemployed are lazy drug addicts - Young Turks

Song 7: The sound of settling - Death Cab For Cutie

Act 8: Military spending - Rachel Maddow

 

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Edition #389

Religious Justice League

 

Act 1: Banning haircuts - Wait wait don't tell me

Song 1: Painted by numbers - The Sounds

Act 2: Political fashion news - The Bugle

Song 2: Lebanese Blonde - Thievery Corporation

Act 3: Pope whipped himself - Young Turks

Song 3: Hey, Soul Sister - Train

Act 4: Bible more violent than Quran - NPR

Song 4: Monster Hospital - Metric

Act 5: God cites 'moving in mysterious ways' - The Onion

Song 5: Master Plan - My Morning Jacket

Act 6: News of the godly Part 1 - Le Show

Song 6: (Why Is Your) Heaven So Small - Susan Werner

Act 7: Stephen Prothero on the 8 religions - Colbert Report

Song 7: Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam - Nirvana

Act 8: Study says abstinence-only works - Young Turks

Song 8: Boasdicea - Enya

Act 9: Heaven to return 3.6 billion souls for rejudging - The Onion

Song 9: Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Guns N' Roses

Act 10: News of the godly Part 2 - Le Show

Song 9: Kids - MGMT

Act 10: Glenn Beck, Ignore Jesus, be selfish - Young Turks

 

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Modest-Con 2010 - Colbert Report

 

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Edition #388

Torture is Un-American so we don't call it that

 

Act 1: Blame - Daily Show

Song 1: Blame it on the Tetons - Modest Mouse

Act 2: Harvard's study on torture - Young Turks

Song 2: Where does the good go - Tegan and Sara

Act 3: Yahweh or no way - Glenn Beck's MLK rally - Colbert Report

Song 3: High - James Blunt

Act 4: New ruling on media profanity - Wait wait don't tell me

Song 4: Escucha Me - Gipsy Kings

Act 5: Father Guido Sarducci on Prophet Glenn Beck - Colbert Report

Song 5: Modern Way - Kaiser Chiefs

Act 6: Torture in the media - On the Media

Song 6: Tell me a lie - Griffin House

Act 7: People don't like facts or failing - Citizen Radio

Song 7: Pony - Erin McCarley

Act 8: Rush Limbaugh kids should dumpsterdive - Young Turks

 

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Media Fail On McChrystal Resignation - Young Turks

 

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Edition #387

The state of the empire

 

Act 1: McChrystal article by Michael Hastings - Colbert Report

Song 1: The moment I said it - Imogen Heap

Act 2: Gaps in Afghan government - Rachel Maddow

Song 2: Out of our hands - Ikon

Act 3: UK investigating war crimes - Citizen Radio

Song 3: All American Girl - Train

Act 4: Judge sides with detainee in Guantanamo - The Progressive

Song 4: Shuffle your feet - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Act 5: Counter insurgency interview with General - Rachel Maddow

Song 5: Eve of destruction - Barry McGuire

Act 6: Odd couple Frank and Paul on military spending - NPR

Song 6: No need to argue - The Cranberries

Act 7: Obama authorizes assassinations on US citizens - Young Turks

Song 7: The perfect space - The Avett Brothers

Act 8: Afghanistan commentary - Rachel Maddow

 

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Edition #386

Thank you BP

 

Act 1: Endless bummers - Daily Show

Song 1: My name is Jonas - Weezer

Act 2: Shep Smith slams Fox News defending BP - Young Turks

Song 2: Real world - Matchbox Twenty

Act 3: ThreatDown - Dawn - Colbert Report

Song 3: Perpetual Dawn (Solar Youth Mix) - The Orb

Act 4: BP CEO acts like Star Trek character - Young Turks

Song 4: House of the Rising Sun - The Animals

Act 5: BP's PR campaign - Jimmy Dore Show

Song 5: Sinnerman (The Thomas Crown Affair) - Nina Simone

Act 6: BP's criminal negligence - The Progressive

Song 6: Politic Amagni (La Politique, C'est Pas Bon) - Amadou & Mariam

Act 7: Carl Safina on oil regulation - Colbert Report

Song 7: Soft serve - Soul Coughing

Act 8: Extreme energy - Slate.com

Song 8: I go to extremes - Billy Joel

Act 9: Josh Fox talks about toxic materials - Daily Show

Song 9: Classical gas - Mason Williams

Act 10: Entire oil rig searches for pizza cutter - The Onion

Song 10: Cuts like a knife - Soft

Act 11: Oil invested judge OKs offshore drilling - Young Turks

Song 11: Stop the madness - Marty Dread

Act 12: Lube Job - Colbert Report

 

