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slash best. Now welcome to the best of the left podcast with clips today from the daily show,

La Show, The Young Turks, Rachel Maddo on the media and Countdown.

We make quibble about the expertise that our national media demonstrate analyzing the affairs on this blue marble we call Earth.

We may seek to expose the media's bias, whether it be left or right.

But there's one unifying thread that runs through every strata of our media.

And that is what gives them a collective erection.

President Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney both set to deliver dueling speeches tomorrow at the same time, both in Washington.

The same topic, national security.

What gives them a woody conflict easily juxtaposed.

A president and Dick Cheney's dueling national security speeches.

The sniping from both sides has turned personal.

They'll go at it on the same date.

This high noon duel.

Barack Obama, Dick Cheney going at it in the shelter.

Will the gloves come up? Strongest man wins.

I really hope they're speaking in metaphor because if they're not, I'm most assuredly putting my money in this fight on the more ambulatory of the two.

God, say.

How are you?

Really, they're going to fight?

One of them has a monkey heart.

Is there perhaps a more apt metaphor than boxing?

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