(2010/10/02) As the election looms (Elections)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 October 2010
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Edition #413
As the election looms
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Act 1: Couldn’t be elected dog catcher – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Brain Stew – Insomniac
Act 2: Election narrative – On the Media
Song 2: Falling In Love Again – Desireless
Act 3: Culture war is back – Rachel Maddow
Song 3: All the Same – Dressed Up As Life
Act 4: Obama and Rahm on salesmanship – Le Show
Song 4: Mr. Blue Sky – ELO’s Greatest Hits
Act 5: Rahm’s political strategy failure – Young Turks
Song 5: Solsbury Hill – Hit
Act 6: Democrats getting out politicked – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 6: Turn This Boat Around – Grand
Act 7: Obama and Biden lecture their base – The Progressive
Song 7: Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise – I and Love and You
Act 8: Postcards from the pledge – Daily Show
Song 8: Two Sisters – Left Side of the Brain
Act 9: They’re running on your record – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Christine O’Donnell Witch Test – Colbert Report
Sources:
The Jimmy Dore Show
The Progressive
The Daily Show
Colbert Report
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| 0:00.0 | This show is made possible by members and donors at BestOfLeft.com and also go to meeting.com |
| 0:05.6 | green technology helping to reduce the need for business travel. |
| 0:08.9 | Now welcome to the award winning BestOfLeft podcast with clips today from Wait, Wait, Don't |
| 0:12.7 | Tell Me on the Media, The Rachel Maddo Show, La Show, The Young Turks, The Jimmy Door Show, |
| 0:17.8 | The Progressive and The Daily Show with a bonus video clip for our iPhone app users from |
| 0:22.3 | the Colbert Report. |
| 0:30.0 | Here is your first quote. |
| 0:32.3 | She is not a viable candidate for any office in this state. |
| 0:36.6 | She could not be elected dog catcher. |
| 0:38.8 | That was a Republican party chairman talking about Christine O'Donnell. |
| 0:43.4 | She upset the GOP favorite in the primary for the Senate seat where? |
| 0:47.8 | Delaware? |
| 0:48.8 | Yes indeed in Delaware. |
| 0:51.2 | The Tea Party wanted the GOP to go more to the right and they oversteered. |
| 0:58.1 | That's the political equivalent of a hungry senior citizen trying to park at the denies |
| 1:01.5 | and just go and straight through the window. |
| 1:05.6 | So the new GOP nominee for the Senate in Delaware, Ms. O'Donnell has spent the last decade or |
| 1:10.2 | so running for office and going on various TV shows to express a variety of opinions. |
| 1:15.6 | Primarily her opposition to most kinds of sex, extra marital, premarital, homosexual, |
| 1:22.3 | and the kind of sex you have with yourself. |
| 1:26.8 | She's against that. |
| 1:27.6 | She says now this is all relevant. |
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