(2012/06/15) Follow the Finns (Education)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 15 June 2012
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Edition #614
Follow the Finns
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Tea Party: Remove Slavery From Textbooks In TN - Young Turks - Air Date: 1-23-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Take me out - Franz Ferdinand
Ch. 4: Act 2: In Alabama, God Says Don't Pay Teachers - Majority Report - Air Date: 2-2-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: The bible tells me so - LifeWay Praise Kids
Ch. 6: Act 3: Stand up to Stop and Frisk - BotL Activism Update
Ch. 7: Song 3: Better together - Jack Johnson
Ch. 8: Act 4: Highschool Teacher Constantly Uses Janitor As Example - The Onion
Ch. 9: Song 4: Janitor - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Ch. 10: Act 5: New Spotlight on GOP Attitude About College Education & Student Loans - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 4-25-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Am I wrong - Love Spit Love
Ch. 12: Act 6: Math teacher's problem set scandal - The Bugle - Air Date: 3-9-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Runaway train - Soul Asylum
Ch. 14: Act 7: Testing For Monster Profits - CounterSpin - Air Date: 5-3-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Pachelbel's Canon In D Major (Pano) Cannon In D, Kanon In - Johann Pachelbel
Ch. 16: Act 8: Anti-Science Rush Limbaugh Laments the "Corruption" of U.S. Educational system - Media Matters Air Date: 12-19-11
Ch. 18: Act 9: Student Protests Intensify in Quebec - Majority Report - Air Date: 5-21-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Graduation (Friends forever) - Vitamin C
Ch. 20: Act 10: New High School Alumni Make Successful Use Of Vague Graduation Advice - The Onion
Ch. 21: Song 10: Sunscreen - Baz Luhrman
Ch. 22: Act 11: Public Schools Are Superior - David Feldman Show - Air Date: 4-10-12
Ch. 23: Song 11: Oh, the Places You'll Go (Acoustic) - Hiccup Hellen
Ch. 24: Act 12: Bullies - Mumia Abu-Jamal - Air Date: 2-29-12
Ch. 25: Song 12: Imagine that - Katie Todd Band
Ch. 26: Act 13: Finland's Revolutionary Education System - Young Turks - Air Date: 3-18-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 27: "Service" vs "Heroism" - Brian from Tennessee
Ch. 28: Disgusted that Chris Hayes was made to apologize - Tim from Hyattsville, MD
Ch. 29: Leftists will fall flat on their faces - Anonymous conservative
Ch. 30: Thoughts on The Onion school shooting parody - Dave from Olympia, WA
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National: www.changethenypd.org/pledge
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 31: Final comments on the meaning of The Onion report on school shooting
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.0 | For details of visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Clubstay from the Young Turks, |
| 0:12.0 | The Majority Report, a BestOfTheLeft activism update, The Onion Radio News, |
| 0:16.0 | The Rachel Maddo Show, The Bugle, Counter-Spin, Media Matters, The David Feldman Show, |
| 0:21.0 | and Mumia Abu Jamal. And a note for our more sensitive listeners, |
| 0:24.0 | this episode suggests that the American educational system is not the best in the world. |
| 0:30.0 | The Tennessee Tea Party wants to remove slavery from their history books. |
| 0:35.0 | And they want to do so in order to protect the identity of our founding fathers. |
| 0:40.0 | Great. |
| 0:41.0 | They want to make sure that none of these kids learn about the fact that our founding fathers |
| 0:45.0 | basically were horrible to Native Americans and also own slaves themselves. |
| 0:51.0 | Who are these children who do this? |
| 0:55.0 | I know. |
| 0:56.0 | They're crazy. |
| 0:58.0 | Like here's the deal. It's not hard to founding fathers. It's complicated, man. |
| 1:02.0 | Like they own slaves. They were brilliant. They sort of forged a frickin' nation. |
| 1:06.0 | And they were brave. And they were brilliant. And they had these great ideas. |
| 1:09.0 | And then they were asked up because they own human beings. |
| 1:13.0 | Teach both. Teach both. Be a grown-up. Jesus Christ, what are you doing? |
| 1:18.0 | You're humiliating Tennessee. |
| 1:20.0 | Absolutely. And you know, maybe this is too idealistic. |
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