(2011/07/03) The Backfire Effects (Media)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 July 2011
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Edition #504
The Backfire Effects
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Act 1: Republican Scandal Hypocrisy - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 06-16-11
Song 1: La Valse Des Vieux Os - Yann Tiersen
Act 2: Chris Wallace Doesn't Want to Talk about Fox News - Media Matters
Act 3: Cenk Interview re: Anthony Weiner, Republican Targets - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 06-16-11
Song 3: M79 - Vampire Weekend
Act 4: CNN Republican Debate co-sponsored by Tea Party Express - Counterspin - Air Date: 06-16-11
Song 4: Kick drum heart - The Avett Brothers
Act 5: Examples of false comparisons - On the Media
Song 5: We're simple minds - Club 8
Act 6: Rational science facts Vs Human Emotions, Influence on Politics - Need to Know - Air Date: 06-17-11
Song 6: Burning heart - Survivor
Act 7: Why Facts Don't Stop People from Believing Stupid Stuff - David Pakman - Air Date: 06-28-11
Song 7: Windowsill - Arcade Fire
Act 8: Who Pays Limbaugh? Beck? Levine? - Young Turks
Song 8: New soul - Yael Naïm
Act 9: Inaccuracies reprinted enough to become true - Counterspin - Air Date: 06-30-11
Song 9: Yeat's grave - The Cranberries
Act 10: Jon Stewart Calls Out Fox News Bias - Young Turks Air Date: 06-20-11
Voicemails:
Comments on Mumia Abu-Jamal - Gene from Tampa. FL
Request for show on meth - Jonathan from Portland
Second call for the people's budget - Marcus from Bellmore, NY
Support the renewable energy industry - Nick from Amherst, Mass
Voicemail Music:
Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote
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Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
'Demography Today' Magazine Targets Demographer Demographic - 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 |
| 0:07.3 | the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:10.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today from the Rachel |
| 0:13.5 | Maddo show, Media Matters, Counter-Spin on the media, need to know the David Pakman show |
| 0:18.4 | and the young Turks with a bonus clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from the |
| 0:23.1 | Onion. |
| 0:30.1 | Do you hear about the big David Vitter scandal today? |
| 0:33.1 | David Vitter, last 4th of July when he was a candidate for re-election to the US Senate, |
| 0:38.1 | David Vitter made an appearance at a 4th of July event in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. |
| 0:43.1 | It was an event significantly funded by taxpayer dollars, an event called the Red White |
| 0:48.1 | and Boom concert by the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra. |
| 0:52.6 | While Democrats saying now that it was improper for David Vitter to be making campaign season |
| 0:58.6 | appearances at events like that when they are taxpayer funded events and it's like turning |
| 1:03.5 | taxpayer money toward your own partisan gain. |
| 1:07.3 | The big scandal with David Vitter today, there are questions about whether he's going |
| 1:11.0 | to be invited back to the Red White and Boom concert again this year after last year's |
| 1:16.0 | controversy. |
| 1:18.7 | That's the David Vitter scandal of today's news. |
| 1:22.2 | You have a high-class scandal to have, right? |
| 1:24.4 | It's kind of a high-class problem to have if you are United States Senator who has been |
| 1:29.1 | caught patronizing hookers. |
| 1:32.2 | Because after all the should-eye or shouldn't-eye appear at the Red White and Boom concert scandal |
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