(2011/11/05) Excessive inequality (Economics)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 5 November 2011
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Edition #545
Excessive inequality
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Act 1: CEO's are to Pedophiles as Corporate Greed is to Touching Children - Lee Camp Air Date: 11-3-11
Song 1: Turn this boat around - Matt & Kim
Act 2: Economic Inequality on the News - Counterspin Air Date: 9-30-11
Song 2: The importance of being idle - Oasis
Act 3: GE CEO: Root For Corporations! - Young Turks
Song 3: Our town - The Adjusters
Act 4: CEO's Marital Duties Outsourced To Mexican Groundskeeper - The Onion
Song 4: I think we're alone now - Tiffany
Act 5: Avoiding Last Place: Some Things We Don't Outgrow - NPR
Song 5: Left behind - VNV Nation
Act 6: Pro-corporate coverage of trade deals - Counterspin
Song 6: The mosquito song - Born Loser and the Hangers On
Act 7: Obama, Dems, Cave to Corporate Power on Free Trade Deals - The Progressive Air Date: 10-13-11
Song 7: Looking at the sun - Gramercy Arms
Act 8: Day Job Officially Becomes Job - The Onion
Song 8: Don't hold me back - Alex Cornish
Act 9: Growth of the wealth divide - Rachel Maddow
Song 9: Solo, Solo Dire - Gipsy Kings
Act 10: Reason for Hope, and Reason for Concern, in New Poll - The Progressive Air Date: 10-26-11
Song 11: House of the rising sun - Bob Dylan
Act 12: Tea Party Nation Pledge and Spirit Airlines Ad Revenue - Colbert Report Air Date: 10-20-11
Song 12: Let's live for today - The Grass Roots
Act 13: The world without the sheriff of Wall St - Rachel Maddow
Song 13: Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
Act 14: Top 1 percent Doubled Income In Last 30 Years - Young Turks Air Date: 10-26-11
Voicemails:
Reaction to conversation with Jimmy Dore on Pat Robertson - Ken in Chicagoland
In reaction to Oakland police brutality against Occupy protests - Chris from Middletown, NY
Michael invents the tweet bomb - Michael From Glenn Bernie
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on how Michael didn't really invent the tweet bomb
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Word - Bite The Hand That Feeds You - Colbert Report
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.4 | For details, visit the membership tab at bestableleft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cups today from comedian |
| 0:12.7 | Lee Camp, CounterSpend, The Young Turks, The Onion Radio News, NPR, The Progressive, The |
| 0:17.6 | Rachel Maddo Show, and The Colbert Report with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and |
| 0:21.9 | Android app users, also from The Colbert Report. |
| 0:30.0 | This is your moment of clarity from Lee Camp.net. |
| 0:33.8 | It came out last week that the Canadian Boy Scouts have had thousands of cases of child molestation |
| 0:39.0 | over the past 40 years. |
| 0:41.0 | The reporter I saw made an interesting point. |
| 0:43.8 | The jobs like being a scout master tend to attract pedophiles because they have easy access |
| 0:49.7 | to children. |
| 0:50.7 | It's much more difficult to ask a kid to go camping in the woods alone with you if you're |
| 0:54.9 | a 45-year-old man if you don't have on a funny uniform and some badges that say you |
| 1:00.6 | know how to knit. |
| 1:02.4 | Other jobs also attract these sleaze balls like Jim Coach or Priest or Birthday Party |
| 1:07.9 | Clown or Being a Puppet. |
| 1:10.3 | And I'm not saying all the people in those professions are pedophiles, only that those |
| 1:14.6 | positions attract pedophiles. |
| 1:17.0 | You know, for every 12-curimate the frogs you get, you're going to attract one snuff |
| 1:21.3 | a luffa-guess. |
| 1:22.3 | It's just the way it works. |
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