(2010/11/21) Confessions of a ghost writer (Foreign Policy)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 22 November 2010
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Edition #431
Confessions of a ghost writer
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Act 1: Expanding the war – Rachel Maddow
Song 1: The Chance I Deserve – Spring Came, Rain Fell
Act 2: Do-it-yourself ribbon sticker – The Pinky Show
Song 2: Just for Now – Speak for Yourself
Act 3: Media spins casualties positively – Counterspin
Song 3: Kids – Oracular Spectacular
Act 4: Bush’s highs and lows – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 4: Between Love & Hate – Room On Fire
Act 5: Continued Bush lies on WMD – Rachel Maddow
Song 5: Knock Yourself Out – I Heart Huckabees (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
Act 6: The decider returns – Daily Show
Song 6: Kick Drum Heart – I and Love and You
Act 7: Bush war crimes – Ring of Fire
Song 7: Everybody’s Gone to War – Fires
Act 8: Bush’s book tour and soft journalism – Counterspin
Song 8: Lleva Me El Compas – Gipsy Kings
Act 9: Nab Bush now – The Progressive
Song 9: Holiday In Spain – Films About Ghosts: The Best of Counting Crows
Act 10: Contemptible hypocrisy – Rachel Maddow
Song 10: Middle Man – Loose Change (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Act 11: GOP to block START Treaty – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
McConnell’s war scandal – Rachel Maddow
Sources:
Rachel Maddow
The Pinky Show
Counterspin
Wait wait don’t tell me
The Daily Show
Ring of Fire
The Progressive
The Young Turks
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| 0:00.0 | This show is made possible by members and donors who sign up at BestOfTheLeft.com and |
| 0:04.5 | 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 the Rachel |
| 0:12.3 | Maddo show, The Pinkie Show, CounterSpin, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, The Daily Show, Ring |
| 0:17.2 | of Fire, The Progressive and The Young Turks, with a bonus video clip for our iPhone app |
| 0:21.5 | users from the Rachel Maddo show. |
| 0:31.5 | Good morning Landlocked Central Asia. |
| 0:35.0 | Landlocked. |
| 0:36.0 | Landlocked. |
| 0:37.0 | A country that just has other countries on all of its borders, no coastline at all. |
| 0:42.2 | We are waging a war about to start our 10th year of war in a country that is Landlocked. |
| 0:48.1 | Waging a war? |
| 0:49.1 | Of course, it takes a lot of big stuff, some of that stuff you can load on to really |
| 0:52.6 | big planes and get into the country by air, but not all of it. |
| 0:57.0 | Not having a port, not being able to ship anything in is a real logistical pain. |
| 1:01.5 | You really can't rely on air lifts for everything. |
| 1:04.2 | There's going to have to be some shipping, there's going to have to be some trucking. |
| 1:07.3 | Well, here's what some of that looks like for our decade of Landlocked War in Central |
| 1:11.7 | Asia right now. |
| 1:12.7 | These are NATO vehicles loaded onto the back of big awesome colorful Pakistani jingle trucks. |
| 1:18.6 | These NATO vehicles on their way to the war, overland. |
| 1:21.1 | This is how we get a lot of our stuff to war. |
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