Edition #337

Terrorism in the age of unreason

Act 1: An inconvenient trial - Daily Show

Act 2: GOP lies on terrorism - Rachel Maddow

Act 3: KSM Trail Formidable Opponent - Colbert Report

Act 4: Fox News making up BS on captured terrorists - Young Turks

Act 5: Afghan thinks every American with fake beard is CIA - The Onion

Act 6: Rank terrorism hypocrisy - Rachel Maddow

Act 7: Wag of the finger on waterboarding - Colbert Report

Act 8: Cheney's memo falls flat - Countdown

Act 9: Right wing talking points debunked - Young Turks

Act 10: The Word - Faux n tell - Colbert Report

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Senator - I believe in racial and ethnic profiling - Young Turks

Music:

Circus Music

Hannah - Freelance Whales

Grapevine Fires - Death Cab For Cutie

Stuck in the middle with you - Stealers Wheel

Your Mama Don't Dance - Loggins and Messina

The district sleeps tonight - The Postal Service

M79 - Vampire Weekend

Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours - The Smiths

Little lies - Fleetwood Mac

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Edition #336

Don't complain, you could buy an election too if you wanted

Act 1: Who owns our politicians - Young Turks

Act 2: Corporate free speech - Colbert Report

Act 3: Jeffery Toobin on purchasing courts Part 1 - Moyer's Journal

Act 4: Dealing with the Supreme Court decision - New Yorker's Political Scene

Act 5: Jeffery Toobin on purchasing courts Part 2 - Moyer's Journal

Act 6: Obama getting his fight back - Rachel Maddow

Act 7: Buying the bench - Moyers' Journal

Act 8: Americans hate corporate money in elections - Young Turks

Act 9: The Word - Prece-Don't - Colbert Report

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

The Supreme Court's Five Circus Midgets - Ring of Fire

Music:

We could be friends - Freelance Whales

Ne Me Quitte Pas - Regina Spektor

Bigmouth strikes again - The Smiths

If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out - Cat Stevens

Nothing better - The Postal Service

Where's my mind - The Pixies

Turn this boat around - Matt & Kim

Messages - Xavier Rudd

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Edition #335 They're here, they're discriminated against, they're used to it Act 1: First DADT hearing tomorrow - Rachel Maddow Act 2: High court bans same-sex friendships - The Onion Act 3: DADT popular in polls - Counterspin Act 4: Dreaded Bliss in New Jersey - Daily Show Act 5: They're here, they're discriminated against, they're used to it - The Bugle Act 6: Fight to serve - Rachel Maddow Act 7: Be almost all that you can be - Colbert Report Act 8: New law would ban loveless marriages - The Onion Act 9: Praise for Obama on DADT - The Progressive Act 10: Gays would get tattoos in the military - Wait wait, don't tell me Act 11: A few gay men and women - Daily Show Act 12: Fight to serve 2 - Rachel Maddow Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Hermaphrodites Can't Be Gay - Colbert Report Music: Move you - Anya Marina The King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. 2 & 3 - Neutral Milk Hotel Starring - Freelance Whales Redemption Song - Bob Marley Am I wrong - Love Spit Love What difference does it make - The Smiths Wild Night - Van Morrison I was married - Tegan and Sara Cat faces - Ugly Casanova Don't ask me why - Billy Joel Old man - Neil Young Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Check out the Best of the Left iPhone/iPod Touch App in the App Store! 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 #334

No bridges to burn

Act 1: The healthcare debate is making me sick - Brian Unger

Act 2: Pass healthcare, DUH - Rachel Maddow

Act 3: 6 facts on Obama and Dems being bipartisan - Young Turks

Act 4: Reconciliation deemed risky - Counterspin

Act 5: Secondhand smoke linked to secondhand coolness - The Onion

Act 6: Haiti vs healthcare - Black Tie Martini Club Oddcast

Act 7: Obama gets tough(er) with GOP - Young Turks

Act 8: The Word, Political Suicide - Colbert Report

Act 9: Real life death panels = Countdown

Act 10: The apparent trap and Hawaiian healthcare - Daily Show

Act 11: Obama has no bridges to burn - Young Turks

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Has Obama Decided Not to Do Health Care Anymore? - Young Turks

Music:

