The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Award winning bloggers Driftglass (driftglass.blogspot.com) and Blue Gal (bgalrstate.blogspot.com) talk about politics from the Left. This podcast is not safe for work.
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| PLAY | Liberal Elitists? Maddow, Bright, Taibbi, and Yours Truly | November 19, 2010 |
| We discuss three media moments you may have missed: Rachel Maddow's speech at Harvard, Susie Bright's post-election broadcast, and Matt Taibbi on the charge of "liberal elitism." We also bring in Jon Stewart, 9/11, and the most important reason Newt Gingrich can no longer be on the Sunday shows. More at professionalleft.blogspot.com. | ||
| PLAY | Ep 104 Ancient Rome and Your Conservative Relatives, also Zappa | December 2, 2011 |
| Why the US is like Ancient Rome (corrupt from top to bottom) and a letter from a listener about dealing with his fact-averse conservative dad. More at ProfessionalLeft dot Blogspot dot Com. PS December 4-21 is Zappadan, an annual blog celebration of Frank Zappa. | ||
| PLAY | Ep 85 Who is in charge at the GOP? | July 22, 2011 |
| Driftglass argues that the mob is in charge at GOP headquarters. Film Noir, Allen West teaches us how to be ladies, and answering the centrists and stimulus - deniers. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com | ||
| PLAY | Ep 97 The Republican Party = the real extremist anti-American radicals | October 14, 2011 |
| We discuss the GOP debates as a litmus test of their base and read letters from real ex-conservatives who have found a better way. Why the media has no language for #OWS, and finally we review the political movies "Ides of March" and... "Real Steel"?!? More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com | ||
| PLAY | Ep 121 Maddow, Trayvon, Abortion, Supreme Court, and Chicago | March 30, 2012 |
| The news this week has taken a break from election politics (thankfully) and so do we. Rachel Maddow’s book, the Trayvon Martin case, more on the culture war, and Driftglass (celebrating his SEVENTH blogiversary) gives us a Chicago News Update. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com | ||