Edition #514

Play or download here!

Subscribe to this show!

Share your favorite clips with your social networks! Join the virtuous cycle!

Act 1: Lincoln, the 14th amendment and full faith and credit of the U.S. – Melissa Harris Perry on TRMS Air Date: 7-26-11
[sharethis url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o17RVfF-WG0" title="I heard this on Best of the Left! Check out: Lincoln, the 14th amendment and full faith and credit of the U.S. - Melissa Harris Perry on TRMS" tw_title="Heard on @BestoftheLeft Check out: Lincoln, the 14th amendment and full faith and credit of the U.S. from Melissa Harris Perry on TRMS #p2"]
Song 1: Broken – Awake

Act 2: Armadebtdon 2011- National Bullshit Ceiling – Daily Show Air Date: 7-18-11
[sharethis url="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-july-18-2011/armadebtdon-2011---national-bulls--t-ceiling" title="I heard this on Best of the Left! Check out: Armadebtdon 2011- National Bullshit Ceiling - Daily Show" tw_title="Heard on @BestoftheLeft Check out: Armadebtdon 2011- National Bullshit Ceiling - Daily Show #p2"]
Song 2: When I Grow Up – Version 2.0

Act 3: Obama Already Conceded He’ll Pay Ransom – The Progressive Air Date: 7-26-11
[sharethis url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnTjIoxTYHA" title="I heard this on Best of the Left! Check out: Obama Already Conceded He'll Pay Ransom - The Progressive" tw_title="Heard on @BestoftheLeft Check out: Obama Already Conceded He'll Pay Ransom from @theprogressive #p2"]
Song 3: Better Off Alone – Who Needs Guitars Anyway?

Act 4: America’s Bucket List – Colbert Report Air Date: 7-26-11
[sharethis url="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/393170/july-26-2011/america-s-bucket-list" title="I heard this on Best of the Left! Check out: America's Bucket List (Debt Ceiling) - Colbert Report" tw_title="Heard on @BestoftheLeft Check out: America's Bucket List (Debt Ceiling) - Colbert Report #p2"]
Song 4: Blueprint – Jackson Square

Act 5: Media covering Obama and the debt negotiation – Counterspin Air Date: 7-28-11
[sharethis url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyuhtUXUYgs" title="I heard this on Best of the Left! Check out: Media covering Obama and the debt negotiation - Counterspin" tw_title="Heard on @BestoftheLeft Check out: Media covering Obama and the debt negotiation from @FAIRmediawatch #p2"]
Song 5: Logical Song – Magnolia (Music from the Motion Picture)

Act 6: Debt to America! – The Bugle Air Date: 7-28-11
[sharethis url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwXQIoLtYss" title="I heard this on Best of the Left! Check out: Debt to America! - The Bugle" tw_title="Heard on @BestoftheLeft Check out: Debt to America! from @hellobuglers #p2"]
Song 6: Play With Fire – The Darjeeling Limited (Original Soundtrack)

Act 7: Who’s lying more on the debt ceiling debate? – On the Media Air Date: 7-29-11
[sharethis url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyHOJQtZ3K8" title="I heard this on Best of the Left! Check out: Who's lying more on the debt ceiling debate? - On the Media" tw_title="Heard on @BestoftheLeft Check out: Who's lying more on the debt ceiling debate? - On the Media #p2"]
Song 7: Get ready – The Proclaimers

Act 8: The Lose-Lose Debt Situation – The Progressive Air Date: 7-29-11
[sharethis url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOLNsiKLiDg" title="I heard this on Best of the Left! Check out: The Lose-Lose Debt Situation - The Progressive" tw_title="Heard on @BestoftheLeft Check out: The Lose-Lose Debt Situation from @theprogressive #p2"]
Song 8: Cool to Hate – Ixnay on the Hombre

Act 9: GOP ready for compromise and common purpose – Wait wait Air Date: 7-30-11
[sharethis url="http://bre.ad/xyz/" title="I heard this on Best of the Left! Check out: GOP ready for compromise and common purpose on debt ceiling - Wait wait" tw_title="Heard on @BestoftheLeft Check out: GOP ready for compromise and common purpose on debt ceiling - Wait wait #p2"]
Song 9: The Sound of Settling – Transatlanticism

