(2013/01/23) The good, the bad and the conspiratorial (Media)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 24 January 2013
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Edition #681
The good, the bad and the conspiratorial
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Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Building an Infrastructure on the Left - Majority Report - Air Date: 12-12-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Won't back down - Johnny Cash & Tom Petty
Ch. 4: Act 2: Fox News' Average Viewer is 65 Years Old - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 12-14-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Comes and Goes (In Waves) - Greg Laswell
Ch. 6: Act 3: Media Charged a Premium for Romney Coverage - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 12-19-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Diamonds on the soles of her shoes - Paul Simon
Ch. 8: Act 4: Al Jazeera Buys Current TV, Time Warner Drops the Channel - Majority Report - Air Date: 01-03-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Babel - Mumford & Sons
Ch. 10: Act 5: Cable News With Another Point Of View - CounterSpin - Air Date 1-4-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: I want to protect you - Eels
Ch. 12: Act 6: O'Reilly Gloats on Current Sale, Gets Facts Wrong - The Young Turks - Air Date: 01-05-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Moonlight sonata - Ludwig van Beethoven
Ch. 14: Act 7: Right-Wing Media Attack Colin Powell After Meet The Press Interview - Media Matters Minute - Air Date: 01-15-13
Ch. 16: Act 8: Glenn Beck Looks in Mirror, Sees Alex Jones - Majority Report - Air Date: 01-19-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Home - Phillip Phillips
Ch. 18: Act 9: Who's Crazier - Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, or Michael Savage? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 01-09-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Pas Si Simple - Yann Tiersen
Ch. 20: Act 10: Fox Analyst Mounts Dishonest Critique Of Obama's Inaugural Address - Media Matters Minute - Air Date: 1-22-13
Ch. 22: Act 11: Disney IS News - CounterSpin - Air Date 12-14-12
Ch. 23: Song 11: Society - Eddie Vedder
Ch. 24: Act 12: Scientology is Doing Swell! says...The Atlantic? - Majority Report - Air Date: 01-16-13
Ch. 25: Song 12: I'm looking through you - The Wallflowers
Ch. 26: Act 13: The merger of ads and news - CounterSpin - Air Date: 1-18-13
Ch. 27: Song 13: Ruby - Kaiser Cheifs
Ch. 28: Act 14: Obama Helps Fox News Media Monopoly - The Young Turks - Air Date: 12-28-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 29: Thoughts on women in video games - Elka from Fort Wayne, ID
Ch. 30: Thoughts on preparedness and perpetrators - Rape survivor from NYC
Ch. 31: Breaking down guilt and rape - Mary from Portland, OR
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 32: Final comments on my imminent plunge
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.3 | the membership tab at bestivaleth.com, now welcome to the award-winning bestivaleth podcast |
| 0:11.2 | with Capsiday from the Majority Report, the David Pakman Show, the Rachel Maddo Show, |
| 0:15.2 | counter-spin, the Young Turks, and the Media Matters Minute. |
| 0:30.2 | When Janine first approached me to do the Majority Report on Air America with her, |
| 0:38.2 | eight, almost nine years now, I really felt like we need to build a left infrastructure that |
| 0:51.2 | is self-supportive, particularly when you're talking about, one of the things I just interviewed |
| 0:59.2 | for the Bray Christopher Fieland, and one of the things that she says is that it's very |
| 1:05.7 | difficult to talk about, it's only very recently that you hear anybody on the left even |
| 1:11.7 | talking about income inequality, and a significant reason for that is because where most of the people |
| 1:19.7 | on the left are employed and employed to talk about political issues, they are dependent |
| 1:28.7 | on the largest of very wealthy people, and while there are, of course, so millionaires |
| 1:38.7 | and billionaires who accept the reality of that we have a tremendous income inequality problem |
| 1:45.7 | in this country, that no one just becomes a millionaire and a billionaire by the fact that they work hard |
| 1:53.7 | or they're just smart, that there's a certain amount of luck involved in it, and they also get certain benefits |
| 2:00.7 | from society that people who are not millionaires and billionaires get, don't get. |
| 2:05.7 | They have been able to make this money because of the infrastructure that has been paid for by taxes, |
| 2:12.7 | by the growth of the middle class, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. |
| 2:16.7 | But if you are working at the Brookings Institute or whatever left-wing think tank or policy shop or whatnot, |
| 2:29.7 | there are some things that they're just going to get you in hot water with your benefactors. |
| 2:40.7 | And on this program, I sadly don't have that problem. |
| 2:45.7 | I'm not going to piss off George Soros, or I may piss off George Soros, but he's nearly not much he can do about it. |
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