Ep 126 Does Fox News want Romney to Lose? And Whither the Occupy Movement?

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

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2012

⏱️ 56 minutes

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We discuss whether Fox News (let alone Romney himself) wants Romney to lose the White House. Should Occupy be the Left's Tea Party? And a renaissance in new progressive media starts with supporting the many new podcasts out there. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com.Support the show

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0:00.0	This is the podcast for May 4th, 2012.
0:02.9	It's not safe for work.
0:04.5	Recorded live from just outside, the gay Republican shame spiral.
0:08.2	It's the professional left with drift glass and blue gal.
0:19.2	I'm not sure if I should have said gay Republican or gay conservative, because apparently, according to Andrew Sullivan, there's a huge difference between the two.
0:26.9	Yeah.
0:27.4	In his imagination, I'm sure there is.
0:29.7	He's imagining that there are still Republicans out there who are going to vote, I don't know how.
0:35.6	You know, they like Romney because he's a businessman, but they don't go along with any of the right-wing craziness.
0:41.9	And I'm sure there are Republicans like that, but they haven't made themselves known.
0:46.5	Well, there are.
0:47.2	It's time.
0:48.4	Watch any rerun of Gilligan's Island, and you'll see at least two of them on that island.
0:52.2	Thurston How how the ser.
0:59.5	Yeah, they're fictional characters and, you know, no, there are lots of rich, dumb, white guys who play golf and only want their taxes cut and who vote for Mitt Romney because he's, he,
1:04.4	he is one of them.
1:05.7	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:07.1	But that the, but the stank of the crazy from the kitchen where all of their meals are being prepared is beginning to get too stinky for them to put up with.
1:16.2	Yeah, that's the point.
1:17.6	That's the problem.
1:18.6	They've got another conservative they can vote for.
1:20.7	His name's Barack Obama.
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