(2010/09/09) Countdown to Beckopalypse has Begun (Media)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 September 2010
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Edition #405
Countdown to Beckopalypse has Begun
Act 1: Cenk takes on Fox News - The Ed Show
Song 1: One - Apocalyptica
Act 2: Fox funds GOP Govs - Media Matters
Act 3: Fox and GOP make it official - Colbert Report
Song 3: So long - Lodger
Act 4: Missed connection at Whitestock - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 4: BotL Promo instrumental - Chris Priest
Act 5: Glenn Beck rants inciting murder - Young Turks
Song 5: Hurt so good - Yellow Snow Company
Act 6: Glenn Beck's crusade - The Progressive
Song 6: Sweet Lullaby - Deep Forest
Act 7: The head count at Whitestock - On the Media
Song 7: You can't count on me - Counting Crows
Act 8: Chris Wallace fails again with Glenn Beck - Jimmy Dore
Song 8: Father of mine - Everclear
Act 9: Poll - Americans are progressive on most issues - Young Turks
Song 9: Time of the season - The Zombies
Act 10: Poll - Positive things better than negative things - The Onion
Song 10: I want it now - Leslie Bricusse
Act 11: Rachel responds to O'Reilly's attack Part 1 - Rachel Maddow
Song 11: Your Highness - The Out Crowd
Act 12: Rachel responds to O'Reilly's attack Part 2 - Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
News Corp. Gives Money to Republicans - Daily Show
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible entirely by listeners just like you. |
| 0:03.2 | For details on signing up for a monthly membership or making a one-time donation, |
| 0:06.8 | please visit BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today from the Young Turks, |
| 0:12.9 | Media Matters, The Colbert Report, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, The Progressive, |
| 0:16.5 | On The Media, The Jimmy Door Show, The Onion Radio News, and Rachel Maddo, |
| 0:20.7 | with a bonus video clip for our iPhone app users from The Daily Show. |
| 0:30.0 | Fox News came out of the closet today. Everyone with two bits of sense always knew they were a Republican |
| 0:35.6 | propaganda machine, but today they made it official. Bloomberg News reported that news corp, |
| 0:41.2 | the parent company of Fox News Channel, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post donated |
| 0:46.0 | $1 million to the Republican Governors Association. Now that they're open about their orientation, |
| 0:53.1 | they are free to get in bed with any Republican they like, and they've already taken full advantage. |
| 0:58.0 | In the recent Iowa caucus pool of Republicans, Mike Huckabee came in number one. |
| 1:02.4 | Newt Gingrich was number three, and Sarah Palin was number four. |
| 1:07.2 | All of them, Fox News employees. In case you were wondering, Mitt Romney came in second, |
| 1:12.7 | and Fox's Facebook him, as we speak. According to Bloomberg, News Corp's gift is the largest |
| 1:18.1 | from any corporation to the Republican Governors Association. How's that for fair and balanced? |
| 1:23.8 | Is this any surprise given that the president of Fox News is Roger Ailes, |
| 1:27.6 | who is a media consultant for Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Richard Nixon? |
| 1:33.2 | Nixon would have been so proud. Fox News doesn't does on a daily basis what Nixon could only |
| 1:39.1 | dream of doing to his enemies in the press. Now remember when the White House was considering |
| 1:44.1 | banning Fox News, and the rest of the media jumped all over them, saying, how can they possibly do |
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