(2012/03/14) If it looks, walks and quacks like a nuclear duck (Foreign Policy)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 14 March 2012
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Edition #585
If it looks, walks and quacks like a nuclear duck
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Act 1: Pending war with Iran - Wait wait don't tell me - Air Date: 3-3-12
Song 1: For what it's worth - Buffalo Springfield
Act 2: American War Drums against Iran - On the Media - Air Date: 2-9-12
Song 2: Turk - Errors
Act 3: Why Does Iran Always Seem To Be "Months Away" From a Nuclear Bomb? - Media Matters Air Date: 2-23-12
Act 4: War With Iran A Terrible Idea - Here's Why - Young Turks - Air Date: 2-21-12
Song 4: Everybody's gone to war - Nerina Pallot
Act 5: God Re-Floods Middle East - The Onion
Song 5: Deep water - Pansy Division
Act 6: All of the options about war with Iran including no war - Counterspin Air Date: 3-8-12
Song 6: Highwire - Men at Work
Act 7: Can We Stop A War With Iran - Young Turks - Air Date: 2-22-12
Song 7: Black & Blue - Miike Snow
Act 8: Obama Calls Out GOP Warhawks on Iran - Majority Report - Air Date: 3-7-12
Song 8: Lost and found - Hotrod Cadets
Act 9: Beating the drum in the media for war with Iran - Jimmy Dore Show Air Date: 3-9-12
Song 9: Daylight robbery - Imogen Heap
Act 10: Danger of Iran's Nuclear Duck - The Bugle Air Date: 3-9-12
Final comments and conversation with Jimmy Dore on context being 'everything' in comedy
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details and |
| 0:06.2 | visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com, now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft |
| 0:10.9 | podcast with Cups Today, from Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, On The Media, Media Matters, The |
| 0:15.0 | Young Turks, The Onion Radio News, Counter-Spin, The Majority Report, The Jimmy Dorsho, and |
| 0:19.7 | The Bugle, and a spoiler alert for any listeners who prefer to wait and see the movie this |
| 0:23.6 | episode does contain the answer to the crisis in the Middle East. |
| 0:30.0 | Here is your next quote. |
| 0:31.9 | If you liked Afghanistan and Iraq, you're going to love this. |
| 0:36.3 | That was one of the many comments zinging around on Twitter this week warning us of an impending |
| 0:40.3 | war with whom? |
| 0:42.3 | Er... Iran. |
| 0:44.0 | Yes, Iran. Very good. We're going to have a war with Iran, that's exciting. |
| 0:48.6 | So, did you enjoy the first Iraq war? Did you love the second one? Well, sadly there's |
| 0:57.6 | nothing left to blow up in that country, but don't worry. Middle East, Quagmire, Lovers, |
| 1:03.9 | there's a whole unblowed up country right next door. To war fans Iran looks just like |
| 1:10.5 | a completely unpopped sheet of bubble wrap. You just can't keep your hands off it. I |
| 1:17.1 | go, let's do it. So in addition to Rick Santorum and New |
| 1:22.3 | Gingrich and John Bolton among others threatening war against Iran, you've got Israel, basically |
| 1:27.5 | saying to the US, you'll know we decided to go ahead and blow up Iran when you hear |
| 1:32.6 | a big boob. |
| 1:34.3 | You know, starting a war with Israel, I think Iran needs to call Egypt and they'll be like, |
| 1:38.5 | who, that's a bad idea. You don't start up with them because they might take a week |
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