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817: Sellout Politics
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I'm just going to leave this here.
Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
And Sunday, April 17, 2016, time once again for your Gitmo Nation media assassination, episode 817.
This is no agenda.
Slashing safe spaces everywhere and guarding reality for all ages while broadcasting live from the capital of the drone star state here in FEMA Region 6, Austin Tejas.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley where I have no idea what he's talking about, I'm John C. Devorak.
One day you're going to come in on a Sunday and say something that's just going to blow me away.
Today is not that day.
That'll be the day.
Today is not that day.
I'm a minimalist.
Yeah.
My eyes are weird again.
That's because of the pollens.
It is hot in Texas, right?
Isn't it hot?
Well, we've had rain for the past two days.
Oh, that should have cleared it up then.
Actually, the mold is off the scale now.
Because when it happens, I believe, I have no idea, by the way, I'm just going to say this.
What happens, I believe, is that it rains, and then when it stops raining, there's a big burst, an explosion of the way mushrooms go.
They get, all of a sudden, they boom!
They just blow all the stuff into the air all at once, and that's what's going on.
That's exactly what's happening.
So it's muggy, it's near 80 degrees, but it's...
Oh, 80 and muggy.
It's like Florida.
In Texas, I've never experienced that.
Gee, how could that happen?
There's mugginess going on.
I'm shocked, I'm shocked.
There's mugginess going on there.
All righty.
So does this make your eyes itch?
No, no, no.
It's the focal distance.
So now I have to get really close to the monitor and be able to see.
You just need to get some reading glasses or some computer glasses or something.
Believe me, I've been trying to figure this out for a long time.
The variable is my eyes.
They change.
I mean, change, John.
Maybe you're an alien.
I'm transitioning to whatever.
Exactly.
All right.
Um...
A lot of good stuff this week.
A really boring debate.
At least they got into it a little bit.
Well, there was at least a little bit of fire.
Just a tad.
And it's funny to listen to people analyze it.
Some say Bernie won, some say Hillary.
I think Hillary won, hands down.
Bernie's still there with his waving finger.
You know, like he's like, call on me next, call on me next.
There's nobody else to call on.
It's pretty annoying when he does that.
I mean, and what I now do is when I watch any two people speak...
I always look at the person who's not talking.
And for as much as Bernie wags his finger everywhere, Hillary Clinton is smirking and making little inside laugh motions.
She's pretty annoying, too.
He does it, too.
Yeah.
She's pretty annoying.
But you want to start with that?
You want to get some election crap out of it?
Unless we started with it already, we might as well bring a couple items up.
Alrighty.
Um...
There's one of the clips I have, which I don't think I wrote down yet.
Sanders...
Oh, actually, let me start with the...
Well, here's the Sanders-Hillary-Palestinian thing, which is the one that got, I thought, most of the attention.
That was kind of new.
He's kind of all in on this, and he talks about the situation in Israel and Gaza, and she...
When they throw it to her, it's just a classic Hillary Clinton.
She says nothing.
We had in the Gaza area, not a very large area, some 10,000 civilians who were wounded and some 1,500 who were killed.
Now, if you're asking me, not just me, but countries all over the world, was that a disproportionate attack?
The answer is I believe it was.
And let me say something else.
Let me say something else.
As somebody who is 100% pro-Israel, in the long run, and this is not going to be easy, God only knows, but in the long run, if we are ever going to bring peace to that region which has seen so much hatred and so much war, we are going to have to treat the Palestinian people with respect and dignity.
So what is not to say that right now in Gaza, right now in Gaza, unemployment is somewhere around 40 percent.
You've got a lot of that area continuous.
It hasn't been rebuilt.
Decimated.
What's that?
So, as you listen to this, think he's talking about Detroit.
Yeah, how about East Austin?
I mean, anything would work.
Health care decimated.
Schools decimated.
Decimated?
I believe the United States...
Oh, we know that's only a reduction of about 10%.
One out of 10.
One out of 10, yeah.
States and the rest of the world have got to work together to help the Palestinian people.
That does not make me anti-Israel.
That paves the way, I think.
Thank you, sir.
Our approach that works in the Middle East.
Thank you, Senator.
Get off the stage.
Oh, he goes on for another 30 seconds at least.
Do you agree with Senator Sanders that Israel overreacts to Palestinian attacks and that in order for there to be peace between Israel and the Palestinians, Israel must, quote, end its disproportionate responses?
I negotiated the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in November of 2012.
Wow.
I did it in concert with...
Wow, is she saying that she negotiated peace?
Yeah.
Four years ago?
Yeah.
Oh, how'd that work out?
Apparently, you know, if she was still there, it would have worked.
President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, based in Ramallah.
I did it with the then Muslim Brotherhood president, Morsi, based in Cairo, working closely with Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli cabinet.
I can tell you right now, because I have been there with Israeli officials going back more than 25 years, that they do not seek this kind of attacks.
They do not invite rockets raining down on their towns and villages.
That there should be a constant incitement by Hamas aided and abetted by Iran against Israel.
You know, this is her.
But, you know, I was listening to Democracy Now!
and I clipped one thing, and it was really long, and I couldn't clip all of this guy.
But Robert Scheer was on, a very famous left-wing progressive from the 60s.
He used to be the editor-in-chief of Ramparts magazine.
And he pointed out that Hillary is so full of crap, he hates her.
And he says that she's full of crap.
And Morsi, she cites Morsi, who she was Secretary of State, where they ousted him.
Right, right, right.
And that was Hillary.
And he mentioned something I didn't know.
This is the part I should have clipped, which is he went to USC. Okay.
Morsi.
Oh, the Egyptian president?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Or the ousted.
The ousted Egyptian president.
Well, of course.
How else will you understand how to read the check?
If you're not schooled in American finance.
Well, how does this news elude me?
I think that's what we do on the show.
We dig this stuff up.
I mean, we did dig it up.
I actually got a lot of news that has been elusive or underreported.
But I also picked up a few clips from the Democratic debate.
And I think that this one minute clip here is really all Hillary Clinton needed to do to convince all women that you really need to hold your nose and vote for Hillary.
This is the thing that she did that I think really made it work, certainly for female Democratic voters, and I presume there are some Republican Democratic voters, That are women.
But this is for the women Dems.
And I want to say something about this since we're talking about the Supreme Court and what's at stake.
We've had eight debates before.
This is our ninth.
We've not had one question about a woman's right to make her own decisions about reproductive health care.
Not one question.
And in the meantime, we have states, governors, doing everything they can to restrict women's rights.
We have...
A presidential candidate by the name of Donald Trump saying that women should be punished.
And we are never asked about this.
I love how she just said, Trump says we should be punished.
That's somewhat of an abstraction, but okay.
Very much so.
Just a slight abstraction of what happened.
And to be complete in my concern, Senator Sanders said, with respect to Trump, it was a distraction.
I don't think it's a distraction.
It goes to the heart of who we are as women.
Our rights, our autonomy, our ability to make our own decisions.
And we need to be talking about that and defending Planned Parenthood from these outrageous attacks.
Sanders, of course, agrees with all this, but she somehow attacks him somehow.
It's genius.
Sanders is an idiot.
I've concluded that mainly because I have the clip on this.
This is the...
This is the Sanders...
This is the Vatican clip.
Yeah, this whole episode of Sanders going to see the Pope was odd.
Okay, alright.
Played on who?
On Sanders?
On Sanders.
It's obvious.
Okay.
So play this clip.
Overnight, Sanders flew off for a visit to the Vatican.
Seth Doan is there.
Senator Bernie Sanders' arrival at the Vatican today created a media frenzy.
Step behind that barricade.
When I received this invitation, I know it's taking me away from the campaign trail for a day.
It was so moving to me that it was something that I could just simply not refuse to attend.
In reality, Sanders just brought the campaign trail to Rome.
Sanders had many of his same themes, calling for a more just economy using many of the Pope's words.
This is Vatican City here.
This was the house of the Pope.
Bishop Marcello Sanchez Rondo invited Sanders here, an invitation which brought world attention to a usually obscure conference and an academy which advises Pope Francis on issues like social inequality.
Well, by inviting Senator Sanders, here's his nameplate, you're really wading right into the middle of a major political moment.
Yeah, that is important.
The Pope.
The Pope is already figured in this campaign after Donald Trump suggested building a wall between Mexico and the U.S. A person who only thinks about building walls, he said, is not Christian.
Would you ever see a Donald Trump nameplate here?
Stop, stop, stop.
Okay.
Now, did he ever actually meet the Pope?
This is the joke of it.
He was never gonna meet the Pope.
This is some guy.
You can play ISO Vatican, this guy.
Okay.
Yeah, that is important.
That guy.
I heard him.
That guy.
Mario.
That guy.
Mario decides to invite him to some...
I can't even...
It's so obscure, I can't even get the name of this thing, but it's some little...
I guess a steering committee or something for giving advice to the Pope.
He fell for it.
He fell for it.
The Pope wants you to kiss the ring, gang.
I think he...
He honestly believed he was going to meet the Pope.
It turns out he wasn't never going to meet the Pope.
So he looks like a moron to be making this stupid trip because it takes him right out of New York where he has to be.
Where he has to be, of course.
But while they're doing the report, if you back it up from where you stopped, you'll hear this is CBS. CBS is probably the most in...
They're so in for Hillary.
It's the most slanted news organization of the three.
Or the four or the five, depending on which you want to include.
And so they slip in this little thing about...
News organizations only do this to remind people of what you're supposed to be thinking about.
The Pope said that building walls means you're not a Christian.
This is an old story.
The Pope himself has said, well, I was just talking in generalities.
He kind of backed off on it.
But no, no, no.
CBS has to bring it up again.
It's got nothing to do with Bernie going to Rome.
It's got nothing to do with it.
But they bring it in anyway just because we can't take a chance.
We've got to make sure Hillary wins this thing.
An invitation which brought world attention to a usually obscure...
Is it after this part?
Yeah.
We're at a conference at an academy which advises Pope Francis on issues like social inequality.
Well, by inviting Senator Sanders, here's his nameplate.
You're really wading right into the middle of a major political moment.
Yeah, that is important.
I love that guy!
That is important!
That is important!
The Pope has already figured in this campaign after Donald Trump suggested building a wall between Mexico and the U.S. A person who only thinks about building walls, he said, is not Christian.
Would you ever see a Donald Trump nameplate here?
I don't see.
You can find, maybe.
These guys are douches.
So who do you think set it up?
Who do you think set this up?
Hillary.
That's pretty good.
I like it.
She's been pulling some great stuff, I have to say.
That's a good stunt.
You get the guy out of New York for...
This has got to be at least 72 hours all put together.
Oh, and it's also tiring.
He's going to be dragging his ass.
Does Sanders have his own plane?
Are you kidding?
He probably took a boat.
Yeah.
I wonder.
He doesn't have his own plane.
The New York Daily News came out with an endorsement of Hillary.
Hillary, by the way, I think she's got henchmen or bilders that have gone to these news organizations and made deals of some sort.
We're going to give you a lot of access, not going to be like Obama, and these guys have all fallen into line.
Now, I was listening to Democracy Now!
and that Mexican Juan Gonzalez, who's actually a pretty decent columnist, writer, left progressive stuff.
But he's been on the show for like, I don't know, a thousand years, and he still can't talk without, so he doesn't explain things well.
In fact, he talks a little bit like Ron Paul, where he starts off on an idea, and then right in the middle of, instead of finishing the idea, he jumps to something else.
That's kind of the way this guy is.
It's like borderline stream of consciousness.
But he talked to me, he was in the meetings where Hillary and the rest of them came in, Hillary and Bernie came in to, and the other guys didn't show up except Kasich, I think, to talk.
To discuss with the candidates a topic so they could endorse one of them.
And so he says this interesting thing, which was that the news that came out of the meetings was all distorted.
In fact, he says the editorial boards, I think it's an editorial.
Play this editorial clip and I'll explain what he's trying to say.
An indigenous leader who was killed just weeks ago.
Yes, and I did manage to get a question into Bernie Sanders as well.
But, you know, I am not a member of the editorial board.
I'm a senior columnist at the paper, so I get invited sort of to watch and maybe ask a question or two when the other members of the editorial board have finished asking their questions.
But I do think that, generally speaking, the characterization of what happened in the Sanders interview has been— Interestingly, several members of the editorial board told me that they were surprised by the furor that developed afterwards, which was largely fueled by the Clinton campaign and their surrogates.
There you go.
Who began to spread word through social media and others, pointing to what they believed were these huge errors of Senator Sanders.
So these guys are working hard.
Yeah, they are.
They really are.
And Bernie Sanders has no idea how to handle this.
He's an idiot.
You know, the fact that he got suckered into going to Vatican because it was the right thing to do for some committee meeting.
I'm sure that it was presented to him as though the Pope wanted him.
Yeah.
Oh, of course, of course.
Yeah, otherwise, why would he do it?
So he thought he was going to meet the Pope.
He was going to be important.
He was going to get something he needed for the campaign.
He goes over there.
The Pope's not interested in seeing him.
This is the stupidest thing.
No one's really reported how dumb he looks doing this.
I know.
They should, though.
Someone should do that.
I got to...
There were, I think, two Bernie Sanders clips from the debate.
The climate change.
Well, actually, he went into a whole bunch of things, but his analogies and his comparisons and the way he frames things, this guy is a little odd.
You said that climate change is the greatest threat to our nation's security.
You've called for a nationwide ban on fracking.
You've also called for phasing out all nuclear power in the U.S. But wouldn't those proposals drive the country back to coal and oil and actually undermine your fight against global warming?
Look, here's where we are.
Let me reiterate.
We have a global crisis.
Pope Francis reminded us that we are on a suicide course.
In fact, he did not remind me when I didn't see him.
Our legislation understands, Errol, that there will be economic dislocation.
It is absolutely true.
That's not good.
There will be some people who lose their job, and we build into our legislation an enormous amount of money to protect those workers.
Now, this is interesting.
Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, although I haven't seen his policy document on it, the idea is to force everyone into higher energy costs, With the wind and solar, to force, force, force, although Hillary is all in on natural gas, which we've known for, I don't know, five, six years.
But then to help to even it out, we're going to give a lot of money, as you just heard, to coal communities.
I guess that's like West Virginia or wherever else coal is being dug out.
This doesn't seem like a plan that's going to do very well.
Are they trying to re-educate or retrain the coal workers into...
I don't know what they're trying to do.
Hey, stand over here and blow at that windmill.
It is not their fault that fossil fuels are destroying our climate.
It's not their fault that fossil fuels are destroying our climate.
This makes no sense.
I thought we were all to blame.
But now there's a segment of the population who we're not to blame?
But we have got to stand up and say right now, as we would if we were attacked by some military force, we have got to move urgently and boldly.
What does that mean?
Senator, jobs are one thing, but with less than 6% of all U.S. energy coming from solar, wind, and geothermal, and 20% of U.S. power coming from nuclear, if you phase out all of that, how do you make up that deficit?
Well, you don't phase it all out tomorrow.
And you certainly don't phase nuclear out tomorrow, but this is what you do-do.
I did like that.
I did like it.
He said, don't phase out nuclear energy.
That's good.
And then what you do...
And Hillary's just laughing when he says do-do.
I don't know.
What is she, in fifth grade?
You're out tomorrow, but this is what you do-do.
Do-do!
What you do-do is say that we are going to have...
A massive program, and I had introduced legislation for 10 million solar rooftops.
We can put probably millions of people to work retrofitting and weatherizing buildings all over this country.
Yeah, that'd be great.
Weatherizing.
Weatherizing.
Go and paint that building.
There's a future of America, weatherizing.
Using Chinese insulation.
Over this country, saving, rebuilding our rail system.
Now, what?
Our mass transit system.
Now, we don't have a, do we have a national mass transit system?
No.
No?
No.
I mean, they still want to call Amtrak.
He kind of makes it sound like we have to rebuild our mass transit.
Make the trains run on time.
I don't know what he's saying.
Rebuilding our rail system.
Our mass transit system.
If we approach this...
We need more velocipedes.
Arrow...
As if we were literally at a war.
I think we're going to rebuild our rail system with wind and solar.
A mass transit system.
If we approach this arrow as if we were literally at a war, you know, in 1941, under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, we move within three years, within three years to rebuild our economy to defeat Nazism and Japanese imperialism.
That is exactly the kind of approach we need right now.
Lead the world.
Lead the world!
I thought that's what we didn't want to be.
