Sun, 15 August 2010
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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Thu, 12 August 2010
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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Arturo Rodriguez on immigrant workers - Colbert Report
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Tue, 10 August 2010
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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Cenk Rant On Gay Marriage and The Bible - Young Turks
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Sat, 7 August 2010
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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Wed, 4 August 2010
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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Sun, 1 August 2010
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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Automatics for the People - Ilya Shapiro & Jackie Hilly - Colbert Report
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Thu, 29 July 2010
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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Economic Fun Fair - Mark Fiore
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Tue, 27 July 2010
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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Modest-Con 2010 - Colbert Report
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Sat, 24 July 2010
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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Wed, 21 July 2010
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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Sun, 18 July 2010
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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Thu, 15 July 2010
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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Holier Than Dow - Daily Show
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Tue, 13 July 2010
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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Sat, 10 July 2010
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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Wed, 7 July 2010
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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Sun, 4 July 2010
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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Thu, 1 July 2010
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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Tue, 29 June 2010
Edition #379
The Breakup of the Year Act 1: Never disparage civilian superiors - Wait wait don't tell me Song 1: Sixteen Military Wives - The Decemberists Act 2: Firing generals - It's all politics Song 2: We never change - Coldplay Act 3: Must have been high - Colbert Report Song 3: Higher and higher - Alice Deejay Act 4: Fox News hits the talking points - Young Turks Song 4: I'm no superman - Laslo Bane Act 5: McChrystal's Balls - The Bugle Song 5: Popular - Nada Surf Act 6: Unfettered access - On the Media Song 6: It's the same old song - The Four Tops Act 7: Honorable, yet oily, discharge - Daily Show Song 7: All the same - Anya Marina Act 8: McChrystal's last report and meeting - Le Show Song 8: Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam Act 9: Great Hastings quotes - Young Turks Song 9: You're the best - Joe Esposito Act 10: Ore on Terror - Daily Show Song 10: Fade to Black - Apoptygma Berzerk Act 11: Not just for opium wholesalers - Wait wait don't tell me Song 11: Meet the elements - They might be giants Act 12: The Word - Who War it Best - Colbert Report Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: McChrystal's Balls - Daily Show 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.
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Sat, 26 June 2010
Edition #378
Media is weak and getting weaker Act 1: Press you're stuck - Daily Show Song 1: Termite circus - Monkey Island 4 Act 2: Goodbye to Helen Thomas - On the Media Song 2: Custom BotL promo instrumental - Chris Priest Act 3: Michael Copps on Net Neutrality Part 1 - Bill Moyers Journal Song 3: Loose ends - Imogen Heap Act 4: Beck airs Israeli raid footage - Daily Show Song 4: Timeless - Kate Havnevik Act 5: Michael Copps on Net Neutrality Part 2 - Bill Moyers Journal Song 5: Future is now - Dune Act 6: David Gregory on rights to a lawyer - Jimmy Dore Show Song 6: Nuevo Marrow - Grim Fandango Soundtrack Act 7: Impossibility of reporting on financial reform - On the Media Song 7: Otherside - Red Hot Chili Peppers Act 8: Obama is God's punishment - Young Turks Song 8: Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra Act 9: Bush-like missteps - Daily Show Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy 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.
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Wed, 23 June 2010
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 Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: America's Strained Relationship With England - Colbert Report 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. |
Sun, 20 June 2010
Edition #376
Yeah, still going on Act 1: More of Obama's non-anger - Wait wait don't tell me Song 1: Don't look back in anger - Oasis Act 2: Proven unsafe - Rachel Maddow Song 2: Mystify - INXS Act 3: Speaking of BP - Le Show Song 3: Too late, too slow - Shout Out Louds Act 4: BP ad campaign - Daily Show Song 4: Dream on - Aerosmith Act 5: Oil spill prayer chain - Jimmy Dore Show Song 5: Like a prayer - Madonna Act 6: James Carville oil spill rage - Colbert Report Song 6: Love like a bomb - Oasis Act 7: Rachel's Presidential address - Rachel Maddow Song 7: World spins madly on - The Weepies Act 8: Tar Beachopolous - Le Show Song 8: Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400 Act 9: Oil spill retrospective - Countdown Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: The spilling fields - To Shell and Back - Daily Show 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.
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Thu, 17 June 2010
Edition #375
An Armada of Humanaterrorists Act 1: Israel beat the Somalis to it - BBC News Quiz Song 1: Hostage-O - Warren Zevon Act 2: Release the prisoners, release the tapes - Young Turks Song 2: Respect - Diana Ross & The Supremes Act 3: Republican on Gaza - Jimmy Dore Show Song 3: Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins Act 4: Obama mute on Israeli aggression - The Progressive Song 4: Different Names - Death Cab For Cutie Act 5: Discussing the flotilla - Bill Maher Song 5: Different Shore - Nightnoise Act 6: Dueling taped accounts - On the Media Song 6: Sea of love - Cat Power Act 7: Obama helps obstruct Israel investigation - Young Turks Song 7: Glyserine - Bush Act 8: Don't cheer the departure of Helen Thomas - The Progressive Song 8: Soir De Fête - Yann Tiersen Act 9: Fox on Helen Thomas - Media Matters Act 10: Helen Thomas's departure - Counterspin Song 10: Slight Figure of Speech - The Avett Brothers Act 11: Michael Oren and formidable opponent - Colbert Report Song 11: We could be friends - Freelance Whales Act 12: Joe Biden hits new low - The Progressive Song 12: Doctor my eyes - Jackson 5 Act 13: Israel does something crazy/frustrating - The Bugle Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Israel Flotilla Raid - Breakdown of Who's Right and Wrong - Young Turks 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.
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Tue, 15 June 2010
Edition #374
We're all covered in oil Act 1: The Spilling Fields - Daily Show Song 1: Sweet Georgia Brown - Brother Bones and His Shadows Act 2: Oil and energy policy - Rachel Maddow Song 2: Talk - Coldplay Act 3: Obama's non-anger - Wait wait don't tell me Song 3: Talking to myself - Pummel Act 4: Booming rant - Le Show Song 4: Boom - Le Show Act 5: Profits drive corner-cutting - Counterspin Song 5: This year - The Mountain Goats Act 6: Interview with Republican on oil - Jimmy Dore Show Song 6: Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours - The Smiths Act 7: BP should go under - The Progressive Song 7: Shady River - The Chapin Sisters Act 8: Talking about oil - Bill Maher Song 8: Electric Version - The New Pornographers Act 9: BP's media blockade - On the Media Song 9: Clubbed to Death - Rob Dougan Act 10: BP blocks reporter - Young Turks Song 10: Einstein On The Beach - Counting Crows Act 11: Obama's kick-ass PR skills - BBC News Quiz Song 11: Common people - William Shatner featuring Joe Jackson Act 12: Test of functioning media and politics - Rachel Maddow Song 12: A change is gonna come - Ben Sollee Act 13: Who's really covered in oil - Le Show Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Oils well that never ends - Colbert Report 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.
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Sat, 12 June 2010
Edition #373 Lots of swears about religion
Act 1: Pope song - Tim Minchin
Act 2: 90's norms of priesthood - Le Show
Song 2: Lleva Me El Compas - Gipsy Kings
Act 3: How L.A. Archdiocese mishandled a priest - NPR
Song 3: Tomorrow, Wendy - Concrete Blonde
Act 4: 8-year old injured mimicking crucifixion - The Onion
Song 4: Crucify - Tori Amos
Act 5: US founded on the bible - Young Turks
Song 5: Great divide - The Cardigans
Act 6: White people prayer gap - Colbert Report
Song 6: Personal Jesus - Johnny Cash
Act 7: Some religions crazier than others - Bill Maher
Song 7: Me and God and Jesus - Crooked Roads Band
Act 8: Church cancelled due to lack of God - The Onion
Song 8: Do you believe in magic - The Lovin' Spoonful
Act 9: Witchcraft in Nigeria related to Christians - Young Turks
Song 9: La Réalité - Amadou & Mariam
Act 10: South Park death threats - Daily Show
Song 10: Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: Hallelujah - The London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir & Walter Susskind
Act 11: Comedy stylings on religion - Jamie Kilstein
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Tue, 8 June 2010
Edition #372
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 Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Family Research Council's European Gaycation - Daily Show 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.