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Obamas BP Oil Spill Speech - Colbert Report

 

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Edition #385

A flawed and broken paradigm

 

Act 1: Pros and cons of financial reform bill - Young Turks

Song 1: Satellite - Guster

Act 2: Estate tax discussion - Bill Maher

Song 2: I Want to Protect You - Eels

Act 3: Reinstate the estate tax - The Progressive

Song 3: Celebration guns - Stars

Act 4: Working on cutting social security - Counterspin

Song 4: Noctuary - Bonobo

Act 5: Canadian banks vs US Banks - Young Turks

Song 5: Spare change - Matt and Kim

Act 6: Social security broke - That's Bullshit - Sam Seder

Song 6: 1234 - Feist

Act 7: Rich vs the middle class - Young Turks

Song 7: Buildings and mountains - The Republic Tigers

Act 8: America's got nothing - Daily Show

Song 8: Built for this - Ben Sollee

Act 9: Obama needs to change budget dialogue - The Progressive

Song 9: Blessed - Brett Dennen

Act 10: Unemployment benefits with Paul Krugman - Colbert Report

Song 10: Hungry like the wolf - Duran Duran

Act 11: GOP on the deficit - Rachel Maddow

Song 11: Believe - The Bravery

Act 12: Conservatives don't understand - Jimmy Dore

 

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Holier Than Dow - Daily Show

 

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Edition #384

Kagan's vapid and hollow confirmation

 

Act 1: Kagan on Supreme Court confirmations - Wait wait don't tell me

Song 1: Play the game - Shout Out Louds

Act 2: Too many Jews - Le Show

Song 2: Fade to black - Apocalyptica

Act 3: Like a lady - Media Matters

Act 4: Gen. Boykin vs. Kagan - Rachel Maddow

Song 4: Ready or not - The Fugees

Act 5: Franken on the importance of SCOTUS - Young Turks

Song 5: See you in the light - Michael Franti And Spearhead

Act 6: Kagan confirmation process - It's all politics

Song 6: Keep on moving forward - Emma's Revolution

Act 7: Thurgood Marshall case histories - Thom Hartmann

Song 7: Powerless - The Salads

Act 8: Kagan in a turban - Rachel Maddow

Song 8: Will you remember - The Cranberries

Act 9: Terrible confirmation process - Citizen Radio

Song 9: Carolina Dreams - Heroes and Villains

Act 10: More of less free - Young Turks

Song 10: I'm free - The Soup Dragons

Act 11: Release the Kagan - Daily Show

 

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Supreme Court Justice Sweetness - Colbert Report

 

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Edition #383

A celebration of science

 

Act 1: NUMMI is reborn for electric cars - NPR

Song 1: Electric car - They might be giants

Act 2: News of the warm 1 - Le Show

Song 2: Warning sign - Coldplay

Act 3: Bill McKibben Interview Part 1 - The Progressive

Song 3: Fake Empire - The National

Act 4: Climate change vs. Biblical Armageddon - The Onion

Song 4: The end's not near - Band of Horses

Act 5: Bill McKibben Interview Part 2 - The Progressive

Song 5: Big black nothing - Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band

Act 6: How to draw attention to climate rallies - Counterspin

Song 6: Starsign - Apoptygma Berzerk

Act 7: Bill McKibben Interview Part 3 - The Progressive

Song 7: Drive - R.E.M.

