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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

(2008/09/13) All in The Family (MP3)

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2008

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Act 1: Hicks teach evolution - The Young Turks Act 2: Religion in politics - On the Media Act 3: Child injured mimicing crucifiction - The Onion Act 4: Waiting for Joe - This American Life Act 5: "The Family" - On the Media Act 6: Christ Announces hiring associate Christ - The Onion Act 7: "Fuck your religion" - The Young Turks Music: Faith - George Michael Crazy Faith - Alison Krauss & Union Station Crucify - Troi Amos God's gonna cut you down - Johnny Cash In God's country - U2 Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeftPodcast.com Contact me directly at HippieSympathizer@gmail.com Leave us comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes. Digg us at www.Digg.com

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0:00.0

Welcome to the best of the left podcast with clips today from the young Turks on the

0:13.3

media, the onion radio news, and this American life.

0:17.3

And just a quick warning that portions of this edition may be offensive to those sensitive

0:22.4

about religion.

0:30.3

Donald Florida, they've decided that they're going to finally teach them evolution.

0:35.9

But they had the conservative Christians go in there and lobby for the new textbooks

0:42.7

in Florida to say, you know what, yes, we're teaching evolution, but this isn't necessarily

0:47.7

a biological fact, it's the scientific theory of evolution.

0:52.9

Now we've been through this a couple of times in a couple of different states, Pennsylvania

0:56.7

Kansas, and said that these guys clans wind up losing in the end.

1:00.3

But in this case, they've gotten a small victory.

1:04.0

But the reason I bring this up is because there was one guy who made a particularly interesting

1:10.4

case down in Florida, and we wanted to share it with you.

1:14.1

Make a sense of what you're dealing with here on the other side.

1:17.9

Go ahead and roll the tin.

1:18.9

Thank you, sir.

1:19.9

Before I begin, I'd like to know maybe if any of you maybe have a household pet, or maybe

1:25.7

some of the other board members, maybe a household pet at home, or maybe somebody here, see

1:30.8

I brought these oranges down here, and I was going to eat them.

1:33.2

But after reading all the material I've read this last weekend, I've learned from some

1:37.6

of the writings that, and I'm just convinced, I know beyond the shadow of doubt, this orange

1:41.7

right here is the first cousin of somebody's pet cat.

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