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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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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Act 1: Conservatives don’t get Colbert – Countdown
Act 2: Fox News deep in projection – The Young Turks
Act 3: Gore Vidal on the current Republicans – Bill Maher
Act 4: Stunned McCain Supporter – The Onion
Act 5: Swine Flu stokes racism – Countdown
Act 6: The hypocrisy of Glenn Beck and Fox News – The Young Turks
Act 7: Pizza Party – Slate.com
Act 8: Republicans blocking unnammed nominees already – Countdown
Act 9: Rebranding the party with a pizza party – The Daily Show
Act 10: Discussing the fate of the Republican Party – The Young Turks

Music:
Clowns (Can You See Me Now?) – t.A.T.u.

Unhappy Birthday – The Smiths
Ain’t No Reason – Brett Dennen

Starry Eyed Surprise – Paul Oakenfold

You were the last high – The Dandy Warhols

Veterans – The Clips
Messages – Xavier Rudd

Can’t stop loving you – Van Halen

Take a chance on me – Abba

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Act 1: Viagra to the Taliban – Wait Wait
Act 2: Story of a wrongful death Part 1 – Democracy NOW!
Act 3: On the Isreal/Palistine question – The Young Turks
Act 4: Story of a wrongful death Part 2 – Democracy NOW!
Act 5: NSA spying on Americans – ABC News
Act 6: State senator on ‘The Gay’ – The Young Turks
Act 7: Let them into the house – Slate.com

Music:
(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher – Jackie Wilson

Army Corps of Architects – Death Cab For Cutie

Skilly Widden – Cantiga
No Bravery – James Blunt

Needle in the Hay – Elliott Smith

Fuck you – Lily Allen

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Act 1: Green jobs with Van Jones Part 1 – Meet the Bloggers
Act 2: Eco-friendly Hummers – The Onion
Act 3: Green jobs with Van Jones Part 2 – Meet the Bloggers
Act 4: Remaking an edge city – NPR
Act 5: Green jobs with Van Jones Part 3 – Meet the Bloggers
Act 6: Global warming irreversable for 1000 years – Ring of Fire
Act 7: Measuring the national carbon footprint – Slate

Music:
Knock on wood – Amy Stewart
When you were young – The Killers
Can’t Get Enough Of You Baby – Smashmouth
Don’t dream it’s over – Sixpence None The Richer
Where is my mind – The Pixies
July, July! – The Decemberists

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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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Act 1: The green collar economy – Democaracy NOW!
Act 2: The Blue Green Alliance Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 3: Alternative fuel SUV – The Onion
Act 4: The Blue Green Alliance Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 5: News of the warm – LeShow
Act 6: Can cities save the planet? – Slate.com

Music:
Directions – Josh Rouse

Working class hero – Exit Clov

Still Life – Men at work

She moves – Stigmata
100 years – Five for fighting

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From the “Yikes!” section of Bush’s spoonerisms and gaffes:

“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”—U.S. News & World Report, Jan. 3, 2000

and…

“I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.”—Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008

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Act 1: Destructive myth about Big 3 autoworkers – CounterSpin
Act 2: Union activist on the Big 3 Part 1 – Democracy NOW!
Act 3: Reclaiming Detroit – NPR
Act 4: Union activist on the Big 3 Part 2 – Democracy NOW!
Act 5: Minds in the toilet – Slate.com
Act 6: Activist clamor for White House organic garden – NPR
Act 7: Robots, not roads – Slate.com
Act 8: 50 cent gax tax proposal – Car Talk

Music:
Starting now – Ingrid Michaelson

Only ones who know – Arctic Monkeys

Friends and family – Trik Turner

I just want you – Ozzy Osbourn

Eclipse – Apoptygma Berzerk

Move you – Anya Marina

Just a ride – Jem

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Act 1: Holes in our socks – Slate
Act 2: Big finance and the Big 3 – Maron v Seder
Act 3: Ruining our children’s future – Ring of Fire
Act 4: Economic crisis traced to bounced check – The Onion
Act 5: Limbaugh discovers “unfairness” – Conceptual Guerilla
Act 6: Down go the newspapers – Daily Show
Act 7: Pentions for auto workers – Maron v Seder
Act 8: Christians pray for money to a false idol – The Young Turks
Act 9: The end of food – On the Media
Act 10: Being a leader is more than nice shoes – Unger Report

Music:
More and More – Capitan Hollywood Project
Super Mario Brothers 2 – Estradasphere
Nothing Better – The Postal Service

Keepsake – State Radio

Cry – James Blunt

Take it or leave it – The Strokes

Dance with me – Orleans

The Silvery Light of a Dream – The Apples in Stereo

Hungry like the wolf – Duran Duran

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