Act 10: Father knows best how to compromise – Le Show Air Date: 7-31-11
[sharethis url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03vBWFkbtMA" title="I heard this on Best of the Left! Check out: Father knows best how to compromise - Le Show" tw_title="Heard on @BestoftheLeft Check out: Father knows best how to compromise from @theharryshearer #p2"]
Song 10: Growing Up – Only God Can Judge Me

Act 11: The Four Great Hypocrisies of the Debt Deal – Countdown Air Date: 8-1-11
[sharethis url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDgLVPFE-Mk" title="I heard this on Best of the Left! Check out: The Four Great Hypocrisies of the Debt Deal - Countdown" tw_title="Heard on @BestoftheLeft Check out: The Four Great Hypocrisies of the Debt Deal from @CountdownKO #p2"]

Final comments, thanks to @OnyxShard for the Countdown clip tip

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Armadebtdon 2011- The End of the World As We Owe It – Daily Show
[sharethis url="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-july-14-2011/armadebtdon-2011---the-end-of-the-world-as-we-owe-it" title="I heard this on Best of the Left! Check out: The End of the World As We Owe It - Daily Show" tw_title="Heard on @BestoftheLeft Check out: The End of the World As We Owe It from Daily Show #p2"]

Produced By:
Jay! Tomlinson

Thanks for listening!
Check out the Best of the Left iPhone/iPod Touch App in the App Store!
Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com
Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com
Vote for us and leave comments at Podcast Alley or Review the show on iTunes.

Edition #470

Subscribe to this show!

Donate tweets to Best of the Left!
DonateYourAccount.com/BestOfTheLeft

Act 1: Boehner’s People – Jim Hightower
Song 1: Tears and Rain – Back to Bedlam
Act 2: Ineffective GOP – Rachel Maddow
Song 2: If you’ve got trouble – The Beatles
Act 3: The do-nothing congress – Slate.com
Song 3: Everybody Wants to Rule the World – 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tears for Fears
Act 4: Congress forgets how to pass a bill – The Onion
Song 4: Kill the Director – The Wombats – EP
Act 5: Three quarters of Senate Republicans don’t believe in science – David Pakman
Song 5: The Idiots Are Taking Over – The War On Errorism
Act 6: Congress slumps back to Tom Delay ethics – Jim Hightower
Song 6: These Are the Days – Ibiza After Dark – Late Night Luxury Grooves
Act 7: Boehner is bad at his job Part 1 – Rachel Maddow
Song 7: Theme from “Greatest American Hero” (Believe It or Not) – America’s Greatest Hero
Act 8: Useless GOP distractions – Bill Maher
Song 8: Radio – As Smart As We Are
Act 9: Boehner OK with Americans losing jobs – Young Turks
Song 9: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Act 10: Johnnie “Business as usual” Boehner – Jim Hightower
Song 10: Broken Horse – Weathervanes
Act 11: Boehner is bad at his job Part 2 – Rachel Maddow

Voicemails:
BYU basketball player kicked off for honor code violation – Scott from California
Supporting Mumia because he’s based on facts – John From Omaha
Excitement about YouTube playlists – Max from Berkley, CA

Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics

Final comments on Power Shift, new video version of the show and the listener of the year

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
John Boehner’s Large Gavel – Colbert Report

Watch the “video” version of this episode

Find source links for this episode after the break!

Edition #453

Help Progressive Organizations win $1,000,000 by becoming a daily voter!
www.bit.ly/ProgressiveSlate

Act 1: Recap of Dems for filibuster reform – Rachel Maddow
Song 1: Clocks – The String Quartet Tribute to Coldplay
Act 2: How to bust the filibuster – The Breakdown
Song 2: Trains to Brazil – Through the Windowpane (Bonus Track Version)
Act 3: Filibusters and the judiciary – Majority Report
Song 3: Let’s Dance to Joy Division – A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation
Act 4: Delaying reform – Countdown
Song 4: Get Up Stand Up – Legend (Remastered) [Bonus Tracks]
Act 5: One looong day – Rachel Maddow
Song 5: Civil War – Guns N’ Roses: Greatest Hits
Act 6: History of the filibuster – Countdown
Song 6: The Importance of Being Idle – Time Flies… 1994-2009
Act 7: Reforming the filibuster – The Political Scene
Song 7: I’m Not Over – Coming to Terms
Act 8: Why it didn’t work – Rachel Maddow

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Working toward reform – Rachel Maddow

Find source links for this episode after the break!