All the same - Sick Puppies

Build me up Buttercup - The Foundations

Don't worry baby - Beach Boys

Never there - Cake

Cigarette Smoke - Arctic Monkeys

Lives in the balance - Jackson Browne

Directions - Josh Rouse

Play with fire - Rolling Stones

Pura Carroceria - Los Del Rio

King Kamehameha - The Waikiki Hula Boys

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Edition #333

Soulless, Clueless, Feckless, Brazen

Act 1: Limbaugh's Haiti comment - Countdown

Act 2: Limbaugh the hyena - Ring of Fire

Act 3: O'Reilly and the Haiti telethon - Countdown

Act 4: Even better than the real thing - The Daily Show

Act 5: Daughter Cheney can't debate - Rachel Maddow

Act 6: The Word - Two-faced - Colbert Report

Act 7: The Wash Post and the Fiscal Times - Counterspin

Act 8: Gretchen Carlson dumbs down - Daily Show

Act 9: Brian Williams on Jon Stewart - NPR

Act 10: How awful it is when media is weak - Counterspin

Act 11: Q and O - Fox News cuts the feed - Daily Show

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Wag of the finger to Fox News - Colbert Report

Music:

Like humans do - David Byrne

Circle of life - Faca Kulu, Lebo M., The Lion King Ensemble & Tsidii Le Loka

The man in me - Bob Dylan

Fairytale - Sara Bareilles

Duck and run - 3 Doors Down

The asshole song - Jimmy Buffett

Highly suspicious - My Morning Jacket

Plum dumb - The Dead Milkmen

Good people - Jack Johnson

Live like you're dying - Lenka

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Edition #332

The Futility of Leaning Right

Act 1: Obama crushes house GOP - Young Turks

Act 2: Doris Kearns Goodwin on weak Dems - Daily Show

Act 3: Change terrifies conservatives - Ring of Fire

Act 4: Obama nails Rep and Cenk debunks lies - Young Turks

Act 5: The word Siren Song - Colbert Report

Act 6: Killing the filibuster - Rachel Maddow

Act 7: Polls show GOP are nuts - Young Turks

Act 8: Introducing the Dem Opossum - Daily Show

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Political Shift in D.C. - How to succeed

Music:

Walk on the wild side - Lou Reed

Messages - Xavier Rudd

Personal Jesus - Johnny Cash

The right thing to do - Carly Simon

Naive - The Kooks

Once around the block - Badly Drawn Boy

I can't - Ben Sollee

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Edition #331

Some take on banks while others lie to protect them

Act 1: Obama takes on bankers - Daily Show

Act 2: Moyers on greed - Moyers' Journal

Act 3: Economists being right isn't enough - Counterspin

Act 4: Eliot Spitzer - Colbert Report

Act 5: Hasty freeze on budget - Rachel Maddow

Act 6: Obama needs to tell a bank regulation story - Political Scene

Act 7: The gang of five - Slate Magazine

Act 8: Austan Goolsbee on the budget drop - Daily Show

Act 9: Leaked memo on lying to protect banks - Young Turks

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

The Word - Manifest Density Economics - Colbert Report

Music:

Lost - Coldplay

Look what you've done - JET

Ain't that unusual - Goo Goo Dolls

Candy everybody wants - 10,000 Maniacs

Sleeping in - The Postal Service

Story of a lonely guy - Blink 182

Cut it out - Anya Marina

Rescue me - Fontella Bass

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Edition #330

Impending Mending or Coming Crash

Act 1: Financial inquiry report - Daily Show

Act 2: Another economic disaster coming - Young Turks

Act 3: Banker are America's new thugs - Ring of Fire

Act 4: Bernie Madoff M.D. - Slate

Act 5: Matt Taibbi on Goldman Sachs - Colbert Report

Act 6: Obama starts to revamp economic team - Young Turks

Act 7: Regulation fundamentally works - Rachel Maddow

Act 8: David Walker's plan for the economy - Daily Show

Act 9: Obama finally standing up to banks - Young Turks

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Obama's Bailout Fee: Is It Enough - Young Turks

Music:

Working class hero - Exit Clov

Jump jive and wail - Brian Setzer Orchestra

Say hey - Michael Franti & Spearhead

All will be well - The Gabe Dixon Band

The Bubble Machine - Leslie Bricusse

I stand corrected - Vampire Weekend

This is twice now - Lydia

I saved the world today - The Eurythmics

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