(2013/12/15) Not just bad, face-palm bad (Media)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 16 December 2013
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Edition #782
Not just bad, face-palm bad
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Do MSNBC Hosts Get Pressured To Be Partisan? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 10-19-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: On our way - The Royal Concept
Ch. 4: Act 2: Legal Problems Aside… What's a fact? - The Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date: 10-11-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Wrecking ball - The Gregory Brothers
Ch. 6: Act 3: Coming Together With Cox - CounterSpin - Air Date 11-8-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Waltz of honesty - Adventure the Great
Ch. 8: Act 4: Did CNN Just Ask the Dumbest Question Ever at a White House Briefing? - Majority Report - Air Date: 12-10-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: You don't know me (Feat. Regina Spektor) - Ben Folds
Ch. 10: Act 5: Chris Matthews' hyperbolic Ted Cruz rant provides fuel for right-wing conspiracy-theorist fire - This Week in Blackness - Air Date: 10-23-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Get up and go - Broadcast 2000
Ch. 12: Act 6: Fox News Finally Reports on McDonald's! Oh, Wait... - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 11-24-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote
Ch. 14: Act 7: Washington Post Gives Election Advice To Opponents, Why? - CountertSpin - Air Date 12-6-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Ho hey - The Lumineers
Ch. 16: Act 8: CBS Apologizes For Benghazi Report - The Young Turks - Air Date: 11-09-13
Ch. 17: Final comments Part 1: Introducing the continued discussion of trans issues 101
Voicemails:
Ch. 18: I think you really stepped in it - Dave from Nebraska
Ch. 19: We need more discussion of the social contract of gender identity - Issac from Albany, NY
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 20: Final comments Part 2: Finishing up with basic challenges of transgender people
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:06.0 | For details visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLife.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLife podcast with Gubsiday from The Young Turks, |
| 0:13.0 | The Jimmy Dores Show, Counter-Spend, The Majority Report, This Week Blackness, and The David Pakman Show. |
| 0:18.0 | And a quick note that, you know, after the heaviness of the recent episodes, I thought it would be nice to just relax and make fun of the media. |
| 0:24.0 | Although secretly, this topic also makes me serve silently, cry inside. |
| 0:30.0 | Chris Matthews was on Aura TV talking with Larry King and the topic of hosts having pressure put on them by their network to sort of cater ideologically to the audience came up. |
| 0:40.0 | Now, he originally wanted to talk about Megan Kelly, which we're going to get to, but eventually the question is flipped around on him. |
| 0:46.0 | And he might have revealed something that we've speculated on here ourselves. |
| 0:50.0 | So let's watch Chris Matthews. |
| 0:51.0 | And I'm watching Fox. |
| 0:53.0 | Will, what's it, Megan Kelly, be able to stay in the middle? |
| 0:57.0 | Or will she move over? |
| 0:58.0 | Will she move over? |
| 0:59.0 | Will she have to move over then? |
| 1:00.0 | I look at Greta. |
| 1:01.0 | Greta was more on the center left now. |
| 1:04.0 | She's moved over. |
| 1:05.0 | There's a lot of group pressure in those places. |
| 1:07.0 | In any place? |
| 1:08.0 | Well, there is Amazon. |
| 1:09.0 | Oh, I feel it. I think it's there. |
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