(2012/08/24) Protecting women from their rights (Reproductive rights)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 24 August 2012
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Edition #636
Protecting women from their rights
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Planned Parenthood Is 'Murder For Hire' - N.C. Rep. Pittman - Young Turks - Air Date 8-6-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Overkill (Acoustic Version) - Colin Hay
Ch. 4: Act 2: Is Paul Ryan Vice President Ultrasound? - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 8-13-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Mama said - The Shirelles
Ch. 6: Act 3: The GOP War on Women's Health is Real - New Left Media
Ch. 7: Act 4: Women Jealous of Romney's Wife Because She Married Rich - Young Turks - Air Date 8-6-12
Ch. 8: Song 4: I want it all - Queen
Ch. 9: Act 5: Abortion Doctor Attacked for NOT Forcing 10-Year-Old Rape Victim to Birth Child- David Pakman - Air Date 8-17-12
Ch. 10: Song 5: Pregnant women are smug - Garfunkel and Oates
Ch. 11: Act 6: Hey Girl You Didn't Need Those Reproductive Rights - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 8-14-12
Ch. 12: Song 6: Crooked teeth - Death Cab For Cutie
Ch. 13: Act 7: Todd Akin, what he said and why it matters - Double X Gabfest - Air Date: 8-22-12
Ch. 14: Song 7: Running scared - Roy Orbison
Ch. 15: Act 8: The GOP is mainstreaming radical ideas on women's health - Matthew Filipowicz - Air Date: 8-21-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 16: Benevolent sexism - Liz
Ch. 17: Why concern ourselves with train incident when others are worse? - Steven from California
Ch. 18: Overt chivalry is not necessarily pro-women - Dave from Olympia, WA
Ch. 19: Perspective on why religious treatment of women rubs the wrong way - Tanya from Arkansas
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 20: Final comments on how chauvinism becomes internalized
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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 BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Chris today from the Young Turks, |
| 0:12.8 | Dorech Elmato Show, New Left Media, the David Pakman Show, the Double X Gap Fest, and the |
| 0:17.3 | Matthew Philip Ovid Show. |
| 0:18.8 | And a note for our female listeners, you may wish to have a male friend nearby to help |
| 0:22.0 | explain this episode to you, better yet they could just listen to it for you, and then |
| 0:26.1 | tell you what it's about. |
| 0:30.1 | Representative Larry Pittman is a state representative in North Carolina. |
| 0:34.1 | He's a Republican, and apparently he despises Planned Parenthood, and he doesn't hide it. |
| 0:39.2 | Here's what he said. |
| 0:40.8 | Planned Parenthood is, quote, getting wealthy on murder for hire. |
| 0:46.7 | There's been over 6,000 attacks on abortion providers since 1977. |
| 0:52.6 | Over 6,000 attacks. |
| 0:53.6 | And gee, I wonder why? |
| 0:55.3 | It's probably not the Larry Pittman's of the world that say you do murder for hire. |
| 0:59.8 | I mean, if you thought somebody was murdering innocent kids, what would you do? |
| 1:05.0 | Remember when, of course, Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, especially kept saying, Dr. Tillor, the |
| 1:09.9 | baby killer, Dr. Tillor, the baby killer, and then shockingly somebody shot Dr. Tillor |
| 1:14.8 | and killed him. |
| 1:15.8 | Oh, but Bill O'Reilly couldn't have seen that coming. |
| 1:18.6 | Larry Pittman can't see it coming. |
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