71 - Even After A Thumpin', Bush Continues Appointing Right-Wing Extremists / QuickBlast: Chavez Landslide Victory In Venezuela / More

BLAST THE RIGHT

Jack Clark

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4.7 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2006

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Today, we'll discuss how George W. Bush, even after the midterm elections, is continuing to appoint right-wing extremists to critically important government posts -- in this instance, jeopardizing the health of millions of women. Then a QuickBlast about Hugo Chavez's landslide election victory in Venezuela -- so much for the right-wing lie calling him a "dictator." We'll end with a listener

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0:00.0	Music
0:19.6	Greetings, this is podcast number 71 of Blast the Right.
0:24.1	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRatical.com
0:27.4	Today we'll discuss how George W. Bush, even after the midterm elections, is continuing
0:37.6	to appoint right-wing extremists to critically important government posts.
0:43.0	Then a quick blast about Hugo Chavez' landslide election victory in Venezuela will end
0:48.8	with a listener comment from Asia.
0:51.0	Oh, let's get right into it.
0:53.5	I know you're going to think I've written a skit for Saturday Night Live and I'm trying
0:58.7	it out on you.
1:00.2	As a New York Times editorial put it, quote, it sounds like a late-night parody of President
1:06.7	Bush's bad habit of filling key posts with extreme ideologues and incompetence.
1:14.4	But unfortunately, this isn't a comedy sketch, this is all 100% real.
1:21.3	Bush world real, but real nevertheless.
1:25.0	My sources are The New York Times, Interpress Service, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
1:31.6	the website of the Department of Health and Human Services, the website of Senator Edward
1:35.9	Kennedy, and plannedapparenthood.org.
1:40.1	First some background about the federal program in question, an advocacy group, and the
1:45.8	doctor who heads that group.
1:48.5	Vital Ten is a federal program that provides family planning and preventive health
1:53.8	care services to the indigent.
1:56.5	It was set up in 1970 with wide bipartisan support.
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