(2011/08/14) Choosing among disasters (Elections)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 14 August 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Edition #518
Choosing among disasters
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Act 1: GOP Voter Suppression - Young Turks Air Date: 7-6-11
Song 1: On the turning away - Pink Floyd
Act 2: Justice Department Should Sue Walker over Voter ID - The Progressive Air Date: 8-4-11
Song 2: 40 day dream - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Act 3: Election Monologue Intro - Colbert Report - Air Date: 07-12-11
Song 3: I could never go for you - Scott West And Sex On Sunday
Act 4: Breaking corporate control of politics - Jim Hightower Air Date: 8-4-11
Song 4: Lullaby for a realist - Anya Marina
Act 5: Indecision 2012 - Survival of the Funded - Daily Show - Air Date: 07-21-11
Act 5A - Indecision 2012 - King of the Funded - Daily Show - Air Date: 07-21-11
Song 5: Believe - The Bravery
Act 6: Made In America: Who Cares? Herman Cain - Young Turks Air Date: 8-3-11
Song 6: Dreaming of you - The Coral
Act 7: God Calls Rick Perry To Run - Colbert Report - Air Date: 07-19-11
Song 7: The rainbow connection - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Act 8: Thoughts on a primary candidate against Obama Part 1 - Common Sense Air Date: 8-3-11
Song 8: Drums of freedom - Theo Bard
Act 9: Newt's White Whale - Colbert Report - Air Date: 07-19-11
Song 9: Bus rider - John Swihart
Act 10: Thoughts on a primary candidate against Obama Part 2 - Common Sense Air Date: 8-3-11
Voicemails:
More reaction to the talking points war strategy - Dave from Olympia, WA
Suggestion of Smiley and West podcast - Cliff from Bloomington, IN
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Colbert Super PAC- Campaign Finance - Matthew Dowd & Ham Rove - Colbert Report - Air Date: 07-28-11
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.0 | the membership tab at BestOfALeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfALeft podcast with clips today from the young Turks, |
| 0:13.1 | the Progressive, the Colbert Report, Jim Hightower, the Daily Show, Sam Cedar, and Common |
| 0:18.0 | Sense with Dan Carlin with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users |
| 0:22.9 | from the Colbert Report. |
| 0:30.0 | Bill Clinton today or yesterday likened what is going on in states like Florida, New Hampshire |
| 0:36.4 | to Jim Crow laws. |
| 0:38.3 | What is going on in terms of keeping voters away from the polls? |
| 0:41.9 | The Ohio this week, listen what they did in Ohio, they're trying to have a law, they're |
| 0:50.6 | allowing poll workers to not tell voters where their proper polling place is if they've made |
| 0:58.6 | a mistake and gone to the wrong precinct. |
| 1:00.8 | So you go to the wrong precinct, you get to that place and they say, oh you're not voting |
| 1:05.9 | here, where do I vote? |
| 1:06.9 | I don't have to tell you. |
| 1:08.6 | This is about inclusion, this is about one man, one vote, one woman, one vote. |
| 1:13.6 | The GOP led House in Ohio passed an election law overhaul that didn't have voter ID provision. |
| 1:20.4 | However, the House tweaked the bill to weaken a law mandating poll workers to direct voters |
| 1:24.2 | in the wrong precinct to their correct voting location. |
| 1:27.0 | As the Cleveland plain dealer pointed out, mixing up precincts most often occurs in urban |
| 1:32.7 | and impoverished areas of the state. |
| 1:35.5 | Leading turners to sarcastically suggest Republicans, I guess the loss of votes for some |
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