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Sat, 5 June 2010
Edition #371
Stop me if you've heard this before Act 1: Moving on to depressed resignation Part 1 - The Bugle Song 1: Witness - Roots Manuva Act 2: Obama responds to BP disaster - The Progressive Song 2: Like a Criminal - The Sheila Divine Act 3: Moving on to depressed resignation Part 2 - The Bugle Song 3: Cold cash, colder hearts - Thrice Act 4: Oil regulation break down - Rachel Maddow Song 4: Instrumental - Chris Priest Act 5: Just blow it up - Wait wait don't tell me Song 5: Death to traitors - Beloved Act 6: Obama's non-anger - Countdown Song 6: Roosevelt Room - Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band Act 7: No dog feces on BP gas pump handles - Jimmy Dore Show Song 7: Rebel Hearts - Roots Manuva Act 8: Oil spill may be a message from God - Young Turks Song 8: Harrisburg - Josh Ritter Act 9: Interview with BP Exec - Le Show Song 9: Spandex Man - Mr. Scruff Act 10: Oil spill rant - Thom Hartmann Song 10: Change of time - Josh Ritter Act 11: Macho failures - Wait wait don't tell me Song 11: Big black nothing - Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band Act 12: Gulf oil spill from the 70's - Rachel Maddow Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Nature of corporations and oil - Rachel Maddow 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.
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Wed, 2 June 2010
Edition #370
Analysis and warnings, we see it coming Act 1: Hoarders - Daily Show Song 1: Have you had enough - Rickie Lee Jones and The Squirrel Nut Zippers Act 2: The banks still own congress - The Progressive Song 2: What I am - Edie Brickell and New Bohemians Act 3: Goldman fraud case - Colbert Report Song 3: All apologies - Nirvana Act 4: Greece falls, the US may be next - Young Turks Song 4: Curl up and die - Relient K Act 5: Ian Bremmer interview - Daily Show Song 5: TV Trays - Death Cab For Cutie Act 6: Loan sharks manipulate people - Rachel Maddow Song 6: Hey Ya - Obadiah Parker Act 7: Simon Johnson, 13 Bankers - Colbert Report Song 7: Torn Blue Foam Couch - Grand Archives Act 8: Taxes - Daily Show Song 8: Class Warfare - Chris Priest Act 9: Reform bill is a joke - Young Turks Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Greece Wither Soon - Scheherazade Rehman - Colbert Report 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.
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Tue, 1 June 2010
Edition #369
Out of the mouths of infant-minded adults Act 1: Napoleon blown apart - Colbert Report Song 1: Loser - Three doors down Act 2: Tax Day Tea Party Part 1 - New Left Media Song 2: Unwell - Matchbox Twenty Act 3: Blogger want Obama assassinated - Young Turks Song 3: Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love - They might be giants Act 4: Tax Day Tea Party Part 2 - New Left Media Song 4: Drums of freedom - Theo Bard Act 5: Maddow on McVeigh tapes - Daily Show Song 5: See the sun - Dido Act 6: Tax Day Tea Party Part 3 - New Left Media Song 6: Little miss can't be wrong - Spin Doctors Act 7: Anti-govt militia movement growing - Young Turks Song 7: Yell fire - Michael Franti And Spearhead Act 8: Tax Day Tea Party Part 4 - New Left Media Song 8: Struggle - Ringside Act 9: Rand Paul follow up - Rachel Maddow Song 9: Bulletproof - La Roux Act 10: Tax Day Tea Party Part 5 - New Left Media Song 10: Take me home tonight - Eddie Money Act 11: Tea Party PSA from D.C. Douglas - Funny or Die Song 11: John Adams theme song - HBO Act 12: Tax Day Tea Party Part 6 - New Left Media Song 12: Brain damage - Pink Floyd Act 13: Giving up the empire - Bill Maher Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: P.K. Winsome - Tea Party Consulting - Colbert Report 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.
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Sat, 29 May 2010
Edition #368
Their fault, our fault, your fault, my fault Act 1: Proud to be British - The Bugle Song 1: Crazy train - Ozzy Osbourn Act 2: GOP runs from drill baby drill - Young Turks Song 2: Accidental Mambo - Mambo All-Stars Act 3: Impacts and comparisons - On the Media Song 3: Sea - George Winston Act 4: Spreading the blame - BBC News Quiz Song 4: Hole in the bucket - Spearhead Act 5: Oil spills not a big deal - Counterspin Song 5: Don't worry baby - The Beach Boys Act 6: Texas Gov blames God for spill - Young Turks Song 6: Better days - Citizen King Act 7: Oil spill results in improved wildlife viscosity - The Onion Song 7: A beautiful world - Tim Myers Act 8: Political consequences - The Political Scene Song 8: Heart still beating - Ottmar Liebert Act 9: Oil spill is your fault - Mark Fiore Song 9: Anthem Pt. 1 - Blink 182 Act 10: Getting off of oil - Bill Maher Song 10: In the aeroplane over the sea - Neutral Milk Hotel Act 11: Oil containment solutions randomizer - Colbert Report Song 11: Shove it - Santigold Act 12: Lasting legacy of oil spills - Rachel Maddow Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: There Will Be Blame - Daily Show 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.
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Wed, 26 May 2010
Edition #367 Arrest the Pope
Act 1: Devil denounces Catholic Church - SNL
Song 1: Play With Fire - The Rolling Stones
Act 2: Dawkins wants to arrest the Pope - BBC News Quiz
Song 2: Jesus loved Judas - Jason Roseboom
Act 3: Continuing coverage of Catholic scandal - On the Media
Song 3: Jesus is just alright - The Doobie Brothers
Act 4: Volcano/Earthquake news Part 1 - The Bugle
Song 4: Eleanor Rigby (strings only) - The Beatles
Act 5: Catholic Church condemns metrosexuality - The Onion
Song 5: Pray for you - Jaron And The Long Road To Love
Act 6: Volcano/Earthquake news Part 2 - The Bugle
Song 6: Sorrow - Bad Religion
Act 7: RFK on the Catholic Church scandal - Ring of Fire
Song 7: Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Act 8: Why it's OK to criticize religion - Citizen Radio
Song 8: Book of days - Enya
Act 9: Pope Opera - Daily Show
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Jesus in a Frying Pan - Young Turks
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Sun, 23 May 2010
Edition #366
Horrifying health care aftermath Act 1: Unethical bastards - Daily Show Song 1: Slave song - Sade Act 2: Post-game of just passed health bill - Blast the Right Song 2: Suffer - Stretford End Act 3: Angry reactions to health care law - It's all politics Song 3: A-Punk - Vampire Weekend Act 4: GOP strike back - Young Turks Song 4: Scenic world - Beirut Act 5: Well point and bartering with Michael Moore - Countdown Song 5: Happy - Sister Hazel Act 6: John Dingell on health care and finance - Daily Show Song 6: Tin man - The Avett Brothers Act 7: Fox says you'll go to jail - Fox News Channel Song 7: Red Rain - REM w/ Peter Gabriel and Natalie Merchant Act 8: O'Reilly attempts to rewrite history - Young Turks Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Sue Lowden on chickens for healthcare - Colbert Report 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.
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Thu, 20 May 2010
Edition #365 Valid and moronic arguments against Kagan Act 1: Hang on Stevens - The Al Franken Show Act 2: History of Supreme Court fights - Rachel Maddow Song 2: A Quai - Yann Tiersen Act 3: Nomination predictions - Media Matters Song 3: A Quai - Yann Tiersen Act 4: Release the Kagan - Daily Show Song 4: The great estates - Freelance Whales Act 5: Kagan a bad pick by Obama - Young Turks Song 5: Somebody Already Broke My Heart - Sade Act 6: Swing and a miss - Countdown Song 6: Gone to sleep - Moby Act 7: Kagan the consensus builder - Rachel Maddow Song 7: Les Jours Tristes - Yann Tiersen Act 8: Kagan and the military recruiters - Media Matters Song 8: Les Jours Tristes - Yann Tiersen Act 9: Kagan worship with Dahlia Lithwick - Colbert Report Song 9: No questions - Fleetwood Mac Act 10: Hypocrisy on Kagan - Rachel Maddow Song 10: La Dispute - Yann Tiersen Act 11: Kagan a leftist activist - Media Matters Song 11: La Dispute - Yann Tiersen Act 12: Conservatives pretend Kagan is gay - Young Turks Song 12: Take Five - Dave Brubeck Act 13: Comparison to H. Meyers nomination - Rachel Maddow Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Confirming Elena - Colbert Report 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.
