(2012/05/20) Empire Graveyard (Foreign Policy)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 20 May 2012
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Summary
Edition #607
Empire Graveyard
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Curveball Comes Clean on WMD Lies - Majority Report - Air Date: 4-9-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Never Ending Story - Limahl
Ch. 4: Act 2: Release of Zelikow Torture Memo Calls for GOP Soul Searching - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 4-4-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: In Transit - Albert Hammond Jr.
Ch. 6: Act 3: Hardly Reassuring To Afghans - CounterSpin - Air Date: 5-3-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Hello, my treacherous friends - OK Go
Ch. 8: Act 4: Afghanistan Withdrawal 2014 or 2024 - Young Turks - Air Date: 5-2-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Movin too fast - The Last 5 years
Ch. 10: Act 5: U.S. Continues to Pour Hellish Rain on Afghanistan - The Progressive - Air Date: 5-8-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: All these things that I've done - The Killers
Ch. 12: Act 6: Cat General Says War On String May Be Unwinnable - The Onion
Ch. 13: Song 6: I've got no strings - The Gipsy Kings
Ch. 14: Act 7: Obama's Foreign Policy Just a Difference in Focus, Not Aggression - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 5-1-12
Ch. 17: Song 7: Kilojoules - Freelance Whales
Ch. 18: Act 8: Pentagon's Course on War on Islam - The Progressive - Air Date: 5-11-12
Ch. 19: Song 8: Great divide - Fair
Ch. 20: Act 9: Is This The End Of The American Empire - Lee Camp - Air Date: 3-17-12
Ch. 21: Song 9: Not an addict - K's Choice
Ch. 22: Act 10: Dying, Just A Part Of Nature - CounterSpin - Air Date: 5-10-12
Ch. 23: Song 10: When the cold days come - Theo Bard
Ch. 24: Act 11: Romney Tries to Fight Bush-Like Foreign Policy Image With a bunch of Bush Advisers - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 4-26-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 25: Obama on gay marriage is a big deal - Chad from Richmond, VA
Ch. 26: Thoughts on global warming and over-population - Shane from Spokane Washington
Ch. 27: Straight, white males are set at the easiest difficulty setting - Anonymous
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 28: Final comments on the lowest difficulty setting and the bike ride I'm on
Article Referenced:
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.7 | For details, visit the membership tab at Best of the Left.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cups today from the |
| 0:12.4 | Majority Report, The Rachel Maddo Show, Counter-Spin, The Young Turks, The Progressive, The |
| 0:16.7 | Onion Radio News, and Comedian League Camp. |
| 0:19.3 | And a note for our more sensitive listeners, this episode may cause you to feel something |
| 0:22.5 | other than pride in, or admiration for, America. |
| 0:30.0 | I won't hold my breath, but I imagine there's going to be a lot of apologies from the |
| 0:37.6 | corporate media, those right-wing blow-hards. |
| 0:40.2 | Really, the totality of the establishment in this country, I imagine pretty soon they're |
| 0:48.6 | going to apologize to Dean Garofalo, who was one of the first people I ever heard, who |
| 0:57.3 | said that curveball was full of shite. |
| 1:03.3 | Y'all remember curveball. |
| 1:07.0 | He was supposedly one of the premier sources of intelligence, and I used that in air quotes. |
| 1:15.8 | I'm not actually doing air quotes, but I'm trying to imply them with my voice. |
| 1:22.8 | The intelligence that led us into a war of choice that ended up killing over, in very |
| 1:32.1 | conservative estimates, over 100,000 innocent civilians in Iraq. |
| 1:39.7 | And precipitated a nine, ten-year involvement there, leaving behind one of the world's largest |
| 1:48.4 | embassies, a million of refugees, both those who exiled the country and became refugees |
| 2:03.0 | within the country. |
| 2:05.1 | And of course, I haven't seen this on U.S. corporate media because they're too busy talking |
| 2:13.8 | about the amazing appearance of Sarah Pellan on the Today Show as a guest host. |
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