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Kick right-wing butt! Listen to this podcast for a month and you will be able to kick the butt of any right-winger in a debate. I guarantee it! Subjects will include: Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, George Bush, conservative pro-Iraq war draft dodgers, right-wing Christians doing the opposite of what Jesus said in Matthew 25, Ann Coulter, Alan Colmes, Rush Limbaugh, wealth distribution, Al Franken, Republicans, Democrats, Bill Maher. Upcoming will be interviews with live debate.
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106 - Reason To Cheer, Part II: If Americans Hold Progressive Views, Why Don't They Describe Themse …
Mainstream poll after mainstream poll has consistently shown solid majorities of your fellow citizens -- often 2/3 or more -- endorse all of these progressive positions:--the government should provide more, not less services--the government should take care of those who can't take care of themselves …
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Live Show Rebroadcast: Guest, Cory Burnell, Founder of Christian Exodus
Greetings!I'm Jack Clark, host of the Blast the Right podcast, two years old and going strong. If this is the first time you're listening to Blast The Right, please go back to last week's podcast if you want to know what the regular, prerecorded show is like.The regular prerecorded show now comes ou …
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105 - Reason To Cheer, Part I: Americans Support Progressive Policies On Most Every Issue, And Our …
In today's podcast you'll see beyond a shadow of a doubt that we progressives are not the fringe, the right-wing is. You'll hear how our progressive views are indisputably shared by the majority of Americans. This will be, in sum, a cheer yourself up podcast. Smile, Mr. or Ms. Progressive, you're no …
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104 - Busting The Right's Lies: Universal Health Coverage Doesn't Mean Long Waits For Care / Robert …
A slight change of pace today. Instead of one long segment, we'll discuss two topics. First up, debunking some of the latest right-wing talking points against universal health care, including the lies that we already have the best health care system in the world, and that universal health care leads …
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103 - Conservative Group Calls For Presidential Candidates To Sign Pledge To Reverse Bush Constitut …
Today we're going to hear from some conservatives who have banded together to stop Bush's power grab. You heard me correctly, conservatives.You'll get an overabundance of ammo to use when next you have the pleasure of engaging in conversation, a right-winger who hasn't yet been enlightened by these …
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102 - The Science Be Damned: Gag Orders And Censorship Are The Right-Wing Prescription For Your Hea …
Today the focus is on health.I'll tell you how gag orders and censorship seem to be the preferred right-wing prescription for improving the health of the American public.It all relates to recent revelations by Bush's former Surgeon General.Dr. Richard H. Carmona recently testified before the House O …
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101 - Hugo Chavez And The Television Station: Fact Vs. Fiction
Today I'm going to discuss with you the recent controversy over Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's not renewing the broadcast license of a television station in that country.All nations license the right to use their public airwaves, since the demand for use of the airwaves far outstrips the supply. …
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100 - Immigration Reform's Path To Citizenship: It's Not Amnesty, It's Keeping Our Part Of The Barg …
Today we're going to come back to an issue we last discussed in depth over a year ago, immigration. We'll examine several aspects of this most contentious subject, and I'll present a way of looking at the situation you may not have heard before. In short, I'll tell you why, it's not about amnesty--i …
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99 - More GOP Racism: "Vote Caging" To Prevent African-Americans From Exercising Their Right To Vote
Today we're going to discuss yet another example of GOP racism: their recent attempts to disenfranchise African-American voters.The modern day Republican Party is not the party of Lincoln. Quite the opposite.Modern day Republicans don't walk around in Ku Klux Klan robes. But the GOP has engaged in a …
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98 - "Enhanced Interrogations": Right-Wingers Eagerly Embrace Soviet Torture Methods
Today we're going to show how the right-wing is playing directly out of the Soviet Union playbook.That should be something to throw in their face, huh?Nothing, probably not even the Iraq War itself, has soured world opinion on the United States, as much as the Bush administration's embrace of tortur …
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97 - Listeners Sound Off About How Right-Wing Road Safety Policies Endanger Us All
Today we'll follow up on an earlier podcast about how the Bush administration is putting you at risk on the roads.The listener comments we'll go over will provide yet more evidence that putting profit before the public good, is the right-wing way.Safety group and insurance industry research shows th …
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96 - Right-Wing Charity: Sufficient Atonement For Their Sins?
A change of pace today. Not a lot of numerical stats and percentages, but some political and moral theory.We'll delve into three interrelated subjects: --the value of charity--right-wing charity vs. the consequences of their public policies, and--liberal vs. progressive prescriptions for a better …
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95 - Latin American Right-Wing Reaps What It Sows: No-Nonsense Land Reform In Venezuela
Today we're going to discuss another major step towards achieving economic and social justice in Venezuela: no-nonsense land reform that allows malnourished, hungry people to grow food to feed themselves and their families. And, we'll learn what it really takes to be in solidarity with the Third Wor …
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94 - Progressive Victory! Maryland Enacts First Living Wage Requirement For State Government Contr …
Maryland has passed the first statewide living wage statute.Under the law, employers with state contracts will generally have to pay workers a minimum amount ??? $11.30 an hour in the Baltimore-Washington corridor and $8.50 an hour in the rural counties, where wages and prices are usually lower.Amon …
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93 - Food Workers' Lungs Destroyed: Another Case Study In How Right-Wing Policies Increase Human Mi …
Today, we're going to discuss another example of the right-wing letting their ideology trump science, and in the process, increase human misery, suffering, pain and death.It concerns...microwave popcorn, of all things. You wouldn't think manufacturing popcorn would be a dangerous job, that could sev …
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92 - Right-Wing Nightmare: Americans Favor Heavily Taxing The Rich To Redistribute Wealth
Today, I have great news for you. New polling data gives you and me some really heavy-duty ammo to fight back against a particular type of name-calling by the right, that some of us have endured for decades.It all relates to wealth distribution in America.Here are the three main pieces of ordnance, …
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91 - Denying Reality: Bill O'Reilly Blames Anti-US World Public Opinion On....Rosie O'Donnell!
Today, we'll listen to Bill O'Reilly explain to us why world public opinion opposes the Bush administration's foreign policy. The reason is???. Rosie O'Donnell.O'Reilly's propaganda is part of a concerted effort by the right-wing fog machine to divert attention from the disaster in Iraq, and pin the …
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90 - Shameless Right-Wing Greed: How Vulture Funds Prey On Impoverished Third World Nations
Today we're going to discuss an incredibly immoral way to make huge sums of money: vulture funds which prey on destitute Third World nations. As you might imagine, there's a strong right-wing connection.First I'll give you an overview of the vulture fund process. Next we'll go over some specific exa …
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89 - Right-Wingers Can Be Proud: 2005 Saw The Greatest Income Inequality Since The Great Depression …
As a general rule of thumb, everything right-wingers do is designed to accomplish one of two goals: either (a) transfer wealth to the already-rich from everyone else, or (b) distract everyone else from the fact that (a) is occurring.As far as (a), transfer wealth to the rich from everyone else, the …
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88 - Listen To A Progressive Third World Leader Tell Us In His Own Words The Truth Our Mass Media I …
Today we're going to hear a progressive Third World leader in his own voice. Throughout Latin America, the impoverished masses, who sometimes constitute on outright majority of their nations' populations, are rising up and electing progressive leaders. These progressive leaders promise to rule in th …
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