Act 8: Denying science - Ring of Fire

Song 8: Science is real - They might be giants

Act 9: News of the warm 2 - Le Show

Song 9: Polar bear - The Quiet Two

Act 10: What the fuck is wrong with you people - Bill Maher

 

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Edition #382

Obama and GOP speak on oil spill

 

Act 1: Day 58, Obama's speech - Daily Show

Song 1: Friend of the Devil - Counting Crows

Act 2: President's weekly address - Le Show

Song 2: Angry - Matchbox Twenty

Act 3: LA Senator wants more oil drilling - Young Turks

Song 3: Mushaboom - Feist

Act 4: More moronic GOP reactions - Daily Show

Song 4: The Wind - Cat Stevens

Act 5: Leaving for a yacht race - Wait wait don't tell me

Song 5: Skinny Love - Bon Iver

Act 6: Oil execs know nothing about spills - Rachel Maddow

Song 6: Aegean Wave - Suzanne Ciani

Act 7: Oil regulation corruption - Le Show

Song 7: Failure by design - Brand New

Act 8: Of oil, energy and filibusters - Bill Maher

Song 8: Never Before - Zhang Yun Jing

Act 9: Oil spill not an environmental disaster - Young Turks

Song 9: When it all goes wrong again - Everclear

Act 10: International oil market - Rachel Maddow

 

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Tip/Wag at Marshall Islands - Colbert Report

 

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Edition #381

Wars, Crimes and War Crimes

 

Act 1: Back in Black - Mark Fiore

Song 1: Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin

Act 2: Bush admits to war crimes - Countdown

Song 2: Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote

Act 3: Water-boarding is a no-brainer - Bill Maher

Song 3: Monster - The Automatic Automatic

Act 4: Water-boarding USA - Le Show

Song 4: Water-boarding USA - Harry Shearer

Act 5: Respect my authoritah - Daily Show

Song 5: Mount Doom (feat. Renée Fleming) - Howard Shore

Act 6: Following the constitution or not - Jimmy Dore

Song 6: California - Phantom Planet

Act 7: Sy Hersh story on battlefield executions - Young Turks

Song 7: You Got to Get Out of There - Dave Cross

Act 8: Comparing the Bush and Obama policies - Bill Maher

Song 8: Kyoko's House  ("stage blood is not enough") - Philip Glass

Act 9: U.S. Airliner Sajacked - The Onion

Song 9: Wheel of fortune - Kay Starr

Act 10: Interview with Republican on Miranda Rights - Jimmy Dore

Song 10: 1901 - Phoenix

Act 11: Clusterfuck to the war house - Korea and Middle East - Daily Show

Song 11: The Dead Heart - Midnight Oil

Act 12: Killing Number 3 - On the Media

Song 12: Feet to the fire - the hereafter

Act 13: Obama's Bush-like war comments - Young Turks

 

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Edition #380

Oil Apologies

 

Act 1: Trust me - Mark Fiore

Song 1: Happy to be stuck with you - Huey Lewis and the News

Act 2: We care about the small people - Wait wait don't tell me

Song 2: Always mean it - Emilyn Brodsky

Act 3: Oil apologies - Le Show

Song 3: Small People - Harry Shearer

Act 4: Oil companies lie about spill severity - On the Media

Song 4: Chicago - Escape Directors

Act 5: BP and the oil spill - The NOW show

Song 5: Unforgiven - Apocalyptica

Act 6: Defending BP - Media Matters

Act 7: Jobs lost in murderous, hateful industries - Bill Maher

Song 7: Working class hero - Green Day

Act 8: BP stock sinks - Colbert Report

Song 8: All in - Better than Ezra

Act 9: Chairman Barton - It's all politics

Song 9: Sorry, blame it on me - Akon

Act 10: GOP glass jaw - Rachel Maddow

Song 10: Alright Alright (Here's My Fist Where's the Fight?) - Sahara Hotnights

Act 11: An energy-independent future - Daily Show

 

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Put the Cursed Monkey Paw Down - Colbert Report

 

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Edition #377
Yet another oil spill show

Act 1: Crude and Unusual - Colbert Report
Song 1: White flag - Dido
Act 2: BP RIP - Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Addicted to oil - Le Show
Act 3: The gall of BP's Tony Hayward - The Progressive
Song 3: Back in the high life again - Steve Winwood
Act 4: Hayward's apology from BP - Le Show
Song 4: Hard to say I'm sorry - Chicago
Act 5: GOP wants you to pay for the spill - Young Turks
Song 5: Rude awakening - Ed Robinson
Act 6: Strike it mucky - The Bugle
Song 6: Not sorry - The Cranberries
Act 7: Philippe Cousteau interview - Bill Maher
Song 7: Liquid Sun - The Beginning (A New Hope) (club mix) - DJ Keoki
Act 8: Dead, dying and headless carcases - Countdown
Song 8: Black water - The Doobie Brothers
Act 9: The Petro science dude - Le Show
Song 9: I Am a Paleontologist - They Might Be Giants and Danny Weinkauf
Act 10: Comparing ACORN with BP - Rachel Maddow

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America's Strained Relationship With England - Colbert Report

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You (nearly) have the right to remain honest

Act 1: Un-gay - Mark Fiore

Song 1: It's the End of the World As We Know It - R.E.M.

