(2013/12/30) Time's Person of the Year (The Pope)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 31 December 2013
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Edition #785
Time's Person of the Year
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: GOP: The Pope has Some Lessons for you - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 07-30-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Dou Way Robyn - Sancta Mater
Ch. 4: Act 2: The Right Reacts To Pope Francis On Capitalism - The Young Turks - Air Date: 12-03-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Oh my God - Ida Maria
Ch. 6: Act 3: Pope Francis Says Extremist Christians Have 'Illness' - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 12-11-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Show me what I'm looking for - Carolina Liar
Ch. 8: Act 4: Thou shalt not to an economy of exclusion and inequality - Disorderly Conduct - Air Date: 12-10-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Santus II - Libera
Ch. 10: Act 5: The People's Pope - On the Media - Air Date: 12-13-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Sanctus - MartÍn Palmeri
Ch. 12: Act 6: Fox News Vs Pope Francis - The Young Turks - Air Date: 12-10-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Closest thing to heaven - Tears for Fears
Ch. 14: Act 7: Pope Francis Named Time's Person of the Year - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 12-12-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Shed a little light - James Taylor
Ch. 16: Act 8: Merry Christmas, right-wingers, The Red Pope, and Jesus - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 12-24-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: (What's so Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding - Elvis Costello, Feist, John Legend, Stephen Colbert, Toby Keith & Willie Nelson
Ch. 18: Act 9: Pope Francis: I'm Not a Marxist...But They're Good People - Majority Report - Air Date: 12-16-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 19: Violence and the struggle for rights - Nathan from Vancouver, WA
Ch. 20: How libertarianism misleads on masculinity and rape culture - Anthony from Salt Lake City, UT
Ch. 21: Thoughts on the standard of tipping - Joe from Barcelona
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 22: Final comments on the history of tipping
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. |
| 0:05.7 | For details visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, looking to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Cupsodate from the Tom Hartman |
| 0:12.4 | program, The Young Turks, The David Pakman Show, Disorderly Conduct on the Media and Jim |
| 0:17.7 | Hightower. |
| 0:18.7 | And I'd like to note it for the record that I resisted titling this episode, episode |
| 0:22.5 | for a new Pope, even though I totally considered it, only to find out that like a thousand people |
| 0:27.6 | had beaten it there up. |
| 0:30.2 | Back in 1980, the Reagan campaign and the Republican Party made a deal with the guys who |
| 0:35.4 | led the Christian right movement in America. |
| 0:38.8 | Public and official sat down with likes of Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson, and |
| 0:43.9 | made a deal. |
| 0:45.5 | The deal was about mutual support. |
| 0:46.9 | The Republican Party would support the Christian right, its teachings and its messages. |
| 0:51.2 | And if they got control of the government, they'd transfer hundreds of millions of |
| 0:53.8 | dollars in taxpayer funds to Christian efforts ranging from Christian schools to outreach |
| 0:58.4 | centers, operating under the guise of sex education programs, soup kitchens, and shelters. |
| 1:04.4 | In exchange, the Christian right would support the economic and political goals of the Republican |
| 1:08.5 | Party. |
| 1:09.9 | And ever since that deal was done, the Republican Party has been positioning themselves |
| 1:14.3 | as the Christian Party and the Party of God, sort of like the Taliban. |
| 1:21.3 | And then things got really odd. |
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