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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

(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

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 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

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0:04.9

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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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