(2013/10/09) My Stockholm Syndrome hasn't kicked in yet (Shutdown)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 October 2013
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Edition #762
My Stockholm Syndrome hasn't kicked in yet
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Obama Should Take a Lesson from Reagan - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 10-02-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Run the show - Tribal Seeds
Ch. 4: Act 2: Despicable: Republican Pundit Shrugs Off Hungry Families - Majority Report - Air Date: 10-02-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Empathy - Chasing Kings
Ch. 6: Act 3: Republicans and their tender feelings - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 10-3-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: A little respect - Erasure
Ch. 8: Act 4: Both Sides To Blame For The Shut Down - CounterSpin - Air Date 10-4-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Call it even - Scott Simons
Ch. 10: Act 5: False equivalency around the government shutdown - On the Media - Air Date: 10-4-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: The Cave - Mumford & Sons
Ch. 12: Act 6: A Country Without A Government - The Bugle - Air Date 10-4-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: At the zoo - Simon & Garfunkel
Ch. 14: Act 7: How This Nonsense Will End - The Progressive Magazine - Air Date: 10-8-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Unhappy - The Salads
Ch. 16: Act 8: Foreign Press Confused, Laughing At U.S.' Dysfunction - The Young Turks - Air Date: 10-04-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 17: Disappointed with GMO segment in food episode - Jim in Ashville, NC
Ch. 18: The GMO debate is a giant confusion of the issue - Amanda from Chicago
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 19: Final comments on the unmentioned questions around GMOs
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
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| 0:13.0 | left10. Now welcome to the award-winning best-of-a-left podcast |
| 0:17.0 | with clips today from the Tom Hartman program, The Majority Report, |
| 0:20.0 | The Rachel Maddo Show, Counter-Spend, On The Media, The Bugle, |
| 0:24.0 | The Progressive Magazine, and The Young Turks. |
| 0:30.0 | You know, if you just read The Right Wing Media, there are two things that you |
| 0:33.0 | know to be absolutely truer. If you listen to Fox News for that matter, |
| 0:36.0 | I mean, last night I was channel surfing. |
| 0:40.0 | You know that Obamacare is failing. The websites are crashing. |
| 0:44.0 | Nobody's showing up, but too many people are showing up, but nobody can get through. |
| 0:47.0 | And, you know, so Obamacare is just an absolute cluster. |
| 0:51.0 | I mean, it's just an absolute, it's a disaster. |
| 0:55.0 | And, you know that the government shutdowns really no big deal. |
| 1:04.0 | I mean, over drugs, they got headlines like, |
| 1:07.0 | 9 out of 10 IRS workers sent home, but over a 1 million install on the job. |
| 1:10.0 | You know, in Fox News, it's not a shutdown, it's a slowdown. |
| 1:15.0 | You know, the president in a government shutdown has a lot of discretion |
| 1:19.0 | over what continues running and what doesn't. |
| 1:24.0 | And, this president, President Obama, has been trying to manage this government shutdown |
| 1:28.0 | that the Republicans provoked as a tantrum against Obamacare going into effect. |
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