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Austan Goolsbee

Season 17 • 09/06/2012

Austan Goolsbee discusses Republicans' lack of specific policies aimed at making America better.

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Hope and Change 2 - Day One of the 2012 Democratic National Convention

The Democratic National Convention co-opts supposedly Republican-owned issues, like the military and Christian moral values, and doubles down on rising Latino stars.
09/05/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - Democratic National Convention Security

Media credentials in hand, the Best F#@king News Team Ever reports from impregnable security checkpoints located outside the Democratic National Convention.
09/05/2012
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Kirsten Gillibrand

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand makes the case for increasing the number of women in Congress.
09/05/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - The Party of Inclusion

At the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC, the Best F#@king News Team Ever tests the limits of the Democratic Party's big-tent inclusiveness.
09/05/2012
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Moment of Zen - Julian Castro's Speech

San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro explains Mitt Romney's stance on same-sex marriage to Democratic National Convention delegates.
09/05/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - Johnny O's Secondhand Meat Paste

John Oliver discusses a time he was personally touched by Barack Obama, specifically when the president reached down his throat to dislodge a stray hot dog fragment.
09/05/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - Bill Clinton's Math

Bill Clinton's Democratic National Convention speech ran long, but used more specific numbers than the Republican leadership did during an entire week in Tampa.
09/06/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - Barack Obama: It Could Have Been Worse

Larry David suggests that Americans consider how f**ked they could've been without President Barack Obama.
09/06/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - Democratic Platform Amendments

Under criticism from hard-core, dead-end Republicans, the DNC votes by faux-acclamation to amend their platform to include mention of God.
09/06/2012
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Moment of Zen - Nancy Pelosi's Final Word

Nancy Pelosi assures Anderson Cooper that the Democratic platform's religion "controversy" is over.
09/06/2012
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Austan Goolsbee

Former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors Austan Goolsbee doesn't regret leaving government, nor is he surprised at the Republican National Convention's amnesia.
09/06/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - Barack Obama's Nomination

President Obama accepts the Democratic nomination and replaces the audacity of hope with the more reasonable calibration of expectation.
09/07/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - Democratic National Convention Parting Thoughts

The Best F#@king News Team Ever shares impressions, memories, breakfast choices and Latino copies from their time at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC.
09/07/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - Bin Laden Isn't Better Off

The Democratic National Convention speakers accentuate the non-livingness of Osama bin Laden, in film, words and slogans.
09/07/2012
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Moment of Zen - Where Mitt Learned About Russia

John Kerry believes that Mitt Romney's foreign relations knowledge comes from the movies.
09/07/2012
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Hope and Change 2 - Last Week This Week

Discrepancies arise in Fox News's coverage of the Republican National Convention and its Democratic counterpart.
09/07/2012
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Kofi Annan

Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan implies the Russians and Chinese aren't the real impediments to effective international action in Syria.
09/17/2012
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Actual Democalypse 2012 - Islam's Growing Pains

John Oliver considers Islam's relatively young age as compared with other major religions, and predicts it will grow out of this awkward phase in half a millennium or so.
09/17/2012
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Moment of Zen - Bill O'Reilly Likes Jon Stewart

Bill O'Reilly announces a forthcoming debate; an old fashioned duel of wits complete with podiums and crazy straws.
09/17/2012
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Actual Democalypse 2012 - Conservatives Rethink Middle Eastern Democracy

Amid escalating Middle Eastern violence, conservative pundits question their own recent positions promoting democracy in places without any values for civilized society.
09/17/2012
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Actual Democalypse 2012

"The Innocence of Muslims," a dumb Internet video made by some a**hole and promoted by Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones, incites violence across the Middle East.
09/17/2012
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