(2013/03/15) The sad state of the GOP (Conservatives)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 15 March 2013
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Edition #698
The sad state of the GOP
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Republican: Make Nipple Slips a Felony - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 02-20-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Carolina In My Mind - James Taylor
Ch. 4: Act 2: Limbaugh Wails: Left Has Beaten Us! - Young Turks - Air Date: 02-26-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Lost the war - Paper Lions
Ch. 6: Act 3: Republicans: Republican Party Out of Touch! - Majority Report - Air Date: 02-27-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Can't sleep - Matt Berger & Melissa Lusk
Ch. 8: Act 4: Herman Cain: Obama Voters Have 'Severe Ignorance Problem' - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 02-22-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Club foot - Kasabian
Ch. 10: Act 5: Cenk Runs into Louie Gohmert - Young Turks - Air Date: 02-28-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: After you get what you want, you don't want it - Kathy Brier
Ch. 12: Act 6: Bob Woodward Irate That President Obama is Not Ignoring Constitution - Majority Report - Air Date: 02-27-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Apology - Lazlo Bane
Ch. 14: Act 7: Republicans Want to Make Divorce Difficult to 'Help Children' - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 03-11-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Classical Gas - Mason Williams
Ch. 16: Act 8: Let's adopt the GOP's national platform - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 3-6-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Those were the days - Mary Hopkin
Ch. 18: Act 9: Truman Calls Out The Republicans - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 03-01-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: I'm amazed - My Morning Jacket
Ch. 20: Act 10: GOP Leaders: 56 years of devolution - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 3-8-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: Back to the future theme - John Williams
Ch. 22: Act 11: Laura Bush: Room for Republicans Who Scare Women with Rape Talk - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 03-13-13
Ch. 23: Song 11: Anything goes - Sutton Foster & Anything Goes New Broadway Company
Ch. 24: Act 12: The Tea Party - And Their Money - 10 Years Ago - Young Turks - Air Date: 02-17-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 25: A white guy tired of white guys complaining - Dan from Cleveland
Ch. 26: There's more to people than their race and gender - Rachel from Boston, Mass
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 27: Final comments on why we prioritize white privilege when discussing racism
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
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| 0:08.6 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestofAleft podcast with Cubsiday. |
| 0:11.8 | From the David Pakman show, the Young Turks, the Majority Report, Jim Hightower, and the |
| 0:15.8 | Tom Harman program. |
| 0:16.8 | And a note for some of our more anti-authoritarian listeners, this episode may make you want |
| 0:21.6 | to tear off your shirt and get a divorce just because you can. |
| 0:25.5 | You've been warned. |
| 0:26.5 | North Carolina State Representative Rain Brown, apparently that is her real name, and some |
| 0:34.8 | of the colleagues, you know what, this is actually weird. |
| 0:37.9 | Is Rain Brown a man or a woman? |
| 0:39.9 | I've seen evidence of both, and I don't mean physical evidence, in other words, let me take |
| 0:44.2 | a step back. |
| 0:46.2 | What I mean here is that I've seen, I've seen Rain Brown refer to as he and as she. |
| 0:51.4 | It's a woman. |
| 0:52.4 | It's a woman. |
| 0:53.4 | That's what I thought. |
| 0:54.4 | And some of her colleagues are putting together a bill to criminalize nipple exposure in |
| 0:59.0 | North Carolina, and this is House Bill 34. |
| 1:02.0 | It says that nipple exposure would be a Class H felony, okay? |
| 1:06.1 | And the actual legislation would say external organs of sex and of excretion, including |
| 1:10.3 | the nipple or any portion of the ariola or of the human female breast. |
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