(2011/06/14) It gets worse (2012 Elections)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 14 June 2011
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Edition #497
It gets worse
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Act 1: Republican Candidates- It Gets Worse - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 1: Dancing queen - Abba
Act 2: Michele Bachmann Compares Herself to Obama - David Pakman
Song 2: New slang - The Shins
Act 3: Anti-Muslim GOP candidate Herman Cain - Jimmy Dore Show
Song 3: Your racist friend - They might be giants
Act 4: Fox News Decides GOP Primary - Young Turks
Song 4: Viva la Vida - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 5: Fox News REALLY Wants Chris Christie to Run - Media Matters
Song 5: Viva la Vida - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 6: Herman Cain Wants Small Bills - Colbert Report
Song 6: Girlfriend in a coma - The Smiths
Act 7: Fighting back against the war on Labor - Thom Hartmann
Song 7: Breakneck Speed - Tokyo Police Club
Act 8: Republicans Running and Not Running for President - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 8: New shoes - Paolo Nutini
Act 9: Bill O'Reilly, PR Consultant Extraordinaire - Media Matters
Song 9: New shoes - Paolo Nutini
Act 10: Newt Gingrich's criticism of Paul Ryan - Le Show
Song 10: All apologies - Nirvana
Act 11: Don't Celebrate Obama's 2012 Victory Yet - The Progressive
Song 11: Submarine Symphonika - The Submarines
Act 12: The Word - The Business End - Colbert Report
Song 12: I want it all - Queen
Act 13: Jon Stewart Disappointed In Obama - Young Turks
Voicemails:
Supporting labor strikes to fight back for the middle class - Max from Berkley, CA
Objecting to Mumia Abu-Jamal - Bob from New Hartford, NY
Comments on people complaining about sources - Matt in South Carolina
Voicemail Music:
Ghostwriter - RjD2
Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote
Final comments on listener meet up at Netroots and progressive promoters campaign
Bonus Voicemails:
Long-time listener/supporting of Citizen Radio - Valentina from Miami
Citizen Radio takes too long to get to the interesting stuff - Don from Wisconsin
Why Chuck had to stop listening to Citizen Radio - Chuck in Salt Lake City
Citizen Radio expects more from their listeners and calls them out - Fred
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Mitt Romney Leads in Fox News Poll - Colbert Report
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| 0:00.0 | This program is brought to you by Stitcher Smart Radio. Download their free |
| 0:03.8 | mobile app and use the promo code BEST during activation for a chance to win |
| 0:07.6 | $100. Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with clips |
| 0:11.6 | today from Wait-Wait-Don't Tell Me, the David Pakman Show, the Jimmy Doar Show, |
| 0:15.1 | the Young Turks, Media Matters, the Cold Bear Report, the Tom Hartman program, |
| 0:19.1 | La Show, and the Progressive with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and |
| 0:23.9 | Android app users from the Cold Bear Report. |
| 0:30.0 | Here is your first quote. Many are grumbling that we don't have a perfect candidate. |
| 0:34.5 | Just as many grumbled, they can't find the perfect spouse. That was a powerful |
| 0:38.9 | Republican fundraiser telling people to stop their whining about what group of |
| 0:42.2 | people. The Republican. Yes, specifically the Republicans who want to do what? |
| 0:47.5 | Run for president. Exactly right. The Republican presidential candidate. Yes. |
| 0:54.4 | Now, you know that uplifting video project for bullied teens, it gets better. The |
| 1:01.3 | GOP presidential candidates have their own version. It's called, oh my god, |
| 1:04.6 | it's actually getting worse. This week Donald Trump said he wouldn't run for |
| 1:10.0 | president, deciding to spend more time with his delusions of |
| 1:13.2 | grandeur. And Mike Huckabee said God did not want him to run. True, apparently God |
| 1:19.1 | needed him to come to the rapture and warm up the crowd with some standoff. And |
| 1:23.8 | then Newt Gingrich just days after launching his presidential campaign, |
| 1:28.2 | Mr. Gingrich won on Meet the Press and criticized the GOP plan to turn Medicare |
| 1:32.4 | into a voucher program. And the Republican party responded as if he had just |
| 1:37.2 | announced he was leaving his latest wife to gay marry Ralph Nader. He's down |
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