(2012/01/13) Choose and lose (Elections)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 14 January 2012
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Edition #565
Choose and lose
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Act 1: Newt Gingrich is Running for A Hole in Chief - Majority Report Air Date: 12-08-11
Song 1: Crazy - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Act 2: Newt Gingrich's Most Outrageous Ideas - David Pakman - Air Date: 12-12-11
Song 2: White blank page - Piano Tribute Players
Act 3: Fox's "Fair and Balanced" Interviews of DNC and RNC Chairs - Media Matters Air Date: 1-4-12
Act 4: Obama Strategy - Lesser of Two Evils - Young Turks Air Date: 12-12-11
Song 4: Evil is alive and well - Jakob Dylan
Act 5: Obama can't think of one good reason to run for another term - The Onion
Song 5: Give me one reason - Tracy Chapman
Act 6: The Bad Circus Act that Is the Republican Race - The Progressive Air Date: 12-26-11
Song 6: Too close - VNV Nation
Act 7: Obama Campaign Collecting GOP Emails Brilliant Strategy - David Pakman Air Date 12-22-11
Song 7: Wonderwall - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 8: Fox's New Year's Resolution: Be Even More Partisan - Media Matters Air Date: 1-5-12
Act 9: Palestinians Are Terrorists - Newt Gingrich - Young Turks Air Date: 12-12-11
Song 9: Everybody wants to rule the world - Tears for Fears
Act 10: Newt Gingrich's Invented People Explained - Majority Report Air Date: 12-12-11
Song 10: All this and Heaven too - Florence + The Machine
Act 11: Good News on the Citizens United Front - The Progressive Air Date: 1-5-12
Song 11: Wavin' Flag - K'naan
Act 12: Repeal the farce of "Corporate Personhood" - Jim Hightower Air Date: 1-4-12
Song 12: Everyday people - Sly & The Family Stone
Act 13: GOP busted on sanctity of the vote - Rachel Maddow Air Date: 1-6-12
Song 13: Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'après Midi - Yann Tiersen
Act 14: Fair and Balanced? Fox Reporter on Republicans: "We're Not Divided." - Media Matters Air Date: 1-10-12
Act 15: Did The Media Treat Bachmann Unfairly Because She's An Insane Woman? - The Onion
Song 15: Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
Act 16: Bachmann Announcing End of Campaign - Young Turks
Song 16: I'm gone - Alison Krauss & Union Station
Act 17: The Pundits Dissed Ron Paul - The Progressive Air Date: 1-11-12
Song 17: Nothing is good enough - Aimee Mann
Act 18: Fox News: Where Lies Are Allowed to Flow Freely - Media Matters Air Date: 1-11-12
Act 19: SuperPACs storm Iowa - Jim Hightower Air Date: 1-11-12
Song 19: I've got no strings - Gipsy Kings
Act 20: MTV Choose or Lose Election Campaign Name Change Lose or Lose - Majority Report Air Date: 12-20-11
Voicemails:
Thoughts on libertarian island for future generations - Tim From Quincy, IL
Future needs of BotL and other liberal causes - Jim from the United Arab Emirates
Bank names on top of buildings in Cleveland - Colin from Cleveland, OH
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on Libertarian Island, progressive media in 2012 and the Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Romney Vs Vietnam Vet on Gay Marriage - Young Turks - Air Date: 12-12-11
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.6 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfALeft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfALeft podcast with groups today from the majority |
| 0:12.6 | report. |
| 0:13.6 | The David Pakman Show, Media Matters, The Young Turks, The Onion Radio News, The Progressive, |
| 0:18.2 | Jim Hightower, and The Rachel Maddo Show, with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS |
| 0:22.6 | and Android app users from The Young Turks. |
| 0:29.6 | You understand what I'm saying here about the Republican Party? |
| 0:33.6 | They are so off the rails. |
| 0:38.0 | Newt Gingrich, yesterday, said that his secretary of state is already picking his cabinet members. |
| 0:47.1 | There is some confusion. |
| 0:49.4 | It's probably not illegal for him to do this, because it's illegal if you do it to try and |
| 0:55.5 | get their endorsement. |
| 0:57.0 | Unfortunately, no one cares about John Bolton's endorsement. |
| 1:03.8 | It's actually, he's just trying to convince Republican voters, Newt Gingrich is that he's |
| 1:11.0 | one of them. |
| 1:13.0 | Now, if you said to Republican voters, I want to point the greatest, perhaps one of |
| 1:20.6 | the most prominent well-known Neocons. |
| 1:25.1 | As my secretary of state, my guess is that Republican voters, because now they've been told |
| 1:30.9 | like, oh, Neocons, bad, bad, Neocons, without any concept of what the ideology is, this |
| 1:38.8 | would be a liability for Gingrich. |
| 1:41.3 | But because they know that John Bolton is a favorite of Fox and same people think John |
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