Act 2: Alpha Dog of the Week - Colbert Report

Song 2: Dog days are over - Florence And The Machine

Act 3: Closeted gays hurting the rest - Rachel Maddow

Song 3: Unforgiven - Apocalyptica

Act 4: Teens turn gay spontainiously - Young Turks

Song 4: Jenny says - Cowboy Mouth

Act 5: New life in the closet - The Onion

Song 5: Brand new lover - Dead or alive

Act 6: They Gay - Colbert Report

Song 6: Take my hand - Dido

Act 7: DADT update - Young Turks

Song 7: When you're gone - The Cranberries

Act 8: Beginning on DADT - Rachel Maddow

Song 8: The Climb - No Doubt

Act 9: Good riddance to DADT - The Progressive

Song 9: This is not the end - The Bravery

Act 10: Can't trust gay soldiers - The Young Turks

Song 10: The passenger - Iggy Pop

Act 11: Discussion with Dan Savage - Countdown

Song 11: I'm looking through you - The Wallflowers

Act 12: On the road to overt sexuality - Young Turks

Song 12: Run around - Blues Traveler

Act 13: DADT nowhere near over - Rachel Maddow

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Family Research Council's European Gaycation - Daily Show

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Edition #352

Destroying the media in more ways than one

 

Act 1: Some bullshit happening somewhere - The Onion

Act 2: We need less media consolidation - The Progressive

Act 3: Anchor management - Daily Show

Act 4: Internet freedom in danger - Young Turks

Act 5: Beck makes it harder for FOX to fool people - Counterspin

Act 6: Glenn Beck on net neutrality - Young Turks

Act 7: Beck on Obama's politics of fear - Media Matters

Act 8: Beck attacks social justice - Colbert Report

Act 9: Glen Beck's hate train crashes - Ring of Fire

Act 10: Context, lies and videotape - Rachel Maddow

Act 11: Fox brings on anyone against health reform - Media Matters

Act 12: CNN hires Erick Erickson - Daily Show

 

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The Blogs Must Be Crazy - Daily Show

 

Music:

Been it - The Cardigans

And it spread - Avett Brothers

Everything to everyone - Everclear

Do it again - Five Times August

Green eyes - Coldplay

Soir De Fête - Yann Tiersen

Spirit in the sky - Norman Greenbaum

La Valse Des Vieux Os - Yann Tiersen

 

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Edition #351

I's on Edjukashun

 

Act 1: Earning is fundamental - Colbert Report

Act 2: Child so stupid she sees letters backwards - The Onion

Act 3: Arne Duncan on US education reform - Colbert Report

Act 4: James Loewen on education - Thom Hartmann

Act 5: Bill Gates on education reform - Daily Show

Act 6: Al Sharpton on education as a civil right - Colbert Report

Act 7: Right wing text books coming to US students - Young Turks

Act 8: Rules grammar change - The Onion

Act 9: Texas school board hearings - Colbert Report

Act 10: Don't mess with textbooks - Daily Show

 

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Teach Sex Ed in Wisconsin, Go To Jail - Young Turks

 

Music:

The Kids Don't Stand A Chance - Vampire Weekend

Cello Song (feat. Jose Gonzalez) - The Books

World spins madly on - The Weepies

Love will come through - Travis

Runaway - Del Shannon

Throwing stones - Shout Out Louds

I need to know - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Sometimes I rhyme slow - Nice & Smooth

Hey Ya - Obadiah Parker

 

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Edition #350

March of the loons

 

