(2013/05/02) The Boston Bombings Part 1: Treating "others"
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 2 May 2013
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Edition #713
The Boston Bombings Part 1: Treating "others"
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: What Boston Can Teach About the World Around Us - Majority Report - Air Date: 04-16-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Not In Our Name - DJ Spooky & Saul Williams
Ch. 4: Act 2: Media Protecting Muslims? Limbaugh's Boston Bombing Reaction - The Young Turks - Air Date: 04-17-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Computer assisted design - They Might Be Giants
Ch. 6: Act 3: Worst Kind of Guilt by Association Against Muslim-Americans - The Progressive - Air Date: 4-25-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Hello bonjour - Michael Franti And Spearhead
Ch. 8: Act 4: Boston Bombing Suspects - The Right-Wing Blowback - The Young Turks - Air Date: 04-20-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Mondo '77 - Looper
Ch. 10: Act 5: Glenn Greenwald Analyzing causes and effects of the Boston Bombing Part 1 - Moyers And Company - Air Date 4-26-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Every day is like Sundays - Morrissey
Ch. 12: Act 6: Framing the Boston Bombing - On the Media - Air Date: 4-26-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Waltzing back - The Cranberries
Ch. 14: Act 7: Glenn Greenwald Analyzing causes and effects of the Boston Bombing Part 2 - Moyers And Company - Air Date 4-26-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Propaganda - Dead Prez
Ch. 16: Act 8: The racism in the aftermath of the Boston bombing - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date: 4-26-13
Ch. 17: Final comments on drawing the right dividing lines
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors of the show. |
| 0:05.6 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Cubsiday from the majority report, |
| 0:13.0 | The Young Turks on the media, Moyers & Company, The Progressive Citizen Radio and The Jimmy |
| 0:17.7 | Door Show. |
| 0:18.7 | And a note just to reminisce for a moment on the fact that I haven't heard conservatives |
| 0:22.1 | refer to progressives as the blame America first crowd in a while. |
| 0:26.4 | I wonder why. |
| 0:30.0 | The strange thing about this is that, you know, I've obviously lived for several years |
| 0:39.3 | in Boston. |
| 0:40.3 | I grew up 40 miles west of Boston. |
| 0:43.2 | I went to law school for a year in Boston. |
| 0:49.2 | I've been to multiple of those Patriot Day socks games. |
| 0:54.4 | I've observed a couple of Boston Marathons. |
| 1:00.8 | I distinctly remember being in law school and walking home from law school on calm |
| 1:08.5 | av that day through Kenmore Square, which is just to the west of where the marathon |
| 1:17.6 | sort of passes by as it heads down another, I don't know, dozen blocks until it's finished. |
| 1:24.2 | I'm thinking, God, I wish I wasn't in law school because everybody was partying. |
| 1:28.4 | I mean, literally everybody was partying. |
| 1:33.6 | As I was walking down the streets and, you know, feeling sorry for myself, boohoo. |
| 1:40.3 | And so it's strange to contemplate, you know, one's emotional proximity to an event |
| 1:54.1 | like this. |
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