(2012/03/11) Bullies, bad words and birth control (Limbaugh v Fluke)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 11 March 2012
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Edition #584
Bullies, bad words and birth control
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Act 1: GOP Does Not Understand How Contraception Works - Rachel Maddow Air Date 3-2-12
Song 1: Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies
Act 2: Bill O'Reilly Rips Sandra Fluke - Young Turks Air Date: 3-6-12
Song 2: The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1 - Neutral Milk Hotel
Act 3: Guide to Are you a prostitute? by Rush Limbaugh - The Bugle Air Date: 3-9-12
Song 3: Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Act 4: Limbaugh and the GOP war on women - Counterspin Air Date: 3-8-12
Song 4: Possibility - Lykke Li
Act 5: Advertisers flee from Limbaugh's radio program - On the Media Air Date: 3-8-12
Song 5: White Electric - Battles
Act 6: Rush Limbaugh Gets a Measure of Comeuppance - The Progressive Air Date: 3-5-12
Song 6: All Apologies - Nirvana
Act 7: Insincere Apologies - Mitt Romney Has a Rush Limbaugh Problem - Rachel Maddow Air Date 3-5-12
Song 7: The Prettiest Weed - Jim Guthrie
Act 8: Fluke Isn't the Only Woman Being Attacked By Limbaugh This Week - Media Matters Air Date: 3-8-12
Act 9: A breakdown of the Limbaugh comments and the false equivalency with Bill Maher - Jimmy Dore Show Air Date: 3-9-12
Voicemails:
Follow up on comments regarding joke on the Jimmy Dore Show and standards in broadcasting - Joe from Nanjing China
Reaction to the Jimmy Dore Show vs Limbaugh comparison - Mara from Pittsburgh
Rush Limbaugh's misunderstanding of contraception - Patrick from Dallas
Follow up comparison question to Limbaugh vs Jimmy Dore Show discussion - Andrew from Brooklyn, NY
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Final comments on the follow up comparing a Jimmy Dore Show joke and the Limbaugh controversy
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.5 | the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:09.1 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Gubstay from the Rachel Maddo |
| 0:12.9 | show, The Young Turks, The Bugle, Counter-Spent on the Media, The Progressive, Media Matters |
| 0:18.0 | and The Jimmy Doar Show. |
| 0:19.6 | And a note for our more sensitive listeners, especially those with a hair-trigger gag reflex, |
| 0:23.7 | this episode does contain references to, as well as quotes from Rush Limbaugh. |
| 0:30.2 | You were in our green room getting ready to come on, and the White House note tells us |
| 0:35.1 | that we can reveal that you just got off the phone with President Obama. |
| 0:39.2 | Yes, I did. |
| 0:40.4 | The stakes have been raised pretty high, but what did he say to you? |
| 0:44.4 | He encouraged me and supported me and thanked me for speaking out about the concerns |
| 0:50.8 | of American women, and what was really personal for me was that he said to tell my parents |
| 0:57.2 | that they should be proud, and that meant a lot because Rush Limbaugh questioned whether |
| 1:01.3 | or not my family would be proud of me, so I just appreciated that very much. |
| 1:06.1 | Yet again, today on Andrea Mitchell's show, The Biggest Story in Politics broke right here |
| 1:10.9 | on MSNBC. |
| 1:12.5 | The woman speaking with Andrea there, as you probably know, was Sandra Fluck. |
| 1:16.8 | She's a Georgetown University law student. |
| 1:19.4 | She's the one who sparked the Where Are The Women Controversy in Congress last month. |
| 1:24.0 | The Republicans in the House, Derral Isis Committee in the House called this panel of witnesses |
| 1:28.8 | to testify on the issue of contraception being covered by health insurance. |
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