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Tue, 18 May 2010
Edition #364 Delusions of fascism, journalism and grandeur Act 1: Glenn Beck's Nazi Tourette's - Daily Show Song 1: Better be quite now - Elliott Smith Act 2: The power of conservative media - Young Turks Song 2: Everything In Its Right Place - Radiohead Act 3: Dissecting NBC report on financial reform - Jimmy Dore Song 3: Too much information - Duran Duran Act 4: Bernie Goldberg fires back - Daily Show Song 4: Knock yourself out - Jon Brion Act 5: Fox News spins net neutrality - Young Turks Song 5: So much more - Marc Robillard Act 6: Jon Meacham on sale of Newsweek - Daily Show Song 6: Who will buy - Oliver Twist Act 7: Goldman defended in the media - Counterspin Song 7: You're a wolf - Sea Wolf Act 8: Glenn to the mountaintop - Colbert Report Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Obama Slams Tea Party Rallies & Fox News Reacts - Young Turks 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.
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Sat, 15 May 2010
Edition #363
Wrongheaded reactions, foreign and domestic Act 1: Palin on the playground - The Bugle Song 1: Buildings and mountains - The Republic Tigers Act 2: Andrew Bacevich on Afghanistan Part 1 - Moyers Journal Song 2: Highschool lover - Air Act 3: Using smaller missiles - Counterspin Song 3: Empty room - Marjorie Fair Act 4: Andrew Bacevich on Afghanistan Part 2 - Moyers Journal Song 4: What's the matter here - 10,000 maniacs Act 5: Iraq should pay for us killing them - Young Turks Song 5: Politic Amagni (La Politique, C'est Pas Bon) - Amadou & Mariam Act 6: Post script to Afghanistan interview - Moyers Journal Song 6: Peacocks - The Mountain Goats Act 7: Boom doesn't go the dynamite - Colbert Report Song 7: Headlock - Imogen Heap Act 8: Lieberman's citizenship law - Countdown Song 8: Patience - Guns N' Roses Act 9: Lieberman's extrajudicial law - The Progressive Song 9: Up against the wall - Peter Bjorn & John Act 10: Just lucky - Young Turks Song 10: The lucky one - Alison Krauss and Union Station Act 11: Lieberman introduces citizenship bill - Rachel Maddow Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Explosive and the City 2 - Daily Show 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.
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Thu, 13 May 2010
Edition #362
Winning by losing Act 1: Winning by losing - Mark Fiore Song 1: I'm a loser - The Beatles Act 2: Minority leader called out - Young Turks Song 2: Birdhouse in your soul - They Might be Giants Act 3: The inside job Part 1 - This American Life Song 3: Cat faces - Ugly Casanova Act 4: Fraud hearing on shitty deals - Wait wait don't tell me Song 4: Working class hero - Green Day Act 5: The inside job Part 2 - This American Life Song 5: Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms Act 6: The GOP alternative to financial reform - Young Turks Song 6: Damn it feels good to be a gangsta - Geto Boys Act 7: The inside job Part 3 - This American Life Song 7: Bet Against the American Dream - This American Life Act 8: Wham-O moves to America - Daily Show Song 8: Wake up - Arcade Fire Act 9: GOP up Wall Street's ass - Young Turks Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: S.E.C. porn - Daily Show 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.
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Tue, 11 May 2010
Edition #361
The Police State Welcomes You Act 1: Boycotting AZ, teas and otherwise - Wait wait don't tell me Song 1: Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens Act 2: AZ law spurs immigration reform - Rachel Maddow Song 2: Different People - No Doubt Act 3: AZ Sheriff rips new law - Young Turks Song 3: Stand - R.E.M. Act 4: Law and Border - Daily Show Song 4: I miss you - Blink 182 Act 5: O'Reilly grasping to support AZ law - Counterspin Song 5: See you on the other side - Ozzy Osbourn Act 6: Papers please amendments - Rachel Maddow Song 6: Bouncing around the room - Phish Act 7: The word - No Problemo - Colbert Report Song 7: Mexico - The Refreshments Act 8: Wrongful arrests happens already - Young Turks Song 8: Still crazy after all these years - Paul Simon Act 9: Police State Pete - Mark Fiore Song 9: What I'm looking for - Brendan Benson Act 10: AZ law writers are liars, racists - Rachel Maddow Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Suspicious Behavior on Cinco de Mayo - Daily Show 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.
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Sun, 9 May 2010
Edition #360
For the sake of dinosaur squeezings Act 1: Dinosaur squeezings – Mark Fiore Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Music 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. |
Thu, 6 May 2010
Edition #359
Bulls, Bears, Bailouts and Fraud Act 1: Luntz memo of reform-killing talking points - Rachel Maddow Act 2: Dishonest and diversionary rhetoric - The Progressive Act 3: Dow over 11,000 - Colbert Report Act 4: Dodd speech on financial reform - Countdown Act 5: Senate hearing scoldings - Daily Show Act 6: 10-hour banker interrogation - On the Media Act 7: GOP blocks reform because they love Wall Street - Young Turks Act 8: Elizabeth Warren on financial reform - Colbert Report Act 9: Moyers on the American Dream - Bill Moyers Journal Act 10: These F@#king guys - Goldman Sachs - Daily Show Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Roll Out the Cots - Rachel Maddow Music: Sweet little lies - Michael Franti And Spearhead Re Stacks - Bon Iver How to see the sun rise - Ben Sollee Monday - Jon Brion Such great heights - The Postal Service Solid Action - The Wes Hollywood Show You're a wolf - Sea Wolf Grapevine fires - Death Cab For Cutie Possibility - Lykke Li 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.
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Sat, 1 May 2010
Edition #358 Forced to lie to serve with honor Act 1: Busted anti-gay republican comes out - Young Turks Act 2: Repealing DADT popular in polls - Counterspin Act 3: Bait and snitch - Colbert Report Act 4: Gay Saudi gets arrested - Young Turks Act 5: Letter from old military on DADT Part 1 - Rachel Maddow Act 6: Gay gene isolated, ostracized - The Onion Act 7: Letter from old military on DADT Part 2 - Rachel Maddow Act 8: Gays in military leads to genocide - Young Turks Act 9: New law to ban unloving marriages - The Onion Act 10: Dutch ask Dutch tell - Rachel Maddow Act 11: Bigots likely dumber and poorer, duh - Young Turks Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Trying to support the military and hate gays - Colbert Report Music: Close to me - The Cure Minority - Green Day Take your mama - Scissor Sisters The argument - This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - The Smiths Me and Julio down by the schoolyard - Paul Simon Your Heart Is An Empty Room - Death Cab For Cutie All These Things That I've Done - The Killers January Wedding - The Avett Brothers Pure Imagination - Leslie Bricusse (Willy Wonka) 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.
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Tue, 27 April 2010
Edition #357
Cowardice and callousness Act 1: We can't be overly accepting - Citizen Radio Act 2: Girl has nose and ears cut off - Young Turks Act 3: Reza Aslan on Afghanistan - Daily Show Act 4: Boxing the US in Afghanistan - The Progressive Act 5: Rep Grayson's stunning points on our wars - Young Turks Act 6: Obama's courage on nukes - The Progressive Act 7: Commanders using media to sell war - Young Turks Act 8: Wikileaks video - Rachel Maddow Act 9: Support the troops is not unconditional - The Progressive Act 10: Iraq shooting video analysis - Young Turks Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: The Big Bang Treaty - Daily Show Music: Handsome Devil - The Smiths Warchild - The Cranberries So long Jimmy - James Blunt President - Wyclef Jean Hero of war - Rise Against Cloud Nine - Ben Howard Casualties Of War - Rakim Cosmic Love - Florence + The Machine 1 Trillion Dollars - Anti-Flag 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.
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Sat, 24 April 2010
Edition #356
Yeah, I'm conflating the tea parties with the militia movement Act 1: Armed march on almost Washington - Rachel Maddow Act 2: The history of April 19th and 20th - On the Media Act 3: On the road with the Tea Party Express - Daily Show Act 4: Echos of Oklahoma City - Rachel Maddow Act 5: How the FBI arrested a militia - NPR Act 6: FBI investigates tea party threats - Young Turks Act 7: Interview with a teabagger - Le Show Act 8: The un-tea party - Rachel Maddow Act 9: Tea America - Daily Show Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: At a tea party with a no medicare pledge - Thom Hartmann Music: 1901 - Phoenix Spring Came, Rain Fell - Club 8 Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind - The Lovin' Spoonful We shall overcome - Pete Seeger Let's work together - Canned Heat Smokin from shootin - My Morning Jacket Spaceman - The Office, BBC Unbirthday song - Camarata Chorus and Orchestra 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.
