136 - Right-Wing Spins '08 Results / Shameful Health Care Statistics / Bush's Last Minute Regulatory Massacre / Ensuring A Progressive '09 And Beyond

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🗓️ 13 November 2008

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Today, four subjects:Countering right-wing spin on the election resultsA sober reminder on the health care front about what this is all about, beyond the left-right ideological battleHow the Bush administration is trying real hard to cause the most damage on its way outAnd, on a personal note, what Obama's win means to me, and what I think is the best way to persuade him to move in a strong

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0:00.0	Readings you're listening to podcast number 136 of Blast the Right.
0:24.0	I'm your host Jack Clark, great to have you on board.
0:27.4	Today, four subjects, countering right wing spin on the election results, a sober reminder
0:33.0	on the health care front about what this is all about beyond the left-right ideological
0:37.8	battle, how the Bush administration is trying real hard to cause the most damage on its
0:43.2	way out, and on a personal note, what Obama's win means to me and what I think is the best
0:49.1	way to persuade him to move in a strong progressive direction, let's get right into it.
0:55.0	Those you'll hear in today's show include The New York Times, Newsmax.com, The Gallup
0:59.9	Polling Organization, MediumHatters.org, USA Today, Common Dreams.org, The Washington Post,
1:07.2	and Reuters.
1:08.2	So, what kind of post-election spin from the right have you heard?
1:13.7	Whatever the variety, their spin is designed to rev themselves up and to demoralize us.
1:20.0	Won't work, I'm afraid.
1:22.0	Let's take three right wing attempts to delude themselves.
1:26.0	The most idiotic take I've heard is a repeat from prior presidential elections.
1:31.4	Right wingers present a map of the U.S. color-coded blue-red, not by state, but by county.
1:38.0	The country is a wash and red.
1:40.8	Tom Brokoy even was on the air talking about this.
1:44.3	Such a map is meaningless, sparsely populated counties voted for McCain.
1:49.4	There are a lot of square miles there, but few people.
1:53.0	That's why McCain lost.
1:54.8	Few people.
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