(2010/11/18) Cuts like a knife (Economics)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 19 November 2010
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Edition #430
Cuts like a knife
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Act 1: Obama greeted in India – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: These Are Days (Live) – MTV Unplugged: 10,000 Maniacs
Act 2: What we don’t make in the U.S. – Thom Hartmann
Song 2: Mr. Maker – Konk
Act 3: Obama in Asia – The Bugle
Song 3: Starring – Weathervanes
Act 4: Obama’s Willy Loman Schtick – Jim Hightower
Song 4: Jack Names the Planet – Angus (Music from the Motion Picture)
Act 5: Let’s go anywhere – The Daily Show
Song 5: Vacation – Go Go’s
Act 6: War over the budget – On the Media
Song 6: Sweet Little Lies – Yell Fire!
Act 7: On the deficit commission – Liberal Oasis Radio
Song 7: Cuts Like a Knife – An Acoustic Tribute to Bryan Adams
Act 8: Obama acts like a Republican on Social Security – The Progressive
Song 8: High Wire – The Best of Men at Work: Contraband
Act 9: Catfood commission drop a new release – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Lonely President’s Guide to Getting Out of the Country – Daily Show
Sources:
Wait wait don’t tell me
Thom Hartmann
The Bugle
Jim Hightower
The Daily Show
On the Media
Liberal Oasis Radio
The Progressive
Rachel Maddow
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| 0:00.0 | This show is made possible by members and donors who sign up at BestOfTheLeft.com and |
| 0:04.6 | also by GoToMeeting.com, green technology helping reduce the need for business travel. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today from WeightWaytDon't |
| 0:12.9 | Tell Me, the Tom Hartman program, the Bugle, Jim Hightower, the Daily Show on the media, |
| 0:17.7 | the Liberal Oasis Radio Show, the Progressive and the Rachel Maddo Show with a bonus video |
| 0:22.0 | clip of our iPhone app users from the Daily Show. |
| 0:30.2 | Your first quote is someone greeting a distinguished visitor to India this week. |
| 0:35.8 | Welcome. |
| 0:36.8 | As a fellow Kenyan, I'm very proud to see that you have made it. |
| 0:41.8 | What person who actually is not a Kenyan really, despite what you've heard, got a hero's |
| 0:46.3 | welcome in India and across Asia this week. |
| 0:48.7 | That would be President Obama. |
| 0:50.2 | That's indeed. |
| 0:56.7 | Some countries are always going to criticize and mock the American President no matter |
| 1:00.2 | what he does. |
| 1:01.6 | That's why he left one of them and went to Asia this week. |
| 1:05.5 | Sure enough, President Obama was received by Jubilant Crowds in his first stop, India. |
| 1:10.4 | Indians love him, not least because, unlike his predecessor, he does not insist on calling |
| 1:14.7 | them Native Americans. |
| 1:22.1 | The trip was originally supposed to be a diplomatic initiative, but after the midterm disaster, |
| 1:27.2 | the White House rebranded it as a jobs creation trip. |
| 1:30.9 | Even that, this is true, but even that wasn't pulling well. |
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