(2007/12/29) Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (MP3)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2007
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Act 2: Warren26peace - Let's Talk About Ron Paul
Act 3: Bill Moyers - FCC's New Attempt to Increase Media Consolidation
Act 4: Ted Kennedy - Attacks Retroactive Immunity for Telecoms
Act 5: The Young Turks - Romney's (not so) Kennedy Moment
Act 6: Mike Papantonio - The New Lie (The Surge is Working, We Are Winning)
Act 7: Democracy Now - What Did Bush Know on Iran and When Did He Know It
Act 8: The Young Turks - Iran Has No Nuke Program, Bush Lied (Again)
Act 9: Olbermann - Bush is a Liar or Idiot
Act 10: Robert Wexler - Wexler Wants Cheney Impeachment Hearings
Music:
1. Superstar - Lupe Fiasco
2. Reckoner - Radiohead
3. More than Scarlet - Decoder Ring
4. Make the Road By Walking - Menahan Street Band
5. Song Seven - Interpol
6. Broken - Unkle
7. Toes in the Sand - No more anymore
8. Waiting on the World to Change - John Mayer
9. The Heart Asks Pleasure First - Michael Nyman
10. The Holidays Are Here (And We're Still At War) - Brett Dennen
11. Around The World / Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk
Produced By:
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another community powered and guest-produced episode of Best |
| 0:10.1 | of the Left Podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Today we have clips from the democracy now, Bill Moyers, Rachel Maddow, Keith Ogermay, |
| 0:18.6 | Ted Kennedy, Mike Papetoneville, the young Turks, Warren 26 piece, and Congressman Robert |
| 0:24.6 | Wexler. |
| 0:30.6 | Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, his supporters raised more than $4 million |
| 0:37.6 | in one day for him yesterday. |
| 0:39.8 | Ron Paul says that he does not know the person who came up with the idea of trying to raise |
| 0:44.5 | all of this money in one day for him, nor does he really understand the significance of |
| 0:49.5 | November 5th, chosen in honor of Guy Fox Day and in recognition of the movie V for Vendetta |
| 0:56.9 | as an appropriate thematic hook for Ron Paul's supporters to raise money for him yesterday. |
| 1:03.4 | But in raising more than $4 million in one day, Ron Paul broke the record for one day fund |
| 1:09.4 | raising among Republican presidential candidates. |
| 1:12.3 | You would think that would be, I don't know, major front page political news. |
| 1:18.3 | In case you didn't know that it's not major front page political news, I will tell you |
| 1:21.4 | that the front political page at CNN.com right now is still about the last democratic debate |
| 1:27.3 | from last week and how Hillary thinks she did. |
| 1:32.0 | Joining us now is Glenn Greenwald. |
| 1:34.0 | He's a columnist at Unclaimed Territory at salon.com. |
| 1:38.1 | He's also the author of Tragic Legacy, how a good versus evil mentality destroyed the |
| 1:42.8 | Bush presidency. |
| 1:44.4 | Glenn Greenwald, thanks very much for joining us. |
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