(2011/09/17) Going soft (Media)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 17 September 2011
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Edition #529
Going soft
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Act 1: Fox Thinks Obama Was President 2000-2009 - David Pakman Air Date: 8-23-11
Song 1: Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Act 2: Fox News Admits Bias To Attack Media Matters - Liberal Viewer Air Date 7-07-11
Song 2: Forever Young (Techno remix) - Alphaville
Act 3: Interview with Common - Daily Show
Song 3: Take a look around - Limp Bizkit
Act 4: Brett Baier, Fox's "Straight News" Anchor - Media Matters Air Date: 9-13-11
Act 5: Fox News Anchors Can't Follow Spongebob, Claim It's Liberal Indoctrination - David Pakman Air Date: 8-09-11
Song 5: Classical gas - Mason Williams
Act 6: Hannity school of right-wing journalism - Jimmy Dore Show
Song 6: The Czar of Munster - Seamus Egan
Act 7: Cenk Rips CNN Obama Analysis By Fareed Zakaria - Young Turks Air Date 8-15-11
Song 7: Love you madly - Cake
Act 8: Misrepresenting the fairness doctrine - Counterspin
Song 8: A whiter shade - Procol Harum
Act 9: Anderson Cooper's Kryptonite - Colbert Report Air Date: 8-18-11
Song 9: Sous Le Dome Epais - Aura
Act 10: Big-time corporate synergy for football season - Counterspin
Song 10: Play the game - Shout Out Louds
Act 11: Planned Parenthood Firebombed, Media Says NOTHING - Right Wing Terrorism - David Pakman Air Date: 8-05-11
Song 11: Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
Act 12: Television Will Be The End Of Us - Lee Camp Air Date: 7-11-11
Song 12: Throwing stones - Shout Out Louds
Act 13: Bill O'Reilly Asked Cops To Investigate Wife's Boyfriend - Young Turks
Song 13: Feet to the fire - the hereafter
Act 14: Softballing Cheney - Counterspin
Song 14: North by North - Faded Paper Figures
Act 15: The Humanization Of Dick Cheney - Daily Show
Voicemails:
Don't make the mistake of believing that you can't be wrong - Noah from Ashland, Ohio
The psychology of last place - Sean from Portland, OR
Policeman Jeff is back - Policeman Jeff from Florida
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments welcoming back Policeman Jeff
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Glazed And Confused - Daily Show Air Date: 8-09-11
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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 BestOfALeft.com. |
| 0:09.1 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfALeft podcast with Cubsiday from the David Pakman |
| 0:12.8 | show, YouTube's Liberal Viewer, The Daily Show, The Jimmy Doar Show, The Young Turks, |
| 0:17.4 | Counter-Spin, The Colbert Report, and Comedian League Camp with a bonus video clip for our |
| 0:21.5 | Apple iOS and Android app users from The Daily Show. |
| 0:30.0 | Fox News, Fox Nation. Seeming to be implying that Obama has been president since 2000, let's |
| 0:36.6 | put this image up for our TV audience. Fox News, the website, posted about a study that |
| 0:43.2 | pointed out that child poverty increased in 38 states from the year 2000 to the year 2009, |
| 0:50.2 | and as you can see the headline is poverty soars under Obama from 2000 to 2009, then they |
| 0:57.0 | realized, oh wait a second, Obama wasn't president for most of that time. We're actually |
| 1:02.5 | saying here that poverty for children soared during George W. Bush, let's change that |
| 1:08.2 | headline, which they did after this was pointed out to study one in five American children |
| 1:13.8 | living in poverty. I guess they got very, very scared that they accidentally made fun |
| 1:19.7 | of George W. Bush. I don't know. And, hey, by the way, somebody once said to me Lewis |
| 1:25.4 | that community organizers never actually do anything, Obama did something. Apparently he |
| 1:31.1 | increased child poverty when he wasn't even president. Incredible the things that Fox News and |
| 1:36.6 | Fox Nation are able to come up with. |
| 1:55.4 | So, with all the misinformation they put out, you think our friends at Fox would be used |
| 2:14.0 | to criticism by now, but watching Fox News lately, it seems they are so sensitive to being |
| 2:19.0 | factually corrected that they've actually run several stories recently trying to find |
| 2:23.3 | something illegal about pointing out Fox News's errors as you can see, for example, in Steve |
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