Edition #447

Help Progressive Organizations win $1,000,000 by becoming a daily voter!
www.bit.ly/ProgressiveSlate

Act 1: The Hammer has fallen – Rachel Maddow
Act 2: Delay – In his own words
Act 3: The Delay Litany – Al Franken
Act 4: Delay – In his own words
Act 5: Memorable moments – The Young Turks
Act 6: Delay – In his own words
Act 7: I’m just a bug man – Slate Podcast
Act 8: Delay – In his own words
Act 9: Good Riddance – Jack Cafferty
Song 9: Future Is Now – Dune
Act 10: Verdict is in – Young Turks
Song 10: Tonight I Have to Leave It – Our Ill Wills
Act 11: Commenting on Tom Delay – It’s all politics
Song 11: The Office UK – Outro #2 – The Office UK Theme Music
Act 12: Story behind the conviction – Jim Hightower
Song 12: Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye – 60′s Gold
Act 13: Sam announces the sentence – Majority Report
Song 13: Cigarette Smoker Fiona – Who the F*** Are Arctic Monkeys? – EP
Act 14: Allison announces the sentence – Citizen Radio
Song 14: Dancing With Myself – Billy Idol: Greatest Hits
Act 15: Cocky Delay gets three years – Jim Hightower
Song 15: Behind Bars – Baga Tricks
Act 16: Liberals to blame for the conviction – Countdown
Song 16: Montaña – Love & Liberte
Act 17: 3 years prison for Tom Delay – Young Turks

Source Story Series Featuring Rachel Maddow

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Big Buy Tom Delay’s Stolen Congress – Brave New Films

Find source links for this episode after the break!

Edition #446

Help Progressive Organizations win $1,000,000 by becoming a daily voter!
www.bit.ly/ProgressiveSlate

Act 1: GOP takes over – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Read It & Weep – Lucky You
Act 2: House oversight committee – Colbert Report
Song 2: What I’m Looking For (Ad Version) – What I’m Looking For (Ad Version) – Single
Act 3: Dumb new congress – Rachel Maddow
Song 3: Broken Chair – Land of Sea
Act 4: Read it and weep – Slate.com
Song 4: We’re Simple Minds – Spring Came, Rain Fell
Act 5: What you will and wont find in the constitution – Liberal Oasis
Song 5: Figure It Out – It Won’t Be Soon Before Long
Act 6: GOP house takeover, the hypocrisy begins – Young Turks
Song 6: Gone Going – Monkey Business
Act 7: Earmarks, Schmearmarks – Jim Hightower
Song 7: Dirty Job – Once Again
Act 8: The correct way to ridicule Boehner – Citizen Radio
Song 8: Gorel – Babba Maal
Act 9: Boehner guilty of violent talk too – Counterspin
Song 9:In the Aeroplane Over the Sea – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Act 10: GOP attacks health care, helps Dems – Rachel Maddow

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Great Gaffesby – Daily Show

Find source links for this episode after the break!

Edition #444

Help Progressive Organizations win $1,000,000 by becoming a daily voter!
www.bit.ly/ProgressiveSlate

Act 1: McCain can stew in his own rancid juices – The Progressive
Song 1: Passenger Seat – Transatlanticism
Act 2: Repeal of DADT will be nation’s downfall – Young Turks
Song 2: Rome – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Act 3: Poll to repeal DADT – Colbert Report
Song 3: (Reach Up for The) Sunrise – Astronaut
Act 4: Barney Frank defending DADT repeal – Majority Report
Song 4: Citronella – Notes from Aboveground
Act 5: Savor victory over DADT – The Progressive
Song 5: Fade to Black – Inquisition Symphony
Act 6: Limbaugh on those who support repeal of DADT – Media Matters
Act 7: McCain still a crotchety old man – Young Turks
Song 7: Naked As We Came – Our Endless Numbered Days
Act 8: AmericaBlog interview Part 1 – Majority Report
Song 8: Another Love Song – Popular Music That Will Live Forever – EP
Act 9: Ask, now tell? – Mumia Abu-Jamal
Song 9: Move You [SSSPII] – Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II
Act 10: AmericaBlog interview Part 2 – Majority Report
Song 10: Falling Down – Falling Down – Single
Act 11: Boiled down to the arguments of both sides – Citizen Radio

Source Story Series Featuring The Young Turks

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Coming Out From Life Under ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ – NPR

Find source links for this episode after the break!

