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#339 Who, what and how we’re fighting (GOP)
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Edition #339
Act 1: CPAC 2010 Rage within the machine – Daily Show
Act 2: CPAC Conference – Rachel Maddow
Act 3: CPAC – US has the best health care – Young Turks
Act 4: Rage within the machine – Progressivism – Daily Show
Act 5: American’s don’t know R’s block everything – Young Turks
Act 6: George Will totally consistent on filibuster = Counterspin
Act 7: Filibuster is too neat and simple – Bill Maher
Act 8: Let’s go nuclear – Rachel Maddow
Act 9: Teabaggers and teabaggees – Ring of Fire
Act 10: Sarah Palin at Teabagger convention – Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
AmeriGasm CPAC – Daily Show
Music:
Hello, My Treacherous Friends – OK GO
Graceland – Paul Simon
It’s not impossible – Ben Sollee
Don’t vote – Cass McCombs
Losers – The Cardigans
There’s something wrong – Brad Sucks
One fine day – The Chiffons
Failure by design – Brand New
Be my angel – Mazzy Star
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#329 Welcome President Brown (Special Election)
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Edition #329
Act 1: Recruiting a party with spine – Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
Act 2: Balance of the Senate – It’s all politics
Act 3: You have the majority, now act like it – The Young Turks
Act 4: Caller says election was Thom’s fault – Thom Hartmann
Act 5: Dems must fight back – Colbert Report
Act 6: Ed Rendell on doing something – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Brown election and the filibuster – On the Media
Act 8: Give them a reason to vote for you – The Young Turks
Act 9: Obama’s ballsy speech – Le Show
Act 10: What to do with less than 60 – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Brown win allows Jon Stewart to retire – Daily Show
Music:
Runnin down a dream – Tom Petty
And it spread – The Avett Brothers
Wake Up Little Suzie – Everly Brothers
Don’t look back in anger – Oasis
Happy – SIster Hazel
Finding something to do – Hellogoodbye
Piazza, New York Catcher – Belle & Sebastian
Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2
Slight figure of speech – The Avett Brothers
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#326 Underpants Bomb Fallout, choose your own pun (Foreign Policy)
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Edition #326
Act 1: Yemen Sad Libs – Daily Show
Act 2: Kill first harshly interrogate later – Countdown
Act 3: Bush terror policies wrongly glorified – Rachel Maddow
Act 4: Missteps in the early days reporting on Yemen – On the Media
Act 5: Rove blames NCTC then backpedals – Young Turks
Act 6: Idiot lies about Obama’s response – Countdown
Act 7: Outright lies politicizing terrorism – Rachel Maddow
Act 8: Idiots with big balls – Daily Show
Act 9: Rudy says something unspeakably ignorant – Le Show
Act 10: Nonsense GOP response cause for despair – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Ideal or no deal – Colbert Report
Music:
Back in the high life again – Steve Winwood
Send in the clowns – The Simpsons
Whatcha say – Jason Derulo
Let go – Frou Frou
Sorry, blame it on me – Akon
American idiot – Green Day
Ridiculous Thoughts – The Cranberries
Big balls – AC/DC
Diamond – Klint
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#321 Take 30,000 troops and call me in the morning (Podcast)
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Edition #321
Act 1: Misleading polling on support for war – Counterspin
Act 2: I dare you not to notice – Le Show
Act 3: Special comment on war escalation – Countdown
Act 4: Afghanistan handed over to robots – The Onion
Act 5: Why escalation is not the answer – Thom Hartmann
Act 6: Obama unclear on chain of command – Colbert Report
Act 7: Cheney cries treason – Countdown
Act 8: War presidents – Rachel Maddow
Act 9: 30,000 – Daily Show
Act 10: Feingold & BBC on the Afghanistan war – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
30,000 extended video – Daily Show
Music:
Love is a battlefield – Pat Benatar
99 Red Balloons – Nena
Listen to your heart – Roxette
Mr. Roboto – Styx
War – Vince DiCola
Heat of the moment – Asia
Notorious – Duran Duran
I’m gonna be (500 Miles) – The Proclaimers
Break it down again – Tears for fears
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#319 1st world party, 3rd world clean up (Podcast)
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Edition #319
Act 1: Aziz Ansari on Copenhagen – It’s getting ha in here
Act 2: Gore urges Obama to take lead on climate – NPR
Act 3: Al Gore – Daily Show
Act 4: Gore the wonky bore – Counterspin
Act 5: The Story of Cap and Trade – Annie Leonard
