#340 The Blair House Project (I didn’t make the joke first) (Health Care)
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Edition #340
Act 1: Summit’s eve – Daily Show
Act 2: Help – Health care special comment – Countdown
Act 3: Wrap up of health care summit – Young Turks
Act 4: Name calling, racist attacks from right – Media Matters
Act 5: Reviewing the health care summit – Wait wait don’t tell me
Act 6: Lies about ‘nuclear option’ – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Conflating nuclear option and reconciliation – Media Matters
Act 8: The med menace – Daily Show
Act 9: Obama disses single-payer systems – Young Turks
Act 10: Mocking the uninsured – Media Matters
Act 11: Health care by Easter – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Health Care Magic – Colbert Report
Music:
Disappointment – The Cranberries
Help – Howie Day
Les Jours Tristes – Yann Tiersen
You were the last high – The Dandy Warhols
A Quai – Yann Tiersen
Rapture – Laura Veirs
Comptine D’un Autre Été: L’après Midi – Yann Tiersen
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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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#337 Terrorism in the age of unreason (Foreign Policy)
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Edition #337
Act 1: An inconvenient trial – Daily Show
Act 2: GOP lies on terrorism – Rachel Maddow
Act 3: KSM Trail Formidable Opponent – Colbert Report
Act 4: Fox News making up BS on captured terrorists – Young Turks
Act 5: Afghan thinks every American with fake beard is CIA – The Onion
Act 6: Rank terrorism hypocrisy – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Wag of the finger on waterboarding – Colbert Report
Act 8: Cheney’s memo falls flat – Countdown
Act 9: Right wing talking points debunked – Young Turks
Act 10: The Word – Faux n tell – Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Senator – I believe in racial and ethnic profiling – Young Turks
Music:
Circus Music
Hannah – Freelance Whales
Grapevine Fires – Death Cab For Cutie
Stuck in the middle with you – Stealers Wheel
Your Mama Don’t Dance – Loggins and Messina
The district sleeps tonight – The Postal Service
M79 – Vampire Weekend
Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours – The Smiths
Little lies – Fleetwood Mac
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#336 Don’t complain, you could buy an election too if you wanted (Supreme Court)
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Edition #336
Act 1: Who owns our politicians – Young Turks
Act 2: Corporate free speech – Colbert Report
Act 3: Jeffery Toobin on purchasing courts Part 1 – Moyer’s Journal
Act 4: Dealing with the Supreme Court decision – New Yorker’s Political Scene
Act 5: Jeffery Toobin on purchasing courts Part 2 – Moyer’s Journal
Act 6: Obama getting his fight back – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Buying the bench – Moyers’ Journal
Act 8: Americans hate corporate money in elections – Young Turks
Act 9: The Word – Prece-Don’t – Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Supreme Court’s Five Circus Midgets – Ring of Fire
Music:
We could be friends – Freelance Whales
Ne Me Quitte Pas – Regina Spektor
Bigmouth strikes again – The Smiths
If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out – Cat Stevens
Nothing better – The Postal Service
Where’s my mind – The Pixies
Turn this boat around – Matt & Kim
Messages – Xavier Rudd
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#335 They’re here, they’re discriminated against, they’re used to it (Rights)
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Edition #335
Act 1: First DADT hearing tomorrow – Rachel Maddow
Act 2: High court bans same-sex friendships – The Onion
Act 3: DADT popular in polls – Counterspin
Act 4: Dreaded Bliss in New Jersey – Daily Show
Act 5: They’re here, they’re discriminated against, they’re used to it – The Bugle
Act 6: Fight to serve – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Be almost all that you can be – Colbert Report
Act 8: New law would ban loveless marriages – The Onion
Act 9: Praise for Obama on DADT – The Progressive
Act 10: Gays would get tattoos in the military – Wait wait, don’t tell me
Act 11: A few gay men and women – Daily Show
Act 12: Fight to serve 2 – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Hermaphrodites Can’t Be Gay – Colbert Report
Music:
Move you – Anya Marina
The King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. 2 & 3 – Neutral Milk Hotel
Starring – Freelance Whales
Redemption Song – Bob Marley
Am I wrong – Love Spit Love
What difference does it make – The Smiths
Wild Night – Van Morrison
I was married – Tegan and Sara
