#341 Flagrant ignorance (Climate Change)
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Edition #341
Act 1: Unusually large snow storm – Daily Show
Act 2: Snowpocalypse vs. climate change – Media Matters
Act 3: GOP doesn’t believe in climate change – Countdown
Act 4: Does winter snow disprove climate change – Young Turks
Act 5: Climate change deniers given second wind – Counterspin
Act 6: Denial also an inexplicable position on climate change – The Bugle
Act 7: Full court shot on climate change – Rachel Maddow
Act 8: False balance on snow vs. climate change – Counterspin
Act 9: Belief in climate change hinges on worldview – NPR
Act 10: Fox and Friends don’t understand that it’s cold in winter – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Colbert We’re Off to See the Blizzard – Colbert Report
Music:
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When the cold days come – Theo Bard
Late Afternoon – Theo Bard
Having a good time – Theo Bard
All the orders gone – Theo Bard
Everything you have – Theo Bard
Evil eyes – Theo Bard
This fickle world – Theo Bard
Drums of freedom – Theo Bard
Middle class boy – Theo Bard
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#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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#338 They’re dickholes, but they’re smart (Economics)
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Edition #338
Act 1: Rush Limbaugh wants you to get screwed – Young Turks
Act 2: Area CEO doesn’t have time for this crap – The Onion
Act 3: Inherent racism in Tea Party movement – Countdown
Act 4: Thomas Frank Part 1 – Moyers’ Journal
Act 5: New cereal for poor stays crunchy in water – The Onion
Act 6: Thomas Frank Part 2 – Moyers’ Journal
Act 7: David Brooks says to raise taxes on middle class – Counterspin
Act 8: Devastating quotes from top economists – Young Turks
Act 9: Make it rain – Daily Show
Act 10: Obama out to lunch on banker bonuses – The Progressive
Act 11: B of A attacked through YouTube – Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Fire Departments Billing Homeowners to Put Out Fires! – Young Turks
Music:
Smile like you mean it – The Killers
Not enough time – Inxs
Look at you – My Morning Jacket
Hard luck story – Men at work
Happy meal – The Cardigans
Winter song – Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson
Young folks – Peter Bjorn And John
Where do I begin – The Chemical Brothers
Radio – One Ring Zero
Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before – The Smiths
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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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#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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#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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#328 Corporations is people! (Supreme Court)
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Edition #328
Act 1: Supreme court blows up politics – It’s All Politics
Act 2: Corporate personhood floodgates – Thom Hartmann
Act 3: The story of the case for corporate spending – On the Media
Act 4: Congress, brought to you by – Wait wait don’t tell me!
Act 5: Ever-living vampires – Thom Hartmann
Act 6: Constitutional amendment – The Progressive
Act 7: Supreme court makes buying politicians legal – The Young Turks
Act 8: Barney Frank on fighting SC decision – Rachel Maddow
Act 9: Nader on corporate personhood – Thom Hartmann
Act 10: Special Comment on worst decision ever – Countdown
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Supreme Corp – Daily Show
Music:
God’s Radar – The Dixie Hummingbirds
Welcome to the machine – Pink Floyd
Tuesday’s gone – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Crash – The Primitives
Turtle (Bonobo Remix) – Pilote
Recorded live in Copenhagen – Theo Bard
Maple Leaf Rag – Scott Joplin
Drown – Smashing Pumpkins
Taking over me – Evanescence
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#327 Stealth Care is Mass Backwards (Healthcare)
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Edition #327
Act 1: Stelth care reform – Daily Show
Act 2: Fixing the wrong healthcare problems – Ring of Fire
Act 3: Robert Knutter and Matt Taibbi on health reform Part 1 – Moyers’ Journal
Act 4: Limbaugh on healthcare costs – Young Turks
Act 5: Robert Knutter and Matt Taibbi on health reform Part 2 – Moyers’ Journal
Act 6: Michael Pollen interview – Daily Show
Act 7: Alan Grayson on health reform – Ring of Fire
Act 8: Health lobbyists rule the system – Young Turks
Act 9: Mass Backwards – Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Kathleen Sebelius – Colbert Report
Music:
This too shall pass – OKGO
Mushaboom – Feist
I’m Not over – Carolina Liar
I go blind – Hootie And The Blowfish
You can do it – No Doubt
All U can eat – Ben Folds
Sinnerman – Nina Simone
Pale Blue Eyes – The Velvet Underground
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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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#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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