Daily Kos Radio is on the air! A look at a business lobbyists's secret weapon.

Yes, Kagro in the Morning is in one last day of reruns, but The Ministry of Truth is still live and all new! To listen to today's lineup, use the player at the bottom of the post, or see the alternative instructions for listening on mobile devices.

So, how about another taste of the kind of stuff we like to bring you on Daily Kos Radio? Today's Clip o' the Day explores a hidden source of corporate lobbying power that wears the disguise of reasonableness and reality-basing, but is in fact designed to produce reliably pro-business and anti-regualtory results: the seemingly harmless and irreproachable "cost-benefit analysis."

Who could object to basing policy decisions on such an eminently reasonable-sounding process?

But check it out...

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Again, that's what we do over at Daily Kos Radio. You don't find that just anywhere. Don't ya feel all edjumacated and stuff?

Daily Kos Radio is on the air, Monday through Friday, now from 9 a.m. to noon, ET. We start with two hours of the Kagro in the Morning show from 9-11, and then it's The Ministry of Truth, with Armando Llorens, starring Jesse LaGreca from 11-12.

How to Listen

Your options to listen LIVE:

• Click on the embedded Flash player below
• Go to netrootsradio.com and click on the embedded player or direct link there
• Click on this direct link if you need a non-Flash player, say, for iPad or iPhone
• iPad and iPhone users can download the SHOUTCast Radio app for your mobile device & search for "Blue Skies Radio." That's the Netroots Radio home base, and it's where you'll find our Daily Kos Radio programming. You might also try "Netroots Radio," since it appears we're transitioning to try and make things less confusing
• For Android: try either the "StreamFurious"  or "TuneIn" apps
  
• BlackBerry users, see this guide by idbecrazyif

And here's a new tip: If the player hiccups in between shows, or drops the audio between the shows, just go ahead and stop and restart it, and things should go smoothly after that.

Hear today's shows from 9-12 am ET, right here:

The Daily Kos Radio Player

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Reminder: Congress is out of session this week, and in fact for all of August. So let's all get together on Daily Kos Radio and talk about them behind their backs!