(2011/12/02) Our entire elections process is an art project (Elections)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 December 2011
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Edition #553
Our entire elections process is an art project
I'm organizing a monthly Dinner & a Movie event on the north side of Chicago! First event is Dec 13th, check out the details: www.facebook.com/events/301053213258551
Act 1: Tea Party to Elizabeth Warren: You're a Socialist Whore - Majority Report Air Date: 11-4-11
Song 1: PTF2012 - VNV Nation
Act 2: Fox News Consoles GOP Candidate Rick Perry After Epic Gaffe - Media Matters Air Date: 11-10-11
Act 3: Super Pac Advertising - On the Media
Song 3: Get up and go - Broadcast 2000
Act 4: Declare independence from corporate power! - Jim Hightower Air Date: 10-26-11
Song 4: Monday - Jon Brion
Act 5: Herman Cain is a performance art project - Rachel Maddow Air Date: 11-17-11
Song 5: Wait till you see my smile - Alicia Keys
Act 6: Cain, Bachmann Support Torture - Young Turks Air Date: 11-14-11
Song 6: Painted by numbers - The Sounds
Act 7: Newt Gingrich Says Child Labor Laws Are Stupid - David Pakman Air Date: 11-21-11
Song 7: Higher and higher - Alice Deejay
Act 8: Obama taken out of context in GOP campaign ads - Counterspin Air Date: 11-24-11
Song 8: White rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Act 9: Overview of the GOP debates up until this point - Rachel Maddow Air Date: 11-22-11
Voicemails:
Egyptian blogger arrested for inciting religious violence - Dennis from the UK
Thoughts on social media to help spread the show - Chuck in Salt Lake City
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final Comments on monthly dinner and a movie in Chicago and the need for a web developer for paid gig
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Oops, Rick Perry! - Wait Wait Air Date: 11-13-11
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors of the show. |
| 0:05.8 | For details, visit the membership tab at Best of the Left.com and welcome to the award-winning |
| 0:10.2 | Best of the Left Podcast with clips today from the Majority Report, Media Matters, On |
| 0:14.5 | the Media, Jim Hightower, The Rachel Maddo Show, The Young Turks, The David Pakman Show, |
| 0:18.8 | and Counter-Spin with a bonus clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from Weight |
| 0:23.5 | Don't Tell Me. |
| 0:30.2 | This is an awesome piece of audio. |
| 0:35.6 | The video is even funnier, I think, in some ways. |
| 0:38.4 | But Elizabeth Warren played this audio. |
| 0:44.0 | It's really stunning. |
| 0:45.0 | She was at, she was in Brockton, Mass, Brockton, Massachusetts, and she was doing a volunteer |
| 0:56.9 | speech. |
| 0:57.9 | She's run a facetnet in about 13 months, 12 months, I guess. |
| 1:06.5 | You know, she's run a facetnet, and I think she still's got a primary campaign. |
| 1:13.6 | I don't know. |
| 1:14.6 | I think she's still facing some opposition in the primary campaign, but I think most |
| 1:23.5 | of the big players have gotten out from the campaign. |
| 1:32.9 | So she's in Brockton, and she's about to give her speech to all the volunteers. |
| 1:41.0 | She's some dude, gets up, and starts talking to her. |
| 1:46.9 | She's from the tea party, she's not, she's in the Democratic party. |
| 1:54.0 | You know that she's been fighting, you know, she's been fighting particularly for years |
| 1:58.4 | and years, talking about the contracts that, you know, the credit card companies make |
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