He's a maniac.
Lead the world.
One thing I gotta say, he had one point I really liked a lot.
Earlier this week at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, you called out President Clinton for defending Secretary Clinton's use of the term super predator back in the 90s when she supported the crime bill.
Why did you call him out?
Because it was a racist term and everybody knew it was a racist term.
I'll give him a point for that.
Hold on.
Point for Bernie.
Because yes, the Democratic Party is incredibly racist.
This is true.
Much of what Secretary Clinton said was right.
He had a crime bill.
I voted for it.
It had the Violence Against Women Act in it.
When mayor of Burlington, we worked very hard to try to eliminate domestic violence.
This took us a good step forward.
We're talking about the weapon that killed the children in Sandy Hook.
This banned assault weapons, not insignificant.
But where we are today is we have a broken criminal justice system.
Everything's broken with these people.
Everything's broken, broken, broken.
Define broken.
We have more people in jail than any other country on earth.
It doesn't seem broken.
Seems like we're doing exactly what we're supposed to do with that particular system.
It's working fine.
It was the way it was set up.
Create a pipeline of human bodies for the Corrections Corporation of America.
Yeah, you got no jobs for them.
Yeah, this is...
You're going to riot and cause a problem?
Put them in jail.
The system's not broken.
It's working exactly the way it was supposed to, based on the setup.
And in my view...
Clinton put into play.
Yeah, well that's what he's saying.
More people in jail than any other country on earth.
And in my view, what we have got to do is rethink the system from the bottom on up.
And that means for a start, and we don't talk about this, the media doesn't talk about it.
No.
You got 51% of African-American kids today who graduated high school who are unemployed or underemployed.
You know what I think?
Maybe we invest in jobs and education for those kids, not jails and incarceration.
And I'll tell you what else.
What's that?
What jobs?
Yeah.
And I'll tell you what else.
Weatherizing rooftops.
I think.
And that is, we have got, and this is the difference between the Secretary and myself as I understand it.
We have got to have the guts to rethink the so-called war on drugs.
Too many lives.
And they're trying to cut them off.
Lives have been destroyed because people possess marijuana.
Millions over a 30-year period.
And that is why I believe we should take marijuana out of the federal-controlled substance act.
I'm all for that.
I'm all for that.
That's good.
I like that.
Now the CDC has all but confirmed it can really help combating cancer.
Did you see this?
Just one of many things like that.
I mean, I'm reminded of when they interviewed Hillary, she said we need to do more.
I don't know if that's about marijuana.
We need to do more research, she says, as if there's not...
No, no, no, no.
It was different.
No, it was different.
She goes, harkens back to Nixon.
Now, I don't know if you can find this clip.
We never played it, but it might be searchable.
I think if you look under Nixon...
It was on the CBS Morning Show and they...
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Forbes reports on a remark by a former Nixon aide hinting that the war on drugs had a hidden purpose.
That President Nixon saw the drug crackdown as a way to arrest blacks and anti-war protesters.
Ehrlichman also claimed that the White House knew they were lying about drugs.
Uh-huh.
That's the clip you wanted?
That's the clip I wanted.
Dynamite.
And that clip, it shows the duplicitousness of the government when it comes to the marijuana thing in particular.
And Hillary's just part of that whole thing.
In fact, the long clip that I have, which is Robert Scheer, this is the end of the Democracy Now!
bit where Scheer was discussing with this woman who is, I can't remember her name, but she's a famous head of the Gay Lesbian Alliance.
She works with the supervisors of Los Angeles.
She was a head of Now...
California branch, I believe.
And he goes off on her at the end, and it might be worth listening to right now, because he really does a good job of summarizing what's going on that nobody else seems to want to come to grips with.
Sanders is kind of approaching it, but...
Well, there's one other thing we need to take into account.
I've been doing as much research as possible There is no doubt that the heroin trade and now crystal meth, which is all coming from Mexico, it's propping up the 52% of unemployed youth in our country.
It's unbelievable how much money is running through the United States that's drug money.
I agree.
I think it is propping up the youth.
Yeah.
And it's also putting them all at risk because, you know, the drug dealers in the black community can be taken out any minute.
I've noticed that drug dealers of any community are ready to take you out at the drop of a hat.
I don't think it's just the African-American community.
True.
All right.
So this is...
What's this guy's name?
When they do the side-by-side comparison, the blacks are the ones that get most...
We're sentencing and everything.
That's all been documented.
Oh, yeah.
No, that's true.
That's absolutely true.
A white-collar Coke dealer working in the Bank of America building in San Francisco selling to the secretary pool rarely gets anything bad happening to him.
Well, true.
So this is, what's this guy, Shear?
What is he again?
Shear is a very famous editor, writer.
Goes back to the 60s.
He's written a lot of books.
He is a classic old-style progressive from California.
He's 80.
Oh, nice.
And he doesn't put up with anything.
From Robert Scheer as we wrap up.
Yeah, well, I think this is how we got into this mess.
Jerry Brown, when he was running against Bill Clinton, said, we're always faced by these people with the, not the lesser of two evils, but the evil of two lessers.
That's a line I'm taking from my wife's book on California that's coming out.
But it's a good statement.
They helped get us into this mess.
Let's not miss what this election is all about.
On the Republican and Democratic side.
On the Republican side, you have a neo-fascist person in the form of Trump and something of a religious fanatic in Ted Cruz, but they are addressing real discontent across the board.
The economy is not working for most Americans, okay?
And so there's a right-wing...
Populist appeal that is wiping away the Republican Party.
On the Democratic side, much to amazement of everyone, Bernie Sanders has been able to register a populist progressive dissent.
Okay?
He is a uniter.
He doesn't bait immigrants.
You know, he understands the need for unity in country.
But the fact of the matter is, if you go for Hillary Clinton, you go for more of the same.
I'll tell you my takeaway from the debate.
I want to tell you.
But you're winning.
Get real.
Get real.
You're winning.
You're winning.
Gets us into a war in Iraq, which Democrats supported with Republicans.
Who's combating him?
That woman I described as she works for the supervisor.
She's the head of the Gay Lesbian Alliance.
Oh, from now.
Okay, I got you.
I got you.
I get her name.
If we do our work.
The fact is, sellout politics have made the situation much more treacherous.
And the reason so many young people sell out politics.
I like that.
Haven't heard that one.
Yeah, I like it.
Sellout politics.
And the reason so many young people are against it is because they see it doesn't work for them.
And if you want to look at the record, Hillary Clinton, these problems, what does she do with it?
You talk about deportation.
Yes, Obama's failed on immigration.
He has been called a deporter-in-chief.
Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, she supported that policy.
She didn't take a bit of wage.
You keep telling me Hillary Clinton has evolved.
The Clintons have been in power in the Democratic Party for so long.
Why didn't they move on the minimum wage?
Why didn't they move in a more peaceful area?
Because, as you know, it takes the movement from below to push the issue forward.
No, they're not pushable.
They are selling.
That's not true.
She supports $15 an hour.
She supports it now because she's going to lose the primary if she doesn't come out for it.
And she supported it last night very half-heartedly.
That's not true.
If you go down the road with Hillary Clinton.
If you go down the road with Hillary Clinton, the right wing will be stronger.
No, that's not true.
Historically, it's what's happening in Europe.
Now, the fact of the matter is, if you do not address the problems from a progressive side, which Bernie Sanders is proposing, you're going to leave people hurting.
They're hurting in this country.
You may not be hurting working for the county and a supervisor, part of the Democratic establishment.
I know.
I live downtown.
I can't really take this guy seriously either if he thinks Bernie Sanders has the answers to it and how to make it all work.
The Democratic establishment.
40 years of progressive activism.
Come on.
I've worked for the supervisor.
I've worked for the supervisor who's a progressive supervisor.
I can't handle it.
Can I be able to understand anything in a moment?
She's interrupting as much as she can.
It's quite...
I just like...
Yeah, no, let's go.
Let's go.
They let it go, too, because it was...
If you watch Democracy Now Enough, it's all these, you know, duds.
Yeah, very static.
It worked up.
He's all worked up, but he's got a couple more lines in here that are worth listening to.
The Democratic establishment in Los Angeles, by the way, has a racist, tolerated, the supervisors tolerated, a racist sheriff's department, a racist police department, crushed occupied, did not address any of these questions whatsoever.
And now you tell us we need more of the same.
The voters are rejecting more of the same.
That's what's going on.
You represent more of the same.
Hillary's got two and a half million.
We're going to leave it there, but clearly there is a lot to talk about in these coming weeks and months.
So she goes off.
I mean, the whole thing.
That's pretty funny.
And she goes off on this woman who's just the biggest Hillary supporter.
Well, if we're going to do that...
And she says, okay, but before that, you have to visualize this woman with all this background, because I describe her, you know, she's the head of the gay, lesbian, all this.
She looks...
She's wearing a red dress and she looks like a very reticent schoolmarm of an old style.
She just looks like She just doesn't look like what her bio is at all.
She kind of looks more like a conservative mom, it sounds like.
Yeah, she looks very like a conservative mom from the 50s.
Well, if we're going to talk about the surrogates or people who are out there talking bullcrap, I have a couple of interesting ones.
This is MSNBC. I think, was this Angela, Andrea Mitchell?
I'm not sure, but it was the CEO of Emily's List.
I've never seen her.
I get her emails all the time.
About how we have to chip in for Hillary.
So something interesting happened in New York City before Bernie Sanders spoke.
I think it was...
One of the parks in the city.
Big crowd, yeah.
Big crowd.
But first there was some other guy who stood up.
I think his name is mentioned in this report.
And he gave out a little quote, which of course was not intended to necessarily implicate Hillary Clinton, but more stuff that we talk about here on the show all the time.
Well, I agree with Secretary Clinton that Medicare for All would never happen if we have a president who never aspires for something greater than the status quo.
Medicare for all will never happen if we continue to elect corporate Democratic whores who are beholden to be a quarter mark.
So it was the corporate Democratic whores comment that...
Now, of course, you know...
Actually, this...
Maybe it's CNN. This reporter is asking, you know, surprisingly good questions, is countering this woman from Emily's List in a pretty decent way about this.
And I like the comment, but I think it's funny.
That's something we would say.
Corporate whores, prostitutes.
Yeah, they're all in the...
What did we call it?
Sellout politicians.
Yeah.
That's Dr.
Paul Song speaking there last night.
He's a physician and healthcare activist.
He's the husband of CNN host Lisa Ling.
Whoa!
That's coincidental.
Little Lisa Ling, isn't she the one that got arrested?
I can't remember, but I do recall.
No, that was Lulu.
That was Lulu Ling.
Lisa Ling is...
No, I don't remember.
Ling Ling.
Ling Ling.
He made the comment just before Bernie Sanders addressed a crowd, huge crowd, about 27,000 supporters in New York City's Washington Square Park.
Song later apologized, saying that he was referring to some members of Congress, not to Hillary Clinton.
That sounds right to me, but it's an opportunity to go and say, hey, Bernie Sanders is an asshole, so bring on the shill.
Stephanie Shriok is the president of Emily's List.
She's a Clinton supporter.
She joins us now.
Stephanie, nice to see you.
In more of his apology, Dr.
Song said that he was not talking about Hillary Clinton.
In fact, his wife, Lisa Ling, defended him on Facebook.
And here's what she posted.
She says, I know for certain that he would never refer to any woman as a blank.
She can't even say the word whore.
You can't say whore?
You can't say whore, apparently.
What is this?
On CNN, you can't say whore.
No, and the word's on the screen.
It's on the caption.
Whore.
But I have to say blank.
This whole report is crazy.
I know for certain.
A W word.
Huh?
A W word.
Oh, yeah.
It's the W word.
It's the W word.
And most people, most Americans will go, what?
What?
Doesn't that start with an H? I know for certain that he would never refer to any woman as a blank.
It was a very poor choice of words, and Paul is extremely regretful for using it.
Most importantly, he is mortified that such a word is being associated with Hillary, with Secretary Clinton.
Do you think his remarks were misunderstood?
No, I mean, they're really disappointing.
The kind of language that we're hearing is just not, there's no place for that here in the Democratic Party and in our politics.
And I am glad to see Senator Sanders this morning disavowing these.
But what we're beginning to see regularly is a pattern by Senator Sanders and his campaign sort of leaning into these insults.
Oh, gee, maybe we can compare him to Trump.
Whether it was questioning Hillary Clinton's credibility or her qualifications or her ambition.
And a lot of the things that are being talked about.
You know, some of it, and maybe not last night, but some of it's really been out of the Republican playbook.
Oh, thank goodness.
Out of the Republican playbook.
Bernie's now a socialist Republican.
And it seems like Senator Sanders and his campaign are sort of cashing in on decades of attacks of Hillary.
Let's focus back on the issues.
Yes, please.
We can do this.
Stephanie, again, to be fair here, though, it's not like the Clinton campaign is entirely immune from surrogates saying something that maybe the candidate wishes they hadn't.
Very good.
You remember Bill Clinton's confrontation with Black Lives Matter protesters that happened just a few days ago?
You remember Madeleine Albright saying there's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women.
There was Gloria Steinem's comment about Bernie Sanders supporters who are female.
So I think it happens on wouldn't you say it happens on both sides.
But again, we've you know, like I said, you know, the senator addressed it this morning.
I wish he would have addressed it last night.
I'm sure they were talking about it.
It was so shocking to hear.
Shocking.
It was shocking to hear what the truth.
It was shocking to hear the truth.
If he had addressed it at three o'clock, I wish he would have addressed it at two thirty.
She says it was so shocking to hear.
The words, corporate democratic whore.
I think she's shocked to hear the truth.
The true democratic whore.
Before we get off to the debates, I do want to play the one rundown clip, which is the one on the CBS show, CBS debate rundown, because...
Again, I'm trying to track these networks and who's supporting who.
We know CBS is all in for Hillary.
It's reflected in this report.
But ABC, I've concluded now, is all in for Hillary.
And the reason I say that is because the graphics they show on CBS does the same thing.
They have their debate.
When they run the debate, they have a graphic behind the spokeshole.
And...
And they have a picture of a very flattering picture of Hillary smiling and looking up at about a 45 degree angle at some, you know, like the second, at the balcony.
Sanders has got a scowl, sneer, yeah.
Grumpy looking, he looks like an old fart.
Both networks, I haven't yet, I have to get onto NBC next.
Both networks run this graphic.
They're not exactly the same, but they have the same kinds of images.
Sanders looking like an old fart, a grumpy old man, and Hillary beaming.
Looks like we're in Las Vegas.
Clinton was confident enough about her New York lead to take a gamble today, jetting off to L.A. for fundraisers after a quick game of dominoes in East Harlem.
It was not fun and games in Brooklyn last night.
But you didn't answer the question.
I did.
Where Sanders said those fundraisers cloud her judgment.
Do we really feel confident about a candidate saying that she's going to bring change in America when she is so dependent by big money interest?
I don't think so.
This is a phony attack.
I stood up against...
The behaviors of the banks when I was a senator.
I called them out on their mortgage behavior.
Secretary Clinton called them out.
This was a good line.
They must have been really crushed by this.
His relentless focus on this issue has gotten traction.
In the latest national CBS News poll, eight in ten Democrats say special interests have at least some influence on Clinton.
But in New York, Wall Street ties are not as big of a liability.
And Democrats still see her as far more likely to get things done.
I don't take a backseat to your legislation that you've introduced that you haven't been able to get past.
Sanders has been pushing Clinton to release transcripts of her Wall Street speeches, but she noted last night that he still hadn't released his tax returns.
So today, Scott, he released his 2014 returns and says the 2015 ones will follow soon.
Okay, a couple things.
One, the Sanders with his taxes, that stinks.
Something smells bad.
And he promised 2015, but he gave 2014.
And he says, oh, well, Jane does our taxes on TurboTax or whatever.
Yeah, right.
Jane, that stinks.
I'm telling you there's something about that that stinks.
It could have been done overnight.
Yeah, and if you use TurboTax, you open the program, you say, you know, open up the file from 2013, 2012, print a copy.
It's not hard.
Yeah, I think you're right.
There's something in there that is, it's a minor thing.
It's minor.
Not that she can go on to it to distract everyone.
And I'll repeat.
She's never going to release those transcripts.
No, and I'll repeat.
I don't think there are any transcripts.
That's the problem.
These were just, I think, straight out bribes.
Or maybe she went and talked for 20 minutes or something like that.
I don't think there are transcripts.