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Thu, 22 April 2010
Edition #356
Don't believe in any form of sorcery Act 1: Man faces execution for sorcery - Young Turks Act 2: Passover seder half-assed - The Onion Act 3: Jesus, Reconsidered - NPR Act 4: Student forced out of school over gay parents - Young Turks Act 5: Corruption in the Catholic Church - Bill Maher Act 6: Indian rationalist battles swamis and babas - Young Turks Act 7: Desire to ejaculate motivates local Christian to wed - The Onion Act 8: Study narrows gap between mind and brain - NPR Act 9: Liberals and atheists smarter than conservatives and the religious - Young Turks Act 10: The need for more warm, cuddly atheists - Citizen Radio Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: The Word - Forgive and Forget Church scandal Music: Porcelain - Moby I've gotta be me - Sammy Davis, Jr. Ebudae - Enya Early in the morning - Peter, Paul And Mary Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths Shattered faith - Bad Religion Like a virgin - Madonna New soul - Yael Naïm Halo - Beyoncé 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.
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Tue, 20 April 2010
Edition #354
Toxic assets from Wall St to West Virginia Act 1: Lifestyles of the rich and despicable - Wait wait don't tell me Act 2: We bought a toxic asset so you can watch it die - NPR Act 3: Michael Lewis - The Big Short - Daily Show Act 4: Joeseph Stiglitz on the economic freefall Part 1 - Ring of Fire Act 5: Is 2010 going to be 1994 or 1934 - Slate.com Act 6: Joeseph Stiglitz on the economic freefall Part 2 - Ring of Fire Act 7: No one would listen - Daily Show Act 8: WV Mine blast conservatives fault - Young Turks Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: The Robin Hood Tax - A Good Idea - Green.tv Music: So long - Lodger Toxicity - System of a Down I second that emotion - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles The gambler - Kenny Rogers Dreamtime - Uberzone Falling down - Oasis Lights out - Santigold 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.
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Sat, 17 April 2010
Edition #353 Backwards politics and the climate Act 1: Annie Leonard on stuff - Colbert Report Act 2: Dr. James Hansen - Storms of my grandchildren - Thom Hartmann Act 3: Chamber of commerce and the climate - Ring of Fire Act 4: Facing America's energy crisis Part 1 - Moyers' Journal Act 5: British House of Commons on 'climate gate' - Counterspin Act 6: Facing America's energy crisis Part 2 - Moyers' Journal Act 7: Obama's switcheroo on offshore drilling - The Progressive Act 8: Oilmen fund anti-climate change groups - Young Turks Act 9: Media reaction to offshore drilling - Counterspin Act 10: Not taking 'yes' for an answer - Rachel Maddow Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: The Tree Hugging Pentagon - Ring of Fire Music: Time to take out the trash - Brad Sucks Breathe me - Sia On the turning away - Pink Floyd Energy - The Apples In Stereo The airway - Owl City Don't Let It Bring You Down - Annie Lennox & Steven Lipson Sill can't - The Cranberries Fake plastic trees - Radiohead Shut your eyes - Shout Out Louds 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. |
Tue, 13 April 2010
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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: 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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Sun, 11 April 2010
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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: 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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Thu, 8 April 2010
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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: 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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Tue, 6 April 2010
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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: 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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Sun, 4 April 2010
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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: 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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Wed, 31 March 2010
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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: 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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Fri, 26 March 2010
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
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: 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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Wed, 24 March 2010
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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Mon, 22 March 2010
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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Wed, 17 March 2010
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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Sat, 13 March 2010
Edition #342 Situation generally screwed up
Act 1: New financial fight - Rachel Maddow Act 2: Scott Patterson on The Quants - Daily Show Act 3: Politicians admit they're owned by Wall Street - Young Turks Act 4: Is the economic ship sinking and rats jumping ship - Thom Hartmann Act 5: Elizabeth Warren interview - Real time with Bill Maher Act 6: Elizabeth Warren interview - Daily Show Act 7: Teeing off on Fareed Zakaria - Citizen Radio
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Has Obama just become a Herbert Hoover Republican? - Thom Hartmann
Music: Right Now - Van Halen International Small Arms Traffic Blues - The Mountain Goats From blown speakers - The New Pornographers Scumbag - Green Day Georgia on my mind - Willie Nelson Kiss - Venga Boys
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Thu, 11 March 2010
Edition #341 Flagrant ignorance
Act 1: Unusually large snow storm - Daily Show Act 2: Snowpocalypse vs. climate change - Media Matters Act 3: GOP doesn't believe in climate change - Countdown Act 4: Does winter snow disprove climate change - Young Turks Act 5: Climate change deniers given second wind - Counterspin Act 6: Denial also an inexplicable position on climate change - The Bugle Act 7: Full court shot on climate change - Rachel Maddow Act 8: False balance on snow vs. climate change - Counterspin Act 9: Belief in climate change hinges on worldview - NPR Act 10: Fox and Friends don't understand that it's cold in winter - Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Colbert We're Off to See the Blizzard - Colbert Report
Music: When the cold days come - Theo Bard Time waits for no man - Theo Bard Having a good time - Theo Bard All the orders gone - Theo Bard Everything you have - Theo Bard Evil eyes - Theo Bard This fickle world - Theo Bard Drums of freedom - Theo Bard Middle class boy - Theo Bard
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Tue, 9 March 2010
Edition #340 The Blair House Project (I didn't make the joke first)
Act 1: Summit's eve - Daily Show Act 2: Help - Health care special comment - Countdown Act 3: Wrap up of health care summit - Young Turks Act 4: Name calling, racist attacks from right - Media Matters Act 5: Reviewing the health care summit - Wait wait don't tell me Act 6: Lies about 'nuclear option' - Rachel Maddow Act 7: Conflating nuclear option and reconciliation - Media Matters Act 8: The med menace - Daily Show Act 9: Obama disses single-payer systems - Young Turks Act 10: Mocking the uninsured - Media Matters Act 11: Health care by Easter - Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Health Care Magic - Colbert Report
Music: Disappointment - The Cranberries Help - Howie Day Les Jours Tristes - Yann Tiersen You were the last high - The Dandy Warhols A Quai - Yann Tiersen Rapture - Laura Veirs Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'après Midi - Yann Tiersen
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Sun, 7 March 2010
Edition #339 Who, what and how we're fighting
Act 1: CPAC 2010 Rage within the machine - Daily Show Act 2: CPAC Conference - Rachel Maddow Act 3: CPAC - US has the best health care - Young Turks Act 4: Rage within the machine - Progressivism - Daily Show Act 5: American's don't know R's block everything - Young Turks Act 6: George Will totally consistent on filibuster = Counterspin Act 7: Filibuster is too neat and simple - Bill Maher Act 8: Let's go nuclear - Rachel Maddow Act 9: Teabaggers and teabaggees - Ring of Fire Act 10: Sarah Palin at Teabagger convention - Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: AmeriGasm CPAC - Daily Show
Music: Hello, My Treacherous Friends - OK GO Graceland - Paul Simon It's not impossible - Ben Sollee Don't vote - Cass McCombs Losers - The Cardigans There's something wrong - Brad Sucks One fine day - The Chiffons Failure by design - Brand New Be my angel - Mazzy Star
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Wed, 3 March 2010
Edition #338 They're dickholes, but they're smart
Act 1: Rush Limbaugh wants you to get screwed - Young Turks Act 2: Area CEO doesn't have time for this crap - The Onion Act 3: Inherent racism in Tea Party movement - Countdown Act 4: Thomas Frank Part 1 - Moyers' Journal Act 5: New cereal for poor stays crunchy in water - The Onion Act 6: Thomas Frank Part 2 - Moyers' Journal Act 7: David Brooks says to raise taxes on middle class - Counterspin Act 8: Devastating quotes from top economists - Young Turks Act 9: Make it rain - Daily Show Act 10: Obama out to lunch on banker bonuses - The Progressive Act 11: B of A attacked through YouTube - Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Fire Departments Billing Homeowners to Put Out Fires! - Young Turks
Music: Smile like you mean it - The Killers Not enough time - Inxs Look at you - My Morning Jacket Hard luck story - Men at work Happy meals - The Cardigans Winter song - Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson Young folks - Peter Bjorn And John Where do I begin - The Chemical Brothers Radio - One Ring Zero Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - The Smiths
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Sat, 27 February 2010
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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Wed, 24 February 2010
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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Sat, 20 February 2010
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.
