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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

(2011/02/15) A collection of embarrassments (Media)

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2011

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Edition #456

A collection of embarrassments

Act 1: Kirk Cameron less crazy than CNN - Majority Report

Song 1: My brother the ape - They might be giants

Act 2: Bananas, the atheist's nightmare

Act 3: Michelle 'my butt' - Media Matters

Song 3: Solsbury hill - Vitamin String Quartet

Act 4: CNN becomes the news - Rachel Maddow

Song 4: Too bad - Nickelback

Act 5: Behind the scenes at Air America - Majority Report

Song 5: Hey ya - Vitamin String Quartet

Act 6: Limbaugh is an American embarrassment - Media Matters

Act 7: The new McCarthyism - Thom Hartmann

Song 7: Stop the madness - Marty Dread

Act 8: Glenn Beck is deranged - Counterspin

Song 8: Wonderwall - Vitamin String Quartet

Act 9: Only called Obama racist once - Media Matters

Act 10: O'Reilly defends his Nazi analogies - Daily Show

Song 10: Call me - Blondie

Act 11: Fox News makes you less informed - Majority Report

Song 11: Honesty - Billy Joel

Act 12: Thank you Fox News - Media Matters

Song 12: I turn my camera on - Spoon

Act 13: Fox insider tells all - Young Turks

Voicemails:

Chuck in Salt Lake City on running a primary against Obama

Joyce from TN on gun control episode

Final comments responding to running a presidential primary candidate and a pro-gun listener email

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:

The Best F#@king News Team Won't Stop Ever - Daily Show

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0:33.5

Media Matters, The Rachel Maddo Show, The Tom Hartman program, CounterSpin, The Daily

0:38.1

Show, and The Young Turks with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users

0:43.0

from The Daily Show.

0:50.3

I'm not as plugged in as they are on CNN.

0:56.6

I'm not providing the enormous quality of in-depth analysis of our news like they are in CNN.

1:06.0

I mean, I imagine they're going to cover the poll that I'm talking about, which is

1:11.4

proof positive that while you folks may be somewhat elite and exclusive in your understanding

1:18.1

of politics, at the end of the day your agenda is no different than the vast majority of

1:22.5

Americans who want to see us tax the rich, I'll get to that poll in a second.

1:27.0

But my point being, we just don't have the capacity to do the type of in-depth reporting

1:34.0

in the smart intelligent work they're doing in places like CNN, for instance.

1:40.4

You know, yesterday I mentioned this story about the couple of thousand birds that fell

1:44.9

from the sky in Beab, Arkansas, and the wildlife officials there, they are working under

1:55.4

the assumption there was some type of traumatic event like upper altitude hail or a thunderstorm.

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