(2010/06/15) We're all covered in oil (Oil Spill) (MP3)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2010
⏱️ 72 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the support of the members of the show for |
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| 0:20.0 | media at the Young Turks and the BBC News Quiz, with a bonus video clip for our |
| 0:24.7 | iPhone app users from The Colbert Report. |
| 0:29.5 | Good news. It is now clear that there is an awful lot of oil in our earth. |
| 0:39.4 | It is awful. |
| 0:46.5 | Hey, hey, thank you, dinosaur today. It is also now clear that BP's latest idea |
| 0:54.3 | to solve the oil leak by waiting for Aquaman to talk dolphins into stopping |
| 0:58.1 | themselves into it. |
| 1:04.0 | They don't work. |
| 1:09.7 | Biggest seahorses I have ever seen. We've gone 16 days. When we left, the |
| 1:17.0 | spill looked like this. Now it looks like this. The only thing they've been |
| 1:22.2 | able to accomplish in 16 days is a more flattering camera angle. Forgottex, |
| 1:27.2 | there hasn't been that much petroleum on a lens since Diane Sawyer and Barbara |
| 1:31.2 | Walters co-interviewed Barbara Streisand. |
| 1:35.2 | Yeah, it was like watching angels sitting on the sun while they were |
| 1:45.3 | showered with mucus. Now they've tried a couple of different ways to fix this |
| 1:49.7 | damn thing. There was a top hat idea where they were going to put a dome over |
| 1:52.8 | the whole thing and that didn't work. And then it was the junk shot where they |
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