(2014/01/11) Republicans are people too (Conservatives)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 12 January 2014
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Summary
Edition #789
Republicans are people too
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Are Obama Haters Worse Than Bush Haters? - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 12-17-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: One of Us - Chorus - The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride
Ch. 4: Act 2: Evil Incarnate, the end times and the Right - Real Time With @billmaher - Air Date: 10-11-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Evil is alive and well - Jakob Dylan
Ch. 6: Act 3: Re-writing History As To Tea Party's Origin - @FAIRmediawatch - Air Date 11-8-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Popular - Kristin Chenoweth (From Wicked)
Ch. 8: Act 4: Hayes, Piercing the Bubble - @jimmy_dore Show - Air Date: 10-18-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Whatcha say - Jason Derulo
Ch. 10: Act 5: Fox News Host John Stossel: Don't Help the Homeless - @majorityfm - Air Date: 12-04-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Pavement artist - Dick Van Dyke (Mary Poppins)
Ch. 12: Act 6: The Elephant in the Elephant's Room - Rachel @maddow - Air Date: 11-15-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: The price you pay - Bruce Springsteen
Ch. 14: Act 7: Depressed Republican Pollster Hides In His Mansion - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 01-07-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: Making progress - Freedom's Progress
Ch. 16: Act 8: The GOP lashes out at losers, again - All in With @chrislhayes - Air Date: 12-13 -13
Voicemails:
Ch. 17: Details on the amorality of corporations and the immorality of governments - Gavin from Richmond, VA
Ch. 18: Tim Wise - The birth of the white race - Colin from Cleveland, OH
Ch. 19: On the fence about stop and frisk - Prof. Rambo from Georgia
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 20: Final comments on why Stop and Frisk is bad for two separate reasons
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. |
| 0:04.8 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, looking to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Cups today from the Tom Hartman |
| 0:11.4 | program, real-time with Bill Marr, Counter-Spin, The Jimmy Doar Show, The Majority Report, The |
| 0:16.4 | Rachel Maddo Show, The Young Turks, and All-In with Chris Hayes. |
| 0:30.0 | Michael Tomoski wrote this, or Tomaski, I'm not sure how he pronounces it. |
| 0:34.9 | I think it's Tomoski, for the Daily Beast. |
| 0:39.4 | And it's titled, Why Obama's Haters Are Worse Than Bush's Haters? |
| 0:45.8 | And he gets into how, without quoting his piece of length, |
| 0:59.9 | let me just summarize it my own words, because it was brilliant and consistent with some |
| 1:08.2 | things that I've set on this program in the past, and yet it was so concise, it really |
| 1:12.8 | crystallized it for me, and I wanted to share this with you and give credit to Michael |
| 1:17.2 | for this. |
| 1:20.2 | What he's suggesting in this article, or what I got out of it, let me share this as this |
| 1:26.3 | was the insight that I got. |
| 1:28.0 | He may, his article may be more nuanced or less, and it may be, you know, the point |
| 1:32.3 | of it may be something somewhat different than what I'm characterizing. |
| 1:36.9 | But essentially was that when conservatives talk about liberals or even Democrats, like |
| 1:46.7 | Obama, who is certainly no liberal, I mean, maybe he is deep down in his heart, but as |
| 1:52.0 | President of the United States, he has behaved very much as a centrist, as a modern-day |
| 1:57.2 | centrist Democrat, which 60 years ago would have been a centrist Republican. |
| 2:03.9 | And I don't mean that as a criticism, it's just how it is, you know, nobody can accuse |
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