(2011/08/23) Chipping at the patriarchy (Feminism)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 23 August 2011
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Edition #521
Chipping at the patriarchy
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Act 1: Kansas Republican Pete DeGraaf - Getting Raped Like Getting a Flat Tire - David Pakman
Song 1: Flat tire - Aphrodesia
Act 2: New Abortion Clinic Rules in Kansas - Young Turks Air Date: 06-29-11
Song 2: Shame - The Avett Brothers
Act 3: Gloria Steinem - Colbert Report Air Date: 8-11-11
Song 3: Pretty - The Cranberries
Act 4: Right Wing Terror, Man Planned to Shoot Abortion Providers In the Head - David Pakman
Song 4: Speak up - Luke Reynolds
Act 5: God's Gift To Women Returned - The Onion
Song 5: I've gotta be me - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Act 6: Walmart Vs Class Action Lawsuit By Women - Young Turks Air Date: 6-20-11
Song 6: Landslide - Smashing Pumpkins
Act 7: Equal Rights Amendment, 36 years later - Rachel Maddow Air date: 6-28-11
Song 7: Female of the species - Space
Act 8: Lactate Intolerance - Daily Show Air Date: 8-11-11
Song 8: Doing it all for my baby - Huey Lewis and the News
Act 9: Women's Life Expectancy DOWN in 25% of United States - David Pakman - Air Date 07-12-11
Song 9: Unforgiven - Apocalyptica
Act 10: Fox Attacks New Free Birth Control Standards - Media Matters Air Date: 8-2-11
Act 11: Free Birth Control For U.S. Women - Young Turks Air Date: 8-01-11
Voicemails:
Race to iguazu - Jeremy from San Metao, CA
Request for a war on drugs episode - Alex from Vancouver
Thoughts on confirmation bias - Franklin from Cary, NC
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote
Ghostwriter - RjD2
Final comments on upcoming vegan debate voicemails
Bonus voicemails:
Thoughts on what morality means in relation to food choices - ? from Pittsburgh
Thoughts on over-humanizing animals - Javier from Boston, Mass
Thanks for not calling me a murderer - Chuck in Salt Lake City
Outraged by vegans - animals are the dominion of man - Anonymous
Don't use my identifying information - Anonymous
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Deadliest Snatch - Daily Show
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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 bestableleft.com. |
| 0:10.2 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast, which clips today from the |
| 0:13.5 | David Pakman show, The Young Turks, The Colbert Report, The Onion Radio News, The Rachel |
| 0:17.5 | Maddo Show, The Daily Show, and Media Matters, with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS |
| 0:22.1 | and Android app users from The Daily Show. |
| 0:30.1 | A Kansas Republican is saying that being raped is like getting a flat tire. |
| 0:36.3 | Evan Hurst has a great post about this over on TruthWindsOut.org, and as we know, not |
| 0:42.4 | only are so many religious, conservative men anti-gay, they also seem to have a pretty |
| 0:48.2 | big problem with women, or at least have absolutely no respect for women. |
| 0:51.6 | So is there a description of this analogy? |
| 0:54.3 | Oh, absolutely. |
| 0:55.3 | This guy peaked a graph, of course he's a pastor, as we know. |
| 0:58.6 | So when he talks about these things, it's not his personal opinion, it's all the word |
| 1:02.4 | of God. |
| 1:03.4 | So keep that in mind, Lewis. |
| 1:04.4 | So when he wants to ban abortion coverage from insurance, even in cases of rape, which |
| 1:09.6 | he wants to do, it's the word of God. |
| 1:12.9 | We can't judge Peter de Graaff based on this. |
| 1:17.2 | So his suggestion is some abortion-only insurance policies, okay? |
| 1:21.8 | And representative Barbara Bolier, who's a mission hills Republican who actually supports |
| 1:26.0 | abortion rights in Kansas, she questioned whether women would buy an abortion-only policy |
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