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

(2009/08/15) It's 7pm, do you know where your grandparents are? (MP3)

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

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2009

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Edition #288 It's 7pm, do you know where you grandparents are? Act 1: Healthrasier - Daily Show Act 2: GOP on the wrong side of history - Bill Maher Act 3: Healthcare Pap Attack - Ring of Fire Act 4: Obama strikes back, is it enough? - The Young Turks Act 5: Master Rebators: The Crank Cycle - Daily Show Act 6: Manufactured riots - Rachel Maddow Act 7: Hostile groups at townhalls - NPR Act 8: Heathcare reform is the matrix - Colbert Report Act 9: Debunking the fears of healthcare - Countdown Act 10: Obama must pass a healthcare bill - Daily Show Act 11: Covering the confusion about healthcare - Counterspin Act 12: Violence, eugenics and heathcare - Rachel Maddow Music: Hospital Beds - Cold War Kids Live Like You're Dying - Lenka Oxford comma - Vampire Weekend Gone going - Black Eyed Peas Live forever - Oasis Lights out - Santigold I'm no superman - Laslo Bane Beloved - VNV Nation Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers The Secret Agent Ending - Cello Octet Conjunto Ibérico & Elias Arizcuren The Importance of Being Idle - Kaiser Chiefs 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

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0:08.5

Welcome to the Best of Love podcast with clips today from the Daily Show.

0:12.6

Real time with Bill Marr, Ring of Fire, The Young Turks,

0:16.0

Rachel Maddell, NPR, The Colbert Report, Countdown, and Counter-Spin.

0:30.5

As you know right now, our country is engaged in a great debate

0:34.7

about how we, as a nation, will care for ourselves in what we know,

0:39.2

but are not yet admitting to be the waning years of our empire.

0:42.4

All right. The president has made healthcare reform as number one priority,

0:47.0

but he knows it's never going to work. If he just pushes it through

0:50.1

with his democratic majority, he's got to reach across the aisle

0:53.0

in the spirit of bipartisanship to the Republicans.

0:56.5

Let's see how that's going.

0:58.0

The Democrat plan for healthcare reform amounts to a government take over

1:01.4

of healthcare in this country. It's going to end up rationing healthcare,

1:05.0

higher cost, bigger deficits, less coverage.

1:08.2

It's clear that it uses our tax money to allow people to kill themselves.

1:11.3

Tell you how you're going to die. They will die in line.

1:14.0

Put to death by their government.

1:15.9

I cannot stress to you the extent to which chaos, illness, and needless death

1:19.3

will befall everyone in quote.

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