There's no reason not to do that and try and switch the conversation over to taxes.
I think that's an interesting perspective.
It's possible it was a meeting, it wasn't a speech.
It was a meeting to pick up that big check is what it was.
Yeah, it was a meeting to pick up the big check.
She never gave a speech.
Well, maybe she gave one, but I don't think she has seven or eight.
Is that the same speech?
She made $11 million in speeches last year.
Alright, so that's 20 speeches at least.
Or more.
More, yeah.
Or less.
Or none.
You know, is she giving the same speech?
Is she giving the same speech to every bank that she talks to?
She would be giving the same speech, yes.
You get one good speech.
Well, Bill is now more and more of a liability.
Here's a very short soundbite.
He was outside.
Maybe he was in Harlem.
I don't know.
I think he has an office there.
And it's a little tough, but he's talking about Hillary's opponent, Bernie Sanders, and his solution to Wall Street, which Bill Clinton characterizes a little differently.
I think it's fine that all these young students have been so enthusiastic for her opponent and sound so good.
Just shoot every third person on Wall Street and everything will be fine.
Just shoot every third person on Wall Street.
That is the Bill Clinton extrapolation of what Bernie Sanders is saying.
I like it.
A quick entremant from Nancy Pelosi, who, I don't know, maybe it's because we're getting closer to the convention.
I don't know.
She's in the news, and she's all over, and she, you know...
She's an idiot.
Really no comparison to Bernie Sanders.
But I like what she does here.
She's going to talk about what a fantastic job President Obama did with pretty much everything during his eight years.
But she slips in a little something here that I think makes her numbers and her assessment of the situation actually true, even though it's not the reality.
Listen.
Differences to when President Obama took office and now in terms of so many of the metrics, whether it's the...
Did you hear that?
So many of the metrics.
Yes, so she's not talking about how good things are.
No, she's just talking about the metrics.
Which, okay, we know metrics.
You make metrics so that they're favorable for you.
Let's listen to some of these metrics.
Metrics, whether it's the...
Well, we've been through it.
The deficit is 70% lower.
The unemployment is half of what it was.
The stock market's 10,000 points, more than 10,000 points ahead.
The auto industry is thriving when it was on its heels at that time when he took office.
The 20 million people now have health insurance who didn't, and those many who had health insurance have it in a better way.
No pre-existing conditions, no...
Lifetime limits and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing medical condition.
Being a woman?
Yeah, being a woman is no longer a pre-existing medical condition.
That was a talking point from a couple years back.
She just brought that one back.
Boy, I forgot that one.
I love...
Hey, the metrics say unemployment is down by half.
Sure.
Have you been outside, Ms.
Pelosi?
Have you talked to anybody on this...
Go to the gas station.
Just see what colorful people you will meet there.
Colorful people, I tell you.
It's just fabulous.
Douche.
It's interesting.
That was a good clip.
We have Cruz, Trump, and Casey.
We're all in New York getting ready for the big Tuesday night...
Primary.
And so each of them also spoke at the New York Republican or New York Conservatives dinner.
I'm not quite sure what it was.
Home game for Trump.
Very easy.
Cruz bombed.
And everybody's laughing about it.
You know how Cruz...
Cruz has his jokes.
And he's not great with his timing.
He's no Rubio.
He's certainly no Rubio.
And what happens when you deliver a line, and certainly if it's your opening line and you fail, it's going to be very...
That's the worst thing that can happen to you.
Public speakers know this.
You might as well go home.
You do a joke at the beginning...
And you bomb.
And you can do some...
One of the things I like to do is you can do light-hearted...
Kind of chat with the audience before you actually begin the speech.
Right.
And you can kind of test the audience and you can throw some material in there.
And usually what you do there is you do something local.
Yeah, always local.
Local joke.
Local joke.
He's a sheriff's a fat guy, isn't he?
Always works well.
The sheriff's a fat guy.
That works well.
You should try that in Alabama.
That's where it will work.
Go over well.
Tough.
It's crickets for Ted Cruz in Manhattan, but Donald Trump is speaking their language at the big party dinner.
Cruz had a terrible night at the Republican black tie gala here for the state party.
What happened when Ted Cruz tried to speak to his own, well, his own Republicans, but they're not really his.
They're New York state Republicans, and I guess they have New York values.
One of our embeds on the ground there called it a dead room.
You saw Ted Cruz delivering his usual stump speech with a few changes, but his typical applause lines fell flat.
His laugh lines got no laughter.
People were distracted.
A lot of folks simply were not paying attention.
A couple even stood up and left.
Oh, I hate that.
Oh, man.
Speaking or doing something while people are eating is the worst gig in the world.
And I've done it a lot.
It's horrible.
They have to either clear the plates or, I mean, you have to have the...
No, you can't do it while they're eating because there's too much clinking and there's waiters roaming around.
It always happens.
It's impossible.
You shouldn't ever do a speech while they're eating.
I know.
Ben Carson, of course, surrogate for Donald Trump, went on Andrea Mitchell's show on MSNBC. And this is kind of an important topic, clip, etc.
I think what we'll find at the end of this election cycle is, thanks to the Internet, mainly just because of communication in general, Some portions of the American population are kind of slowly starting to realize that what's hammered into our heads as kids,
we have a two-party system, which is not true, but that these groups known as political parties, that they are not actually a part of our election process.
And it's probably even more confusing because people say, well, yeah, I voted.
This is real voting.
How come?
What's going on?
It's made to look like it's all official and a part of the two-party election system in the United States, but it's a show.
It's a show.
And it's also kind of the same people operating under, you know, two different flags.
I think people might start to understand how that works.
And Carson is a little bit ahead of himself, but he's trying to open up that, oh gosh, conversation.
Well, where do you come down on Donald Trump's complaints about Colorado, Louisiana, how the delegate process is working, how Ted Cruz is working the delegate system?
Because what the RNC is saying today is, this is the deal, these are the rules, they've been the rules, and every candidate was informed of those rules.
I'm not so sure it's about Donald Trump or Reince Prie, but it's really about the American people and whether or not they're being disenfranchised by a bunch of people who sit around and create arbitrary rules that tend to benefit them.
This happens on both sides, and I think it's one of the things that the American people are tired of.
I think that's why we're seeing people like Trump and Bernie Sanders doing so well because people are tired of the status quo.
This is how it's supposed to be with a few people sitting there and making those decisions.
The Republican Party, as is the Democratic Party, is a private organization, and so what their rules are, are set by them.
Sean Spicer, the communications director...
She can barely even say it.
She can barely even say it's not really an official election.
It's just a club.
It's like a soccer club, an athletic club, a chess club.
She can't...
She has problems saying it, so she's just like...
Of course she does.
She's one of the roadblocks.
But it's like a club.
And so what their rules are, are set by them.
Sean Spicer, the communications director for the RNC, wrote in this memo, the rules surrounding the delegate selection have been clearly let out in every state and territory.
And while each state is different, each process is easy to understand for those willing to learn it.
Take note, Donald Trump is the PS, unspoken.
You know, during the Jim Crow era, those were the rules, too.
They were written.
Everybody knew about them.
Didn't make them right.
I gotta say, you gotta love the black man who plays that card.
You go, Ben Carson.
That was great.
No one else can say this.
No one else.
Jim Crow.
Everyone thought that was cool.
Well, good on you, Ben.
Well, the rules, too.
They were written.
Everybody knew about them.
Didn't make them right.
And I'm not saying this is the same, but, you know, I think you get the point.
Just because rules are there, just because they're written by somebody, doesn't mean that they're right.
Doesn't mean that you can't re-review the system.
You know, there are a lot of things we need to look at, you know, from a historical perspective.
You know, why do we need the Electoral College anymore?
Stop and ask yourself, why was that put in place?
And do those same circumstances still apply?
Actually, they do not.
We need to start looking at a lot of different things.
Yeah, and what's interesting is the Electoral College, the way I think I understand it, as we've discussed on this program in years past, the entire point of there being an Electoral College is for the elites to stop crazy people like Sanders and Trump from actually getting elected.
That's the whole point of it, isn't it?
In fact...
Yes, it is.
That's one of the points of it.
It's also to kind of normalize the way...
So you have...
An unbalanced vote blocks in different states.
It kind of normalizes it.
But I think that is the point.
That was actually brought up in almost a sick way by David Brooks, who, of course, is a so-called Republican.
He represents the Republican Party on the news on PBS, but he is a Trump...
to an extreme.
And listen to this.
Listen to this little spiel by him where he goes on about it's amoral but good and these rules and regulations.
And he actually comes out and says the reason for these things, and that would include the Colorado situation, is to keep Trump from getting any— Prevent Trump is the words he uses.
It's rigged.
It's crooked.
Yeah, well, as others have pointed out, as a businessman, he was perfectly willing to use the amoral bankruptcy laws to his own advantage.
What's the difference between amoral and immoral?
Amoral means without morals.
Immoral means against the morality.
In other words, amoral means there's no morals.
There's no morals to be immoral against.
That's worse than immoral.
It probably is.
It's rigged.
It's crooked.
Well, as others have pointed out, as a businessman, he was perfectly willing to use the amoral bankruptcy laws to his own advantage.
And now he's just getting outfoxed.
What do you mean the amoral bankruptcy laws?
What's he talking about?
The bankruptcy laws are not amoral.
They're actually meant...
They're totally moral.
Yeah, they're meant to keep jobs.
They're meant to not have companies fall over so we can protect pieces of the economy.
Yeah, he's foolish crap.
This guy is getting on my nerves.
Yeah, I hear you.
He was perfectly willing to use the amoral bankruptcy laws to his own advantage, and now he's just getting outfoxed in the amoral delegate law laws.
Did you say amoral?
Well, the laws are the way they are.
Good point from Blitzed in the chatroom.
Bankruptcy prevents debtors' prison.
It actually is highly moral, if you think about it.
Nothing.
Well, the laws are the way they are.
But I think, A, they're in touch with the American tradition.
We do not live in a straight-up Athenian democracy.
We live in a republic.
We have an electoral college.
We have a United States senator, where the two senators from Wyoming have the same power as the two senators from California.
And we have, in that tradition, in that spirit, we have a delegate selection process where it's just not a straight-up democracy.
Where, as Ryan said, it's every big organization, whether it's General Motors or the Boy Scouts, they have an organizational structure in which they make decisions.
And the people who are more invested in the organization, are more senior in the organization, have more power than the people who are not.
And that's for very good reason.
It's because you want a party to have consistency over time.
You want it to have a structure where people have to compromise with each other.
And basically, you want it to have a series of stability so you don't get carried away by momentary fads and crazy demagogues.
So, by some logic, the structure exists to prevent Donald Trump and people like Donald Trump who are of the moment.
Yeah, so, yeah.
It's exactly right.
It exists to stop people from taking over their club.
Now, the other approach to this, that was actually interesting, even though it just showed that Brooks was more of a douche than I thought.
But this is the CBS, the clip is called CBS Flawed Trump.
I want to deconstruct this because this is structured in such a way, again, to make Trump, just to brainwash the public in very subtle ways.
I think it's really a dynamite piece for that.
The Republican Party is not scheming against Donald Trump.
That assertion came late today from the chairman of the party in an interview with Major Garrett.
Trump, the frontrunner for the nomination, claims that the GOP is plotting to trip him at the finish line.
We have a rigged system.
The Republican system is rigged, where the bosses pick the delegates.
Now, why would he do this?
I mean, do you think this has been his tactic all along?
He knew this was going to happen?
He was ready for this?
And what exactly is the strategy?
Just by yelling at him.
I think it's a vote-getting trick.
Hmm.
Because he's got a disillusioned group of people voting for him already, and now they're all...
I think it's just a methodology for getting votes, and I don't think he's doing it as much as the media is making it sound like.
They're the ones that are exaggerating this.
I've seen various clips where they've taken it from two or three speeches.
It makes it sound like a raving unit.
Yeah.
And if you listen to the very beginning, play that very beginning again, this is not the way you do a setup.
I mean, it is if you want to make a point that you're saying something like, Donald Trump is an idiot, and that's what so-and-so says.
You know what I mean?
It should be so-and-so.
Now, if you did it right as a reporter, you'd go, so-and-so says that Donald Trump's an idiot.
Right.
Then you know what's going on.
But if you start off with, Donald Trump's an idiot.
And that's like your assertion.
It's like your assertion.
That's what gets pounded into the human brain.
And then you mention it was said by someone else when, in fact, it was said by you.
And this, I thought, was a chicken shit report in every way.
Of course, Major Garrett.
And I don't really blame the guy.
Reporters like to do this.
This is what you do.
This is their job.
He has a grudge against Trump because, as you recall, we've mentioned it on the show before, and we played the clip, in the very early days of the campaign, way before the first primary, Trump insulted Garrett.
On the air and they ran it.
I mean, CBS ran it so you would know from now on out that it means war.
And he called him a jerk or they said something like, you know, if you knew what you were doing with your job, you know, something like this.
One of his early insults where he's just going off on everybody.
Like Katie Turr, he did that He did that with her, too.
You're no good.
You don't even know how to do an interview.
And then they ran it.
They run these things.
Which I don't know why they do that.
But they did it just to make a point that he's an a-hole.
So Garris got to get him.
And you can just hear it in this report.
The snide commentary.
These guys and gals, they think it's their job to save the country.
They do.
You said voting for Hillary is the way to save the country, apparently.
Well, hold your nose and vote for Hillary.
That's how you save the country.
The Republican Party is not scheming against Donald Trump.
That assertion came late today from the chairman of the party in an interview with Major Garrett.
Trump, the front-runner for the nomination, claims that the GOP is plotting to trip him at the finish line.
We have a rigged system.
The Republican system is rigged, where the bosses pick the delegates.
And the people never got to vote.
Donald Trump continued his week-long assault on the Republican Party nominating process.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Trump wrote, I for one am not interested in defending a system that for decades has served the interest of political parties at the expense of the people.
Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus fired back.
All of the candidates use the same rules in order to compete in each of the states.
Are you saying that Trump is essentially advancing a phony argument?
Leading the witness.
We like doing that.
It's how we're trained.
He never said that.
No.
It's great.
Come on.
He's doing his job.
Are you saying that Trump is essentially advancing a phony argument?
Just because someone doesn't like the kind of rules in particular states doesn't necessarily mean that the rules are rigged.
It just means they wish that the delegates were awarded a different way.
Ted Cruz has been following those rules in an effort to win enough delegates to deny Trump the nomination before this summer's convention.
Donald is unhappy with how they voted.
He's entitled to be unhappy.
We're focused on earning votes from the people.
But Trump maintains a huge lead in New York, and today the New York Post endorsed the frontrunner ahead of Tuesday's primary as a candidate, quote, You know, why doesn't Trump just say, He's kind of muddling the waters.
I'm pretty sure he's doing it on purpose.
Well, the process is rigged, and this is kind of what the whole thing is.
But it would be so much better for everyone.
And he can say it.
This is not part of your official American political process.
This is not how we choose.
You don't have to do this to choose presidents.
It's not in the Constitution this way.
He could just explain that.
He could use the Boy Scouts, the clubs, the chess clubs.
That's what I liked about Perot when he was running.
He would actually buy airtime.
And I've always wondered why people don't do this more often.
He would buy airtime and put himself on the air with a bunch of flashcards.
Oh, God, I remember that.
Yeah.
Yeah, and he put the card up and said, here's what they're telling you, and here's what's really going on.
And he'd have a graph or something, and he explained it.
And it was absolutely fascinating.
And it was very, I think most people, because it was simplified, but it was graphic.
It wasn't some guy waving his arms.
And it worked.
It worked like a champ.
That's why he got the horse head in his bed.
Yeah.
You really...
You're doing too well.
No one has done that.
They don't really...
I mean, just outside of Glenn Beck, who has his blackboard, and he just pretty much puts George Soros' name on there and puts a bunch of arrows pointing toward him.
He did it.
That's his idea.
That's the bad guy over there.
The explanation, but...
Yeah, he can't do it.
These guys are all...
Well, he could.
He's the only guy who could.
He should just do that.
Hey, this is just a club.
This is not part of your political process.
But the same people are running the other ones.
Something like that.
It is.
I have one piece of underreported news that was a news conference from the state's attorney.
This is about Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, I think is his name, and the little girl who got so beaten up.
Lewandowski.
That guy.
Yeah, and the reporter from Breitbart who...
They all quit in a huff.
