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The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Ep 125 Paul Ryan and the GOP: "We're Too Wrong to Fail!"

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

News Commentary, Progressive, Liberal, Midterms, Resistance, Indivisible, Government, Democrat, Presidential, Debate, News, Election, Campaign, Politics

4.8920 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2012

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Paul Ryan ditches Ayn Rand, Peter Beinart makes religion unaccountable, and Look Who Else has a paying job in politics? (hint: He lied about Iraq as a professional lying liar.) More at professionalleft.blogspot.com.Support the show

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0:00.0

This is the podcast for April 27, 2012.

0:03.6

It's not safe for work.

0:05.3

Recorded live from just outside, Paul Ryan's Anne Rand Burnbook.

0:09.7

It's the professional left with Drift Class and Blue Gal.

0:19.1

We're still recovering from the Paul Ryan-Anne Rand breakup.

0:23.5

I know.

0:23.8

It was very sad.

0:25.0

Wow.

0:25.3

That just made my head spin when I read that.

0:27.4

I really thought that was like an unholy love child of Newt Gingrich and the Onion.

0:32.7

Yeah, I thought so, too, that it was that was an onion story or...

0:35.9

Because you remember Newt Gingrich saying directly after he had gone on meet the press to say Paul Ryan's budget is right-wing social engineering.

0:45.6

Yeah, yeah.

0:46.4

The next day is saying, anybody who quotes me from what I said yesterday is lying.

0:51.7

Wow.

0:52.5

Okay.

0:52.8

And that really was a peak, a direct peak inside the conservative brain.

0:57.4

Really was because every time I get into some sort of kerfuffle with a conservative, it has to do with, you know, like media matters.

1:07.4

That socialist George Soros funded bunch of commie American-hating pinkos who have the temerity to quote conservatives in context directly and you're not allowed to do that because it fucks up our lies so Paul Ryan who has based his life on the teachings of Ayn Rand, who used to hand out books.

1:29.1

Copies, yes, to his staff.

1:31.7

Although that might be Rand Paul.

1:33.2

I might be mixing up one freak Randite for another.

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