(2011/07/12) Laugh, cry and cheer (Gay rights)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Edition #507
Laugh, cry and cheer
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Act 1: NY state gay marriage law effect on humor - Wait wait - Airdate: 07-02-11
Song 1: Chapel of love - The Dixie Cups
Act 2: Special Comment - Same-Sex Marriage in NY and beyond - Countdown
Song 2: The book of love - The Monotones
Act 3: 53% in US support gay marriage, now Obama should too - Bill Maher
Song 3: Fuck you - Lily Allen
Act 4: Obama's Gay Marriage Stance Weak - Young Turks - Air Date: 06-29-11
Song 4: Say it to me now - Glen Hansard
Act 5: The hidden history of homosexuality in America - Johann Hari
Song 5: Protest song - Eric Himan
Act 6: Massachusetts Supreme Court Orders All Citizens To Gay Marry - The Onion
Song 6: I can't help myself - The Four Tops
Act 7: Financial Incentive for NY Gay Marriage - Indigo Boys - Bugle - Air Date: 07-09-11
Song 7: Gay boyfriend - Garfunkel and Oates
Act 8: Charlene Strong: It Wasn’t Enough - The Moth
Voicemails:
Frustration with middle-class America voting GOP over abortion - Scott from St. Louis
Turn off Ed Shultz over call for Weiner's resignation - Mike From Philadelphia
Thanks for the new social networking integration - Colleen from Portland, OR
Voicemail Music:
Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote
Final comments updating on social networking integration
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
ThreatDown - Glee - Colbert Report
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by members and donors to the show for details visit the |
| 0:06.1 | membership tab at BestOfALeft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfALeft podcast with clips today from Weight Weight |
| 0:12.4 | Don't Tell Me, Countdown with Keith Oberman, Real Time with Bill Marr, The Young Turks, |
| 0:16.6 | The Ohan Hardy Podcast, The Onion Radio News, The Bugle, and The Moth with a bonus video |
| 0:21.6 | clip for Apple iOS and Android Abusers from the Colbert Report. |
| 0:30.6 | Your last quote comes from Steve Martin talking to Alec Baldwin on Twitter the other day. |
| 0:36.6 | Alec, now we can get married. |
| 0:44.6 | Martin was all excited because now he could marry Alec Baldwin or any man really where. |
| 0:51.6 | In New York, New York State, New York City, and all of that. |
| 0:56.6 | In what summer calling a remarkable advance and others the first sign of the apocalypse, |
| 1:01.6 | The New York State Legislature approved same-sex marriage in that state last Friday, meaning |
| 1:06.5 | a lot of gay people in New York City and elsewhere in the state just lost their best excuse. |
| 1:12.6 | Phones rang and stylus apartments and lofts and Chelsea in the West Village over the weekend |
| 1:17.6 | with mothers saying, well, so, when are you going to make an honest man out of Chad? |
| 1:31.6 | Oh, we can just see it. |
| 1:32.6 | You know, all the mothers are going to be so excited they'll say to the prospective son-in-laws, |
| 1:35.6 | you know, you're like the son I already had. |
| 1:43.6 | People should be warned about marriage that it's not always going to be gay. |
| 1:48.6 | That's true. |
| 1:54.6 | One thing everybody's wondering though with gay marriage, what's going to happen to comedy? |
| 1:58.6 | Because marriage has provided fodder and jokes since Adam first said to Eve, stand back. |
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