(2013/04/23) Part 1: Problems, both political and actual (Immigration)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 23 April 2013
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Edition #710
Problems, both political and actual
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Bipartisan Immigration Reform Out Of Necessity - The Bugle - Air Date 2-8-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Growing up - Andrew Jackson Jihad
Ch. 4: Act 2: Native American Shuts Down Immigration Protest - The Young Turks - Air Date: 02-10-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: As long as the grass grows - Randy Wood
Ch. 6: Act 3: GOP taking lessons to sound less hateful of Latinos - Majority Report - Air Date: 01-31-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Troublemaker - Weezer
Ch. 8: Act 4: Will Latinos Become Fox News Fans? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 02-17-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: For tomorrow - Emerald Park
Ch. 10: Act 5: AP's Change In The Style Guide - CounterSpin - Air Date 4-5-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: The times they are a changing - Bob Dylan
Ch. 12: Act 6: Liberal Format Agenda To Support Immigration - This Week in Blackness - Air Date 4-3-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Plain as day - Ayatollah
Ch. 14: Act 7: Saying goodbye to "illegal immigrants" - On the Media - Air Date: 4-5-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Express yourself - Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
Ch. 16: Act 8: Latino Immigrants Assimilate No Slower Than Other Immigrants - Majority Report - Air Date: 01-31-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Woke up new - The Mountain Goats
Ch. 18: Act 9: Plantation Economy? Immigration Reform Details Leaked - The Young Turks - Air Date: 03-12-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Work - Bob Marley
Ch. 20: Act 10: Overwrought Immigration System in Need of Overhaul - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 1-29-13
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
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| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Cubsiday from The Bugle, The Young |
| 0:13.0 | Turks, The Majority Report, Counter-Spin, This Week in Blackness on the Media and The Rachel |
| 0:17.4 | Maddo Show. |
| 0:18.4 | And a note to assure our more sensitive listeners that you will be able to listen to this entire |
| 0:22.0 | episode in English without even having to press one. |
| 0:25.6 | You're welcome. |
| 0:30.0 | U.S. Immigration News now, and the obviously America's attitude to immigration has changed |
| 0:36.8 | a little over the years from giving me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning |
| 0:42.3 | to breathe free to something more like, you know what, we're good on tired poor huddled |
| 0:47.7 | masses for now. |
| 0:48.7 | Do you have anything in a fully qualified Indian doctor? |
| 0:52.4 | Now, it seems like immigration reform is finally going to happen here. |
| 0:58.1 | Now, why is that reform happening? |
| 0:59.8 | Now, is it out of compassion? |
| 1:01.2 | No, is it out of electoral opportunism? |
| 1:03.6 | Yes, does that really matter as long as it happens? |
| 1:06.1 | Well, I suppose not, but it's not really the most poetic way for this to finally take |
| 1:11.0 | place, is it? |
| 1:12.0 | I'm sure that Hispanic men were not looking down at their sons for the last hundred |
| 1:16.1 | years saying, one day, Meeho, one day our community will not live under the fear of having |
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