(2011/02/20) Revolution in Egypt Part 2 Conservatives and the coverage
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 21 February 2011
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Edition #458
Revolution in Egypt Part 2 Conservatives and the coverage
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Act 1: Mubarak's thugs will lose - The Progressive
Song 1: Fearless - VNV Nation
Act 2: Fox News Egypt panel rips democracy - Young Turks
Song 2: In your eyes - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 3: Jackass of the week, Rush Limbaugh - Media Matters
Act 4: Journalists targeted in protests - Rachel Maddow
Song 4: One - Apocalyptica
Act 5: Right blames Obama for Egypt - Media Matters
Act 6: Beck blames Maxists Communists for Egypt - Young Turks
Song 6: Out of my mind - James Blunt
Act 7: US not as substantive on Egypt - Counterspin
Song 7: Generator (Second Floor) - Freelance Whales
Act 8: Stranger than fiction - Rachel Maddow
Song 8: Eleanor Rigby (strings only) - The Beatles
Act 9: Glenn Beck, I'm not CRAZY - Media Matters
Act 10: Beck chalkboard crazy over Egypt - Young Turks
Song 10: Fear is a villain - Theo Bard
Act 11: Stating the obvious undermines conclusions - Counterspin
Song 11: Tiny vessels - Death Cab For Cutie
Act 12: Fox's conspiracy theories - Rachel Maddow
Song 12: Nothing Is Good Enough (Instrumental) - Aimee Mann
Act 13: blah blah blah, Scary Muslims - Media Matters
Act 14: Right wing attacks Obama over Egypt - Young Turks
Voicemails:
Todd from LA - Follow up on race in primaries for president
Chris From Middletown, NY - Sever your cable service
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on TV hatred and my turnaround on part of the gun rights argument
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Beck: Al Qaeda = Muslim Brotherhood = Marxists = Progressives - Media Matters
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible with the support of listeners just like you for details |
| 0:05.8 | visit the membership tab at bestableleft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cubs today from the Progressive, |
| 0:13.4 | the Young Turks, Media Matters, The Rachel Maddo Show and Counter-Spin with a bonus clip |
| 0:17.9 | for our Apple iOS and Android app users from Media Matters. |
| 0:30.0 | I spent much of my snow day on Wednesday glued to CNN and the revolution in Egypt and |
| 0:34.6 | what I saw horrified me is I'm sure it did you too. |
| 0:38.1 | Mubarak's thugs riding in on horses and camels with their whips in hand, Mubarak's thugs |
| 0:43.2 | surrounding journalists and pummeling them, Mubarak's thugs hurling Molotov cocktails |
| 0:48.3 | at unarmed pro-democracy forces. |
| 0:50.8 | And now word comes that some of Mubarak's thugs fired into the crowd on Thursday killing |
| 0:55.3 | some pro-democracy protesters. |
| 0:57.8 | This is the Mubarak whom the United States has been lavishly supporting for 30 years now. |
| 1:02.9 | This isn't new. |
| 1:03.9 | He's always ruled by dictatorial means. |
| 1:06.3 | We're just seeing it for ourselves for the first time here in the U.S. |
| 1:09.8 | But Egyptians have known all along who the real Mubarak was. |
| 1:13.4 | If they dared to dissent, they knew they could be put in prison. |
| 1:16.1 | If they dared to protest in the streets, they knew they'd get rounded up and maybe tortured. |
| 1:21.0 | But now there are simply too many pro-democracy protesters, not just in career square, but |
| 1:26.7 | all across Egypt, and they've lost their fear. |
| 1:29.8 | Mubarak's thugs can't brutalize them all, and so he will lose. |
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