(2011/05/24) A 1-year oil spill retrospective (Oil Spill)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2011
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Edition #490
A 1-year oil spill retrospective
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Act 1: Coffee safety at BP - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 1: The ocean - The Bravery
Act 2: Oil spill and GOP fundraising - Rachel Maddow
Song 2: The funeral - Band of Horses
Act 3: The oil is missing - Colbert Report
Song 3: Hammer - Emma's Revolution
Act 4: The strife aquatic - Daily Show
Song 4: Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - They Might Be Giants
Act 5: Gov. covers up BP oil spill worst case scenario - Young Turks
Song 5: Dreaming of you - The Coral
Act 6: RFK Jr. discusses similarities between Exxon and BP oil spills - Ring of Fire
Song 6: The killing moon - Echo & The Bunnymen
Act 7: All's well that ends well - Michael Blum - Colbert Report
Song 7: Beautiful life - Ace of base
Act 8: Repeal of drilling moratorium - Countdown
Song 8: Here is goes again - OKGO
Act 9: The upshot for BP - Le Show
Song 9: Shake it - Metro Station
Act 10: The Gulf of Mexico one year later - Thom Hartmann
Song 10: The dead heart - Midnight oil
Act 11: BP oil spill anniversary - Obama's failure - Young Turks
Voicemails:
Call for amazement - Chris the carpenter from Cap Cod, Mass
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments introducing Louis C.K. clip
Post-show clip:
Everything is amazing and nobody's happy - Louis C.K. on Conan O'Brien
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Killing Fields - Vietnamese Fisherman - Daily Show
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| 0:00.0 | The following clips span the last 10 months concerning the BP oil spill, though none of |
| 0:06.2 | these clips have been heard on this show before. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to a retrospective edition of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast |
| 0:12.7 | with clips today from Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, The Rachel Maddo Show, The Colbert Report, |
| 0:16.6 | The Daily Show, The Young Turks, Ring of Fire, Countdown with Keith Obrerman, La Show, |
| 0:21.4 | and The Tom Harman Program with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users |
| 0:26.4 | from The Daily Show. |
| 0:28.4 | Charlie, The New York Times reported on BP's long history of safety violations. |
| 0:34.4 | It turns out they've been blowing stuff up for decades. |
| 0:37.0 | But the company insists that safety is now job one. |
| 0:41.3 | In fact, the CEO, Tony Hayward, recently instituted a rule preventing employees at BP from doing what? |
| 0:47.7 | Dating Bristol-Paylon. |
| 0:49.0 | That's... |
| 0:52.0 | ...the other BP. |
| 0:53.4 | The other safety. |
| 0:58.4 | Listen. |
| 0:59.4 | Listen. |
| 1:00.4 | British petroleum is an evil BP. |
| 1:02.4 | Bristol-Paylon has a kind of a fun distracting... |
| 1:04.4 | That's true. |
| 1:05.4 | ...and both involved in drilling in their own way. |
| 1:10.4 | Yes, but it's not Bristol's fault that the cap wasn't kept on the well. |
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