Cat faces – Ugly Casanova
Don’t ask me why – Billy Joel
Old man – Neil Young
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#334 No bridges to burn (Healthcare)
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Edition #334
Act 1: The healthcare debate is making me sick – Brian Unger
Act 2: Pass healthcare, DUH – Rachel Maddow
Act 3: 6 facts on Obama and Dems being bipartisan – Young Turks
Act 4: Reconciliation deemed risky – Counterspin
Act 5: Secondhand smoke linked to secondhand coolness – The Onion
Act 6: Haiti vs healthcare – Black Tie Martini Club Oddcast
Act 7: Obama gets tough(er) with GOP – Young Turks
Act 8: The Word, Political Suicide – Colbert Report
Act 9: Real life death panels = Countdown
Act 10: The apparent trap and Hawaiian healthcare – Daily Show
Act 11: Obama has no bridges to burn – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Has Obama Decided Not to Do Health Care Anymore? – Young Turks
Music:
All the same – Sick Puppies
Build me up Buttercup – The Foundations
Don’t worry baby – Beach Boys
Never there – Cake
Cigarette Smoke – Arctic Monkeys
Lives in the balance – Jackson Browne
Directions – Josh Rouse
Play with fire – Rolling Stones
Pura Carroceria – Los Del Rio
King Kamehameha – The Waikiki Hula Boys
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#333 Soulless, Clueless, Feckless, Brazen (Media)
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Edition #333
Act 1: Limbaugh’s Haiti comment – Countdown
Act 2: Limbaugh the hyena – Ring of Fire
Act 3: O’Reilly and the Haiti telethon – Countdown
Act 4: Even better than the real thing – The Daily Show
Act 5: Daughter Cheney can’t debate – Rachel Maddow
Act 6: The Word – Two-faced – Colbert Report
Act 7: The Wash Post and the Fiscal Times – Counterspin
Act 8: Gretchen Carlson dumbs down – Daily Show
Act 9: Brian Williams on Jon Stewart – NPR
Act 10: How awful it is when media is weak – Counterspin
Act 11: Q and O – Fox News cuts the feed – Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Wag of the finger to Fox News – Colbert Report
Music:
Like humans do – David Byrne
Circle of life – Faca Kulu, Lebo M., The Lion King Ensemble & Tsidii Le Loka
The man in me – Bob Dylan
Fairytale – Sara Bareilles
Duck and run – 3 Doors Down
The asshole song – Jimmy Buffett
Highly suspicious – My Morning Jacket
Plum dumb – The Dead Milkmen
Good people – Jack Johnson
Live like you’re dying – Lenka
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#332 The Futility of Leaning Right (Congress)
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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
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#331 Some take on banks while others lie to protect them (Economics)
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Edition #331
Act 1: Obama takes on bankers – Daily Show
Act 2: Moyers on greed – Moyers’ Journal
Act 3: Economists being right isn’t enough – Counterspin
Act 4: Eliot Spitzer – Colbert Report
Act 5: Hasty freeze on budget – Rachel Maddow
Act 6: Obama needs to tell a bank regulation story – Political Scene
Act 7: The gang of five – Slate Magazine
Act 8: Austan Goolsbee on the budget drop – Daily Show
Act 9: Leaked memo on lying to protect banks – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Word – Manifest Density Economics – Colbert Report
Music:
Lost – Coldplay
Look what you’ve done – JET
Ain’t that unusual – Goo Goo Dolls
Candy everybody wants – 10,000 Maniacs
Sleeping in – The Postal Service
Story of a lonely guy – Blink 182
Cut it out – Anya Marina
Rescue me – Fontella Bass
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#330 Impending Mending or Coming Crash? (Economics)
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Edition #330
Act 1: Financial inquiry report – Daily Show
Act 2: Another economic disaster coming – Young Turks
Act 3: Banker are America’s new thugs – Ring of Fire
Act 4: Bernie Madoff M.D. – Slate
Act 5: Matt Taibbi on Goldman Sachs – Colbert Report
Act 6: Obama starts to revamp economic team – Young Turks
Act 7: Regulation fundamentally works – Rachel Maddow
Act 8: David Walker’s plan for the economy – Daily Show
Act 9: Obama finally standing up to banks – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Obama’s Bailout Fee: Is It Enough – Young Turks
Music:
Working class hero – Exit Clov
Jump jive and wail – Brian Setzer Orchestra
Say hey – Michael Franti & Spearhead
All will be well – The Gabe Dixon Band
The Bubble Machine – Leslie Bricusse (From Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)
I stand corrected – Vampire Weekend
This is twice now – Lydia
I saved the world today – The Eurythmics
