(2010/12/14) The Bad Deal Part 1 (Tax Compromise)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 15 December 2010
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Summary
Edition #438
The Bad Deal Part 1
Act 1: Democracil – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 1: Take Me Down – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Act 2: Baseless, Obama press conference – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Billionaire – Billionaire
Act 3: Something for everyone – Counterspin
Song 3: M79 – Vampire Weekend
Act 4: Thom talks to WH spokeman on tax compromise – Thom Hartmann
Song 4: Greensleeves – The Most Relaxing Classical Music in the Universe
Act 5: WH adviser on how they negotiate – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 5: Curl Up and Die – The Bird and the Bee Sides
Act 6: Obama is a dangerous joke – Young Turks
Song 6: Santa Baby – Santa Baby – Single
Act 7: CT phone home – Daily Show
Song 7: Standing Still – Standing Still – Single
Act 8: Comment on Obama tax compromise – Countdown
Song 8: Lord’s Bright Blessing – Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol
Act 9: Obama is taken hostage – Le Show
Song 9: Hostage-O – Life’ll Kill Ya
Act 10: Going from power to irrelevance – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
National Displeasure – Daily Show
Sources:
Jimmy Dore Show
Rachel Maddow
Counterspin
Thom Hartmann
The Young Turks
The Daily Show
Countdown
Le Show
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| 0:08.6 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today from the Jimmy Dore |
| 0:12.2 | show, The Rachel Maddo Show, CounterSpin, The Tom Harman program, The Young Turks, The |
| 0:16.5 | Daily Show, Countdown with Keith Olberman and La Show with a bonus video clip for our |
| 0:21.0 | Apple iOS and Android app users from The Daily Show. |
| 0:31.0 | The world can be a frustrating place. |
| 0:34.2 | With so much suffering and injustice all over the globe, it can be overwhelming to even |
| 0:39.5 | the most mildly bleeding heart. |
| 0:43.0 | That's why you need to mockress ill, the pharmaceutical solution that helps relieve |
| 0:47.9 | you of the courage of your convictions so you can feel like yourself again. |
| 0:53.8 | Start every negotiation from a position of compromise, with democracy. |
| 1:00.4 | Continue to look the other way while gays in the military are treated like second-class |
| 1:04.5 | citizens, with democracy. |
| 1:08.1 | A point in economic team indistinguishable from the one that caused the biggest financial |
| 1:12.7 | collapse since the Great Depression, with democracy. |
| 1:18.4 | Side effects may include dizziness nauseous spinal rubberizing and loss of appetite. |
| 1:23.6 | Ask your doctor about democracy, if Joe Lieberman will let you. |
| 1:29.4 | Democracy. |
| 1:30.4 | Why stand for something when it's so much easier to lay down? |
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| 2:17.4 | Right on what we'll go down as a red-letter day in the history of the Barack Obama presidency. |
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