This is a very acerbic look at the failed political career of Sarah Palin. In celebration of her refusal to run for office in 2012 we have pasted together some of our favorite past news items that focus on her. These recordings are from our other show – Everyone’s a Critic.
News items for the week of 9/26 – 10/3
B-Shoc gives a Christian prayer rally in South Carolina, Neutrino could go faster than light, Faith healing parents let son die, American secularism on the rise, Refusing to Kill Daughter, Pakistani Family Defies Tradition, 11,000 kids in California enter the school system without being vaccinated, Skeptic book recommendations, Obama’s class warfare, Huge support for the “Buffet Rule,” Elizabeth Warren kils it, Santorum asks google for help, Whale found 800m on shore.
Clips: “The Moon, the Tides and why Neil DeGrasse Tyson is Colbert’s God,” The Science Network. Ali G on Science, Jesus Camp, Fox News, In the Stone – Earth, Wind and Fire, Anderson Cooper 360, A Few Good Men.
Drew’s link: http://www.bjupress.com/about/look-inside-science-4.php
This week’s show covers September 19 – 26.
Miracle babies aren’t much of a miracle. Pat Robertson advocates divorce of Alzheimers patients.
Criminals in Alabama can go to church instead of jail.
Bad call by an atheist.
Pledge of Allegiance petition to take Under God out. Bill O’reilly threatens to quit. President Obama will make guns illegal. Rick Perry and the crazy people who work for him. Syrian girl mutilated. Troy Davis is executed. Ann Coulter is a jackass. Audience boo’s a gay soldier. A teen contributor to “It Gets Better” kills himself. Excommunicated gay Mormon kills himself.
Clips Used: Patton Oswalt, 700 club, Jail or Church, Fox News, The Simpsons, Entertainment Tonight, Lou Reed, Jesus Camp and Blue Suade Hooked on a Feeling, News World.
This Podcast is for the Week of September 12 through September 19, 2011.
The number 13. UFO’s: General’s, Pilots and Government Officials go on the record. Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann are fatalistic. Bachmann and the HPV vaccine. Rick Perry and the death penalty. Ron Paul talks about motivations for 9/11. Tea Party debates and healthcare. Paul Ryan wants to increase payroll taxes. Christians against Porn. Little People pornstar and Gordon Ramsey lookalike dies.
Clips: David Cross on Terrorism, Jesus Camp, Onion News Network – Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Is ‘Totally Badass’, CNN Tea Party Debate, A Few Good Men.
Links:
http://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/gordon-ramsays-dwarf-porn-double-percy-foster-dies-in-badger-den/story-e6frg30c-1226137039122
Can the Christian crusade against pornography bear fruit?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/18/paul-ryan-tax-increases-middle-class_n_968408.html
http://www.slate.com/id/2303922/?from=rss
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/08/1014595/-Rick-Perry-had-an-innocent-man-executed,-and-should-be-made-to-answer
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/HaireoftheDog/archives/2011/09/16/bachmann-right-to-attack-perry-on-hpv-vaccine
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/professors-offer-more-10-000-proof-bachmann-story-132647843.html
http://teapotatheism.blogspot.com/2011/09/our-profoundly-fatalistic-candidates.html
http://ufosontherecord.com/
This podcast is for the week of 9/5/2011 to 9/11/2011.
News Items for this Week: Three homosexuals murdered in Iran for being Gay. In Uganda AIDS patients pray for a cure instead of taking medicine. A statue of the Virgin Mary is credited with preventing a home from burning in the Texas wildfires. The jobless are encouraged to take their resume to church and put it on the altar to help them get a job. Rick Perry has a pray for rain weekend backfire, emphasis on FIRE. Perry cuts budgets for protecting against wildfires. Bachmann wants to get rid of the Department of Education, citing the constitution. Ron Paul wants to eliminate all funding for Planned Parenthood. New photos of the moon landing from the Lunar Orbiter. Clergy not admitted to 9/11 ceremony. Rick Perry cites Galileo when asked about climate change.
Clips used:
Intro clip: Steve Hughes: the “straightness” of gay men, and the “gayness” of straight men. Segment clips: Jesus Camp, “Bohemian Rhapsody” – Queen, “What Ever Happened to Mary,” Chumbawamba, Apollo 11 recording.
Three Men Hanged For Having Gay Sex In Iran: Reports
Family credits Virgin Mary statue for saving their house from wildfire
Texas cut wildfire-battling agency budget this year
Bachmann: Why is there a Department of Education?
NASA Spacecraft Images Offer Sharper Views of Apollo Landing Sites