(2010/07/13) Kagan's vapid and hollow confirmation (Supreme Court)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 13 July 2010
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Edition #384
Kagan's vapid and hollow confirmation
Act 1: Kagan on Supreme Court confirmations - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 1: Play the game - Shout Out Louds
Act 2: Too many Jews - Le Show
Song 2: Fade to black - Apocalyptica
Act 3: Like a lady - Media Matters
Act 4: Gen. Boykin vs. Kagan - Rachel Maddow
Song 4: Ready or not - The Fugees
Act 5: Franken on the importance of SCOTUS - Young Turks
Song 5: See you in the light - Michael Franti And Spearhead
Act 6: Kagan confirmation process - It's all politics
Song 6: Keep on moving forward - Emma's Revolution
Act 7: Thurgood Marshall case histories - Thom Hartmann
Song 7: Powerless - The Salads
Act 8: Kagan in a turban - Rachel Maddow
Song 8: Will you remember - The Cranberries
Act 9: Terrible confirmation process - Citizen Radio
Song 9: Carolina Dreams - Heroes and Villains
Act 10: More of less free - Young Turks
Song 10: I'm free - The Soup Dragons
Act 11: Release the Kagan - Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Supreme Court Justice Sweetness - Colbert Report
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| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today. |
| 0:12.1 | From, wait, wait, don't tell me. |
| 0:13.5 | The show, medium matters, the Rachel Maddo show, the Young Turks, its all politics, |
| 0:18.2 | its Tom Hartman program, citizen radio, and the daily show with a bonus video clip |
| 0:23.7 | for our iPhone app users from the Colbert Report. |
| 0:30.0 | Here is your first quote. |
| 0:31.6 | The hearings are a vapid and hollow charade in which repetition of petitudes |
| 0:38.0 | has replaced discussion of viewpoint. |
| 0:40.2 | That was somebody 15 years ago criticizing Supreme Court nomination hearings |
| 0:44.4 | while she's going to have to pretend to like them now. |
| 0:47.8 | Who is it? |
| 0:48.8 | It's Elena Kagan. |
| 0:49.8 | It is Elena Kagan very well done to summarize the coverage of President Obama's new Supreme Court nominee |
| 1:00.0 | She is a centrist, leftist, radical compromiser. |
| 1:04.1 | Everybody loves, and nobody knows, an all-American out of touch elitist, |
| 1:08.9 | right-handed, south paw, asexual, lesbian, heterosexual, |
| 1:12.8 | whose personal life is a complete mystery. |
| 1:16.4 | So we expect her to be both easily confirmed and burned as a witch. |
| 1:26.8 | We'll do it at the same hearing just to save time. |
| 1:29.5 | Some say that in picking an Ivy League even tempered compromiser, |
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