(2013/01/02) Sandy Hook Shooting: The Conservative Reaction (Gun Control)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 January 2013
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Edition #674
Sandy Hook Shooting: The Conservative Reaction
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Right Wing: Everything BUT Guns Caused the Newtown Massacre - Majority Report - Air Date: 12-18-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Smithereen - Deep East Music
Ch. 4: Act 2: Sandy Hook Shooting: Video Games Take The Blame - The Young Turks - Air Date: 12-18-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Mad world - Vitamin String Quartet
Ch. 6: Act 3: Rupert Murdoch's Call For Weapons Ban is at Odds with Fox News' Pro-Gun Rhetoric - Media Matters Minute - Air Date: 12-17-12
Ch. 8: Act 4: GOP Rep: Arm All The Teachers!! - Majority Report - Air Date: 12-18-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Hurt - Nine Inch Nails
Ch. 10: Act 5: Gun nut says it's a right to take on government with guns - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 12-18-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Dice - Finley Quaye
Ch. 12: Act 6: The Truth About the Second Amendment - The Young Turks - Air Date: 12-20-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
Ch. 14: Act 7: Rick Perry: We Need MORE GUNS in Schools! - Majority Report - Air Date: 12-19-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Chicago X 12 - Rogue Wave
Ch. 16: Act 8: Mental Health Gun Reporting Exists, Already Doesn't Work - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 12-27-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: I'm on fire - Town Mountain
Ch. 18: Act 9: NRA: Register Mentally Ill, Arm Cops At All Schools - The Young Turks - Air Date: 12-22-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: If I had a hammer - Peter, Paul & Mary
Ch. 20: Act 10: Bumper-Sticker Action - Mark Fiore's Animation - Air Date: 12-26-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: Sorry, blame it on me - Akon
Ch. 22: Act 11: New Senate Gun Control Bill to Include Handguns - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 12-28-12
Ch. 23: Song 11: Devil town - Tony Lucca
Ch. 24: Act 12: NRA Meaningful Contributions Just Same Old Song & Dance - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 12-21-12
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.4 | For details, visit the membership tab at bestofluff.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with Cups Today from the Majority |
| 0:12.4 | Report, the Young Turks, the Media Matters Minute, the Tom Hurtman Program, the David |
| 0:16.6 | Packman Show, MarkFury.com, and The Rachel Maddo Show. |
| 0:30.2 | And speaking of right-wingers and their reaction to this, you've got Mike Huckabee saying |
| 0:37.6 | that this is a function of no God in the schools, and also, coincidentally, the Iranian |
| 0:46.9 | Supreme Leader Ali Kamani says that the problem is a lack of religion, which is also the |
| 0:57.3 | main reason for the school shooting. |
| 1:01.5 | And now we see a Tea Party Nation on their website, and sending to their group email list, |
| 1:14.1 | the Tea Party Nation had Judson Phillips blame the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. |
| 1:23.8 | Mainly on teachers, union bureaucracy, and the presence of sex in popular culture. |
| 1:31.0 | It's a long email blast the guy sends out, but he mentions, you should homeschool, take |
| 1:40.6 | away the power of radicals in the classroom, back to right work legislation for the public |
| 1:45.7 | sector. |
| 1:46.7 | Teachers unions have helped cement much of this in place as long as we have groupthink |
| 1:50.8 | in the classrooms. |
| 1:51.8 | We'll never see the end of this. |
| 1:57.1 | Why does this guy feel powerless? |
| 2:00.6 | Why does he go in and shoot these people? |
| 2:03.3 | He feels powerless because he has lived in an overbureaucratic sized society, one run |
| 2:10.0 | ultimately from far away central location. |
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