(2013/09/18) Hard to believe this is actually a debate (Islamophobia)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 18 September 2013
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Edition #756
Hard to believe this is actually a debate
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Bryan Fischer: America Will Agree with Him & Ban Muslims - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 04-30-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: I'm free - The Soup Dragons
Ch. 4: Act 2: Fox News: It's Offensive to Ask Us to NOT be Bigots! - Majority Report - Air Date: 04-30-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Hello bonjour - Michael Franti And Spearhead
Ch. 6: Act 3: American Soldier's AMAZING Response To Anti-Muslim Comments - ABC's What would you do? - Air Date: 09-11-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: I won't back down - Johnny Cash
Ch. 8: Act 4: Fox News 'Liberal' Wages War on American Muslims - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-11-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Hate me - Blue October
Ch. 10: Act 5: The Media's Relentless Muslim Bashing - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date 5-3-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Slash and burn - Adventure the Great
Ch. 12: Act 6: Mehdi Hasan: Islam Is A Peaceful Religion - OxfordUnion - Air Date: 07-03-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Dark flute - Jim Guthrie
Ch. 14: Act 7: Al Jazeera America's Launch Is Another Excuse For Right-Wing Islamophobia - Media Matters - Air Date: 08-20-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Dark flute - Jim Guthrie
Ch. 16: Act 8: Huckabee's Full-On Islamophobia - 'They're Uncorked Animals!' - The Young Turks - Air Date: 08-09-13
Voicemails:
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Ch. 18: The prison sentence isn't necessarily the worst part - Nathan from Vancouver, WA
Ch. 19: Thoughts on getting to the roots of the war on drugs - Natasha from LA
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 20: Final comments requesting input on gun control and the drug war
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
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| 0:14.4 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with clips today from the |
| 0:17.8 | David Pagan show, The Majority Report, ABC's What Would You Do, The Young Turks, The Jimmy |
| 0:22.7 | Door Show, The Oxford Union, and The Media Matters Menon. |
| 0:30.0 | Brian Fisher from the Family Research Count, no the American Family Association, I'm sorry, |
| 0:35.2 | I got my hate groups mixed up there, says that eventually all of America is going to |
| 0:40.2 | agree with him and they're going to ban mosques and they're going to ban Muslims as well. |
| 0:46.0 | Now how ironic as we watch this clip of Brian Fisher and listen to it, that he has a backdrop |
| 0:51.7 | which is the constitution, the same constitution he couldn't possibly understand if he believes |
| 0:56.6 | eventually Muslims and mosques will be banned. |
| 1:01.1 | That obvious hypocrisy notwithstanding, let's take a listen to what Brian Fisher had |
| 1:06.2 | to say. |
| 1:07.2 | Forget we are not at war with Islam but Islam is at war with us and we've got to wake up |
| 1:12.8 | and smell the maple and do whatever we need to do to protect the safety and security of |
| 1:17.1 | the American people. |
| 1:18.1 | Now you may think my recipe is too drastic. |
| 1:20.4 | I think most people probably do, they're probably shocked when they hear my suggestion |
| 1:25.0 | but I am suggesting that eventually all of America is going to agree with me. |
| 1:30.2 | They are going to agree that it's a mistake to allow unrestricted Islamic immigration. |
| 1:34.4 | It's a mistake to allow Muslims to serve in the military, Major Hassan is living proof |
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