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Now welcome to the Best of a Left Podcast with clips today from Ring of Fire, The Daily

Show, The Rachel Maddo Show, The Tom Hartman Program, The Colbert Report, Counter-Spin,

and the Young Turks.

A Republican friend of mine emailed me a film clip that showed a room full of very old white

guys celebrating the fact that America had lost its chance to host the 2016 Olympics.

The note attached to the email was, is this what we've become?

I told him not to over-react, but in truth I was just being kind.

When America lost the Olympics, Republican leadership high-fived Rush Limbawg, Lindbeck,

and the handful of other oddballs that now define their political party.

I suppose that crowd was gleeful that America had lost revenue of more than $6 billion

or maybe they were happy that America had lost a projected 400,000 jobs that would have

been generated from those games.

But we'd be kidding ourselves if we believe that bitter crowd was only celebrating those

losses.

That became clear when we saw the same crowd, wine like colliquy babies when Obama won

the Nobel Peace Prize, disturbed Red State radio host told their listeners that this

great honor for all Americans, an honor that should have been for all Americans, that

it only occurred because of international affirmative action.

Lindbeck told his audience that the Nobel Peace Prize should have been given to leaders

of his tea bagging crowd.

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