(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
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2009
⏱️ 75 minutes
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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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