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

Rachel Maddo, Countdown, on the media, the young Turks, real-time with Bill Marr and Counter-Spin.

We begin the night with Barack Obama. We all knew that he was bringing hope and giving us change,

but there was another thing that he wanted the people to have, information.

What I want to do is increase transparency and accountability to offset the power of the special

interest in the lobbyists. A president that they can trust who's going to promote accountability

and transparency, somebody who believes in the transparency and accountability of our government.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Sunlight is a beautiful metaphor, although I do have to caution

our audience at home. Sunlight is actually a terrible, terrible disinfectant.

If you do at home have a cut or an open wound of any kind, I can't stress this enough.

Do not clean it out with sunlight. You're going to want to go with some antibiotic.

Maybe neospor and a vasotracin. I'm getting off track.

My point is after eight years of classifications, redactions, pixelated Google Earth maps and the

war on terrors. You're still not allowed to say that on camera?

Anyway, now we're going to know everything from state secrets to Obama's once-a-day smoking habit.

Yeah, that's right.

Turns out he likes to get him all out of the way at once.

The bottom line is we're going to get it all.

It's a brand new day in Washington.

Hey, what's up, school? Disclosure, baby.

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