119 - Right-Wing EPA Policies Will Kill Thousands / Hannity Lies About Michelle Obama / Father Of Conservative Economics Puts 2008 Right To Shame

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Jack Clark

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🗓️ 20 March 2008

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Today, to start off, you'll hear about yet more right-wing policies that increase human misery, suffering, pain and death, this time concerning the air you breathe. The Bush Environmental Protection Administration weakened two recommendations of its own advisory board on the allowable amount of ozone in the air.Next up, you'll listen to Sean Hannity use a nasty propaganda technique that I'll

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0:00.0	Greetings, you're listening to Podcast No. 119 of Blast the Right.
0:24.1	I'm your host Jack Clark, great to have you on board.
0:27.5	Today you'll start off hearing about yet more right-wing policies that increase human
0:32.0	misery, suffering, pain, and death.
0:34.4	This time concerning the air you breathe.
0:37.0	Next up, you'll listen to Sean Hannity use a nasty propaganda technique that I'll
0:41.8	analyze for you.
0:43.4	In the last segment, you'll get some useful tips on responding to right-wingers when
0:47.6	they claim the earth is flat or make similarly far-fetched claims in the economic arena.
0:53.9	Let's get right into it.
0:56.0	As you'll hear in this first segment are the Associated Press, MSNBC.com, The New York
1:01.0	Times, and Reuters.
1:03.1	If you're a long time listener, you may recall my discussing a while back a disastrous
1:08.3	right-wing policy concerning soot, one of the most dangerous toxins in the air.
1:13.6	The Environmental Protection Administration's own scientific advisors had overwhelmingly
1:18.6	recommended that the annual allowable amount of soot in the air be reduced by a certain
1:23.7	amount.
1:25.0	The right-wing appointed EPA administrator rejected their conclusion.
1:29.1	Estimates were that thousands of Americans would die each year as a result of the weakened
1:33.7	regulations.
1:34.7	Well, you have, like Yogi said, deja vu all over again.
1:40.0	The EPA just issued new rules setting the allowable amount of ozone in the air.
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