Act 1: Health care slime machine - Daily Show

Act 2: Obama may be Anti-Christ, like Hitler - Young Turks

Act 3: Coburn on Fox News bias - Countdown

Act 4: Elephant graveyard with David Frum - Colbert Report

Act 5: Tea partiers should sign anti-government pledge - Thom Hartmann

Act 6: Man attempts to assassinate Obama while not seeming racist - The Onion

Act 7: Pelosi caused trouble by crossing the street - Young Turks

Act 8: Harry Reid supporters, you're not helping - Daily Show

Act 9: Threats to congressmen - Rachel Maddow

Act 10: Wag of the finger to the Hutaree Militia - Colbert Report

Act 11: Right wing extremists on the rise - Young Turks

 

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Obama Bumper Sticker Road Rage

 

Music:

Walk like an Egyptian - The Bangles

Civil war - Guns N' Roses

A few honest words - Ben Sollee

Lessons learned - Matt and Kim

Come Together - The Beatles

Everyday People - Sly and The Family Stone

Something to believe in - The Offspring

Bus rider - John Swihart

Ready for the good times - Shakira

Get ready - The Proclaimers

 

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Edition #349

Who didn't see this coming

 

Act 1: Gay sex scandal involving Vatican - Young Turks

Act 2: Little deaf boys, it's a thing - Le Show

Act 3: The fixer in the Catholic church Part 1 - This American Life

Act 4: Holy Shit - Daily Show

Act 5: The fixer in the Catholic church Part 2 - This American Life

Act 6: Bill Donohue comments on church scandal - Young Turks

Act 7: Christopher Hitchens on Church scandal - Bill Maher

 

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Bill Donohue comments on church scandal Part 2 - Young Turks

 

Music:

Heaven - Los Lonly Boys

Little deaf boys song - Le Show

Pale Horses - Moby

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

Only if - Enya

Genesis - VNV Nation

 

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Edition #348

The new law of the land Part 2

 

Act 1: Crystal clear debate - Rachel Maddow

Act 2: Tea party protesters hurl slurs at congressmen - Young Turks

Act 3: Plea to bring down the violence - Countdown

Act 4: Reactions to health care law - Media Matters

Act 5: Predictable reactions of hate - Ring of Fire

Act 6: Intimidation Part 1 - Rachel Maddow

Act 7: Health care hate talk - Media Matters

Act 8: GOP's health care repeal strategy - Young Turks

Act 9: GOP leaders must denounce brownshirt tactics - The Progressive

Act 10: Dismissing political treats - Media Matters

Act 11: Intimidation Part 2 - Rachel Maddow

Act 12: Blogger inciting vandalism and violence - Young Turks

 

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Dems To Blame For Tea Party Threats - Young Turks

 

Music:

I can see clearly now - Jimmy Cliff

Shout - Tears for Fears

Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'après Midi - Yann Tiersen

Mad world - Gary Jules

Les Jours Tristes (Instrumental) - Yann Tiersen

Coming out - The Killers

Sur Le Fil - Yann Tiersen

Leader - Burning Spear

 

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Edition #347

The new law of the land Part 1

 

Act 1: Obama's signing speech - Countdown

Act 2: Health in the USA - The Bugle

Act 3: Reason to celebrate - Political Scene

Act 4: What happens now - Rachel Maddow

Act 5: Looking back on dire predictions - Media Matters

Act 6: Media misinforms on health debate - On the Media

Act 7: Misleading right up until the vote - Counterspin

Act 8: Passing it and talk of repeal - Wait wait don't tell me

Act 9: The perfect was the enemy of the mediocre - The Progressive

Act 10: The debate is crystal clear - Rachel Maddow

Act 11: Revised school house rock - On the Media

 

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Pros and Cons of the Health Care Reform Bill - Young Turks

 

Music:

Liquid Sun - The Beginning (A New Hope) (club mix) - DJ Keoki

At the club - SM-Trax

We set ourselves free - Club 8

A Quai - Yann Tiersen

Blue Monday - New Order

If I ever feel better - Phoenix

Everybody's free - Rozalla

Resurection (space club mix) - PPK

The world is new - Save Ferris

 

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Edition #346

At war at home and abroad

 

