(2014/03/13) Heart of Darkness (Conservatives)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 13 March 2014
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Edition #808
Heart of Darkness
Today we take a look at what some conservatives have been up to lately, including a glimpse at their yearly display of insanity at the ultraconservative CPAC conference
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Elijah Cummings Calls Out Fraud IRS Hearings, Republican Darrell Issa Tries to Silence Him - @majorityfm - Air Date: 03-06-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: What I'm Looking For (Ad Version) - Brendan Benson
Ch. 4: Act 2: Scott Walker Staff Racist Anti-Gay Emails Leaked - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 02-22-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: Sunrise - Duran Duran
Ch. 6: Act 3: Nazi Propaganda At Heart Of Wolf Blitzer Take Down Of Ted Nugent - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 02-22-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: Mountain Sound - Of Monsters and Men
Ch. 8: Act 4: Exclusive: How ALEC serves the right - @allinwithchris Hayes - Air Date: 01-22-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Welcome to the black parade - Vitamin String Quartet
Ch. 10: Act 5: Cynics, Suckers, & Lunatics: The Building Blocks of the Conservative Movement - @majorityfm - Air Date: 01-31-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: Shambala - Three Dog Night
Ch. 12: Act 6: The Clear-Eyed Utopian View - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 02-28-14
Ch. 13: Song 6: Soon It Will Be Cold Enough to Build Fires - Emancipator
Ch. 14: Act 7: President Rand Paul? 2014 CPAC Straw Poll Results - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 03-11-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: Call of the wild ones: A Theme - Black Prairie
Ch. 16: Act 8: Lowlights From Conservative Political Action Committee - Media Matters (@mmfa) - Air Date: 03-10-14
Ch. 17: Song 8: Call of the wild ones: A Theme - Black Prairie
Ch. 18: Act 9: CPAC: Michele Bachmann: Tea Party Is an Intellectual Movement - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 03-10-14
Voicemails:
Ch. 19: Responding to Joss Whedon on feminism - Chris from Colorado Springs
Ch. 20: Responding to Matt and queer theory - Chrissie from Kansas
Ch. 21: Jacob and the things he has to reflect on - Jacob from Indianapolis
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 22: Final comments responding to Jacob and maybe making some progress
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. |
| 0:05.8 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfAleft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfAleft podcast with clips today from the Majority Report, |
| 0:12.7 | the David Pakman show, the Young Turks, all in with Chris Hayes, the Tom Hartman program, |
| 0:17.0 | and the Media Matters Minute. |
| 0:18.4 | And to be fair to conservatives, not nearly all of them are as bad as what I'm about to |
| 0:21.7 | play, but also to be fair, they are the ones who keep electing these people. |
| 0:29.8 | You know, I know this is going to come as some surprise to you, or maybe at won't, but |
| 0:34.9 | apparently there's still hearings going on about the IRS scandal, which involved, and frankly, |
| 0:43.3 | to the extent that this is a scandal, it's only because I think of the reaction by the |
| 0:48.0 | administration. |
| 0:50.7 | You know the story, 501C4s exploded after the Citizens United ruling because it allowed |
| 0:58.4 | donors away of essentially laundering their money without, while still being anonymous |
| 1:04.6 | into organizations that should have a primary focus on social welfare and not electioneering. |
| 1:13.0 | And of course, because this was never that big of a problem, there was really no IRS |
| 1:18.5 | mechanism in which to determine, how do you define that? |
| 1:24.0 | And so these offices were swamped with new 501C4 requests, which basically say, you get |
| 1:32.1 | a tax exempt status, the organization does, and it allows anonymous donors. |
| 1:38.4 | And so as a way in which to determine whether or not a group may or may not be more engaged |
| 1:44.2 | in electioneering than they should be, they used words like Tea Party, or Liberal, or |
| 1:53.0 | whatever. |
| 1:55.6 | And they then pulled these, because they get so many applications, they couldn't scrutinize |
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