(2012/02/28) The War on Women Part 2: Subjugation
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🗓️ 29 February 2012
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Edition #580
The War on Women Part 2: Subjugation
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Act 1: O'Reilly: Drunk Women Get Pregnant - Young Turks - Air Date: 07-25-11
Song 1: Resist - Katy McAllister
Act 2: Virginia government wants to physically penetrate you - Rachel Maddow Air Date: 2-14-12
Song 2: Gimme Sympathy - Metric
Act 3: Girlfriend Acting All Clingy After Getting Pregnant - The Onion
Song 3: Fidelity - Regina Spektor
Act 4: Rectal Exam Amendment To Anti-Abortion Bill - The Young Turks - Air Date: 2-1-12
Song 4: Timeless - Kate Havnevik
Act 5: Susan G. Komen Reverses, Returns Planned Parenthood Funding - David Pakman -Air Date: 02-06-12
Song 5: Clowns (Can you see me now?) - t.A.T.u.
Act 6: Stop Normalizing Rape - The Progressive Air Date: 12-15-11
Song 6: Winter winds - Piano Tribute Players
Act 7: Fox Contributor: Sexual Assault Prevention in the Military is "Bureaucracy Upon Bureaucracy" - Media Matters Air Date: 2-13-12
Act 8: Komen's Anti-Abortion VP Wanted To Defund Planned Parenthood - TYT - Air Date: 2-6-12
Song 8: Foundations - Kate Nash
Act 9: The Right Wing Is Taking Rights Away From Women, But Were They Really Using Them - Lee Camp - Air Date 2-20-12
Song 9: A beautiful mine - RJD2
Act 10: Komen VP Handel Resigns Over Planned Parenthood Dispute - TYT- Air Date: 2-7-12
Song 10: Enough - Dance Hall Crashers
Act 11: How the needle moves as conservatives push their anti-woman agenda - Double X Gabfest Air Date: 2-22-12
Song 11: Save me - Aimee Mann
Act 12: The fear over giving women power over their own bodies - Opinionated Air Date: 2-22-12
Final comments on analyzing the societal narrative of women in popular culture
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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 bestableleft.com. |
| 0:09.1 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with Cups Today from the Young |
| 0:12.7 | Turks, the onion radio news, the Rachel Maddo show, the David Pakman show, the progressive, |
| 0:17.1 | media matters, comedian Lee Camp, the double ex-GabbFest from Slate.com, and opinionated. |
| 0:22.3 | A note for our more sensitive listeners, this episode does contain some sentiments that |
| 0:26.0 | suggest women should have sovereignty over their own bodies. |
| 0:30.4 | Last week, the Institute of Medicine recommended that the Obama administration have private |
| 0:35.9 | health insurance companies pay for contraception, so women would have access to affordable contraception, |
| 0:42.1 | pap smears, those types of services. |
| 0:44.4 | Well, Bill Riley talked about it on his show, and he had an interesting statement to make |
| 0:51.1 | about women who do get pregnant. |
| 0:53.0 | So let's watch. |
| 0:56.9 | So you, of course, as a liberal, have to agree that all birth control for all women should |
| 1:02.0 | be paid for by the government, correct? |
| 1:05.1 | Absolutely. |
| 1:06.1 | Because when you're talking about cost bill, the cost up front is very little in comparison |
| 1:11.0 | of the cost in the long run. |
| 1:12.0 | Four billion a year, that's not a little. |
| 1:14.6 | Four billion. |
| 1:15.6 | No, the cost in the long run, the savings in the long run will be greater because, as you |
| 1:20.7 | know, about half of the pregnancies right now are unplanned, unwanted. |
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