Edition #350

Act 1: Health care slime machine – Daily Show
Act 2: Obama may be Anti-Christ, like Hitler – Young Turks
Act 3: Coburn on Fox News bias – Countdown
Act 4: Elephant graveyard with David Frum – Colbert Report
Act 5: Tea partiers should sign anti-government pledge – Thom Hartmann
Act 6: Man attempts to assassinate Obama while not seeming racist – The Onion
Act 7: Pelosi caused trouble by crossing the street – Young Turks
Act 8: Harry Reid supporters, you’re not helping – Daily Show
Act 9: Threats to congressmen – Rachel Maddow
Act 10: Wag of the finger to the Hutaree Militia – Colbert Report
Act 11: Right wing extremists on the rise – Young Turks

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Obama Bumper Sticker Road Rage

Music:
Walk like an Egyptian – The Bangles

Civil war – Guns N’ Roses

A few honest words – Ben Sollee

Lessons learned – Matt and Kim

Come Together – The Beatles
Everyday People – Sly and The Family Stone

Something to believe in – The Offspring

Bus rider – John Swihart

Ready for the good times – Shakira

Get ready – The Proclaimers

Find source links and Digg this episode after the break!

Edition #348

Act 1: Crystal clear debate – Rachel Maddow
Act 2: Tea party protesters hurl slurs at congressmen – Young Turks
Act 3: Plea to bring down the violence – Countdown
Act 4: Reactions to health care law – Media Matters
Act 5: Predictable reactions of hate – Ring of Fire
Act 6: Intimidation Part 1 – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Health care hate talk – Media Matters
Act 8: GOP’s health care repeal strategy – Young Turks
Act 9: GOP leaders must denounce brownshirt tactics – The Progressive
Act 10: Dismissing political treats – Media Matters
Act 11: Intimidation Part 2 – Rachel Maddow
Act 12: Blogger inciting vandalism and violence – Young Turks

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Dems To Blame For Tea Party Threats – Young Turks

Music:
I can see clearly now – Jimmy Cliff

Shout – Tears for Fears

Comptine D’un Autre Été: L’après Midi – Yann Tiersen

Mad world – Gary Jules

Les Jours Tristes (Instrumental) – Yann Tiersen

Under the gun – The Killers

Sur Le Fil – Yann Tiersen

Leader – Burning Spear

Find source links and Digg this episode after the break!

Edition #332

Act 1: Obama crushes house GOP – Young Turks
Act 2: Doris Kearns Goodwin on weak Dems – Daily Show
Act 3: Change terrifies conservatives – Ring of Fire
Act 4: Obama nails Rep and Cenk debunks lies – Young Turks
Act 5: The word Siren Song – Colbert Report
Act 6: Killing the filibuster – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Polls show GOP are nuts – Young Turks
Act 8: Introducing the Dem Opossum – Daily Show

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Political Shift in D.C. – How to succeed – Daily Show

Music:
Walk on the wild side – Lou Reed

Messages – Xavier Rudd

Personal Jesus – Johnny Cash

The right thing to do – Carly Simon

Naive – The Kooks

Once around the block – Badly Drawn Boy

I can’t – Ben Sollee

Find source links and Digg this episode after the break!

Edition #315

Act 1: Blow hards bloviate on healthcare – Counterspin
Act 2: Bill big, bill bad – Daily Show
Act 3: GOP Continues healthcare fear tactics – The Young Turks
Act 4: Fire hot – The Onion
Act 5: Grayson on fighting back Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 6: Lieberman on wiggling – Wait wait don’t tell me
Act 7: Grayson on fighting back Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 8: Absurd Republicans caught on tape – The Young Turks
Act 9: Wisconsin city is the best place to die – NPR
Act 10: Preggers can’t be choosers – Daily Show
Act 11: Restricting abortion rights in health reform – Rachel Maddow

Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Judge Napolitano Lies about Health Care Reform – The Young Turks

Music:
Tax man – The Beatles
Naive – The Kooks

Fearless – VNV Nation

World on Fire – Sarah McLachlan

In a big country – Big Country

Winter song – Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson

Brain stew – Green Day

So fast, so numb – R.E.M.

I know I know I know – Tegan and Sara

Different people – No doubt

Find source links and Digg this episode after the break!