(2013/02/16) Part 1: The new normal (Foreign Policy)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 17 February 2013
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Edition #689
Part 1: The new normal
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Obama Announces Beginning of End for Afghan War - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 1-11-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Long time coming - One Night Only
Ch. 4: Act 2: Is This Endless War on Terror The New Normal? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 01-20-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Fight back - Garnett Silk
Ch. 6: Act 3: John McCain Begs Hagel For Iraq War Vindication - Majority Report - Air Date: 02-02-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Be my baby - The Ronettes
Ch. 8: Act 4: Obama Grabs More Warmaking Powers - The Progressive - Air Date: 2-4-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Temptation - Diana Krall
Ch. 10: Act 5: Obama Adopts Bush's Extraordinary Renditions? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 02-06-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: One better - Supagroup
Ch. 12: Act 6: Sure We Have More Than Other Nations Combined But We Must Have More - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date 2-8-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Ch. 14: Act 7: Fareed Zakaria supports dictatorial regimes friendly to the US - CounterSpin - Air Date: 2-8-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Dictator - The Clash
Ch. 16: Act 8: To Head CIA, Obama Nominates The Ringmaster Of The Festival of Torture - Lee Camp - Air Date: 01-10-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Tea bag - Greenwich Meantime
Ch. 18: Act 9: What Changed Brennan's Mind on Torture? - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 2-7-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Change your mind - The Killers
Ch. 20: Act 10: Brennan's Nauseating Testimony - The Progressive - Air Date: 2-8-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: Hurt - Johnny Cash
Ch. 22: Act 11: The Truth About Brennan on Torture & Drones - The Young Turks - Air Date: 02-13-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: Corporations are punished for doing the right thing - Colin from Cleveland, OH
Ch. 24: Corporations are not all bad - Tom
Ch. 25: Libertarian perspective on corporations - Mik from Australia
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 26: Final comments on why there is no such thing as human nature
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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 BestOfLeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfLeft podcast with Kup today from the Rachel Maddo |
| 0:12.8 | show, The Young Turks, The Majority Report, The Progressive, The Jimmy Dores Show, Counter |
| 0:16.8 | Spin, and Comedian Lee Camp. |
| 0:18.8 | And a note for any, my country writer, wrong listeners, be prepared for a heavy dose of |
| 0:23.0 | the wrong. |
| 0:30.1 | On the night of August 31, 2010, which was a Tuesday night, statistically speaking, if you |
| 0:35.1 | were planning to watch TV that night, you were probably planning to watch a show called |
| 0:39.1 | NCIS at 8 p.m. that night. |
| 0:42.7 | If you were not planning on watching NCIS that night, the thing you were next most likely |
| 0:47.3 | to be planning to watch that night, according to the ratings, was a show called Wipeout. |
| 0:53.1 | Those shows on CBS and ABC were scheduled for 8 p.m. that Tuesday night on August 31, |
| 0:59.7 | 2010. |
| 1:00.7 | But those shows did not air as planned that night at 8 p.m. |
| 1:05.0 | Because at 8 p.m. that night, this is what was on TV on all of the networks at the same |
| 1:10.0 | time. |
| 1:11.0 | An address to the nation by President Obama announcing the end of something that for a very |
| 1:15.0 | long time had felt like it was never going to end. |
| 1:21.1 | Good evening. |
| 1:22.1 | Tonight, I'd like to talk to you about the end of our combat mission in Iraq. |
| 1:27.3 | The time difference between Washington, DC and Baghdad is eight hours. |
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