(2012/10/14) Protect your right to participate in this farce (Voter Suppression)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 14 October 2012
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Summary
Edition #653
Protect your right to participate in this farce
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Noam Chomsky: Vote for the Lesser of Two Evils in a Swing State - Majority Report - Air Date: 10-02-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Fix you - Coldplay
Ch. 4: Act 2: Sarah Silverman On Voter ID Laws - The Young Turks - Air Date: 09-22-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: You Fuckin' Did It (live) - Jason Mraz
Ch. 6: Act 3: Let My People Vote 2012 - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 7: Song 3: Which side are you on? - Natalie Merchant
Ch. 8: Act 4: Fraud Scandal Ends GOP Registration Drive Early - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 10-1-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Little lies - Fleetwood Mac
Ch. 10: Act 5: Republican Voter & Election Fraud Confirmed - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 10-01-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: President of what? - Death Cab For Cutie
Ch. 12: Act 6: The GOP's "Ballot Integrity" ruse - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 10-3-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Curl up and die - Relient K
Ch. 14: Act 7: Republicans And Voter Fraud - The Young Turks - Air Date: 09-29-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: I didn't see it coming - Belle and Sebastian
Ch. 16: Act 8: Legally Bereft War on Voting Adopts Deceptive Strategy - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 10-4-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Hurry up let's go - Shout Out Louds
Ch. 18: Act 9: Pennsylvania "Voter ID" BLOCKED by Judge - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 10-04-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Hold the line - The White Buffalo
Ch. 20: Act 10: US Court Forces Ohio to Reinstate Early Voting - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 10-5-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: Take your time - The Love Bite
Ch. 22: Act 11: The Argument Against the Protest Vote (or Not Voting At All) in November - Majority Report - Air Date: 09-17-12
Ch. 23: Song 11: Float on - Modest Mouse
Ch. 24: Act 12: The TRUTH About Voting - LeeCamp - Air Date: 08-20-12
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.6 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLef.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLef podcast with Cups Today from the Majority Report, |
| 0:13.2 | the Young Turks, a BestOfTheLef activism update, the Rachel Maddo show, the David Pakman |
| 0:17.3 | show, Jim Hightower, and comedian Lee Camp. |
| 0:20.0 | And a note for our more sensitive listeners, this episode discusses the current state of |
| 0:23.0 | our electoral system and therefore contains some pretty explicit profanity. |
| 0:30.0 | Let's start off with a clip of Noam Chomsky, very interesting interview that he did with |
| 0:41.1 | Matt Philopovic up in Boston. |
| 0:46.1 | And here is Noam Chomsky on voting. |
| 0:49.5 | It shouldn't come a surprise and maybe we'll play, we can dig up that interview that |
| 0:54.3 | we did with him on the Majority Report back in 2004. |
| 0:58.0 | We'll see that there hasn't been a tremendous amount of evolution in his opinion on these things. |
| 1:04.2 | But here he is, first voice who here is Matt Philopovic and then Noam Chomsky on voting. |
| 1:12.8 | I have to say, to a large extent, very much what I've said on this program, granted as |
| 1:20.7 | a political talk show host, I've spent more than five or ten minutes talking about |
| 1:27.9 | this, maybe not so much in terms of the deciding on how this goes in terms of voting. |
| 1:36.8 | And I don't know, we can break this down, let's listen. |
| 1:40.7 | Do you personally see any value in activists and progressives focusing on national two-party |
| 1:49.9 | politics and politicians? |
| 1:52.9 | I think they should spend five or ten minutes on it, seeing if there's a point in taking |
| 2:02.2 | part in the carefully orchestrated electoral extravaganza. |
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