#451 Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Part 1
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Act 1: Giffords shooting 9/11 tapes
Act 2: Are you happy now? – The Progressive
Song 2: Mad World – VSQ Film School: Cult Classics and Indie Favs
Act 3: Sheriff Dupnik’s press conference comments
Act 4: Violence outbreak affects the nutty – Countdown
Song 4: Sick As a Dog – I Don’t Know What I’m Doing
Act 5: Giffords interview prior to shooting – Young Turks
Song 5: How to Save a Life – Unravel – The String Quartet Tribute to the Fray
Act 6: Right-wing downplays threats to Democrats – Media Matters
Act 7: Thinking of other tragedies – It’s all politics
Song 7: You Talk Too Much – Carnival Time – The Best of Ric Records, Vol. 1
Act 8: Politics and violence – Rachel Maddow
Song 8: Forbidden Curiosities – Stages
Act 9: When ‘nut’ ain’t enough – Mumia Abu-Jamal
Song 9: Glycerine – Sixteen Stone
Act 10: The guy is crazy but that’s not all – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 10: I Hear the Bells – Haughty Melodic
Act 11: Is Jared Loughner conservative or liberal? – Young Turks
Song 11: Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before – Strangeways, Here We Come
Act 12: Even after Tucson, don’t limit speech – The Progressive
Song 12: Speak to me/Breathe – Pink Floyd
Act 13: False equivalence of violent rhetoric – Counterspin
Song 13: Nothing Else Matters – Inquisition Symphony
Act 14: Does Megyn Kelly watch her own network? – Media Matters
Act 15: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Angriness – Colbert Report
Song 15: (Don’t Fear) The Reaper – Agents of Fortune
Act 16: On aggressive rhetoric – On the Media
Song 16: Jar of Hearts (Live At Ocean Way Studios) – The Ocean Way Sessions – EP
Act 17: Richard Eskow responds to claims shooting was not political – Young Turks
Song 17: Crazy – St. Elsewhere
Act 18: Special comment renouncing violent rhetoric – Countdown
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Limbaugh: Democrats Behind Loughner – Young Turks
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#447 The Hammer and the Gavel Part 2 (Tom Delay)
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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
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The Big Buy Tom Delay’s Stolen Congress – Brave New Films
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#394 A battle finally won in the war (Gay rights)
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Act 1: Lesbian mothers – Colbert Report
Song 1: Middle Class Boy – Listen Carefully E.P
Act 2: Crazy gay marriage speech – Young Turks
Song 2: The Bleeding Heart Show – Twin Cinema
Act 3: Kentucky bans gay pet weddings – The Onion
Song 3: Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps – Fashion Nugget (Deluxe Version)
Act 4: Time to pay reparations to gays – Thom Hartmann
Song 4: January Wedding – I and Love and You
Act 5: Breakdown of prop 8 – Rachel Maddow
Song 5: Celebration Guns – Set Yourself On Fire
Act 6: Commentary on prop 8 – Countdown
Song 6: One – Inquisition Symphony
Act 7: Right wing reactions to Prop 8 ruling – Media Matters
Act 8: Californigaytions – Daily Show
Song 8: Curtains close – The Arctic Monkeys
Act 9: Landmark ruling on same-sex marriage – The Progressive
Song 9: Solid Ground – Dougie Maclean
Act 10: The winning lawyers – Rachel Maddow
Song 10: Dreams – Magnolia (Music from the Motion Picture)
Act 11: Prop 8 tossed out – It’s all politics
Song 11: Goodbye Stranger – The Very Best of Supertramp
Act 12: Gay marriage is inevitable – Young Turks
Song 12: Time to Take Out the Trash – I Don’t Know What I’m Doing
Act 13: How to ruin same-sex marriages – Colbert Report
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Cenk Rant On Gay Marriage and The Bible – Young Turks
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#384 Kagan’s vapid and hollow confirmation (Supreme Court)
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Act 1: Kagan on Supreme Court confirmations – Wait wait don’t tell me
Song 1: Play the Game – Work
Act 2: Too many Jews – Le Show
Song 2: Fade to Black – Inquisition Symphony
Act 3: Like a lady – Media Matters
Act 4: Gen. Boykin vs. Kagan – Rachel Maddow
Song 4: Ready or Not – The Score
Act 5: Franken on the importance of SCOTUS – Young Turks
Song 5: See You In the Light – Yell Fire!
Act 6: Kagan confirmation process – It’s all politics
Song 6: Keep On Moving Forward – Roots, Rock & Revolution
Act 7: Thurgood Marshall case histories – Thom Hartmann
Song 7: Powerless – The Big Picture
Act 8: Kagan in a turban – Rachel Maddow
Song 8: Will You Remember? – To the Faithful Departed (The Complete Sessions 1996-1997)
Act 9: Terrible confirmation process – Citizen Radio
Song 9: Carolina Dreams – US – EP
Act 10: More of less free – Young Turks
Song 10: I’m Free – Hotwired
Act 11: Release the Kagan – Daily Show
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Supreme Court Justice Sweetness – Colbert Report
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