Yeah, well, they quit in a huff, and there were charges, and they were suing you, etc., etc.
So the state secretary came out.
It was probably a 30-minute press conference.
They were talking about the video, the surveillance video.
It was so American.
And this guy loved it, of course.
But I just pulled the relevant 37-second quote out.
Law enforcement arrests are based upon probable cause.
State prosecution, however, relies upon a good faith basis that sufficient evidence exists to prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt.
This includes consideration of any apparent defenses.
Although the facts support the allegation that Mr.
Lewandowski did grab Ms.
Fields' arm against her will, Mr.
Lewandowski has a reasonable hypothesis of innocence.
There is insufficient evidence to rebut these defenses.
Therefore, although probable cause exists, the state will no-file this case.
No file.
They will not even take it to court.
No file.
And the reason why, which he explains, and if you want to, it's in the show notes, 817.noagendanotes.com.
It's because she was asked kindly by the Secret Service to get out of the way.
She circled around, came back.
She penetrated the bubble, as they call it.
The bubble.
The bubble.
And it is not uncommon, and it is accepted by the Secret Service for inner circle operatives of the protected politician to participate in crowd control.
Yes, and then the kicker was...
Yeah, she touched him first.
She touched him.
She touched Trump.
When I was six years old, my parents did this with me and my sisters.
They'd talk about physical contact, no physical contact, and they would always be, Adam, no physical contact.
And that's when I got the lecture on assault and battery, and what assault is, and what battery, and assault and battery.
Six years old.
Yeah.
And it's the same thing.
Yeah.
Well, apparently this girl...
Never got the lecture.
I don't know.
The whole thing was trumped up.
Yeah, but of course, whenever there's a correction, you don't see it.
Do you see this news?
This ran on Democracy Now!
So I did see it.
Okay.
So you and five other people.
Me and five other people.
How many people watch that show?
Well, because you do that...
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Good to see you in the thousands.
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Merci beaucoup.
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That was, of course, the dehydrated in China episode with the evolution of the podcaster artwork, which even though it was intended for episode 800, it was good.
We liked it.
It was nice.
Yeah, and we want to remind people not to put show numbers necessarily on their artwork, or if they do, put a second one in the evergreen without the number, because it might be useful.
We've seen a lot of pieces that, wow, they used this today for this show, but it says $7.99 on it.
You've ruined it for future use.
Thanks, Obama.
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He's the lucky dog.
He's the one who donated $416.16 from Brampton, Ontario, Canada, saying, It's been way too long, I know.
Tired of freeloading.
Guess I need a good de-douching.
Let me do it for him right now.
You've been de-douched.
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Yes.
Oh, that's what he wants?
He wants the formula?
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We'll do that, and we'll do a little bit of karma after that, after you're dedouching.
Here it is!
Our formula is this.
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You've got karma.
He also compliments me for cranky geeks and he hasn't heard any wine reviews on this show.
He's irked about that.
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Oh, how nice.
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You know, the other thing about Windows 10, or yeah, 10, I guess it's 10, is you can't make a bigger cursor For your mouse.
You cannot?
You can't change the size.
No.
I have looked and looked.
You can put trails.
You can make it darker.
You can make it black.
You can turn it into a plush.
You can turn it into a finger.
You can do all these things.
But there is no way that I can see that you can make it a little bigger and maybe darker so I could...
I like a big...
Yeah.
Well, that's interesting because OS... You know that...
Yeah.
Well, OS X El Capitan...
They have something that is new that if you can't find your cursor, you just swirl it around for a second and it becomes huge.
Well, you can hit control on Windows and a big circle forms around the cursor, but for some reason on this particular machine, that function doesn't work at all.
Oh my.
So I lose my cursor.
You should switch to a lower resolution probably.
Have you ever seen lower resolution on a high-res monitor?
James Pyre's on it in Escondido, California.
I built a whole company around it called Mevio.
What are you talking about?
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Nice.
Give him some karma for saying...
We'll have that here.
Mm-hmm.
I'll take some job karma.
Please play EJ's favorite jingles if you don't mind.
Okay.
NYT Vocal Fry.
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That's that woman.
Abramson.
Yeah, Abramson.
Yeah.
Jill.
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As it was tax day this week, please call out the IRS and everyone else on the taxpayer tit as douchebags.
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I think No Agenda producers might find their concept of state citizenship appealing.
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Normally, we'd like to keep it at three, but I'll give it a shot.
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I hate to stop this, but you've got to replay that Jill Averson clip.
I forget how bad she was.
I have a lot of them.
No, just play that one.
That was a good one.
Obviously, I read the New York Times all day long, mainly on my iPad app.
I'm shocked, shocked to find vocal fry going on in here.
It's unbelievable.
I forgot how bad it was.
She is the OG fry.
She's the original gangster fry.
She is the fry.
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Today?
Yeah.
817.
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I think that is terrible.
A couple years ago, the Canadian money was worth more than a dollar.
Yeah, it was $1.5, $1.7.
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It's outrageous.
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May I please have the following jingles?
New World Order.
Then throw me off the financial cliff.
Which is that scream, I guess.
And finally, two to the head to finish the job.
Hate and darkness in opposition to Al.
I'm not sure who Al is.
I think that was cut off.
What?
It's truncated.
Yeah, I'm just trying to think.
What was the...
I don't know what it was.
The Armageddon?
What scream is she looking for?
I'm not sure.
But there was one where you had a guy being thrown off a cliff and it's not like he's falling away.
But you can just play the horrible scream, which is good enough.
Yeah, okay.
And what else did she want?
She wanted...
Two to the head.
Two to the head.
New World Order.
New World Order.
Two to the head.
Scream.
Is that it?
to scream before the two to the head.
You've got karma.
Alright, I like that.
Woo, kind of fit.
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I hadn't heard that one.
I like it.
It's been around.
It used to be a dollar an hour, but then we stretched the show and made it longer.
So I did the recalculate.
It wasn't a dollar an hour.
It was 75 cents.
It's cheap.
They're getting bonused.
But it's $5 Canadian, pretty much what you're saying.
That's probably $10 Canadian.
That's terrible.
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Slash N-A. So I've already played this in two different...
Oops.
Whoops, there we go.
We've already played this in two different parts.
Now all together, hey, propagate our formula!
Our formula is this.
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That'll be show 818, which is kind of a little...
That's an interesting little ditty.
Little ditty, yeah.
I found something which I think warrants our deconstruction here.
It was one of those things where the no-agenda spidey sense was tingling in the back of my head.
I didn't quite understand what was going on.
You okay?
Yeah, I'm fine.
Are you okay?
No, I'm never okay.
It started actually when I was watching the daily press briefing at the White House.
Spokeshole Josh Earnest received a question about the Zika bill, which I want to discuss right now.
Darlene, I hate to disappoint members of Congress, but...
The passage of that bill that you described is positive, but a rather meager accomplishment.
We were talking about it earlier.
In some ways, it's akin to passing out umbrellas in the advance of a potential hurricane.
So an umbrella might come in handy, but it's going to be insufficient to ensure that communities all across the country are protected from a potentially significant impact.
Now, as I'm watching this, I'm like, wait a minute, a bill passed?
I don't know about it.
The first thing I always do is I look at a congressional dish, see if Jen has done anything.
No, she hasn't done anything.
This is a very, very, very, very, very tiny bill.
And so I was like, why is all this attention being spent on this?
This is regarding Senate Bill 2512, which has now been passed and has been handed over to the President.
It is...
I actually have the text here.
It's easy to read.
Unless there's a House bill, she won't cover it.
Yeah, it already went through the House, obviously.
The short title is Adding Zika Virus to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act.
That's all that it is.
It just designates subparagraph R of that act and inserts Zika virus disease, which makes it eligible for fast track financing for vaccines.
But this is, of course, not at all what the White House wanted.
We're not quite sure what's going on.
Let's listen to more of Josh Earnest before we start to get some clarity.
That's what we're focused on.
Darlene, you may be familiar with the expression of being a day late and a dollar short.
In this case, Congress is two months late and $1.9 billion short.
Okay.
All right.
Can I give us quick what I think right away?
Yeah.
For one thing, there has not been a case of Zika in the United States.
Inherent to the United States.
In other words, nobody's got Zika while being in the United States under any circumstances.
And there's also no conclusive evidence that Zika creates microcephaly.
Well, there's been a lot of discussion indicating it.
And there's some sort of faux proof.
I haven't seen any real proof.
Well, but maybe I can just make this observation.
When he says, this is crap.
They're late.
We need $1.9 billion.
Yeah, as soon as he says that, I'm thinking, what scam is going on?
And bingo, boom, shakalaka.
That was exactly what I'm like.
What scam is going on?
So let me take you down the rabbit hole.
Being a day late and a dollar short.
In this case, Congress is two months late and $1.9 billion short in providing the assistance that our public health professionals say that they need to make sure that they respond appropriately to this situation.
The bill that Congress passed yesterday doesn't include any funding.
It certainly doesn't.
So that's not going to do anything to help local communities across the country that carry this virus.
Okay.
He's carrying the virus.
I don't know.
Local communities everywhere have this problem.
What he's doing is he's covering by saying this is so important.
Children are going to die.
People are going to die.
We have to get the money.
$1.9 billion.
Okay.
Or fight the mosquitoes that carry this virus.
Actually, I'm sorry.
That was an important point.
He says, fight the mosquitoes.
That will come back at some point in our life.
I'm not sure where that's coming from yet.
Fight this virus?
Or fight the mosquitoes that carry this virus?
Are we going to create a vaccine?
Because that's what the bill did.
Are we going to create a vaccine or do we want to fight the mosquitoes?
Is it a war on mosquitoes?
This is confusing to me.
Or fight the mosquitoes that carry this virus.
It's not going to expand access to diagnostic tests that would allow people to more easily get tested.
And get a prompt result from that test about whether or not they have the Zika virus.
All of these are steps that are critical to ensuring that we're protecting the pregnant women and their newborn children from a virus that we know has a potentially devastating impact.
So, no, I'm not prepared to give Congress credit for that legislation.
It is a positive step, but it is a far cry from what our public health experts tell us is necessary.
Okay, so I went on a hunt for seeing what the public experts were telling us was necessary to combat the Zika virus.
I'm sorry?
Public health experts.
Yeah.
What did I say?
You said public experts.
Is there a difference?
Yeah.
Public health experts.
Okay.
And I came across a report from CBS, and that really got me on my way.
Mr.
Speaker, do you believe the White House when it says it needs the full $1.9 billion to fight Zika over and beyond what has already been allocated to fight Ebola?
The monies in the pipeline are appropriators.
Did you hear it?
This is where I figured it out.
He dropped the word Ebola.
Yes, he did.
Yes, he did.
Listen again.
Full $1.9 billion to fight Zika over and beyond what has already been allocated to fight Ebola.
The money's in the pipeline.
Our appropriators are going to address this issue.
If the need arises, our appropriators will address it in the appropriations.
But the money will be there eventually.
Congressman Tom Cole chairs an appropriations subcommittee considering the administration's request.
Who decides whether it's truly needed?
I mean, do you believe the NIH? Do you believe the CDC? Oh, actually, we do believe the NIH, and we do believe the CDC, but we have to use the resources that we have wisely.
We need the money now.
Democrats and the White House favor an emergency request, which doesn't need to be funded at the expense of other programs.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
The budget process takes a long time.
It'll be practically nine months before we could ever get any.
So what you're hearing here is a sense of urgency.
The urgency is we can't wait nine months.
We've got to get this money.
We've got to get this money in.
People are dying.
Children have little heads.
...of other programs.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
The budget process takes a long time.
It'll be practically nine months before we could ever get any other money.
And there's no guarantee that you have it at the money at the end of the year.
At the end of the day, that money will be there or it won't be there?
I don't know.
I honestly don't know.
And that is what has us very concerned.
So now this $1.9 billion, and the slight mention of Ebola brought me into, or really down into the rabbit hole.
The president sent out an executive order and a funding request letter, actually, to Congress, and all of this is in the show notes, paraphrasing He's already transferred $500 million that was in the Ebola rescue fund over to the Zika rescue fund.
And what he is asking for is for the remaining Ebola rescue fund to be transferred to the Zika rescue fund.
So two things.
One, that clearly means Ebola is licked.
Like, good deal.
Two...
This is a lot of money for something that we're really not sure of.
And it turns out that this $1.9 billion that the president is asking for is exactly the amount of money that has not been received from pledges to the Ebola Rescue Fund.
So how it works is everybody sends out a press release.
Oh, we're going to help with Ebola.
Put us up for $25 million.
Okay, good.
So they have all this money, and then it's supposed to be $5.2 billion, but they're $1.9 billion shy because people have not paid yet.
And the president is now saying, I want that money.
I need it because people are dying.
Zika virus, baby small heads.
Now, I have the entire rundown here from the United Nations, the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy on Ebola, and I can tell you who has donated what and who is still outstanding on their money, who are essentially being called out by the President.
To pony up because this money needs to go to fight Zika.
But I also found where the money goes, so that will kind of help us.
And the numbers are weird if you look at who's put in what kind of money.
So Australia, they have pledged $30 million.
Austria?
$3 million.
I'm going to play a game with you, John.
How much money do you think Belgium?
Considering Austria put in $3 million, Australia put in $30 million, how much has Belgium, the little tiny country of Belgium, put in for Ebola and now for Zika?
40 million.
56.
And they're pretty much current.
Canada had pledged 96.
They are still 13 million short.
They're short.
They're in arrears.
China, 125 million.
They're paid up.
Good to go.
France.
Hmm.
They pledged 189 million.
Have only delivered 96.
Hello, Frenchies.
Step it up.
Now, here's a tough one.
Germany.
Had pledged $391 million, has only delivered $134 million.
I think that's problematic.
We look at Ireland, put in $73 million.
All these amounts, you've got to question, why so much money and why are some people not paying?
The United Kingdom is a big problem.
They promised $1 billion, have only delivered on $516 million.
Oh, bastards.
Now, the USA... We pledged $2,364,000,000.
We have paid $2,364,000,000.
The European Union itself pledged $939,000,000.
Have only delivered $715,000.
Who set up this scam?
The United Nations.
Now, here's some individual corporations who have pledged yet not donated.
Again, they were brought in to pledge for Ebola.
They said, yep, we're going to get this money.
And that is now being transferred to Zika, which I'm pretty sure most of the people who pledge the money are saying, wow, what kind of bullshit is this?
Here's a couple other organizations which have not yet ponied up.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation promised $58 million.
They're $6 million short.
And check this out.
The Google Larry Page Family Foundation pledged $25 million.
They have so far delivered $0.0 million.
No.
What?
That's an outrage.
It's a total outrage.
And how about the Silicon...
Just don't pledge anything if you're not going to give anything and keep your name out of it.
Well, the president should call these fuckers out.
You know who else pledged $25 million and delivered zero?
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
I didn't even know that it existed.
Oh, and it's a bunch of VCs and a bunch of a-holes.
Now, where does this money go?
This is why I think it's easy to see why we have to get this $1.9 billion, because it's going to everything except Ebola or Zika.
And the companies that are receiving the most are Liberia.
They will get $668 million.
Guinea gets $835 million.
But the countries don't get this money.
No, NGOs within the country get the money, John.
This is all NGO money.
I don't know why we don't start an NGO and just...
Go for it.
You and women get a million dollars of this.
How does that have anything to do with Ebola or Zika?
How does that have anything to do with it?
This is just pots of money.
It's a giveaway.
Yeah?
Well, this is like the Haiti thing with Bush and Clinton.
Yeah, let me give you...
All that money.
I'm sure some of it got distributed to the UN women.
Well, let's run down these NGOs.
ACDI VOCA, I have no idea what that is.
The American Refugee Committee, 7 mil...
Catholic Relief Services, 14 million.
I'm sure these people are doing real work.
Samaritan's Purse, Save the Children, World Vision.
Other is pretty big.
Other is bigger than everything all put together.
Other is half a billion dollars.
But check this out.
The Netherlands is...
Let me go to the other chart.
The Netherlands has pledged $82 million.
Yeah, $82 million.
They're about $2 million shorts.
They've got another payment to go, probably, whatever.
But what's returning to the Netherlands from this fund, because countries also get money back.
Hold on.
I lost my place in the PDF. Here it is.
The Netherlands Ministry of Defense received $7 million from the fund that their own country just put out there.
The U.S. Department of Defense receives $631 million of the Zika fund.
Or Ebola.
Who?
