(2010/05/01) Forced to lie to serve with honor (Gay Rights) (MP3)

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Jay Tomlinson

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🗓️ 1 May 2010

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Edition #358

Forced to lie to serve with honor

Act 1: Busted anti-gay republican comes out - Young Turks

Act 2: Repealing DADT popular in polls - Counterspin

Act 3: Bait and snitch - Colbert Report

Act 4: Gay Saudi gets arrested - Young Turks

Act 5: Letter from old military on DADT Part 1 - Rachel Maddow

Act 6: Gay gene isolated, ostracized - The Onion

Act 7: Letter from old military on DADT Part 2 - Rachel Maddow

Act 8: Gays in military leads to genocide - Young Turks

Act 9: New law to ban unloving marriages - The Onion

Act 10: Dutch ask Dutch tell - Rachel Maddow

Act 11: Bigots likely dumber and poorer, duh - Young Turks

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

Trying to support the military and hate gays - Colbert Report

Music:

Close to me - The Cure

Minority - Green Day

Take your mama - Scissor Sisters

The argument - This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb

Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - The Smiths

Me and Julio down by the schoolyard - Paul Simon

Your Heart Is An Empty Room - Death Cab For Cutie

All These Things That I've Done - The Killers

January Wedding - The Avett Brothers

Pure Imagination - Leslie Bricusse (Willy Wonka)

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0:00.0	This show is made possible not just in part, but entirely by the support of listeners
0:07.9	just like you.
0:08.9	Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with clips today from the young
0:12.6	Turks, Counter-Spin, The Colbert Report, The Rachel Maddo Show, and The Onion Radio
0:17.2	News with a bonus clip today for our iPhone app users from The Colbert Report.
0:30.0	Roy Ashport.
0:31.0	Remember this is the California State Senator, that got busted outside of faces.
0:35.4	That's a club, the Sacramento Gay Club.
0:38.4	He's been anti-gay his whole career.
0:41.0	Every single piece of gay rights legislation, he's like, you know off the top rope, body slam
0:46.6	suplex, right?
0:48.8	And he said he was against Harvey Milk Day.
0:53.3	I mean, it's not even just rights or not rights, just random, come on, you're telling me
0:57.9	that Harvey Milk should not be commemorated in California.
1:00.8	He's one of the biggest gay rights activists of all time from California.
1:05.2	Oh, it's crazy, right?
1:07.0	That's just spiteful, right?
1:08.6	So they catch him coming out of the gay club.
1:12.0	He's weaving in and out of traffic because he's loaded.
1:15.4	He had a 0.14, and then of course 0.08 is above the legal limit, so he's going to lock
1:20.0	his ass up.
1:21.0	He's driving government vehicle.
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