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Wed, 17 February 2010
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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Sun, 14 February 2010
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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Tue, 9 February 2010
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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Sun, 7 February 2010
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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Tue, 2 February 2010
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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Sun, 31 January 2010
Edition #329 Welcome President Brown
Act 1: Recruiting a party with spine - Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Act 2: Balance of the Senate - It's all politics Act 3: You have the majority, now act like it - The Young Turks Act 4: Caller says election was Thom's fault - Thom Hartmann Act 5: Dems must fight back - Colbert Report Act 6: Ed Rendell on doing something - Rachel Maddow Act 7: Brown election and the filibuster - On the Media Act 8: Give them a reason to vote for you - The Young Turks Act 9: Obama's ballsy speech - Le Show Act 10: What to do with less than 60 - Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Brown win allows Jon Stewart to retire - Daily Show
Music: Runnin down a dream - Tom Petty And it spread - The Avett Brothers Wake Up Little Suzie - Everly Brothers Don't look back in anger - Oasis Happy - SIster Hazel Finding something to do - Hellogoodbye Piazza, New York Catcher - Belle & Sebastian Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2 Slight figure of speech - The Avett Brothers
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Wed, 27 January 2010
Edition #328 Corporations is people!
Act 1: Supreme court blows up politics - It's All Politics Act 2: Corporate personhood floodgates - Thom Hartmann Act 3: The story of the case for corporate spending - On the Media Act 4: Congress, brought to you by - Wait wait don't tell me! Act 5: Ever-living vampires - Thom Hartmann Act 6: Constitutional amendment - The Progressive Act 7: Supreme court makes buying politicians legal - The Young Turks Act 8: Barney Frank on fighting SC decision - Rachel Maddow Act 9: Nader on corporate personhood - Thom Hartmann Act 10: Special Comment on worst decision ever - Countdown
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Supreme Corp - Daily Show
Music: Gods Radar - The Dixie Hummingbirds Welcome to the machine - Pink Floyd Tuesdays gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd Crash - The Primitives Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote Recorded live in Copenhagen - Theo Bard Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin Drown - Smashing Pumpkins Taking over me - Evanescence
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Sat, 23 January 2010
Edition #327
Stealth Care is Mass Backwards
Act 1: Stelth care reform - Daily Show
Act 2: Fixing the wrong healthcare problems - Ring of Fire
Act 3: Robert Knutter and Matt Taibbi on health reform Part 1 - Moyers' Journal
Act 4: Limbaugh on healthcare costs - Young Turks
Act 5: Robert Knutter and Matt Taibbi on health reform Part 2 - Moyers' Journal
Act 6: Michael Pollen interview - Daily Show
Act 7: Alan Grayson on health reform - Ring of Fire
Act 8: Health lobbyists rule the system - Young Turks
Act 9: Mass Backwards - Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Kathleen Sebelius - Colbert Report
Music:
This too shall pass - OKGO
Mushaboom - Feist
I'm Not over - Carolina Liar
I go blind - Hootie And The Blowfish
You can do it - No Doubt
All U can eat - Ben Folds
Sinnerman - Nina Simone
Pale Blue Eyes - Lou Reed
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Tue, 19 January 2010
Edition #242
Morning in America
Act 1: 2004 DNC Keynote Speech (Clip 1) (Clip 2)
Act 2: Announcing his candidacy
Act 3: Remake this country (Link)
Act 4: Signs of Hope & Change (Link)
Act 5: Yes We Can – Will.i.am (Link)
Act 6: ‘A more perfect Union’ speech on race in America (Link)
Act 7: We are the ones we’ve been waiting for – Will.i.am (Link)
Act 8: The American Promise (Link)
Act 9: Obama in Berlin
Act 10: 2008 DNC Acceptance speech (LInk)
Act 11: We have a lot of work to do (LInk)
Act 12: DC reactions to the victory (LInk)
Act 13: Interview with Jesse Jackson – NPR (Link)
Act 14: It’s a new day! – Will.i.am (Link)
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Sat, 16 January 2010
Edition #326
Underpants Bomb Fallout, choose you're own pun
Act 1: Yemen Sad Libs - Daily Show
Act 2: Kill first harshly interrogate later - Countdown
Act 3: Bush terror policies wrongly glorified - Rachel Maddow
Act 4: Missteps in the early days reporting on Yemen - On the Media
Act 5: Rove blames NCTC then backpedals - Young Turks
Act 6: Idiot lies about Obama's response - Countdown
Act 7: Outright lies politicizing terrorism - Rachel Maddow
Act 8: Idiots with big balls - Daily Show
Act 9: Rudy says something unspeakably ignorant - Le Show
Act 10: Nonsense GOP response cause for despair - Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Ideal or no deal - Colbert Report
Music:
Back in the high life again - Steve Winwood
Send in the clowns - The Simpsons
Whatcha say - Jason Derulo
Let go - Frou Frou
Sorry, blame it on me - Akon
American idiot - Green Day
Ridiculous Thoughts - The Cranberries
Big balls - AC/DC
Diamond - Klint
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Tue, 12 January 2010
Edition #325
Where religion and ignorance meet
Act 1: Conservapedia working on conservative bible - Colbert Report
Act 2: Hume on Woods and religion - Counterspin
Act 3: Interview on conservative bible - Colbert Report
Act 4: Exporting homophobia to Uganda - The Progressive
Act 5: Uganda be kidding me Part 2 - Rachel Maddow
Act 6: Christmas billboard stirs seasonally inappropriate emotions - The Onion
Act 7: Kill the gays law hits major news in US - Thom Hartmann
Act 8: Prayer effort seeks right-thinking from liberals - NPR
Act 9: Killing people to make magic potions Part 1 - Young Turks
Act 10: Christ returns to NBA - The Onion
Act 11: Killing people to make magic potions Part 2 - Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Uganda be kidding me Part 1
Music:
Blacking Out The Friction - Death Cab For Cutie
Redemption song - Bob Marley
God - The Dodos
Hate me - Blue October
Directions - Josh Rouse
Carol of the bells - United States Army Field Band and Soldiers' Chorus
Gods gonna cut you down - Johnny Cash
Like a prayer - Rufio
You're wrong - NOFX
Jammin - Bob Marley
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Sat, 9 January 2010
Edition #324
When you want to cry, laugh
Act 1: Flight Delay - Daily Show
Act 2: Predicting economies Part 1 - This American Life
Act 3: Smiley-face dollar to boost economy - The Onion
Act 4: Predicting economies Part 2 - This American Life
Act 5: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Too Big to Fail - Daily Show
Act 6: Fed's Dead with Bernie Sanders Part 1 - Colbert Report
Act 7: Norway returns to a pillage-based economy - The Onion
Act 8: Fed's Dead with Bernie Sanders Part 2 - Colbert Report
Act 9: NY Times exposes terrible big bank scam - Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
American Idle - Daily Show
Music:
Don't you - Simple Minds
Once around the block - Badly Drawn Boy
Crazy - Seal
Making me nervous - Brad Sucks
Island in the sun - Weezer
Catch my disease - Ben Lee
La Noyée - Yann Tiersen
Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare - Matt and Kim
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Tue, 5 January 2010
Edition #323
Obama moves Hopelessly forward in Afghanistan
Act 1: Rushing a decision on Afghanistan - Counterspin
Act 2: Obama mimics Bush on Afghanistan - The Progressive
Act 3: Bunker-buster averts doomed marriage - The Onion
Act 4: Report released on Afghanistan - Rachel Maddow
Act 5: Dan Rather on Afghanistan - Daily Show
Act 6: Jim Hightower discusses Obama's war Part 1 - Ring of Fire
Act 7: Why aren't there bigger protests - The Progressive
Act 8: Jim Hightower discusses Obama's war Part 2 - Ring of Fire
Act 9: Moore and Feingold speak against escalation - Young Turks
Act 10: Lara Logan on Afghanistan - Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Cenk debates war escalation - Countdown
Music:
Trouble me - 10,000 Maniacs
Choke - The Cardigans
Celebration Guns - Stars
Million faces - Paolo Nutini
Oh Lately It's So Quiet - OK GO
Everybody's gone to war - Nerina Pallot
