(2013/09/06) Not intentionally all about racism (Immigration)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 6 September 2013
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Summary
Edition #752
Not intentionally all about racism
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The Heritage Foundation Tries to Kill Immigration Reform with "Research" - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 05-09-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: I predict a riot - Kaiser Chiefs
Ch. 4: Act 2: What If Robert Reich Told You That Immigration Reform Would SAVE Our Economy? - karinmoveon - Air Date: 6-26-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: It's a good day - Peggy Lee
Ch. 6: Act 3: GOP to Undocumented Immigrants: You Can Stay if You're a 'Butler' - Young Turks - Air Date: 05-11-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: You're the storm - The Cardigans
Ch. 8: Act 4: Rush Limbaugh Will Support Amnesty if They Can't Vote for 25 Years - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 05-10-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: To build a home - The Cinematic Orchestra
Ch. 10: Act 5: CBS Fanning The Flames Of Violent Anti-Immigration - CounterSpin - Air Date 5-10-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Daylight - Matt & Kim
Ch. 12: Act 6: 'Radical Islamists' Pretend To Be Hispanic According To Politician - Young Turks - Air Date: 08-12-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Fear is a villain - Bard
Ch. 14: Act 7: Acceptable Immigrants Are Only One In A Hundred - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date 7-27-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: One of the good ones - Redd Kross
Ch. 16: Act 8: The Dream is Now - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 17: Song 8: I didn't fuck it up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 18: Act 9: On Immigration, Republicans Dooming Themselves - The Progressive Magazine - Air Date: 6-28-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: It serves you right to suffer - John Lee Hooker
Ch. 20: Act 10: Save A Dog or An Immigrant? STUDY - Young Turks - Air Date: 08-21-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: Innocent - Our lady peace
Ch. 22: Act 11: Why Immigration Reform Is Good For Our Economy - White House White Board - Air Date: 7-11-13
Ch. 23: Song 11: Fireflies - Vitamin String Quartet
Ch. 24: Act 12: Four fatal flaws in our wall on the Mexican border - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 8-7-13
Ch. 25: Song 12: Up against the wall - Peter Bjorn & John
Ch. 26: Act 13: Failure is an Option for GOP on Immigration - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 08-20-13
Ch. 27: Song 13: Consequences - The Robert Cray Band & The Memphis Horns
Ch. 28: Act 14: Latino Immigrants Make America More Violent: Rep. Steve King - Young Turks - Air Date: 08-14-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 29: Requesting the demographic breakdown of BotL voicemails - Tayna in California
Ch. 30: Objectifying women is buried deep in our culture - Danny from Bellingham, WA
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 31: Final comments updating the membership drive to Climate Ride
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
Activism:
http://www.thedreamisnow.org/take-action
Information for this segment can be found at:
http://www.policymic.com/articles/61849/immigration-reform-2013-this-is-the-biggest-immigration-issue-you-haven-t-heard-about
http://gawker.com/whats-the-deal-with-the-immigration-reform-bill-a-gui-570781055
http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/08/27/fight-for-fairness-and-justice-in-its-many-forms-far-from-over/
http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/who-and-where-dreamers-are
Sponsored by the UnFuck it Up Project: https://www.facebook.com/KatieGoodmansUnFItUp
Katie Goodman, creator: http://katiegoodman.com
Katie Klabusich, activism director: http://katiespeak.com
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show for details visit the membership tab at BestOfLeft.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfLeft podcast with Cupsidae from Rachel Maddo. |
| 0:12.0 | The YouTube user Karen Move On, The Young Turks, The David Pakman Show, Counter-Spin, The Jimmy Door Show, |
| 0:18.0 | Activism From The Unfucked Up Project, The Progressive Magazine, The White House Whiteboard, and Jim Hightower. |
| 0:24.0 | And a note of clarification that this is not actually another episode about racism, it just sounds like it. |
| 0:30.0 | Former South Carolina Republican Governor Mark Sanford, the man who did more to make the Appalachian Trail famous than anybody who's actually hiked it, |
| 0:38.0 | is on his way to Congress today after winning a special election for the first congressional district seat last night in South Carolina. |
| 0:46.0 | That seat became vacant earlier this year when the guy who previously held it, Congressman Tim Scott, the guy on the left here, |
| 0:53.0 | was promoted up to the Senate by Governor Nikki Haley. She picked Tim Scott to fill the seat in the Senate that was vacated by the guy on the right, Republican Senator Jim Dement. |
| 1:02.0 | Jim Dement quit his Senate seat late last year because he got a better offer. He took a job as the guy who runs the Heritage Foundation. |
| 1:10.0 | Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank, a supposed font of serious policy analysis and research from a right-wing perspective. |
| 1:19.0 | It was kind of a weird hire for the Heritage Foundation. Not because Jim Dement isn't a famous guy, or maybe not even because he's not a capable guy, |
| 1:27.0 | but Jim Dement was not the finkiest United States Senator out there. Previously, he had owned an advertising firm. |
| 1:33.0 | Once he got to the Senate, his legislative agenda was things like sponsoring the Commemorative Coins Reform Act, a bill that had it passed, |
| 1:41.0 | who would have forced Senators to pay for the printing costs of Commemorative Resolutions. Earth-shifting policy wonkery was not what Jim Dement was known for in the Senate. |
| 1:50.0 | Jim Dement was known as a campaigner. He was a guy who tried to get other super-duper conservative Republicans elected. |
| 1:56.0 | He backed candidates like Sharon Angle in Nevada, member of the Second Amendment Remedies, Christine O'Donnell and Delaware. |
| 2:02.0 | I am not a witch. Those campaigns flamed out so brightly and magnificently that their glow can still be seen in another galaxy today. |
| 2:10.0 | But the Heritage Foundation is in the news today because under Jim Dement's leadership as a think tank, it is trying to kill the prospect of immigration reform. |
| 2:19.0 | Capital K, capital L, they are trying to kill it. But the Heritage Foundation is not supposed to be a campaigning organization. There's supposed to be a think tank. |
| 2:27.0 | There's supposed to be an August institution that deals with policy, facts and figures and complex data sets. |
| 2:33.0 | They can't appear to just be killing immigration with just straight-up politics. They have to try to kill immigration reform with something that looks like research. |
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