The Department of Defense.
What are they getting the money for?
Because this is...
They haven't got enough money?
This is laundering money.
Here.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control, CDC, $800 million.
And they've already received a lot of this money.
Then we have, oh, who else?
The African Union receives money.
The World Bank receives $50 million.
For what?
Because they were promised the money.
This is the way I see it.
This has got to be, we've always questioned the Ebola crisis.
So this is payoffs.
This is payoffs to countries.
This is payoffs to NGOs that are controlled by other operations.
I don't see huge medical, you know, I see a lot of research.
You know, there's a billion and a half of research they're looking at, which part of this money will go to.
But this is bullshit.
I mean, what does the Dutch Ministry of Defense have to get 10% of the money their country paid in the first place?
Stinks.
If anything, maybe this is how you slush $2 billion out of the country for your friends to use it to, I don't know, vote for Hillary.
I don't know what's going on, but it's bullshit.
They are taking the Ebola crisis over, take that money, put it into Zika.
We know very little about Zika.
We're scaring everybody.
Well, there is no case of microcyphaly or any related Zika deaths in our country, as far as I know.
And I should mention a couple of other things.
One, and they've talked about this at the beginning of the crisis, and now they don't talk about it anymore.
The specific mosquito, which I actually have the name of here, it's, what the hell is it called?
It's Addis Egypti.
Yeah, A-E-D-E-S-A. And by the way, John, this virus has been known since the 50s.
Yes, and this mosquito doesn't exist in the United States because it carries certain specific things, which we never have in the United States.
It carries dengue.
There's no dengue ever in the United States, ever.
It carries yellow fever.
We'd all have to get shots for yellow fever.
Yeah.
So this mosquito that carries this little thing doesn't, you know, well, maybe it'll jump species.
You know, it's a bunch of bull crap.
They're just lying to us.
But you're onto something, but what?
Well, I don't know.
But I have another occurrence, another oddity to add to this mix.
And my conclusion, I'll tell you up front, is I think that in these last, you know, the last few months the president has, he's got to make good with everybody.
All the things he promised.
He's got to, you know, and mainly for special interests.
Josh Earnest in that press conference was irked.
It was as though he was scolding them for not doing what they're supposed to do.
Which is give out the money.
Yeah.
Or move the money around legally.
The point is, this money is clearly not going to doctors in tents with hazmat suits who are going to solve the shrunken head problem.
This is not what's going on.
This money is being distributed.
And the president did his podcast today.
Which is the weekly address.
And it was all about one thing, which to me is like, okay, it's obvious this is another quid pro quo or maybe he has to do this for Hillary or the Democratic Party.
But listen to this sack of crap.
One industry that's ripe for change is cable TV. Right now, 99% of cable and satellite TV customers rent set-top boxes from their providers.
According to one survey, this costs households an average of more than $230 per year.
We spend some $20 billion to rent these devices.
While we have almost unlimited choice in what we watch on television, from traditional programming to online content, there's next to no competition to build a better user-friendly product that allows you to easily access all this content in one place.
The president here, with everything going on in the world, Is advocating for standardization of video entertainment to the home.
So most consumers just rent whatever the cable company offers.
Because we have to.
No, we don't have to.
That's bullcrap.
Go on.
Sorry.
...content in one place.
So most consumers just rent whatever the cable company offers.
Because we have to.
That means companies have little incentive to innovate.
As a consequence, we need multiple devices and controllers to access content from different sources.
We need...
Oh, yes.
What is...
Is the president's problem more than one remote control?
Is that what he's complaining about here?
That makes no sense.
That makes no sense.
So, my administration has encouraged the FCC to remove the barriers to competition that prevent new players from offering innovative cable box options to consumers.
Somebody at the Comcast or Warner didn't cough up some money.
We know this works.
This is a call-out for being bribed.
Let's stop and discuss a couple of things.
One, it's bullcrap.
You do not have to use their gear.
You can put a TiVo on there.
I run my cable TV stuff through a sling box, and I access it that way.
I do not rent the cable box for my television through cable.
I just don't.
And I'm not paying a monthly fee.
And with the Dish Network...
90% of the time you can find some receiver for that.
You don't need to necessarily use their box on a monthly basis.
But if you want to, it's very convenient to use their box because you can get it fixed, you can get it swapped out, you can go into the local Comcast service center and have it looked at or whatever.
If you can't use it, they'll show you how.
So this is bull crap.
Well, it will not surprise you that the words coming out of the president's mouth have nothing to do with the letter he sent to FCC. This is not about the issues you just had with what he stated, and I'll tell you what it is after he's done.
...new players from offering innovative cable box options to consumers.
We know this works.
For years, Americans had to rent our telephones from the phone company.
This was a while ago, but when the FCC finally unlocked competition for home phones, the marketplace was flooded with all kinds of phone options with new features and at different price points.
Consumers suddenly had many options, and the whole industry moved forward as a result.
The same can happen with cable boxes and in dozens of areas of our economy, all of which can make a difference in your everyday life.
The bottom line is competition is good for consumers, workers, businesses, and our economy.
So I'm going to keep doing everything I can to make sure that our free market works for everyone.
Thanks.
And have a great weekend.
Thanks, Obama.
So the president is actually lying.
Surprise.
He is not trying to make the playing field more competitive.
No, this pertains to the Downloadable Security Technology Advisory Committee and associated technologies.
What this is, is the FCC corralling all video providers, but I think they're working on behalf of most likely Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu, maybe.
But Amazon and Netflix are on the committee, and the Silicon Valley is over-represented.
Well, actually, let me tell you what we have here.
AT&T, Sony Electronics, Dish Network, Amazon...
Public Knowledge.
Not sure who they are.
Vizio.
And then we do have Comcast.
I don't see Netflix on it.
Oh wait, there's more.
The Motion Picture Association of America.
Google.
Of course, they're also a big player in video.
Samsung.
Evolution Digital.
TiVo.
Etc.
They are trying to force a common API for DRM. That's what this is about.
Nothing else.
So the president with all this bullshit about you won't have to have this many remotes.
I'm actually waiting for him to say that exact sentence.
You know, like, you won't have to take your shoes off taking the train.
You'll only have one remote control.
Vote for me!
This is a great idea!
It is entirely politically motivated.
And with Hollywood pulling the strings?
Hollywood pulling the strings.
So a lot of services have put the, and I was against this when the Mozilla Foundation started doing this, they're putting, you know, there's DRM, digital rights management, in HTML5. I think it's EME or something like that it's called.
So what they're trying to do is they're trying to get everybody to come together on a common API so that they can then have what they call competitive navigation systems.
They just want all the money to flow properly.
And it's anti-competitive, in my mind.
Of course it is.
So the president is very disingenuous about this.
I think he should just tell the truth.
I don't think it would bother most people.
Yeah.
I mean, it bothers the whole tech community because the tech community is very knowledgeable that, you know, this is a DRM play.
Yeah.
And so they get irked by this every time it happens.
But I think the public at large doesn't care.
The public at large is going to buy his message.
And if you add to that only one remote, oh, my God, people will freak out.
One remote?
Are you kidding me?
I think this has got to be...
That means one remote you can really screw around with your buddies.
This has got to be quid pro quo for Hollywood and I'd say for Google and Amazon and other Silicon Valley companies.
Maybe the whole rest of his tenure will be just these deals.
It's very possible.
The Zika thing is a little more interesting to me than the...
Well, I know, but I'm just saying that it seems like right now he's doing a lot of these things.
He's just racking it all up.
Oh, got to get this out.
Got to do this.
Got to do that.
Oh, got to figure this one out.
So it's a way you can get the continuous donations to his presidential library.
Yeah, exactly.
I got another little deconstruction.
You had the great clip on Thursday about the Russian jet fighter buzzing the...
It was actually two of them buzzing the ship.
I have another Josh Earnest clip downplaying the event.
Can you offer any details of the contents of the defense attache's message to Russia?
I don't know the details of that message.
I don't know exactly how...
That information is transmitted.
What I do know, though, is that that is a routine channel of communication.
That the defense attache in Moscow is responsible for communicating with his counterparts there on a regular basis on a wide range of issues.
And it is not uncommon at all to use this channel to raise our concerns about This kind of conduct from the Russian military.
We've seen these kinds of acts from Russian military pilots, for example, in the past.
This is the channel that we have used to convey our concerns.
So it's not at all extraordinary that we would be conveying our concerns about this incident through that particular channel.
But the incidents themselves on Monday and Tuesday were not routine.
And by the way, I've never heard this guy talk.
Sounds like a character in a cartoon.
He looks like a character in a cartoon.
I've seen him before, but I've never heard him speak with a public question.
As we know, all these are scripted, so it would make sense.
But the incidents themselves on Monday and Tuesday were not routine.
I've never seen, you know, video or photos like that of Russian aircraft buzzing a United States warship.
What I understand to be true is...
This is another good one.
I've got to use that.
What I understand to be true is I did not take the cookie from the cookie jar.
That's how I understand the truth.
Is that the incident that we saw is not routine, but certainly not unprecedented.
Does the United States believe that Russia violated the Incident at Sea Agreement?
Now, this is interesting.
I'd not heard of this one.
The Incident at Sea Agreement.
This stems back to 1972 when this was passed.
There was an agreement between the United States and Russia.
I'll just read from the State Department's website here.
In the late 60s, there were several incidents between forces of the U.S. Navy and the Soviet Navy.
These include planes of the two nations passing near one another, ships bumping one another, both ships and aircraft making threatening movements against those of the other side.
In March of 1968, the United States proposed talks on preventing such incidents from becoming more serious.
The Soviet Union accepted the invitation.
In November of 1970, talks were conducted in two rounds, one in Moscow, and then in 1972, the agreement was signed.
And specifically, the agreement provides for steps to avoid collision, not interfering with the formations of the other party, avoiding maneuvers in areas of heavy sea traffic, requiring surveillance ships to maintain a safe distance from the object of investigation.
It's odd that we've never, ever heard of this before.
There's never been a reference to this when there were close incursions or anything like that.
It's the first time this has been brought up, and this guy clearly was ready to pop it.
Well, you said, like you said, it was scripted.
Maybe they couldn't get anyone else to ask that question.
We've never heard this guy before.
So he's obviously planted to ask this specific question to bring it to the fore.
And it's propaganda.
I have received multiple emails and encrypted messages from...
Boots on the ground, water under the seas.
And they say, this happens all the time.
In fact, we do it even better.
We send our attack helicopters to buzz the Russian ships.
I put a picture in the show notes.
You can see it for yourself.
This happens all the time.
It's hot-dogging.
And that's why there's no pictures or no one's swinging guns around or taking, you know, no pictures of defensive moves.
Because it's done all the time.
This is what we do.
It's like Top Gun.
Hey!
Hey, fuckers, look at me!
This is nothing out of the ordinary, except that it's now being propagandized to make Russia look like a scary, scary entity.
It's bullcrap.
Good one.
I'll give you a clip of it.
No, I wouldn't even accept it, because it's not a clip.
Since you're talking about this kind of propaganda, I got a clip that's kind of interesting.
This is a clip that I believe, and I started thinking about this, the idea of cognitive dissonance actually being created by the structure of news media since the era of this journalism school, the J School, where you're required to have one positive, one negative, and one neutral.
Hold on, hold on, hold on, back it up.
I don't know anything about this.
When did J School start, and is this the rule?
I don't know when J school started.
That's a good question.
But that is a rule.
Generally speaking, you take journalism classes or you talk to journalists.
There's a rule.
It's a written rule somewhere.
It's one of the textbooks someplace.
I'm just going to tell you what it is and not going to document it.
All right.
When you do a story, you're supposed to, you know, there's a structure for this story that's supposed to exist, and it's been diluted by the internet, but it's still kind of there.
You have all the information in the beginning.
You have something called a nut graph, which has all the information throughout the article put into one paragraph, which you can find and use it as a summary to understand what they're talking about.
But in their summary, you're supposed to have people who comment on it.
And where do you put the, you won't believe what happened next line?
Yeah, that would be...
What happened next will blow you away.
I don't think that's in any of the text.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I thought that's how it went.
You have to have a couple people comment.
You have somebody saying, yeah, well, the way I see it, it's not the way I worked.
It was the other way.
And then somebody says, I don't know.
I have no clue.
And then you have a third person saying, yes, they're absolutely correct in this.
They should have done this long ago.
You know, you have this just supposedly somebody disagrees, somebody that doesn't know what he's talking about, and somebody who agrees, and it's kind of in general.
So you have these conflicting quotes usually, and they're gratuitous 90% of the time.
Yeah.
It's like, you know, they never, and there always is a joke that goes around the journalism about, well, you know, you can't do that with Hitler.
Yeah.
Who's going to survive?
Hitler was a good man.
That doesn't go over well.
It doesn't play well.
So I've noticed that this has devolved into a moment of creating, the way news stories, especially in the broadcast media, is creating cognitive dissonance by giving you different information and never giving you a conclusion.
It's messing with your wiring.
I'm absolutely convinced, and I think the model of the pro and con quotes is part of the problem, but the way they do it now, it's a little more complex, and it's harder to deconstruct, but when you see one of these pieces, and this piece ran in, And I think it's CBS.
We can tell us as they start talking or ABC.
And when you listen to the piece, it's like, why are they even telling us this?
It's stupid.
It's a stupid article or broadcast package.
But in there, there's this conflicting information that has to leave you, the listener, confused at a deep subconscious level, which is where I think they want to keep the entire public.
This is the piece.
and you can listen for it yourself.
This is the speed limit report talking about the pros and cons of setting the speed limit at various higher or lower.
And when I watched this piece, I said, this is confusing.
They never really say, and then there's contradictory information.
The whole thing is designed, I believe.
Can I interject something?
I have no idea what the report is about, but I always learned that the initial 55 mile an hour speed limit was implemented to help the nation save gas in the 70s.
Is that true?
That was the original.
Well, the way I remember it, they did it to help save gas, and then they noticed that there was less traffic deaths.
So they let it go.
But now we've got all kinds of contradictory information.
And it's just fed into the subconscious.
I think this is a classic example of the news media creating this crazy...
And I think this all stems from...
We used to have newspapers that were the so-and-so Democrat, the so-and-so Republican.
And they were newspapers with points of view.
That has been dissolved.
There's no more newspapers with points of view.
At least not blatantly.
Well, they still can't get around it because everyone has points of view.
They won't admit it.
But I think the underlying goal here is to create a dumbed-down public that doesn't know anything.
Listen to this report.
We asked transportation correspondent Chris Van Cleve to fill us in.
Montgomery County, Maryland Police Captain Thomas Dodone sees the danger of speed daily.
Speed is determining whether a crash is an injury or a property damage.
The faster someone's going, the more likely that someone's going to get hurt.
But for Dodone, it's also personal.
His 15-year-old son Ryan died in a crash where the driver was going at least 20 miles over the limit.
If he had been going the speed limit, there's not a doubt in my mind every kid would have been home safe.
But speed limits across the country have been going up since the federal government repealed the mandatory maximum of 55 in 1995.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found those increases have caused at least 33,000 deaths over a 20-year period.
With every 5 miles the speed limit rose, deaths grew by 4%.
On freeways, it jumped 8%.
Charles Farmer authored the study.
For this few minutes that you're saving by going faster, you are increasing your risk quite a bit.
There are people dying out there.
But the National Motorists Association says speed limits work best when approximating the natural flow of traffic, which may be higher than the posted limit.
The NMA is Gary Biller.
The fatality rates overall have dropped dramatically to the point where in the last couple of years they're the lowest on record.
So as states have continually been raising speed limits, their safety statistics have actually gotten better.
Researchers estimate 1,900 people lost their lives in 2013 because of the higher speed limits.
That's almost as many lives as were saved by frontal airbags that year.
Scott, seven states have speed limits of 80 miles an hour or higher.
In parts of Texas, that limit is 85.
Chris Van Cleve.
Thank you, Chris, and we'll be right back.
Yeah, that's because what I heard was study shows That when you increase the speed limit, more people die.
And then right after that, less people dying every year.
Yeah.
Well, that's crazy.
This is a story designed to create cognitive dissonance.
I'm just putting myself in the shoes of the reporter or the person who made this package, which probably the reporter...
Did some production himself, you know, or outlined the story.
I think he just, like you said, he just went through the J school, just put boom, boom, put those two opposing pieces in, and didn't even think about even saying, wow, that's weird, or hmm.
There's just no investigation done.