Act 1: The Word - Afghanistan - Colbert Report

Act 2: Afghans may not like having families killed - Counterspin

Act 3: Local harlot exposes face - The Onion

Act 4: Morbid milestone in Afghanistan - The Progressive

Act 5: Obama caves in on military trials - Young Turks

Act 6: Garry Wills on presidential bombing power - Colbert Report

Act 7: Options for terror trials - Counterspin

Act 8: Liz Cheney's Al-Qaeda 7 commercial - Daily Show

Act 9: Obama Admin - Torture is not illegal - Young Turks

Act 10: Marc Thiessen interview - Daily Show

Act 11: Biggest conspiracy ever - Rachel Maddow

 

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Iraqracy - Colbert Report

 

Music:

Meet Me On The Equinox - Death Cab for Cutie

Daffodil Lament - The Cranberries

Killing for love - José González

Lights out - Santigold

Moment Of Tranquillity - Apoptygma Berzerk

Love like a bomb - Oasis

You or your memory - The Mountain Goats

John Adams theme song - HBO

Born Slippy - Underworld

Run on - Moby

 

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Edition #345

Blowing up mountains and our future

 

Act 1: Lorax Coal - Rachel Maddow

Act 2: Ed Markey on climate bill Part 1 - Ring of Fire

Act 3: Oil spill improves wildlife viscosity - The Onion

Act 4: Ed Markey on climate bill Part 2 - Ring of Fire

Act 5: Cookies and carbon - NPR

Act 6: Plans for another energy crisis squashed - Thom Hartmann

Act 7: NY Times gives fair shake to climate loons - Counterspin

Act 8: News of the warm - Le Show

Act 9: Maria Cantwell on the CLEAR Act - Ring of Fire

Act 10: Nuclear gets another comeback - Counterspin

Act 11: Coal Comfort - Margaret Palmer - Colbert Report

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Knock-on effects - Green.tv

 

Music:

Flyswatter - Eels

The perfect space - The Avett Brothers

Greased lightnin' - Grease Soundtrack

Goodbye blue sky - Pink Floyd

I'm free - Soup Dragons

Horchata - Vampire Weekend

Foolish games - Jewel

Let my love open the door - Pete Townsend

Planting seeds - Ten Story Relapse

Friend of the devil - Counting Crows

 

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Edition #344

The ultimate last final push

 

Act 1: Define and conquer - Colbert Report

Act 2: Limbaugh's gonna leave - Media Matter Minute

Act 3: Code red to stop the bill - Rachel Maddow

Act 4: The ultimate last final push - Daily Show

Act 5: Condemning the Slaughter solution - Media Matters Minute

Act 6: Moyers on choice in health care - Bill Moyers' Journal

Act 7: Colbert Report Action center

Act 8: Continuing lies on procedure - Media Matters Minute

Act 9: 11-year old boy - Countdown

Act 10: Heath Con1 - The Mediscarening - Daily Show

Act 11: Fox's final push against health care - Media Matters Minute

Act 12: Getting ready to pass the bill - It's all politics

Act 13: What happens after signing - Rachel Maddow

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Health Care Vote Information Nerve Center - Colbert Report

 

Music:

La Valse d'Amélie (Version Piano) - Yann Tiersen

United we stand -The Brotherhood of Man

Pas Si Simple - Yann Tiersen

Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins

La Valse d'Amélie - Yann Tiersen

Hard to say I'm sorry - Chicago

La Valse Des Montres - Yann Tiersen

Harold T. Wilkins, Or How To Wait For A Very Long Time - Fanfarlo

 

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Edition #343

Religious cults, the Christian Right and evangelists, evil and not

 

Act 1: Are religious cults killing democracy - Thom Hartmann

Act 2: Why are some Christians mad over Avatar - Young Turks

Act 3: Bait and switch evangelism - This American Life

Act 4: Max Blumenthal on Republican Gomorrah Part 1 - Ring of Fire

Act 5: Glen Beck against 'social justice' in religion - Media Matters

Act 6: Max Blumenthal on Republican Gomorrah Part 2 - Ring of Fire

Act 7: Pat Robertson on Haiti's pact with the devil - Counterspin

Act 8: Pat Robertson says Islam is not a religion - Young Turks

 

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Evangelist explains "23 Minutes in Hell" to Thom - Thom Hartmann

 

Music:

Hello bonjour - Michael Franti And Spearhead

In God's country - U2

Knockin' on heaven's door - Guns N' Roses

Lacrymosa - Libera

Mary Mary - Chumbawamba

Shattered faith - Bad Religion

 

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