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

(2009/05/30) The torture talk continues and continues some more (MP3)

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

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2009

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Edition #266 Torture talk continues... and continues Act 1: GOP on not closing Gitmo - The Young Turks Act 2: Liz Cheney on torture - Rachel Maddow Act 3: Cheney throws Bush under the bus - The Daily Show Act 4: Lehey on prosecuting Bush criminals - Ring of Fire Act 5: 2 steps forward 1 step back - Countdown Act 6: Pelosi on CIA briefings on torture - The Daily Show Act 7: The suppression of the memo - Le Show Act 8: Jesse Ventura talks torture - The Young Turks Act 9: John Yoo hired by newspaper - Colbert Report Music: Любовь - Аддис Абеба She Moves In Her Own Way - The Kooks Failure By Design - Brand New The heart of life - John Mayer So long - Lodger This land is mine - Dido Mile End - Pulp Deep water - Pansy Division 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 Young Turks, Rachel

0:12.9

Maddo, the Daily Show, Ring of Fire, Countdown, La Show, and the Colbert Refloor.

0:29.9

But first we're going to start old school.

0:31.9

Let's say old school.

0:34.9

No, you know what?

0:36.9

This is how I believe, okay? I'm from the old school.

0:39.9

Except this is not possible school.

0:41.9

It's the Republicans going back to that same stupid talking point on how the terrorists

0:47.9

are going to run free throughout the United States of America.

0:50.9

And we've got to run for the hills and Obama is going to just release them in our hometowns.

0:55.9

We've got Hoxtra, Elena Ross-Lathan, and Peter King, Lamar Smith, and Eric Cantor all in this clip,

1:02.9

all making absurd points.

1:03.9

But Peter King is the one that drove me crazy and why we're going to play it for you right now.

1:07.9

I got some comments after this video. Let's watch.

1:11.9

I think it's safe to assume that we've only identified a portion of the people

1:17.9

that have gone back on the battlefield once they have left Guantanamo.

1:21.9

These are the kinds of people that the President is talking about moving it back into the United States

1:27.9

or moving them here, releasing them, or detaining them.

1:33.9

But just as we can't force other countries to welcome these detainees with open arms into their home lands,

1:40.9

neither should we force our citizens and our communities to do so.

1:44.9

I have a Vincent Guantanamo and just seeing the types of people that are there,

1:49.9

the way they abuse the guards, the way they carry on, listening to the people

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