139 - 2008 In Review: The Right Is Relentless, But Ultimately Unsuccessful

BLAST THE RIGHT

Jack Clark

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🗓️ 26 December 2008

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Today is the year in review as heard on Blast The Right. Domestic issues. Foreign policy issues. And, of course, Campaign 2008.With plenty of clips of your favorite right-wingers.Torture, heparin, derivatives, Ayers, Palin...Obama2008 started out pretty lousy, but ended pretty well -- with a heck of a lot of upside potential, don't you think?(PS: Right-wingers, if you want to write in to me, fine

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0:00.0	Greetings, you're listening to Podcast number 139 of Blast the Right.
0:24.2	I'm your host Jack Clark, great to have you on board.
0:27.5	Today is the year in review as heard on Blast the Right.
0:31.1	2008 started out pretty lousy, but ended pretty well.
0:35.2	With a heck of a lot of upside potential, don't you think?
0:38.7	Let's get right into it.
0:40.7	As you've heard the previous two December's, at the end of the year I like to give you
0:45.1	a whirlwind tour of what we've covered in Blast the Right.
0:49.0	I won't list sources at the beginning of this year and summary podcast since the list
0:53.7	would take up the whole show.
0:55.6	You can look at today's transcript where I've included the podcast number of each topic
1:00.7	I refer to.
1:02.4	Before I give you 2008 in review, let me restate the overall framework I always use when
1:07.6	I talk to you about these issues.
1:09.6	You've heard bits and pieces of the framework before, but not that I don't think in one
1:14.1	place.
1:15.1	It starts out with this maximum.
1:17.6	Everything the right wing does is designed to accomplish one of two things.
1:21.9	Either A, transfer wealth from everyone else to the rich, or B, distract everyone else
1:27.0	from the fact that A, that wealth transfer, is occurring.
1:31.7	Domestically, Ronald Reagan and Rush Limbaugh tell you how that's accomplished.
1:36.6	I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from
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