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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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#325 Where religion and ignorance meet (Religion)
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Edition #325
Act 1: Conservapedia working on conservative bible – Colbert Report
Act 2: Hume on Woods and religion – Counterspin
Act 3: Interview on conservative bible – Colbert Report
Act 4: Exporting homophobia to Uganda – The Progressive
Act 5: Uganda be kidding me Part 2 – Rachel Maddow
Act 6: Christmas billboard stirs seasonally inappropriate emotions – The Onion
Act 7: Kill the gays law hits major news in US – Thom Hartmann
Act 8: Prayer effort seeks right-thinking from liberals – NPR
Act 9: Killing people to make magic potions Part 1 – Young Turks
Act 10: Christ returns to NBA – The Onion
Act 11: Killing people to make magic potions Part 2 – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Uganda be kidding me Part 1
Music:
Blacking Out The Friction – Death Cab For Cutie
Redemption song – Bob Marley
God – The Dodos
Hate me – Blue October
Directions – Josh Rouse
Carol of the bells – United States Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus
Gods gonna cut you down – Johnny Cash
Like a prayer – Rufio
You’re wrong – NOFX
Jammin – Bob Marley
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#324 When you want to cry, laugh (Economics)
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Edition #324
Act 1: Flight Delay – Daily Show
Act 2: Predicting economies Part 1 – This American Life
Act 3: Smiley-face dollar to boost economy – The Onion
Act 4: Predicting economies Part 2 – This American Life
Act 5: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Too Big to Fail – Daily Show
Act 6: Fed’s Dead with Bernie Sanders Part 1 – Colbert Report
Act 7: Norway returns to a pillage-based economy – The Onion
Act 8: Fed’s Dead with Bernie Sanders Part 2 – Colbert Report
Act 9: NY Times exposes terrible big bank scam – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
American Idle – Daily Show
Music:
Don’t you – Simple Minds
Once around the block – Badly Drawn Boy
Crazy – Seal
Making me nervous – Brad Sucks
Island in the sun – Weezer
Catch my disease – Ben Lee
La Noy̩e РYann Tiersen
Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare – Matt and Kim
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The Onion
The Daily Show
Colbert Report
The Young Turks
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#323 Obama moves Hopelessly forward in Afghanistan (Podcast)
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Edition #323
Act 1: Rushing a decision on Afghanistan – Counterspin
Act 2: Obama mimics Bush on Afghanistan – The Progressive
Act 3: Bunker-buster averts doomed marriage – The Onion
Act 4: Report released on Afghanistan – Rachel Maddow
Act 5: Dan Rather on Afghanistan – Daily Show
Act 6: Jim Hightower discusses Obama’s war Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 7: Why aren’t there bigger protests – The Progressive
Act 8: Jim Hightower discusses Obama’s war Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 9: Moore and Feingold speak against escalation – Young Turks
Act 10: Lara Logan on Afghanistan – Colbert Report
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Cenk debates war escalation – Countdown
Music:
Trouble me – 10,000 Maniacs
Choke – The Cardigans
Celebration Guns – Stars
Million faces – Paolo Nutini
Oh Lately It’s So Quiet – OK GO
Everybody’s gone to war – Nerina Pallot
Up against the wall – Peter Bjorn & John
Meteor Show – Owl City
Ain’t no reason – Brett Dennen
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#322 Reason to celebrate? (Podcast)
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Edition #322
Act 1: Episode recap from The DC – Daily Show
Act 2: Lincoln conservative on healthcare – Counterspin
Act 3: GOP weakens health bill and then bash it – Young Turks
Act 4: Is GOP serious about fixing healthcare – Slate
Act 5: Open letter on free health clinics – Countdown
Act 6: Obama defends health bill from the left – NPR
Act 7: For he’s a jowly good fellow – Colbert Report
Act 8: Media misleads on opinions of health reform – Counterspin
Act 9: Devastating healthcare quotes from Obama – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Idiot Democrats Think It’s Good News Their Voters are Pissed at Them – The Young Turks
Music:
Hero – Enrique Iglesias
I need to know – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Why pretend – Mandi Perkins
Objection – Shakira
Fake Empire – The National
Serre-moi РTry̦
Haunting me – Oona Garthwaite
Everybody’s fool – Evanescence
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