(2013/01/17) Trigger Warning (Feminism)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 18 January 2013
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Edition #679
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Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Republican Blasts Working Moms - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 10-30-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Blow me (One last kiss) - Glee Cast
Ch. 4: Act 2: Fox News: There's a War on Men and It's Your Fault, Women! - Majority Report - Air Date: 11-27-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: January Wedding - The Avett Brothers
Ch. 6: Act 3: Woman Fired For Being Too Hot - Court Agrees - The Young Turks - Air Date: 12-28-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: When you win you lose - FullerJam
Ch. 8: Act 4: Sandy Hook Happened Because There Weren't Enough Men - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 12-25-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Main Title - The City of Prague Philharmonic
Ch. 10: Act 5: Impeding The Ease Of Obtaing Birth Control - Dan Savage - Air Date 11-27-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Hide your tears - Daniel Licht
Ch. 12: Act 6: It's Not Just Perino: Fox News Figures Have a History of Blaming Female Victims - Media Matters Minute - Air Date: 12-11-12
Ch. 14: Act 7: Rapists on Game Day - Citizen Radio - Air Date 1-9-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Honk your horn - Ray Campi
Ch. 16: Act 8: The Steubenville Ohio Rape Case - This Week in Blackness - Air Date 1-9-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Landfill - Daughter
Ch. 18: Act 9: Rape-Provoking Miniskirts Now Against the Law in Swaziland - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 12-27-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Vertigo - Anya Marina
Ch. 20: Act 10: Obama Pressed on Diversity in Second Term Staff - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 1-9-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: If you want to sing out, sing out - Cat Stevens
Ch. 22: Act 11: Joe Scarborough's Unbelievable Misogynistic Denial of Chauvinism - Majority Report - Air Date: 01-11-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: Getting to personal mutually-assured destruction - Colin from Cleveland, OH
Ch. 24: Thanks to Wade from Texas - Paul from New York
Ch. 25: Call to action: GoFossilFree.org - Perry from Green County, IN
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 26: Final comments dissecting how to discuss sexual assaults
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors of the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.5 | the membership tab at bestablef.com. |
| 0:08.5 | Now, looking to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with groups today from the |
| 0:12.0 | David Pakman show, the Majority Report, the Young Turks, Dan Savage, the Media Matters |
| 0:16.1 | Minute, Citizen Radio, This Week in Blackness and the Rachel Maddo Show, and a note for |
| 0:20.3 | more sense of listeners, this episode may not be appropriate for some showvonists or misogynists. |
| 0:30.3 | Republican Congressman Roscoe Bartlett is now blasting working moms. |
| 0:34.3 | Hey, what the hell? |
| 0:35.3 | We've already been criticizing women for years. |
| 0:37.3 | Let's just say, working moms specifically should now be in our crosshairs. |
| 0:41.3 | This is incredible. |
| 0:42.3 | He said, the Washington Post has the quote, and Roscoe Bartlett said the following. |
| 0:48.3 | This isn't the politically correct thing to say. |
| 0:51.3 | But when we drove the mother out of the home into the workplace and replaced her with the |
| 0:58.3 | television set, that was not a good thing. |
| 1:03.3 | What does this even mean? |
| 1:05.3 | I can tell that it's in a way comparing women to television sets. |
| 1:09.3 | In other words, women were replaced by television sets and women working was a bad thing. |
| 1:14.3 | I know that somewhere in there he's trying to make a positive comment. |
| 1:18.3 | But this is, what is this guy talking about? |
| 1:20.3 | By the way, just for reference, this is the guy who compared student loans to the Holocaust. |
| 1:24.3 | We covered that a month or two ago. |
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