Welcome to the best of the left podcast with clips today from Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, The Young Turks, The Daily Show, Tom Hartman, Politico, The Colbert Report, Rachel Maddo, and Countdown.

Your first quote is a series of concerned citizens. Here's one woman in Pennsylvania.

I don't want this country turning into Russia.

He's that same woman again a little bit later on Fox News.

I don't want my children coming to me and asking me, Mom, why do we have to wait in line for toilet paper?

Here's a sign we saw being waived about on cable news.

Down the shoot, Granny.

Those sentiments were all expressed in fervent, genuine, grass, roots, opposition to what?

Um, health care reform.

Right, health care reform.

Angry mobs who are carrying video cameras instead of pitchforks, but video cameras do hurt when you're poked with them.

They showed up in mass to scream at their elected representatives at town halls all over the country.

They're complaint the government wants to give them health care.

But they don't want anybody giving them health care.

They're motto, give me liberty, and give me death.

Speaking of death.

A lot of these protesters were upset about President Obama's famous death panels.

Nobody used to decide whether senior citizens get to live.

Now, actually Peter, I had those up in my basement.

Really? They were really good, yeah.

The death panel.

Then I replaced them with some nice oak.

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