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The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Ep 86 It gets better...for liberals?

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

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

4.8920 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2011

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We discuss serenity prayers, centrism as news, theraputic swearing, and a psychoanalysis of...Bill Maher? More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com.Support the show

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the podcast for July 29th, 2011. It's not safe for work.

0:04.8

Recorded live from deep within the woodland splendor, that is Tom Friedman's mustache of understanding.

0:11.5

It's the professional left with drip glass and blue gal.

0:27.8

You know, when Tom Friedman, when you get the Tom Friedman bug, you just can't shake it.

0:28.9

It's so.

0:34.3

Well, I like a tag called David Brooks giving a seminar at the Aspen Institute.

0:35.4

Yeah, yeah.

0:36.6

I like that, too.

0:37.3

I like balloon juice. I realize. They're one of my favorite bugs, too. I like that too. I like balloon juice.

0:38.3

I realize... They're one of my favorite blogs, too.

0:40.5

They really are.

0:40.9

John Cole is an expatriate conservative.

0:43.6

But you know what John Cole has done?

0:46.2

He's moved to the other side successfully.

0:49.2

He has repudiated it.

0:51.4

He has not tried to salvage his former ideology.

0:54.8

He has not tried to say, you know, Ronald Reagan gave me such a good hand job in

0:59.8

1987.

1:01.3

I just can't forget it.

1:03.1

It made such an impression on me.

1:04.5

If only only get back to the conservatism of 2002, we'd be okay.

1:08.7

Doesn't do this.

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