(2010/08/10) A battle finally won in the war (Gay Rights)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 10 August 2010
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Edition #394
A battle finally won in the war
Act 1: Lesbian mothers - Colbert Report
Song 1: Middle Class Boy - Theo Bard
Act 2: Crazy gay marriage speech - Young Turks
Song 2: The bleeding heart show - The New Pornographers
Act 3: Kentucky bans gay pet weddings - The Onion
Song 3: Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps - Cake
Act 4: Time to pay reparations to gays - Thom Hartmann
Song 4: January wedding - The Avett Brothers
Act 5: Breakdown of prop 8 - Rachel Maddow
Song 5: Celebration guns - Stars
Act 6: Commentary on prop 8 - Countdown
Song 6: One - Apocalyptica
Act 7: Right wing reactions to Prop 8 ruling - Media Matters
Act 8: Californigaytions - Daily Show
Song 8: Curtains close - The Arctic Monkeys
Act 9: Landmark ruling on same-sex marriage - The Progressive
Song 9: Solid Ground - Dougie Maclean
Act 10: The winning lawyers - Rachel Maddow
Song 10: Dreams - Gabrielle
Act 11: Prop 8 tossed out - It's all politics
Song 11: Goodbye stranger - Supertramp
Act 12: Gay marriage is inevitable - Young Turks
Song 12: Time to take out the trash - Brad Sucks
Act 12: How to ruin same-sex marriages - Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Cenk Rant On Gay Marriage and The Bible - Young Turks
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| 0:00.0 | Best of the Left is made possible entirely by you, the listeners. |
| 0:04.9 | To donate or sign up for a membership, please visit BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today from the Colbert |
| 0:12.6 | Report, The Young Turks, The Onion Radio News, The Tom Harden Program, The Rachel Maddo |
| 0:16.6 | Show, Countdown with Keith Overman, Media Matters, The Daily Show, The Progressive, and |
| 0:22.3 | it's all politics with a bonus video clip for our iPhone app users from The Young Turks. |
| 0:29.3 | I have always said that babies are a miracle, unless they belong to homosexuals in which |
| 0:35.8 | case they're pets. |
| 0:38.2 | I say, I say, if a lesbian wants a child so bad, she should have to steal the seed of a drug |
| 0:43.9 | male man and inseminate herself with a turkey baster, like God intended. |
| 0:50.8 | And recently, a major scientific study confirmed my fears, Jim. |
| 0:57.0 | A 25-year-long study indicates kids raised by lesbian parents have fewer behavioral problems |
| 1:02.8 | and rate higher in social and academic competence than their peers. |
| 1:06.5 | Yes, lesbians raise well-adjusted teens who don't misbehave, and that proves it's unnatural. |
| 1:13.2 | Teenagers are supposed to be cryptic, angsty, mumble, mouth, narcissistic, alienated mood swinging |
| 1:20.4 | reclusive cynical hormone junkies who go through vampire phases and are mortified to be seen |
| 1:25.5 | with their parents, even when you take them someplace awesome like the Grammys. |
| 1:31.3 | So lesbian parents, lesan up. |
| 1:35.8 | Stop raising good examples for our children, because history was shaped by troubled teenagers |
| 1:43.0 | Alexander the Great, Joan of Art, King Tut. |
| 1:48.3 | These teens excelled because they were properly screwed up freaks. |
| 1:54.8 | If they'd been raised by lesbians, they'd have been Alexander the relatable, Joan of accounting, |
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