(2010/02/20) They're here, they're discriminated against, they're used to it (Rights) (MP3)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 20 February 2010
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Edition #335 They're here, they're discriminated against, they're used to it Act 1: First DADT hearing tomorrow - Rachel Maddow Act 2: High court bans same-sex friendships - The Onion Act 3: DADT popular in polls - Counterspin Act 4: Dreaded Bliss in New Jersey - Daily Show Act 5: They're here, they're discriminated against, they're used to it - The Bugle Act 6: Fight to serve - Rachel Maddow Act 7: Be almost all that you can be - Colbert Report Act 8: New law would ban loveless marriages - The Onion Act 9: Praise for Obama on DADT - The Progressive Act 10: Gays would get tattoos in the military - Wait wait, don't tell me Act 11: A few gay men and women - Daily Show Act 12: Fight to serve 2 - Rachel Maddow Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Hermaphrodites Can't Be Gay - Colbert Report Music: Move you - Anya Marina The King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. 2 & 3 - Neutral Milk Hotel Starring - Freelance Whales Redemption Song - Bob Marley Am I wrong - Love Spit Love What difference does it make - The Smiths Wild Night - Van Morrison I was married - Tegan and Sara Cat faces - Ugly Casanova Don't ask me why - Billy Joel Old man - Neil Young Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Check out the Best of the Left iPhone/iPod Touch App in the App Store! 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 GoSim, get your free SIM card and start saving 85% on calls from Broad by visiting GoSim.com slash Best of the Left. |
| 0:10.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast, which clips today from the Rachel Maddo show, The Onion Radio News, |
| 0:16.0 | Counter-Spin, The Daily Show, The Bugle, The Colbert Report, The Progressive, and Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. |
| 0:23.0 | The bonus clip for today for our iPhone app users is from The Colbert Report. |
| 0:30.0 | For all of the controversy it has caused, and all of the lives it has ruined, the merits of the Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy have not been debated at a congressional hearing for 17 years. |
| 0:41.0 | That changes tomorrow, the senator who led the fight for that hearing, New York's Kirsten Gillibrand joins us next. |
| 0:46.0 | Stay with us. |
| 0:47.0 | This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are. |
| 0:58.0 | It's the right thing to do. |
| 1:00.0 | That was not the first time, just the most recent time, that President Obama clearly enunciated his opposition to the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy. |
| 1:10.0 | It's the policy that kicks qualified gay servicemen and women out of the military simply for being gay. |
| 1:16.0 | Interestingly, new Department of Defense figures say that the number of people kicked out of the Army, the Air Force, the Navy, and Marines during President Obama's first year in office, |
| 1:24.0 | actually declined by about 30 percent from the year before. |
| 1:29.0 | In 2008, 619 people were kicked out. In 2009, the number was down to 428. |
| 1:36.0 | Tomorrow, for the first time since 1993, Don't Ask Don't Tell will be debated at a congressional hearing. |
| 1:43.0 | The Senate Armed Services Committee will hear testimony from Defense Secretary Bob Gates, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullett. |
| 1:49.0 | They are expected to lay out the Pentagon's coming effort to end the ban. |
| 1:55.0 | Joining us now is Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. |
| 1:58.0 | Senator, thanks very much for coming and it's nice to see you here. |
| 2:00.0 | My pleasure. |
| 2:01.0 | Nice to have you here. Can you give us any sort of preview about what you're expecting at the hearing tomorrow? |
| 2:06.0 | Well, I think Admiral Mullin and Secretary Gates will lay out some of the strategy for repeal policy. |
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