(2010/07/18) Thank you BP (Oil Spill)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 18 July 2010
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Edition #386
Thank you BP
Act 1: Endless bummers - Daily Show
Song 1: My name is Jonas - Weezer
Act 2: Shep Smith slams Fox News defending BP - Young Turks
Song 2: Real world - Matchbox Twenty
Act 3: ThreatDown - Dawn - Colbert Report
Song 3: Perpetual Dawn (Solar Youth Mix) - The Orb
Act 4: BP CEO acts like Star Trek character - Young Turks
Song 4: House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
Act 5: BP's PR campaign - Jimmy Dore Show
Song 5: Sinnerman (The Thomas Crown Affair) - Nina Simone
Act 6: BP's criminal negligence - The Progressive
Song 6: Politic Amagni (La Politique, C'est Pas Bon) - Amadou & Mariam
Act 7: Carl Safina on oil regulation - Colbert Report
Song 7: Soft serve - Soul Coughing
Act 8: Extreme energy - Slate.com
Song 8: I go to extremes - Billy Joel
Act 9: Josh Fox talks about toxic materials - Daily Show
Song 9: Classical gas - Mason Williams
Act 10: Entire oil rig searches for pizza cutter - The Onion
Song 10: Cuts like a knife - Soft
Act 11: Oil invested judge OKs offshore drilling - Young Turks
Song 11: Stop the madness - Marty Dread
Act 12: Lube Job - Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Obamas BP Oil Spill Speech - Colbert Report
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| 0:00.0 | This show is made possible entirely by listeners just like you. |
| 0:04.6 | For all the ways you can help, check out the support box at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.9 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today. |
| 0:12.2 | From the Daily Show, the Young Turks, the Colbert Report, the Jimmy Doar Show, the Progressive, |
| 0:17.2 | Slate.com, and the Onion Radio News, with a bonus video clip for our iPhone app users |
| 0:22.4 | from the Colbert Report. |
| 0:30.0 | Of course all good things must come to an end, like the oil spill in the gulf. |
| 0:35.0 | Any of you who are watching this show for information on it, get ready to t-vo. |
| 0:39.6 | They have it. |
| 0:40.6 | No, it's true. |
| 0:41.6 | Just in case. |
| 0:42.6 | I don't know if you are or not. |
| 0:45.4 | They finally have the spill under the control of a containment cap. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm sorry, what was that? |
| 0:51.0 | The news we just got a short time ago is that the containment cap is now off. |
| 0:55.3 | Let's take a look at that picture. |
| 0:57.3 | That oil is now leaking into the gulf with nothing stopping it once again. |
| 1:03.9 | Apparently a robot arm at the bottom of the sheet closed one of the containment cap's |
| 1:11.9 | vents, necessitating the temporary removal of the cap. |
| 1:15.1 | Man, I'd like to get a word with those BP guys. |
| 1:18.3 | Also, I'd love to talk to that robot that knocked the tap off the cap that was in the |
| 1:24.2 | bottom of the gulf yesterday. |
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