Act 6: Naomi Klein on climate debt Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 7: DOT to add walking lanes to highways – The Onion
Act 8: Naomi Klein on climate debt Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 9: News of the warm – Le Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Act Now – Green.tv
Music:
Hold my hand – Hootie and the blowfish
Change your mind – Sister Hazel
If we make it through December – Merle Haggard
Cloud Nine – Ben Howard
Comptine D’un Autre Été: L’après Midi – Yann Tiersen
Classical Gas – Mason Williams
Walk beside me – Darrell Scott & Tim O’Brien
Got My Mind Set On You – George Harrison
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#308 Still legally treated as second-class citizens (Podcast)
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Edition #308
Act 1: California Marriage Protection Act PSA 1
Act 2: When the time is right – Rachel Maddow
Act 3: Jim Fouratt on gay rights – Colbert Report
Act 4: Obama speaks on DADT – Rachel Maddow
Act 5: California Marriage Protection Act PSA 2
Act 6: Dan Savage on Obama on DADT – Countdown
Act 7: The gay after tomorrow – Daily Show
Act 8: The aftermath of the gay rights rally – Mother Jones
Act 9: Queer and loathing in D.C. – Daily Show
Act 10: Dan Choi: Don’t Tell, Martha! – The Moth Podcast
Music:
I was married – Tegan and Sara
Right now – Van Halen
Leader – Burning Spear
What have I done to deserve this – Pet Shop Boys
Ain’t no reason – Brett Dennen
Don’t ask me why – Billy Joel
S̩n̩gal Fast-Food РAmadou & Mariam
Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise – The Avett Brothers
Let my love open the door – Pete Townsend
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#298 In the wake of Obama’s healthcare speech (Podcast)
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Act 1: Details still to be ironed out – Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!
Act 2: Bernie Sanders on stopping the filibuster – Rachel Maddow
Act 3: Pastor Incites gun-toting Obama protesters – The Young Turks
Act 4: Checking some healthcare facts – Counterspin
Act 5: Why there’s no point in reading bills – On the Media
Act 6: More fact-free arguments against healthcare – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Breaking down Obama’s speech and the reaction to it – Ring of Fire
Act 8: Healthcare lies believed shows poll – The Young Turks
Act 9: Fixing healthcare by altering patient behavior – NPR
Act 10: Having to explain how a healthcare system works – Counterspin
Act 11: Talking about the lack of respect for the office of the President – It’s all politics
Music:
Hands down – Dashboard Confessional
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger – Daft Punk
Don’t look back in anger – Oasis
Am I wrong? – Love Spit Love
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight – The Postal Service
The kids don’t stand a chance – Vampire Weekend
Shout – Tears for fears
Make your own kind of music – Cass Elliot
We can work it out – Heather Nova
End it on this – No Doubt
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#296 Distasteful discord leaks onto the floor of the house (Podcast)
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Act 1: Sen. Coburn to weeping woman: Ask you’re neighbor – The Young Turks
Act 2: Appease the wrong people… – Countdown
Act 3: Coverage of the healthcare debate – Counterspin
Act 4: GOP confirms they’re totally unwilling to be reasonable – Rachel Maddow
Act 5: McCan’t and McShouldn’t – Slate.com
Act 6: Conservatives don’t use logic in making decisions – The Young Turks
Act 7: Prepping for the healthcare speech – Le Show
Act 8: “You’re a liar!” shouted in joint session of congress – NPR’s It’s All Politics
Act 9: Barbara Boxer on Obama’s healthcare speech – Rachel Maddow
Music:
Live like you’re dying – Lenka
Middle Man – Jack Johnson
Mrs. Robinson – Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Golden Brown – The Stranglers
Sleeping in – The Postal Service
I second that emotion – Diana Ross & The Supremes
The waiting – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
One Million Miles – J. Ralph
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#282 Too racist to judge, not racist enough to be a Republican (Podcast)
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Act 1: Confirmation in 60 seconds – Slate.com
Act 2: Reviewing the confirmation hearings – On the Media
Act 3: Live coverage of hearings – Le Show
Act 4: Graham and Buchanan on Sotomayor – The Young Turks
Act 5: White men can’t judge – Daily Show
Act 6: GOP’s most ironic argument against Sotomayor – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Did conservatives give more straightforward answers? – The Young Turks
Act 8: Lot’s o’ splainin’ to do! – Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!