Up against the wall - Peter Bjorn & John
Meteor Show - Owl City
Ain't no reason - Brett Dennen
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Sun, 3 January 2010
Edition #322
Reason to celebrate
Act 1: Episode recap from The DC - Daily Show
Act 2: Lincoln conservative on healthcare - Counterspin
Act 3: GOP weakens health bill and then bash it - Young Turks
Act 4: Is GOP serious about fixing healthcare - Slate
Act 5: Open letter on free health clinics - Countdown
Act 6: Obama defends health bill from the left - NPR
Act 7: For he's a jowly good fellow - Colbert Report
Act 8: Media misleads on opinions of health reform - Counterspin
Act 9: Devastating healthcare quotes from Obama - Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Idiot Democrats Think It's Good News Their Voters are Pissed at Them - The Young Turks
Music:
Hero - Enrique Iglesias
I need to know - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Why pretend - Mandi Perkins
Objection - Shakira
Fake Empire - The National
Serre-moi - Tryö
Haunting me - Oona Garthwaite
Everybody's fool - Evanescence
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Wed, 30 December 2009
Edition #321
Take 30,000 troops and call me in the morning
Act 1: Misleading polling on support for war - Counterspin
Act 2: I dare you not to notice - Le Show
Act 3: Special comment on war escalation - Countdown
Act 4: Afghanistan handed over to robots - The Onion
Act 5: Why escalation is not the answer - Thom Hartmann
Act 6: Obama unclear on chain of command - Colbert Report
Act 7: Cheney cries treason - Countdown
Act 8: War presidents - Rachel Maddow
Act 9: 30,000 - Daily Show
Act 10: Feingold & BBC on the Afghanistan war - Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
30,000 extended video - Daily Show
Music:
Love is a battlefield - Pat Benatar
99 Red Balloons - Nena
Listen to your heart - Roxette
Mr. Roboto - Styx
War - Vince DiCola
Heat of the moment - Asia
Notorious - Duran Duran
I'm gonna be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
Break it down again - Tears for fears
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Tue, 8 December 2009
Edition #320
Winter Holiday Extravaganza
Act 1: Atheist summer camp - The Young Turks
Act 2: God To Postpone Apocalypse - The Onion
Act 3: Adam and Eve Part 1 - This American Life
Act 4: Robert Wright on the three major religions - Colbert Report
Act 5: Adam and Eve Part 2 - This American Life
Act 6: Richard Dawkins new book - Thom Hartmann
Act 7: Bucket Of Rags This Year's Must-Have Christmas Item - The Onion
Act 8: Schaeffer on hateful talk against Obama - Rachel Maddow
Act 9: Offending people talking about religion - The Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Kirk Cameron's Plot Against "Origin of Species" - The Young Turks
Music:
Hello Mother, Hello Father - Alan Sherman
Nutcracker: Act 2: Chinese Tea - Denis de Coteau & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
Nutcracker: Act 2: Waltz of the Flowers - Denis de Coteau & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
Nutcracker: Act 1: Overture - Denis de Coteau & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
Nutcracker: Act 1: March - Denis de Coteau & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
Nutcracker: Act 2: The Merlitons - Denis de Coteau & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
Nutcracker: Act 2: Trepak - Denis de Coteau & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
Nutcracker: Act 2: Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy - Denis de Coteau & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
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Sat, 5 December 2009
Edition #319
1st world party, 3rd world clean up
Act 1: Aziz Ansari on Copenhagen - It's getting ha in here
Act 2: Gore urges Obama to take lead on climate - NPR
Act 3: Al Gore - Daily Show
Act 4: Gore the wonky bore - Counterspin
Act 5: The Story of Cap and Trade - Annie Leonard
Act 6: Naomi Klein on climate debt Part 1 - Ring of Fire
Act 7: DOT to add walking lanes to highways - The Onion
Act 8: Naomi Klein on climate debt Part 2 - Ring of Fire
Act 9: News of the warm - Le Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Act Now - Green.tv
Music:
Hold my hand - Hootie and the blowfish
Change your mind - Sister Hazel
If we make it through December - Merle Haggard
Cloud Nine - Ben Howard
Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'après Midi - Yann Tiersen
Classical Gas - Mason Williams
Walk beside me - Darrell Scott & Tim O'Brien
Got My Mind Set On You - George Harrison
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Wed, 2 December 2009
Edition #318
Disaster Economics
Act 1: Obama caving in to Wall St again - The Young Turks
Act 2: Why the win-win is being ignored Part 1 - This American Life
Act 3: Water balloon attacks hurting bottom line - The Onion
Act 4: Why the win-win is being ignored Part 2 - This American Life
Act 5: Joining the tea-baggers - Thom Hartmann
Act 6: John Perkins on the economic crash Part 1 - Ring of Fire
Act 7: US-owned GM produces the Pelosi-Boehner - The Onion
Act 8: John Perkins on the economic crash Part 2 - Ring of Fire
Act 9: Government by organized money - Thom Hartmann
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Biden on the economic recovery - Daily Show
Music:
Nothing is good enough - Aimee Mann
Sénégal Fast-Food - Amadou & Mariam
The kids don't stand a chance - Vampire Weekend
Remember Jonathan (Messenger Of The Sun album) - Cyrille Verdeaux
Smokescreen - Flying Blind
Under the milky way - Seven Nations
You're the best - Joe Esposito
All For Swinging You Around - The New Pornographers
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Tue, 24 November 2009
Edition #317
Rights, gay and otherwise, all obvious
Act 1: From here to neutrality - Daily Show
Act 2: Feingold and Franken beat up Patriot Act - Young Turks
Act 3: The end of prohibition - Slate
Act 4: Don't ask, don't tell - Colbert Report
Act 5: Texas bans marriage - Young Turks
Act 6: Texas bans marriage - Wait wait don't tell me
Act 7: Mormon trespassing - Colbert Report
Act 8: Utah politician outrageous comments on gays - Young Turks
Act 9: Gaywatch - Peter Vadala & William Phillips - Daily Show
Act 10: Skeletons in the closet - Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Can't get queer from here - Daily Show
Music:
Here comes my baby - Cat Stevens
Your ex-lover is dead - Stars
Change is gonna come - Ben Sollee
What went wrong - Blink 182
It's a mistake - Men at work
Miss Misery - Elliott Smith
Steal my kisses - Ben Harper
Build me up buttercup - The Foundations
Tuesday's gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Sat, 21 November 2009
Edition #316
Join the war on Fox News today
Act 1: Glenn Beck tragically not a victim of anything - The Onion
Act 2: Bush Sr. calls Maddow and Olberman Sick Puppies - The Young Turks
Act 3: Dobbs steps down - Wait wait don't tell me
Act 4: MSNBC in the crossfire - Rachel Maddow
Act 5: Lou Dobbs goes Rogue - Daily Show
Act 6: Murdoch fosters racist work environment - Countdown
Act 7: Hannity apologizes to Jon - Daily Show
Act 8: Cenk goes off on Morning Joe - The Young Turks
Act 9: Untruth vs. Power - Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Hannity misleadingly uses Glenn Beck's rally video
Music:
Out of my mind - James Blunt
Gone daddy gone - Violent Femmes
Ne Me Quitte Pas - Regina Spektor
I'll meet you there - Owl City
Habla Me - Gipsy Kings
Working class hero - Exit Clov
Overkill - Colin Hay
Celebration guns - Stars
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Tue, 17 November 2009
Edition #315
Big bill bothers bought off blowhards
Act 1: Blow hards bloviate on healthcare - Counterspin
Act 2: Bill big, bill bad - Daily Show
Act 3: GOP Continues healthcare fear tactics - The Young Turks
Act 4: Fire hot - The Onion
Act 5: Grayson on fighting back Part 1 - Ring of Fire
Act 6: Lieberman on wiggling - Wait wait don't tell me
Act 7: Grayson on fighting back Part 2 - Ring of Fire
Act 8: Absurd Republicans caught on tape - The Young Turks
Act 9: Whisconsin city is the best place to die - NPR
Act 10: Preggers can't be choosers - Daily Show
Act 11: Restricting abortion rights in health reform - Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Judge Napolitano Lies about Health Care Reform - The Young Turks
Music:
Tax man - The Beatles
Naive - The Kooks
Fearless - VNV Nation
World on Fire - Sarah McLachlan
In a big country - Big Country
Winter song - Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson
Brain stew - Green Day
So fast, so numb - R.E.M.
