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Jamie and Allison talk about how homophobes (including David Brooks) suck, and lifesaving drugs for poor people are awesome. Plus, updates on the Stop and Frisk trial in NYC, the public school cheating scandal in Atlanta, and how the media was MIA during a prison protest in New Mexico.

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Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) brings you a great field piece about felon voting disenfranchisement, plus a BEST-OF Citizen Radio: Citizen Radio Live! with Sarah Silverman, Regina Spektor, and Matt Taibbi (originally aired 3/18/11).

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Original aired on 3/18/11: Sarah Silverman, Regina Spektor, Matt Taibbi, and Only Son at Citizen Radio Live at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.

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Special announcement: Jamie will be performing with Sarah Silverman, Suli McCullough, Tig Notaro, Ian Edwards, Dwayne Kennedy, and W Kamau Bell at the Paramount Theater in Austin on Nov. 1. All proceeds will be donated to the NAACP.

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Sarah Silverman, Regina Spektor, Matt Taibbi, and Only Son at Citizen Radio Live! at the UCB Theatre.

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Allison and Jamie will be back with new episodes of Citizen Radio later this week, but in the meantime, please enjoy this episode of Citizen Radio Live! with guests Matt Taibbi, Jeremy Scahill, Janeane Garofalo, and Jack Dishel.

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Oh dear. There’s some drama in the liberal-Progressive world.

Matt Taibbi went and dared to point out the glaringly obvious– President Obama has “packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway” – and now some fellow journalists and bloggers are mad at him. (Others, like Digby and Felix Salmon, came to Taibbi’s defense.)

The pissed-at-the-obvious Progressives appear to be experiencing steps in the “stages of grief.” The Kübler-Ross model used to describe the emotions experienced by mourners includes five discrete stages:

1. Denial

2. Anger

3. Bargaining

4. Depression

5. Acceptance

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I was very sad to see Paul Krugman hocking the cap and trade system in his column today. Krugs is very popular among liberals right now, namely because he has stopped screaming about the virtues of Hillary Clinton, and isn’t being a total moron when it comes to the economy. His words carry weight, which is why it’s sad to see him defend corporations’ preferred system of pollution regulation, the Cap and Trade supposed panacea.

In anticipation of Copenhagen’s climate summit, many journalists have been rightfully stressing the urgency for dramatic emissions reform, and are also calling for immediate action by the world’s leaders. These journalists say that it’s time to stop arguing with lunatics in the hopes of forming some pragmatic bipartisan legislation. There are the facts and then there are the lies. There is the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, the more respected summary of the science affecting the Arctic. Real-life scientists — not the idiots over at Red State — report there is more carbon stored in the Arctic’s methane hydrates than in every lump of coal and barrel of oil in the world. When the arctic melts (and it is melting,) that’s a big problem:

“If even 1% of the methane stored in Arctic-shelf hydrates were released to the atmosphere, it could cause really abrupt warming,” says Susan Joy Hassol, the analyst who along with 300 climate scientists wrote the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment…Some scientists believe that when this happened 250m years ago, it triggered the largest extinction event in history: 95% of marine animals and 70% of land-based animals died.

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Citizen Radio discusses Allison’s amazing encounter with former Nixon operative (and prison inmate,) G. Gordon Liddy.

G. Gordon Liddy: Not a fan of Allison.

Next, Allison and Jamie discuss the ongoing Somali pirate standoff, and why the mainstream media is only explaining half the story.

Hope Watch! continues this week with Citizen Radio listing the various Obama promises that our new president has already broken.

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* Matt Taibbi
* Janeane Garofalo
* Jeremy Scahill

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