(2010/03/09) The Blair House Project (I didn't make the joke first) (Health Care) (MP3)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 March 2010
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Edition #340
The Blair House Project (I didn't make the joke first)
Act 1: Summit's eve - Daily Show
Act 2: Help - Health care special comment - Countdown
Act 3: Wrap up of health care summit - Young Turks
Act 4: Name calling, racist attacks from right - Media Matters
Act 5: Reviewing the health care summit - Wait wait don't tell me
Act 6: Lies about 'nuclear option' - Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Conflating nuclear option and reconciliation - Media Matters
Act 8: The med menace - Daily Show
Act 9: Obama disses single-payer systems - Young Turks
Act 10: Mocking the uninsured - Media Matters
Act 11: Health care by Easter - Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Health Care Magic - Colbert Report
Music:
Disappointment - The Cranberries
Help - Howie Day
Les Jours Tristes - Yann Tiersen
You were the last high - The Dandy Warhols
A Quai - Yann Tiersen
Rapture - Laura Veirs
Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'après Midi - Yann Tiersen
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with clips today from the Daily |
| 0:12.9 | Show. |
| 0:13.9 | Countdown with Keith Oberman, The Young Turks, Media Matters, Weight Weight Don't Tell Me, |
| 0:17.9 | and Rachel Maddo with a bonus clip for our iPhone app users today from The Cold Bear Report. |
| 0:22.9 | As you know, for the last year, the president has been engaged in an ambitious overhaul of |
| 0:36.9 | our healthcare system in order to make good on his campaign promise to kill the elderly. |
| 0:44.0 | Let's kill them all right. |
| 0:47.0 | Enough by part, isn't she? |
| 0:48.0 | We're running out of time. |
| 0:49.0 | They're going to come us to death. |
| 0:53.0 | But that's not the only healthcare promise Obama hasn't kept. |
| 0:57.0 | His campaign promise on healthcare reform, which I believe was that we would sit down and negotiate |
| 1:02.0 | together Republicans and Democrats. |
| 1:04.0 | We didn't. |
| 1:05.0 | He said he'd have the cease-van cameras in the room. |
| 1:08.0 | I don't think his head moves anymore. |
| 1:13.0 | He said he had my nose between his fingers. |
| 1:18.0 | It turns out it was just his thumb. |
| 1:21.0 | I went around for three weeks thinking I had no nose. |
| 1:26.0 | Well, guess what? |
| 1:27.0 | Tomorrow, Barack Obama is getting Democrats and Republicans together at the Blair House to |
| 1:31.0 | discuss healthcare live on cease-van. |
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