I think he just put in pro, con, done.
It creates cognitive dissonance, but I don't know if it was done on purpose.
It may not, well, I don't think it was done on purpose.
No.
I think the model itself is the problem.
It's set up, yeah.
Okay, I see what you're saying.
But this example, I would listen to this thing that go on and on about more deaths and everyone's going to die.
And then now the other guy says, no, it's just the opposite.
And then they just drop it.
They don't even comment on the discrepancy.
There's a discrepancy.
Hello?
Yeah.
A discrepancy is rarely commented on using this model.
It's just that they leave it as a discrepancy for you to just be confused by.
What good is that?
Specifically, I'm going to ask, you know, there's journalists that listen to this show.
What good is it to throw in a discrepancy of that sort and just leave it lying there?
Yeah.
It would have been okay if he used the face bag quote, I'm just going to leave this here for a bit.
You ever seen this?
No, I don't see face bag.
People on the face bag, and then they post an article and they'll say, I'm just going to leave this here.
What's the point?
It's kind of like this is so obvious that you're so stupid.
I'm just going to leave this here so you see how stupid you are.
It's so obvious you're stupid I don't have to report on it.
That's kind of what...
Oh, I don't know anything about this.
I will point out, as an airman, speed does not kill.
Lack of speed kills.
It's true.
Oh, I just got a new clip in.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Check this out.
I haven't looked at it, but hey, what if some of that Zika money might go to one of our favorite organizations in America?
Think babies?
Think women?
Planned Parenthood.
Zika has made a long-standing public health crisis impossible to ignore and demonstrates the critical need of government support for sexual and reproductive health care.
So I think we've heard many...
This is a woman from the CDC speaking.
...folks speak much more eloquently than me that the ability to decide if and when to have children is basic health care, but it's a basic human right as well.
And yet it's not realized for so many women across the region and which this outbreak is making so crystal clear.
What I want to articulate, though, is that the same is going to be true in the contiguous United States as it becomes more prevalent here.
Women with the least ability to plan their families, the least access to healthcare generally, will feel the impact of this outbreak the most.
And in fact, if we look at some of the states where we're already seeing the highest number of Zika cases, Florida and Texas, both are states that have recently slashed their reproductive health programs.
Texas over a series of bills over the last several years, one of which is before the Supreme Court right now.
And Florida just last month defunded Planned Parenthood.
So this is the opposite of what we need to be doing as we're gearing up as a nation to tackle this epidemic as it comes home.
Epidemic.
Epidemic.
They're probably going to get a little bit of that cash.
Sure.
That's the way it goes.
I have to say something to my LGBTQIAAP brothers and sisters.
You're in dire, dire danger.
You're at great risk.
And I've been saying this for years on this program.
And when I heard this report, I was like, please listen.
PrEP, okay?
PrEP is not going to save your life.
You know about the PrEP, John?
PrEP is the, you know, this is the, you won't get AIDS if you take PrEP pill?
I don't know anything about this.
Oh, come on.
We've talked about this a lot.
PrEP pill?
PrEP, yeah.
P-R-E-P. Yeah, I figured that.
Yeah, we've talked about it quite a bit.
Yeah, okay, so PrEP, it's a capital P, capital R, small e, capital P, you know, is being prescribed as well.
You know, it's, I guess, usually meant for couples, and one may be HIV positive, but if you just say, oh, I don't need condoms, I don't need to protect myself for anything, I can just go to the club and woo!
Do whatever I want to do.
You're going to run into other problems.
People are...
Callous about the risk.
Here's the report from the CDC. We're concerned about our high levels of syphilis among men who have sex with men.
Really, we're back to the level of disease, burden of disease in gay men that we are seeing before HIV in this country.
We're concerned about the erosion of the public health infrastructure and how this is impacting our ability to respond to these epidemics and endemic problems with the reduction in boots-on-the-ground staff and closure of STD clinics.
So, yeah.
More money.
Well, more money, but they're also, you know, the LGBT community is getting, you know, old school diseases.
Syphilis, not in fun.
I think they are trying to kill them off.
It seems that way.
Yeah.
Oh, it's just, you know, oh my God.
It's everywhere, but, oh, I just take PrEP.
It's over.
Woo!
Party time!
Celebrate!
No.
PrEP is also not 100% effective.
I'm just...
There's a lot of propaganda, but when it comes down to this, this is one of the worst.
This is going to kill people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Yeah.
All right.
I'll open up the climate gate for a second before we do anything else.
Where is that?
To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate.
Yes, we have our favorite scientist, Bill Nye.
Bill Nye.
Who is, of course, the science guy.
And he's in the news.
The climate guy.
Yeah, he's the climate guy.
Maybe kill the skeptics guy or throw him in jail.
We interviewed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the environmentalist, here at the People's Climate March in 2014, September.
He said that the climate deniers, his word, energy CEOs belong at The Hague with three square meals and a cot with all the other war criminals.
What is your thought on that?
Do you think some of the rhetoric on your side, as I'm sure both sides, but some of the rhetoric on your side gets too carried away?
I mean, what's your thought on jailing skeptics as war criminals?
We'll see what happens.
Was it appropriate to jail the guys from Enron?
Interesting.
Okay, right?
So we'll see what happens.
Was it appropriate to jail people from the cigarette industry who insisted?
Did anyone from the cigarette industry go to jail?
Not that I know of.
I don't think that's true.
They got fined.
The Enron guys were because they were committing fraud.
It's illegal.
There's nothing illegal about being a climate science skeptic unless you're an a-hole like this guy who obviously has no concern about what should be legal or illegal because this is so important.
Mm-hmm.
Interesting.
Okay, right?
So we'll see what happens.
This is horrible.
This is unacceptable behavior.
Well, he's only 30 seconds more.
Jailing skeptics as war criminals.
We'll see what happens.
Was it appropriate to jail the guys from Enron?
Interesting.
Okay, right?
So we'll see what happens.
What is that supposed to mean?
We'll see what happens.
We'll see what happens.
Right?
Maybe he knows something we don't know about.
From the cigarette industry who insisted that this addictive product was not addictive and so on.
And you think about in these cases, for me as a taxpayer and voter, The introduction of this extreme doubt about climate change is affecting my quality of life as a public citizen.
How is it doing that?
Well, he's going to tell you.
So I can see where people are very concerned about this and are pursuing criminal investigations as well as engaging in discussions like this.
Oh, yes.
Very good, Bill.
Jail them all.
Throw us in jail.
Throw us in jail.
Please, throw us in jail.
Your friend, Barbara Boxer, showed the back of her tongue up on the hill earlier this week.
She was not happy.
Can we confirm that she's a moron?
As far as I can tell.
Yeah, but you know her, right?
You know her.
I worked at the air pollution district when she was on the board.
I ran into her a few times and said hello, but I didn't know her the way some of the other inspectors apparently did.
Apparently knew her quite well.
Who were having to drive her home.
This was in the 70s, of course, when she was a little more...
Sexy.
Sexy.
Yeah, and then we might as well tell the story, not everyone's heard it.
Barbara Boxer used to come to these meetings.
She was on the board of the Air Pollution District, which is a regional government.
And she would always try to find someone to drive her home.
At the time, I think she was either a supervisor or a congresswoman.
I'm not sure.
She wasn't a senator at the time.
And everyone was, you know, amongst the group of efficient, you know, it's a rumor, sort of like any farming community, amongst the inspectors, I said, unless you want to go to bed with Barbara Boxer, you don't want to drive her home because she propositioned everybody.
That just tickles me.
I just love this story.
Hey, want to come in?
Hey, want a nightcap?
You had to really be careful.
As far as I'm concerned, sexual harassment.
Of course, it's sexual harassment.
Of course it is.
On the other hand, nobody was complaining.
I mean, they were complaining about being propositioned if they didn't want to be, but they weren't, you know, charging or anything.
Other guys were reporting, hey, I'll take you home.
They were just laughing behind your back the way you're supposed to.
It wasn't a laughing matter, I believe.
Gotcha.
There was no laughing going on.
So she's in the...
What is it?
I wrote it down.
The Environmental and Public Works Committee.
And there...
So, of course, it's Democrats and Republicans, and this is about global warming and climate change.
And she has, I guess the Republican senators brought in two priests, one of which is Father Sirico, and he works for the Acton Institute.
Now, I'm presuming this is some right-wing think-tank bullcrap outfit, the Acton Institute?
Are you familiar with the Acton Institute?
What's the name of it?
Acton Institute, A-C-T-O-N, Book of Knowledge.
What is the Acton Institute?
The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, a Christian conservative think tank whose ideas, influenced by natural law theory, Christian social thought, and free market economics, Sounds like a right-wing.
So they're creationists that believe in the free market.
Okay.
There you go.
So you guessed right.
Yeah.
Bullcrap right-wing think tank.
But it made for fun on the Hill.
It made for fun.
Because, you know, of course, Barbara Boxer, who, let me guess, is she a scientist, John?
No.
No.
Well, she didn't like that there were non-scientists as witnesses, that's for sure.
Thank you very much.
Senator Boxer.
Thank you.
Mr.
Epstein, are you a scientist?
This is the first priest, and the other father comes up in a second.
No.
Philosopher.
You're a philosopher?
Yes.
Okay.
Well, this is the Environment and Public Works Committee.
I think it's interesting we have a philosopher here talking about an issue.
It's to teach you how to think more clearly.
Well, you don't have to teach me how to think more clearly.
You don't have to.
Try running for the Senate on your platform.
Oh, I love that.
Try running for the Senate on your platform.
If you're against climate change, try running for the Senate.
You'll never win.
At least that's the way I heard it.
That's the way she said it.
Oh, my God.
This is her.
This is Barbara.
You don't have to teach me how to think clearly.
You don't have to try running for the Senate on your platform.
Reverend Nelson, perhaps the most...
Well, this is the place to have a philosopher, not a scientist.
It's perfect for this...
You have to integrate the big picture data.
I'm not asking you anything.
I'm telling you that all you have to know is you're a philosopher, not a scientist, and I don't appreciate getting lectured by a philosopher about science.
I just love you just bitching at the priest.
This is great.
I want to talk to you.
Father, this was kind of interesting.
The Acton Institute's strong support for Catholicism and free market economics has come under strain as Pope Francis has actively criticized global inequality and unfettered capitalism.
In May 2014, the Pope's Twitter account posted a tweet, the Pope's.
Saying, quote, inequality is the root of all evil.
So what she's decided to do is she's decided to put these guys in their place by quoting the Pope.
What is going on in our government?
Do we just have to say...
This Pope is a plague.
Exactly.
Joe Carter, a senior editor at Acton, tweeted in reply, this is to the Pope saying inequality is the root of all evil.
Seriously though, what was up with that tweet by the pontiff?
Has he traded the writings of Peter and Paul for economist Piketty?
I mean...
So do you disagree with the Pope when he says that climate change is one of the biggest issues and we have to do that?
Senator, I'm very grateful for your defense of the Pope.
Perhaps not in all of his magisterial authority and the cherry picking of this or that.
I can ask you what I want.
Do you disagree with the Pope on climate change?
It's a simple yes or no.
No, I was her tactic.
Pope says be careful, yes or no.
When the Pope says things that have to do with science, he does not speak from the magisterial authority of the church.
When he speaks on moral issues such as abortion and contraception and the like, then he speaks on magisterial authority.
You're saying that when the planet is facing all these problems, it's not a moral issue.
I don't agree with you.
I never said that.
Where did I say that?
Could you give me that quotation, Senator?
You just said it, sir.
I did not.
So, to me, John, the church is just as hijacked as everything else.
Yeah.
It's totally hijacked.
Everything is co-opted.
Yeah, it's co-opted.
This really shows it.
Now, I happen to agree with what he's saying to a large extent.
I don't care that much about the religion part.
But, come on.
Get this guy out of the field, too.
Sir, you received money from the Koch brothers, from Exxon.
Oh, Koch brothers!
You disagree with the folks.
I never said I didn't.
And I don't disagree with the folks.
I think you ought to have a talk with...
Reverend Nelson.
God.
Who is, by the way, not a scientist.
Slammed her.
What I was trying to do is put into perspective the notion of how an institute is funded.
And, by the way, it's not just an educational institute like ours.
It's political campaigns like the senators.
And what I'm saying is...
So when Democrats make a pilgrimage to Tom Steyer's house in California, who promises $100 million to their funds, including members of this committee, that might be something that...
All right, I'm just going to stop.
It's a bunch of bickering.
Did these guys have anything better to do with their time?
No.
And what was the point?
What was the Barbara Boxer's point?
She just wants to...
She's all in on climate change.
Fine.
Yeah, but she wants to discredit...
What's she got to do with berating some poor bastard?
Yeah, to discredit.
But also, he's not clean, either.
The whole thing is just ludicrous.
That is the anti-clip of the day.
We need to do a jingle.
Ha ha!
Anti-clip of the day.
I can try it.
I've got to see if I can do it.
Anti-clip of the day.
Anti-clip of the day.
I have a couple of screwball stories.
I could do a clip blitz after the next thing if you want.
Well, do you want to do a clip blitz at the end or do you want to do it before we go and thank people?
Now you're confusing me.
You're off format.
I'm not confusing you.
It's cognitive dissonance that's confusing you.
It's working.
No, actually, I'd like to do a clip blitz at the end.
I'll earmark the clips that would go well at the end to blitz.
Okay, well then, let's just do one...
No, actually, why don't we thank our donors?
It is definitely time.
Oh, no!
I'm going to show my sword by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Oh, yeah, that'd be great.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
We do have a few people to thank, including Christopher Pauly in Madison, Wisconsin, $160.16.
Danny Baker in Morristown, Tennessee, $100.
He's getting close to...
He wants to know how to check for you.
You do your own bookkeeping.
That's how you do it.
And you can figure out how much you've given the show.
Jonathan Petraccini in Brook Park, Ohio.
$100.
He's got a new job.
Good for him.
Good work.
David Bozeman in Wilmington, North Carolina.
$100.
Graham Bucknell.
Tits.
That is...
$80.08 and we call this the boobs donation.
Ah, gotcha.
And he wants an F cancer for his wife, Pip.
Yeah, he does.
I got that at the end for him.
Put that at the end.
Another Sir JoJo, the network chimp.
Another Boobs.
Wooddale, Illinois.
Boobs.
8808.
See, we had one last show, now we have three by promoting it.
Catching on.
Catching on.
Put in a newsletter.
Make it a regular donation.
Boobs.
Samuel Dank in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Boobs.
That's in honor of his MILF wife, Carolyn.
Yeah, he says our kids are already fans of the show.
Excellent.
Leonard Hutchinson, 73, 73, 73, N5XL in Colorado, 73, J9KJN.
That's Hutch and whoever.
Thank you.
Sir Brian Williams in New York, 7373.
He's a ham of green eggs.
Green of ham.
Green of ham.
Yes.
And he's KC9YIM. I think.
Christopher Gray, 6969 in Grand Blanc, Michigan.
The giant pudding.
Nathaniel Friedman in Sebastopol, California, up the street from me.
6969, gorgeous little town, I will say.
And if anyone's around, you should go visit Sebastopol.
A lot of wineries in the area.
Sir Kevin Dills in Charlotte, North Carolina, 6432, 6432.
Amanda...
Sigroy, you think?
Sigroy, Sigroy.
Yeah, Sigroy.
Sigroy in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Sigroy.
Vladimir Landeman in Sioux City, Iowa.
Sir Daniel Huttner in Hathaway Pines, California.
Double nickels on the dime.
Howard LaHero in Worcester, Massachusetts.
55-10.
Sean Zinsmeister in San Francisco, California.
Double nickels on the dime.
Also, Michael Slissinger in Mackam, Michigan.
Double nickels on the dime.
The rest of these people will be...
Oh, I'm sorry.
We got $55 from Andrew Prowse in Burlington, Ontario.
Isaac, or I think it's Sir Isaac Piggott, isn't it?
It sure is.
Yeah, it sure is.
Sir Isaac, yeah.
Yeah, he's the shocked, shocked guy.
I'm shocked!
In Trustville, Alabama, $54.17.
Roger Esty in Tampa, Florida, $51.00.
Keith Carlisle in Centralia, Washington, $50.40.
And Sir Herb Lamb in Sugar Hill, Georgia, $50.33.
And he's going to get some of these now.
He wants to be the Baron of Buford Dam.
Okay.
He says the last several shows since around 8, 10 have been fantastic.
No, thank you.
