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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 23 September 2012
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Edition #646
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Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: CNN: During Vietnam, It Was Brave of Mitt Romney to be in France - Majority Report - Air Date: 09-04-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Everybody's gone to war - Nerina Pallot
Ch. 4: Act 2: O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Palin, & Ingraham Panicked About Romney- Young Turks - Air Date - 9-12-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Directions - Josh Rouse
Ch. 6: Act 3: Romney-Ryan Extremist Record Tests Political Media - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 8-22-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Teddybear's picnic - The Lords
Ch. 8: Act 4: Fox Omits the Facts to Politicize 9-11 Moment of Silence - Media Matters Minute - Air Date: 09-11-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Teddybear's picnic - The Lords
Ch. 10: Act 5: Fox and Friends FAIL on Obama Smear...BIG TIME - Majority Report - Air Date: 09-21-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Oops and move on - Henery Philips
Ch. 12: Act 6: EPIC: Fox News Pranked by Fake "Former Obama Supporter" - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 09-18-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Everyday - Carly Comando
Ch. 14: Act 7: Gretchen Carlson Re-Writes History, Has No Memory Of Any "Successful Terror Attack Since 9-11" - Media Matters Minute - Air Date: 09-17-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Everyday - Carly Comando
Ch. 16: Act 8: Bored by Birtherism? Try Some Secretly Gay! - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 9-14-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Love Love Love - Of Monsters and Men
Ch. 18: Act 9: Lubricating Politicians - CounterSpin - Air Date 9-7-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Gone - Jack Johnson
Ch. 20: Act 10: DecodeDC: Ex-NPR Reporter Seabrook Fed Up With Media BS - The Young Turks - Air Date: 09-01-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: The typewriter song - The Boston Pops Orchestra
Ch. 22: Act 11: "Truth VS. Puppy Purging: Where Do YOU Get Your News?" - Lee Camp - Air Date: 09-20-12
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Ch. 23: Obama has brought change - Anonymous
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Ch. 24: Final comments on depicting Muhammad, criticizing progressive presidents and prepping for awards season
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show for details of the membership tab at BestableF.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cups Today from the majority report, The Young Turks, The Rachel Maddo Show, The Media Matters Minute, The David Pakman Show, Counter-Spin and Comedian League Camp. |
| 0:19.0 | And a note for our more sensitive listeners, exposure to Fox News may lead to high blood pressure, headache, irritability, reduced memory, disturbed sleep, and mood and personality changes. |
| 0:30.0 | This is unbelievable. And I guess it can't be blamed on Romney, although I don't know if it's better or worse because of that fact. |
| 0:45.0 | Now did you know that Mitt Romney, and I'm not sure what to make of this, Mitt Romney, did not mention the war in Afghanistan during his speech. |
| 0:58.0 | I still have about 87,000 U.S. troops. I don't know. There could be somewhere between 79 and 87,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. |
| 1:13.0 | When he got the nomination, his not mentioning the war that were engaged in. |
| 1:22.0 | The first time a Republican presidential nominee did not mention war since 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower was the nominee and just generally spoke about American power and spreading freedom around the world. |
| 1:41.0 | And he, of course, had pretty serious military bonafidees and probably was dealing with a little bit of war fatigue after World War II. |
| 1:55.0 | So how to butcher Mitt Romney's war bonafidees, I guess. |
| 2:05.0 | Because this is the guy we all know did not serve him Vietnam. I'm not saying that's necessary that you need to. |
| 2:17.0 | He got, I think, multiple deferments based upon his missionary work and then getting like a dual law and business degree or something like that. |
| 2:28.0 | But instead he went on missionary work to, well, to a country in 1968. |
| 2:38.0 | So I thought we tired. It's a little clues to where he went. |
| 2:43.0 | And apparently it was not all. |
| 2:48.0 | It was not all of the pictures and cream as it were. Here is Gloria Borgia from CNN now rating a Romney documentary. |
| 2:58.0 | I don't know. I guess if I want to be generous to Gloria Borgia, she was just handed this voice over lines from the Romney campaign. |
| 3:10.0 | Although I guess that wouldn't be that generous. But to think that she actually wrote it herself or that a producer wrote it and she never questioned it is also not very generous. |
| 3:17.0 | There's no way to explain this. Tommy Christopher has a great take down on this and mediate. But here is the audio. |
| 3:27.0 | And there are pictures of protesters in France and well, here it is. |
| 3:36.0 | In 1968, France was a dangerous place to be for a 21 year old American. But Mitt Romney was right in the middle of it. |
| 3:46.0 | Right in the middle of it. |
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