#512 The manufactured debt crisis Part 1 (Special Event)
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Act 1: Special Comment: Do Not Cut Care, Mr. President Part 1 – Countdown Air Date: 07-12-11
Song 1: Candle In the Wind (Ben’s Song) – Only God Can Judge Me
Act 2: Obama and the Politics of Surrender – The Progressive Air Date: 07/11/11
Song 2: Surrender – Heaven Tonight (Remastered)
Act 3: Special Comment: Do Not Cut Care, Mr. President Part 2 – Countdown Air Date: 07-12-11
Song 3: Lives In the Balance – The Very Best of Jackson Browne
Act 4: Cut Medicare, SS & Taxes For Rich – Gang of Six – Young Turks
Song 4: Right Here, Right Now – The Greatest Hits – Why Try Harder
Act 5: Debt Ceiling Hypocrisy – Jim Hightower Air Date: 07/11/11
Song 5: My Favourite Game – Gran Turismo
Act 6: U.S Debt Ceiling – The Bugle – Air Date: 07-14-11
Song 6: Serre-moi – Grain de sable
Act 7: Manufactured crises get solved easily and cynically – Common Sense Air Date: 7-20-11
Song 7: Hey Ya – VSQ Tribute to Outkast’s “Hey Ya”
Act 8: Rhetoric Surrounding Debt Ceiling Debate Gets Ridiculous – Media Matters Air Date: 07/12/11
Act 9: Obama Trying To Be A Republican Accidental Admission – Jimmy Dore on TYT
Song 9: Where Have All Your Good Words Gone – Beasts of Seasons
Act 10: Washington Game of ‘Chicken’ Dems v GOP – On the Media – 07-15-11
Song 10: A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours – Strangeways, Here We Come
Act 11: Immovable object vs irresistible force – Rachel Maddow Air Date: 7-19-11
Voicemails:
Personal story of workers rights – Whitney from Missouri
Correlation between rebuilding the dream voting and messaging works – Anonymous
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics
Final comments on Rebuilding the American Dream with Van Jones’ speech clip
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Broke Back Mounting – America’s Dystopian Future – Daily Show
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#499 Deregulating and misusing the media (Media)
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Act 1: A bit of explaining about net neutrality – Jimmy Dore Show
Song 1: Edge of the Ocean – Long Distance
Act 2: Rush Limbaugh Lies On Net Neutrality – Young Turks
Song 2: Julie-O -Kevin “KO” Olusola
Act 3: Fox’s Eric Bolling Auditions for Glenn Beck’s Spot – Media Matters
Act 4: The effects of net neutrality legislation Part 1 – On the Media
Song 4: Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) – Lungs
Act 5: Sleazy Website Will Link To Anything – The Onion
Song 5: Finding Something to Do – 2011 Warped Tour Compilation
Act 6: The effects of net neutrality legislation Part 2 – On the Media
Song 6: Catch My Disease – Awake Is the New Sleep
Act 7: Obama Admin Wiretaps the Internet – Young Turks
Song 7: Play the Game – Work
Act 8: The right’s reaction to net neutrality – Counterspin
Song 8: RazorWire (Instrumental) – Chris Priest
Act 9: This is what counts as an “apology” over at Fox Business News – Media Matters
Act 10: Obama Caves On Net Neutrality, GOP Claims Government Takeover – Young Turks
Song 10: Fool – Laundry Service
Act 11: Elderly Woman Destroys Internet – The Onion
Song 11: La valse d’Amélie (Piano Version) – Amélie (Sountrack from the Motion Picture)
Act 12: Rush to Race-Bait – Media Matters
Act 13: Keith Olbermann on CurrentTV – Colbert Report
Song 13: Welcome Back, Kotter (Main Theme) – 100 Hits: TV Themes
Act 14: The media’s know-nothing, scolding, sex-negative bullshit – Dan Savage
Voicemails:
We need to hear more about the people’s budget – Vikki from HI
Why it’s never ethical to eat meat – Carl in NJ
Response to military comments on Bin Laden – Fred
Voicemail Music:
Turtle (Bonobo Mix) – One Offs… Remixes & B Sides
Final comments on putting Citizen Radio discussion to bed and thanking volunteers
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Weinergate- Blogger that broke story – Colbert Report
Bonus Citizen Radio voicemails:
Calling back in Regarding Citizen Radio – Daryl from CA
Citizen Radio is bigots – Bill From Lubbock, TX
Citizen Radio challenges in a good way – Paul from ?
Clarification on veganism discussion on Citizen Radio – Scott from New York
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#364 Delusions of fascism, journalism and grandeur (Media)
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Act 1: Glenn Beck’s Nazi Tourette’s – Daily Show
Song 1: Better be quite now – Elliott Smith
Act 2: The power of conservative media – Young Turks
Song 2: Everything In Its Right Place – Radiohead
Act 3: Dissecting NBC report on financial reform – Jimmy Dore
Song 3: Too much information – Duran Duran
Act 4: Bernie Goldberg fires back – Daily Show
Song 4: Knock yourself out – Jon Brion
Act 5: Fox News spins net neutrality – Young Turks
Song 5: So much more – Marc Robillard
Act 6: Jon Meacham on sale of Newsweek – Daily Show
Song 6: Who will buy – Oliver Twist
Act 7: Goldman defended in the media – Counterspin
Song 7: You’re a wolf – Sea Wolf
Act 8: Glenn to the mountaintop – Colbert Report
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Obama Slams Tea Party Rallies & Fox News Reacts – Young Turks
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#360 For the sake of dinosaur squeezings (Oil Spill)
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Act 1: Dinosaur squeezings – Mark Fiore
Act 2: Conversation with Joe Romm – Countdown
Act 3: One final taste of oysters – Young Turks
Act 4: Wind farm vs. oil spill – Colbert Report
Act 5: Discussion of oil spill – Ring of Fire
Act 6: BP oil spill – The Progressive
Act 7: George Will lies on wind vs. oil spill – Jimmy Dore
Act 8: Beyond Awful – Daily Show
Act 9: Right wing conspiracy – Media Matters
Act 10: Spill kills Obama energy bill – Young Turks
Act 11: Politics of the spill – Countdown
Act 12: GOP, Haliburton and the spill – Le Show
Act 13: Claiming drilling is safe – Media Matters
Act 14: Drill baby, drill – Colbert Report
Act 15: Lessons learned from Exxon Valdez – Young Turks
Act 16: No second thoughts – The Progressive
Act 17: Maddow’s final comments – Rachel Maddow
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BP’s Undersea Dome – Colbert Report
Music
Daydream – The Lovin’ Spoonful
Good day sunshine – The Beatles
Hold it in – Jukebox The Ghost
Beach song – The Dead Milkmen
Black water – Doobie Brothers
Into the ocean – Blue October
Take a look around – Limp Bizkit
La Valse d’Amélie – Yann Tiersen
Take a chance – The Magic Numbers
Deep water – Pansy Division
Le Moulin – Yann Tiersen
Lessons learned – Matt & Kim
Don’t trust me – 3OH!3
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