I know I know I know - Tegan and Sara
Different people - No doubt
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Sat, 14 November 2009
Edition #314
Pride, greed, vanity and gluttony
Act 1: Really Goldman Sachs?! - SNL
Act 2: Spitzer on the financial bailout - Rachel Maddow
Act 3: MSNBC Ratigan bashes corporate communists - The Young Turks
Act 4: The root of the problem is campaign finance - Thom Hartmann
Act 5: Global economy faces danger from below - The Onion
Act 6: Terror-industrial complex - Countdown
Act 7: How Dems are protecting capitalism - The Young Turks
Act 8: Organizing the tea parties - Thom Hartmann
Act 9: Goldman Sachs doing God's work - Colbert Report
Act 10: Child labor endorsing, pro-slavery freaks - Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The history of boom and bust cycles in US economics - ThomHartmann
Music:
Kick drum heart - The Avett Brothers
Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) - The Decemberists
99 Red Balloons - Nena
Deep water - Pansy Division
Ready For The Good Times - Shakira
Goodbye stranger - Supertramp
Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare - Matt and Kim
Take five - Dave Brubeck
Gold dust woman - Hole
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Tue, 10 November 2009
Edition #313
Recruiting disciples through fear and coupons
Act 1: Catholic lifeboat - Colbert Report
Act 2: Hell House - This American Life
Act 3: God checks in to the Mayo Clinic - The Onion
Act 4: The Republican Apocalypse Part 1 - Ring of Fire
Act 5: Catholics recruiting new members - Daily Show
Act 6: The Republican Apocalypse Part 2 - Ring of Fire
Act 7: Catholic blow out sale - Le Show
Act 8: Pat Robertson fighting against hate crime laws - The Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Supreme court takes on religion - Colbert Report
Music:
God - The Dodos
Friend of the devil - Counting Crows
Like a prayer - Madonna
Major Tom - Peter Schilling
You know my name - The Beatles
Natural Blues - Moby
I'm free - Soup Dragons
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Sat, 7 November 2009
Edition #312
Ancient sunlight vs fresh sunlight
Act 1: The true cost of fossil fuels - Thom Hartmann
Act 2: Inhofe headed to Copenhagen - Ring of Fire
Act 3: Colin Beavan is No Impact Man - Colbert Report
Act 4: Rob Dunbar on ocean temps - Found Object Films
Act 5: Giant greenhouse blamed for climate change - The Onion
Act 6: Climate deniers - Ring of Fire
Act 7: Oil industry employees rally - Rachel Maddow
Act 8: News of the warm - Le Show
Act 9: Shia Agassi on fresh sun power - Found Object Films
Act 10: Steven Levitt on economics of geo-engineering - Daily Show
Act 11: The arguement for switching to natural gas - Ring of Fire
Act 12: News of the warm - Le Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Dems shooting themselves in the foot on carbon legislation
Music:
Catalog and Classify - Mark Robinson
Knock yourself out - Jon Brion
This is the day - The The
Kyoko's House - Philip Glass
Solsbury hill - Peter Gabriel
One million miles - J Ralph
M79 - Vampire Weekend
What I'm looking for - Brendan Benson
Close your eyes - Young Love
Hey ya - Obadiah Parker
Keepsake - State Radio
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Tue, 3 November 2009
Edition #311
Unexpected leadership, totally expected treachery
Act 1: Nancy Peloci, you'll burn in hell for this - Wait Wait don't tell me
Act 2: Rebranding health reform - Countdown
Act 3: Franken kicks conservative ass - The Young Turks
Act 4: Much to commend, much to condemn - The Progressive
Act 5: Health care systems comparison - Rachel Maddow
Act 6: Even Republican voters favor public option - Ring of Fire
Act 7: The Word, You-Genics - Colbert Report
Act 8: Discussing healthcare working through congress - Mother Jones
Act 9: Stupid GOP don't have plan for health reform - The Young Turks
Act 10: Healthcare fight within and without political parties - It's all politics
Act 11: Lieberman to join filibuster against health reform - Rachel Maddow
Act 12: Joe Lieberman is a true independent - Colbert Report
iPhone/iPod Touch App Bonus Content:
Public Option Limited - Daily Show
Music:
He got game - Public Enemy
Close to me - The Get Up Kids
The wrestler - Bruce Springsteen
Who'll stop the rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Harold T. Wilkins, Or How To Wait For A Very Long Time - Fanfarlo
Classical gas - Vanessa Mae
Oh my god - Ida Maria
White Blank Page - Mumford & Sons
Kelsey - Metro Station
Don't let me down - The Stereophinics
Look what you've done - JET
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Fri, 30 October 2009
Edition #310
The war on Fox
Act 1: The GOP colicky babies - Ring of Fire
Act 2: CNN leaves it there - Daily Show
Act 3: Fox News is not like the others - Rachel Maddow
Act 4: How Murdoch brought the Fox model to the US - Thom Hartmann
Act 5: Bend it like Beck - Colbert Report
Act 6: The war on FOX - Counterspin
Act 7: Media and power - Thom Hartmann
Act 8: Evidence of Fox collusion with GOP - The Young Turks
Music:
Camera one - Josh Joplin Group
I've seen better days - Everclear
The boy in the bubble - Paul Simon
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sineade O'Connor
Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games - Of Montreal
Let go - Frou Frou
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Tue, 27 October 2009
Edition #309
Derailing unprecedented health reform would be unprecedented
Act 1: Kid is denied healthcare for being too skinny - The Young Turks
Act 2: Max Baucus and Senate health reform - Bill Moyers Journal
Act 3: Medicare Part E - Thom Hartmann
Act 4: Healthcare, now what - This American Life
Act 5: Dems stopping healthcare would be unprecedented - Rachel Maddow
Act 6: The history of our healthcare system - This American Life
Act 7: Insurance company calls sick people dogs - The Young Turks
Act 8: Further reporting on anti-healthcare campaign - Rachel Maddow
Music:
Curl up and die - Relient K
Who will buy - Oliver Soundtrack
Fake Empire - The National
Doctor my eyes - Jackson 5
I go to extremes - Billy Joel
Remember Jonathan - Cyrille Verdeaux
Stop crying your heart out - Oasis
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Fri, 23 October 2009
Edition #308
Still legally treated as second-class citizens
Act 1: California Marriage Protection Act PSA 1
Act 2: When the time is right - Rachel Maddow
Act 3: Jim Fouratt on gay rights - Colbert Report
Act 4: Obama speaks on DADT - Rachel Maddow
Act 5: California Marriage Protection Act PSA 2
Act 6: Dan Savage on Obama on DADT - Countdown
Act 7: The gay after tomorrow - Daily Show
Act 8: The aftermath of the gay rights rally - Mother Jones
Act 9: Queer and loathing in D.C. - Daily Show
Act 10: Dan Choi: Don't Tell, Martha! - The Moth Podcast
Music:
I was married - Tegan and Sara
Right now - Van Halen
Leader - Burning Spear
What have I done to deserve this - Pet Shop Boys
Ain't no reason - Brett Dennen
Don't ask me why - Billy Joel
Sénégal Fast-Food - Amadou & Mariam
Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise - The Avett Brothers
Let my love open the door - Pete Townsend
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Wed, 21 October 2009
Edition #307
Snowe in October and other healthcare nonsense
Act 1: Will it Snowe or wont it? - Wait wait don't tell me!