Act 9: Pat Buchanan can’t hide his racism – The Young Turks
Music:
Auto-tune the news #4 – YouTube
L.E.S. Artistes – Santigold
The end is not near – Band of Horses
San Antonio, TX – Frank Black & The Catholics
Don’t dream it’s over – Sixpence None The Richer
Young Hearts – Rod Stewart
Baby please don’t go – Van Morrison
Secret heart – Feist
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#252 Notes on the Barackalipse (Podcast)
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Act 1: Obama from his first climate conference – This American Life
Act 2: Mission Accomplished – Slate.com
Act 3: After 10 years of Bush – Wait Wait
Act 4: The Obama effect – Radio Lab
Act 5: Little Obama celebration in Wyoming – NPR
Act 6: Notes on the Barackalipse – Wait Wait
Act 7: Republicans shower praise on Bush – The Young Turks
Act 8: In Bush’s wake, a new political landscape – NPR
Act 9: New administration staff training – Wait Wait
Music:
Thanksgiving – George Winston
The world is new – Save Farris
Leaving on a jet plane – Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Piano Piano – Luis Bacalov
See you on the other side – Ozzy Osbourne
Learning to fly – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Burning love – Elvis Presley
Ballad of a comeback kid – The New Pornographers
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Episode # 250! The End of an Error (Podcast)
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Act 1: The real history of the Bush administration – Countdown
Act 2: Bush working on his legacy – Ring of Fire
Act 3: Cheney’s confession – The Young Turks
Act 4: *Rebroadcast* The highlight of his presidency – Wait Wait
Act 5: Cheney’s historic outgoing quotes – The Young Turks
Act 6: Cheney giving advice to incoming staff – Wait Wait
Act 7: *Rebroadcast* Cheney shoots friend in the face – The Al Franken Show
Act 8: The day that defined a presidency – NPR
Act 9: Bush’s final acts – Ring of Fire
Act 10: The shoe throwing incident – Wait Wait
Act 11: Bush’s reaction to the shoe – The Young Turks
Music:
Missed the Boat – Modest Mouse
So jealous – Tegan and Sara
Pony (It’s OK) – Erin McCarley
Mission Accomplished – Al Franken Show
I predict a riot – Kaiser Chiefs
In the Summertime – Mungo Jerry
Catalog & Classify – Mark Robinson
End it on this – No Doubt
Ain’t that a kick in the head – Dean Martin
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Morning in America (Podcast)
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Act 1: 2004 DNC Keynote Speech (Clip 1) (Clip 2)
Act 2: Announcing his candidacyÂ
Act 3: Remake this country (Link)
Act 4: Signs of Hope & Change (Link)
Act 5: Yes We Can – Will.i.am (Link)
Act 6: ‘A more perfect Union’ speech on race in America (Link)
Act 7: We are the ones we’ve been waiting for – Will.i.am (Link)
Act 8: The American Promise (Link)
Act 9: Obama in BerlinÂ
Act 10: 2008 DNC Acceptance speech (LInk)
Act 11: We have a lot of work to do (LInk)
Act 12: DC reactions to the victory (LInk)
Act 13: Interview with Jesse Jackson – NPR (Link)
Act 14: It’s a new day! – Will.i.am (Link)
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Al Gore webcast TONIGHT!
Just a quick note to let you know that the Al Gore live webcast we previously mentioned is happening tonight. You can watch it live in just a few hours right… HERE!
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Podcast Awards in full swing! Go Vote!
Happy weekend everyone!
Just wanted to give a little reminder that the Podcast Awards are here and that the Best of the Left isn’t just going to vote for itself in the political category you know. So let’s get out there and cast 15 of the 16 most important votes possible between now and November 6th. The 16th most important vote being the one for that guy who said John McCain was being ‘erratic’. Boy did they nail it with that one!
You know, while you’re there you should really check out some of the other categories for some good shows. I particularly like:
1. This American Life (duh) from the Cultural/Arts category
2. The Rest of Everest from the Video category
3. Radio Lab from the Technology and Science  category (don’t miss this one, really! I love it!)
and just for fun 4. Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase from the Travel category
Some of your favorite shows in the podcast awards? Have a favorite show that’s not in the podcast awards? Let us all know about them in the comments!
Thanks for your support,
Jay!
Watch Al Gore in live webcast
So, there’s two organization that are really worth knowing about. The first is Al Gore’s most recent publicity machine that’s being used as the public face of his efforts to fight global warming and that WeCanSolveIt.org, there’s a pretty decent chance you’ve seen some of their commercials.
The other is the Energy Action Coalition. This is a youth-run organization dedicated to engaging students in the political process to demand a clean and just energy future. Find out more about them at EnergyActionCoalition.org, they’re good people.
So this leads to the fact that these two great groups are coming together when Al Gore conducts a live webcast for the PowerVote campaign. PowerVote is the EAC Get-Out-The-Vote campaign they’re running with their goal set at getting 1 million youth to pledge to vote for clean energy this November.
Even if you’ve never actually heard of these groups and you’re not a college student you should still be interested for these three reasons: 1.Al Gore 2.global warming and 3.Al Gore & other people coming together to try and do something about global warming.
Sign up to watch the live webcast on Oct. 29th at 8pm EST.
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