(2010/01/27) Corporations is people! (MP3)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 27 January 2010
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Edition #328
Corporations is people!
Act 1: Supreme court blows up politics - It's All Politics
Act 2: Corporate personhood floodgates - Thom Hartmann
Act 3: The story of the case for corporate spending - On the Media
Act 4: Congress, brought to you by - Wait wait don't tell me!
Act 5: Ever-living vampires - Thom Hartmann
Act 6: Constitutional amendment - The Progressive
Act 7: Supreme court makes buying politicians legal - The Young Turks
Act 8: Barney Frank on fighting SC decision - Rachel Maddow
Act 9: Nader on corporate personhood - Thom Hartmann
Act 10: Special Comment on worst decision ever - Countdown
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Supreme Corp - Daily Show
Music:
Gods Radar - The Dixie Hummingbirds
Welcome to the machine - Pink Floyd
Tuesdays gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Crash - The Primitives
Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote
Recorded live in Copenhagen - Theo Bard
Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin
Drown - Smashing Pumpkins
Taking over me - Evanescence
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Audible. Visit audiblepodcast.com slash best for your free |
| 0:06.0 | audiobook download. Now welcome to a supreme-sized edition of the award-winning Best of the Left |
| 0:11.5 | Podcast. With clips today from NPRs, it's all politics, the Tom Hartman program, on the media, |
| 0:16.8 | wait, wait, don't tell me, but progressive, the young Turks, the Rachel Maddo show, |
| 0:21.3 | and countdown with a bonus clip for our iPhone app users from the Daily Show. |
| 0:30.0 | Start with Citizens United because that's the most recent, just moments ago. |
| 0:36.7 | It's just in, the Supreme Court has blown up American politics as we know it. |
| 0:42.7 | Remember the coffee you had last week? I'm still happy. First of all, what is the Citizens United |
| 0:48.2 | versus FEC case? Can one of the facts? The Citizens United is a conservative organization that |
| 0:52.8 | put together an anti-hillary Clinton documentary during 2008, and they wanted to run it during |
| 0:58.8 | the presidential campaign. Oh, but late in the campaign before a particular primate, within 30 days. |
| 1:03.8 | Right, and by not only that, with corporate money, and of course the Federal Election Commission, |
| 1:08.0 | the FEC said they could not do that. It would be a violation of campaign finance laws, |
| 1:12.4 | so the Supreme Court took it up, and they were expected to have a decision last year. |
| 1:16.5 | Last year? That's right. Of course, on a district court had originally said the FEC was right |
| 1:21.8 | about this because they were applying the McCain Fine Gold Act of 2002 signed into law by President |
| 1:27.1 | Bush, passed by bipartisan Congress, but when the Supreme Court took it up, the questions being |
| 1:31.9 | asked by the Justices, especially the new Chief Justice, John Roberts, made it clear they were |
| 1:36.6 | not happy with the McCain Fine Gold Law or with the previous Supreme Court rulings on the |
| 1:41.6 | McCain Fine Gold Law, and they were ready to get pretty rough in overturning it. |
| 1:45.6 | And with this week's decision, a five-four decision, all the unlimited spending that we saw, |
| 1:50.9 | certainly a lot of before the Watergate excesses could be back in politics in time for 2010? |
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