(2012/02/10) We're all the scarecrow now (Economics)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 11 February 2012
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Edition #574
We're all the scarecrow now
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Act 1: Wage stagnation coverage by media big leagues - Counterspin - Air Date: 2-3-12
Song 1: Sweet disposition - The Temper Trap
Act 2: Shoveling America's wealth to the top - Jim Hightower Air Date: 1-3-12
Song 2: A change is gonna come - Sam Cooke
Act 3: Dr. David Graeber - Debts as a promise and the story of The Wizard of Oz - Majority Report Air Date: 12-13-11
Song 3: I'm a believer - The Monkees
Act 4: Disastrous Obama Choice for World Bank Chief - Young Turks 1-18-12
Song 4: Rains down in Africa - Toto
Act 5: Newsweek's Neil Ferguson on Convincing the Public for Austerity Measures - Counterspin - Air Date: 2-3-12
Song 5: Why did I listen to that man? - Urinetown
Act 6: An ugly surprise from big oil - Jim Hightower Air Date: 1-24-12
Song 6: Gorel - Babba Maal
Act 7: ExxonMobil Swears It's Going To Start Taxes Early This Year - The Onion
Song 7: Elevator love letter - Stars
Act 8: The argument for refusing to leave your home - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 1-27-12
Song 8: Winter song - Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson
Act 9: NY Times David Brooks Defends Economic Elite - Counterspin - Air Date: 2-3-12
Song 9: Don't let the sun go down on me - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Act 10: Tim Wise - Demonization of Minorities - Majority Report - Air Date: 1-30-12
Song 10: Just a ride - Jem
Act 11: Getting stuck on America's economic ladder - Jim Hightower Air Date: 1-25-12
Song 11: Big black nothing - Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band
Act 12: Subtle GOP Racism - Romney not concerned about very poor - Matthew Filipowicz - Air Date: 2-2-12
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Asking teenagers when they chose to be straight - Tony from Southern New Jersey
Recommending the Smiley and West Podcast - Max from Davis, CA
Wishing there had been a two-way teachable moment regarding It Gets Better - Adrianne from College Station. TX
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Final comments on the fringe LGBT movement against equality
Article: Not the marrying kind
Activist Ryan Conrad critiques the gay equality movement
http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Not_the_marrying_kind-11365.aspx
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by members and donors to the show, for details to visit |
| 0:10.6 | the membership tab at bestivalleft.com. |
| 0:13.0 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Kupspe, from Counter-Spin, |
| 0:17.4 | Jim Hightower, the Majority Report, the Young Turks, the Onion Radio News, the Rachel |
| 0:21.2 | Maddo Show, and the Matthew Phillipovic Show. |
| 0:30.1 | With millions unemployed, wage stagnation for those lucky enough to have jobs and an economy |
| 0:35.4 | continuing to falter, it seems like a good time to call for more suffering, right? |
| 0:40.8 | If you answered no, you might not be ready for the media big leagues. |
| 0:44.9 | Like NBC Meet the Press House, David Gregory, who told Obama Advisor David Axelrod on January |
| 0:50.2 | 29th, if you look at how dire the fiscal situation is in this country, we just came off |
| 0:55.3 | a debt debacle this past summer, Alan Simpson responding to the state of the union said, |
| 0:59.7 | where's the guts, where's the hard stuff, where's the beef, where are the hard choices |
| 1:03.6 | that Americans are going to have to make? |
| 1:05.5 | What are Americans going to have to do with less of if this president gets re-election? |
| 1:10.7 | Axelrod, to his credit, noted that plenty of people were hurting, but Gregory wasn't impressed. |
| 1:16.3 | The NBC anchor spoke almost disdainfully of modest measures taken to reduce the pain, |
| 1:20.8 | quote, wait a second, there was a stimulus plan, there was a new health care entitlement, |
| 1:26.3 | but there was nothing dealing with the big drivers of the day, close quote. |
| 1:30.9 | By that, he meant entitlements. |
| 1:32.8 | He chatted the White House for not following its own debt commission recommendations, which |
| 1:36.7 | called for cutting social security and Medicare benefits. |
| 1:40.6 | It's hard to overstate how committed elite media are to austerity as the fix to our current |
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