(2011/03/31) And it begins (Elections)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 31 March 2011
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Edition #471
And it begins
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Act 1: Election hangover - Slate.com
Song 1: Razorblade - The Strokes
Act 2: Senator Hatch gives absurd speech - Young Turks
Song 2: Momentum - Amiee Mann
Act 3: Republicans flirt with presidential candidacy - Colbert Report
Song 3: Use somebody - Kings of Leon
Act 4: Anti-Muslim GOP candidate Herman Cain - Young Turks
Song 4: North by north - Faded Paper Figures
Act 5: Newt is faking it - Rachel Maddow
Song 5: Money (that's what I want) - Barrett Strong
Act 6: Newt Gingrich wants to screw America - Colbert Report
Song 6: Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise - The Avett Brothers
Act 7: Morbid Curiosity leading many voters to support Palin - The Onion
Song 7: Good (for a woman) - Alien Ant Farm
Act 8: Sarah Palin destroyed by conservatives - Young Turks
Song 8: Solsbury hill - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 9: Huckabee doubles down - Media Matters
Act 10: Amending the constitution to deny corporate personhood - The Progressive
Song 10: This is the day - The The
Act 11: Some states cancelling primaries - Young Turks
Song 11: Out of our hands - Ikon
Act 12: Ballotproof elections - Rachel Maddow
Voicemails:
Message trumps the messenger - Matt from Alabama
Supporter of Abu-Jamal written statement - Garrett
17-year old reaction to Pakman stat on troops in Afghanistan - Colin from Sacramento, CA
Response to Colin - David Pakman from Mass
Voicemail Music:
Ghostwriter - Rjd2
Final comments on new video version of the show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Colbert PAC Ad - Colbert Report
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show for details visit |
| 0:06.1 | the membership tab at bestableleft.com. |
| 0:08.9 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with clips today from Slate |
| 0:12.5 | Magazine, The Young Turks, The Colbert Report, The Rachel Maddo Show, The Onion News Network, |
| 0:17.4 | Media Matters, and The Progressive with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android |
| 0:22.0 | app users from The Colbert Report. |
| 0:30.0 | Today's story is called, Election Hangover, The Real Legacy of Bush v. Gore, and it's |
| 0:35.6 | written by Richard Elhassen. |
| 0:39.1 | What's the central legacy of Bush v. Gore? |
| 0:43.0 | Republicans see the Supreme Court stopping a lawless recount, while Democrats see a lawless |
| 0:48.0 | court stopping a legitimate recount. |
| 0:51.2 | Ten years later, commentators like Jeffrey Tuben protest that Bush v. Gore brought dishonor |
| 0:56.0 | on the court. |
| 0:57.4 | But the Supreme Court's public legitimacy has not suffered. |
| 1:02.2 | The real lesson of the Florida Fiasco, not merely Bush v. Gore, is about something else, |
| 1:07.8 | the undermining of the public's faith in the fairness of American elections. |
| 1:12.2 | This is triggered an ongoing war over their administration. |
| 1:16.0 | A straight line runs from Bush v. Gore through a series of election controversies in the |
| 1:21.1 | past decade. |
| 1:22.9 | We can walk it from the 2003 California gubernatorial recall circus with its 21 lawsuits to the |
| 1:29.4 | armies of lawyers dispatched to battleground states in the elections of 2004 to the controversies |
| 1:35.4 | over voter identification laws. |
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