A lot of people have been complimenting their recent shows.
And now we have $50 donors.
I'm going to name them in order, city, state, and name.
Matthew Mungin in Baltimore, Maryland.
Joel Derune in Parts Unknown.
Paul Rudkin, Parts Unknown.
Sean DeSantis in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Robert Gusek in High Point, North Carolina.
We have a lot of listeners in North Carolina.
Well, we talked about them, and then they always come alive.
Yeah, we should mention another state then.
How about South Carolina?
Hello, South Carolina!
That mustard, mustard sauce is terrific.
Hello, South Carolina!
Patrick Thomas in Petworth, West Sussex, UK. Sir Chris Slowinski in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada.
Ooh, baby.
Simon Horne in Manly, Queensland, Australia.
Brian Matthews in Balbrigan, Ireland.
Nice.
Dublin.
I like to get the Irish more involved.
Amitai Hajra in Daleville, Virginia.
John Camp in Antlers, Oklahoma, one of the great city names.
Chris Perry in Silver Springs, Maryland.
Adam Dill in Boulder, Colorado.
Andrew Hunter in Houston, Texas.
We got a lot of 50s today.
Good.
David Ritchie in Mentor, Ohio, where all the mentors live.
He's retiring.
He wants retirement karma.
You got it.
Get a ham radio rig, man.
Get a license.
Yeah, have some serious fun.
Michael Allen in South Plainfield, New Jersey.
Kyle Meyer in Atlanta, Georgia.
Sir Mark Tanner in Whittier, California, who comes in twice a month.
And finally, last but not least, Sanford Stab in Kuskia.
Idaho or Kuska.
Kuskia.
I think Kuskia.
I'll have to get a pronunciation on that.
Alright.
That's it.
That's our group of well-wishers and supporters for show 817.
I want to thank them all.
And also the people who gave lesser amounts.
We have a lot of $33 a month subscribers, $4 a week, and various others.
We could definitely use more, certainly of the subscriptions, but we appreciate the help that everyone...
Everybody does to contribute.
Everything everyone does to contribute to the show.
I keep realizing this.
What a stroke of genius to consider our audience to be producers.
Yeah.
It's really the truth.
It turns out that they are producers.
Yeah, it's really the truth.
It's a revelation of the truth.
It is.
Oh, there you go.
Nobody else will do this.
We're the only show that really welcomes our listener producers to give us a hand.
We have boots on the ground all over the place.
People listen to the show and they contribute to keep the show going and believe me, that's what they're doing.
It's not non-trivial.
And then we have artists that help us and People that write songs and jingles.
It's fantastic.
It really hit me when the website came out, wherethecstandsfor.com.
I mean, if we were at a radio station and we were doing a morning show, and I turned around to one of the two producers we have, and I say, hey, man, I really need a mechanism so I can come up with new C things.
Hey, let's put a website together, some application, so I can get a randomized word that starts with C. And I'd be like, yeah, that's never going to happen.
We've got to have a meeting.
We've got to get IT involved.
Too many meetings.
There's going to be somebody, one of the tech guys.
Now you're going to do that.
It's going to be a structural problem.
It's going to crash the system.
We have to do a SWOT analysis.
A SWOT analysis.
All right.
Well, the finances are, of course, appreciated and necessary to keep the show going.
And we will be back on Thursday with another program.
So, for everybody, a couple of, let's see, we've got F cancer and some jobs karma.
Dvorak.org slash N-A. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
You've got karma.
All righty there.
Well, we've got Sir Sean, who turns 50, Sir Wine of the Hidden Jewels says happy birthday to his son EJ, who turned 12 on April 12th.
Kyle Ferens says happy birthday to his daughter Charlotte.
And Keith Carlisle says happy birthday to Diana Carruthers, who turns 40.
Oh, turns 40.
Stay.
Happy birthday from all your buddies here at the best podcast in the universe.
It's his birthday, yeah.
Okay, let me see.
We have a title.
Does that include a newborn?
Hmm, no.
But we did stop and say...
Wait.
Yeah, Daughter Charlotte.
It was Charlotte.
Charlotte, yeah, Charlotte.
New Human Resource Charlotte, yes.
Sir Herb Lamb has upped his peerage to that of Barron, and he is now the Baron of Buford Dam, And we welcome him in the peerage map for that at itm.im slash peerage.
Ask the Book of Knowledge, what's Buford Dam?
Okay, Book of Knowledge.
What is Buford Dam?
Oh boy.
Maybe I should say, maybe I'll try this.
Book of Knowledge.
Wikipedia, Buford Dam.
John Buford Jr.
was a Union Cavalry officer.
Okay, shut up!
Well, apparently it was something named after a cavalry officer in the Civil War.
Yeah, speaking of such, Blade.
It used to be called Damn Buford.
All right, Richard Henderson, step up, my friend.
It's taken a little while.
We have another one of those rare occurrences, a Black Knight knighting for the Round Table of the Knights and Danes.
So, Richard, please kneel before the lectern here, as I am very proud to pronounce the K-T, Sir Richard Black Knight of the Foot.
For you, we have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay.
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Malted barley and hops.
Ass cream with bear fillings.
Poor styles of pot.
Markers, maker's mark and mushrooms.
We've got ginger ale and gerbils.
And, of course, we have mutton and mead.
For all of you who want it.
And go to noagendanation.com slash rings and check out the section where you can enter your information.
We'll get the rings out to you as soon as possible.
And we apologize that somehow we messed up on our newest knight.
Therefore, he is a black knight.
Good to have him aboard.
So here's something interesting, or humorous, I'll say that.
As a part of my Tourette's, I've had this sniffing issue for a long time.
Yeah, the sniffing.
Some people have bitched about it.
To be honest about it, I'm going to say that I don't even notice it.
I do notice you're coughing into the mic, but the sniffing, I have never noticed it.
Well, you notice nothing today.
And the reason for that...
I've noticed it before, so it doesn't really make a difference to me, but okay, tell me what happened.
I bought a...
I have a cough switch.
Okay, first of all, it's a compulsive issue.
It's really strange.
It has to do with the noise gate, and this is part of what Tourette's is.
I have to sniff, but I want to try and sniff so I don't crack the noise gate, and of course I always do.
This is what happens in my head.
I can't explain it any other way.
But here's the odd thing, and you and I discussed this.
I said...
Because someone sent an email, and I was like, oh man, it's compulsive, it's an issue.
This guy went off.
Yeah, and it's truly compulsion.
It's Tourette's OCD, whatever it is.
I know it's compulsion.
So what I do is...
What?
Yeah, go.
Right.
So what I do...
You're self-aware.
I'm very self-aware.
And of course I have a cough button that I can use, but it's a button that I push with my finger.
And so when we're doing the show and I'm grabbing clips, I'm monitoring levels, I'm hitting jingles, whatever, I'm a hand short.
So what do I do?
I bought a foot cough switch.
Which is fantastic because right now I can just press down my...
That's me hitting the cough switch.
But it's nice.
It doesn't click.
It doesn't have any...
You know, of course, a cough switch has to do.
You can't have it making noises.
Right.
The funny thing is, now that I have the cough switch, I don't have the compulsion anymore.
Ah!
Ha ha ha!
Fantastic.
It's so odd.
It has saved me.
It has truly saved me.
Now, that's interesting.
So here's why I also bring this.
Wait, hold on a second.
There's something contradictory here.
Which is, if this is compulsive behavior to start doing whatever you do.
Like that, yeah.
Yeah.
How could you ever hit the cough switch in time?
Because it's compulsion.
You can't go, here comes the compulsion, click the switch, and then you're good to go.
When I'm coughing, it's like I'm going to have a little coughing thing going on here.
I can hit the switch.
I don't have one, by the way.
I can hit the switch and just cough away because I know the cough's coming.
But if it's a compulsive thing...
Yes.
Say as I'm talking, I talk like this, and I go make that sound.
And some people do talk like that, by the way.
So they make that sound.
Yeah.
It's a compulsion.
I would never know to hit the switch.
Yes.
But this is the point.
I got this switch to do anything I can because it certainly annoys me.
It really annoys me.
So the switch is not helping me.
No, I understand.
The compulsion has changed the way your brain works.
Yeah.
It's fantastic!
Yeah, it's funny.
Now, here's the part that really bugs me about, and it's moving away but staying with the foot switch.
Something changed with Amazon.com, and this came up last night, the night before Tina and I were talking about the Amazon Alexa, the Echo thing that I have here.
She jokingly says, of course, they're listening to us all the time.
And I said, you know, no.
And she's a marketer.
She's a communications director.
She understands how you call data and can find out things about what people want or what they've purchased and what you might want to recommend.
In general, when you buy something off of Amazon.com, and I buy almost everything off of Amazon, I like that they have other people bought.
That's kind of a good recommendation engine.
We all know that once you buy something, particularly on Amazon, the product you bought will follow you around the internet trying for you to buy it again.
But now they've gone one step further.
You know the recommendation emails you get from Amazon?
I don't get them.
Okay.
Without fail now.
Every product I buy, I get this email.
So here it is.
Adam Curry, based on your recent activity, we thought you might be interested in this.
And they show me the exact product I bought.
Really?
The Rolls MM11 Pro Switchable Microphone Mute Talk Switch.
Yeah, because you need two of those.
But they're doing it with everything.
So I'm just going to assume that Amazon really knows what I'm buying.
Because I bought it from them.
This is an email from them.
They know that I bought this.
The payments went through them.
They have absolutely no clue and I think no interest.
These stupid emails must work somehow.
I don't understand.
Why take a chance?
I'm getting here.
For basketballs.
Why would I want a basketball?
I don't know why you'd want to ask him.
Maybe to dribble to the store?
Just go outside and just dribble a ball around?
No, no, no.
Adam Curry.
Amazon.com has new recommendations for you based on items you purchased or told us you own.
I've never told them I owned anything.
And what do they suggest for me?
Eclectic supply of lip balm empty container tubes.
Translucent.
Come on!
These guys are incapable.
Big data is a myth.
Yes.
So I bought a new coffee machine.
It's a pretty simple one, but I wanted one with a timer that can flip on and it grinds the beans and you get coffee.
I buy this, it arrives, the next day.
Oh, hi, customers who have shown an interest in espresso machines might like to see our best sellers.
And it's not an espresso machine.
They show five espresso machines and then the one I just bought.
How can anyone think Amazon could do anything with their information?
It's very peculiar, I agree.
I mean, everyone who works with Amazon has noticed this.
It's not just once when you're online.
It's like over and over and over again.
And that I understand because that's just following and that's cookies and tracking and stuff like that.
And Facebook is, of course, they have a lot to do with this.
I can move my cookies on a routine basis.
But it's like us sending an email to everybody who just donated $50 and say, hey, how come you don't donate $50?
I mean, it's stupid.
Actually, we kind of do that, don't we?
Yeah.
Let me see.
Oh, before we go anywhere else...
We have something from our favorite department, which we don't get to talk about enough on this show.
Let's see.
Hey.
Why didn't that work?
Oh, here it is.
WTC7 won't go away.
All right.
Yes.
We have the 28 pages, which we've been following for a while.
28pages.org.
Yes.
It's cropping up a lot in the news.
It is.
It is.
And this, of course, is the secret 28 pages that were excluded from the 9-11 Commission report.
Several Congress members have seen this.
They say, hey, we should really get this out there.
This information needs to be known.
There's no reason why the American people don't have a right to know this.
Leading the charge is Senator Bob Graham, Democrat from Florida, I think.
And he does something interesting in this interview, which I don't know who interviewed him.
But he pretty much, even though he's been sworn to secrecy and this has been classified, he pretty much tells us what's in it.
Bob Graham is the former chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the former co-chair of the bipartisan joint congressional inquiry into intelligence failures surrounding the 9-11 attacks.
Great to see you, sir.
Thank you for being with us here tonight.
You want these 28 pages released.
You've seen them.
What are you at liberty to tell us about them?
Not much, because I am still under an oath that I took not to disclose classified information, but it has been said publicly that this chapter primarily relates to who financed 9-11 and that it points a finger at Saudi Arabia.
When you look at that statement that was in the 9-11...
That's kind of saying what's in it, isn't it?
It sounds like it to me.
That's exactly...
To who financed 9-11 and points a finger at Saudi Arabia.
When you look at that statement that was in the 9-11 report saying, we found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded the organization.
You could drive a truck through that sentence.
There are a lot of holes in there.
Senior Saudi officials, which doesn't rule out non-senior Saudi officials or the government as something other than acting as an institution.
And one of the things that makes this even more confusing is that the concept of sovereign immunity, that is that the king can do no wrong and therefore you cannot sue the king, has been used by Saudi Arabia not only to cover the official government but also charities, Private foundations, religious organizations, all have been put under the umbrella of sovereign immunity.
So the question of where does the government end and the rest of the Saudi society begin is very murky.
So that explains their motivation for trying to, you know, potentially obfuscate the facts.
But what is our motivation?
Why would the United States not be releasing this information and letting us all know whether our allies were in fact behind this attack?
John, why?
Why do you think?
Why do I think?
Yeah, why do you think we don't want that to be out there?
Maybe they're working in cahoots with us.
Or with the Bush family, perhaps.
Or with the Federal Reserve, all that gold that somehow disappeared.
It was melted.
There's a lot of sketchy stuff about this event.
And this attack.
Megan, I think that's inexplicable.
There were some reasons to suggest why, under the Bush administration, they might have wanted to have avoided this disclosure, such as we were looking to Saudi Arabia for a substantial amount of intelligence and other assistance in the period after 9-11.
The Bush family had a close relationship with the House of Saud going back for three generations.
But why, under the Obama administration, they have continued this policy when there is Mounting evidence, not just the 28 pages, but other issues that have involved the Saudis in 9-11,
which to me makes it not only disrespectful to the American people, not to allow them to have the transparency of knowing what their government has done in their name when it does not involve a national security risk.
And in fact, I think it Actually increases our vulnerability because it allows the Saudis to continue feeling that there's no sanction against them to fund terrorist activities and to train the next generation of terrorists in mosque and madrasa schools that are financed by Saudi Arabia.
The White House is reviewing it again to see whether declassification is appropriate.
We'll stay on it.
Senator, thank you for being here.
The New York Times wrote about this.
And Saudi Arabia has responded to the idea of this.
There apparently is a bill going through Congress that would allow these 28 pages to be published.
The Obama administration is actively lobbying Congress to block the bill's passage.
The most transparent administration in history, mind you.
We want to just put that out there.
I'll leave that right there.
And the official...
Is this administration that was going to post all bills on C-SPAN or on the web for 72 hours before anyone did anything?
Yeah, all of that.
Several outside economists, I'm reading from the Times, are skeptical the Saudis will follow through because they're saying if you publish this...
Or if you pass the bill that allows these 28 pages to be made public, Saudi Arabia will be forced to sell up to $750 billion in treasury securities and other assets.
Them's fighting words.
I think that's, well...
A quarter of a trillion dollars?
Ha ha!
And the headline actually is, Saudi Arabia warns of economic fallout if Congress passes the 9-11 bill.
So they are saying, if you do that, we're going to screw you up.
Well, as best they can.
Yeah, I don't know if they can, but that the Obama administration is trying to block this is an outrage.
The whole thing's an outrage.
Good news.
For dudes named Ben out there, the Department of Homeland Security is now considering flexible hiring paths for cyber talent.
Under the phrase, this is not our grandfather's government anymore, Angela Bailey, Chief Human Capital Officer...
My goodness, we have a Human Capital Officer in government?
Not that I know of.
Yes, we do.
She is the Chief Human Capital Officer at the Department of Homeland Security.
Jeez, what a thing that...
Chief Human Capital Officer.
Kind of a bogus bullcrap tie.
Can you imagine giving that card?
Somebody handed me a card that said that I'd laugh in their face and flip the card right at them.
Boom.
It's like a ninja star.
It's like Chief Revenue Officer.
It's another one of my favorites.
What, you just sit there and count the money coming in?
So the idea is to have a passport approach for IT jobs that can allow tech and cyber workers to move between federal and commercial jobs more flexibly.
Hmm.
Implied in...
That'll be the first thing that gets hacked.
And implied is...
Implied, although not said out loud, I think is, you know, we will probably take...
If you work for a company and they're okay with you, you won't have to do the drug test.
I think that's where this is headed.
That's what they mean by flexible.
Yeah.
We don't want to be a little more flexible.
So if you're smoking weed...
