(2011/04/20) Between Scylla and Charybdis (Elections 2012)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 20 April 2011
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Edition #478
Between Scylla and Charybdis
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Act 1: Lackluster launch of Obama's campaign - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 1: Ottoman - Vampire Weekend
Act 2: Kicking the base - Rachel Maddow
Song 2: Ain't that a kick in the head - Dean Martin
Act 3: President Obama's un-kept campaign promises - David Pakman
Song 3: The promise - When In Rome
Act 4: As the media frames the Democrats - Counterspin
Song 4: Candy everybody wants - 10,000 Maniacs
Act 5: Meet potential GOP candidate Michele Bachmann - Young Turks
Song 5: Baby elephant walk - Lawrence Welk
Act 6: Donald goes full Birther - Media Matters
Act 7: Base race, Bachman, Cain, Gingrich - Daily Show
Song 7: The Thought Gives Me The Creeps - Hellogoodbye
Act 8: Huckabee on gay marriage - Dan Savage
Song 8: In your eyes - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 9: Palin supports Trump's birtherism - Media Matters
Act 10: Pawlenty declares candidacy before he's ready - Colbert Report
Song 10: Desire - U2
Act 11: Bachmann Overdrive by David Weigel - Slate.com
Song 11: Pale Horses - Moby
Act 12: Base race, Santorum, Barbour, Trump - Daily Show
Song 12: Easy - Deer Tick
Act 13: Trump 2012 - Media Matters
Act 14: Colbert PAC - Colbert Report
Song 14: Just for now - Imogen Heap
Act 15: Poll trouble for GOP in 2012 elections - Young Turks
Voicemails:
Show suggestions: War news radio - Chuck in Salt Lake City
Show suggestions: TAL and The Moth - Eric from Eagle Mountain, Utah
Show suggestions: Sound of Young America, Sound Opinions, Judge John Hodgman and lots of comedy shows - Steve from Richmond, VA
Responding to Ryan and the Vietnam war - Carter from Denver
Voicemail Music:
Ghostwriter - Rjd2
Final comments on the NLC fundraiser
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Nation Elects First Openly Drunk Senator - The Onion
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.3 | the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Cups Today from Wait, Wait, Don't |
| 0:12.9 | Tell Me, The Rachel Maddo Show, The David Pakman Show, Counter-Spin, The Young Turks, |
| 0:17.4 | Media Matters, The Daily Show, Dan Savage, The Colbert Report, and Slate Magazine with |
| 0:22.3 | a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from The Onion News Network. |
| 0:30.0 | So your next quote comes from a presidential campaign video that was released this week. |
| 0:34.4 | I don't agree with him on everything, but I respect him and I trust him. |
| 0:40.9 | That somewhat lackluster endorsement came from a man named Ed in North Carolina. |
| 0:45.4 | What candidate was he talking about? |
| 0:47.2 | Barack Obama? |
| 0:48.2 | Yes, indeed. |
| 0:49.2 | The presidential reelection campaign has begun its Obama-to-change harder. |
| 0:57.4 | The president launched his first presidential campaign four years ago with a speech in |
| 1:04.4 | a rally in Springfield, Illinois, in the footsteps of Abraham Lincoln. |
| 1:08.5 | He launched his reelection campaign with a two-minute infomercial video in the footsteps |
| 1:13.6 | of Shamwao. |
| 1:17.0 | The president's video, which the president hardly appears, features real people saying |
| 1:20.4 | real things, you know, like, wow, I guess there's going to be an election, huh? |
| 1:25.4 | Maybe we'll vote for President Obama again if there's nobody better by that time. |
| 1:29.3 | It'd be great if Obama announced the same way that he did before. |
| 1:31.8 | He was like, we're going to change Washington. |
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