(2011/05/11) Not time for a pep rally (Bin Laden)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 11 May 2011
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Edition #485
Not time for a pep rally
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Act 1: The headline and the photos - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 1: Back to life - Soul II Soul
Act 2: Only a handful of rational responses - Citizen Radio
Song 2: If you want to sing out, sing out - Cat Stevens
Act 3: Bin Laden dead, what now? - David Pakman
Song 3: We never change - Coldplay
Act 4: It's a shame we couldn't deal with him alive - Majority Report
Song 4: Pilot light - Dave Derby
Act 5: Let's hear from the kids - This American Life
Song 5: Just didn't happen to you - Ddroyal
Act 6: On our terms, not his - Rachel Maddow
Song 6: Don't Let It Bring You Down - Annie Lennox & Steven Lipson
Act 7: What Osama's killing means - Mumia Abu-Jamal
Song 7: Monster Under the Bed - Big Bang Boom
Act 8: Understanding what he did to us Part 1 - Common Sense
Song 8: Let's Dance To Joy Division - The Wombats
Act 9: Bin Laden's history - The Bugle
Song 9: I Started Something I Couldn't Finish - The Smiths
Act 10: Understanding what he did to us Part 2 - Common Sense
Song 10: How far we've come - Matchbox Twenty
Act 11: Repercussions of 9/11 - Rachel Maddow
Final comments follow up on my previous commentary on Bin Laden's death
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Made up and poor taste reporting - The Bugle
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.4 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfALeft.com. |
| 0:08.9 | Now looking to the award-winning BestOfALeft podcast with clips today from Wait, Wait, Don't |
| 0:12.7 | Tell Me, Citizen Radio, The David Pakman Show, The Majority Report, This American Life, |
| 0:17.3 | The Rachel Maddo Show, Lumia Abu Jamal, Common Sense with Dan Carlin, and The Bugle |
| 0:21.7 | with a bonus clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users also from The Bugle. |
| 0:30.1 | You all know we got some surprising news this week, but at the same time we had been waiting |
| 0:35.9 | for that news for about a decade as it turns out we had actually written some jokes in anticipation |
| 0:43.6 | of this occasion back in 2001 and we were hoping they still might work. |
| 0:51.0 | So as we start off the show, let me just try some out and you see how it goes. |
| 0:53.9 | Here's one. |
| 0:54.9 | Wow, the U.S. military is better at finding their man than Ali McBeele. |
| 0:59.5 | All right, all right, all right, all right, the news was so good, I rewound my VHS cassette |
| 1:10.3 | and watched it again. |
| 1:14.9 | Now your first quote is the above the fold headline from The New York Times on Monday morning. |
| 1:21.2 | Another side of Talapia, the perfect factory fish. |
| 1:26.6 | Oh, I'm sorry. |
| 1:27.6 | That was the headline that they had ready to go before they stopped the presses late Sunday |
| 1:33.8 | night. |
| 1:34.8 | It was ultimately replaced by a headline announcing what? |
| 1:38.2 | The death of a son of Bin Laden. |
| 1:40.0 | Exactly right, very good. |
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