(2010/09/12) Election season in full swing (Elections)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 13 September 2010
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Edition #406
Election season in full swing
Act 1: What's next for campaign finance - Bill Moyers Journal
Song 1: Save tonight - Eagle-Eyed Cherry
Act 2: The disclose act - On the Media
Song 2: Loud pipes - Ratatat
Act 3: Gibbs says Dems will lose - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 3: It's a wonderful life - Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution
Act 4: Funny, insane Republican - Young Turks
Song 4: Angry - The Bug and Tippa Irie
Act 5: Class of 2010 - Rachel Maddow
Song 5: How to save a life - The Fray
Act 6: GOP operative uses homeless for dirty tricks - Young Turks
Song 6: Crying - KD Lang feat. Roy Orbinson
Act 7: Are you ready for some midterms? - Daily Show
Song 7: Brain Damage - Pink Floyd
Act 8: Obama takes on the GOP, too little too late - Young Turks
Song 8: Too late, too slow - Shout Out Louds
Act 9: The spite stuff - Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Indecision 2010 - Primary Proxy Battle Theme - Daily Show
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible entirely by listeners just like you for details on |
| 0:03.8 | signing up for a membership or making a one-time donation please visit bestoftheleft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now welcome to the award winning best of the left podcast with clips today from Bill |
| 0:13.2 | Moyer's journal on the media. Wait, wait, don't tell me the young Turks, the Rachel Maddo show, |
| 0:18.0 | and the Daily Show with a bonus video clip for our iPhone app users also from the Daily Show. |
| 0:30.4 | It's been two weeks since the Supreme Court's ruling in the Citizens United case. |
| 0:35.3 | That's the decision stating that when it comes to directly influencing our elections, |
| 0:39.8 | corporations can spread their cash as freely as they wish. In truth, it's not as if they haven't |
| 0:45.5 | already been throwing their financial weight around. Hundreds of millions of dollars are poured |
| 0:50.0 | into lobbying, political action committees, and thinly veiled issue ads promoting or attacking |
| 0:56.2 | candidates. Now the biggest concern is how corporations might use their newly acquired power to |
| 1:02.3 | unleash wave after wave of ads for or against any politician right up until election day. |
| 1:09.1 | Some members of Congress are not waiting to find out. They're scrambling for ways to counter |
| 1:13.9 | the Supreme Court decision, especially its core assumptions that money at speech and corporations |
| 1:19.5 | have the same rights as people when it comes to spending it. This week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi named |
| 1:25.5 | a task force of House Democrats to fight back against the decision and determine what they can do if |
| 1:31.0 | anything legislatively. And Democrats in the House and Senate began hearings. We've seen first |
| 1:37.9 | hand the impact special interests like big oil and big banks and health insurance companies |
| 1:43.7 | have had on the legislative process. Now with this decision, already powerful corporations and |
| 1:50.4 | unions will be able to further open their bank accounts, further drowning out the voices of everyday |
| 1:57.1 | Americans in the political process. I can't imagine a greater threat to independent decision making |
| 2:03.6 | by this body than corporations implicitly or explicitly being able to say, if you don't follow |
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