(2016/01/12) Beware the creeping fascism (Donald Trump and the GOP Base)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 13 January 2016
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Edition #982
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
00:00:40 Ch. 2: Act 1: Trump Mob Chants "All Lives Matter" While Beating Black Man - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 11-24-15
Ch. 3: Song 1: I Will Follow You Into the Dark - Death Cab for Cutie
00:12:27 Ch. 4: Act 2: 2/3 of Republican Voters Support Trump's Muslim Ban - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 12-10-15
Ch. 5: Song 2: Politic Amagni " La politique, c'est pas bon " - Amadou & Mariam
00:16:47 Ch. 6: Act 3: Democracy vs. Donald Trump - @jimmy_dore Show - Air Date 12-18-15
Ch. 7: Song 3: Politic Amagni " La politique, c'est pas bon " - Amadou & Mariam
00:19:38 Ch. 8: Act 4: Republicans React To Trump’s Muslim Ban Idea - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 12-09-15
Ch. 9: Song 4: The Traitor - Sea Wolf
00:25:57 Ch. 10: Act 5: Arun Kundnani on the upsurge of Islamophobia in US media and politics - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 12-18-15
Ch. 11: Song 5: Boléro, M. 81 - Boston Symphony Orchestra & Charles Münch
00:36:57 Ch. 12: Act 6: Bill O’Reilly Challenges Trump On Muslim Ban - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 12-11-15
Ch. 13: Song 6: Silver Lining - Rilo Kiley
00:41:40 Ch. 14: Act 7: Tell RNC Chair @Reince: Denounce GOP candidates’ Islamophobia - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 15: Song 7: This fickle world - Theo Bard
00:44:46 Ch. 16: Act 8: Society is a dog with fleas about to scratch ourselves to death - Common Sense (@dccommonsense) - Air Date 12-9-15
Voicemails
01:01:44 Ch. 17: The Myth Of Black On Black Crime - Elka from Fort Wayne, IN
01:04:36 Ch. 18: An explanation of therapeutic crisis intervention - Dan from Maine
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
01:08:11 Ch. 19: Final comments asking what you want the next year of shows to sound like
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism: Tell RNC Chair @Reince: Denounce GOP candidates’ Islamophobia via @lsarsour & @CAIRNational
Take Action:
SIGN: "The Republican Party must denounce the dangerous Islamophobia of candidates and officials” via Linda Sarsour with The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) at Change.org
Additional Activism/Resources:
SIGN: Tell The News Media: Stop Obsessing Over Donald Trump via Media Matters For America via MoveOn.org
Sources/further reading:
"It’s Not Just Trump – Islamophobia Is Widespread In the GOP Field” — round-up of articles on GOP Islamophobia in Election 2016 via HillaryClinton.com
"Who Will Stop Republican Islamophobia?” via The New Republic
Book: "Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream”
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:24.1 | with clips today from the young Turks, the David Pakman show, the Jimmy Dorshow, |
| 0:28.2 | counter-spin activism from the center on American Islamic relations and common sense with Dan |
| 0:33.1 | Carlin. A while back, Bernie Sanders' speech was interrupted by Black Lives Matter protesters, |
| 0:45.6 | and he actually had the temerity to let them talk. He was being respectful to the protesters. |
| 0:51.0 | Donald Trump doesn't roll that way, and at the time, he told us that if anyone tried to protest |
| 0:56.6 | him like that, including Black Lives Matter, it would end up differently. Listen to what he said |
| 1:00.5 | back then. I would never give up my microphone. I thought that was disgusting. That showed such weakness. |
| 1:07.1 | The way he was taken away by two young women, the microphone. They just took the whole place over |
| 1:13.1 | and the audience, which liked him. I mean, they were him. They're saying, what's going on? How can |
| 1:19.7 | this happen? That will never happen with me. I don't know if I'll do the fighting myself or |
| 1:26.0 | if other people will. But believe me, that's not going to happen to Trump. |
| 1:29.7 | Well, we have a pretty good sense of who's going to do the fighting now. This happened over and over |
| 1:34.3 | again in Trump rallies. It happened again over the weekend in Birmingham, Alabama. I'm going to |
| 1:40.0 | show you that video in a second. But let's give you proper context here, because the rest of the media |
| 1:44.3 | isn't doing it. This is not the first time. Remember, a protesters were spat upon in another Trump |
| 1:51.9 | rally here if you don't remember his tape on it. |
| 2:05.1 | Now, that started getting physical. So the man who was spit upon was incredibly restrained there. |
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