(2013/06/09) The week of scandals (AP, IRS, Benghazi)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 June 2013
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Edition #725
The week of scandals
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Obama Finally Responds to Faux Benghazi Outrage - Young Turks - Air Date: 05-14-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Scenic world - Beirut
Ch. 4: Act 2: IRS Scandal Answer: Make 501(C)(4)s Obsolete! - Majority Report - Air Date: 05-16-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: What are their names - David Crosby
Ch. 6: Act 3: Addressing The Presidential Scandals - le Show - Air Date - 5-19-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Don't look back in anger - Oasis
Ch. 8: Act 4: War on Leaks? Government Secretly Grabs AP Phone Records - Young Turks - Air Date: 05-14-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Come as you are - The Bird and The Bee
Ch. 10: Act 5: What's the DOJ Looking For In Those AP Phone Records? - Majority Report - Air Date: 05-14-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Tomorrow - The Dodos
Ch. 12: Act 6: Republicans Caught Editing Benghazi Emails - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 05-20-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Serfs are on their way - Billy Reid
Ch. 14: Act 7: The IRS Branch Of Scandalgate - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date 5-24-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Hurry up let's go - Shout Out Louds
Ch. 16: Act 8: Obama Won't Apologize for AP Scandal - Young Turks - Air Date: 05-17-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: See you in the light - Michael Franti And Spearhead
Ch. 18: Act 9: The Three-Headed Scandal Monster - On the Media - Air Date: 5-24-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: The third man Theme - Anton Karas
Ch. 20: Act 10: Full Scale Scandal Mode - CounterSpin - Air Date 5-24-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 21: Thoughts on Wade's comments on homosexual marriage - Jill in California
Ch. 22: Responding about bacteria in turkey - Ian from Baltimore, MD
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 23: Final comments on the real scandal and an update of my poll about what people like about being their race
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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 BestOfTheLef.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLef podcast with a group today from the Young Turks, |
| 0:12.9 | the Majority Report, and the show, the David Pakman show, the Jimmy Dorshow, on the media, |
| 0:17.4 | and counter-span. |
| 0:18.4 | And a note of warning that about two-thirds of what you're about to hear refers to mostly |
| 0:21.9 | meaningless bullshit, because that's just what politics does to us sometimes. |
| 0:30.0 | What I'm seeing in the Benghazi story is a success by Republicans to merely get reporters |
| 0:36.6 | to essentially parrot talking points from Republicans. |
| 0:42.1 | So let's start with some fight back first, a little bit, which is good to see from the |
| 0:46.6 | President of the United States. |
| 0:47.6 | Here's Barack Obama today, after being hammered over the weekends, is hammered over the |
| 0:52.3 | weekend as administration was, on Benghazi, Obama comes back strongly today. |
| 0:57.6 | The emails that you were allude to were provided by us two congressional committees. |
| 1:04.5 | They reviewed them several months ago, concluded that, in fact, there was nothing a foul in |
| 1:12.9 | terms of the process that we had used. |
| 1:16.6 | And suddenly, three days ago, this gets spun up as if there's something new to the story. |
| 1:25.6 | There's no there or there. |
| 1:27.9 | I always like there's no there, there are little Gertrude's time. |
| 1:30.5 | So a couple of other talking points that are getting completely paraded here, there's |
| 1:34.0 | a bunch of sort of parts of the Republican narrative that just simply aren't true. |
| 1:37.8 | This is a story about changing talking points, talking points, which, by the way, are inherently |
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