Act 2: Bogus report commissioned by the health lobby - Countdown
Act 3: The majority leader of the senate - It's all politics
Act 4: GOP claim healthcare costs will rise with reform - The Young Turks
Act 5: Special healthcare comment Part 1 - Countdown
Act 6: Fat baby and getting Snowe's vote - Daily Show
Act 7: Misleading healthcare opinion research - Rachel Maddow
Act 8: Special healthcare comment Part 2 - Countdown
Music:
Tell me tell me - Burning spear
Sunday bloody Sunday - U2
Because the night - 10,000 maniacs
The world is new - Save Farris
Ill with want - The Avett Brothers
I think we're alone now - Tiffany
Soft serve - Soul Coughing
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Sat, 17 October 2009
Edition #306
Decomcracy for sale
Act 1: Supreme Court on the verge of humanizing corporations - Colbert Report
Act 2: Looking forward on changing our economics - Bill Maher
Act 3: Jeffrey Toobin on the Supreme Court - Colbert Report
Act 4: Obama is letting the banks off the hook - The Young Turks
Act 5: Thousands of unemployed robots join the military - The Onion
Act 6: Wall streeters weigh life after 'giant pool of money' - NPR
Act 7: Krugman on Palin and economics - Rachel Maddow
Act 8: Dow rallies after chimpanzee rings opening bell - The Onion
Act 9: Big money vs. the people - The Young Turks
Music:
Different People - No Doubt
Bleeding me - Metalica
And it spread - The Avett Brothers
Love you till the end - The Pogues
Give it up - The Goodmen
Nothing Is Good Enough - Amiee Mann
American Pie - Don McLean
Ring my bell - Anita Ward
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Tue, 13 October 2009
Corporate energy fighting for and against the climate
Edition #305
Act 1: James Hansen is arrested during MTR protest - Ring of Fire
Act 2: Cloudy with a chance of heat balls - Daily Show
Act 3: The fake cost of Obama's energy policy - Counterspin
Act 4: News of the warm - Le Show
Act 5: Exxon named the green company of the year - Ring of Fire
Act 6: Shai Agassi on electric cars - Colbert Report
Act 7: Interview with Joe Romm - Counterspin
Act 8: Wood Nymphs working to reduce dependence on foreign dew drops - The Onion
Act 9: More forged letters for pro-coal lobby - Ring of Fire
Act 10: Is Inhofe stupid or just corrupt - The Young Turks
Music:
Why does the sun shine? - They might be giants
Hey ya! - Outkast
Tell me a lie - Griffin House
Scenic world - Beirut
Carefree - The Refreshments
Why does the sun really shine? - They might be giants
Fluffy little clouds - The Orb
Con Cassidy's and Neil Gow's Highlands/Moil and Tiarna/McSweeney's Reel - Alton
Hey Ya - Obadiah Parker
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Sat, 10 October 2009
Edition #304
Yeah, when it fits, we call you racist
Act 1: The conservative media's attack cycle - On the Media
Act 2: Comparing corruption of ACORN to Blackwater - Rachel Maddow
Act 3: The Word: Blackwashing - Colbert Report
Act 4: Covering the right-wing crazies in the media - Counterspin
Act 5: Pat Buchanan defends Hitler - The Young Turks
Act 6: The 'Full Ginsburg' - Daily Show
Act 7: Wingnut watch - Mother Jones Podcast
Act 8: Discussing the recent Glenn Beck chatter - Ring of Fire
Act 9: Target America - Daily Show
Music:
Love is a battlefield - Pat Benatar
Chicago X 12 - Rogue Wave
Paint it black - Vanessa Carlton
Love you 'till the end - The Pogues
Mad World - Tears for Fears
Not crying - Flight of the Conchords
Still crazy after all these years - Paul Simon
Burnout - Green Day
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Tue, 6 October 2009
Edition #303
As the chips begin to fall
Act 1: Healthcare polling - Counterspin
Act 2: GOP are a bunch of neanderthals - The Young Turks
Act 3: Wendel Potter on healthcare - Rachel Maddow
Act 4: Congress and lobbyists out of the closet - Colbert Report
Act 5: The nonsense healthcare debate - Mother Jones
Act 6: Public option in danger in committee - Rachel Maddow
Act 7: The profit of illness - Bill Maher
Act 8: Howard Dean on the importance of choice - Rachel Maddow
Act 9: Democratic Super Majority! - Daily Show
Music:
Let Go - Frou Frou
Smile like you mean it - The Killers
Dreamtime = Uberzone
Take your mama out - Scissor Sisters
Bouncing around the room - Phish
I just died in your arms tonight - SuperTrack
Hospital beds - Cold War Kids
All American girl - Train
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Sat, 3 October 2009
Edition #302
Moral Kombat
Act 1: Naked hot tub religious mentoring - Le Show
Act 2: God smites area man for disturbing Him - The Onion
Act 3: How many women get hit on by their pastors? - The Young Turks
Act 4: Putting pressure on bad religious ideas - Bill Maher
Act 5: Moral Kombat - Daily Show
Act 6: Max Blumenthal on Republican Gomorrah Part 1 - Ring of Fire
Act 7: Benign growth removed from the Pope - The Onion
Act 8: Max Blumenthal on Republican Gomorrah Part 2 - Ring of Fire
Act 9: Is Obama the anti-Christ? - Rachel Maddow
Act 10: War on Easter: Peeps display - Colbert Report
Act 11: Pastor of "Islam is the Devil" - The Young Turks
Music:
Meet me by the water - Rachael Yamagata
Whenever God Shines his Light - Van Morrison
Candy Girl - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
Crazy Faith - Alison Krauss & Union Station
Malchik Gay - t.A.T.u.
Losing my religion - R.E.M
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
God gave rock & roll to you - Kiss
God's Gonna Cut You Down - Johnny Cash
God's radar - The Dixie Hummingbirds
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Tue, 29 September 2009
Edition #301
Compromise catastrophe soaked in corporate cash
Act 1: Baucus stands alone - Wait wait don't tell me!
Act 2: Does the GOP care more about property than people? - The Young Turks
Act 3: The terrible result of the Baucus compromise - Counterspin
Act 4: Bill Clinton on healthcare reform - Daily Show
Act 5: Health insurance whistle-blower - Bill Maher
Act 6: Rick Sanchez investigates corruption in healthcare debate - CNN
Act 7: Candidate Obama on healthcare negotiations - The Young Turks
Act 8: Better know a lobby: Healthcare for America NOW - Colbert Report
Act 9: GOP fear leads to victim-blame - Ring of Fire
Act 10: Sen. Conrad outlines how weak he is - The Young Turks
Music:
Anthem, Pt 1 - Blink-182
Passing storm - Ottmar Liebert
Good - Better Than Ezra
I gotta feeling - Black Eyed Peas
If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out - Cat Stevens
Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) - Pet Shop Boys
Sitting, Waiting, Wishing - Jack Johnson
Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
We're simple minds - Club 8
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Sat, 26 September 2009
Edition #300
Looks back, layoffs, tax cuts and stock drops
Act 1: Laying off the robots - Wait wait don't tell me!
Act 2: The Lehman shock - Slate.com
Act 3: Champagne drained from corporate pool - The Onion
Act 4: Consensus On Fixing Financial System Erodes - NPR
Act 5: Krugman on the 'return of depression economics - Colbert Report
Act 6: Hannity misleads on unemployment numbers - Counterspin
Act 7: Discussing Lehman Bros and the economic politics - New Yorker
Act 8: 1-year anniversary of Lehman Bros collapse - Daily Show
Act 9: Deficits as the bogeyman - Counterspin
Act 10: Area coach calls star athlete 'too big to fail' - The Onion
Act 11: Bush vs. Clinton Do tax cuts work? - The Young Turks
Act 12: Good news / bad news America's recession - Daily Show
Music:
Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30 [Main Title] - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Never recover - The Cardigans
Kyoko's House ("stage blood is not enough") - Philip Glass
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day
Bury my with my car - Ben Sollee
Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac
Save me - Aimee Mann
Torn Blue Foam Couch - Grand archives
Trouble me - 10,000 maniacs
Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games - Of Montreal
Keepsake - State Radio
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Tue, 22 September 2009
Edition #299
Tom Ridge's 'I-didn't-really-mean-it' tour
Act 1: Torture reports show Dick Cheney was wrong - The Young Turks
Act 2: UK mad at Cheney for preempting their police work - Rachel Maddow
Act 3: Debate on prosecuting torture - The Young Turks
Act 4: Changing up the terror alert system - Le Show
Act 5: Tom Ridge would make same decision about Iraq - Rachel Maddow
Act 6: John Dean on Tom Ridge's book and interview - Countdown
Act 7: Tom Ridge's 'I-really-didn't-mean-it' tour - Le Show
Act 8: Reflection on the Tom Ridge interview - Rachel Maddow
Music:
God? - The Dodos
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - The Smiths
Hi - Psapp
Warning sign - Coldplay
Thank you - Dido
I stand corrected - Vampire Weekend
Take a chance - The Magic Numbers
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Sat, 19 September 2009
Edition #298
In the wake of Obama's healthcare speech
Act 1: Details still to be ironed out - Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!
Act 2: Bernie Sanders on stopping the filibuster - Rachel Maddow
Act 3: Pastor Incites gun-toting Obama protesters - The Young Turks
Act 4: Checking some healthcare facts - Counterspin
Act 5: Why there's no point in reading bills - On the Media
Act 6: More fact-free arguments against healthcare - Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Breaking down Obama's speech and the reaction to it - Ring of Fire
Act 8: Healthcare lies believed shows poll - The Young Turks
Act 9: Fixing healthcare by altering patient behavior - NPR
Act 10: Having to explain how a healthcare system works - Counterspin
Act 11: Talking about the lack of respect for the office of the President - It's all politics
Music:
Hands down - Dashboard Confessional
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk
Don't look back in anger - Oasis
Am I wrong - Love Spit Love
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight - The Postal Service
The kids don't stand a chance - Vampire Weekend
Shout - Tears for fears
Make your own kind of music - Cass Elliot
We can work it out - Heather Nova
End it on this - No Doubt
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