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

(2010/03/11) Flagrant ignorance (Climate Change) (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

🗓️ 11 March 2010

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Edition #341

Flagrant ignorance

Act 1: Unusually large snow storm - Daily Show

Act 2: Snowpocalypse vs. climate change - Media Matters

Act 3: GOP doesn't believe in climate change - Countdown

Act 4: Does winter snow disprove climate change - Young Turks

Act 5: Climate change deniers given second wind - Counterspin

Act 6: Denial also an inexplicable position on climate change - The Bugle

Act 7: Full court shot on climate change - Rachel Maddow

Act 8: False balance on snow vs. climate change - Counterspin

Act 9: Belief in climate change hinges on worldview - NPR

Act 10: Fox and Friends don't understand that it's cold in winter - Young Turks

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Colbert We're Off to See the Blizzard - Colbert Report

Music:

When the cold days come - Theo Bard

Time waits for no man - Theo Bard

Having a good time - Theo Bard

All the orders gone - Theo Bard

Everything you have - Theo Bard

Evil eyes - Theo Bard

This fickle world - Theo Bard

Drums of freedom - Theo Bard

Middle class boy - Theo Bard

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0:00.0

Welcome to the award-winning Best of a Let's Podcast with clips today from the Daily

0:12.6

Show, Media Matters, Countdown, The Young Turks, Counter-Spin, The Bugle, The Rachel

0:17.7

Matter Show, NPR, and for our iPhone app users bonus clip today from The Colbert Report.

0:30.0

Now, obviously, the weather is a big story today. As you know, we don't usually cover the weather

0:33.0

here on the Daily Show. We leave that sort of thing to Comedy Central's satirical newscast.

0:37.0

The weather report. One of our former correspondents, Deutel von Tainstein.

0:41.8

I don't remember him. He was, uh, I think that was a joke from 10 years ago on the show,

0:50.3

so I'm not even sure where that came from. But you know, sometimes the weather story comes along

0:54.0

that is so big we can't ignore it. Like, this week's massive snowstorms, 18 inches of snow in

0:59.3

Washington DC alone, and something we hear at the Daily Show have cleverly decided to call snow

1:05.5

snowmageddon. Snowmageddon. Snowmageddon.

1:19.1

That's fine. You guys are calling it snowmageddon, that's cool. You know, we got other

1:25.0

in it. We're calling it the snowpop. Snowpocalypse. It's so apocalypse.

1:29.2

Snowpocalypse.

1:35.0

All right, it's fine. It's cool. We haven't have a third option.

1:39.4

It's so ridiculous. Nobody's thought of this one. Roll it, Chuck.

1:55.2

Pretty awesome, right? Snow Tories B-I-G. It takes the comeder genius of the Daily Show to come up with something

2:05.9

that cool. We're quick. Good. We're talking about weather and it's also the same, uh,

2:10.6

let's just great to see you on during the week. They're talking about me. I hope they let us know how

2:14.0

the snow torreous B-I-G is progressing east, talking about the snow there. They're calling it the

2:19.0

snow torreous B-I-G. Just f**k that. All right, fine.

2:34.1

Stupid puns with their stupid dope.

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