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Now welcome to the award winning best of the left podcast with clips today from Redacted Tonight,

the Young Turks, Human Rights Watch, this week in Blackness, Brave New Films,

the David Pakman show, the Majority Report and Counter-Stone.

Sorry to do that right at the beginning of the show, but I just wanted to fit your expectations

of the media. I know that if a new show doesn't fill your pants quickly with a bowel loosening

story then you'll turn the channel to something that will like Antiques Roadshow.

Really lady you've had George Washington's Boyhood Cabinet your entire life and you let your stupid

kids mark down how tall they'd grown on the side of it. To equating the value for every inch,

if your son had been five six instead of a freak of six nine you could retire right now.

Look media fear frenzies throw the nation blindly into full-fledged panic quicker than Joe Biden

finds the mini-barn a hotel room. The media can make us afraid of terrorism or ISIS or crackbabies

or Dennis Rodman quickly and easily because thinking for ourselves is too much. If I wanted to

think for myself I would ask Jenny McCarthy to do it for me, okay? Want an example in 2003 how

many chemical weapon attack stories did the media have to do before we were all draping our homes

with plastic sheets? Why shouldn't I trust a little plastic on my house? It worked from a pecker

during the Thai lady boy incident of 1985. I always say when troubles bad double bag.

Senseless fear is how our leaders have pushed us into war past the Patriot Act and justified

NSA surveillance as M. Asher Cantrell notes in the years since 9-11 the statistical chance of being

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