(2010/07/01) Oil Apologies (Oil Spill) (MP3)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2010
⏱️ 68 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Edition #380
Oil Apologies
Act 1: Trust me - Mark Fiore
Song 1: Happy to be stuck with you - Huey Lewis and the News
Act 2: We care about the small people - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 2: Always mean it - Emilyn Brodsky
Act 3: Oil apologies - Le Show
Song 3: Small People - Harry Shearer
Act 4: Oil companies lie about spill severity - On the Media
Song 4: Chicago - Escape Directors
Act 5: BP and the oil spill - The NOW show
Song 5: Unforgiven - Apocalyptica
Act 6: Defending BP - Media Matters
Act 7: Jobs lost in murderous, hateful industries - Bill Maher
Song 7: Working class hero - Green Day
Act 8: BP stock sinks - Colbert Report
Song 8: All in - Better than Ezra
Act 9: Chairman Barton - It's all politics
Song 9: Sorry, blame it on me - Akon
Act 10: GOP glass jaw - Rachel Maddow
Song 10: Alright Alright (Here's My Fist Where's the Fight?) - Sahara Hotnights
Act 11: An energy-independent future - Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Put the Cursed Monkey Paw Down - Colbert Report
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.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Special thanks for this show to the proprietor of crisppriestmusic.com, Chris |
| 0:05.6 | Priest of course, details on that at the end of the show. Now welcome to the award |
| 0:09.9 | winning best of the left podcast with clips today from MarkFiora.com, wait, wait |
| 0:14.0 | don't tell me, will a show on the media, the now show, media matters, real time |
| 0:19.0 | with Bill Marr, the Colbert Report, it's all politics, the Rachel Maddo show, |
| 0:22.6 | and the Daily Show with a bonus video clip for our iPhone app users from the |
| 0:27.6 | Colbert Report. |
| 0:57.6 | But Cherubic oil executives were not the only ones practicing auto-profit |
| 1:06.6 | certification, but trust me what could possibly go wrong self-policing method |
| 1:11.6 | popularized in the bush years had spread to gold mining. Food safety and most |
| 1:17.8 | famously banking and financial water macollates, but soon it became apparent |
| 1:23.1 | voluntary regulation was not working out exactly as planned. And those who |
| 1:29.3 | espoused its wondrous benefits were suddenly crying out to the heavens above |
| 1:34.7 | for government intervention. So after much death destruction and mayhem that |
| 1:41.0 | trust me what could possibly go wrong method was replaced with trust me it's |
| 1:46.1 | what we meant all along with an extra helping of its Obama's fault thrown in for |
| 1:51.4 | good measure, good night and your stock. |
| 2:21.4 | All right here is your first quote. We care about the small people. That was Carl Henrich's |
| 2:50.6 | van Berg. He's the chairman of a company which he managed to make even more |
| 2:55.2 | hated than it was before he opened his mouth. What company? It is BP. Finally |
| 3:03.6 | very good yes. Finally something BP does worse than operating deep sea oil |
| 3:11.4 | wells. Apologizing. The company's chairman came to the White House to meet |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jay Tomlinson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Jay Tomlinson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

