(2012/07/19) A woman's place (Feminism)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 19 July 2012
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Edition #625
A woman's place
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: GOP's Woman Up Campaign Comically Fails to Narrow Gender Gap - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 4-26-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Female Of The Species [Fembot Mix] - Space
Ch. 4: Act 2: Hillary Clinton Is 'Fat And Old' According To Author Ed Klein- Young Turks - Air Date- 6-05-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Somewhere Over The Rainbow-What A Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Ch. 6: Act 3: Not Really Gender Bias - CounterSpin - Air Date 6-28-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Right to complain - Trombone Shorty & Marc Broussard
Ch. 8: Act 4: Rush Limbaugh: Trouble Started When Women Started Voting - David Pakman - Air Date 7-5-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Smile like you mean it - The Killers
Ch. 10: Act 5: Rush Limbaugh: The Country Went Downhill When We Let Women Vote! - Majority Report - Air Date: 07-06-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: African woman - Babba Maal
Ch. 12: Act 6: Rape Crisis Center Funds Vetoed by Governor Scott in Florida - Young Turks - Air Date: 4-25-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: You can't win - Michael Jackson
Ch. 14: Act 7: Wage Gap Remains No Matter the Number Crunching - Hartmann Interview - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 4-30-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: We were there - Robin Roberts
Ch. 16: Act 8: Is Feminism Dead - Throwing Shade - Air Date 7-2-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Justify my love - Madonna
Ch. 18: Act 9: SC Gov Rape & Sex Abuse Prevention Are Distractions - David Pakman - Air Date 7-11-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Carolina in my mind - James Taylor
Ch. 20: Act 10: Pundit Predicts A Female President In... - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-10-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: Back porch - The Presidents Of The United States Of America
Ch. 22: Act 11: Feelings Hurt In Local Teasing Incident - The Onion
Ch. 23: Song 11: Let her cry - Hootie and the Blowfish (With Bill O'reilly reading from "Those who tresspass)
Ch. 24: Act 12: Mississippi's Only Abortion Clinic Temporarily Saved - Majority Report - Air Date: 07-02-12
Ch. 25: Song 12: I saved the world today - The Eurythmics
Ch. 26: Act 13: Update on the Pushback Against the War on Women - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 6-18-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 27: Thoughts on Jonathan Haidt and not demonizing - John In New York
Ch. 28: Find common moral ground or duck and run - Kevin from Allentown, PA
Ch. 29: The absence of burden - John In Atlanta
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 30: Final comments on the absence of burden and the living wage
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.8 | For details, visit the membership tab at bestivalleft.com and welcome to the award-winning Best of |
| 0:10.4 | the Left Podcast with clips today from the Rachel Maddo show, The Young Turks, Counter-Spin, |
| 0:14.6 | The Baby Pac-Man Show, The Majority Report, Throwing Shade, and The Onion Radio News. |
| 0:19.8 | And a note for our more sensitive listeners, this episode contains opinions about where |
| 0:23.3 | a woman's place is that may differ from your own. |
| 0:30.1 | This is a story that has a math punchline. |
| 0:32.5 | Ready? |
| 0:33.5 | No party wants to be on the losing end of a double-digit gender gap heading into an election |
| 0:37.2 | that is precisely where Republicans are right now. |
| 0:40.0 | Since their strategy of advocating furiously against women's health and hoping women |
| 0:43.6 | don't notice or don't mind was not working to close that gap, Republicans are now trying |
| 0:47.6 | something new. |
| 0:48.6 | They have decided, for example, to take a U-turn from their previous position and they |
| 0:53.0 | are deciding now to not block the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, at least |
| 0:57.8 | not in the Senate. |
| 0:59.3 | The issue had looked for weeks like it was poised to become a big partisan political battle |
| 1:02.8 | when it passed out of committee on a party line vote with zero Republican support, but |
| 1:08.2 | ultimately Senate Republicans caved on the Violence Against Women Act. |
| 1:11.5 | It passed the Senate today on a 68-31 vote, which included 15 Republicans voting, yes. |
| 1:17.3 | But wait, there's more. |
| 1:18.7 | The new Now More Women Friendly Republican Party is not only no longer blocking the Violence |
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