(2011/06/08) More than one way to not trust the media (Media)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 8 June 2011
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Edition #495
More than one way to not trust the media
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Act 1: Definitely, Maybe - Daily Show
Song 1: I am Superman - R.E.M.
Act 2: Brian Williams Soft Reporting on Presidents "Magic Pen" - Counterspin
Song 2: Magic - Pilot
Act 3: Fox News Whines about DROP FOX - Media Matters
Song 3: Who's crying now? - Journey
Act 4: The HuffPo buyout and the future of journalism - On the Media
Song 4: Spandex Man - Mr. Scruff
Act 5: Roger Ailes fears/hates Muslims and Gays - Counterspin
Song 5: Hey there, Delilah - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 6: Is Bill O'Reilly Turning Into Glenn Beck? - Media Matters
Act 7: Rolling Stone Roger Ailes Bio - Citizen Radio
Song 7: Sandstorm - Darude
Act 8: Tone Def Poetry Jam - Daily Show
Song 8: Cop Killer - Ice T & Body Count
Act 9: Limbaugh: Fox New Viewers NOT the "Most Misinformed" - Media Matters
Song 9: Baby, it's fact - Hellogoodbye
Act 10: Tone Def Poetry Jam - Lyrics Controversy - Daily Show
Song 10: Impossible - Shout Out Louds
Act 11: NPR Funding -Fears of Conflict of Interest - Counterspin
Song 11: The prettiest weed - Jim Guthrie
Act 12: Conservative Talk Radio Is Dead - Young Turks
Song 12: Morning sun - Shayna Zaid & The Catch
Act 13: Don't believe the liberal media - Rachel Maddow
Song 13: Generator (Second floor) - Freelance Whales
Act 14: You Are Not Alone OR Fighting Back Is Bad For Ratings - Lee Camp
Voicemails:
Combat helicopter pilot reaction to Bin Laden's death - Eric from Alabama
Follow up from combat helicopter pilot - Eric from Alabama
Voicemail Music:
Ghostwriter - RjD2
Final comments asking for reaction to Maddow and Camp segments on distrust of the media
Bonus Voicemail:
Response to callers critical of Citizen Radio - Jamie Kilstein from NYC
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Investigations On WMD Lies That Led To Iraq War - Young Turks
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| 0:00.0 | This program is brought to you by Stitcher Smart Radio. Download their free mobile app and use the promo code |
| 0:05.2 | BEST during activation for a chance to win $100. Now welcome to the award-winning best-of-the-left podcast with clips today from the Daily Show, Counter-Spend, Media Matters, On the Media, Citizen Radio, The Young Turks, The Rachel Maddo Show, and |
| 0:19.0 | Comedian League Camp with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from The Young Turks. And this is another episode with a little bit of profanity. |
| 0:30.0 | In the aftermath of trying to process our late 9-11 grief mixed with a cathartic serotonin ecstasy bath of getting bin Laden, the pundits have finally been able to crystallize this moment. |
| 0:43.0 | The killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. Special Forces is certainly a defining moment for President Obama. |
| 0:49.0 | A close-up of the President in the situation room yesterday, a defining moment for his presidency. |
| 0:54.0 | It could be the defining moment in Barack Obama's presidency. |
| 0:58.0 | It could be, and it will be. |
| 1:01.0 | Until Obama's no-holds-bar death match with Kim Jong-il on the moon. |
| 1:07.0 | Moon fight, moon fight, moon! |
| 1:11.0 | Let me full-flight on the moon. |
| 1:16.0 | Pundits across the spectrum vacillated between whether this could be a defining moment for Obama or if it absolutely was a defining moment. |
| 1:26.0 | Sometimes doing so within the head of the same person. |
| 1:31.0 | Though that the killing of bin Laden will be, the defining moment in President Obama's first term is least so far. |
| 1:37.0 | Five minutes later. |
| 1:39.0 | Well, killing Osama bin Laden proved to be a defining moment for this President. |
| 1:44.0 | That's Chris Matthews asking himself the question that he himself had answered. |
| 1:53.0 | Five minutes earlier on his own program. |
| 1:57.0 | Although in his defense, obviously, it's tough to keep a thought in ahead that large. |
| 2:02.0 | There's so much open space for thoughts to roam. |
| 2:07.0 | He's really got less of a head, more of a free-range idea farm. |
| 2:18.0 | And to be fair to the media, getting bin Laden is a momentous event and would have been a defining moment of anyone's presidency. |
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