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

(2009/09/02) For-profit journalism at some of it's worst (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

🗓️ 3 September 2009

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Edition #293 For-profit journalism at some of it's worst Act 1: So you think you can douche - Daily Show Act 2: Fact-imparted miniverse on healthcare - Rachel Maddow Act 3: Poll bearers: cable news polls itself - Daily Show Act 4: Neal Boortz on human debris - The Young Turks Act 5: Fox News: The new liberals - Daily Show Act 6: Raising terror level to raise polling points - Rachel Maddow Act 7: CNN's just sayin' - Daily Show Act 8: Playing politics for terror - Countdown Music: Stand by me - Playing for change Across the universe - Rufus Wainright Crash - The Primitives Sorrow - Bad religion We like to party - The Venga Boys The World Has Turned And Left Me Here - Weezer What's the matter here? - 10,000 Maniacs 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

This episode is brought to you by the best of left members.

0:02.8

This show comes to you twice a week instead of just once almost entirely thanks to their kind donations.

0:08.4

Now welcome to the best of the left podcast with Cubsiday from The Daily Show, Rachel Maddo,

0:12.9

The Young Turks, and Countdown.

0:30.0

Folks, we're going to start tonight with some facts. Some straight talk.

0:33.0

Fact one. Right now, the Democratic Party is king of turd mountains.

0:38.2

They control the presidency, the House, the Senate, the media, and the weather.

0:46.4

There hasn't been a hurricane since Barack Obama's been in office.

0:50.3

And he thought Katrina was caused by gays.

0:54.7

That's not true. That's not true.

0:56.4

Fact number two. Nature of horrors of vacuum.

1:00.9

Not just isn't fond of the vacuum. Of horrors of the vacuum.

1:06.1

Apparently a vacuum is still in nature's boyfriend in high school.

1:08.4

Anyway, the point is this, if the Republican Party's legislative and philosophical leadership

1:13.2

cannot step up to confront the Democrats and fill this void, there is another more primal group

1:20.3

that will. Obama has destroyed this country.

1:23.1

This President Obama bankrupting the entire United States.

1:26.0

All of the Marxist tendencies.

1:28.3

This President Obama's inexperience, causing chaos.

1:32.3

Now he says the U.S. is actually a Muslim nation.

1:36.1

The whole Obama, Obama policies is that it's a Trojan horse.

1:40.4

Inside the horse, there are socialists.

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