They need to be more flexible.
Of course.
The guys who are really good dudes named Ben are, not all of them, but a lot of them are sketchy and they're very talented.
Extremely.
Then one final bit.
I just had something.
Just to interrupt you on that topic, you might as well play this clip.
This is what was on CBS News because they were promoting what's going to be on today's 60 Minutes about hacking phones, which I thought was kind of interesting, but...
I don't know what they're up to with this report, but play this CBS phone hacking clip.
But one security expert told us there are two kinds of people, those who know their phones have been hacked and those whose phones have been hacked but don't know it.
Sharon Alfonso is investigating for this Sunday's 60 Minutes.
Is everything hackable?
Yes.
Everything?
Yes.
If somebody tells you you can't do it, I don't believe it.
John Herring offered to prove it.
So he gathered a group of ace hackers at our Las Vegas hotel.
Each of them a specialist in cracking mobile devices and figuring out how to protect them.
Hold on a second.
Hello?
Yeah?
Is this Ace Hackers?
Ace Hackers here.
I need some Ace Hackers for this presentation I'm giving to the government.
Can you give me a couple?
Hey, Jenny?
Who's available?
CBS or something.
I don't know who this asshole is, but he wants a bunch of, he wants a couple of, a team of Ace.
Do you have some with beards?
Goatees?
You know, maybe the big beards.
Vapes?
You got some with vapes?
You want a fat guy?
Yeah, fat guy.
With a butt crack.
You got one of them?
We got a fat guy with a butt crack who's very erudite.
He's fantastic on television.
Does he do Emacs or Vim?
Emacs or Vim?
Very important.
You know, hey Jenny!
You know Bruce?
Is he Emacs or Vim?
Vim.
Vim.
Ah, no good.
We need an Emacs guy with a neckbeard.
Oh, geez.
You know, we had a guy like that who quit to work for the Defense Department.
...gathered a group of ace hackers at our Las Vegas hotel, each of them a specialist in cracking mobile devices and figuring out how to protect them.
Would you put your money in a bank that didn't test the locks on their sites?
We need to try to break it to make sure that the bad guys can't.
How easy is it to break the phone right now?
Very easy.
As you've seen, pretty trivial.
So do I need to connect to it?
Yeah.
Okay.
It started when we logged on to the hotel Wi-Fi.
At least, it looked like the hotel Wi-Fi.
Herring had created a ghost version.
It's called spoofing.
I mean, this looks legit.
Whoa!
Oh!
Back up for the spoofing because, man, oh my goodness.
Started when we logged on to the hotel Wi-Fi.
At least, it looked like the hotel Wi-Fi.
Herring had created a ghost version.
It's called spoofing.
I mean, this looks legitimate.
It looks very legitimate.
I'm sure you're connected.
Do you think he created the name FBI Van?
Do you think that's what he...
A surveillance van.
FBI surveillance van.
And this looks legitimate.
It looks very legitimate.
I'm sure you're connected.
I am.
And I have your email.
You have access to my email right now?
Yeah, it's coming through right now.
I actually now have a ride-sharing application up here.
All the information that's being transmitted, including your account ID, your mobile phone, which I just got the mobile number.
Then, more importantly, I have all the credit cards associated with that account.
Oh, I know what this is about.
I know what this is about.
The hack you saw only took a matter of minutes, and I was fooled by that fake Wi-Fi.
This is about HTTPS everywhere.
This is what this is about.
Yeah.
This is about HTTPS everywhere.
HTTPS. Everywhere.
Yeah.
Maybe.
It could be.
And you know that, I've just learned this, AT&T is now, they have a gigabit fiber thing that they're offering.
They do?
Yeah.
But they're offering it at reduced price, and it's very hard, actually, to opt out of this.
It's called Internet Preferences.
So for $60, you get basic TV, phone service, and then the gigabit speed.
But that's only if you don't opt out, and the opting out costs you another $60 a month, because they are going to be changing ads on the fly as they come through to your browser.
They're going to be hijacking the normal ads and putting their own in?
Yeah, well, Google is also doing this.
They give you the free gigabit internet connection if you allow them to do the same and analyze you.
But AT&T is just blatantly saying, oh, we're going to replace ads.
Well, this isn't it.
You can't do this.
Yes, you can.
Of course you can do it.
No, it disrupts the entire advertising revenue model.
Yeah, this is why it has to be done.
This is very good.
But who owns the final piece, you know?
The publisher thinks there's this magical agreement where everybody will, oh, look at all your crap, just to see your crap.
Oh, you have an agreement.
That's another reason that the model that we employ, which is direct support instead of advertising, is superior.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Unless as the show goes on, you hear, and you should buy, you know, some voice cuts in and takes our donation segment away.
This is all web stuff, mainly.
But if it's HTTPS, if it's encrypted, then they won't be able to, as far as I know, they won't be able to intercept and change on the fly.
We'll see.
We will see.
I wanted to make one comment about this issue which also came up in the debate.
I forgot to clip it because Clinton lied about it.
I think CBS and ABC had this in their news.
A legal victory for families of the children killed in the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting.
A judge has ruled their lawsuit against the company that made the rifle used in the attack.
Can proceed.
The judge said a law protecting gun makers from lawsuits does not prevent the families from arguing that the semi-automatic rifle is a military weapon and should not have been sold to civilians.
Military weapon.
So, actually, I did clip this bit from the Democratic debate, but I did it on my recorder.
I forgot to pull it off.
Hillary Clinton said, this is the only industry in America that enjoys this kind of protection.
Do you remember her saying that?
No.
Shit, I should have pulled the clip.
She said it twice.
She said the only industry in America...
Really?
What about the press?
Well, how about the pharmaceuticals with vaccines?
Oh, yeah.
They have 100% indemnification from lawsuits.
Yeah.
Well, she's not going to mention that because she's in their pocket.
Yeah.
So if anyone is asked about this issue, the correct answer is, yes, we should consider that once we make sure that all industry can be sued for their product, including the vaccine industry, which by their own admission does not have 100% fail-safe methods, particularly the newer vaccines.
You know, you get mumps vaccine, you get mumps.
You get a measles vaccine, you get the measles.
You should be able to sue if we can do the same for gun manufacturers.
I would say yes to that.
I have a clip.
Well, hold on.
Are you ready for the blitz?
No, no, this is too long for the Blitz.
I just want to get it out of the way because it reconfirms my thesis.
This came in from Gasparini, who lives in England.
This reconfirms my thesis that...
Brexit.
The Brexit's going to fail.
And this shows up, apparently, it's almost three minutes long.
You don't have to play the whole thing.
But this shows up as pre-roll, apparently, on a lot of YouTube videos.
And this is Cameron on the Brexit.
Good afternoon.
Last night in Brussels, I set out Britain's new settlement with the European Union.
This morning, I've just chaired a meeting of the Cabinet, in which I updated them on the special status we have secured for Britain.
And the Cabinet agreed that the government's position will be to recommend that Britain remains in a reformed European Union.
Now I want to speak directly to the British people to explain why.
They bought YouTube pre-rolls for this.
Yeah.
We are approaching one of the biggest decisions this country will face in our lifetimes.
Whether to remain in a reformed European Union or to leave.
Notice the new buzzword he likes to use.
Reform.
Yes.
Reform the European Union.
Yeah, that is new.
The choice goes to the heart of the kind of country we want to be and the future that we want for our children.
This is about how we trade with neighbouring countries to create jobs, prosperity and financial security for our families.
And it's about how we cooperate to keep our people safe and our country strong.
I know there will be many passionate arguments over the months ahead.
And individual cabinet ministers will have the freedom to campaign in a personal capacity as they wish.
But my responsibility as Prime Minister is to speak plainly about what I believe is right for our country.
I do not love Brussels.
I love Britain.
I'm the first to say that there are still many ways in which Europe needs to improve and that the task of reforming Europe does not end with yesterday's agreement.
And I will never say that our country couldn't survive outside Europe.
We are Great Britain.
We can achieve great things.
That is not the question in this referendum.
The question is, will we be safer, stronger, and better off working together in a reformed Europe or out on our own?
You can stop it.
Yeah, you know what I'm thinking.
He promotes a safety thing.
What, are they under attack?
Yes.
Yes, they're under attack.
Yes.
Who?
The Muslims.
Bull crap.
This guy is rigging it.
This whole thing is going to...
They're not going to pass it.
Well, I got to tell you, one of two things must happen to change the course of the world.
One of two things.
And if not, I'll be sad because, you know, we probably won't see any significant change in our lifetime.
One would be the Brexit.
I think that would really change...
Yeah, that ain't happening.
The other one is Trump as president.
I'm doubting that one, too.
I'm doubting that, too.
But everything else is business as usual.
Yeah.
And, you know, here's an opportunity.
Reformed Europe.
Give me a break.
What does that even mean?
I don't know.
I don't know.
All right.
All right.
33.
Sorry.
What are we doing?
Frozen turkey.
Uh, what?
Frozen turkey.
Here we go.
This next story is bizarre.
San Francisco police are investigating an unusual case of assault involving a frozen turkey.
They say officers were called to a home on Kirkwood Avenue in the Hunters Point area because a woman was hit on the head with a frozen turkey.
Officers say the two women involved were friends and that one of them grabbed the turkey from the freezer, used it to hit her friend, and then tried to steal it.
And when the victim tried to stop her, police say the suspect bit her friend's finger.
It's a very, very interesting case, one of a kind.
I can't think of an incident where I recall someone being struck with a turkey or frozen turkey, especially amongst friends, having such a melee over a turkey.
The victim was treated for head and finger injuries at San Francisco General Hospital.
Police had a suspect drove off with the frozen turkey, and they say when she's caught, she'll face assault charges.
Red, 33.
Blitz.
Falkland.
Falkland.
A United Nations Commission says the Falkland Islands should belong to Argentina.
British Prime Minister David Cameron dismisses these findings.
The ruling harks back to a bitter and bloody war over the Falklands, but has now taken on a crude dimension.
Argentina has never relinquished its claim to the Falkland Islands, which it calls the Malvinas.
The archipelago lies about 500 kilometers off the Argentine coast.
Britain first asserted its sovereignty in 1833 and the islanders are descended from British settlers.
In 1982, Argentina occupied the Falklands with its army and Britain fought back.
After a ten-week long war that cost almost a thousand lives, British troops triumphantly marched into the capital, Port Stanley.
Argentina refused to give up its claims and kept pushing to expand its sovereignty.
Now, the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf has recommended that Argentina's territory in the South Atlantic should be expanded by 35% to 350 nautical miles.
The decision would put Argentina's maritime domain well over the current territory claimed by Britain as part of the Falcons.
Buenos Aires applauded the U.N. recommendation.
Next clip.
All right.
Red, 33.
Flip blitz.
UC Davis.
Newly disclosed documents show the University of California, Davis, spent at least $175,000 to try to scrub the Internet of criticism following the 2011 pepper spraying of student protesters by campus police. to try to scrub the Internet of criticism following the The school made national headlines after videos showed police spraying seated students directly in the face at close range.
The Sacramento Bee reports UC Davis paid consultants to improve its online image in part by scrubbing negative search results related to the pepper spray incident.
UC Davis is a public university supported by taxpayer money.
Can I insert one?
Can I insert one?
Alright, this is a teacher with privilege.
The form was handed out in a Spanish class to 7th and 8th graders at the top asking, how privileged are you?
I'm not even sure where that comes from.
Regina Stiles' daughter is in the class.
She is ADHD. And apparently the teacher said there are some kids in this class that are ADHD. ADHD is a mental illness.
And so that's why she circled that.
And to me, ADHD is not a mental illness.
It's something she does have.
Other sections included religion and gender, where kids were asked to circle cisgender, transgender, or genderqueer.
Did she know what some of these terms meant?
No.
She's 12.
We've had the talk that it's something that should be talked about at home.
After Stiles, along with several other angry parents, questioned the principal, he launched an investigation.
This is not a district form.
This was a teacher-generated form, and it was without principal consent.
At the district level, we do not collect that kind of information.
The students were not required to turn in the forms.
The teacher says the goal was to teach them about diversity and equality.
To me, that has nothing to do with Spanish.
You're here to teach my child a foreign language, not anything else.
Egypt protests.
There have been angry protests in major Egyptian cities, in Giza, in Alexandria, and in the capital Cairo, where security forces detained over 100 people and fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators.
The outcry is in response to a government decision to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.
Bread, freedom, these islands are Egyptian, protesters chants.
Thousands gathered in Cairo and the nearby city of Giza.
The first significant wave of protests since former army chief Al-Sisi became president in 2014.
Ostensibly, they're angry over el-Sisi's decision to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.
The Egyptian government maintains Tehran and Sanofir belong to the Saudis, who asked Egypt to protect them from Israel in 1950.
But the protesters aren't buying it.
Red, 33!
Alright, last one.
Last one.
TSA report.
TSA report is the last in the clip.
...to those long lines at America's airports.
Passengers stuck in line waiting to go through TSA screening.
Well, it turns out one major airline is now joining those passengers in complaining.
ABC's David Curley on the sheer number of passengers who've missed flights because of those long delays in those lines.
LAX today.
Long, snaking security lines.
Spring break travel wait times across the country of one, two, even three hours.
It's insane.
I don't understand.
Not only passengers.
We missed our flight and we're told there's nothing they can do.
Airports are angry too.
A letter to TSA from Charlotte complaining of a negative economic impact of 600 missed flights.
Seattle announcing it will hire 90 contractors just to help the TSA officers.
And the airlines?
Americans saying nearly 6,800 passengers missed flights in one week.
Red 33!
Oh, there you go.
It's a fine state of affairs, as usual.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
And we have to delve into the Egypt protests because it appears they are somewhat predictive of some action that's going to take place.
The public in Egypt is all bent out of shape about a lot of things.
Also, the fighting season is starting up again in Afghanistan and Iraq.
That's what they call it, the fighting season.
That's because when they're picking the poppies.
You're right.
It coincides with the poppies.
Look at it in the show notes.
I've got the poppy dates and the spring offensive from the Taliban.
Perfect overlap.
Five dollars for a balloon of heroin in the United States of America.
Are we great or what?
Shoot up, kids.
Alright everybody, we will be back on Thursday.
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We love doing it with you.
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Adios, mofos.
Yeah, that is important. - Everyone's crazy about a dude named Ben.
Yeah, that's important.
Why NPR and radio in general is, you know, you're seeing it now.
It could take another 10, 20 years before it's really completely dead.
Maybe there's some alternative use found for the transmitters that'll be hanging around.
But here's the thing.
People in the industry don't understand the reason why they were able to make money so fabulously for such a long time is because they control the network.
Classic network.
Classic network.
Now, once you put that onto the actual network, which is the internet, you cannot monetize that network.
You cannot monetize the network.
The old system was you have the network, and people really can only get programming through you, so they're forced into your network, your listeners or your viewers at that point.
And then you control everything, so you can control advertising and how it's measured.
No, that's bullcrap, too, by the way.
It's not that television measurement is any better than podcast measurement.
We still don't know if you're actually sitting there with your eyes on the screen.
In the new world, the network builds itself around you, and then it supports you in whatever way is appropriate for the community, the network you have built.
So for us, that's donations, but it's a lot more.
That's our network.
That's songs, jingles, ideas, inside information, artwork.
That's the new model.
And the only thing inside out is completely inside out.
And you have to take advantage of the technology.
And so making money in a network is over.
A lot of NPR programming is just not interesting enough because they're not honest.
They can't be honest because of their sponsors, underwriters, advertisers calling you what they want.
I mean, they're insane.
They're crashing and running.
It's slow motion.
And it's very, very slow motion.
It has very, very slow motion, which makes it more fun to watch.
Real-time slow motion is fantastic and fantastic.
The problem with the film is that it's not the business model.
It is the actual concept of what broadcasting and a network is.
Your networks will support you.
There is such a huge, creeping up a business opportunity to facilitate supporting podcasts through your system.
Just like you revolutionized the music business by burning it to the ground, you can actually revolutionize something that is already smoldering and needs to catch fire.
It's so obvious.
Well, no, it's not.
It took you ten years.
Give me a break.
Yeah, that is important.
Hey, you take your firehouse.
Hey, you take your firehouse.
We're going to score this person out.
Ow, ow, ow, ow.
Ow, ow, ow, ow.
Cough, cough.
Cough.
Ow, ow, ow, ow.
Tell me you're denied.
The science is in.
The science is unequivocal!
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