(2011/07/30) The Great Newscorp Scandal Part 2 (Special Event)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 30 July 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Edition #513
The Great Newscorp Scandal Part 2
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Act 1: Accountability In The UK - Daily Show - Air Date: 07-20-11
Song 1: Waltzing Matilda - Ophelia of the Spirits
Act 2: Hack Attack, New Revelations - The Bugle - Air Date: 07-14-11
Song 2: Wallaby - Who Knew
Act 3: The Guardian Apologizes re: Gordon Brown's Son - Le Show - Air Date: 07-17-11
Song 3: Tie Me Kangaroo Down - Don Spencer
Act 4: Fox and Friends Covering Murdoch Scandal - Majority Report - Air Date: 07-15-11
Song 4: Australia - The Shins
Act 5: Mur-Doch! - Fox News Won't Dumpster Dive - Daily Show - Air Date: 07-19-11
Song 5: Baka - Outback
Act 6: Murdoch defenders circle the wagons - Counterspin Air Date: 7-21-11
Song 6: Down Under - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Act 7: Does British Scandal Risk Murdoch's Hold On Empire? - NPR Air Date: 07-21-11
Song 7: Dance the devil away - Outback
Act 8: Murdoch Doesn't Accept Responsibility For Hacking Scandal - Media Matters Air Date: 07-19-11
Act 9: Humanized by Pie - Colbert Report- Air Date: 07-20-11
Song 9: Kookaburra - John Vanderslice
Act 10: News Of The World Whistleblower Dead - Young Turks - Air Date 07-18-11
Voicemails:
Reaction to Mumia Abu-Jamal comments on Libya - Dave from Olympia, WA
Reaction to Mumia Abu-Jamal's comments on Libya - Carter from Denver
Reaction to Dan Carlin clip - Dave from Olympia, WA
Call to donate to preserve the rain forest in Ecuador - Nying(?) from Ecuador
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on the irony of BotL talking against news cocoons
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Accountability In The UK part 2 - Murdoch's Crime-Fighting Wife - Daily Show
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.5 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Cups Today from the Daily Show, |
| 0:13.0 | The Bugle, La Show, The Majority Report, Coutorspin, NPR, Media Matters, The Colbert Report, |
| 0:18.6 | and The Young Turks with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from |
| 0:23.6 | the Daily Show. |
| 0:30.0 | Our top story, of course, tonight, once again, the continuing revelations in the British |
| 0:34.7 | tabloid news of the world scandal. |
| 0:36.6 | As you may recall, yesterday, news corp owner Montgomery Burns was called, before Parliament, |
| 0:44.6 | for a dramatic three hour testimony, so intense, the media mobil managed to stay awake. |
| 0:51.4 | He managed to stay awake for nearly all of it. |
| 0:53.8 | This is the most humble day of my life. |
| 0:57.0 | It is true. |
| 0:59.2 | For nearly 80 years, Robert Murdoch has had for lack of a better term, the run of the planet. |
| 1:05.9 | Dominion over all that he surveys. |
| 1:09.2 | But yesterday, July 19th, in the year of our Murdoch 2011, was the day that the Aussie |
| 1:16.2 | account class had to accept that ultimately, he is responsible for the fiasco. |
| 1:47.2 | Like, I can see how this is a very humbling day for Mr. Murdoch. |
| 1:53.2 | Man of his stature is not accustomed to throwing subordinates under something so lowly as a bus. |
| 1:58.2 | Yes, the number 23 bus to Picadilly Circus was a rougher ride than normal, as the streets |
| 2:05.6 | of London were apparently lined with the freshly strewn news corp employees hastily jettisoned |
| 2:11.0 | by grandpa disappointment. |
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