#565 Choose and lose (Elections)
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Act 1: Newt Gingrich is Running for A-Hole in Chief – Majority Report Air Date: 12-08-11
Song 1: Crazy – Take a Break
Act 2: Newt Gingrich’s Most Outrageous Ideas – David Pakman Air Date: 12-12-11
Song 2: White Blank Page – Mumford & Sons Piano Tribute
Act 3: Fox’s “Fair and Balanced” Interviews of DNC and RNC Chairs – Media Matters Air Date: 1-4-12
Act 4: Obama Strategy – Lesser of Two Evils – Young Turks Air Date: 12-12-11
Song 4: Evil Is Alive and Well – Seeing Things
Act 5: Obama can’t think of one good reason to run for another term – The Onion
Song 5: Give Me One Reason – New Beginning
Act 6: The Bad Circus Act that Is the Republican Race – The Progressive Air Date: 12-26-11
Song 6: Legion – Empires
Act 7: Obama Campaign Collecting GOP Emails Brilliant Strategy – David Pakman Air Date: 12-22-11
Song 7: Wonderwall – The String Quartet Tribute to Oasis – Decadence & Vanity
Act 8: Fox’s New Year’s Resolution: Be Even More Partisan – Media Matters Air Date: 1-5-12
Act 9: Palestinians Are Terrorists – Newt Gingrich – Young Turks Air Date: 12-12-11
Song 9: Everybody Wants to Rule the World – 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tears for Fears
Act 10: Newt Gingrich’s Invented People Explained – Majority Report Air Date: 12-12-11
Song 10: All This and Heaven Too – Ceremonials
Act 11: Good News on the Citizens United Front – The Progressive Air Date: 1-5-12
Song 11: Wavin’ Flag (Coca-Cola Celebration Mix) – Troubadour
Act 12: Repeal the farce of “Corporate Personhood” – Jim Hightower Air Date: 1-4-12
Song 12: Everyday People – Anthology
Act 13: GOP busted on sanctity of the vote – Rachel Maddow Air Date: 1-6-12
Song 13: Comptine d’un autre été – L’après-midi – Amélie (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
Act 15: Did The Media Treat Bachmann Unfairly Because She’s An Insane Woman? – The Onion
Song 15: Crazy – St. Elsewhere
Act 16: Bachmann Announcing End of Campaign – Young Turks
Song 16: I’m Gone – New Favorite
Act 17: The Pundits Dissed Ron Paul – The Progressive Air Date: 1-11-12
Song 17: Nothing Is Good Enough – Magnolia (Music from the Motion Picture)
Act 18: Fox News: Where Lies Are Allowed to Flow Freely – Media Matters Air Date: 1-11-12
Act 19: SuperPACs storm Iowa – Jim Hightower Air Date: 1-11-12
Song 19: I’ve Got No Strings – ¡Volare! – The Very Best of the Gipsy Kings
Act 20: MTV Choose or Lose Election Campaign Name Change Lose or Lose – Majority Report Air Date: 12-20-11
Voicemails:
Thoughts on libertarian island for future generations – Tim From Quincy, IL
Future needs of BotL and other liberal causes – Jim from the United Arab Emirates
Bank names on top of buildings in Cleveland – Colin from Cleveland, OH
Leave a message at 206-202-3410
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics
Final comments on Libertarian Island, progressive media in 2012 and the Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland
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Romney Vs Vietnam Vet on Gay Marriage – Young Turks Air Date: 12-12-11
Produced By:
Jay! Tomlinson
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Did Cenk just say that he can trace the Palestinians to the 5th century B.C.? That is patently ridiculous. The Palestinian national movement has its traces in the 20th century. The tribes that are now called Palestinians came from Saudi Arabia with the Muslim conquests, but only began viewing themselves in a national perspective with French, English, and Egyptian influences in the late 19th to mid 20th century. No respected historian in the world would say that the Philistines are the ancient Palestinians, or even that the Latin name Palestine has anything to do with its people.
Newt is of course an idiot for making this argument because the Israelis and the Americans are also an invented people. But geez, Cenk, crank open a book! As a history major, I can tell you that was some ignorant crap. Any history book would suffice. I personally enjoyed “The Emergence of the Palestinian-Arab National Movement”, but really any book will do.
It is also interesting to note that there were only about 250 thousand Arabs in the early 19th century, and that the reason that there are several million Palestinians now is because of the improvement of sanitation that came with the Jewish immigration. (Of course then they did not view themselves as Palestinians, but rather as either Qaisi or Yamini, rivaling clusters of tribes.)
You know, sometimes I get the feeling that Cenk’s ignorance is deliberate when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…
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In regards to the call left by Tim from Quincy, IL, I’m not sure his focus on having a sustainable population had to do with their health and welfare as Jay focused on. I expected the focus to be on the introduction of new minds and alternative preferences brought into this metaphorically, isolated island by childbirth. A child doesn’t necessarily agree with their parent’s ideology. Therefore, wouldn’t children who disagreed with the structure of their birth island be obligated to relocate to another metaphorical island? Would a child be forced to agree to their island’s structure if they wanted to stay with their parents? Food for thought.