(2009/05/02) The Big Torture Show (MP3)

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Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 2 May 2009

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Edition # 262 The Big Torture Show Act 1: Bowing to the King - Colbert Report Act 2: Disambiguating the reports - Rachel Maddow Act 3: Declassifying torture memos - On the Media Act 4: Introduction to SERE - Rachel Maddow Act 5: Torture debate on Newshour - CounterSpin Act 6: Bush denounces war criminals - Countdown Act 7: Shep Smith goes to far - Colbert Report Act 8: Possible procecutions for the CIA - Rachel Maddow Act 9: Obama speaks from the CIA - Countdown Act 10: Turning a blind eye to torture - Wait Wait Act 11: Notes on sleep deprivation - Rachel Maddow Act 12: How many times does it take? - CounterSpin Act 13: DIck Cheney runs on fear - Rachel Maddow Music: Steal my kisses - Ben Harper I can see clearly now - Jimmy Cliff Debate exposes doubt - Death Cab For Cutie Take me out - Franz Ferdinand One - Apocalyptica Auto-tune the news #1 - Schmoyoho on YouTube In a big country - Dashboard Confessional Keep it clean - Scott West And Sex On Sunday Some might say - Oasis I Will Play My Game Beneath The Spin Light - Brand New My favorite game - The Cardigans Sleeping in - The Postal Service It's not impossible - Ben Sollee Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Vote for us and leave comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the best of the left podcast with clips today from the Colbert Report, Rachel
0:12.6	Maddo on the media, countdown, counter spin, and wait, wait, don't tell me the number one threat
0:31.4	President Obama, now folks, we all know how he greeted Saudi King Abdullah when they met in London.
0:40.7	The fact is this President bowed before the Saudi King. We got this video, a Barack Obama bowing
0:48.2	to the Saudi King. Something no other President has done with Saudi Arabia. Exactly. The President
0:55.8	cannot debase himself and our country by bowing before the Saudi King. You hold his hand, kiss him
1:02.6	on the cheek and reorient our entire foreign policy of the last 20 years around securing his oil deposits.
1:18.6	And as for you, King Abdullah, looking good. Keep that gas under two bucks a gallon and you can turn the
1:26.0	Lincoln Memorial until it camels stall.
1:56.0	Do you ever use the online search engines, Wikipedia? You ever used it? Wikipedia, it's a huge
2:12.3	user-created database. It's an encyclopedia reference source that's online and because it's huge
2:17.9	and because it's user-generated and it evolves to more usefully deliver its information,
2:22.8	the Wikipedia geniuses have come up with some really clever organizational ideas.
2:27.7	Such as the disambiguation page. If you go to the homepage at Wikipedia and you type into the
2:33.7	search window the phrase vanity fair, for example, what pops up is a disambiguation page about vanity
2:40.7	fair. It's a page that invites you to clarify whether you're looking for information on vanity fair
2:46.2	the magazine or vanity fair, the British novel or the 2004 film vanity fair starring Reese Witherspoon
2:53.6	or the 1932 film vanity fair starring Murna Lawy or maybe the song vanity fair by Mr. Bungle.
3:00.6	You probably were not looking for that. It's not their best work, but you never know. It's
3:04.6	disambiguating the idea of which vanity fair you are looking for. The usefulness of a disambiguation
3:12.2	page, the idea of getting clear on what information we've got available is something that would be
3:17.4	helpful right now. I mean this torrent of new information that we've got about torture. After
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