(2010/08/18) The morale of the troops (Gay Rights)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 19 August 2010
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Edition #397
The morale of the troops
Act 1: Lt. Dan Choi finally discharged - Rachel Maddow
Song 1: Honesty - Billy Joel
Act 2: Dan Choi on LGBT support of Dems - Citizen Radio
Song 2: Gimme Sympathy - Metric
Act 3: Jonathan Hopkins on DADT - Rachel Maddow
Song 3: Right to complain - Trombone Shorty and Marc Broussard
Act 4: Targeting Target scores a direct hit - The Progressive
Song 4: Back on earth - Ozzy Osbourne
Act 5: DADT comic book theatre - Rachel Maddow
Song 5: I'm not over - Carolina Liar
Act 6: The Gay Reichs - Daily Show
Song 6: Go do - Jónsi
Act 7: Katherine Miller on DADT - Rachel Maddow
Song 7: What's wrong - The Secret Handshake
Act 8: Glorious nonviolent revolution - The Progressive
Song 8: Revolution - The Beatles
Act 9: Military survey on DADT revision - Rachel Maddow
Song 9: This Fickle World - Theo Bard
Act 10: Discussion of being gay on The View - Midweek Politics
Song 10: Two Sisters - Fiction Plane
Act 11: Final comments on gaining respect - Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Victor Fehrenbach on DADT - Rachel Maddow
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible entirely by you the listeners, please consider becoming |
| 0:05.1 | a member or making a one-time donation at bestoftheleft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with actually lots of clips |
| 0:12.6 | today from Rachel Maddo, and then others from Citizen Radio, The Progressive, The Daily |
| 0:17.3 | Show, and Midweek Politics, with a bonus video clip for our iTunes app users again from |
| 0:22.4 | Rachel Maddo. |
| 0:30.2 | It started here on this show, and now it doesn't end here, but it does take a very sharp |
| 0:34.9 | turn. |
| 0:35.9 | Sixteen months ago, West Point graduate, Arab linguist, Iraq veteran, First Lieutenant |
| 0:40.7 | Dan Choi made this very dramatic news right here on our air. |
| 0:46.0 | I am an infantry platoon leader in the New York Army National Guard, and by saying three |
| 0:50.4 | words to you today, I am gay. |
| 0:53.6 | Those three words are violation of Title 10 of the U.S. Code. |
| 0:57.9 | Today, nearly a year and a half after that announcement, Lieutenant Dan Choi has been fired |
| 1:01.3 | from the U.S. military. |
| 1:02.9 | Quote, based on the approved board findings that First Lieutenant Choi did publicly admit |
| 1:06.9 | on more than one occasion, in person and through the media that he is a homosexual, such |
| 1:11.4 | conduct being in violation of 10 U.S. Code, Section 654 subsection B2, I direct First Lieutenant |
| 1:18.6 | Choi, be discharged from the New York Army National Guard with an honorable characterization |
| 1:23.0 | of service. |
| 1:24.3 | Ironically, the name of the Adjutant General signing off on Lieutenant Choi's discharge |
| 1:28.7 | is Brigadier General Patrick Murphy, a coincidence. |
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