#1395 The Arab Spring, Bin Laden Killed, Giffords Shot, Occupy Wall St. and Birtherism (A Look Back at 2011)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 31 January 2021
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Summary
Air Date 1/31/2021
Today we take a look back at the year 2011 in our annual 10-years-past retrospective to see what we may learn. 2010 was an enormous year of news which included the death of Osama Bin Laden, the manufactured budget crisis in Wisconsin, the shooting of Gabby Giffords, Occupy Wall Street, the birth of Trump's Birtherism and much more.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Dumb new congress - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 1-6-11
Ch. 2: Single-Payer Plan - Bernie Sanders
Ch. 3: An insiders account of the GOP official strategy - Citizen Radio
Ch. 4: Crisis in the Dairyland - For Richer and Poorer (Economics - Wisconsin, Public Unions) - The Daily Show - Air Date 3-3-11
Ch. 5: The survival of the Democratic party in Wisconsin - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 2-17-11
Ch. 6: Scott Walker's Koch Bro. Prank Call - The Young Turks - Air Date 2-23-11
Ch. 7: Evil People Have Plans - Lee Camp
Ch. 8: Obama's Wrong-Headed Libyan War - The Progressive
Ch. 9: ACLU: Obama Continues Bush Abuses - The Young Turks - Air Date 7-9-11
Ch. 10: Drones not always precise in real world - CounterSpin
Ch. 11: A Triumph of Nonviolence in Egypt! - The Progressive
Ch. 12: Social Media Allowing Revolutions (Egypt result) - The Young Turks
Ch. 13: Osama Bin Laden Dead... What Happens Now? - The David Pakman Show
Ch. 14: Activist McKibben: Tar Sands pipeline is climate game over - Countdown
Ch. 15: Supporting the EPA and the Koch Bros accidentally fund accurate climate research - Green News Report - Air Date 10-25-11
Ch. 16: Fox News makes you less informed - The Majority Report
Ch. 17: The HuffPo buyout and the future of journalism - On the Media
Ch. 18: Giffords Shooting 911 Tapes Police Audio First word of Tucson, Arizona shooting, attack on Gabrielle Giffords
Ch. 19: FLASHBACK: Right-Wing Media Downplays Threats Toward Democrats - Media Matters Minute
Ch. 20: Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck_ Are You Happy Now_ - The Progressive
Ch. 21: Oslo Norway Shooter Right Winger...Who's Telling You the Truth? - David Pakman - Air Date 7-26-11
Ch. 22: Congress' Budget-Cutting Immorality - Jim Hightower
Ch. 23: Armadebtdon 2011: National Bullshit Ceiling - The Daily Show - Air Date 7-18-11
Ch. 24: Legalized Corruption of Government Exposed by Abramoff - Young Turks - Air Date 11-7-11
Ch. 25: Good news for the big guys - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 4-1-11
Ch. 26: Keith Olbermann reads first collective statement of Occupy Wall Street - Countdown
Ch. 27: We stand as one - Joseph Arthur
Ch. 28: What the Occupy Wall St movement wants - Planet Money
Ch. 29: Occupy my Heart - Ben and Fritz
Ch. 30: Cenk Announces Wolf-PAC.com at Occupy Wall Street
Ch. 31: Fox News Falsehood: Half of Americans Don't Pay Any Taxes - Media Matters Minute - Air Date 7-18-11
Ch. 32: Trump 2012 - Media Matters
Ch. 33: Donald Trump Polls 2012 Presidential Candidate Or Clown_ - The Young Turks - Air Date 4-13-11
Ch. 34: The Trump Inc. Podcast Made a Time Capsule - Trump Inc. - Air Date 1-19-21
Ch. 35: Final comments
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- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of the left podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | Each January in the season when everyone's looking back on the year just passed, we opt |
| 0:13.3 | to bring you a retrospective episode that dives into our own archives from a full ten |
| 0:19.1 | years past. |
| 0:20.8 | Usually these come out in the beginning of January, but we had an insurrection based |
| 0:25.2 | on racist, conspiratorial lies instead, so this episode got delayed. |
| 0:30.0 | But now it's here. |
| 0:32.1 | This year we are looking back on 2011, and you will recall that 2010 immediately preceded |
| 0:38.6 | 2011. |
| 0:39.6 | 2010 was the year the Tea Party wrote a wave of Koch brother money and anti-Obama racism |
| 0:46.5 | to victory in the midterm elections. |
| 0:49.1 | Well 2011 was the year that all of those people were actually seated in Congress. |
| 0:59.9 | Pull me once, shame on you, pull me twice, shame on you. |
| 1:04.4 | Ladies and gentlemen, that is the elected official whom we as a country have just put in |
| 1:08.6 | charge of higher education in the House of Representatives. |
| 1:12.5 | Most of the things that have been done by the federal government that are unconstitutional |
| 1:16.5 | in my opinion have been done for good reasons. |
| 1:20.6 | They're not malevolent reasons, but they're wrong. |
| 1:24.0 | We should not be funding education, for example. |
| 1:27.6 | Congresswoman Virginia Fox, newly named chair of the Higher Education Subcommittee, doesn't |
| 1:32.8 | believe the government should fund education. |
| 1:35.2 | She doesn't believe the government should be doing anything about education, and so therefore, |
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