(2012/12/02) Disrespect (Foreign Policy)
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🗓️ 3 December 2012
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Edition #667
Disrespect
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Good Riddance, Petraeus - The Progressive - Air Date: 11-12-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Drumming song (Live) - Florence + The Machine
Ch. 4: Act 2: Scandalized Generals and the War in Afghanistan - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 11-13-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Sixteen Military Wives - The Decemberists
Ch. 6: Act 3: Ethics Of Drone Warfare, Colateral Damages, and The Decline Of Civil Liberties - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date 10-26-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Up against the wall - Peter Bjorn & John
Ch. 8: Act 4: Lesson of Petraeus: Beware FBI Witch-Hunts - The Progressive - Air Date: 11-13-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: True affection - The Blow
Ch. 10: Act 5: Obama Draws Line on GOP Fights Based on Nonsense - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 11-14-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: The Entertainer - Scott Joplin
Ch. 12: Act 6: John McCain Finally Drops Benghazi Conspiracy Theories - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 11-22-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Old man - Neil Young
Ch. 14: Act 7: All The News That The 'People' Want To See - CounterSpin - Air Date 11-23-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Common people - William Shatner
Ch. 16: Act 8: Egypt President Morsi Grants Self Near Kingship - Majority Report - Air Date: 11-26-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Power of love - Dee-Lite
Ch. 18: Act 9: Will Egyptian President Morsi Be a Dictator or a Diplomat? - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 11-29-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: John Adams Theme - HBO
Ch. 20: Act 10: Disrespectful Picture At Soldier's Grave - Should She Be Fired -Young Turks - Air Date - 11-21-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: Funny face - The Muffs
Ch. 22: Act 11: Obama: "No Country Would Tolerate Missiles" (Except the Ones We Drone Strike) - Majority Report - Air Date: 11-20-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: Thoughts on business ownership - Todd from LA
Ch. 24: Too uptight about sex - Sonya
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 25: Final comments on learning from conservatives
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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 bestableleft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Kupsade from the Progressive. |
| 0:13.0 | The Rachel Maddo Show, the Jimmy Doar Show, the David Pakman Show, Counter-Spin, the |
| 0:16.8 | Majority Report, and the Young Turks. |
| 0:19.3 | And a note for our more sensitive listeners, this episode contains references to both sex |
| 0:23.4 | and murdering civilians in foreign countries, so you may want to skip the parts about |
| 0:27.2 | sex. |
| 0:30.0 | I got no sympathy for David Petraeus, cheating on your wife of 37 years is a low thing to |
| 0:34.8 | do period. |
| 0:36.2 | And intelligence officials are supposed to steer clear of such dalliances for fear of |
| 0:40.7 | blackmail or revealing confidential information, so he didn't really have a leg to stand on. |
| 0:45.9 | But beyond all the personal stuff, Petraeus always gave me the creeps. |
| 0:49.5 | He had that lean and hungry look. |
| 0:51.5 | He himself was known to scorn the president's decisions, and he flirted with running for |
| 0:55.9 | the job himself. |
| 0:57.2 | He brought us the surge in Iraq, which only extended the war and bloodshed there, and he |
| 1:01.7 | oversaw the escalation of the war in Afghanistan, which he has fronted for both at the Pentagon |
| 1:07.2 | and at Langley, asserting without factual bases that were making fragile progress. |
| 1:13.4 | He also directed the catastrophic drone campaigns in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the CIA also |
| 1:19.0 | continued under his direction to hold and interrogate prisoners at Bagram Air Base with no due process |
| 1:25.5 | rights whatsoever. |
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