(2011/04/09) Our third war (Foreign Policy)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 April 2011
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Edition #474
Our third war
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Act 1: Mess O'North Africa - Daily Show
Song 1: New shoes - Paolo Nutini
Act 2: And Like That, Blink, A New War - Mumia Abu-Jamal
Song 2: Don't look back in anger - Oasis
Act 3: Obama's Wrong-Headed Libyan War - The Progressive
Song 3: Legions (War) - Zoe Keating
Act 4: Is the US Military Action in Libya Unconstitutional? - The Breakdown
Song 4: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
Act 5: America at Not-War - Obama Defends Military Action in Libya - Daily Show
Song 5: Halo - Beyoncé
Act 6: Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop Selling them Bombs - David Pakman
Song 6: Naive - The Kooks
Act 7: No Al Qaeda In Libya - U.S. Intelligence Community - Young Turks
Song 7: For whom the bell tolls - Apocalyptica
Act 8: Right Wing Media Can't Agree On How Libya is Obama's Fault - Media Matters
Act 9: Lots of rational talk about Libya - Counterspin
Song 9: Over my head - The Fray
Act 10: Glenn Beck - Obama Helping Terrorists In Libya - Young Turks
Song 10: Fireflies - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 11: When Is Dissent Patriotic? - Media Matters
Act 12: Obama's Faulty Doctrine - The Progressive
Song 12: Perpetual - VNV Nation
Act 13: The Enemies We Don't Know - Mumia Abu-Jamal
Song 13: You learn - Alanis Morissette
Act 14: It's different when a black guy does it - Jimmy Dore Show
Voicemails:
Recommendation on Supreme Court podcast - Seth from Lancaster PA
Colin admits he was wrong - Colin from Sacramento, CA
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on Power Shift '11 and BotL on YouTube
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Mess O The Whole Potamia Region - Libya Uprising - Daily Show
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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 BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.9 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with us today from the Daily Show, |
| 0:13.3 | Muya Abu Jamal, the progressive, the breakdown, the David Pakman show, the young Turks, |
| 0:18.3 | media matters, counter-spin and the Jimmy Doar show with a bonus video clip for our Apple |
| 0:23.1 | iOS and Android app users from the Daily Show. |
| 0:27.0 | Colonel Gaddafi's fortunes continue to deteriorate as we find out in our new segment, |
| 0:33.4 | MESS ON North Africa. |
| 0:36.2 | The fighting has brought rebel forces up to the very edge of Colonel Momar Gaddafi's stronghold |
| 0:40.1 | in Tripoli, as Libyans continue their desperate effort to overthrow a tyrant who seems increasingly |
| 0:45.6 | out of touch as evidenced by this interview from two days ago. |
| 0:50.4 | They love me, all my people with me, they love me all, they will die to protect me, my |
| 0:57.8 | people. |
| 0:58.8 | They're hitting your picture in the face with shoes, because they think it's a poor |
| 1:07.4 | likeness of me, that is all, they're angry at the quality of the pictures, this is all |
| 1:13.6 | it. |
| 1:14.6 | Clearly, Gaddafi does not hear his own people, maybe if they were hitting his picture |
| 1:18.8 | with tap shoes, oh, maybe he'll listen to the international community. |
| 1:23.5 | I think this man, I don't believe that even his family loves him at this moment, I don't |
| 1:31.2 | know how he thinks this man, I think he's certainly out of his mind, it's very important |
| 1:37.1 | for him and for his family to step down immediately. |
| 1:45.0 | Learn words from any international official, let alone your own country's deputy ambassador |
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